<NOTICE>
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
<SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY>
<DEPDOC>[A-489-501, A-489-822, A-489-816, A-489-833]</DEPDOC>
<SUBJECT>Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products From the Republic of Türkiye; Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Türkiye; Certain Oil Tubular Goods From the Republic of Türkiye; and Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Türkiye: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review</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) preliminarily determines that Borusan Birleşik Boru Fabrikalari Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Borusan Boru) is the successor-in-interest to Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (BMB) in the context of the antidumping duty orders on circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products (standard pipe), welded line pipe (WLP), certain oil tubular goods (OCTG), and large diameter welded pipe (LDWP) from the Republic of Türkiye (Türkiye). Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
</SUM>
<DATES>
<HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD>
Applicable September 10, 2024.
</DATES>
<FURINF>
<HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD>
Ajay K. Menon, AD/CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0208.
</FURINF>
<SUPLINF>
<HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD>
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD>
On May 15, 1986, March 7, 1986, December 1, 2015, September 10, 2014, and May 2, 2019, respectively, Commerce published in the
<E T="04">Federal Register</E>
antidumping duty orders on standard pipe, WLP, OCTG, and LDWP from Türkiye.
<SU>1</SU>
<FTREF/>
On January 9, 2024, Borusan Boru requested that, pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 19 CFR 351.216, and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3), Commerce conduct expedited changed circumstances reviews (CCR) to determine that Borusan Boru is the successor-in-interest to BMB and accordingly to: (1) assign it the cash deposit rates currently applicable to BMB pursuant to THE
<E T="03">Standard Pipe AD Order</E>
and
<E T="03">Welded Line Pipe AD Order;</E>
and (2) continue to exclude it from
<E T="03">OCTG AD Order</E>
and
<E T="03">LDWP AD Order.</E>
<SU>2</SU>
<FTREF/>
On February 26, 2024, Commerce published the notice initiating these CCRs to consider whether Borusan Boru is the successor-in-interest to BMB.
<SU>3</SU>
<FTREF/>
<FTNT>
<SU>1</SU>
<E T="03">See Antidumping Duty Order; Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products from Turkey,</E>
51 FR 17784 (May 15, 1986) (
<E T="03">Standard Pipe AD Order</E>
);
<E T="03">Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Turkey: Antidumping Duty Orders,</E>
80 FR 75056 (December 1, 2015) (
<E T="03">Welded Line Pipe AD Order</E>
);
<E T="03">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, 53693 (September 10, 2014) (
<E T="03">OCTG AD Order</E>
); and
<E T="03">Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Turkey: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty Determination and Antidumping Duty Order,</E>
84 FR 18799 (May 2, 2019) (
<E T="03">LDWP AD Order</E>
).
</FTNT>
<FTNT>
<SU>2</SU>
<E T="03">See</E>
Borusan Boru's Letter, “Notification of Company Name Change and Request for Changed Circumstances Review, If Deemed Necessary: Name Change of Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. and Borusan Mannesmann Pipe U.S.,” dated January 8, 2024 (Borusan Boru's CCR Request).
</FTNT>
<FTNT>
<SU>3</SU>
<E T="03">See Circular Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products from the Republic of Turkey; Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of Turkey; Certain Oil Tubular Goods From the Republic of Turkey; and Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Turkey: Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews,</E>
89 FR 14052 (February 26, 2024).
</FTNT>
On April 9, 2024, we issued a supplemental questionnaire to Borusan Boru, to which we received a timely response on April 30, 2024.
<SU>4</SU>
<FTREF/>
In its response, Borusan Boru stated that there were no material changes to either the supplier or customer base of BMB as a result of BMB's conversion to Borusan Boru.
<SU>5</SU>
<FTREF/>
We received no comments from other interested parties concerning Borusan Boru's request.
<FTNT>
<SU>4</SU>
<E T="03">See</E>
Borusan Boru's Letter, “Supplemental Questionnaire Response,” dated April 30, 2024 (Borusan Boru's SQR).
</FTNT>
<FTNT>
<SU>5</SU>
<E T="03">Id.</E>
</FTNT>
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Orders</HD>
The merchandise covered by these orders is standard pipe, WLP, OCTG, and LDWP from Türkiye. For a complete description of the scope of each of these orders,
<E T="03">see</E>
the appendix to this notice.
