Brake Rotors From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the 2006-2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews and Partial Rescission of the 2006-2007 Administrative Review, 6700-6708 [E8-2081]

Download as PDF 6700 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices Program Development and Regulatory Analysis, at (202) 720–7853, Fax: (202) 720–4120. All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the request for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of public record. Dated: January 30, 2008. James M. Andrew, Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. [FR Doc. E8–2000 Filed 2–4–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–15–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration [A–570–846] Brake Rotors From the People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the 2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews and Partial Rescission of the 2006–2007 Administrative Review Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (‘‘the Department’’) is currently conducting the 2006–2007 administrative and new shipper reviews of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’). We preliminarily determine that sales have not been made below normal value (‘‘NV’’) with respect to certain exporters who participated fully and are entitled to a separate rate in the administrative or new shipper reviews. If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results of these reviews, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) to assess antidumping duties on entries of subject merchandise during the period of review (‘‘POR’’) for which the importerspecific assessment rates are above de minimis. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. We will issue the final results no later than 120 days from the date of publication of this notice. EFFECTIVE DATE: February 5, 2008. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frances Veith or Blanche Ziv, AD/CVD Operations, Office 8, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4295 or (202) 482– 4207, respectively. rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES AGENCY: VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:34 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 Background On April 17, 1997, the Department published in the Federal Register the antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the PRC. See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China, 62 FR 18740 (April 17, 1997) (‘‘the Order’’). Department invited all interested parties to submit comments on surrogatecountry selection and to submit publicly available information as surrogate values (‘‘SVs’’) for purposes of calculating NV.4 See ‘‘Surrogate Country’’ section below. On August 1, 2007, the Coalition for the Preservation of American Brake Drum and Rotor New Shipper Review Aftermarket Manufacturers (‘‘petitioner’’) submitted publicly On April 18, 2007, Shanghai Tylon available information for use as SVs in Company Ltd. (‘‘Tylon’’) requested a new shipper review of the antidumping the calculation of NV in the 2006–2007 duty order on brake rotors from the PRC, new shipper review. On August 17, 2007, the Department selected India as which has an April anniversary month, the most appropriate surrogate country in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c). for the purpose of this new shipper In response to the Department’s April 24, 2007, request for information, Tylon review.5 On August 23, 2007, Tylon agreed to provided supplemental information on waive the new shipper review time April 27, 2007. On May 25, 2007, the limits in accordance with 19 CFR Department initiated a new shipper 351.214(j)(3), to align the new shipper review of Tylon covering the period review with the concurrent 2006–2007 April 1, 2006, through March 31, 2007. administrative review of the See Brake Rotors From the People’s antidumping duty order on brake rotors Republic of China: Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, from the PRC. On August 24, 2007, the Department aligned the new shipper 72 FR 29299 (May 25, 2007). On May review with the 2006–2007 23, 2007, the Department issued a new shipper antidumping duty questionnaire administrative review of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors to Tylon. from the PRC.6 On July 5, 2007, the Department received Tylon’s Sections A, C, and D Administrative Review response. On July 19, 2007, the On April 2, 2007, the Department Department received Tylon’s Importerpublished a notice of opportunity to Specific Questionnaire response. On August 24, 2007, the Department issued request an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors a supplemental questionnaire to Tylon, from the PRC. See Antidumping or to which we received a response on Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or September 17, 2007. On June 4, 2007, Suspended Investigation; Opportunity the Department placed on the record of To Request Administrative Review, 72 the new shipper review copies of CBP FR 15650 (April 2, 2006). documents pertaining to the shipment On April 30, 2007, the Department of brake rotors from the PRC exported by Tylon to the United States during the received timely requests for an administrative review of this POR.1 antidumping duty order in accordance On May 31, 2007, we requested that with 19 CFR 351.213 from the following the Office of Policy issue a surrogateindividual companies: LABEC, country memorandum for the selection Winhere, Haimeng, Hongda, Meita, of the appropriate surrogate countries for this new shipper review.2 On June 1, Wally, and Longkou Dixion Brake 2007, the Office of Policy provided a list System Ltd. (‘‘Dixion’’). On April 30, of five countries at a level of economic 4 See the Department’s letter regarding, ‘‘New development comparable to that of the Shipper Review of Brake Rotors from the People’s 3 On June 6, 2007, the PRC for the POR. Republic of China,’’ requesting parties to provide 1 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘2006–2007 New Shipper Review of Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China,’’ entitled, ‘‘Results of Request for Assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection on U.S. Entry Documents,’’ dated June 4, 2007. 2 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘Surrogate-Country Selection: 2006–2007 New Shipper Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated May 31, 2007. 3 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘New Shipper Review of Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China (PRC): Request for a List of Surrogate Countries,’’ dated June 1, 2007 (‘‘NSR Policy Memorandum’’). PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 comments on surrogate-country selection and provide surrogate factors-of-production (‘‘FOP’’) values from the potential surrogate countries (i.e., India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines and Egypt), dated June 6, 2007. 5 See The Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘2006–2007 New Shipper Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: Selection of a Surrogate Country,’’ dated August 17, 2007 (‘‘NSR Surrogate Country Memorandum’’). 6 See the Department’s memorandum, entitled ‘‘2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: Alignment of 2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews,’’ dated August 24, 2007. E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES 2007, the Department also received timely requests for an administrative review of 23 companies (or producer/ exporter combinations) 7 from petitioner. As a result of the abovementioned companies’ and petitioner’s requests for a review, this administrative review covers 24 companies. On May 30, 2007, the Department initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the PRC for 24 individually named firms, for the POR of April 1, 2006, through March 31, 2007.8 Between May 30 and June 5, 2007, the Department issued letters to all firms named in the AR Initiation Notice requesting: (1) A separate-rate certification or application, and (2) information on the quantity and value (‘‘Q&V’’) of sales of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR. Of the 24 companies for which the Department initiated a review, ten companies certified that they had no shipments during the POR, and between June 14 and June 22, 2007,9 we received requests for a rescission of the review from five of those companies.10 7 The names of these companies or producer/ exporter combination are as follows: (1) Longkou Haimeng Machinery Co., Ltd. (‘‘Haimeng’’); (2) Qingdao Meita Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. (‘‘Meita’’); (3) Laizhou Auto Brake Equipment Factory (‘‘LABEC’’); (4) Yantai Winhere Auto-Part Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (‘‘Winhere’’); (5) Laizhou Hongda Auto Replacement Parts Co., Ltd. (‘‘Hongda’’); (6) Laizhou City Luqi Machinery Co., Ltd. (‘‘Luqi’’); (7) Laizhou Wally Automobile Co., Ltd. (‘‘Wally’’); (8) Zibo Luzhou Automobile Parts Co., Ltd. (‘‘ZLAP’’); (9) Zibo Golden Harvest Machinery Limited Company (‘‘ZGOLD’’); (10) Longkou TLC Machinery Co., Ltd. (‘‘TLC’’); (11) Longkou Jinzheng Maxhinery Co. (‘‘Jinzheng’’); (12) Qingdao Gren Co. (‘‘Gren’’); (13) Shenyang Yinghao Machinery Co. (‘‘Yinghao’’); (14) Shanxi Zhongding Auto Parts Co., Ltd. (‘‘SZAP’’); (15) Shandong Huanri Group Company (‘‘Huanri’’); (16) Longkou Qizheng Auto Parts Co. (‘‘Qizheng’’); (17) China National Automotive Industry Import & Export Corporation (‘‘CAIEC’’), excluding entries manufactured by Shandong Laizhou CAPCO Industry (‘‘CAPCO’’); (18) CAPCO, excluding entries manufactured by CAPCO; (19) Laizhou Luyuan Automobile Fittings Co. (‘‘Luyuan’’), excluding entries manufactured by Laizhou Luyuan or Shenyang Honbase Machinery Co., Ltd. (‘‘Honbase’’); (20) Honbase, excluding entries manufactured by Laizhou Luyuan or Honbase; (21) China National Industrial Machinery Import & Export Corporation (‘‘CNIM’’); (22) Xianghe Xumingyuan Auto Parts Co. (‘‘Xumingyuan’’); and (23) Qingdao Golrich Autoparts Co., Ltd. (‘‘Golrich’’). 8 See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 72 FR 29968 (May 30, 2007) (‘‘AR Initiation Notice’’). 9 These ten companies are SZAP, Huanri, Qizheng, CNIM, Xumingyuan, Golrich, CAIEC, CAPCO, Luyuan, and Honbase. 10 These five companies are Xumingyuan, CAIEC, CAPCO, Luyuan, and Honbase. VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:34 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 See ‘‘Preliminary Partial Rescission of 2006–2007 Administrative Review’’ section below. Due to the large number of participating firms subject to this administrative review, and the Department’s experience regarding the administrative burden of reviewing each company for which a request was made, the Department exercised its authority to limit the number of mandatory respondents selected for individual review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the Act’’), by selecting exporters accounting for the largest volume of the subject merchandise that can reasonably be examined. On July 13, 2007, based on reported export volumes of subject merchandise during the POR, the Department selected the two companies accounting for the largest volume of subject merchandise, i.e., Haimeng and Meita, as the two mandatory respondents in this review. The remaining 12 respondents are nonselected respondents.11 See ‘‘Separate Rates’’ section below. On July 16, 2007, we issued antidumping duty questionnaires to Haimeng and Meita. On May 31, 2007, we requested that the Office of Policy issue a surrogatecountry memorandum for the selection of the appropriate surrogate countries for this review.12 On June 1, 2007, the Office of Policy provided a list of five countries at a level of economic development comparable to that of the PRC for the POR of this review.13 On June 6, 2007, the Department invited all interested parties to submit comments on surrogate-country selection and to submit publicly available information as SVs for purposes of calculating NV.14 On August 17, 2007, the Department selected India as the most appropriate surrogate country for this administrative review.15 See ‘‘Surrogate Country’’ 11 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘2006–2007 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: Selection of Respondents,’’ dated July 13, 2007 (‘‘Respondent Selection Memo’’). 12 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘Surrogate-Country Selection: 2006–2007 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated May 31, 2007. 13 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China (PRC): Request for a List of Surrogate Countries,’’ dated June 1, 2007 (‘‘AR Policy Memorandum’’). 14 See the Department’s letter regarding, ‘‘New Shipper Review of Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China,’’ requesting parties to provide comments on surrogate-country selection and provide surrogate FOP values from the potential surrogate countries (i.e., India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines and Egypt), dated June 6, 2007. 15 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘2006–2007 Administrative Review of the PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 6701 section below. On August 1, 2007, petitioner submitted publicly available information for use as SVs in the calculation of NV in the administrative review. On August 28 and October 18, 2007, the Department placed on the record of this review copies of CBP documents pertaining to certain entries of brake rotors from the PRC exported to the United States during the POR.16 On September 7, 2007, we issued a supplemental questionnaire to Golrich to which we received a response on September 19, 2007. On September 4, 2007, we received questionnaire responses from Haimeng and Meita. The Department issued supplemental questionnaires to Haimeng and Meita on October 4 and October 23, 2007, respectively. We received supplemental questionnaire responses from Haimeng and Meita on November 9 and November 13, 2007, respectively. Period of Review The POR is April 1, 2006, through March 31, 2007. Scope of the Order The products covered by this order are brake rotors made of gray cast iron, whether finished, semifinished, or unfinished, ranging in diameter from 8 to 16 inches (20.32 to 40.64 centimeters) and in weight from 8 to 45 pounds (3.63 to 20.41 kilograms). The size parameters (weight and dimension) of the brake rotors limit their use to the following types of motor vehicles: automobiles, all-terrain vehicles, vans and recreational vehicles under ‘‘one ton and a half,’’ and light trucks designated as ‘‘one ton and a half.’’ Finished brake rotors are those that are ready for sale and installation without any further operations. Semifinished rotors are those on which the surface is not entirely smooth, and have undergone some drilling. Unfinished rotors are those which have undergone some grinding or turning. These brake rotors are for motor vehicles, and do not contain in the casting a logo of an original equipment manufacturer (‘‘OEM’’) which produces vehicles sold in the United States. (e.g., General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, Volvo). Brake rotors covered in Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: Selection of Surrogate Country,’’ dated August 17, 2007 (‘‘AR Surrogate Country Memorandum’’). 