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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 208 / Monday, November 1, 2021 / Notices
negligibility, and we have determined that these allegations are properly supported by adequate evidence and meet the statutory requirements for initiation.35
Allegations of Sales at LTFV
The following is a description of the allegations of sales at LTFV upon which Commerce based its decision to initiate these LTFV investigations of imports of OCTG from Argentina, Mexico, and Russia. The sources of data for the deductions and adjustments relating to U.S. price and normal value NV are discussed in greater detail in the country-specific AD Initiation Checklists.
U.S. Price For Argentina, Mexico, and Russia, the petitioners established export prices EPs on the average unit value AUVs of publicly available import data. For Argentina and Mexico, the petitioners conservatively made no adjustments to the AUVs for foreign inland freight and foreign brokerage and handling expenses incurred in subject foreign countries for purposes of calculating net EPs. For Russia, the petitioners deducted expenses associated with inland freight and brokerage and handling costs incurred in Russia to calculate an ex-factory, or net, EP.36

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Normal Value Based on Constructed Value 37
For Argentina, Mexico, and Russia, the petitioners stated they were unable to obtain home-market or third-country prices for OCTG to use as a basis for NV.
Therefore, for Argentina, Mexico, and Russia, the petitioners calculated NV
based on constructed value CV.38
Pursuant to section 773e of the Act, the petitioners calculated CV as the sum of the cost of manufacturing, selling, general, and administrative expenses, financial expenses, and profit.39 For Argentina, Mexico, and Russia, in calculating the cost of manufacturing, the petitioners relied on the production experience and input consumption rates 35 See Country-Specific AD Initiation Checklists at Attachment III, Analysis of Allegations and Evidence of Material Injury and Causation for the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Petitions Covering Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, and the Russian Federation.
36 See Country-Specific AD Initiation Checklists.
37 In accordance with section 773b2 of the Act, for these investigations, Commerce will request information necessary to calculate the CV and cost of production COP to determine whether there are reasonable grounds to believe or suspect that sales of the foreign like product have been made at prices that represent less than the COP of the product.
38 See Country-Specific AD Initiation Checklists.
39 See Country-Specific AD Initiation Checklists.

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of a U.S. OCTG producer, valued using publicly available information applicable to each respective subject country.40 For Argentina, Mexico, and Russia, in calculating selling, general, and administrative expenses, financial expenses, and profit ratios where applicable, the petitioners relied on the 2020 financial statements of an OCTG
producers domiciled in each respective subject country.41
Fair Value Comparisons Based on the data provided by the petitioners, there is reason to believe that imports of OCTG from Argentina, Mexico, and Russia are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at LTFV. Based on comparisons of EP to CV in accordance with section 773 of the Act, the estimated dumping margins for OCTG concerning each of the countries covered by this initiation are as follows: 1 Argentina168.49
percent; 2 Mexico59.75 percent; and 3 Russia136.96 percent.42
Initiation of LTFV Investigations Based upon the examination of the Petitions and supplemental responses, we find that they meet the requirements of section 732 of the Act. Therefore, we are initiating these LTFV investigations to determine whether imports of OCTG
from Argentina, Mexico, and Russia are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at LTFV. In accordance with section 733b1A of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205b1, unless postponed, we will make our preliminary determinations no later than 140 days after the date of this initiation.
Respondent Selection In the Petitions, the petitioners identified 18 companies in Argentina, 78 companies in Mexico, and 14
companies in Russia, as producers and/or exporters of OCTG.43
Following standard practice in LTFV
investigations involving market economy countries, in the event that Commerce determines that the number of exporters or producers in any individual case is large such that Commerce cannot individually examine each company based upon its resources, where appropriate, Commerce intends to select mandatory respondents in that case based on U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP data for U.S. imports under the appropriate Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 40 Id.
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subheadings listed in the Scope of the Investigations, in the appendix.
On October 19, 2021, Commerce released CBP data on imports of OCTG
from Argentina, Mexico, and Russia under administrative protective order APO to all parties with access to information protected by APO and indicated that interested parties wishing to comment on the CBP data must do so within three business days after the publication date of the notice of initiation of these investigations.44
Commerce will not accept rebuttal comments regarding the CBP data or respondent selection.
Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under APO
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305b.
Instructions for filing such applications may be found on Commerces website at https enforcement.trade.gov/apo.
Comments on CBP data and respondent selection must be filed electronically using ACCESS. An electronically filed document must be received successfully in its entirety via ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. ET on the specified deadline.
Distribution of Copies of the AD
Petitions In accordance with section 732b3A of the Act and 19 CFR
351.202f, copies of the public version of the AD Petitions have been provided to the governments of Argentina, Mexico, and Russia via ACCESS. To the extent practicable, we will attempt to provide a copy of the public version of the AD Petitions to each exporter named in the AD Petitions, as provided under 19 CFR 351.203c2.
ITC Notification We will notify the ITC of our initiation, as required by section 732d of the Act.
Preliminary Determinations by the ITC
The ITC will preliminarily determine, within 45 days after the date on which the AD Petitions were filed, whether there is a reasonable indication that imports of OCTG from Argentina, Mexico, and/or Russia are materially injuring, or threatening material injury to, a U.S. industry.45 A negative ITC
determination for any country will 44 See Memoranda, Antidumping Duty Petition on Imports of Oil Country Tubular Goods from Argentina: Release of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data,; Antidumping Duty Petition on Imports of Oil Country Tubular Goods from Mexico:
Release of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data,; and Antidumping Duty Petition on Imports of Oil Country Tubular Goods from Russia: Release of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data, dated October 19, 2021.
45 See section 733a of the Act.

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