Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-810]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023</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 producers/exporters of stainless steel bar (SS bar) subject to this review made sales of subject merchandise at prices below normal value during the period of review (POR), February 1, 2022, through January 31, 2023. We further determine that a producer/exporter of SS bar from India did not make sales of subject merchandise below normal value during the POR. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable September 10, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Hermes Pinilla, AD/CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3477. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On March 5, 2024, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> of the 2022-2023 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on SS bar from India. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> We invited interested parties to comment on the <E T="03">Preliminary Results.</E> On June 10, 2024, we extended the deadline for issuing the final results of administrative review to August 29, 2024. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> The deadline for issuing the final results of administrative review is now September 5, 2024. 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 Stainless Steel Bar from India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,</E> 89 FR 15812 (March 5, 2024) ( <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,” dated June 10, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="51">4</E> <E T="03">See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India and Japan,</E> 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The product covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is SS bar from India. A full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is contained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Issues and Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs filed by parties in this review are listed in the appendix to this notice and addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>6</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> In addition, 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>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Stainless Steel Bar from India; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Results</HD> Based on our analysis of the comments received, we made certain cost related adjustments to Laxcon Steels Limited's, and its affiliates', Ocean Steels Private Limited's, Metlax International Private Limited's, Parvati Private Limited's, and Mega Steels Private Limited's (collectively, Laxcon) information. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> In addition, we recalculated Laxcon's reported indirect selling expense calculation  <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> and removed an adjustment to U.S. price reported under a certain billing adjustment field (BILLADJ1U) for Aamor Inox Limited. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> For a detailed discussion of the issues raised by parties, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> at Comments 1, 3, 4, and 5. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> at Comment 6. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> at Comment 8. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Non-Examined Companies</HD> The statute and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment of a rate to be applied to companies not selected for examination when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. 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 when calculating the rate for companies which were not selected for individual examination in an administrative review. 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. In this review, we have determined that the estimated weighted-average margin for Aamor is <E T="03">de minimis.</E> Therefore, the only rate that is not zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or based entirely on facts available, is the rate calculated for Laxcon. Accordingly, we assigned a margin of 0.70 percent based on Laxcon's calculated weighted-average dumping margin to the non-examined companies. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Review</HD> We determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period February 1, 2022, through January 31, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s200,15"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer/exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average Laxcon Steels Limited, and its affiliates, Ocean Steels Private Limited, Metlax International Private Limited, Parvati Private Limited, and Mega Steels Private Limited  <SU>10</SU> </ENT> <ENT>0.70</ENT> </ROW> <ROW RUL="s"> <ENT I="01">Aamor Inox Limited</ENT> <ENT> 0.40 ( <E T="03">de minimis</E> <E T="02">Companies Not Selected for Individual Review</E> </ENT> <ENT/> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Astrabite LLP</ENT> <ENT>0.70</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01"> Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd., and its affiliates, Precision Metals, Hindustan Inox Ltd., and Sieves Manufacturers (India) Pvt. Ltd. <SU>11</SU> </ENT> <ENT>0.70</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> We intend to disclose the calculations performed for these final results of review to the parties within five days after public announcement, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment Rates</HD> Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review. For any individually examined respondents whose weighted-average dumping margin is above <E T="03">de minimis,</E> we calculated importer-specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of antidumping duties calculated for the examined sales to the total entered value of the examined sales to that importer, and we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this. Where either the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero or <E T="03">de minimis</E> within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an importer- (or customer-) specific assessment rate is zero or <E T="03">de minimis,</E> we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>  Collectively, these companies are known as Laxcon. <SU>11</SU>  Collectively, these companies are known as Venus Group. </FTNT> Commerce's “automatic assessment” will apply to entries of subject merchandise during the POR for which the examined companies did not know that the merchandise they sold to an intermediary ( <E T="03">e.g.,</E> a reseller, trading company, or exporter) was destined for the United States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the all-others rate (12.45 percent  <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> ), if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction. <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See Order</E> at 66921. </FTNT> For the companies that were not selected for individual examination, we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties at a rate equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in the final results of review. Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 15k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━