16 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘2006–2007 Administrative Review of Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China, Results of Request for Assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection on U.S. Entry Documents,’’ dated August 28, 2007. E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 6702 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices this order are not certified by OEM producers of vehicles sold in the United States. The scope also includes composite brake rotors that are made of gray cast iron, which contain a steel plate, but otherwise meet the above criteria. Excluded from the scope of this order are brake rotors made of gray cast iron, whether finished, semifinished, or unfinished, with a diameter less than 8 inches or greater than 16 inches (less than 20.32 centimeters or greater than 40.64 centimeters) and a weight less than 8 pounds or greater than 45 pounds (less than 3.63 kilograms or greater than 20.41 kilograms). Brake rotors are currently classifiable under subheading 8708.39.5010 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (‘‘HTSUS’’).17 Although the HTSUS subheading is provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope of this order is dispositive. rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES Separate Rates In proceedings involving non-market economy (‘‘NME’’) countries, the Department begins with a rebuttable presumption that all companies within the country are subject to government control, and thus, should be assigned a single antidumping duty deposit rate. It is the Department’s policy to assign all exporters of subject merchandise subject to review in an NME country a single rate unless an exporter can demonstrate that it is sufficiently independent of government control to be entitled to a separate rate. See, e.g., Honey from the People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 70 FR 74764, 74766 (December 16, 2005) (unchanged in the final results). For the administrative review, in order to demonstrate separate-rate status eligibility, the Department normally requires entities, for whom a review was requested, and who were assigned a separate rate in a previous segment of this proceeding, to submit a separaterate certification stating that they continue to meet the criteria for obtaining a separate rate. For entities that were not assigned a separate rate in the previous segment of a proceeding, to demonstrate eligibility for such, the Department requires a separate-rate application. In this administrative review the 12 entities not selected for 17 As of January 1, 2005, the HTSUS classification for brake rotors (discs) changed from 8708.39.5010 to 8708.39.5030. As of January 1, 2007, the HTSUS classification for brake rotors (discs) changed from 8708.39.5030 to 8708.30.5030. See Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (2007) (Rev. 2), available at https://www.usitc.gov. VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:34 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 individual review (i.e., separate-rate respondents) all submitted separate-rate certifications. The two mandatory respondents (i.e., Haimeng and Meita) and the 12 separate-rate respondents provided company-specific information and each 18 stated that it meets the criteria for the assignment of a separate rate. For the new shipper (i.e., Tylon), a separate-rate analysis is necessary to determine whether the export activities of Tylon are independent from government control. We considered whether the administrative review respondents and the new shipper referenced above were eligible for a separate rate. The Department’s separate-rate status test to determine whether the exporter is independent from government control does not consider, in general, macroeconomic/border-type controls (e.g., export licenses, quotas, and minimum export prices), particularly if these controls are imposed to prevent dumping. The test focuses, rather, on controls over the investment, pricing, and output decision-making process at the individual firm level.19 To establish whether an exporter is sufficiently independent of government control to be entitled to a separate rate, the Department analyzes the exporter in light of select criteria, discussed below. See Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Sparklers from the People’s Republic of China, 56 FR 20588, 20589 (May 6, 1991) (‘‘Sparklers’’); and Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Silicon Carbide from the People’s Republic of China, 59 FR 22585, 22586, 22587 (May 2, 1994) (‘‘Silicon Carbide’’). Under this test, exporters in NME countries are entitled to separate, company-specific margins when they can demonstrate an absence of government control over exports, both in law (‘‘de jure’’) and in fact (‘‘de facto’’). 1. Absence of De Jure Control The Department considers the following de jure criteria in determining whether an individual company may be granted a separate rate: (1) An absence of restrictive stipulations associated with an individual exporter’s business and export licenses; (2) any legislative enactments decentralizing control of 18 The non-selected respondents are as follows: LABEC, Winhere, Hongda, Luqi, Wally, ZLAP, ZGOLD, TLC, Jinzheng, Gren, Yinghao, and Dixion. 19 See Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Ukraine: Final Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value, 62 FR 61754, 61758 (November 19, 1997); and Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, from the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 62 FR 61276, 61279 (November 17, 1997). PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 companies; or (3) any other formal measures by the government decentralizing control of companies. See Sparklers, 56 FR 20589. Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon each placed on the administrative record documents to demonstrate an absence of de jure control (e.g., the 1994 ‘‘Foreign Trade Law of the People’s Republic of China,’’ and the 1999 ‘‘Company Law of the People’s Republic of China’’). As in prior cases, we analyzed the laws presented to us and found them to establish sufficiently an absence of de jure control. See, e.g., Honey from the People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 72 FR 102, 105 (January 3, 2007); Hand Trucks and Certain Parts Thereof from the People’s Republic of China; Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Administrative Review and Preliminary Results of New Shipper Review, 72 FR 937, 944 (January 9, 2007). We have no new information in this proceeding which would cause us to reconsider this determination with regard to Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon. Therefore, we believe that evidence on the record supports a preliminary finding of an absence of de jure government control with regard to Haimeng, Metia, and Tylon. The 12 separate-rate respondents Winhere, LABEC, Hongda, Wally, Dixion, Gren, ZLAP, TLC, ZGOLD, Luqi, Yinghao, and Jinzheng each certified that, as with the previous granting period, there is an absence of de jure control. Each separate-rate respondent’s separate-rate certification, stated, where applicable, that it had no relationship with any level of the PRC government with respect to ownership, internal management, and business operations. In this segment, we have no new information that would cause us to reconsider the previous period’s de jure control determination with regard to Winhere, LABEC, Hongda, Wally, Dixion, Gren, ZLAP, TLC, ZGOLD, Luqi, Yinghao, and Jinzheng. 2 . Absence of De Facto Control As stated in previous cases, there is evidence that certain enactments of the PRC central government have not been implemented uniformly among different sectors and/or jurisdictions in the PRC. See Silicon Carbide, 59 FR at 22586, 22587. Therefore, the Department has determined that an analysis of de facto control is critical in determining whether the respondents are, in fact, subject to a degree of government control which would preclude the Department from assigning separate rates. E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices The Department typically considers four factors in evaluating whether each respondent is subject to de facto government control of its export functions: (1) Whether the export prices are set by, or subject to the approval of, a government authority; (2) whether the respondent has authority to negotiate and sign contracts and other agreements; (3) whether the respondent has autonomy from the government in making decisions regarding the selection of management; and (4) whether the respondent retains the proceeds of its export sales and makes independent decisions regarding the disposition of profits or financing of losses. See Silicon Carbide, 59 FR at 22586–87; see also Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Furfuryl Alcohol from the People’s Republic of China, 60 FR 22544, 22545 (May 8, 1995). In these reviews, Haimeng, Winhere, Meita, LABEC, Hongda, Wally, Dixion, Gren, ZLAP, TLC, ZGOLD, Luqi, Yinghao, Jinzheng, and Tylon each asserted the following: (1) It establishes its own export prices; (2) it negotiates contracts without guidance from any government entities or organizations; (3) it makes its own personnel decisions; and (4) it retains the proceeds of its export sales, uses profits according to its business needs, and has the authority to sell its assets and to obtain loans. Additionally, each of these companies’ questionnaire responses indicate that its pricing during the POR does not involve coordination among exporters. Thus, we preliminarily determine that Haimeng, Winhere, Meita, LABEC, Hongda, Wally, Dixion, Gren, ZLAP, TLC, ZGOLD, Luqi, Yinghao, Jinzheng, and Tylon have each met the criteria for the application of a separate rate based on the documentation each of these respondents has submitted on the record of these reviews.20 rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES Preliminary Partial Rescission of 2006– 2007 Administrative Review With respect to SZAP, Huanri, Qizheng, CNIM, Xumingyuan, Golrich, CAIEC, CAPCO, Luyuan and Honbase, each informed the Department that it did not export the subject merchandise to the United States during the POR in the combinations described below, where applicable. Specifically, (1) SZAP, Huanri, Qizheng, CNIM, 20 See the Department’s memorandum entitled ‘‘Preliminary Results 2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China Separate-Rate Analysis for Respondents (Including Exporters Not Being Individually Reviewed),’’ dated January 30, 2008 (‘‘Separate Rate Memo’’). VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:34 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 Xumingyuan, and Golrich did not export subject merchandise to the United States during the POR; (2) CAIEC did not export brake rotors to the United States that were manufactured by producers other than CAPCO; (3) CAPCO did not export brake rotors to the United States that were manufactured by producers other than CAPCO; (4) Luyuan did not export brake rotors to the United States that were manufactured by producers other than Luyuan or Honbase; and (5) Honbase did not export brake rotors to the United States that were manufactured by producers other than Honbase or Luyuan. In order to corroborate these submissions, we reviewed PRC brake rotor shipment data maintained by CBP. In reviewing the CBP data, we did not find any evidence contradicting SZAP’s, Huanri’s, Qizheng’s, CNIM’s, Xumingyuan’s, Golrich’s, CAIEC’s, CAPCO’s, Luyuan’s and Honbase’s claims of no shipments of brake rotors to the United States during the POR. Based on the record of these reviews, we conclude that SZAP, Huanri, Qizheng, CNIM, Xumingyuan, Golrich, CAIEC, CAPCO, Luyuan and Honbase did not export subject merchandise to the United States during the POR. For the reasons mentioned above, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), we are preliminarily rescinding the administrative review for these exporters in the following specified exporter or exporter/producer combinations: (1) SZAP, (2) Huanri, (3) Qizheng, (4) CNIM, (5) Xumingyuan, (6) Golrich, (7) CAIEC/manufactured by any company other than CAPCO, (8) CAPCO/manufactured by any company other than CAPCO, (9) Luyuan/ manufactured by any company other than Luyuan or Honbase, and (10) Honbase/manufactured by any company other than Honbase or Luyuan. Bona Fide Sales Analysis—Tylon In evaluating whether or not sales are commercially reasonable, and therefore bona fide, the Department has considered, inter alia, such factors as: (1) The timing of the sale; (2) the price and quantity of the sale; (3) the expenses arising from the transaction; (4) whether the goods were resold at a profit; and (5) whether the transaction was made on an arm’s-length basis. See Tianjin Tiancheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. v. United States, 366 F. Supp. 2d 1246 (CIT 2005) (‘‘TTPC’’) at 9, citing Am. Silicon Techs. v. United States, 110 F. Supp. 2d 992, 995 (CIT 2000). Therefore, the Department examines a number of factors, all of which may speak to the commercial realities surrounding the sale of subject PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 6703 merchandise. While some bona fides issues may share commonalities across various cases, each case is companyspecific and the analysis may vary with the facts surrounding each sale. See, e.g., Certain Preserved Mushrooms for the People’s Republic of China: Final Results and Partial Rescission of New Shipper Review and Administrative Reviews, 68 FR 41304 (July 11, 2003). The weight given to each factor investigated will depend on the circumstances surrounding the sale. See TTPC, 366 F. Supp at 1263. For the reasons stated below, we preliminarily find that Tylon’s reported U.S. sales during the POR appear to be bona fide sales, as required by 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iv)(c), based on the totality of the facts on the record. Specifically, we find that the quantity or unit prices for Tylon’s sales compared to the quantities and unit values of U.S. imports of comparable brake rotors from the PRC during the POR together with the totality of circumstances surrounding the sales at issue indicate the sales were not aberrational. We also examined information placed on the record by Tylon and Tylon’s customer for the POR sales, and information developed independently by the Department regarding Tylon’s customer for the POR sale and circumstances surrounding the POR sales. We found no evidence that the POR sales under review are not bona fide sales.21 Therefore, for the reasons mentioned above, the Department preliminarily finds that Tylon’s U.S. sales during the POR were bona fide commercial transactions. Non-Market Economy Country In every case conducted by the Department involving the PRC, the PRC has been treated as an NME country. Pursuant to section 771(18)(C)(i) of the Act, any determination that a foreign country is an NME country shall remain in effect until revoked by the administering authority. See, e.g., Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People’s Republic of China: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 FR 7013 (February 10, 2006). None of the parties to these proceedings has contested such treatment. Accordingly, we calculated NV in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act, which applies to NME countries. 