Stainless Steel Flanges From India: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-877]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Stainless Steel Flanges From India: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, 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 finds that producers and/or exporters of stainless steel flanges (flanges) from India made sales of subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023. In addition, we are rescinding this review for three companies. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable November 19, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Benito Ballesteros or Eric Chen, AD/CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4725 or (202) 482-2860, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On October 9, 2018, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> an antidumping duty order on flanges from India. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On December 6, 2023, based on timely requests for review, Commerce initiated an administrative review (AD) of the <E T="03">Order</E> covering 16 companies, in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On June 7, 2024, we extended the deadline for the preliminary results of this administrative review. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> The deadline for the preliminary results is now November 6, 2024. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Antidumping Duty Order,</E> 83 FR 50639 (October 9, 2018) ( <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) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ), corrected by <E T="03">Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 8641 (February 8, 2024). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of 2022-2023 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated June 7, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> For details regarding the events that occurred subsequent to the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included in as appendix I 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 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 directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Stainless Steel Flanges from India; 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 stainless steel flanges from India. For a full description of the scope, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Partial Rescission of Administrative Review</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind an administrative review when there are no entries of subject merchandise during the POR for which liquidation is suspended. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the AD assessment rate calculated for the review period. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> Therefore, for an administrative review of a company to be conducted, there must be a suspended entry that Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the AD assessment rate calculated for the POR. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,</E> 89 FR 4274 (January 23, 2024). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). </FTNT> On December 21, 2023, we notified parties of our intent to rescind this administrative review, in part, with respect to: (1) Hilton Metal Forging Limited (Hilton); (2) Jay Jagdamba Profile Private Limited (Jay Profile); and (3) Shree Jay Jagdamba Flanges Private Limited (Shree Jay), because there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise produced or exported by these companies during the POR, and we invited interested parties to comment. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> No parties commented on our intent to rescind the review, in part. Therefore, in the absence of any suspended entries of subject merchandise from Hilton, Jay Profile, and Shree Jay during the POR, we are rescinding the administrative review for these companies, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3) and (d)(4). <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In Part,” dated December 21, 2023. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Review-Specific Rate for Companies Not Selected for Individual Review</HD> The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the rate to be applied to companies not selected for individual 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 less-than-fair value (LTFV) 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, Commerce calculated estimated weighted-average dumping margins for: (1) Chandan Steel Limited (Chandan) and (2) BFN Forgings Private Limited; Viraj Impoexpo, Ltd.; Fanschen werk Bebitz GmbH; Viraj Alloys, Ltd.; Viraj Forgings, Ltd.; and Viraj Profiles Limited (collectively, BFN/Viraj), <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> that are not zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or based entirely on facts otherwise available. Therefore, Commerce calculated the review-specific rate using a weighted average of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins calculated for the examined respondents using each company's publicly-ranged values for the merchandise under consideration. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> The companies not selected for individual examination are listed in appendix II. <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>  Commerce previously found BFN Forgings Private Limited to be collapsed with the companies listed above. <E T="03">See, e.g., Stainless Steel Flanges from India: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative Critical Circumstance Determination,</E> 83 FR 40745 (August 16, 2018). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Calculation of the Non-Selected Company Rate for the Preliminary Results,” dated concurrently with this notice; <E T="03">see also, e.g., Xanthan Gum from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Partial Rescission; 2018-2019,</E> 85 FR 75686, 74687 (November 23, 2020), unchanged in <E T="03">Xanthan Gum from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2018-2019,</E> 86 FR 16189 (March 26, 2021); <E T="03">Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order; 2018-2019,</E> 85 FR 39534 (July 1, 2020), unchanged in <E T="03">Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from the Republic of Korea: Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order; 2018-2019,</E> 85 FR 67512 (October 23, 2020); and <E T="03"> Albemarle Corp.</E> v. <E T="03">United States,</E> 821 F. 3d 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2016). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and (2) of the Act. We calculated constructed export price in accordance with section 772 of the Act. We calculated NV in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying these preliminary results, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of Review</HD> W ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 22k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━