Cut-to-length Carbon Steel Plate from China, Russia, and Ukraine

INSTRUCTION BOOKLET

GENERAL INFORMATION, INSTRUCTIONS, AND
DEFINITIONS FOR COMMISSION FOREIGN
PRODUCER/EXPORTER QUESTIONNAIRES

Cut-To-Length (CTL) Plate from China, Russia, and Ukraine
Investigation Nos. 731-TA-753, 754, and 756 (Second Review)

Further information.--If you have any questions concerning the enclosed
questionnaire(s) or other matters related to these reviews, you may contact
the following member of the Commission=s staff (Fax 202-205-3205):

Dana Lofgren, investigator (202-205-2539; E-mail dana.lofgren@USITC.GOV)
regarding general questions and trade and related information;
Ioana Mic, economist (202-205-3196; E-mail ioana.mic@USITC.GOV)
regarding pricing, market, and related information.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Background.--On October 24, 1997, the Department of Commerce suspended investigations on
imports of CTL carbon steel plate from China, Russia, South Africa, and Ukraine (62 F.R. 61751,
61766, 61773, and 61780). On August 29, 2003, the Commission determined that termination of
the suspended investigation for South Africa would not be likely to lead to continuation or
recurrence of material injury to an industry in the United States within a reasonably foreseeable
time (68 F.R. 52614). On November 3, 2003, the Department of Commerce terminated the
suspension agreement for China and issued an antidumping duty order (68 F.R. 60081). On
August 1, 2008, the Commission instituted reviews pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether termination of the suspension
agreements for Russia and Ukraine, and the antidumping duty order for China, would be likely to
lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to the domestic industry within a reasonably
foreseeable time (73 F.R. 45071). If the Commission makes affirmative determinations, the
suspension agreements and antidumping duty order will remain in place. If the Commission
makes negative determinations, the Department of Commerce will terminate the suspension
agreements and the antidumping duty order.
Questionnaires and other information pertinent to these reviews are available at
http://www.usitc.gov/trade_remedy/731_ad_701_cvd/investigations/active/index.htm#reviews.
Address all correspondence to the United States International Trade Commission, Washington,
DC 20436. Hearing-impaired individuals can obtain information regarding this review via the
Commission=s TDD terminal (202-205-1810).
Due date of questionnaire(s).-- Return the completed questionnaire(s) to the United States
International Trade Commission by no later than June 26, 2009. Data for the second quarter of
2009 are due by no later than July 24, 2009. Although the enclosed postpaid envelope may be
used to return the completed questionnaire, use of an overnight mail service may be necessary to
ensure that your response actually reaches the Commission by June 26, 2009. If you do not use the
enclosed envelope, please make sure the completed questionnaire is sent to the attention of Dana
Lofgren, Investigator. Return only one copy of the completed questionnaire(s), but please
keep a copy for your records so that you can refer to it if the Commission staff contacts you
with any questions during the course of the reviews.
Service of questionnaire response(s).-- In the event that your firm is a party to these reviews, you
are required to serve a copy of the questionnaire(s), once completed, on parties to the proceeding
that are subject to administrative protective order (see 19 CFR ' 207.7). A list of such parties is
maintained by the Commission=s Secretary and may be obtained by calling 202-205-1803. A
certificate of service must accompany the copy of the completed questionnaire(s) you submit (see
19 CFR ' 207.7).

