Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Partial Rescission; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-887]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Partial Rescission; 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 carbon and alloy steel threaded rod (steel threaded rod) from India was sold in the United States at below normal value during the period of review (POR), April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023. Further, we are rescinding this review with respect to 83 companies. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable October 15, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Kabir Archuletta or Samuel Frost, AD/CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2593 or (202) 482-8180, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> This administrative review covers 29 companies. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce selected two respondents for individual examination, Mangal Steel Enterprises Limited (Mangal) and Shree Luxmi Fasteners/The Emerging Impex (SLF/TEI). <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>  We initiated this administrative review with respect to 112 companies. <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 88 FR 38021 (June 12, 2023). However, we are rescinding this review for 83 companies that did not have reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR. <E T="03">See</E> “Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part” section below. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Respondent Selection,” dated June 28, 2023. Commerce preliminarily determined to treat Shree Luxmi Fasteners (SLF) and its affiliate The Emerging Impex (TEI) as a single entity for purposes of this review. Because no parties commented on this preliminary decision, for these final results Commerce continues to treat these companies as a single entity. <E T="03">See Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod from India: Preliminary Results and Preliminary Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, in Part, 2022-2023,</E> 89 FR 37174 (May 6, 2024) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM). </FTNT> On May 6, 2024, Commerce published the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> of this administrative review and invited interested parties to comment on the <E T="03">Preliminary Results.</E> <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On June 5, 2024, we received a timely-filed case brief from Sigma Piping Products (2019), LLC (Sigma), a U.S. importer of subject merchandise, <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> and on June 10, 2024, we received a timely-filed rebuttal brief from Vulcan Threaded Products, Inc. (the petitioner). <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">Id</E> . </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Sigma's Letter, “Sigma Comments on Preliminary Results,” dated June 5, 2024 (Sigma's Case Brief). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Petitioner's Letter, “Rebuttal Brief,” dated June 10, 2024 (Petitioner's Rebuttal Brief). </FTNT> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> Thereafter, Commerce partially extended the deadline for issuing the final results until October 8, 2024. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> For a complete description of the events that followed the <E T="03">Preliminary Results, see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memoranda, “Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-23,” dated August 14, 2024; and “Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,” dated October 1, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod from India; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="03">See Carbon and Alloy Steel Threaded Rod from India: Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order,</E> 85 FR 19925 (April 9, 2020) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The merchandise covered by the scope of this <E T="03">Order</E> is carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from India. A complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is provided in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Issues and Decision Memorandum at “Scope of the <E T="03">Order.”</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), when there are no reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR subject to the antidumping duty order for which liquidation is suspended, Commerce may rescind an administrative review, in whole or only with respect to a particular exporter or producer. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> At the end of the administrative review, any suspended entries are liquidated at the assessment rate computed for the review period. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> Therefore, for an administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry to be liquidated at the newly calculated assessment rate. In the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> Commerce preliminarily rescinded this review with respect to 83 companies because those companies had no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise and invited parties to comment. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> We received no comments on our preliminary rescission of the review with respect to these companies. Accordingly, in the absence of suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR for these 83 companies for which this review was initiated, we are hereby rescinding this administrative review, in part, with respect to these companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Forged Steel Fittings from Taiwan: Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2018-2019,</E> 85 FR 71317, 71318 (November 9, 2020); <E T="03">see also Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Mexico: Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017,</E> 83 FR 54084 (October 26, 2018). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Results,</E> 89 FR at 37175-76. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>14</SU>  Appendix III identifies all companies for which we have rescinded this review. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues that parties raised and to which we responded in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is attached to this notice at Appendix I. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is made available to the public via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">http://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 a review of the record, we made certain changes to the margin calculations for these final results. For a discussion of these changes, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Non-Examined Companies</HD> The Act 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 and <E T="03">de minimis</E> margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis of facts available}.” In this review, we have calculated weighted-average dumping margins of zero percent for Mangal and 10.94 percent for SLF/TEI. Therefore, in accordance with section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, we are applying SLF/TEI's weighted average dumping margin of 10.94 percent to the non-examined companies, because this is the only rate that is not ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 24k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━