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 (or new shipper 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entries for all firms except those listed in paragraph 3 and assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit or bonding rate in effect on the date of entry: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:
Republic of Korea
Case number:
C-580-884
Period:
1/1/2018 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Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise produced and/or exported by the listed firms entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 1/1/2018 through 12/31/2018:
Note: the companies listed below are the companies for which a review was requested.
Company:
Hyundai Steel Company
Case number:
C-580-884-001
Note:
Entries may also appear under Hyundai Steel Co., Ltd.
Commerce inadvertently initiated a review of "Hyundai Steel Company 10. JFE Shoji Trade Korea Ltd." instead of "Hyundai Steel Company" and "JFE Shoji Trade Korea Ltd."
See 84 FR 67712, dated 12/11/2019.
We will correct this error in the subsequent initiation notice.
Company:
POSCO
Case number:
C-580-884-002
Company:
DCE Inc.
Case number:
C-580-884-003
Company:
Dong Chuel America Inc.
Case number:
C-580-884-004
Company:
Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd.
Case number:
C-580-884-005
Company:
Dongkuk Industries Co., Ltd.
Case number:
C-580-884-006
Company:
Hyewon Sni Corporation (H.S.I.)
Case number:
C-580-884-007
Company:
Soon Hong Trading Co., Ltd.
Case number:
C-580-884-008
Company:
Sung-A Steel Co., Ltd.
Case number:
C-580-884-009
No case number was in place during the period of review for the companies listed below.
Entries may have been made under C-580-884-000 or other company-specific numbers.
Dong Chuel Industrial Co., Ltd.
Dongbu Incheon Steel Co., Ltd.
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd.
POSCO Coated & Color Steel Co., Ltd.
POSCO Daewoo Corporation.
JFE Shoji Trade Korea Ltd.
Note:
Commerce inadvertently initiated a review of "Hyundai Steel Company 10. JFE Shoji Trade Korea Ltd." instead of "Hyundai Steel Company" and "JFE Shoji Trade Korea Ltd." See 84 FR 67712, dated 12/11/2019.
We will correct this error in the subsequent initiation notice.
CBP officers must also examine entries under C-580-884-000 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 product from country 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.
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8.
There are no restrictions on the release of this information.
Alexander Amdur