21 For further information, see the Department’s memorandum entitled ‘‘2006–2007 New Shipper Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors From the People’s Republic of China: Bona Fide Analysis of Shanghai Tylon Company Ltd.,’’ dated January 30, 2008. E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 6704 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES Surrogate Country Section 773(c)(1) of the Act directs the Department to base NV on the NME producer’s FOP, valued in a surrogate market economy country or countries considered to be appropriate by the Department. In accordance with section 773(c)(4) of the Act, in valuing the FOPs, the Department shall use, to the extent possible, the prices or costs of the FOPs in one or more market economy countries that are: (1) At a level of economic development comparable to that of the NME country; and (2) significant producers of comparable merchandise. The sources of the surrogate factor values are discussed under the ‘‘Normal Value’’ section below. See also, the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘Preliminary Results of the 2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors From the People’s Republic of China: Surrogate Value Memorandum,’’ dated January 30, 2008 (‘‘Surrogate Value Memorandum’’). The Department determined that India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Egypt are countries comparable to the PRC in terms of economic development. See NSR Policy Memorandum and AR Policy Memorandum. Customarily, we select an appropriate surrogate country from the policy memorandum based on the availability and reliability of data from the countries that are significant producers of comparable merchandise. In this case, we found that India is at a comparable level of economic development to the PRC; is a significant producer of the subject merchandise (i.e., brake rotors); and has publicly available and reliable data. See NSR Surrogate Country Memorandum and AR Surrogate Country Memorandum. Accordingly, we selected India as the primary surrogate country for purposes of valuing the FOPs in the calculation of NV because it meets the Department’s criteria for surrogate country selection. See NSR Surrogate Country Memorandum and AR Surrogate Country Memorandum. We obtained and relied upon publicly available information wherever possible. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3)(ii), for the final results in antidumping administrative and new shipper reviews, interested parties may submit publicly available information to value FOPs within 20 days after the date of publication of these preliminary results. VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:34 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 Fair Value Comparisons To determine whether sales of the subject merchandise by Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon to the United States were made at prices below NV, we compared each company’s export prices (‘‘EPs’’) to NV, as described in the ‘‘Export Price’’ and ‘‘Normal Value’’ sections of this notice below, pursuant to section 773 of the Act. Export Price Because each respondent sold subject merchandise to an unaffiliated purchaser in the United States prior to importation into the United States and use of a constructed-export-price methodology was not otherwise indicated, we used EP in accordance with section 772(a) of the Act. We made the following company-specific adjustments: A. Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon We calculated EP based on the delivery method reported to the first unaffiliated purchaser in the United States. Where appropriate, we made deductions from the starting price (gross unit price) for foreign inland freight and foreign brokerage and handling charges in the PRC, international freight, U.S. duties, and other U.S. customs charges pursuant to section 772(c)(2)(A) of the Act.22 Where foreign inland freight, foreign brokerage and handling fees, or marine insurance were provided by PRC service providers or paid for in renminbi, we based those charges on surrogate rates from India. See ‘‘Factor Valuation’’ section below for further discussion of surrogate rates. In determining the most appropriate SVs to use in a given case, the Department’s stated practice is to use review period-wide price averages, prices specific to the input in question, prices that are net of taxes and import duties, prices that are contemporaneous with the POR, and publicly available 22 See the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: Analysis of the Preliminary Results Margin Calculation for Shanghai Tylon Company Ltd.,’’ dated January 30, 2008 (‘‘Tylon Calculation Memo’’); the Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: Analysis of the Preliminary Results Margin Calculation for Longkou Haimeng Machinery Co., Ltd.,’’ dated January 30, 2008 (‘‘Haimeng Calculation Memo’’); and the Department’s memorandum entitled, 2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: Analysis of the Preliminary Results Margin Calculation for Qingdao Meita Automotive Industry Co., Ltd,’’ dated January 30, 2008 (‘‘Meita Calculation Memo’’). PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 data. See e.g., Certain Cased Pencils from the People’s Republic of China; Final Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 FR 38366 (July 6, 2006), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 1. The data we used for brokerage and handling expenses fulfill all of the foregoing criteria except that they are not specific to the subject merchandise. There is no information of that type on the record of these reviews. The Department used two sources to calculate an SV for domestic brokerage expenses: (1) Data from the January 9, 2006, public version of the Section C questionnaire response from Kejriwal Paper Ltd. (‘‘Kejriwal’’);23 and (2) data from Agro Dutch Industries Ltd. for the POR February 1, 2004, through January 31, 2005 (see Certain Preserved Mushrooms From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 70 FR 37757 (June 30, 2005) (unchanged in final results)). Because these values were not concurrent with the POR of these administrative and new shipper reviews, we adjusted these rates for inflation using the Wholesale Price Indices (‘‘WPI’’) for India as published in the International Monetary Fund’s International Financial Statistics, available at https:// ifs.apdi.net/imf, and then calculated a simple average of the two companies’ brokerage expense data. Haimeng reported that its U.S. customers purchased ball bearing cup and lug bolts from PRC producers that were delivered to Haimeng in specific quantities free-of-charge, and that the components were then incorporated into models shipped to U.S. customers during the POR. Section 773(c)(3) of the Act states that ‘‘factors of production utilized in producing merchandise include, but are not limited to the quantities of raw materials employed.’’ See, e.g., Brake Rotors From the People’s Republic of China: Final Results and Partial Rescission of the 2004/2005 Administrative Review and Notice of Rescission of 2004/2005 New Shipper Review, 71 FR 66304, 66305 (November 14, 2006) and the accompanying Issues and Decisions Memorandum at Comment 9. See also Certain Preserved Mushrooms From the People’s Republic of China: Final Results and Final 23 Kejriwal was a respondent in the certain lined paper products from India investigation for which the period of investigation was July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2005. See Notice of Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Critical Circumstances in Part: Certain Lined Paper Products From India, 71 FR 19706 (April 17, 2006) (unchanged in final determination). E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 70 FR 54361 (September 14, 2005), and the accompanying Issues and Decisions Memorandum at Comment 13. Therefore, to reflect the U.S. customers’ expenditures for these items, we adjusted the U.S. price of applicable sales of these models by adding the Indian SV for each component ( i.e., the ball bearing cups and lug bolts) used to the U.S. price of such brake rotors sold to the United States during the POR. For further information, see Haimeng Calculation Memo. Normal Value Section 773(c)(1) of the Act provides that, in the case of an NME, the Department shall determine NV using an FOP methodology if the merchandise is exported from an NME and the information does not permit the calculation of NV using home-market prices, third-country prices, or constructed value under section 773(a) of the Act. The Department will base NV on FOP because the presence of government controls on various aspects of these economies renders price comparisons and the calculation of production costs invalid under our normal methodologies. Therefore, we calculated NV based on FOP in accordance with sections 773(c)(3) and (4) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.408(c). For purposes of calculating NV, we valued the PRC FOPs in accordance with section 773(c)(1) of the Act. The FOPs include: (1) Hours of labor required; (2) quantities of raw materials employed; (3) amounts of energy and other utilities consumed; and (4) representative capital costs. We used the FOPs reported by respondents for materials, energy, labor, and packing. See section 773(c)(3) of the Act. In examining SVs, we selected, where possible, the publicly available value, which was an average non-export value, representative of a range of prices within the POR or most contemporaneous with the POR, product-specific, and tax-exclusive. See, e.g., Notice of Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination: Chlorinated Isocyanurates From the People’s Republic of China, 69 FR 75294, 75300 (December 16, 2004) (‘‘Chlorinated Isocyanurates’’) (unchanged in final determination). For a detailed explanation of the methodology used to calculate SVs, see Surrogate Value Memorandum. Regarding the components supplied free of charge to Haimeng noted above, section 773(c)(3) of the Act states that VerDate Aug<31>2005 18:21 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 the ‘‘factors of production include but are not limited to the quantities of raw materials employed.’’ Therefore, consistent with the corresponding adjustment to U.S. price discussed above, we valued the ball bearing cups and lug bolts usage amounts reported by Haimeng for specific brake rotor models by using an Indian SV for each input. See Haimeng Calculation Memo and Surrogate Value Memorandum. Factor Valuations In accordance with section 773(c) of the Act, we calculated NV based on the FOPs reported by the respondents for the POR. We relied on the factorspecific data submitted by the respondents for the above-mentioned inputs in their questionnaire and supplemental questionnaire responses, where applicable, for purposes of selecting SVs. To calculate NV, we multiplied the reported per-unit factor-consumption rates by publicly available Indian SVs (except where noted below). In selecting the SVs, we considered the quality, specificity, and contemporaneity of the data. See, e.g., Folding Metal Tables and Chairs From the People’s Republic of China; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 FR 71509 (December 11, 2006), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 9. As appropriate, we adjusted input prices by including freight costs to make them delivered prices. Specifically, we added to Indian import SVs a surrogate freight cost using the shorter of the reported distance from the domestic supplier to the factory or the distance from the nearest seaport to the factory, where appropriate. This adjustment is in accordance with the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (‘‘Federal Circuit’’). See Sigma Corp. v. United States, 117 F. 3d 1401, 1408 (Fed. Cir. 1997). Where necessary, we adjusted the SVs for inflation/deflation using the WPI as published on the Reserve Bank of India (‘‘RBI’’) Web site, available at https://www.rbi.org.in. For a detailed description of all SVs used for respondents, see the Surrogate Value Memorandum. Except where discussed below, we valued raw material inputs using April 2006 through March 2007, weightedaverage unit import values derived from the Monthly Statistics of the Foreign Trade of India (‘‘MSFTI’’), as published by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India and compiled by the World Trade Atlas (‘‘WTA’’), available at PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 6705 <http:www.gtis.com/wta.htm>. The Indian WTA import data is reported in rupees and is contemporaneous with the POR.24 Indian SVs denominated in Indian rupees were converted to U.S. dollars using the applicable daily exchange rate for India for the POR. See https://www.ia.ita.doc.gov/exchange/ index.html. Where we could not obtain publicly available information contemporaneous with the POR with which to value factors, we adjusted the SVs for inflation using the WPI for India. See Surrogate Value Memorandum. Furthermore, with regard to the WTA Indian import-based SVs, we have disregarded prices from NME countries25 and those we have reason to believe or suspect may be subsidized, because we have found in other proceedings that the exporting countries maintain broadly available, nonindustry-specific export subsidies and, therefore, there is reason to believe or suspect all exports to all markets from such countries may be subsidized.26 We are also guided by the statute’s legislative history that explains that it is not necessary to conduct a formal investigation to ensure that such prices are not subsidized. See H.R. Rep. No. 576 100th Cong., 2. Sess. 590–91 (1988). Rather, the Department was instructed by Congress to base its decision on information that is available to it at the time it is making its determination. Therefore, we exclude export prices from Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, and India when calculating the Indian import-based SVs. See Surrogate Value Memorandum. Finally, we excluded imports that were labeled as originating from an ‘‘unspecified’’ country from the average value, because we could not be certain that they were not from either an 24 See Surrogate Value Memorandum at Attachment 1. 25 The NME countries are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, PRC, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. 26 See Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, From the People’s Republic of China; Final Results of the 1998–1999 Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of Review, and Determination Not To Revoke Order in Part, 66 FR 1953 (Jan. 10, 2001), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 1; Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, From the People’s Republic of China; Final Results of 1999–2000 Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of Review, and Determination Not To Revoke Order in Part, 66 FR 57420 (Nov. 15, 2001), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 1; and China National Machinery Imp. & Exp. Corp. v. United States, 293 F. Supp. 2d 1334, 1339 (CIT 2003), as affirmed by the Federal Circuit, 104 Fed. Appx. 183 (Fed. Cir. 2004). E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES 6706 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices NME or a country with general export subsidies. To value electricity, the Department used the 2000 electricity price rates from Key World Energy Statistics 2003, published by the International Energy Agency available at https:// www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/ elecprii.html. Because this data was not contemporaneous with the POR, we adjusted the average value for inflation using WPI. See Surrogate Value Memorandum at Attachment 5. For direct labor, indirect labor and packing labor, consistent with 19 CFR 351.408(c)(3), we used the PRC regression-based wage rates reflective of the observed relationship between wages and national income in market economy countries as reported on Import Administration’s home page. See ‘‘Expected Wages of Selected NME Countries’’ (revised January 2007) (available at https://www.trade.gov/ia/). For further details on the labor calculation, see Surrogate Value Memorandum at Attachment 7. Because the regression-based wage rates do not separate the labor rates into different skill levels or types of labor, we applied the same wage rate to all skill levels and types of labor reported by each respondent. For packing materials, we used the per-kilogram values obtained from the Indian WTA import data and made adjustments to account for freight costs incurred between the PRC supplier and the respondent. See Surrogate Value Memorandum at Attachment 1. The Department valued truck freight using Indian freight rates published by Indian Freight Exchange available at https://www.infreight.com. This source provided daily rates from six major points of origin to six destinations in India for the period April 2005 through October 2005. Because this