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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 227 / Tuesday, November 28, 2017 / Notices
This amended preliminary
determination is issued and published
in accordance with sections 733(f) and
777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(e).
Dated: November 20, 2017.
Gary Taverman
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations,
performing the non-exclusive functions and
duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix
Scope of the Investigation
The products covered by this investigation
are certain hot-rolled products of carbon steel
and alloy steel, in coils, of approximately
round cross section, less than 19.00 mm in
actual solid cross-sectional diameter.
Specifically excluded are steel products
possessing the above-noted physical
characteristics and meeting the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)
definitions for (a) stainless steel; (b) tool
steel; (c) high-nickel steel; (d) ball bearing
steel; or (e) concrete reinforcing bars and
rods. Also excluded are free cutting steel
(also known as free machining steel)
products (i.e., products that contain by
weight one or more of the following
elements: 0.1 percent or more of lead, 0.05
percent or more of bismuth, 0.08 percent or
more of sulfur, more than 0.04 percent of
phosphorous, more than 0.05 percent of
selenium, or more than 0.01 percent of
tellurium). All products meeting the physical
description of subject merchandise that are
not specifically excluded are included in this
scope.
The products under investigation are
currently classifiable under subheadings
7213.91.3011, 7213.91.3015, 7213.91.3020,
7213.91.3093; 7213.91.4500, 7213.91.6000,
7213.99.0030, 7227.20.0030, 7227.20.0080,
7227.90.6010, 7227.90.6020, 7227.90.6030,
and 7227.90.6035 of the HTSUS. Products
entered under subheadings 7213.99.0090 and
7227.90.6090 of the HTSUS also may be
included in this scope if they meet the
physical description of subject merchandise
above. Although the HTSUS subheadings are
provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written description of the
scope of this proceeding is dispositive.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.

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AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(‘‘PRA’’), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (‘‘ICR’’)
abstracted below has been forwarded to

SUMMARY:

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the Office of Management and Budget
(‘‘OMB’’) for review and comment. The
ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
costs and burden.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before December 28, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the
burden estimated or any other aspect of
the information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
may be submitted directly to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(‘‘OIRA’’) in OMB, within 30 days of the
notice’s publication, by either of the
following methods. Please identify the
comments by OMB Control No. 3038–
0091.
• By email addressed to:
[email protected] or
• By mail addressed to: The Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Attention Desk Officer for the
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
A copy of all comments submitted to
OIRA should be sent to the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’) by either of the
following methods. The copies should
refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 3038–0062.’’
• By mail addressed to: Christopher
Kirkpatrick, Secretary of the
Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
Centre, 1155 21st Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20581;
• By Hand Delivery/Courier to the
same address; or
• Through the Commission’s Web site
at http://comments.cftc.gov. Please
follow the instructions for submitting
comments through the Web site.
A copy of the supporting statements
for the collection of information
discussed herein may be obtained by
visiting http://RegInfo.gov.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to http://
www.cftc.gov. You should submit only
information that you wish to make
available publicly. If you wish the
Commission to consider information
that you believe is exempt from
disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, a petition for
confidential treatment of the exempt
information may be submitted according
to the procedures established in § 145.9
of the Commission’s regulations. The
Commission reserves the right, but shall
have no obligation, to review, prescreen, filter, redact, refuse or remove
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http://www.cftc.gov that it may deem to
be inappropriate for publication, such as
obscene language. All submissions that
have been redacted or removed that
contain comments on the merits of the
ICR will be retained in the public
comment file and will be considered as
required under the Administrative
Procedure Act and other applicable
laws, and may be accessible under the
Freedom of Information Act.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lauren Bennett, Special Counsel, 202–
418–5290, email: [email protected],
Division of Swap Dealer and
Intermediary Oversight, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission and refer
to OMB Control No. 3038–0062.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Off-Exchange Foreign Currency
Transactions (OMB Control No. 3038–
0062). This is a request for an extension
of a currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: Part 5 of the Commission’s
regulations under the CEA establishes
rules applicable to retail foreign
exchange dealers (‘‘RFEDs’’), futures
commission merchants (‘‘FCMs’’),
introducing brokers (‘‘IBs’’), commodity
trading advisors (‘‘CTAs’’), and
commodity pool operators (‘‘CPOs’’)
engaged in the offer and sale of offexchange forex contracts to retail
customers. Specifically:
• Regulation 5.5 requires RFEDs,
FCMs, and IBs to distribute risk
disclosure statements to new retail forex
customers.
• Regulation 5.6 requires RFEDs and
FCMs to report any failures to maintain
the minimum capital required by
Commission regulations.
• Regulation 5.8 requires RFEDs and
FCMs to calculate their total retail forex
obligation.
• Regulation 5.10 requires RFEDs to
maintain and preserve certain risk
assessment documentation.
• Regulation 5.11(a)(1) requires
RFEDs to submit certain risk assessment
documentation to the Commission
within 60 days of the effective date of
their registration.
• Regulation 5.11(a)(2) requires
RFEDs to submit certain financial
documentation to the Commission
within 105 calendar days of the end of
each fiscal year. RFEDs must also
submit additional information, if
requested, regarding affiliates’ financial
impact on an RFED’s organizational
structure.
• Regulation 5.12(a) requires RFED
applicants to submit a Form 1–FR–FCM
concurrently with their registration
application.

