Notice2025-17464
Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023
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Published
September 11, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Suncity Metals and Tubes Private Limited (Suncity Metals), the sole producer/exporter subject to this administrative review, made sales of welded stainless pressure pipe (WSPP) from India at less than normal value during the period of review (POR) November 1, 2022, through October 31, 2023.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 174 (Thursday, September 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44041-44042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17464]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-867]
Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe From India: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that
Suncity Metals and Tubes Private Limited (Suncity Metals), the sole
producer/exporter subject to this administrative review, made sales of
welded stainless pressure pipe (WSPP) from India at less than normal
value during the period of review (POR) November 1, 2022, through
October 31, 2023.
DATES: Applicable September 11, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Conniff, AD/CVD Operations,
Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1009.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On December 13, 2024, Commerce published the Preliminary Results
for this review in the Federal Register and invited interested parties
to comment on those results.\1\ On January 8, 2025, Suncity Metals
responded to Commerce's third supplemental questionnaire, which
requested information on Suncity Metal's name change from Suncity
Sheets Pvt. Ltd. to Suncity Metals and Tubes Pvt. Ltd. India and other
issues.\2\ On January 29, 2025, Commerce notified parties of the final
briefing schedule for interested parties to submit comments concerning
the Preliminary Results and any factual information received since the
issuance thereof.\3\ No interested party submitted comments or
requested a hearing for this administrative review. On February 10,
2025, Suncity submitted its case brief and on February 18, 2025, the
Felker Brother Corporation (the petitioner) submitted a rebuttal
brief.\4\ On August 8, 2025, we issued a post-preliminary analysis and
accompanying briefing schedule.\5\ We did not receive comments from any
parties. On June 30, 2025, we extended the deadline for the final
results until September 5, 2025.\6\ Commerce conducted this review in
accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act).
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\1\ See Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe from India: Preliminary
Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2022-2023, 89 FR 100954 (December 13, 2024) (Preliminary
Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
\2\ See Suncity Metal's Letter, ``Response to Third Supplemental
Questionnaire,'' dated January 8, 2025.
\3\ See Memorandum, ``Briefing Schedule,'' dated January 29,
2025.
\4\ See Suncity Metal's Letter, ``Case Brief,'' dated February
10, 2025; see also Petitioner's Letter, ``Rebuttal Brief,'' dated
February 18, 2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Post-Preliminary Analysis for the
Administrative Review of Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe from
India,'' dated August 8, 2025; see also Memorandum, ``Briefing
Schedule for Post-Preliminary Analysis,'' dated August 11, 2025.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated June 30, 2025.
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Final Successor-in-Interest Determination
Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d),
when Commerce receives information concerning, or a request from an
interested party for a review of, an order which shows changed
circumstances sufficient to warrant a review of such order after
publishing notice of the review in the Federal Register, Commerce shall
conduct a review of the determination based on those changed
circumstances. While successor-in-interest determinations are often
made in the context of distinct changed circumstance reviews (CCRs) to
consider the applicability of cash deposit rates after there have been
changes in the name or the structure of a respondent, such as a merger
or spinoff (successor-in-interest, or successorship, determinations),
Commerce has also made successor-in-interest determinations in the
context of administrative reviews and investigations.\7\
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\7\ See, e.g., Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the People's
Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019, 85 FR
83891 (December 23, 2020), and accompanying Issues and Decision
Memorandum at Comment 3.
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In this review, Suncity Metals, formerly known as Suncity Sheets
Pvt. Ltd. (Suncity Sheets), made a legal name change and became the
revised name of the legal entity and provided information necessary to
evaluate the statements in support of the successorship claim within
the context of Commerce's established criteria.\8\ We found that, based
on the totality of the circumstances and in the absence of any
contradictory information on the record, Suncity Metals is the
successor-in-interest to Suncity Sheets, as the change in the company's
name was not accompanied by significant changes to its management and
operations, production facilities, supplier relationships, and/or
customer base.\9\ Thus, we preliminarily concluded that Suncity Metals
operates as essentially the same business entity as Suncity Sheets is
the successor-in-interest and that Suncity Metals should receive the
same antidumping duty (AD) cash deposit rate and customs number as its
predecessor, with respect to subject merchandise.\10\
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\8\ See Suncity Metals Letter, ``Submission of Response to Third
Supplemental Questionnaire,''dated January 8, 2025, at 3-10.
