Automatic liquidation instructions for steel concrete reinforcing bar from the Republic of Turkey for the period 01/01/2016 through 12/31/2016 (C-489-819)

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 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entries for all firms except those listed in paragraph 3 and assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit or bonding rate in effect on the date of entry: Product: Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar Country: Republic of Turkey Case number: C-489-819 Period: 01/01/2016 through 12/31/2016 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Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise produced and/or exported by the listed firms entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 01/01/2016 through 12/31/2016: Company: Icdas Celik Enerji Tersane ve Ulasim Sanayi A.S. Case number: C-489-819-002 Company: Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. Case number: C-489-819-003 Entries may also have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Kaptan Metal Dis Ticaret Ve Nakliyat A.S. Case number: C-489-819-003 Entries may also have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Acemar International Limited Case number: C-489-819-005 Entries may also have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Colakoglu Dis Ticaret A.S. Case number: C-489-819-007 Entries may also have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Colakoglu Metalurji A.S. Case number: C-489-819-008 Entries may also have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Izmir Demir Celik Sanayi A.S. Case number: C-489-819-010 Entries may also have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Ozkan Demir Celik Sanayi A.S. Case number: C-489-819-011 Entries may also have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Agir Haddecilik A.S. Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: As Gaz Sinai ve Tibbi Gazlar A.S. Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Asil Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Duferco Celik Ticaret Limited Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Duferco Investment Services SA Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Ege Celik Endustrisi Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Ekinciler Demir ve Celik Sanayi Anonim Sirketi Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Kocaer Haddecilik Sanayi Ve Ticar L Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Mettech Metalurji Madencilik Muhendislik Uretim Danismanlik ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: MMZ Onur Boru Profil A.S. Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Company: Wilmar Europe Trading BV Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. CBP officers must also examine entries under C-489-819-000 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. Entries of merchandise produced and exported by Habas Sinai ve Tibbi Gazlar Istihsal Endustrisi A.S. (Habas) are excluded from this countervailing duty order and are not subject to countervailing duties. However, imports of merchandise where Habas was either the exporter or the producer, but not both, are subject to the administrative review of this countervailing duty order. Accordingly, entries of merchandise from the producer/exporter combinations listed below should not be liquidated until specific instructions are issued. Continue to suspend liquidation of all such entries entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 01/01/2016 through 12/31/2016. Producer: Any company other than Habas Exporter: Habas Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. Producer: Habas Exporter: Any company other than Habas Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review. Entries may have been made under C-489-819-000 or other company-specific numbers. 5. There are no injunctions applicable to the entries covered by this instruction. 6. 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 11/2017 anniversary month (83 FR 1329, 01/11/2018). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of steel concrete reinforcing bar from the Republic of Turkey you shall continue to collect cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties for the merchandise at the current rates. 7. 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. 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 OIII: SM.) 9. There are no restrictions on the release of this information. Alexander Amdur