Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2021-2022

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-580-870]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2021-2022</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain producers/exporters subject to this review made sales of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) September 1, 2021, through August 31, 2022, and that HiSteel Co., Ltd. (HiSteel) had no shipments of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable April 8, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Mark Flessner or Mike Heaney, AD/CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6312 or (202) 482-4475, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On October 5, 2023, Commerce published the <E T="03">Preliminary Results.</E> <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> We invited interested parties to comment on the <E T="03">Preliminary Results.</E> Between November 6 and 13, 2023, Commerce received timely filed case and rebuttal briefs from various interested parties. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On December 13, 2023, we extended the deadline for issuing the final results of this administrative review, until April 2, 2024. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> These final results cover 16 companies. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2021-2022,</E> 88 FR 69118 (October 5, 2023) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Vallourec Star L.P. and Welded Tube USA's (collectively, the domestic interested parties) Letter, “Case Brief,” dated November 6, 2023; SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH)'s Letter, “Case Brief,” dated November 6, 2023; NEXTEEL Co., Ltd. (NEXTEEL)'s Letter, “Letter in Lieu of Case Brief,” dated November 6, 2023; Domestic Interested Parties' Letter, “Rebuttal Brief,” dated November 13, 2023; and SeAH's Letter, “Rebuttal Brief,” dated November 13, 2023; and Husteel Co., Ltd. (Husteel)'s Letter, “Letter in Lieu of Rebuttal Brief,” dated November 13, 2023. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 2021-2022,” dated December 13, 2023. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 87 FR 66275 (November 3, 2022). The 16 companies consist of two mandatory respondents, 13 companies not individually examined, and one company that had no shipments. </FTNT> For a complete description of the events that followed the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> of this administrative review, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> 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 Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov.</E> Additionally, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the 2021-2022 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Republic of Korea,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="51">6</E> <E T="03">See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from India, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, the Republic of Turkey, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders; and Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,</E> 79 FR 53691 (September 10, 2014) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The merchandise covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is certain OCTG. For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs that were submitted by parties in this review are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum and listed in the appendix to this notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Results</HD> Based on our analysis of the comments received, we made no changes to the Preliminary Results. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Determination of No Shipments</HD> In the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> Commerce found that HiSteel did not have shipments of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR. No parties commented on this determination. Accordingly, for the final results of review, we continue to find that HiSteel made no shipments of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR. Consistent with Commerce's practice, <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> we intend to instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate any existing entries of subject merchandise produced by HiSteel, but exported by other parties, at the rate for the intermediate reseller, if available, or at the all-others rate of 5.24 percent. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Taiwan: Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019,</E> 86 FR 28554 (May 27, 2021). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Republic of Korea: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony with Final Determination,</E> 81 FR 59603 (August 30, 2016). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Review</HD> For these final results, Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period September 1, 2021, through August 31, 2022: <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Appendix II for a full list of these companies. </FTNT> <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,9"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer/exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted- average dumping margin <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">SeAH Steel Corporation</ENT> <ENT>1.18</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01"> Non-examined companies  <ENT>1.18</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Non-Examined Companies</HD> For the rate for non-selected respondents in an administrative review, generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in a market economy investigation, for guidance. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally “an amount equal to the weighted-average of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero or <E T="03">de minimis</E> margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis of facts available}.” For these final results, we calculated a dumping margin of 1.18 percent for SeAH and a zero dumping margin for Hyundai Steel Company, the mandatory respondents in this review. Consistent with our normal methodology, we have assigned to the companies not individually examined ( <E T="03">see</E> Appendix II for a full list of these companies) a margin of 1.18 percent, which is the margin calculated for SeAH. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Because no changes were made to the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> no disclosure of calculations is necessary for these final results. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment</HD> Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b), Commerce shall determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review. Where the respondent reported reliable entered values, we calculated importer- (or customer-) specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> rates by aggregating the dumping margins calculated for all U.S. sales to each importer (or customer) and dividing this amount by the total entered value of the sales to each importer (or customer). <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> Where Commerce calculated a weighted-average dumping margin by dividing the total amount of dumping for reviewed sales to that party by the total sales quantity associated with those transactions, Commerce will direct CBP to assess importer- (or customer-) specific assessment rates based on the resulting per-unit rates. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> Where an importer- (or customer-) specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> or per-unit rate is greater than <E T="03">de minimis</E> ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> 0.50 percent), Commerce will instruct CBP to collect the appropriate duties at the time of ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 18k characters. 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