data was not contemporaneous with the POR, we adjusted the average value for inflation using WPI. We averaged the monthly rates for each rate observation to obtain an SV. See Surrogate Value Memorandum at Attachment 8. Both Meita and Tylon reported that during the manufacturing process, their subject merchandise was transported from each respondent’s respective casting facility to their finishing workshops. To value PRC freight for the distance between each respondents’ casting facility and the finishing workshop, we used the inland freight SV calculated for inputs shipped by truck, as discussed above. See Meita Calculation Memorandum and Tylon Calculation Memorandum. Petitioners submitted financial information for two Indian producers of VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:57 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 identical and comparable merchandise: Bosch Chassis Systems India Ltd. (‘‘Bosch’’) for the year ending March 31, 2006, and Rico Auto Industries Limited (‘‘Rico’’) for the year ending March 31, 2005.27 Because neither Bosch’s nor Rico’s financial statements were contemporaneous with the POR, the Department placed on the record of these reviews the public information from Rico’s 2006–2007 annual report and Bosch’s nine-month (i.e., April through December 2006) annual report 28 to be considered for valuing FOPs.29 We preliminarily determine that both Bosch’s and Rico’s 2006–2007 financial statements are the best available information with which to calculate financial ratios because they appear to be complete, are publicly available, and are contemporaneous with the POR.30 Therefore, for factory overhead, selling, general, and administrative expenses (‘‘SG&A’’), and profit values, consistent with 19 CFR 351.408(c)(4), we used the public information from the 2006–2007 annual reports of Bosch and Rico. From this information, we were able to determine factory overhead as a percentage of the total raw materials, labor, and energy (‘‘ML&E’’) costs; SG&A as a percentage of ML&E plus overhead (i.e., cost of manufacture); and the profit rate as a percentage of the cost of manufacture plus SG&A. Where appropriate, we did not include in the surrogate overhead and SG&A calculations the excise duty amount listed in the financial reports. For a full discussion of the calculation of these ratios, see Surrogate Value Memorandum and its accompanying calculation worksheets at Attachment 6. To value coking coal, coke, and firewood, we applied SVs using Indian import prices by HTS classification for the POR reported in the MSFTI, and available from WTA. See Surrogate Value Memorandum for a full 27 See Petitioners’ submission dated August 1, 2007. 28 In Bosch’s nine-month 2006 annual report, it stated that Bosch was changing its financial reporting from a fiscal year to a calendar year, starting January 1, 2007. 29 See the Department’s memorandum, entitled, ‘‘2006–2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People’s Republic of China: Surrogate Financial Statements,’’ dated January 3, 2007. 30 See Brake Rotors From the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative and New Shipper Reviews and Partial Rescission of the 2005–2006 Administrative Review, 72 FR 42386, 42389 (August 22, 2007), and the accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 2 (‘‘2005–2006 Brake Rotors’’). PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 discussion of the calculation of these ratios. Currency Conversion We made currency conversions into U.S. dollars, in accordance with section 773A(a) of the Act, based on the exchange rates in effect on the dates of the U.S. sales, as certified by the Federal Reserve Bank. See https:// www.ia.ita.doc.gov/exchange/ index.html. Preliminary Results of Reviews As a result of our review, we preliminarily determine that the following margins exist for the period April 1, 2006, through March 31, 2007: BRAKE ROTORS FROM THE PRC Individually Reviewed Exporters 2006–2007 Administrative Review WeightedAverage Percent Margin (Percent) Longkou Haimeng Machinery Co., Ltd. Qingdao Meita Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. 0.03 (de minimis). 0 Separate Rate Applicant Exporters 2006– 2007 Administrative Review Laizhou Auto Brake Equipment Co., Ltd. Yantai Winhere Auto-Part Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Laizhou Hongda Auto Replacement Parts Co., Ltd. Laizhou City Luqi Machinery Co., Ltd. Laizhou Wally Automobile Co., Ltd. Zibo Luzhou Automobile Parts Co., Ltd. Zibo Golden Harvest Machinery Limited Company. Longkou TLC Machinery Co., Ltd. Longkou Jinzheng Machinery Co., Ltd. Qingdao Gren (Group) Co .... Shenyang Yinghao Machinery Co. Longkou Dixion Brake System Ltd. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2006–2007 New Shipper Review Shanghai Tylon Company Ltd PRC-Wide Rate ..................... PRC-Wide Rate ..................... 0 Margin (Percent). 43.32 While the Department has, for these preliminary results, applied the average of the rates calculated for the two mandatory respondents, Haimeng and Meita, to the companies not individually examined, LABEC, Winhere, Hongda, Luqi, Wally, ZLAP, E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES ZGOLD, TLC, Jinzheng, Gren, Yinghao, and Dixion, we invite comments from interested parties regarding the methodology to be used to determine the rate for non-examined companies. Specifically, we invite interested parties to comment on the rate to be applied to the non-examined companies, considering, but not limited to, the following factors: (a) The Department has limited its examination of respondents pursuant to section 777A(c)(2)(B) of the Act, (b) section 735(c)(5) provides that, with some exceptions, the all-others rate in an investigation is to be calculated excluding any margins that are zero, de minimis or based entirely on facts available, and (c) the Statement of Administrative Action states that with respect to the calculation of the allothers rate in such cases, ‘‘the expected method will be to weight-average the zero and de minimis margins and margins determined pursuant to the facts available, provided that volume data is available. However, if this method is not feasible, or if it results in an average that would not be reasonably reflective of potential dumping margins for non-investigated exporters or producers, Commerce may use other reasonable methods.’’ Disclosure We will disclose the calculations used in our analysis to parties to these proceedings within five days of the date of publication of this notice. See 19 CFR 351.224(b). Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results and may submit case briefs and/or written comments within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice. See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii). Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, will be due five days later, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(d). Parties who submit case or rebuttal briefs in these proceedings are requested to submit with each argument (1) a statement of the issue, and (2) a brief summary of the argument. Parties are requested to provide a summary of the arguments not to exceed five pages and a table of statutes, regulations, and cases cited. Additionally, parties are requested to provide its case brief and rebuttal briefs in electronic format (e.g., WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, pdf, etc.). Interested parties who wish to request a hearing or to participate if one is requested, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Import Administration within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain: (1) The party’s name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:34 Feb 04, 2008 Jkt 214001 a list of issues to be discussed. See 19 CFR 351.310(c). Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in case and rebuttal briefs. The Department will issue the final results of these reviews, including the results of its analysis of issues raised in any such written briefs or at the hearing, if held, not later than 120 days after the date of publication of this notice. Assessment Rates Upon issuance of the final results, the Department will determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by these reviews. The Department intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the publication date of the final results of these reviews. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), for Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon, we calculated an exporter/importer (or customer)-specific assessment rate for the merchandise subject to these reviews. Where the respondent has reported reliable entered values, we calculated importer (or customer)specific ad valorem rates by aggregating the dumping margins calculated for all U.S. sales to each importer (or customer) and dividing this amount by the total entered value of the sales to each importer (or customer). See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where an importer (or customer)-specific ad valorem rate is greater than de minimis, we will apply the assessment rate to the entered value of the importer’s/customer’s entries during the review period. See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where we do not have entered values for all U.S. sales, we calculated a perunit assessment rate by aggregating the antidumping duties due for all U.S. sales to each importer (or customer) and dividing this amount by the total quantity sold to that importer (or customer). See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). To determine whether the duty assessment rates are de minimis, in accordance with the requirement set forth in 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), we calculated importer (or customer)-specific ad valorem ratios based on the estimated entered value. Where an importer (or customer)specific ad valorem rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). For the companies receiving a separate rate that were not selected for individual review (i.e., LABEC, Winhere, Hongda, Luqi, Wally, ZLAP, ZGOLD, TLC, Jinzheng, Gren, Yinghao, and Dixion), we will calculate an assessment rate based on the weighted average of the cash deposit rates PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 6707 calculated for the companies selected for individual review pursuant to section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act. Where the weighted average ad valorem rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). Cash Deposit Requirements The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon publication of the final results of the new shipper review for all shipments of subject merchandise from Tylon entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after publication date: (1) For subject merchandise manufactured and exported by Tylon, the cash deposit rate will be zero percent; and (2) for subject merchandise exported by Tylon but not manufactured by Tylon, the cash deposit rate will be the PRC-wide rate. The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon publication of the final results of the administrative review for all shipments of brake rotors from the PRC entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as provided by section 751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rates for Haimeng, Meita, LABEC, Winhere, Hongda, Luqi, Wally, ZLAP, ZGOLD, TLC, Jinzheng, Gren, Yinghao, and Dixion will be the rates determined in the final results of review (except that if a rate is de minimis, i.e., less than 0.50 percent, a zero cash deposit will be required); (2) the cash deposit rate for previously investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters who received a separate rate in a prior segment of the proceeding (which were not reviewed in this segment of the proceeding) will continue to be the rate assigned in that segment of the proceeding; (3) the cash deposit rate for all PRC exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be entitled to a separate rate will be the PRC-wide rate of 43.32 percent; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all non-PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not received their own rate will be the rate applicable to the PRC exporter that supplied that non-PRC exporter. These requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice. Notification to Importers This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1 6708 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 24 / Tuesday, February 5, 2008 / Notices review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in the Secretary’s presumption that reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties. These administrative and new shipper reviews and notice are in accordance with sections 751(a)(1), 751(a)(2)(B), and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213 and 351.214. Dated: January 30, 2008. David M. Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration. [FR Doc. E8–2081 Filed 2–4–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Pfeiffer, PE, Deputy Senior Vice President, Codes and Standards Development at ICC’s Chicago District Office, 4051 West Flossmoor Road, Country Club Hills, Illinois 60478; Telephone 888–422–7233, Extension 4338; e-mail mpfeiffer@iccsafe.org. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology International Code Council: The Update Process for the International Codes National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce. ACTION: Notice of Code Development Hearings on U.S. Model Building Safety and Fire Prevention Codes, 2009 editions. rmajette on PROD1PC64 with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: The International Code Council (ICC), under whose auspices the International Codes (‘‘I-Codes’’) are developed, maintains a process for updating these model codes based on receipt of proposals from interested individuals and organizations. Each of the I-Codes are comprehensively updated and re-published every three years with a supplement released between each edition. The most current versions of the I-Codes are the 2006 editions and the 2007 supplements to the 2006 editions. The 2009 editions of the I-Codes, the subject of this notice, will be released in the first quarter of 2009. The purpose of this notice is to invite public participation in the Code Development Hearings. At this session, all proposed changes submitted for the family of the 2009 I-Codes will be considered by the respective Code Development Committees, with the assembled body of the International Code Council members also afforded the opportunity to vote via an assembly action. Proposals for consideration at these hearings were received by the August 20, 2007, deadline and were made publically available as an electronic document on November 7, 2007, and as a printed Monograph on December 18, 2007. 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ICC’s model codes and standards are each developed and maintained through voluntary consensus development processes known as the Governmental Consensus Process. Consistent with the voluntary consensus requirements of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–113), the Governmental Consensus process incorporates a balance of involved interests, ensures due process, provides for conclusion by consensus, the resolution of objections by interested parties, the fair consideration of all public comments, and has a prescribed process for appeal of any action. The ICC code development process is initiated when proposals from interested persons—supported by written data, views, or arguments—are solicited, received and then published in the Proposed Changes document. This document is distributed a minimum of 30 days in advance of the Code Development Hearings and serves as the agenda for that session. 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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-846]