\9\ Id.
\10\ Id.
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No party commented on this request, and Commerce received no
subsequent information or argument to compel reconsideration thereof.
Therefore, we find Suncity Metals to be the successor-in-interest to
Suncity Sheets, and that Suncity Metals should receive the same AD cash
deposit rate and customs number as its predecessor.
Scope of the Order <SUP>11</SUP>
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\11\ See Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe from India: Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Orders, 81 FR 81062 (November 17, 2016)
(Order).
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The merchandise subject to the Order is welded stainless pressure
pipe from India. For a complete description of the scope, see the
Issues and Decision Memorandum.\12\
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\12\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Welded
Stainless Pressure Pipe from India; 2022-2023,'' dated concurrently
with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision
Memorandum).
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Analysis of the Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs that were
submitted by interested parties are addressed in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues which parties raised, and to
which we respond in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, is attached in
the appendix to this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a
public document and is on file electronically via Enforcement and
Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic
System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>. In addition, the Issues and Decision Memorandum can
be accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results
There have been changes since the Preliminary Results based on a
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subsequent supplemental questionnaire response and updated cost
database, which are detailed in the final analysis memorandum.\13\
Additionally, as mentioned above, we find that Suncity Metals is the
successor-in-interest to Suncity Sheets. Lastly, we have applied
Commerce's price difference methodology consistent with the post-
preliminary analysis.
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\13\ For further discussion, see Memorandum, ``Suncity Metals
Final Analysis Memorandum,'' dated concurrently with this notice.
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Final Results of Review
Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping
margin exists for the period November 1, 2022, through October 31,
2023:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter/producer dumping
margin
(percent)
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Suncity Metals and Tubes Private Limited................... 21.77
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed for these
final results to interested parties in this review under administrative
protective order (APO) within five days of the date of publication of
this notice in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.224(b).
Assessment Rate
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries covered by this review. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), for
Suncity Metals, we calculated importer-specific antidumping duty
assessment rates by aggregating the total amount of dumping calculated
for the examined sales of each importer and dividing each of these
amounts by the total entered value associated with those sales.\14\
Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero
or de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an
importer specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to
antidumping duties.
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\14\ As explained above, we determined that Suncity Metals is
the successor-in-interest to Suncity Sheets Pvt. Ltd. Accordingly,
we intend to issue assessment instructions covering entries produced
and exported by Suncity Sheets Pvt. Ltd. during the POR at the rate
established in these final results.
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Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' will apply to entries of
subject merchandise during the POR produced by Suncity Metals for which
the company did not know that the merchandise it sold to an
intermediary (e.g., a reseller, trading company, or exporter) was
destined for the United States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP
to liquidate such entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate
for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\15\
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\15\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2023).
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Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within
90 days of publication).
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rates for the company
identified above in the ``Final Results of Review'' will be equal to
the company-specific weighted-average dumping margin established in the
final results of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise
exported by a company not covered in this administrative review but
covered in a completed prior segment of the proceeding, the cash
deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published
for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding; (3) if the
exporter is not a firm covered in this review or completed prior
segment of this proceeding but the producer is, the cash deposit rate
will be the company-specific rate established for the most recently-
completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of the subject
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or
exporters will continue to be 8.35 percent, the rate established in the
investigation of this proceeding.\16\ These cash deposit requirements,
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\16\ See Order, 81 FR at 81063.
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties
prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this POR. Failure
to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption
that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties has
occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties,
and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of
the countervailing duties.
Administrative Protective Order
This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to
an APO of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of
proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR
351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern business proprietary
information in this segment of the proceeding. Timely written
notification of the return or destruction of APO materials, or
conversion to judicial protective order, is hereby requested. Failure
to comply with the regulations and the term of an APO is a sanctionable
violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5)
and 19 CFR 351.213(h).
Dated: September 5, 2025.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Whether Commerce Used an Incorrect Cost Database
Comment 2: Inclusion of Countervailing Duties, Freight Revenue,
and Insurance Revenue in U.S. Price
Comment 3: Whether Suncity Metals is the Successor-in-Interest
to Suncity Sheets
VI. Recommendation
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