Oil Country Tubular Goods From Argentina: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-357-824]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Oil Country Tubular Goods From Argentina: Preliminary 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) preliminarily finds that Siderca S.A.I.C. (Siderca) made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 11, 2022, through October 31, 2023. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable December 9, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Dmitry Vladimirov, 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) 482-0665. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On November 21, 2022, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the antidumping duty order on oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from Argentina. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On November 2, 2023, we published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> for the POR. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On December 29, 2023, based on timely requests for an administrative review, Commerce initiated an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order.</E> <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On January 25, 2024, Commerce identified Siderca as the sole mandatory respondent in this administrative review. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> On July 9, 2024, Commerce extended the time limit for these preliminary results to November 29, 2024. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> The deadline for the preliminary results is now December 6, 2024. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina, Mexico, and the Russian Federation: Antidumping Duty Orders and Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty Determination for the Russian Federation,</E> 87 FR 70785 (November 21, 2022) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List,</E> 88 FR 75270 (November 2, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 88 FR 90168 (December 29, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Company to be Individually Examined,” dated January 25, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated July 9, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> For a complete description of the events that occurred since the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The products covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> are OCTG from Argentina. For a complete description of the scope of this <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). We calculated constructed export price and NV in accordance with sections 772 and 773 of the Act, respectively. For a complete description of the methodology in these preliminary results, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached in the appendix to this notice. The Preliminary 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">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> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of Review</HD> We preliminarily determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period May 11, 2022, through October 31, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s50,9C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer or exporter</CHED> <ENT I="01">Siderca S.A.I.C</ENT> <ENT>6.8</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> We intend to disclose the calculations and analysis performed for these preliminary results to interested parties 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. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.224(b). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Public Comment</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), interested parties may submit case briefs to Commerce no later than 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. 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>9</SU> <FTREF/> Interested parties who submit case or rebuttal briefs in this administrative review must submit: (1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</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>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 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 brief that should be limited to five pages total, including footnotes. In this administrative review, we instead request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> Further, we request that interested parties limit their public executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We intend to use the public executive summaries as the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision memorandum that will accompany the final results of this administrative review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant citations in the public executive summary of each issue. <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>  We use the term “issue” here to describe an argument that Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to request a hearing, limited to issues raised in case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance via ACCESS within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. Hearing requests should contain: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants and whether any participant is a foreign national; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed. Issues raised at the hearing will be limited to those raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. If a hearing request is made, parties will be notified of the date and time of the hearing. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> Parties should confirm the date and time of the hearing two days before the scheduled date. <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.310(d). </FTNT> All submissions, including case and rebuttal briefs, as well as hearing requests, should be filed using ACCESS. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> An electronically filed document must be received successfully in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established deadline. Note that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f). <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.303. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>14</SU>   <E T="03">See APO and Service Final Rule.</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Review</HD> Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final results of this administrative review, including the results of its analysis of issues raised in written briefs, no later than 120 days after the date of publication of this notice in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> , pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment Rates</HD> Upon completion of the final results of this administrative review, pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of t ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 16k characters. 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