• Effective Date: Feb 25, 2016
  • Notice of Lifting of Suspension Date: Mar 04, 2016

Notice of the lifting of suspension occurred on the message date of these instructions. See paragraph 6 below.

1. Commerce received a scope ruling request from Commercial Honing LLC dba Commercial Fluid Power (“Commercial Honing”). Commerce issued a final scope determination on 02/25/2016 that certain mechanical tubing that Commercial Honing imports and that is manufactured by Jiangsu Huacheng Industry Group Co. LTD is not within the scope of the antidumping duty order on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from the People's Republic of China (“PRC”) (A-570-956). Commercial Honing's mechanical tubing that Commerce found to be outside the scope of the antidumping duty order on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from the PRC fall under the following product codes: S7.500X6.000S, S8.00X6.000S, S8.000X6.500S, S8.500X7.000S, S9.500X7.875S, S9.500X8.000S, S10.000X8.000S, S10.000X8.500S, S10.500X9.000S, S11.000X9.000S, S11.000X9.500S, and S11.500X10.000S.

2. Commerce additionally found that certain other mechanical tubing imported by Commercial Honing is within the scope of this antidumping duty order and will issue separate instructions regarding that merchandise.

3. Commerce determined that Commercial Honing's mechanical tubing products described in paragraph 1 above are outside the scope of the order because they all fall under the exclusion language of the order due to their dimension and classification. Therefore, Commercial Honing's mechanical tubing products identified above are not within the scope of the antidumping duty order on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from the PRC.

4. For all entries of seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe not within scope that remain unliquidated on or after 04/28/2010, CBP shall terminate suspension and liquidate entries of product not within scope which were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption.

5. Refund any cash deposits relating to mechanical tubing described in paragraph 1 above.

6. These instructions constitute notice of the lifting of suspension of liquidation of entries of Commercial Honing's mechanical tubing described in paragraph 1 above entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 04/28/2010.

7. The assessment of antidumping 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 antidumping duties. The interest provisions are not applicable to cash or bonds posted as estimated antidumping duties before the date of publication of the antidumping duty order. Interest shall be calculated from the date payment of estimated antidumping 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. Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from the PRC not covered by paragraph 1 and 3 above, you shall continue to collect cash deposits of estimated antidumping duties for the merchandise at the current rates.

9. 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 OIV:AN.)

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

Alexander Amdur