Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe From India: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-867]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe From India: 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 finds that Suncity Sheets Pvt., Ltd. (Suncity Sheets) made sales of welded stainless pressure pipe (WSPP) from India at less than normal value (NV) in the United States during the period of review (POR), November 1, 2022, through October 31, 2023. Additionally, Commerce is rescinding this administrative review with respect to certain companies. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable December 13, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> John Conniff, AD/CVD Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1009. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On November 17, 2016, Commerce published the antidumping duty (AD) order on WSPP from India in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On November 2, 2023, Commerce published a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order.</E> <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On December 29, 2023, based on timely requests for review, in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce initiated an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> covering five companies. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On February 16, 2024, we selected Seth Steelage Pvt. Ltd. (Seth Steelage) and Suncity Sheets as the mandatory respondents in this administrative review. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> On March 4, 2024, Seth Steelage timely withdrew its request for review. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, on August 5, 2024, Commerce extended the deadline for the preliminary results until December 6, 2024. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe from India: Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders,</E> 81 FR 81062 (November 17, 2016) ( <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) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Respondent Selection,” dated February 16, 2024, at 1. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Seth Steelage's Letter, “Withdrawal Request for Administrative Review of Anti-Dumping Duty of Seth Steelage Private Limited,” dated March 4, 2024 (Seth Steelage's Withdrawal Letter). </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> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated August 5, 2024. </FTNT> For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of the review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included in the 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 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>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Welded Stainless Pressure Pipe 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 scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is WSPP from India. For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a)(2) of the Act. Export price is 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 these preliminary results, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <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. Seth Steelage, Ratnamani Metals & Tubes Ltd. (Ratnamani), and Prakash Steelage Ltd (PSL) timely withdrew the requests for review for each company. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> No other parties requested an administrative review of Seth Steelage, Ratnamani, and PSL. Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding this administrative review with respect to Seth Steelage, Ratnamani, and PSL. <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Ratnamani's Letter, “Withdrawal Request for Administrative Review of Antidumping Duty of Ratnamani Metals & Tubes Ltd.,” dated March 1, 2024; <E T="03">see also</E> PSL's Letter, “Withdrawal Request for Administrative Review of Anti-Dumping Duty of Prakash Steelage Ltd,” dated March 4, 2024, and Seth Steelage's Withdrawal Letter. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Remaining Firms Subject to the Review</HD> Pursuant to the above-referenced rescission, two firms listed in the <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> remain under review: Suncity Sheets and Suncity Metals and Tubes Private Limited (Suncity Metals). In Suncity Sheet's initial request for review, it identified that “Suncity {Sheets Pvt., Ltd.} exported and entered into the U.S. subject merchandise in the POR . . . since Suncity {Sheets Pvt., Ltd.} exported the subject merchandise, it changed its name from Suncity Sheets Pvt., Ltd., to Suncity Metals and Tubes Private Limited. Therefore, it is requesting a review of both companies.”  <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> This fact pattern is confirmed by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry data released to the record for the purposes of respondent selection, which identifies Suncity Sheets as the exporter of entries during the POR and Suncity Metals with no attributable entries in the period. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> As Suncity Sheets was selected as the mandatory respondent for individual review and reflects the sole firm with entries during the period not otherwise rescinded upon, these preliminary results apply only Suncity Sheets. <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Suncity Sheet's Letter, “Request for Administrative Review of Suncity Metals and Tubes Private Limited and/or Suncity Sheets Pvt., Ltd.,” dated November 30, 2023. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Release of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Enny Data,” dated January 4, 2024. </FTNT> Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d), when Commerce receives information concerning, or a request from an interested party for a review of, an order which shows changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a review of such order after publishing notice of the review in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> , Commerce shall conduct a review of the determination based on those changed circumstances. Commerce has used changed circumstance reviews (CCRs) to consider the applicability of cash deposit rates after there have been changes in the name or the structure of a respondent, such as a merger or spinoff (successor-in-interest, or successorship, determinations). Commerce has also made successor-in-interest determinations in the context of administrative reviews and investigations. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019,</E> 85 FR 83891 (December 23, 2020), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 3. </FTNT> Based on Suncity Sheets's identification of Suncity Metals as the successor to Suncity Sheets, Commerce finds it appropriate to conduct a successor-in-interest analysis to determine the status of Suncity Metals in this review. 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