Automatic liquidation instructions for Brass Sheet and Strip from Japan for the period 08/01/2012 through 07/31/2013 (A-588-704)

1. Commerce does not automatically conduct administrative reviews of antidumping 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 antidumping duty order for the period and on the merchandise identified below except for the firms listed below. Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c), you are to assess antidumping duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit rate in effect on the date of entry: Product: Brass Sheet and Strip Country: Japan Case number: A-588-704 Period: 08/01/2012 through 07/31/2013 Liquidate all entries for all firms except: Sambo Copper Alloy Co., Ltd. Case number: A-588-704-002 Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Ltd. Case number: A-588-704-003 Kobe Steel, Ltd. Case number: A-588-704-004 Dowa Metals & Mining Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Fujisawa Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Harada Metal Industry Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Hitachi Alloy, Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Hitachi Cable, Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corp. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Kicho Shindosho Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Kitz Metal Works Corp. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Mitsubishi Electric Metecs Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Mitsubishi Materials Corp. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. (Mitsui Kinzoku) Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Mitsui Sumitomo Metal Mining Brass & Copper Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. NGK Insulators (NGK Metals) Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Ohki Brass & Copper Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Sugino Metal Industry Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Sumitomo Metal Mining Brass & Copper Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. Uji Copper & Alloy Co., Ltd. Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. YKK Corporation Case number: No case number exists for this company. Entries may have been made under A-588-704-000 or other company-specific case numbers. CBP officers must also examine entries under A-588-704-000 and all existing company-specific case numbers to ensure the continued suspension of liquidation of entries during the applicable period of review for the companies listed above. 3. There are no injunctions applicable to the entries covered by this instruction 4. Entries of merchandise of excepted firms should not be liquidated until specific instructions are issued. Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise exported or produced by the listed firms and entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 08/01/2012 through 07/31/2013. 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 08/2013 anniversary month (78 FR 60834, 10/02/2013). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of Brass Sheet and Strip from Japan you shall continue to collect cash deposits of estimated antidumping duties for the merchandise at the current rates. 6. 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. 7. Upon assessment of antidumping duties, CBP shall require that the importer provide a reimbursement statement, as described in section 351.402(f)(2) of Commerce's regulations. The importer should provide the reimbursement statement prior to liquidation of the entry. If the importer certifies that it has an agreement with the producer, seller, or exporter, to be reimbursed antidumping duties, CBP shall double the antidumping duties in accordance with the above-referenced regulation. Additionally, if the importer does not provide the reimbursement statement prior to liquidation, reimbursement shall be presumed and CBP shall double the antidumping duties due. If an importer timely files a protest challenging the presumption of reimbursement and doubling of duties, consistent with CBP's protest process, CBP may accept the reimbursement statement filed with the protest to rebut the presumption of reimbursement. 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 OI:JS.) 9. There are no restrictions on the release of this information. Michael B. Walsh