Certain Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Taiwan and Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe From Taiwan: Negative Final Determinations of Circumvention of the Antidumping Duty Orders

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration [A-583-008, A-583-814] AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes (pipe and tube) and circular welded non-alloy steel pipe (CWP) imported into the United States during the period of inquiry, January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2021, were not completed in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) using hot-rolled steel (HRS) manufactured in Taiwan, and, therefore, no such imports are circumventing the antidumping duty (AD) orders on pipe and tube and CWP from Taiwan. ( printed page 53865) DATES: Applicable August 9, 2023. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nicolas Mayora (pipe and tube) or Preston Cox and Scarlet Jaldin (CWP), AD/CVD Operations, Offices V and VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3053, (202) 482-5041, and (202) 482-4275, respectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On April 12, 2023, Commerce published in the Federal Register its preliminary determinations  [ 1 ] that imports of pipe and tube and CWP were not completed in Vietnam using HRS manufactured in Taiwan, and, therefore, are not circumventing the AD orders on pipe and tube and CWP from Taiwan. [ 2 ] Pursuant to section 781(e) of t…