Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-871]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From India: 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 producers and/or exporters subject to this administrative review made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) August 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable January 2, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Fred Baker or Theodora Mattei, AD/CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2924 or (202) 482-4834, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On August 24, 2017, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the antidumping duty order on finished carbon steel flanges from India. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On September 7, 2023, Commerce published the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> of the 2022-2023 administrative review and invited interested parties to comment. This administrative review covers 14 producers and/or exporters of the subject merchandise. Commerce selected R.N. Gupta & Co. Ltd. (RNG) and Norma Group  <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> for individual examination. The producers/exporters not selected for individual examination are listed in the Appendix II section of this notice. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On October 22, 2024, Norma Group and RNG each submitted a case brief. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> No other party submitted case or rebuttal briefs. On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline to issue the final results in this administrative review by 90 days. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> Accordingly, the deadline for these final results is now April 11, 2025. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India and Italy: Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 82 FR 40136 (August 24, 2017) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>  In prior segments of this proceeding, we determined that Norma (India) Limited, USK Exports Private Limited, Uma Shanker Khandelwal & Co., and Bansidhar Chiranjilal were affiliated and should be treated as a single entity (Norma Group). <E T="03">See, e.g., Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India: Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination,</E> 82 FR 9719 (February 8, 2017), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum, at 4-5, unchanged in <E T="03">Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,</E> 82 FR 29483 (June 29, 2017). In this review, Norma (India) Limited and its affiliated entities have affirmed that the factual basis on which Commerce made its prior determinations has not changed. <E T="03">See</E> Norma Group's Letter, “2nd Supplemental Response Section A, C and D of Anti-Dumping duty Original Questionnaire,” dated June 26, 2024, at S2-3. Therefore, Commerce continues to treat these four companies as a single entity. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Appendix II for a list of companies not selected for individual examination. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Norma Group's Letter, “Case Brief,” dated October 22, 2024; <E T="03">see also</E> RNG's Letter, “Case Brief of R.N. Gupta & Company Limited,” dated October 22, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated December 9, 2024. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The merchandise covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is finished carbon steel flanges. For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the 2022-2023 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India,” dated December 23, 2024 (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Act. Export price is calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. NV is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying these final results, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised by the parties in their case and rebuttal briefs are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues which parties raised, and to which we responded in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, follows in the appendix 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 analysis of the comments received, and for the reasons explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, Commerce made certain changes to the preliminary weighted-average dumping margins for RNG and Norma Group. As a result of these changes, we have also revised the rate applicable companies not selected for individual examination. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Non-Selected Companies</HD> The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment of a 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 market economy 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 administrative review, we preliminarily calculated weighted-average dumping margins for Norma Group and RNG that are not zero, <E T="03">de minimis</E> ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> less than 0.5 percent), or determined entirely on the basis of facts available. Accordingly, consistent with guidance in section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, Commerce is preliminarily assigning to the companies not individually examined a margin of 2.54 percent, which is the weighted average of Norma Group's margin and RNG's margin based on publicly ranged U.S. sales values. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> The companies not selected for individual examination are listed in Appendix II. <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Calculation of Margin for Respondents Not Selected for Individual Examination,” dated concurrently with this notice. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Administrative Review</HD> For these final results, we determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period August 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s200,16"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter/manufacturer</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average <ENT I="01">Norma (India) Limited/USK Exports Private Limited/Uma Shanker Khandelwal & Co./Bansidhar Chiranjilal</ENT> <ENT>0.89</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">R.N. Gupta & Company Limited</ENT> <ENT>3.60</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Review-Specific Rate for Non-Selected Companies</ENT> <ENT>2.54</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed for these final results to parties in this proceeding 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> Upon completion of this administrative review, Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. If the weighted-average dumping margin for a mandatory respondent is not zero or <E T="03">de minimis</E> in the final results of this review, we will calculate an importer-specific assessment rate on the basis of the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's examined sales and the total entered value of such sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> If the weighted-average dumping margin is zero or <E T="03">de minimis</E> in the final results of review, or if an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or <E T="03">de minimis,</E> Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 17k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━