Brake Rotors From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary 
Results of the 2006-2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews and 
Partial Rescission of the 2006-2007 Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is currently 
conducting the 2006-2007 administrative and new shipper reviews of the 
antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the People's Republic of 
China (``PRC''). We preliminarily determine that sales have not been 
made below normal value (``NV'') with respect to certain exporters who 
participated fully and are entitled to a separate rate in the 
administrative or new shipper reviews. If these preliminary results are 
adopted in our final results of these reviews, we will instruct U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to assess antidumping duties on 
entries of subject merchandise during the period of review (``POR'') 
for which the importer-specific assessment rates are above de minimis.
    Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results. We will issue the final results no later than 120 days from 
the date of publication of this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 5, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frances Veith or Blanche Ziv, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 8, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
4295 or (202) 482-4207, respectively.

Background

    On April 17, 1997, the Department published in the Federal Register 
the antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the PRC. See Notice of 
Antidumping Duty Order: Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of 
China, 62 FR 18740 (April 17, 1997) (``the Order'').

New Shipper Review

    On April 18, 2007, Shanghai Tylon Company Ltd. (``Tylon'') 
requested a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on brake 
rotors from the PRC, which has an April anniversary month, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c). In response to the Department's 
April 24, 2007, request for information, Tylon provided supplemental 
information on April 27, 2007. On May 25, 2007, the Department 
initiated a new shipper review of Tylon covering the period April 1, 
2006, through March 31, 2007. See Brake Rotors From the People's 
Republic of China: Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 
72 FR 29299 (May 25, 2007). On May 23, 2007, the Department issued a 
new shipper antidumping duty questionnaire to Tylon.
    On July 5, 2007, the Department received Tylon's Sections A, C, and 
D response. On July 19, 2007, the Department received Tylon's Importer-
Specific Questionnaire response. On August 24, 2007, the Department 
issued a supplemental questionnaire to Tylon, to which we received a 
response on September 17, 2007. On June 4, 2007, the Department placed 
on the record of the new shipper review copies of CBP documents 
pertaining to the shipment of brake rotors from the PRC exported by 
Tylon to the United States during the POR.\1\
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    \1\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``2006-2007 New 
Shipper Review of Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of 
China,'' entitled, ``Results of Request for Assistance from U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection on U.S. Entry Documents,'' dated June 
4, 2007.
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    On May 31, 2007, we requested that the Office of Policy issue a 
surrogate-country memorandum for the selection of the appropriate 
surrogate countries for this new shipper review.\2\ On June 1, 2007, 
the Office of Policy provided a list of five countries at a level of 
economic development comparable to that of the PRC for the POR.\3\ On 
June 6, 2007, the Department invited all interested parties to submit 
comments on surrogate-country selection and to submit publicly 
available information as surrogate values (``SVs'') for purposes of 
calculating NV.\4\ See ``Surrogate Country'' section below. On August 
1, 2007, the Coalition for the Preservation of American Brake Drum and 
Rotor Aftermarket Manufacturers (``petitioner'') submitted publicly 
available information for use as SVs in the calculation of NV in the 
2006-2007 new shipper review. On August 17, 2007, the Department 
selected India as the most appropriate surrogate country for the 
purpose of this new shipper review.\5\
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    \2\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``Surrogate-
Country Selection: 2006-2007 New Shipper Review of the Antidumping 
Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of China,'' 
dated May 31, 2007.
    \3\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``New Shipper 
Review of Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of China (PRC): 
Request for a List of Surrogate Countries,'' dated June 1, 2007 
(``NSR Policy Memorandum'').
    \4\ See the Department's letter regarding, ``New Shipper Review 
of Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of China,'' requesting 
parties to provide comments on surrogate-country selection and 
provide surrogate factors-of-production (``FOP'') values from the 
potential surrogate countries (i.e., India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, 
the Philippines and Egypt), dated June 6, 2007.
    \5\ See The Department's memorandum entitled, ``2006-2007 New 
Shipper Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from 
the People's Republic of China: Selection of a Surrogate Country,'' 
dated August 17, 2007 (``NSR Surrogate Country Memorandum'').
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    On August 23, 2007, Tylon agreed to waive the new shipper review 
time limits in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(j)(3), to align the new 
shipper review with the concurrent 2006-2007 administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the PRC. On August 24, 
2007, the Department aligned the new shipper review with the 2006-2007 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors 
from the PRC.\6\
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    \6\ See the Department's memorandum, entitled ``2006-2007 
Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order 
on Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of China: Alignment of 
2006-2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews,'' dated August 24, 
2007.
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Administrative Review

    On April 2, 2007, the Department published a notice of opportunity 
to request an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
brake rotors from the PRC. See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 
Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request 
Administrative Review, 72 FR 15650 (April 2, 2006).
    On April 30, 2007, the Department received timely requests for an 
administrative review of this antidumping duty order in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.213 from the following individual companies: LABEC, Winhere, 
Haimeng, Hongda, Meita, Wally, and Longkou Dixion Brake System Ltd. 
(``Dixion''). On April 30,

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2007, the Department also received timely requests for an 
administrative review of 23 companies (or producer/exporter 
combinations) \7\ from petitioner. As a result of the above-mentioned 
companies' and petitioner's requests for a review, this administrative 
review covers 24 companies.
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    \7\ The names of these companies or producer/exporter 
combination are as follows: (1) Longkou Haimeng Machinery Co., Ltd. 
(``Haimeng''); (2) Qingdao Meita Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. 
(``Meita''); (3) Laizhou Auto Brake Equipment Factory (``LABEC''); 
(4) Yantai Winhere Auto-Part Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (``Winhere''); 
(5) Laizhou Hongda Auto Replacement Parts Co., Ltd. (``Hongda''); 
(6) Laizhou City Luqi Machinery Co., Ltd. (``Luqi''); (7) Laizhou 
Wally Automobile Co., Ltd. (``Wally''); (8) Zibo Luzhou Automobile 
Parts Co., Ltd. (``ZLAP''); (9) Zibo Golden Harvest Machinery 
Limited Company (``ZGOLD''); (10) Longkou TLC Machinery Co., Ltd. 
(``TLC''); (11) Longkou Jinzheng Maxhinery Co. (``Jinzheng''); (12) 
Qingdao Gren Co. (``Gren''); (13) Shenyang Yinghao Machinery Co. 
(``Yinghao''); (14) Shanxi Zhongding Auto Parts Co., Ltd. 
(``SZAP''); (15) Shandong Huanri Group Company (``Huanri''); (16) 
Longkou Qizheng Auto Parts Co. (``Qizheng''); (17) China National 
Automotive Industry Import & Export Corporation (``CAIEC''), 
excluding entries manufactured by Shandong Laizhou CAPCO Industry 
(``CAPCO''); (18) CAPCO, excluding entries manufactured by CAPCO; 
(19) Laizhou Luyuan Automobile Fittings Co. (``Luyuan''), excluding 
entries manufactured by Laizhou Luyuan or Shenyang Honbase Machinery 
Co., Ltd. (``Honbase''); (20) Honbase, excluding entries 
manufactured by Laizhou Luyuan or Honbase; (21) China National 
Industrial Machinery Import & Export Corporation (``CNIM''); (22) 
Xianghe Xumingyuan Auto Parts Co. (``Xumingyuan''); and (23) Qingdao 
Golrich Autoparts Co., Ltd. (``Golrich'').
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    On May 30, 2007, the Department initiated an administrative review 
of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the PRC for 24 
individually named firms, for the POR of April 1, 2006, through March 
31, 2007.\8\ Between May 30 and June 5, 2007, the Department issued 
letters to all firms named in the AR Initiation Notice requesting: (1) 
A separate-rate certification or application, and (2) information on 
the quantity and value (``Q&V'') of sales of subject merchandise to the 
United States during the POR. Of the 24 companies for which the 
Department initiated a review, ten companies certified that they had no 
shipments during the POR, and between June 14 and June 22, 2007,\9\ we 
received requests for a rescission of the review from five of those 
companies.\10\
    See ``Preliminary Partial Rescission of 2006-2007 Administrative 
Review'' section below.
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    \8\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 72 FR 
29968 (May 30, 2007) (``AR Initiation Notice'').
    \9\ These ten companies are SZAP, Huanri, Qizheng, CNIM, 
Xumingyuan, Golrich, CAIEC, CAPCO, Luyuan, and Honbase.
    \10\ These five companies are Xumingyuan, CAIEC, CAPCO, Luyuan, 
and Honbase.
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    Due to the large number of participating firms subject to this 
administrative review, and the Department's experience regarding the 
administrative burden of reviewing each company for which a request was 
made, the Department exercised its authority to limit the number of 
mandatory respondents selected for individual review pursuant to 
section 777A(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), 
by selecting exporters accounting for the largest volume of the subject 
merchandise that can reasonably be examined. On July 13, 2007, based on 
reported export volumes of subject merchandise during the POR, the 
Department selected the two companies accounting for the largest volume 
of subject merchandise, i.e., Haimeng and Meita, as the two mandatory 
respondents in this review. The remaining 12 respondents are non-
selected respondents.\11\ See ``Separate Rates'' section below. On July 
16, 2007, we issued antidumping duty questionnaires to Haimeng and 
Meita.
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    \11\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``2006-2007 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Brake Rotors from the 
People's Republic of China: Selection of Respondents,'' dated July 
13, 2007 (``Respondent Selection Memo'').
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    On May 31, 2007, we requested that the Office of Policy issue a 
surrogate-country memorandum for the selection of the appropriate 
surrogate countries for this review.\12\ On June 1, 2007, the Office of 
Policy provided a list of five countries at a level of economic 
development comparable to that of the PRC for the POR of this 
review.\13\ On June 6, 2007, the Department invited all interested 
parties to submit comments on surrogate-country selection and to submit 
publicly available information as SVs for purposes of calculating 
NV.\14\ On August 17, 2007, the Department selected India as the most 
appropriate surrogate country for this administrative review.\15\ See 
``Surrogate Country'' section below. On August 1, 2007, petitioner 
submitted publicly available information for use as SVs in the 
calculation of NV in the administrative review.
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    \12\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``Surrogate-
Country Selection: 2006-2007 Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of 
China,'' dated May 31, 2007.
    \13\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review of Brake Rotors from the People's 
Republic of China (PRC): Request for a List of Surrogate 
Countries,'' dated June 1, 2007 (``AR Policy Memorandum'').
    \14\ See the Department's letter regarding, ``New Shipper Review 
of Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of China,'' requesting 
parties to provide comments on surrogate-country selection and 
provide surrogate FOP values from the potential surrogate countries 
(i.e., India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines and Egypt), 
dated June 6, 2007.
    \15\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``2006-2007 
Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors 
from the People's Republic of China: Selection of Surrogate 
Country,'' dated August 17, 2007 (``AR Surrogate Country 
Memorandum'').
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    On August 28 and October 18, 2007, the Department placed on the 
record of this review copies of CBP documents pertaining to certain 
entries of brake rotors from the PRC exported to the United States 
during the POR.\16\ On September 7, 2007, we issued a supplemental 
questionnaire to Golrich to which we received a response on September 
19, 2007.
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    \16\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``2006-2007 
Administrative Review of Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of 
China, Results of Request for Assistance from U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection on U.S. Entry Documents,'' dated August 28, 2007.
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    On September 4, 2007, we received questionnaire responses from 
Haimeng and Meita. The Department issued supplemental questionnaires to 
Haimeng and Meita on October 4 and October 23, 2007, respectively. We 
received supplemental questionnaire responses from Haimeng and Meita on 
November 9 and November 13, 2007, respectively.

