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entries for all firms except those listed in paragraph 3 and assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit or bonding rate in effect on the date of entry: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: Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products
Country: Brazil
Case number: C-351-846
Period: 01/01/2018 through 12/31/2018

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Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise produced and/or exported by the listed firms entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 01/01/2018 through 12/31/2018:

Company: Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN)
Case number: C-351-846-001

Company: Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais S.A. (Usiminas)
Case number: C-351-846-002

No case number was in place during the period of review for the companies listed below. Entries may have been made under C-351-846-000 or other company-specific numbers.

Company: Aperam South America

Company: Companhia Siderurgica Suape

Company: Gerdau Acominas S.A.

Company: Mahle Metal Leve S.A.

Company: Marcegaglia do Brasil

Company: Modine do Brasil Sistemas Termicos

Company: Nvent do Brasil Eletrometalurgica Ltda.

Company: Ternium Brasil Ltda.

CBP officers must also examine entries under C-351-846-000 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 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 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 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 OII: SM.)

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

Alexander Amdur