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GENERAL INFORMATION--Continued
Confidentiality.-- The commercial and financial data furnished in response to the enclosed
questionnaire(s) that reveal the individual operations of your firm will be treated as confidential by
the Commission to the extent that such data are not otherwise available to the public and will not
be disclosed except as may be required by law (see 19 U.S.C. ' 1677f). Such confidential
information will not be published in a manner that will reveal the individual operations of your
firm; however, nonnumerical characterizations of numerical business proprietary information
(such as discussion of trends) will be treated as confidential business information only at the
request of the submitter for good cause shown.
Verification.--The information submitted in the enclosed questionnaire(s) is subject to audit
and verification by the Commission. To facilitate possible verification of data, please keep
all your workpapers and supporting documents used in the preparation of the questionnaire
response(s).
Release of information.--The information provided by your firm in response to the
questionnaire(s), as well as any other business proprietary information submitted by your firm to
the Commission in connection with the reviews, may become subject to, and released under, the
administrative protective order provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. ' 1677f) and
section 207.7 of the Commission=s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR ' 207.7). This means
that certain lawyers and other authorized individuals may temporarily be given access to the
information for use in connection with these reviews or other import-injury investigations or
reviews conducted by the Commission on the same or similar merchandise; those individuals
would be subject to severe penalties if the information were divulged to unauthorized individuals.

INSTRUCTIONS
Answer all questions.--Do not leave any question or section blank unless a questionnaire
expressly directs you to skip over certain questions or sections. If the answer to any question is
Anone,@ write Anone.@ If information is not readily available from your records in exactly the
form requested, furnish carefully prepared estimates--designated as such by the letter
AE@--and explain the basis of your estimates. Answers to questions and any necessary
comments or explanations should be supplied in the space provided or on separate sheets attached
to the appropriate page of the questionnaire(s). If your firm is completing more than one
questionnaire in connection with these reviews (i.e., a producer, importer, purchaser, and/or
foreign producer questionnaire), you need not respond to duplicated questions in the
questionnaires.
Consolidate all establishments in China, Russia, or Ukraine.--Report the requested data for your
establishment(s) located in China, Russia, or Ukraine. Firms operating more than one
establishment should combine the data for all establishments into a single report.
Filing instructions.—Questionnaires may be filed either in paper form or electronically.
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INSTRUCTIONS--Continued
OPTIONS FOR FILING IN PAPER FORM
• Overnight mail service.—Mail to the following address:
United States International Trade Commission
Office of Investigations, Room 615
500 E Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
• Fax.—Fax to 202.205.3205.
• U.S. mail.—Mail to the address above, but use zip code 20436. This option is not recommended.
U.S. mail sent to government offices undergoes additional processing to screen for hazardous
materials; this additional processing results in substantial delays in delivery.
OPTIONS FOR FILING ELECTRONICALLY
This questionnaire is available as a “fillable” form in MS Word format on the
Commission’s website at :
http://www.usitc.gov/trade_remedy/731_ad_701_cvd/investigations/active/index.
htm#reviews. Please do not attempt to modify the format or permissions of the
questionnaire document. You may complete the questionnaire electronically,
print it out, and submit it in paper form as described above, or you may submit it
electronically through one of the following means:
• Compact disc (CD).—Copy your questionnaire onto a CD, include a signed certification (page
1) (either in paper form or scanned PDF copied onto CD), and mail to the address above. It is
strongly recommended that you use an overnight mail service. U.S. mail sent to government
offices undergoes additional processing which not only results in substantial delays in delivery but
may also damage CDs.
• E-mail.—E-mail your questionnaire to the investigator (dana.lofgren@usitc.gov); include a
scanned PDF of the signed certification (page 1). Type the following in the e-mail subject line:
BPI Questionnaire. Please note that submitting your questionnaire by e-mail may subject your
firm’s business proprietary information to transmission over an unsecure environment and to
possible disclosure. If you choose this option, the Commission warns you that any risk involving
possible disclosure of such information is assumed by the submitter and not by the Commission.
Note: If you are a party to the reviews, and service of the questionnaire is required, such service
should be made in paper form.

