• Effective Date: Apr 08, 2020
  • Period of Review: Jan 01, 2019 to Dec 31, 2019
  • Notice of Lifting of Suspension Date: Apr 08, 2020
  • Cite as: 85 FR 19730 • Cite date: Apr 08, 2020

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entries for all firms except those listed in paragraph 3 and assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit or bonding rate in effect on the date of entry: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 Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel
Country: People's Republic of China
Case number: C-570-059
Period: 01/01/2019 through 12/31/2019

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Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise produced and/or exported by the listed firms entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 01/01/2019 through 12/31/2019:

Company: Jiangsu Hongyi Steel Pipe Co., Ltd.
Case number: C-570-059-001

Company: Zhangjiangang Huacheng Import & Export Co., Ltd.
Company: Zhangjiagang Salem Fine Tubing Co., Ltd.
Company: Jiangsu Huacheng Industry Pipe Making Corporation
Case number: C-570-059-002

No case number was in place for the following companies during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-570-059-000 or other company-specific numbers.

Company: Anji Pengda Steel Pipe Co., Ltd.
Company: Changshu Fushilai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd.
Note: The company name Changshu Fushilai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd., was inadvertently spelled in the Federal Register initiation notice as Changshu Fushilai Stecl Steel Pipec Co., Ltd., a correction of the company name will be listed in a future Federal Register notice.
Company: Changshu Jingdi Imp. & Exp. Co.
Company: Changshu Special Shaped Steel Tube Co., Ltd.
Company: Hebei Changfeng Steel Tube Mfg.
Company: Hubei Xinyegang Steel Co., Ltd.
Company: Hunan Standard Steel Co., Ltd.
Company: Jiangsu Liwan Precision Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Company: Shijiazhuang Teneng Electrical & Mechanical Equipment Co., Ltd.
Company: Suzhou Baojia New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
Company: Suzhou Foster International Co., Ltd.
Company: Tianjin Xinyue Industrial and Trade Co., Ltd
Company: Wuxi Dajin High-Precision Cold-Drawn Steel Tube Co., Ltd.
Company: Wuxi P&C Machinery Co., Ltd.
Company: Yangzhou Lontrin Steel Tube Co., Ltd.
Company: Zhangjiagang Shengdingyuan Pipe-Making Co., Ltd.
Company: Zhejiang Dingxin Steel Tube Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Company: Zhejiang Minghe Steel Pipe Co., Ltd.

CBP officers must also examine entries under C-570-059-000 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 02/2020 anniversary month (85 FR 19730, 04/08/2020). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of certain cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from the People's Republic of China 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.

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 OIII: SM.)

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

Alexander Amdur