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• Regulation 5.12(b) requires
registered RFEDs to file a Form 1–FR–
FCM on a monthly and annual basis.
• Regulation 5.12(g) states that, in the
event that an RFED cannot file its Form
1–FR–FCM for any period within the
time specified in Regulation 5.12(b), the
RFED may file an application for an
extension of time with its self-regulatory
organization.
• Regulation 5.13(a) requires RFEDs
and FCMs to provide monthly account
statements to their customers.
• Regulation 5.13(b) requires RFEDs
and FCMs to provide confirmation
statements to their customers within
one business day after the execution of
any retail forex or forex option
transaction.
• Regulation 5.14 requires RFEDs and
FCMs to maintain current ledgers of
each transaction affecting its asset,
liability, income, expense and capital
accounts.
• Regulation 5.18(g) requires each
RFED, FCM, CPO, CTA, and IB subject
to Part 5 to maintain a record of all
communications received that give rise
to possible violations of the Act, rules,
regulations or orders thereunder related
to their retail forex business.
• Regulation 5.18(i) requires each
RFED and FCM to prepare and maintain
on a quarterly basis a calculation of nondiscretionary retail forex customer
accounts open for any period of time
during the quarter that were profitable,
and the percentage of such accounts that
were not profitable.
• Regulation 5.18(j) requires the CCO
of each RFED and FCM to certify
annually that the firm has in place
processes to establish, maintain, review,
modify and test policies and procedures
reasonably designed to achieve
compliance with the Act, rules,
regulations and orders thereunder.
• Regulation 5.19 requires each
RFED, FCM, CPO, CTA, and IB subject
to Part 5 to submit to the Commission
copies of any dispositive or partially
dispositive decision for which a notice
of appeal has been filed in any material
legal proceeding (1) to which the firm is
a party to or to which its property or
assets is subject with respect to retail
forex transactions, or (2) instituted
against any person who is a principal of
the firm arising from conduct in such
person’s capacity as a principal of that
firm.
• Regulation 5.20 requires RFEDs,
FCMs and IBs to submit documentation
requested pursuant to certain types of
special calls by the Commission.
• Regulation 5.23 requires RFEDs,
FCMs and IBs to notify the Commission
regarding bulk transfers and bulk
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The rules establish reporting and
recordkeeping requirements that are
necessary to implement the provisions
of the Food, Conservation, and Energy
Act of 2008 1 regarding off-exchange
transactions in foreign currency with
members of the public. The rules are
intended to promote customer
protection by providing safeguards
against irresponsible or fraudulent
business practices.2
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. On September 18, 2017,
the Commission published in the
Federal Register notice of the proposed
extension of this information collection
and provided 60 days for public
comment on the proposed extension, 82
FR 43527. The Commission received no
relevant comments.
Burden Statement: The Commission
is revising its estimate of the burden for
this collection to reflect the current
number of affected registrants and
revised burden estimates. Accordingly,
the respondent burden for this
collection is estimated to be as follows:
• Number of Registrants: 169.
• Estimated Average Burden Hours
per Registrant: 777.
• Estimated Aggregate Burden Hours:
131,259.
• Frequency of Recordkeeping: As
applicable.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
Dated: November 22, 2017.
Robert N. Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Intent To Renew
Collection 3038–0082, Whistleblower
Provision
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or
‘‘CFTC’’) is announcing an opportunity
for public comment on the extension of
a proposed collection of certain
information by the agency. Under the

SUMMARY:

1 Public Law 110–246, 122 Stat. 1651, 2189–220
(2008).
2 See Regulation of Off-Exchange Retail Foreign
Exchange Transactions and Intermediaries, 75 FR
55410, 55416 (Sept. 10, 2010).

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Paperwork Reduction Act (‘‘PRA’’),
Federal agencies are required to publish
notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension of an existing collection of
information, and to allow 60 days for
public comment. In August 2011, the
Commission adopted a final rule, as
required by Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act (‘‘Dodd-Frank
Act’’), requiring the submission of
whistleblower information to the
Commission on the Forms TCR and
WB–APP. This notice solicits comments
on the proposed Information Collection
Request (‘‘ICR’’) titled: Renewal for
Whistleblower Provision; OMB Control
Number 3038–0082.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 29, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by OMB Control No. 3038–
0082 by any of the following methods:
• The Agency’s Web site, via its
Comments Online process: http://
comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
through the Web site.
• Mail: Secretary of the Commission,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre,
1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC
20581.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as
Mail above.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments.
Please submit your comments using
only one method.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to http://
www.cftc.gov. You should submit only
information that you wish to make
available publicly. If you wish the
Commission to consider information
that you believe is exempt from
disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, a petition for
confidential treatment of the exempt
information may be submitted according
to the procedures established in § 145.9
of the Commission’s regulations.1
The Commission reserves the right,
but shall have no obligation, to review,
pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse or
remove any or all of your submission
from http://www.cftc.gov that it may
deem to be inappropriate for
publication, such as obscene language.
All submissions that have been redacted
or removed that contain comments on
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CFR 145.9.

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