• Effective Date: Dec 23, 2019
  • Period Covered: 01/01/2018 to 12/31/2018
  • Period of Review: Jan 01, 2018 to Dec 31, 2018
  • Notice of Lifting of Suspension Date: Dec 23, 2019
  • Cite as: 84 FR 70496 • Cite date: Dec 23, 2019

1. Commerce has rescinded the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on cold-rolled steel flat products from Brazil (C-351-844) covering the period 01/01/2018 through 12/31/2018 for the firms listed below. You are to assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 01/01/2018 through 12/31/2018 at the cash deposit rate required at the time of entry.

Liquidate all entries for the following firms:

Company: Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN)
Case Number: C-351-844-001

Company: Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais (Usiminas)
Case Number: C-351-844-002

No case number was in place during the period of review for the companies listed below. Entries may have been made under C-351-844-000 or other company-specific numbers.

Company: Aperam Inox America do Sul S.A.

Company: Armco do Brasil S.A.

Company: Arvedi Metalfer do Brasil

Company: NVent do Brasil Eletrometalurgica

Company: Signode Brasileira Ltda.

2. Notice of the lifting of suspension of liquidation of entries of subject merchandise covered by paragraph 1 occurred with publication of the notice of rescission of administrative review (84 FR 70496, 12/23/2019). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of 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.

3. There are no injunctions applicable to the entries covered by this instruction.

4. 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.

5. 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:WAM.)

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

Alexander Amdur