<SU>6</SU>
<FTREF/>
<FTNT>
<SU>6</SU>
<E T="03">See Standard Pipe AD Order,</E>
51 FR 17784;
<E T="03">Welded Line Pipe AD Order,</E>
80 FR 75056;
<E T="03">OCTG AD Order,</E>
79 FR 53691, and
<E T="03">LDWP AD Order,</E>
84 FR 18799.
</FTNT>
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results</HD>
In these CCRs, pursuant to section 751(b) of the Act, Commerce conducted a successor-in-interest analysis. In making a successor-in-interest determination, Commerce examines several factors, including, but not limited to, changes in the following: (1)
management; (2) production facilities; (3) supplier relationships; and (4) customer base.
<SU>7</SU>
<FTREF/>
While no single factor or combination of factors will necessarily provide a dispositive indication of a successor-in-interest relationship, generally, Commerce will consider the new company to be the successor to the previous company if the new company's resulting operation is not materially dissimilar to that of its predecessor.
<SU>8</SU>
<FTREF/>
Thus, if the record evidence demonstrates that, with respect to the production and sale of the subject merchandise, the new company operates as the same business entity as the predecessor company, Commerce may assign the new company the cash deposit rate of its predecessor.
<SU>9</SU>
<FTREF/>
<FTNT>
<SU>7</SU>
<E T="03">See, e.g., Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India: Initiation and Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review,</E>
83 FR 37784 (August 2, 2018) (
<E T="03">Shrimp from India 2018 CCR Prelim</E>
), unchanged in
<E T="03">Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review,</E>
83 FR 49909 (October 3, 2018) (Shrimp from India 2018 CCR Final).
</FTNT>
<FTNT>
<SU>8</SU>
See,
<E T="03">e.g., Shrimp from India 2018 CCR Preliminary,</E>
83 FR at 37784, unchanged in
<E T="03">Shrimp from India 2018 CCR Final,</E>
83 FR at 49909.
</FTNT>
<FTNT>
<SU>9</SU>
<E T="03">See, e.g., Shrimp from India 2018 CCR Preliminary,</E>
83 FR at 37784, unchanged in
<E T="03">Shrimp from India 2018 CCR Final,</E>
83 FR at 49909;
<E T="03">see also Notice of Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Polychloroprene Rubber from Japan,</E>
67 FR 58, 59 (January 2, 2002);
<E T="03">Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France: Final Results of Changed-Circumstances Review,</E>
75 FR 34688, 34689 (June 18, 2010);
<E T="03">Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from the Republic of Korea; Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review,</E>
63 FR 14679 (March 26, 1998), unchanged in
<E T="03">Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review,</E>
63 FR 20572 (April 27, 1998), in which Commerce found that a company which only changed its name and did not change its operations is a successor-in-interest to the company before it changed its name.
</FTNT>
In accordance with 19 CFR 351.216, we preliminarily determine that Borusan Boru is the successor-in-interest to BMB, based on the analysis of the information BMB provided in its CCR request and supplemental response regarding the factors listed above.
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Management</HD>
Borusan Boru stated that, in November 2023, following the termination of its partnership with Salzgitter Mannesmann GmbH (Salzgitter): (1) Borusan Mannesmann Boru Yatirim Holding A.S. (BMBYH) changed its name to BMB Holding A.S. (BMBH); and (2) BMBH also changed the name of BMB to Borusan Boru. According to Borusan Boru, BMBH continued to control the same percentage of Borusan Boru as it did before the name change and there were no other changes to the shareholders of Borusan Boru. Borusan Boru demonstrated that its management did not change as a result of the name change and the only change to its board of directors was to replace the Salzgitter-appointed directors.
<SU>10</SU>
<FTREF/>
<FTNT>
<SU>10</SU>
<E T="03">See</E>
Borusan Boru's CCR Request at 5 and Attachment 6.
</FTNT>
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Production Facilities</HD>
Borusan Boru stated there were no changes in the company's production facilities as a result of the name change. According to Borusan Boru, it maintains the same headquarters, manufacturing facilities, and its production capacity is unchanged as a result of the name change.
<SU>11</SU>
<FTREF/>
<FTNT>
<SU>
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Preview showing 10k of 26k characters.
Full document text is stored and available for version comparison.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This text is preserved for citation and comparison.