• Effective Date: Sep 13, 2017
  • Period of Review: Nov 06, 2015 to Dec 31, 2016
  • Notice of Lifting of Suspension Date: Sep 13, 2017
  • Cite as: 82 FR 42974 • Cite date: Sep 13, 2017

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entries for all firms except those listed in paragraph 3 and assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit or bonding rate in effect on the date of entry:

Product: Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products
Country: Republic of Korea
Case number: C-580-879
Period: 11/06/2015 through 12/31/2016

3. 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Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise produced and/or exported by the listed firms entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 11/06/2015 through 12/31/2016:

Company: Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. / Union Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Case number: C-580-879-001
Note: The company names were inadvertently misspelled as Dongkuk Stee Mill Co., Ltd. and Union Steel Co., Ltd. in the initiation notice 82 FR 42974.

Company: Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd./Dougbu Incheon Steel Co., Ltd.
Case number: C-580-879-002

No case number was in place during the period of review for the companies listed below. Entries may have been made under C-580-879-000 or other company-specific numbers.

Bukook Steel Co., Ltd.
CJ Korea Express
DK Dongshin Co., Ltd.
Dongbu Express
Hongyi (HK) Hardware Products Co., Ltd.
Hyundai Steel Company
Jeil Sanup Co., Ltd.
Note: The company name was inadvertently misspelled as Jeli Sanup Co., Ltd. in the initiation notice 82 FR 42974.
Mitsubishi International Corp.
POSCO
POSCO C&C
POSCO Daewoo Corp.
Sejung Shipping Co., Ltd.
SeAH Steel
Soon Hong Trading Co., Ltd.
Taisan Construction Co., Ltd.
TCC Steel Co., Ltd.
Young Sun Steel Co.
Seil Steel Co., Ltd.
Note: The company name was inadvertently not listed in the initiation notice but will be included in the next initiation notice.

CBP officers must also examine entries under C-580-879-000 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.

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

5. 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 07/2017 anniversary month (82 FR 42974, 09/13/2017). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from the Republic of Korea you shall continue to collect cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties for the merchandise at the current rates.

6. 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 or bonds 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.

7. 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 OVII:TM.)

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

Alexander Amdur