1. Commerce does not automatically conduct administrative reviews of countervailing duty orders. Instead, reviews must be requested pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213.

2. Commerce has not received a request for an administrative review of the countervailing duty order for the period and on the merchandise identified below except for the firms listed in paragraph 3. Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c), you are to liquidate all entries for all firms except those listed in paragraph 4 and assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit in effect on the date of entry:

Product: Forged Steel Fittings
Country: The People's Republic of China
Case number: C-570-068
Period: 3/14/2018 through 12/31/2018

3. Entries for the period 07/11/2018 (the day after the final day of provisional measures) through 11/25/2018 (the day prior to publication of the ITC final determination) should be liquidated without regard to countervailing duties (i.e. refund all cash deposits). (Reference Message 8255302 dated 09/12/2018, and Message 8256309 dated 09/13/2018.)

4. Entries of merchandise of the firms listed below should not be liquidated until specific instructions are issued. Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise produced and/or exported by the listed firms entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the periods 3/14/2018 through 7/10/2018 and 11/26/2018 through 12/31/2018:

Company: Both-Well (Taizhou) Steel Fittings Co., Ltd.
Case number: C-570-068-001
Entries may also have been made under C-570-068-000 or other company-specific numbers. The company name may also appear as Both-Well Taizhou Steel Fittings Co., Ltd.

No case number was in place during the period of review for the companies listed below. Entries may have been made under C-570-068-000 or other company-specific numbers.

Company: Apco Pipe Fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Cixi Baicheng Hardware Tools, Ltd.

Company: Dalian Guangming Pipe Fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Eaton Hydraulics (Luzhou) Co., Ltd.

Company: Eaton Hydraulics (Ningbo) Co., Ltd.

Company: Feiting Hi-Tech Piping Zhejiang Co., Ltd

Company: Hebei Haiyuan Pipe Fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Hebei Xinyue High Pressure Flange and Pipe Fitting Co., Ltd.

Company: Jiangsu Forged Pipe Fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Jiangsu Haida Pipe Fittings Group Co., Ltd.

Company: Jiangyin Tianning Metal Pipe Fitting Co., Ltd.

Company: Jiangyin Yangzi Fitting Co., Ltd.

Company: Jinan Mech Piping Technology Co., Ltd.

Company: Jining Dingguan Precision Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Company: Lianfa Stainless Steel Pipes & Valves (Qingyun) Co., Ltd.

Company: Luzhou City Chengrun Mechanics Co., Ltd.

Company: Ningbo HongTe Industrial Co., Ltd.

Company: Ningbo Long Teng Metal Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Company: Ningbo Save Technology Co., Ltd.

Company: Ningbo Zhongan Forging Co., Ltd.

Company: Q.C. Witness International Co., Ltd.

Company: Qingdao Bestflow Industrial Co., Ltd.

Company: Shanghai Lon Au Stainless Steel Materials Co., Ltd.

Company: Shanghai Longnai High Pressure Pipe Fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Shanghai Tongyang Pipe Fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Shanghai Yochoic Pipefittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Witness International Co., Ltd.

Company: Xin Yi International Trade Co., Limited

Company: Yancheng Boyue Tube Co., Ltd.

Company: Yancheng Haohui Pipe Fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Yancheng Jiuwei Pipe Fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Yancheng Manda Pipe Industry Co., Ltd.

Company: Yingkou Guangming Pipeline Industry Co., Ltd.

Company: Yingkou Liaohe Machinery & Pipe fittings Co., Ltd.

Company: Yuyao Wanlei Pipe Fitting Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

CBP officers must also examine entries under C-570-068-000 and all existing company-specific case numbers to ensure the continued suspension of liquidation of entries during the applicable period of review for the producers and/or exporters listed above.

5. There are no injunctions applicable to the entries covered by this instruction.

6. Notice of the lifting of suspension of liquidation of entries of subject merchandise covered by paragraph 2 occurred with the publication of the notice of initiation of administrative review for the 11/2018 anniversary month (85 FR 3014, 1/17/2020). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of forged steel fittings from China you shall continue to collect cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties for the merchandise at the current rates.

7. The assessment of countervailing duties by CBP on shipments or entries of this merchandise is subject to the provisions of section 778 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. Section 778 requires that CBP pay interest on overpayments or assess interest on underpayments of the required amounts deposited as estimated countervailing duties. The interest provisions are not applicable to cash posted as estimated countervailing duties before the date of publication of the countervailing duty order. Interest shall be calculated from the date payment of estimated countervailing duties is required through the date of liquidation. The rate at which such interest is payable is the rate in effect under section 6621 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for such period.

8. If there are any questions by the importing public regarding this message, please contact the Call Center for the Office of AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce at (202) 482-0984. CBP ports should submit their inquiries through authorized CBP channels only. (This message was generated by OVIII:JCM.)

9. There are no restrictions on the release of this information.

Alexander Amdur