• Effective Date: Jan 03, 2025
  • Period Covered: 01/29/2021 to 01/02/2025
  • Cite as: 90 FR 305 • Cite date: Jan 03, 2025
1. On 1/3/2025 (90 FR 305), Commerce published in the Federal Register its amended final determination in the countervailing duty investigation of forged steel fluid end blocks (fluid end blocks) from Federal Republic of Germany (Germany) for the period 1/1/2018 through 12/31/2018. See message 5008404, dated 01/08/2025. 2. Title 19 U.S.C. 1520(a)(4) authorizes refunds prior to liquidation whenever an importer of record declares or it is ascertained that excess duties, fees, charges, or exactions have been deposited or paid. In accordance with 19 U.S.C. 1520(a)(4), CBP is authorized to grant a refund, if requested by the importer, of cash deposits for entries of fluid end blocks from Germany from the entities listed in paragraph 4 below which were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 1/29/2021 (date of publication of the U.S. International Trade Commission final determination in the Federal Register) through 1/2/2025 (day before date of publication of the amended final determination in the Federal Register). 3. The refund amount will be calculated by determining the difference between the amount of cash deposits paid as a result of the application of the final determination rate and the amount due as a result of the application of the amended final determination rate. 4. Listed below are the deposit rates that were assigned to certain firms in the final determination. See message 1035408, dated 02/04/2021. In addition, listed below are the amended deposit rates assigned in the amended final determination (see message number 5008404, dated 01/08/2025): Producer and/or Exporter: Schmiedewerke GrÓ§ditz GmbH Case number: C-428-848-002 Final determination rate: 6.71% Amended final determination rate: 6.64% Producer and/or Exporter: voestalpine Bohler Group Case number: C-428-848-003 Final determination rate: 14.81% Amended final determination rate: 14.74% Producer and/or Exporter: All-Others Case number: C-428-848-000 Final determination rate: 6.29% Amended final determination rate: 6.18% 5. Do not liquidate entries of fluid end blocks from Germany produced and/or exported by the entities listed in paragraph 4 above until specific liquidation instructions are issued. 6. The interest provisions of section 778 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do not apply. 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 OVIII:RA.) 8. There are no restrictions on release of this information. Alexander Amdur