84 FR 204 pgs. 56423-56424 - Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From the People's Republic of China: Notice of Amended Final Scope Ruling Pursuant to Court Decision
Type: NOTICEVolume: 84Number: 204Pages: 56423 - 56424
Pages: 56423, 56424Docket number: [A-570-943; C-570-944]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2019-23011 Filed 10-21-19; 8:45 am]
Agency: Commerce Department
Sub Agency: International Trade Administration
Official PDF Version: PDF Version
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-943; C-570-944]
Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From the People's Republic of China: Notice of Amended Final Scope Ruling Pursuant to Court Decision
AGENCY:
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY:
On July 22, 2019, the United States Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, affirming the Department of Commerce's (Commerce) remand redetermination concerning the final scope ruling, which found that seamless unfinished OCTG from China finished in third countries is not substantially transformed by the third country processing and is therefore covered by the scope of the Orders.
DATES:
Applicable August 1, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
John Drury, AD/CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0195.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
[top] On February 7, 2014, the Department issued the Bell Supply Scope Ruling, 1 in which it determined that seamless unfinished OCTG ( i.e., green tubes) that
Footnotes:
1 ? See Memorandum, "Final Scope Ruling on Green Tubes Manufactured in the People's Republic of China and Finished in Countries Other than the United States and the People's Republic of China" (February 7, 2014) ( Bell Supply Scope Ruling ).
2 ? See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the People's Republic of China: Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Countervailing Duty Order, 75 FR 3203 (January 20, 2010); see also Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from the People's Republic of China: Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order, 75 FR 28551 (May 21, 2010) (collectively, Orders ).
3 ? See Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, Slip Op. 15-73 (CIT July 9, 2015) ( Bell Supply I ).
4 ? See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Remand, Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, dated November 9, 2015 ( First Remand Results ).
5 ? See Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, Slip Op. 16-41 (CIT April 27, 2016) ( Bell Supply II ).
6 ? See Final Results of Second Redetermination Pursuant to Remand, Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, dated August 11, 2016 ( Second Remand Results ) at 14-19.
7 ? See Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, Slip Op. 16-109 (CIT Nov. 23, 2016) ( Bell Supply III ) at 16.
8 ? See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods From the People's Republic of China: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With Final Scope Ruling and Notice of Amended Final Scope Ruling Pursuant to Court Decision, 82 FR 6490 (January 19, 2017) ( Timken Notice and Amended Final Scope Ruling ).
9 ? See Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 1990) ( Timken ).
10 ? Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. Coalition v. United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) ( Diamond Sawblades ).
11 ? See Timken Notice and Amended Final Scope Ruling
Domestic interested parties appealed the CIT's affirmance of the Second Remand Results to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). On April 25, 2018, the CAFC vacated the CIT's decision sustaining the Second Remand Results, and remanded the case to the CIT to determine whether Commerce properly applied its substantial transformation analysis in the Bell Supply Scope Ruling. 12 On October 18, 2018, the CIT remanded Commerce's Bell Supply Scope Ruling, finding that certain factors considered in Commerce's substantial transformation analysis were not supported by substantial evidence.13 Commerce issued the Third Remand Results on March 28, 2019, in which Commerce reconsidered the aspects of its substantial transformation analysis remanded by the Court and continued to find that green tubes are not substantially transformed by the finishing process in third countries, and therefore are covered by the scope of the Orders. 14 On July 22, 2019, the CIT sustained Commerce's Third Remand Results. 15
Footnotes:
12 ? See Bell Supply Co. v. United States, 888 F.3d 1222, 1231 (Fed. Cir. 2018).
13 ? See Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, Slip Op. 18-141 (CIT Oct. 18, 2018) ( Bell Supply IV ).
14 ? See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Remand, Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, dated March 28, 2019 ( Third Remand Results ).
15 ? See Bell Supply Co. v. United States, Court No. 14-00066, Slip Op. 19-89 (CIT July 22, 2019) ( Bell Supply V ).
Amended Final Scope Ruling
There is now a final court decision with respect to the Bell Supply Scope Ruling. Previously, the Timken Notice and Amended Final Scope Ruling amended the Bell Supply Scope Ruling to find that the scope did not cover the merchandise at issue. Therefore, Commerce is amending its scope ruling and finds that the scope of the Orders covers the products addressed in the Bell Supply Scope Ruling. The period to appeal the CIT's ruling expired on September 22, 2019. Because no parties appealed the CIT's ruling, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to continue to suspend liquidation and to require a cash deposit of estimated duties on the merchandise subject to the scope ruling entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after June 20, 2012, the date of initiation of the scope inquiry.
Dated: October 15, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2019-23011 Filed 10-21-19; 8:45 am]
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