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DEFINITIONS
Carbon steel.-- Hot-rolled iron and non-alloy steel universal mill plates (i.e. flat-rolled products
rolled on four faces or in a closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 mm but not exceeding 1250
mm and of a thickness of not less than 4 mm, not in coils and without patterns in relief), of
rectangular shape, neither clad, plated nor coated with metal, whether or not painted, varnished, or
coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances; and certain iron and non-alloy steel
flat-rolled products not in coils, of rectangular shape, hot-rolled, neither clad, plated, nor coated
with metal, whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic
substances, 4.75 mm or more in thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at
least twice the thickness. Included are flat-rolled products of nonrectangular cross-section where
such cross-section is achieved subsequent to the rolling process (i.e., products which have been
“worked after rolling”) for example, products which have been beveled or rounded at the edges.
The subject product is covered by statistical reporting numbers 7208.40.3030, 7208.40.3060,
7208.51.0030, 7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 7208.52.0000, 7208.53.0000, 7208.90.0000,
7210.70.3000, 7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0045, 7211.90.0000,
7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, and 7212.50.0000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States (HTS). Specifically excluded from subject merchandise within the scope of these reviews
is grade X-70 steel plate.
CTL micro-alloy steel plate.—CTL micro-alloy steel plate products, in which: (1) iron
predominates by weight, over each of the other contained elements; (2) the carbon content is 2
percent or less, by weight; and (3) one or more of the elements listed below is present in the
quantity, by weight, respectively indicated:
0.3 - .50 percent of aluminum
0.3 - 1.25 percent of chromium
0.3 - 0.30 percent of cobalt
0.4 - 1.0 percent of copper
0.4 - 0.40 percent of lead
1.65 - 1.80 percent of manganese
0.08 - 0.10 percent of molybdenum

0.3 - 1.25 percent of nickel
0.06 - 0.10 percent of niobium
0.6 - 2.25 percent of silicon
0.3 - 0.30 percent of tungsten
0.1 - 0.15 percent of vanadium
0.05 - 0.15 percent of zirconium

Imports of nonsubject CTL micro-alloy steel plate may be reported in the following HTS statistical
reporting numbers: 7225.40.3050, 7225.40.7000, 7225.99.0090, 7226.91.5000, 7226.91.7000,
7226.91.8000, 7226.99.0000, and 7226.99.0180.

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DEFINITIONS--Continued
Firm.--An individual proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation
(including any subsidiary corporation), business trust, cooperative, trustee in bankruptcy, or
receiver under decree of any court.
Related firm.--A firm that your firm solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled; a
firm that solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled your firm; and/or a firm that
was solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled by a firm that also solely or jointly
owned, managed, or otherwise controlled your firm.
Establishment.--Each facility of a firm in China, Russia, or Ukraine involved in the production of
CTL carbon plate (as defined above), including auxiliary facilities operated in conjunction with
(whether or not physically separate from) such facilities.
United States.--For purposes of these reviews, the 50 States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
and the District of Columbia.
Importer.--Any person or firm engaged, either directly or through a parent company or subsidiary,
in importing CTL plate (as defined above) into the United States from a foreign manufacturer or
through its selling agent.
Average production capacity.--The level of production that your establishment(s) could
reasonably have expected to attain during the specified periods. Assume normal operating
conditions (i.e., using equipment and machinery in place and ready to operate; normal operating
levels (hours per week/weeks per year) and time for downtime, maintenance, repair, and cleanup;
and a typical or representative product mix).
Production.--All production in your establishment(s) in China, Russia, or Ukraine, including
production consumed internally within your firm.
Shipments.--Shipments of products produced in your establishment(s) in China, Russia, or
Ukraine.
Shipment quantities.—Quantities reported should be net of returns.
Shipment values.—Values reported should be net values (i.e., gross sales values less all
discounts, allowances, rebates, prepaid freight, and the value of returned goods) in U.S.
dollars, f.o.b. your point of shipment in China, Russia, or Ukraine.
Home market commercial shipments.--Shipments, other than internal consumption and
transfers to related firms, within China, Russia, or Ukraine.

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DEFINITIONS--Continued
Home market internal consumption/transfers to related firms.--Shipments made to
related firms in China, Russia, or Ukraine, including product consumed internally by your
firm.
Export shipments.--Shipments to destinations outside China, Russia, or Ukraine,
including shipments to related firms.
Inventories.--Finished goods inventory, not raw materials or work-in-progress.

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