Period of Review

    The POR is April 1, 2006, through March 31, 2007.

Scope of the Order

    The products covered by this order are brake rotors made of gray 
cast iron, whether finished, semifinished, or unfinished, ranging in 
diameter from 8 to 16 inches (20.32 to 40.64 centimeters) and in weight 
from 8 to 45 pounds (3.63 to 20.41 kilograms). The size parameters 
(weight and dimension) of the brake rotors limit their use to the 
following types of motor vehicles: automobiles, all-terrain vehicles, 
vans and recreational vehicles under ``one ton and a half,'' and light 
trucks designated as ``one ton and a half.''
    Finished brake rotors are those that are ready for sale and 
installation without any further operations. Semi-finished rotors are 
those on which the surface is not entirely smooth, and have undergone 
some drilling. Unfinished rotors are those which have undergone some 
grinding or turning.
    These brake rotors are for motor vehicles, and do not contain in 
the casting a logo of an original equipment manufacturer (``OEM'') 
which produces vehicles sold in the United States. (e.g., General 
Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, Volvo). Brake rotors covered in

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this order are not certified by OEM producers of vehicles sold in the 
United States. The scope also includes composite brake rotors that are 
made of gray cast iron, which contain a steel plate, but otherwise meet 
the above criteria. Excluded from the scope of this order are brake 
rotors made of gray cast iron, whether finished, semifinished, or 
unfinished, with a diameter less than 8 inches or greater than 16 
inches (less than 20.32 centimeters or greater than 40.64 centimeters) 
and a weight less than 8 pounds or greater than 45 pounds (less than 
3.63 kilograms or greater than 20.41 kilograms).
    Brake rotors are currently classifiable under subheading 
8708.39.5010 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(``HTSUS'').\17\ Although the HTSUS subheading is provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope 
of this order is dispositive.
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    \17\ As of January 1, 2005, the HTSUS classification for brake 
rotors (discs) changed from 8708.39.5010 to 8708.39.5030. As of 
January 1, 2007, the HTSUS classification for brake rotors (discs) 
changed from 8708.39.5030 to 8708.30.5030. See Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (2007) (Rev. 2), available at https://
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Separate Rates

    In proceedings involving non-market economy (``NME'') countries, 
the Department begins with a rebuttable presumption that all companies 
within the country are subject to government control, and thus, should 
be assigned a single antidumping duty deposit rate. It is the 
Department's policy to assign all exporters of subject merchandise 
subject to review in an NME country a single rate unless an exporter 
can demonstrate that it is sufficiently independent of government 
control to be entitled to a separate rate. See, e.g., Honey from the 
People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 70 FR 74764, 74766 (December 
16, 2005) (unchanged in the final results).
    For the administrative review, in order to demonstrate separate-
rate status eligibility, the Department normally requires entities, for 
whom a review was requested, and who were assigned a separate rate in a 
previous segment of this proceeding, to submit a separate-rate 
certification stating that they continue to meet the criteria for 
obtaining a separate rate. For entities that were not assigned a 
separate rate in the previous segment of a proceeding, to demonstrate 
eligibility for such, the Department requires a separate-rate 
application. In this administrative review the 12 entities not selected 
for individual review (i.e., separate-rate respondents) all submitted 
separate-rate certifications. The two mandatory respondents (i.e., 
Haimeng and Meita) and the 12 separate-rate respondents provided 
company-specific information and each \18\ stated that it meets the 
criteria for the assignment of a separate rate. For the new shipper 
(i.e., Tylon), a separate-rate analysis is necessary to determine 
whether the export activities of Tylon are independent from government 
control.
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    \18\ The non-selected respondents are as follows: LABEC, 
Winhere, Hongda, Luqi, Wally, ZLAP, ZGOLD, TLC, Jinzheng, Gren, 
Yinghao, and Dixion.
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    We considered whether the administrative review respondents and the 
new shipper referenced above were eligible for a separate rate. The 
Department's separate-rate status test to determine whether the 
exporter is independent from government control does not consider, in 
general, macroeconomic/border-type controls (e.g., export licenses, 
quotas, and minimum export prices), particularly if these controls are 
imposed to prevent dumping. The test focuses, rather, on controls over 
the investment, pricing, and output decision-making process at the 
individual firm level.\19\
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    \19\ See Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Ukraine: 
Final Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value, 62 FR 61754, 
61758 (November 19, 1997); and Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts 
Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, from the People's Republic of 
China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 62 
FR 61276, 61279 (November 17, 1997).
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    To establish whether an exporter is sufficiently independent of 
government control to be entitled to a separate rate, the Department 
analyzes the exporter in light of select criteria, discussed below. See 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Sparklers from 
the People's Republic of China, 56 FR 20588, 20589 (May 6, 1991) 
(``Sparklers''); and Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Silicon Carbide from the People's Republic of China, 59 FR 
22585, 22586, 22587 (May 2, 1994) (``Silicon Carbide''). Under this 
test, exporters in NME countries are entitled to separate, company-
specific margins when they can demonstrate an absence of government 
control over exports, both in law (``de jure'') and in fact (``de 
facto'').
1. Absence of De Jure Control
    The Department considers the following de jure criteria in 
determining whether an individual company may be granted a separate 
rate: (1) An absence of restrictive stipulations associated with an 
individual exporter's business and export licenses; (2) any legislative 
enactments decentralizing control of companies; or (3) any other formal 
measures by the government decentralizing control of companies. See 
Sparklers, 56 FR 20589. Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon each placed on the 
administrative record documents to demonstrate an absence of de jure 
control (e.g., the 1994 ``Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of 
China,'' and the 1999 ``Company Law of the People's Republic of 
China''). As in prior cases, we analyzed the laws presented to us and 
found them to establish sufficiently an absence of de jure control. 
See, e.g., Honey from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary 
Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, 72 FR 102, 105 (January 3, 2007); Hand Trucks and Certain Parts 
Thereof from the People's Republic of China; Preliminary Results and 
Partial Rescission of Administrative Review and Preliminary Results of 
New Shipper Review, 72 FR 937, 944 (January 9, 2007). We have no new 
information in this proceeding which would cause us to reconsider this 
determination with regard to Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon. Therefore, we 
believe that evidence on the record supports a preliminary finding of 
an absence of de jure government control with regard to Haimeng, Metia, 
and Tylon.
    The 12 separate-rate respondents Winhere, LABEC, Hongda, Wally, 
Dixion, Gren, ZLAP, TLC, ZGOLD, Luqi, Yinghao, and Jinzheng each 
certified that, as with the previous granting period, there is an 
absence of de jure control. Each separate-rate respondent's separate-
rate certification, stated, where applicable, that it had no 
relationship with any level of the PRC government with respect to 
ownership, internal management, and business operations. In this 
segment, we have no new information that would cause us to reconsider 
the previous period's de jure control determination with regard to 
Winhere, LABEC, Hongda, Wally, Dixion, Gren, ZLAP, TLC, ZGOLD, Luqi, 
Yinghao, and Jinzheng.
2 . Absence of De Facto Control
    As stated in previous cases, there is evidence that certain 
enactments of the PRC central government have not been implemented 
uniformly among different sectors and/or jurisdictions in the PRC. See 
Silicon Carbide, 59 FR at 22586, 22587. Therefore, the Department has 
determined that an analysis of de facto control is critical in 
determining whether the respondents are, in fact, subject to a degree 
of government control which would preclude the Department from 
assigning separate rates.

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    The Department typically considers four factors in evaluating 
whether each respondent is subject to de facto government control of 
its export functions: (1) Whether the export prices are set by, or 
subject to the approval of, a government authority; (2) whether the 
respondent has authority to negotiate and sign contracts and other 
agreements; (3) whether the respondent has autonomy from the government 
in making decisions regarding the selection of management; and (4) 
whether the respondent retains the proceeds of its export sales and 
makes independent decisions regarding the disposition of profits or 
financing of losses. See Silicon Carbide, 59 FR at 22586-87; see also 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Furfuryl Alcohol 
from the People's Republic of China, 60 FR 22544, 22545 (May 8, 1995).
    In these reviews, Haimeng, Winhere, Meita, LABEC, Hongda, Wally, 
Dixion, Gren, ZLAP, TLC, ZGOLD, Luqi, Yinghao, Jinzheng, and Tylon each 
asserted the following: (1) It establishes its own export prices; (2) 
it negotiates contracts without guidance from any government entities 
or organizations; (3) it makes its own personnel decisions; and (4) it 
retains the proceeds of its export sales, uses profits according to its 
business needs, and has the authority to sell its assets and to obtain 
loans. Additionally, each of these companies' questionnaire responses 
indicate that its pricing during the POR does not involve coordination 
among exporters.
    Thus, we preliminarily determine that Haimeng, Winhere, Meita, 
LABEC, Hongda, Wally, Dixion, Gren, ZLAP, TLC, ZGOLD, Luqi, Yinghao, 
Jinzheng, and Tylon have each met the criteria for the application of a 
separate rate based on the documentation each of these respondents has 
submitted on the record of these reviews.\20\
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    \20\ See the Department's memorandum entitled ``Preliminary 
Results 2006-2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of 
China Separate-Rate Analysis for Respondents (Including Exporters 
Not Being Individually Reviewed),'' dated January 30, 2008 
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Preliminary Partial Rescission of 2006-2007 Administrative Review

    With respect to SZAP, Huanri, Qizheng, CNIM, Xumingyuan, Golrich, 
CAIEC, CAPCO, Luyuan and Honbase, each informed the Department that it 
did not export the subject merchandise to the United States during the 
POR in the combinations described below, where applicable. 
Specifically, (1) SZAP, Huanri, Qizheng, CNIM, Xumingyuan, and Golrich 
did not export subject merchandise to the United States during the POR; 
(2) CAIEC did not export brake rotors to the United States that were 
manufactured by producers other than CAPCO; (3) CAPCO did not export 
brake rotors to the United States that were manufactured by producers 
other than CAPCO; (4) Luyuan did not export brake rotors to the United 
States that were manufactured by producers other than Luyuan or 
Honbase; and (5) Honbase did not export brake rotors to the United 
States that were manufactured by producers other than Honbase or 
Luyuan. In order to corroborate these submissions, we reviewed PRC 
brake rotor shipment data maintained by CBP. In reviewing the CBP data, 
we did not find any evidence contradicting SZAP's, Huanri's, Qizheng's, 
CNIM's, Xumingyuan's, Golrich's, CAIEC's, CAPCO's, Luyuan's and 
Honbase's claims of no shipments of brake rotors to the United States 
during the POR.
    Based on the record of these reviews, we conclude that SZAP, 
Huanri, Qizheng, CNIM, Xumingyuan, Golrich, CAIEC, CAPCO, Luyuan and 
Honbase did not export subject merchandise to the United States during 
the POR. For the reasons mentioned above, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.213(d)(3), we are preliminarily rescinding the administrative 
review for these exporters in the following specified exporter or 
exporter/producer combinations: (1) SZAP, (2) Huanri, (3) Qizheng, (4) 
CNIM, (5) Xumingyuan, (6) Golrich, (7) CAIEC/manufactured by any 
company other than CAPCO, (8) CAPCO/manufactured by any company other 
than CAPCO, (9) Luyuan/manufactured by any company other than Luyuan or 
Honbase, and (10) Honbase/manufactured by any company other than 
Honbase or Luyuan.

