Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Administrative Review; 2011-2012
Federal Register, Volume 78 Issue 225 (Thursday, November 21, 2013)
Federal Register Volume 78, Number 225 (Thursday, November 21, 2013)
Notices
Pages 69820-69822
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office www.gpo.gov
FR Doc No: 2013-27971
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
A-570-964
Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Administrative Review; 2011-2012
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, Formerly Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce (the ``Department'') is conducting the second administrative review of the antidumping duty order on seamless refined copper pipe and tube from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''), covering the period November 1, 2011 through October 31, 2012. The Department has preliminarily determined that during the period of review (``POR'') respondents in this proceeding have made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (``NV'').
DATES: Effective Date: November 21, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Martin, AD/CVD Operations, Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3936.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Scope of Order
The merchandise subject to the order is seamless refined copper pipe and tube. The product is currently classified under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS'') item numbers 7411.10.1030 and 7411.10.1090. Products subject to this order may also enter under HTSUS item numbers 7407.10.1500, 7419.99.5050, 8415.90.8065, and 8415.90.8085. Although the HTSUS numbers are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope of this order remains dispositive.\1\
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\1\ See Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From Mexico and the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders and Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value From Mexico, 75 FR 71070 (November 22, 2010).
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Tolling of Deadlines for Preliminary Results
As explained in the memorandum from the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, the Department has exercised its discretion to toll deadlines for the duration of the closure of the Federal Government from October 1, through October 16, 2013.\2\ Therefore, all deadlines in this segment of the proceeding have been extended by 16 days. If the new deadline falls on a non-business day, in accordance with the Department's practice, the deadline will become the next business day. The revised deadline for the preliminary results of this review is now November 18, 2013.
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\2\ See Memorandum for the Record from Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the Federal Government'' (October 18, 2013).
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Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the Secretary will rescind an administrative review, in whole or in part, if a party who requested the review withdraws the request within 90 days of the date of publication of the notice of initiation of the requested review. The Department is rescinding this review with regard to Luvata Tube (Zhongshan) Ltd. and Luvata Alltop (Zhongshan) Ltd., as parties have timely withdrawn all review requests with respect to these companies. Because Luvata Tube (Zhongshan) Ltd. and Luvata Alltop (Zhongshan) Ltd. have separate rates from a prior completed segment of this proceeding, antidumping duties shall be assessed at rates equal to the rates of the cash deposits of estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(2).
Reviews were also requested for Shanghai Hailiang Metal Trading Limited and Hong Kong Hailiang Metal, companies named in the Initiation Notice,\3\ and those requests were also timely withdrawn. However, we are not rescinding the reviews for these two companies at this time, because they do not have a separate rate and, therefore, each currently remains part of the PRC-wide entity. The PRC-wide entity is currently subject to this administrative review.
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\3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 77 FR 77017 (December 31, 2012). These companies are not included in the collapsed entity of Hong Kong Hailiang Metal Trading Limited, Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Hailiang Copper Co., Ltd.
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Methodology
The Department has conducted this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the ``Act''). Export prices and constructed export prices were calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Because the PRC is a nonmarket economy within the meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, NV has been calculated in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. Specifically, the respondent's factors of production have been valued using prices in Thailand, which is at a level of economical development comparable to that of the PRC and a significant producer of merchandise comparable to the subject merchandise.
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For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, please see the Memorandum to Ronald K. Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the 2011-2012 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube from the People's Republic of China, dated concurrently with this notice (``Preliminary Decision Memorandum''), and hereby adopted by this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (``IA ACCESS''). IA ACCESS is available to registered users at http://iaaccess.trade.gov, and it is available to all parties in the Central Records Unit, Room 7046 of the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed at http://trade.gov/enforcement/. The signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum and the electronic versions of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical in content.
Preliminary Results of Review
The Department has preliminarily determined that the following weighted-average dumping margins exist:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter dumping margin
(percent)
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Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc., Hong Kong 3.55
GD Trading Co., Ltd., and Golden Dragon Holding (Hong
Kong) International, Ltd...............................
Hong Kong Hailiang Metal Trading Limited, Zhejiang 3.55
Hailiang Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Hailiang Copper Co.,
Ltd....................................................
