• Effective Date: Dec 11, 2019
  • Period of Review: Oct 01, 2018 to Sep 30, 2019
  • Notice of Lifting of Suspension Date: Dec 27, 2019
  • Cite as: 84 FR 67712 • Cite date: Dec 11, 2019

1. Commerce does not automatically conduct administrative reviews of antidumping 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 (or new shipper review) of the antidumping duty order for the period and on the merchandise identified below except for the firm(s) 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all entries for all firms except those listed in paragraph 3 and assess antidumping duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit or bonding rate in effect on the date of entry: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: Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
Country: Japan
Case number: A-588-874
Period: 10/01/2018 through 09/30/2019

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Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise produced and/or exported by the listed firms entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 10/01/2018 through 09/30/2019

Company: JFE Steel Corporation/ JFE Shoji Trade Corporation
Case number: A-588-874-002

Company: Hanwa Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-588-874-003
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: JFE Shoji Trade America
Case number: A-588-874-004
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Kanematsu Corporation.
Case number: A-588-874-005
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
Case number: A-588-874-006
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-588-874-007
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Miyama Industry Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-588-874-008
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Logistics Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-588-874-009
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Okaya & Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-588-874-010
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Saint-Gobain K.K.
Case number: A-588-874-011
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Shinsho Corporation.
Case number: A-588-874-012
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Sumitomo Corporation.
Case number: A-588-874-013
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Suzukaku Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-588-874-014
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Case number: A-588-874-015
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Toyota Tsusho Corporation Nagoya
Case number: A-588-874-016
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

Company: Nippon Steel Corporation.
Case number: A-588-874-019
Entries may also have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers

No case number was in place during the period of review for the companies listed below. Entries may have been made under A-588-874-000 or other company-specific numbers.

Higuchi Manufacturing America, LLC.
Higuchi Seisakusho Co., Ltd.
Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
Honda Trading Canada, Inc.
Metal One Corporation.
Nakagawa Special Steel Inc.
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation.
Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd.
Panasonic Corporation.

CBP officers must also examine entries under A-588-874-000 and all existing company-specific case numbers to ensure the continued suspension of liquidation of entries during the applicable period of review for the producer(s) and/or exporter(s) 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 10/2019 anniversary month (84 FR 67712, 12/11/2019). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan you shall continue to collect cash deposits of estimated antidumping duties for the merchandise at the current rates.

6. The assessment of antidumping 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 antidumping duties. The interest provisions are not applicable to cash or bonds posted as estimated antidumping duties before the date of publication of the antidumping duty order. Interest shall be calculated from the date payment of estimated antidumping 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. Upon assessment of antidumping duties, CBP shall require that the importer provide a reimbursement statement, as described in section 351.402(f)(2) of Commerce's regulations. The importer should provide the reimbursement statement prior to liquidation of the entry. If the importer certifies that it has an agreement with the producer, seller, or exporter, to be reimbursed antidumping duties, CBP shall double the antidumping duties in accordance with the above-referenced regulation. Additionally, if the importer does not provide the reimbursement statement prior to liquidation, reimbursement shall be presumed and CBP shall double the antidumping duties due. If an importer timely files a protest challenging the presumption of reimbursement and doubling of duties, consistent with CBP's protest process, CBP may accept the reimbursement statement filed with the protest to rebut the presumption of reimbursement.

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 O:VII:CRJ.)

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

Alexander Amdur