[Ferro-Alloys.com]The Department of Commerce published the following notice in the Federal Register from the International Trade Administration:

 

Silicomanganese From Ukraine: Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

 

A Notice by the International Trade Administration on 04/15/2016

 

Publication Date: Friday, April 15, 2016

 

Agencies:

 

Department of Commerce

 

International Trade Administration

 

Entry Type: Notice

 

Document Citation: 81 FR 22211

 

Page: 22211 -22212 (2 pages)

 

Agency/Docket Number: A-823-805

 

Document Number: 2016-08787

 

Shorter URL: https://federalregister.gov/a/2016-08787

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

 

Dmitry Vladimirov or Minoo Hatten, AD/CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0665, and (202) 482-1690, respectively.

 

Background

 

On August 3, 2015, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register a notice of "Opportunity to Request Administrative Review" of the antidumping duty order on silicomanganese from Ukraine for the period of review (POR), August 1, 2014, through July 31, 2015. [1] On September 3, 2015, we received an untimely-filed request [2] for an administrative review from two Ukrainian producers and/or exporters of silicomanganese, JSC Zaporizhya Ferroalloy Plant (ZFP) and JSC Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (NFP), requesting an administrative review of exports of subject merchandise for the period of September 1, 2014, through August 31, 2015. On September 21, 2015, we received comments from a domestic interested party, Eramet Marietta, Inc. (Eramet), objecting to initiation and placing on the record certain import statistics stating that there were no entries of subject merchandise from Ukraine during the period of review.

 

On October 6, 2015, the Department initiated the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on silicomanganese from Ukraine with respect to ZFP and NFP for the POR, August 1, 2014, through July 31, 2015, [3] notwithstanding the untimely nature of the Ukrainian producers' request for review.

 

In accordance with our practice, we requested information from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) concerning imports of subject merchandise from these companies during the POR. We received the requested CBP information, which showed that neither ZFP nor NFP had suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR. On October 6, 2015, we documented this finding and invited comments from interested parties regarding this CBP query result. [4]

 

On October 19, 2015, we received comments from domestic interested parties, Eramet and Felman Production, LLC (collectively, U.S. producers). On October 20, 2015, we received comments from ZFP and NFP (Ukrainian producers). ZFP's and NFP's October 20, 2015, submission contained documentation establishing that both companies made both a sale and an entry of subject merchandise in August 2015.

 

Because there is no evidence that there were entries of subject merchandise into the United States from Ukraine during the POR, on November 17, 2015, the Department placed a memorandum on the record notifying interested parties of its intent to rescind the 2014-2015 administrative review of silicomanganese from Ukraine, and invited comments. [5] In its November 17, 2015, memorandum, the Department rejected the Ukrainian producers' arguments that the Department provided defective or inadequate notice concerning the correct anniversary month of the antidumping duty order on silicomanganese from Ukraine, and found no basis to alter the POR to capture the Ukrainian producers' entries of subject merchandise made after the POR. [6]

 

On November 24, 2015, we received comments from ZFP and NFP. On November 30, 2015, we received rebuttal comments from U.S. producers.

 

Rescission of Review

 

It is the Department's practice to rescind an administrative review pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3) when there are no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR from the country in question. [7] At the end of an administrative review, all suspended entries during the POR for the parties under review are liquidated at the assessment rate computed in the final results of review. [8] Therefore, since the purpose of an administrative review is to assess antidumping duties, there must be a suspended AD/CVD entry to be liquidated at the newly calculated assessment rate. As discussed in the Decision Memorandum accompanying this notice, [9] we find that, because there were no entries of subject merchandise during the POR from Ukraine, we are rescinding the 2014-2015 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on silicomanganese from Ukraine, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).

 

Analysis of Comments Received

 

All issues raised by parties in this administrative review are addressed in the accompanying Decision Memorandum, which is adopted by this notice. The 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 http://access.trade.gov, and to all parties in the Central Records Unit, room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly on the internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The signed and electronic versions of the Decision Memorandum are identical in content.

 

This notice is published in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).

 

Dated: April 7, 2016.

 

Christian Marsh,

 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations.

 

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