PRC-Wide Entity \4\..................................... 60.85
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Disclosure and Public Comment
The Department will disclose calculations performed for these preliminary results to the parties within five days of the date of publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Interested parties may submit written comments no later than 30 days after the date of publication of these preliminary results.\5\ Rebuttals to written comments may be filed no later than five days after the written comments are filed.\6\
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\4\ The PRC-Wide Entity includes, inter alia, Shanghai Hailiang Metal Trading Limited, Hong Kong Hailiang Metal, China Hailiang Metal Trading, Foshan Hua Hong Copper Tube Co., Ltd., Guilin Lijia Metals Co., Ltd., Sinochem Ningbo Import & Export Co., Ltd., Sinochem Ningbo Ltd., Taicang City Jinxin Copper Tube Co., Ltd., Ningbo Jintian Copper Tube Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Jiahe Pipes Inc., and Zhejiang Naile Copper Co., Ltd.
\5\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c).
\6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
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Any interested party may request a hearing within 30 days of publication of this notice.\7\ Hearing requests should contain the following information: (1) The party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of the issues to be discussed. Oral presentations will be limited to issues raised in the briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, parties will be notified of the time and date for the hearing to be held at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.\8\
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\7\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
\8\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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The Department intends to issue the final results of this administrative review, which will include the results of its analysis of issues raised in any written comments, within 120 days of publication of these preliminary results, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
Deadline for Submission of Publicly Available Surrogate Value Information
In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3)(ii), the deadline for submission of publicly available information to value factors of production under 19 CFR 351.408(c) is 20 days after the date of publication of the preliminary results. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(1), if an interested party submits factual information less than ten days before, on, or after (if the Department has extended the deadline) the applicable deadline for submission of such factual information, an interested party may submit factual information to rebut, clarify, or correct the factual information no later than ten days after such factual information is served on the interested party. However, if the deadline for submission of surrogate value information has passed, the Department generally will not accept additional or alternative surrogate value information not previously on the record.\9\ Furthermore, the Department generally will not accept business proprietary information in either the surrogate value submissions or the rebuttals thereto, as the regulation regarding the submission of surrogate values allows only for the submission of publicly available information.\10\
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\9\ See, e.g., Glycine from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Rescission, in Part, 72 FR 58809 (October 17, 2007), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 2.
\10\ See 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3).
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Assessment Rates
Upon issuing the final results of the review, the Department shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. The Department intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of the final results of review. For any individually examined respondents whose weighted-average dumping margin is not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), the Department will calculate importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total entered value of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\11\
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\11\ In these preliminary results, the Department applied the assessment rate calculation method adopted in Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
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The Department will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review when the importer-
specific assessment rate calculated in the final results of this review is not zero or de minimis. Where either the respondent's weighted-
average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, the Department will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
The Department recently announced a refinement to its assessment practice in NME cases. Pursuant to this refinement in practice, for entries that were not reported in the U.S. sales databases submitted by companies individually examined during this review, the Department will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the PRC-wide rate. In addition, if the Department determines that an exporter under review had no shipments of the subject merchandise, any suspended entries that entered under that exporter's case
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number (i.e., at that exporter's rate) will be liquidated at the PRC-
wide rate.\12\
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\12\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
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The final results of this review shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by the final results of this review and for future deposits of estimated antidumping duties.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon publication of the final results of this administrative review for shipments of the subject merchandise from the PRC entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For the exporters listed above, the cash deposit rate will be equal to the weighted-
average dumping margin established in the final results of this review (except, if the rate is zero or de minimis, then the cash deposit rate will be zero for that exporter); (2) for previously investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters not listed above that have separate rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-specific rate published for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding; (3) for all PRC exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be 60.85 percent, which is the rate for the PRC-wide entity; \13\ and (4) for all non-PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the PRC exporter that supplied that non-PRC exporter. These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\13\ See Seamless Refined Copper Pipe and Tube From the People's Republic of China: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 75 FR 60725, 60729 (October 1, 2010).
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in the CBP assessing double antidumping duties based on the Department's presumption that antidumping duties were reimbursed.
This administrative review and notice are in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213.
Dated: November 14, 2013.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
1. Affiliation and Collapsing
2. Separate Rate
3. Rate for Non-Examined, Separate Rate Respondents
4. PRC-Wide Entity
5. Use of Facts Available and Adverse Facts Available
6. Surrogate Country
7. Date of Sale
8. Fair Value Comparisons
9. Determination of Comparison Method
10. Export Price
11. Constructed Export Price
12. Normal Value
13. Factor Valuations
14. Duty Absorption
15. Currency Conversion
FR Doc. 2013-27971 Filed 11-20-13; 8:45 am
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