Forged Steel Fittings From the People's Republic of China: 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-570-067]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Forged Steel Fittings From the People's Republic of China: 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 Qingdao Bestflow Industrial Co., Ltd. (Bestflow), the sole participating mandatory respondent in this review and an exporter of forged steel fittings from the People's Republic of China (China), and Both-Well Taizhou Steel Fittings Co., Ltd. (Both-Well), a non-individually-examined exporter of forged steel fittings from China, sold subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) November 1, 2021, through October 31, 2022. Further, Commerce determines that Xin Yi International Trade Co., Limited (Xin Yi) had no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR. Lastly, Commerce determines that 23 companies for which this review was initiated are not eligible for a separate rate and are, thus, part of the China-wide entity. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable June 11, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Jinny Ahn, 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) 482-0968. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> Commerce published the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E>   <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> on December 7, 2023, and invited interested parties to comment. On March 22, 2024, we extended the deadline for the final results of this review until June 4, 2024. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> For a complete description of the events that occurred since the <E T="03">Preliminary Results, see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Forged Steel Fittings from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2021-2022,</E> 88 FR 85221 (December 7, 2023) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated March 22, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Forged Steel Fittings from the People's Republic of China; 2021-2022,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="51">4</E> <E T="03">See Forged Steel Fittings from Italy and the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 83 FR 60397, dated November 26, 2018 ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The merchandise covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is forged steel fittings from China. Subject carbon and alloy forged steel fittings are normally entered under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings 7307.99.1000, 7307.99.3000, 7307.99.5045, and 7307.99.5060. They also may be entered under HTSUS subheadings 7307.92.3010, 7307.92.3030, 7307.92.9000, and 7326.19.0010. The HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes; the written description of the scope is dispositive. 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 parties' briefs are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues addressed is included as Appendix I 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 Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov.</E> In addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Results</HD> Based on our review of the record and comments received from interested parties regarding the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> we made certain revisions to the margin calculations for Bestflow. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> Further, we have assigned Bestflow's revised final weighted-average dumping margin to the non-examined separate rate respondent, Both-Well. For a discussion of these changes, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Final Results Calculation Memorandum for Both-Well,” dated concurrently with this notice. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Determination of No Shipments</HD> In the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> we preliminarily determined that Xin Yi had no shipments of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> No party filed comments with respect to this preliminary determination and we received no information to contradict the preliminary finding. Therefore, we continue to find that Xin Yi had no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR and will issue appropriate liquidation instructions that are consistent with our “automatic assessment” clarification for these final results. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Results,</E> 88 FR at 85222. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,</E> 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) ( <E T="03">Assessment Practice Refinement</E> ). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Separate Rate</HD> In our <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> we determined that Bestflow and Both-Well demonstrated their eligibility for separate rates. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> We received no arguments since the issuance of the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> that provide a basis for reconsideration of these determinations. Therefore, for these final results, we continue to find that the two companies listed in the table in the “Final Results of Review” section of this notice are each eligible for a separate rate. <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Results</E> PDM at 7-8. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">The China-Wide Entity</HD> In the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> Commerce found that 23 companies for which a review was initiated did not establish their eligibility for a separate rate. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> No parties contested this finding. As such, we continue to determine these 23 companies identified in Appendix II are part of the China-wide entity. Because no party requested a review of the China-wide entity, and Commerce no longer considers the China-wide entity as an exporter conditionally subject to administrative reviews, <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> we did not conduct a review of the China-wide entity. Thus, the weighted-average dumping margin for the China-wide entity rate ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> 142.72 percent) is not subject to change. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> at 9. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings,</E> 78 FR 65963, 65969-70 (November 4, 2013). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See Order,</E> 83 FR at 60397. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Non-Examined Separate Rate Respondent</HD> The statute and Commerce's regulations do not address what weighted-average dumping margin to apply to companies not selected for individual examination when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in an investigation, for guidance when calculating the weighted-average dumping margin for respondents that are not individually examined in an administrative review. Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act states that the all-others rate should be calculated by averaging the weighted-average dumping margins determined for individually-examined respondents, excluding rates that are zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or based entirely on facts available. In the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> and consistent with Commerce's practice, we assigned the non-examined, separate rate company ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> Both-Well) a weighted-average dumping margin equal to the calculated weighted-average dumping margin for the mandatory respondent whose rate was not zero, <E T="03">de minimis</E> ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> less than 0.5 percent), or based entirely on facts available ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> the weighted-average dumping margin for Bestflow). Both-Well and the Bonney Forge Corporation, a domestic interested party, commented on the methodology for calculating this separate rate. <E T="03">See</E> Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 5. For the final results, we continue to apply this approach and assign Both-W ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 22k characters. 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