Bona Fide Sales Analysis--Tylon

    In evaluating whether or not sales are commercially reasonable, and 
therefore bona fide, the Department has considered, inter alia, such 
factors as: (1) The timing of the sale; (2) the price and quantity of 
the sale; (3) the expenses arising from the transaction; (4) whether 
the goods were resold at a profit; and (5) whether the transaction was 
made on an arm's-length basis. See Tianjin Tiancheng Pharmaceutical 
Co., Ltd. v. United States, 366 F. Supp. 2d 1246 (CIT 2005) (``TTPC'') 
at 9, citing Am. Silicon Techs. v. United States, 110 F. Supp. 2d 992, 
995 (CIT 2000). Therefore, the Department examines a number of factors, 
all of which may speak to the commercial realities surrounding the sale 
of subject merchandise. While some bona fides issues may share 
commonalities across various cases, each case is company-specific and 
the analysis may vary with the facts surrounding each sale. See, e.g., 
Certain Preserved Mushrooms for the People's Republic of China: Final 
Results and Partial Rescission of New Shipper Review and Administrative 
Reviews, 68 FR 41304 (July 11, 2003). The weight given to each factor 
investigated will depend on the circumstances surrounding the sale. See 
TTPC, 366 F. Supp at 1263.
    For the reasons stated below, we preliminarily find that Tylon's 
reported U.S. sales during the POR appear to be bona fide sales, as 
required by 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iv)(c), based on the totality of the 
facts on the record. Specifically, we find that the quantity or unit 
prices for Tylon's sales compared to the quantities and unit values of 
U.S. imports of comparable brake rotors from the PRC during the POR 
together with the totality of circumstances surrounding the sales at 
issue indicate the sales were not aberrational. We also examined 
information placed on the record by Tylon and Tylon's customer for the 
POR sales, and information developed independently by the Department 
regarding Tylon's customer for the POR sale and circumstances 
surrounding the POR sales. We found no evidence that the POR sales 
under review are not bona fide sales.\21\ Therefore, for the reasons 
mentioned above, the Department preliminarily finds that Tylon's U.S. 
sales during the POR were bona fide commercial transactions.
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    \21\ For further information, see the Department's memorandum 
entitled ``2006-2007 New Shipper Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Order on Brake Rotors From the People's Republic of China: Bona Fide 
Analysis of Shanghai Tylon Company Ltd.,'' dated January 30, 2008.
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Non-Market Economy Country

    In every case conducted by the Department involving the PRC, the 
PRC has been treated as an NME country. Pursuant to section 
771(18)(C)(i) of the Act, any determination that a foreign country is 
an NME country shall remain in effect until revoked by the 
administering authority. See, e.g., Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From 
the People's Republic of China: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review, 71 FR 7013 (February 10, 2006). None of the 
parties to these proceedings has contested such treatment. Accordingly, 
we calculated NV in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act, which 
applies to NME countries.

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Surrogate Country

    Section 773(c)(1) of the Act directs the Department to base NV on 
the NME producer's FOP, valued in a surrogate market economy country or 
countries considered to be appropriate by the Department. In accordance 
with section 773(c)(4) of the Act, in valuing the FOPs, the Department 
shall use, to the extent possible, the prices or costs of the FOPs in 
one or more market economy countries that are: (1) At a level of 
economic development comparable to that of the NME country; and (2) 
significant producers of comparable merchandise. The sources of the 
surrogate factor values are discussed under the ``Normal Value'' 
section below. See also, the Department's memorandum entitled, 
``Preliminary Results of the 2006-2007 Administrative and New Shipper 
Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors From the People's 
Republic of China: Surrogate Value Memorandum,'' dated January 30, 2008 
(``Surrogate Value Memorandum'').
    The Department determined that India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the 
Philippines, and Egypt are countries comparable to the PRC in terms of 
economic development. See NSR Policy Memorandum and AR Policy 
Memorandum. Customarily, we select an appropriate surrogate country 
from the policy memorandum based on the availability and reliability of 
data from the countries that are significant producers of comparable 
merchandise. In this case, we found that India is at a comparable level 
of economic development to the PRC; is a significant producer of the 
subject merchandise (i.e., brake rotors); and has publicly available 
and reliable data. See NSR Surrogate Country Memorandum and AR 
Surrogate Country Memorandum.
    Accordingly, we selected India as the primary surrogate country for 
purposes of valuing the FOPs in the calculation of NV because it meets 
the Department's criteria for surrogate country selection. See NSR 
Surrogate Country Memorandum and AR Surrogate Country Memorandum. We 
obtained and relied upon publicly available information wherever 
possible.
    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3)(ii), for the final results 
in antidumping administrative and new shipper reviews, interested 
parties may submit publicly available information to value FOPs within 
20 days after the date of publication of these preliminary results.

Fair Value Comparisons

    To determine whether sales of the subject merchandise by Haimeng, 
Meita, and Tylon to the United States were made at prices below NV, we 
compared each company's export prices (``EPs'') to NV, as described in 
the ``Export Price'' and ``Normal Value'' sections of this notice 
below, pursuant to section 773 of the Act.

Export Price

    Because each respondent sold subject merchandise to an unaffiliated 
purchaser in the United States prior to importation into the United 
States and use of a constructed-export-price methodology was not 
otherwise indicated, we used EP in accordance with section 772(a) of 
the Act. We made the following company-specific adjustments:

A. Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon

    We calculated EP based on the delivery method reported to the first 
unaffiliated purchaser in the United States. Where appropriate, we made 
deductions from the starting price (gross unit price) for foreign 
inland freight and foreign brokerage and handling charges in the PRC, 
international freight, U.S. duties, and other U.S. customs charges 
pursuant to section 772(c)(2)(A) of the Act.\22\ Where foreign inland 
freight, foreign brokerage and handling fees, or marine insurance were 
provided by PRC service providers or paid for in renminbi, we based 
those charges on surrogate rates from India. See ``Factor Valuation'' 
section below for further discussion of surrogate rates.
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    \22\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``2006-2007 
Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order 
on Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of China: Analysis of the 
Preliminary Results Margin Calculation for Shanghai Tylon Company 
Ltd.,'' dated January 30, 2008 (``Tylon Calculation Memo''); the 
Department's memorandum entitled, ``2006-2007 Administrative and New 
Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from 
the People's Republic of China: Analysis of the Preliminary Results 
Margin Calculation for Longkou Haimeng Machinery Co., Ltd.,'' dated 
January 30, 2008 (``Haimeng Calculation Memo''); and the 
Department's memorandum entitled, 2006-2007 Administrative and New 
Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order on Brake Rotors from 
the People's Republic of China: Analysis of the Preliminary Results 
Margin Calculation for Qingdao Meita Automotive Industry Co., Ltd,'' 
dated January 30, 2008 (``Meita Calculation Memo'').
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    In determining the most appropriate SVs to use in a given case, the 
Department's stated practice is to use review period-wide price 
averages, prices specific to the input in question, prices that are net 
of taxes and import duties, prices that are contemporaneous with the 
POR, and publicly available data. See e.g., Certain Cased Pencils from 
the People's Republic of China; Final Results and Partial Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 FR 38366 (July 6, 2006), and 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 1. The data we 
used for brokerage and handling expenses fulfill all of the foregoing 
criteria except that they are not specific to the subject merchandise. 
There is no information of that type on the record of these reviews. 
The Department used two sources to calculate an SV for domestic 
brokerage expenses: (1) Data from the January 9, 2006, public version 
of the Section C questionnaire response from Kejriwal Paper Ltd. 
(``Kejriwal'');\23\ and (2) data from Agro Dutch Industries Ltd. for 
the POR February 1, 2004, through January 31, 2005 (see Certain 
Preserved Mushrooms From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 70 FR 37757 (June 30, 2005) (unchanged in final 
results)). Because these values were not concurrent with the POR of 
these administrative and new shipper reviews, we adjusted these rates 
for inflation using the Wholesale Price Indices (``WPI'') for India as 
published in the International Monetary Fund's International Financial 
Statistics, available at https://ifs.apdi.net/imf, and then calculated a 
simple average of the two companies' brokerage expense data.
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    \23\ Kejriwal was a respondent in the certain lined paper 
products from India investigation for which the period of 
investigation was July 1, 2004, to June 30, 2005. See Notice of 
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 
Postponement of Final Determination, and Affirmative Preliminary 
Determination of Critical Circumstances in Part: Certain Lined Paper 
Products From India, 71 FR 19706 (April 17, 2006) (unchanged in 
final determination).
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    Haimeng reported that its U.S. customers purchased ball bearing cup 
and lug bolts from PRC producers that were delivered to Haimeng in 
specific quantities free-of-charge, and that the components were then 
incorporated into models shipped to U.S. customers during the POR. 
Section 773(c)(3) of the Act states that ``factors of production 
utilized in producing merchandise include, but are not limited to the 
quantities of raw materials employed.'' See, e.g., Brake Rotors From 
the People's Republic of China: Final Results and Partial Rescission of 
the 2004/2005 Administrative Review and Notice of Rescission of 2004/
2005 New Shipper Review, 71 FR 66304, 66305 (November 14, 2006) and the 
accompanying Issues and Decisions Memorandum at Comment 9. See also 
Certain Preserved Mushrooms From the People's Republic of China: Final 
Results and Final

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Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 70 FR 
54361 (September 14, 2005), and the accompanying Issues and Decisions 
Memorandum at Comment 13. Therefore, to reflect the U.S. customers' 
expenditures for these items, we adjusted the U.S. price of applicable 
sales of these models by adding the Indian SV for each component ( 
i.e., the ball bearing cups and lug bolts) used to the U.S. price of 
such brake rotors sold to the United States during the POR. For further 
information, see Haimeng Calculation Memo.

Normal Value

    Section 773(c)(1) of the Act provides that, in the case of an NME, 
the Department shall determine NV using an FOP methodology if the 
merchandise is exported from an NME and the information does not permit 
the calculation of NV using home-market prices, third-country prices, 
or constructed value under section 773(a) of the Act. The Department 
will base NV on FOP because the presence of government controls on 
various aspects of these economies renders price comparisons and the 
calculation of production costs invalid under our normal methodologies. 
Therefore, we calculated NV based on FOP in accordance with sections 
773(c)(3) and (4) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.408(c).
    For purposes of calculating NV, we valued the PRC FOPs in 
accordance with section 773(c)(1) of the Act. The FOPs include: (1) 
Hours of labor required; (2) quantities of raw materials employed; (3) 
amounts of energy and other utilities consumed; and (4) representative 
capital costs. We used the FOPs reported by respondents for materials, 
energy, labor, and packing. See section 773(c)(3) of the Act.
    In examining SVs, we selected, where possible, the publicly 
available value, which was an average non-export value, representative 
of a range of prices within the POR or most contemporaneous with the 
POR, product-specific, and tax-exclusive. See, e.g., Notice of 
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 
Postponement of Final Determination: Chlorinated Isocyanurates From the 
People's Republic of China, 69 FR 75294, 75300 (December 16, 2004) 
(``Chlorinated Isocyanurates'') (unchanged in final determination). For 
a detailed explanation of the methodology used to calculate SVs, see 
Surrogate Value Memorandum.
    Regarding the components supplied free of charge to Haimeng noted 
above, section 773(c)(3) of the Act states that the ``factors of 
production include but are not limited to the quantities of raw 
materials employed.'' Therefore, consistent with the corresponding 
adjustment to U.S. price discussed above, we valued the ball bearing 
cups and lug bolts usage amounts reported by Haimeng for specific brake 
rotor models by using an Indian SV for each input. See Haimeng 
Calculation Memo and Surrogate Value Memorandum.

