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. Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c), you are to assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit or bonding rate in effect on the date of entry. Liquidate all entries for all firms.

Product: Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products
Country: Brazil
Case number: C-351-844
Period: 12/22/2015 through 4/20/2016 and 09/16/2016 through 12/31/2016

3. Entries for the period 04/21/2016 through 09/15/2016 should be liquidated without regard to countervailing duties according to message numbers 6112306, dated 04/21/2016, and 6266307, dated 09/22/2016.

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 09/2017 anniversary month (82 FR 52268, 11/13/2017). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of certain cold-rolled steel flat products from Brazil 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 of payment of estimated countervailing duties 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 OIII: SM.)

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

Alexander Amdur