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c, 2CJ2SCI Paul Piquado Assistant Secretary for Import Administration Christian Marsh ? Deputy Assistant Secretary A-570-943 AR: 05/19/2010-4/30/2011 Public Document IA AD/CVD 08: PS for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations Oil Country Tubular Goods from the People'

s Republic of China Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Fiual Results ofthe 2010-2011 Administrative Review On June 8, 2012, the Department ofCommerce ( the Department ) published its Preliminary Results iu the antidumping duty administrative review ofoil country tubular goods from the People'

s Republic ofChina.

1 On July 23, 2012, American Tubular Products, LLC ( ATP )2, the Jiangsu Chengde Steel Tube Share Co., Ltd. ( Chengde ), and United States Steel Corporation ( U.S. Steel ) submitted their case briefs.3 On August 10, 2012, ATP, Chengde, TMK IPSCO,

1 See Certain Oil Countly Tubular Goods From the People'

s Republic ofChina: Preliminary Results ofthe First AntidumpingDutyAdminisn・ative Review, Rescission in Part and Intent To Rescind in Pm1,

77 FR 34013,

34015 (June 8, 2012) ('

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PreliminmyResults ).

2 ATP is an importer of subject merchandise.

3 See Letter from ATI'

, Oil Country Tubular Goods from the People'

s Republic ofChina: First Administrative Review;

Case Brief'

dated July 23, 2012;

see also Letter from the Chengde Group, Oil Country Tubular Goods from China;

Submission ofJiangsu Chengde'

s Case Brief'

dated July 23, 2012;

see also Letter from U.S. Steel, '

'

First Administrative Review of Oil Country Tubular Goods from the People'

s Republic of China dated July 23, 2012.

2 Wheatland Tube Company, and V&

M Star ( TWV'

j, U.S. Steel, and Maverick Tube Corporation ( Maverick ) submitted rebuttal briefs. Below is the complete list of the issues for which we received comments from interested parties. Comment

1 : Valuation of Steel Billets Comment 2: Whether to Grant Chengde a By-product Offset Comment 3: Valuation of Brokerage and Handling Comment 4: Surrogate Financial Ratios Comment 5: Assessment Comment 6: Valuation of Labor Comment 7: Double Counting of Thread Protectors Comment 8: Valuation of Ocean Freight Comment 9: Valuation of Inland Freight BACKGROUND The Chengde Group submitted surrogate value ( SV ) data on July 5, 2012.

5 U.S. Steel and Maverick Tube Corporation ( Maverick ) submitted SV rebuttal comments on July 16, 2012, in response to the Chengde Group'

s July 5, 2012, submission.

6 On July 23, 2012, American Tubular Products, LLC ( ATP )/ the Chengde Group, and U.S. Steel submitted their case briefs.8 On July 27, 2012, Maverick and U.S. Steel submitted a letter to the Department claiming that ATP and the Chengde Group'

s case briefs contained untimely new factual information.9 On July 30, 2012, ATP submitted a letter arguing that its case brief did not contain new factual information.10 On August 1, 2012, the Department released letters to both ATP and the Chengde Group informing them that it found that certain factual information in their case briefs was untimely submitted and instructed them to submit revised case briefs with the untimely factual

4 See ATP'

s rebuttal brief Oil.Country Tubular Goods from the People'

s Republic ofChina: First Administrative Review;