Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Japan: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-588-874]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products From Japan: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission 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) preliminarily determines that one of the two producers/exporters of hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled steel) from Japan, sold subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value during the period of review (POR) October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable November 13, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Jack Zhao or Myrna Lobo, AD/CVD Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1396 and (202) 482-2371, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel from Japan in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce initiated this administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> on December 6, 2023, covering ten producers and/or exporters. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On March 4, 2024, JFE Shoji Corporation and JFE Shoji America, LLC withdrew its request for review, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1). <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On March 5, 2024, the petitioner withdrew its request for review with respect to JFE Steel Corporation and its affiliated companies. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> As all parties that requested a review for JFE and its affiliates have withdrawn their requests, and the requests for withdrawal are timely, Commerce is rescinding the review with respect to the JFE companies. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> The remaining companies subject to this review are Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC)  <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> and Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Steel). <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, and the United Kingdom: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determinations for Australia, the Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Turkey and Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 81 FR 67962 (October 3, 2016) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 88 FR 84784 (December 6, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> JFE's Letter, “Withdrawal of Review Request,” dated March 4, 2024 (JFE Letter of Withdrawal). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>  See Petitioner Letter, “Partial Withdrawal of Request for Administrative Review,” dated March 5, 2024 (Petitioner Letter of Withdrawal). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>  The JFE companies for which this administrative review was initiated are: JFE Steel Corporation, JFE Shoji Corporation, JFE Shoji Trade Corporation, and JFE Shoji Trade America. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>  NSC is a single entity comprised of the following companies: Nippon Steel Corporation; Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd.; and Nippon Steel Trading Corporation. <E T="03">See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review,</E> 84 FR 46713 (September 5, 2019). </FTNT> On June 13, 2024, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1), we extended the deadline for the preliminary results of this review until October 30, 2024. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> The deadline for these preliminary results is now November 6, 2024. For a detailed description of the events that followed the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated June 13, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews: Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The merchandise covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is hot-rolled steel from Japan. For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this administrative review in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act. Export price and constructed export price were calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Normal value is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as an appendix to this notice. The Preliminary 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 to ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov.</E> In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an administrative review, in whole or in part, if the parties that requested a review withdraw the request within 90 days of the date of publication of the notice of initiation. Commerce received timely-filed withdrawal requests for JFE. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> Because the withdrawal requests were timely filed and no other party requested a review of JFE, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding this review of the <E T="03">Order</E> with respect to the JFE companies: JFE Steel Corporation, JFE Shoji Corporation, JFE Shoji Trade Corporation, and JFE Shoji Trade America. <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> JFE Letter of Withdrawal; <E T="03">see</E> Petitioner Letter of Withdrawal. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results</HD> We preliminarily determine the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins for the period October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s150,12"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer/exporter</CHED> Nippon Steel Corporation/Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd./Nippon Steel Trading Corporation  <SU>12</SU> </ENT> <ENT>29.03</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Disclosure and Public Comment  This rate is also applicable to Nippon Steel & Sumikin Logistics Co., Ltd. for whom a review was initiated and NSC identified as its wholly owned subsidiary. <E T="03">See</E> NSC's April 17, 2024 Initial Section A questionnaire response at Exhibit A-5 and May 24, 2024 Initial Section C questionnaire response at C-41. </FTNT> Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis performed to interested parties for these preliminary results within five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may submit case briefs to Commerce no later than seven days after the date on which the final verification report is issued in this review. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date for filing case briefs. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> Interested parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities. <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(d); <E T="03">see also Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,</E> 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023) ( <E T="03">APO and Service Final Rule</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>14</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). </FTNT> As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an executive summary of their briefs that should be limited to five pages total, including footnotes. 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