Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-580-897]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Korea: 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 large diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) was not sold in the United States at prices below normal value during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable December 13, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Katerina Katsiadas or Brian Smith, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4929 or (202) 482-1766, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On June 3, 2024, Commerce published the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> This administrative review covers 23 producers and/or exporters of the subject merchandise, including Hyundai Steel Company (Hyundai Steel) and SeAH Steel Corporation (SeAH), which were selected for individual examination as mandatory respondents. For the events that occurred since the <E T="03">Preliminary Results, see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2022-2023,</E> 89 FR 47523 (June 3, 2024) <E T="03">(Preliminary Results</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="51">3</E> <E T="03">See Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination and Antidumping Duty Order,</E> 84 FR 18767 (May 2, 2019) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The merchandise covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is welded pipe from Korea. For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> We addressed all issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs filed in this administrative review in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached in Appendix I to this notice. 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 directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade/gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</E> . <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Results</HD> Based on our evaluation of the comments received from interested parties regarding our <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> and our review of the record to address those comments, we made certain changes to the weighted-average dumping margin calculations for Hyundai Steel and SeAH, as detailed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Issues and Decision Memorandum at “Section IV. Changes Since the <E T="03">Preliminary Results.”</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Review</HD> We determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,16"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter/producer</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">SeAH Steel Corporation</ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01"> Review-Specific Rate for Non-Examined Companies  <SU>6</SU> </ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">  On November 14, 2024, Commerce determined that Hyundai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Hyundai Steel Company. <E T="03">See Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from the Republic of Korea; Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the Republic of Korea; Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea; and Large Diameter Welded Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews,</E> 89 FR 89962 (November 14, 2024). <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Appendix II. </FTNT> We intend to disclose the calculations performed for these final results of review to interested parties within five days of the date of publication of this notice in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> , in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment Rates</HD> Commerce has determined, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b). Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this review in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . If a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> within 90 days of publication). Because the final weighted-average dumping margins for all respondents in this review are zero, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> Consistent with Commerce's clarification of its assessment practice, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Hyundai Steel or SeAH where it did not know that the merchandise was destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those entries at the all-others rate established in the original less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of 7.08 percent <E T="03">ad valorem,</E> <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See Order,</E> 84 FR at 18769. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>  For a full discussion of this practice, <E T="03">see Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,</E> 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Cash Deposit Requirements</HD> The following deposit requirements will be effective for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rates for Hyundai Steel and SeAH will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margins established in the final results of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise exported by a producer or exporter not covered in this review but covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in which the producer or exporter participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original LTFV investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recently completed segment of the proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers and exporters will continue to be 7.08 percent <E T="03">ad valorem,</E> the all-others rate established in the LTFV investigation. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice. <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See Order,</E> 84 FR at 18769. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Notification to Importers Regarding the Reimbursement of Duties</HD> This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this POR. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties has occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties, and/or increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of the countervailing duties. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order</HD> This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to administrative protective orders (APO) of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information disclosed un ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 13k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━