Factor Valuations

    In accordance with section 773(c) of the Act, we calculated NV 
based on the FOPs reported by the respondents for the POR. We relied on 
the factor-specific data submitted by the respondents for the above-
mentioned inputs in their questionnaire and supplemental questionnaire 
responses, where applicable, for purposes of selecting SVs.
    To calculate NV, we multiplied the reported per-unit factor-
consumption rates by publicly available Indian SVs (except where noted 
below). In selecting the SVs, we considered the quality, specificity, 
and contemporaneity of the data. See, e.g., Folding Metal Tables and 
Chairs From the People's Republic of China; Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 FR 71509 (December 11, 
2006), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 9. As 
appropriate, we adjusted input prices by including freight costs to 
make them delivered prices. Specifically, we added to Indian import SVs 
a surrogate freight cost using the shorter of the reported distance 
from the domestic supplier to the factory or the distance from the 
nearest seaport to the factory, where appropriate. This adjustment is 
in accordance with the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 
Federal Circuit (``Federal Circuit''). See Sigma Corp. v. United 
States, 117 F. 3d 1401, 1408 (Fed. Cir. 1997). Where necessary, we 
adjusted the SVs for inflation/deflation using the WPI as published on 
the Reserve Bank of India (``RBI'') Web site, available at https://
www.rbi.org.in. For a detailed description of all SVs used for 
respondents, see the Surrogate Value Memorandum.
    Except where discussed below, we valued raw material inputs using 
April 2006 through March 2007, weighted-average unit import values 
derived from the Monthly Statistics of the Foreign Trade of India 
(``MSFTI''), as published by the Directorate General of Commercial 
Intelligence and Statistics of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, 
Government of India and compiled by the World Trade Atlas (``WTA''), 
available at www.gtis.com/wta.htm>. The Indian WTA import data is 
reported in rupees and is contemporaneous with the POR.\24\ Indian SVs 
denominated in Indian rupees were converted to U.S. dollars using the 
applicable daily exchange rate for India for the POR. See https://
www.ia.ita.doc.gov/exchange/. Where we could not obtain 
publicly available information contemporaneous with the POR with which 
to value factors, we adjusted the SVs for inflation using the WPI for 
India. See Surrogate Value Memorandum.
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    Furthermore, with regard to the WTA Indian import-based SVs, we 
have disregarded prices from NME countries\25\ and those we have reason 
to believe or suspect may be subsidized, because we have found in other 
proceedings that the exporting countries maintain broadly available, 
non-industry-specific export subsidies and, therefore, there is reason 
to believe or suspect all exports to all markets from such countries 
may be subsidized.\26\ We are also guided by the statute's legislative 
history that explains that it is not necessary to conduct a formal 
investigation to ensure that such prices are not subsidized. See H.R. 
Rep. No. 576 100th Cong., 2. Sess. 590-91 (1988). Rather, the 
Department was instructed by Congress to base its decision on 
information that is available to it at the time it is making its 
determination. Therefore, we exclude export prices from Indonesia, 
South Korea, Thailand, and India when calculating the Indian import-
based SVs. See Surrogate Value Memorandum. Finally, we excluded imports 
that were labeled as originating from an ``unspecified'' country from 
the average value, because we could not be certain that they were not 
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    \25\ The NME countries are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, 
Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, PRC, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, 
Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
    \26\ See Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China; Final Results of 
the 1998-1999 Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of Review, 
and Determination Not To Revoke Order in Part, 66 FR 1953 (Jan. 10, 
2001), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 1; 
Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, 
From the People's Republic of China; Final Results of 1999-2000 
Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of Review, and 
Determination Not To Revoke Order in Part, 66 FR 57420 (Nov. 15, 
2001), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 1; 
and China National Machinery Imp. & Exp. Corp. v. United States, 293 
F. Supp. 2d 1334, 1339 (CIT 2003), as affirmed by the Federal 
Circuit, 104 Fed. Appx. 183 (Fed. Cir. 2004).
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    To value electricity, the Department used the 2000 electricity 
price rates from Key World Energy Statistics 2003, published by the 
International Energy Agency available at https://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/
international/elecprii.html. Because this data was not contemporaneous 
with the POR, we adjusted the average value for inflation using WPI. 
See Surrogate Value Memorandum at Attachment 5.
    For direct labor, indirect labor and packing labor, consistent with 
19 CFR 351.408(c)(3), we used the PRC regression-based wage rates 
reflective of the observed relationship between wages and national 
income in market economy countries as reported on Import 
Administration's home page. See ``Expected Wages of Selected NME 
Countries'' (revised January 2007) (available at https://www.trade.gov/
ia/). For further details on the labor calculation, see Surrogate Value 
Memorandum at Attachment 7. Because the regression-based wage rates do 
not separate the labor rates into different skill levels or types of 
labor, we applied the same wage rate to all skill levels and types of 
labor reported by each respondent.
    For packing materials, we used the per-kilogram values obtained 
from the Indian WTA import data and made adjustments to account for 
freight costs incurred between the PRC supplier and the respondent. See 
Surrogate Value Memorandum at Attachment 1.
    The Department valued truck freight using Indian freight rates 
published by Indian Freight Exchange available at https://
www.infreight.com. This source provided daily rates from six major 
points of origin to six destinations in India for the period April 2005 
through October 2005. Because this data was not contemporaneous with 
the POR, we adjusted the average value for inflation using WPI. We 
averaged the monthly rates for each rate observation to obtain an SV. 
See Surrogate Value Memorandum at Attachment 8.
    Both Meita and Tylon reported that during the manufacturing 
process, their subject merchandise was transported from each 
respondent's respective casting facility to their finishing workshops. 
To value PRC freight for the distance between each respondents' casting 
facility and the finishing workshop, we used the inland freight SV 
calculated for inputs shipped by truck, as discussed above. See Meita 
Calculation Memorandum and Tylon Calculation Memorandum.
    Petitioners submitted financial information for two Indian 
producers of identical and comparable merchandise: Bosch Chassis 
Systems India Ltd. (``Bosch'') for the year ending March 31, 2006, and 
Rico Auto Industries Limited (``Rico'') for the year ending March 31, 
2005.\27\ Because neither Bosch's nor Rico's financial statements were 
contemporaneous with the POR, the Department placed on the record of 
these reviews the public information from Rico's 2006-2007 annual 
report and Bosch's nine-month (i.e., April through December 2006) 
annual report \28\ to be considered for valuing FOPs.\29\
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    \27\ See Petitioners' submission dated August 1, 2007.
    \28\ In Bosch's nine-month 2006 annual report, it stated that 
Bosch was changing its financial reporting from a fiscal year to a 
calendar year, starting January 1, 2007.
    \29\ See the Department's memorandum, entitled, ``2006-2007 
Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Order 
on Brake Rotors from the People's Republic of China: Surrogate 
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    We preliminarily determine that both Bosch's and Rico's 2006-2007 
financial statements are the best available information with which to 
calculate financial ratios because they appear to be complete, are 
publicly available, and are contemporaneous with the POR.\30\ 
Therefore, for factory overhead, selling, general, and administrative 
expenses (``SG&A''), and profit values, consistent with 19 CFR 
351.408(c)(4), we used the public information from the 2006-2007 annual 
reports of Bosch and Rico. From this information, we were able to 
determine factory overhead as a percentage of the total raw materials, 
labor, and energy (``ML&E'') costs; SG&A as a percentage of ML&E plus 
overhead (i.e., cost of manufacture); and the profit rate as a 
percentage of the cost of manufacture plus SG&A. Where appropriate, we 
did not include in the surrogate overhead and SG&A calculations the 
excise duty amount listed in the financial reports. For a full 
discussion of the calculation of these ratios, see Surrogate Value 
Memorandum and its accompanying calculation worksheets at Attachment 6.
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    \30\ See Brake Rotors From the People's Republic of China: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative and New Shipper Reviews 
and Partial Rescission of the 2005-2006 Administrative Review, 72 FR 
42386, 42389 (August 22, 2007), and the accompanying Issues and 
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    To value coking coal, coke, and firewood, we applied SVs using 
Indian import prices by HTS classification for the POR reported in the 
MSFTI, and available from WTA. See Surrogate Value Memorandum for a 
full discussion of the calculation of these ratios.

Currency Conversion

    We made currency conversions into U.S. dollars, in accordance with 
section 773A(a) of the Act, based on the exchange rates in effect on 
the dates of the U.S. sales, as certified by the Federal Reserve Bank. 
See https://www.ia.ita.doc.gov/exchange/.

Preliminary Results of Reviews

    As a result of our review, we preliminarily determine that the 
following margins exist for the period April 1, 2006, through March 31, 
2007:

                        Brake Rotors From the PRC
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Individually Reviewed  Exporters 2006-2007   Weighted- Average  Percent
           Administrative Review                  Margin  (Percent)
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Longkou Haimeng Machinery Co., Ltd........  0.03 (de minimis).
Qingdao Meita Automotive Industry Co., Ltd  0
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    Separate Rate Applicant Exporters 2006-2007 Administrative Review
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Laizhou Auto Brake Equipment Co., Ltd.....  0
Yantai Winhere Auto-Part Manufacturing      0
 Co., Ltd.
Laizhou Hongda Auto Replacement Parts Co.,  0
 Ltd.
Laizhou City Luqi Machinery Co., Ltd......  0
Laizhou Wally Automobile Co., Ltd.........  0
Zibo Luzhou Automobile Parts Co., Ltd.....  0
Zibo Golden Harvest Machinery Limited       0
 Company.
Longkou TLC Machinery Co., Ltd............  0
Longkou Jinzheng Machinery Co., Ltd.......  0
Qingdao Gren (Group) Co...................  0
Shenyang Yinghao Machinery Co.............  0
Longkou Dixion Brake System Ltd...........  0
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                      2006-2007 New Shipper Review
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Shanghai Tylon Company Ltd................  0
PRC-Wide Rate.............................  Margin (Percent).
PRC-Wide Rate.............................  43.32
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    While the Department has, for these preliminary results, applied 
the average of the rates calculated for the two mandatory respondents, 
Haimeng and Meita, to the companies not individually examined, LABEC, 
Winhere, Hongda, Luqi, Wally, ZLAP,

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ZGOLD, TLC, Jinzheng, Gren, Yinghao, and Dixion, we invite comments 
from interested parties regarding the methodology to be used to 
determine the rate for non-examined companies. Specifically, we invite 
interested parties to comment on the rate to be applied to the non-
examined companies, considering, but not limited to, the following 
factors: (a) The Department has limited its examination of respondents 
pursuant to section 777A(c)(2)(B) of the Act, (b) section 735(c)(5) 
provides that, with some exceptions, the all-others rate in an 
investigation is to be calculated excluding any margins that are zero, 
de minimis or based entirely on facts available, and (c) the Statement 
of Administrative Action states that with respect to the calculation of 
the all-others rate in such cases, ``the expected method will be to 
weight-average the zero and de minimis margins and margins determined 
pursuant to the facts available, provided that volume data is 
available. However, if this method is not feasible, or if it results in 
an average that would not be reasonably reflective of potential dumping 
margins for non-investigated exporters or producers, Commerce may use 
other reasonable methods.''

Disclosure

    We will disclose the calculations used in our analysis to parties 
to these proceedings within five days of the date of publication of 
this notice. See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary 
results and may submit case briefs and/or written comments within 30 
days of the date of publication of this notice. See 19 CFR 
351.309(c)(ii). Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case 
briefs, will be due five days later, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(d). 
Parties who submit case or rebuttal briefs in these proceedings are 
requested to submit with each argument (1) a statement of the issue, 
and (2) a brief summary of the argument. Parties are requested to 
provide a summary of the arguments not to exceed five pages and a table 
of statutes, regulations, and cases cited. Additionally, parties are 
requested to provide its case brief and rebuttal briefs in electronic 
format (e.g., WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, pdf, etc.). Interested 
parties who wish to request a hearing or to participate if one is 
requested, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for 
Import Administration within 30 days of the date of publication of this 
notice. Requests should contain: (1) The party's name, address, and 
telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of 
issues to be discussed. See 19 CFR 351.310(c). Issues raised in the 
hearing will be limited to those raised in case and rebuttal briefs. 
The Department will issue the final results of these reviews, including 
the results of its analysis of issues raised in any such written briefs 
or at the hearing, if held, not later than 120 days after the date of 
publication of this notice.

Assessment Rates

    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department will determine, 
and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries 
covered by these reviews. The Department intends to issue assessment 
instructions to CBP 15 days after the publication date of the final 
results of these reviews. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), for 
Haimeng, Meita, and Tylon, we calculated an exporter/importer (or 
customer)-specific assessment rate for the merchandise subject to these 
reviews. Where the respondent has reported reliable entered values, we 
calculated importer (or customer)-specific ad valorem rates by 
aggregating the dumping margins calculated for all U.S. sales to each 
importer (or customer) and dividing this amount by the total entered 
value of the sales to each importer (or customer). See 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1). Where an importer (or customer)-specific ad valorem rate 
is greater than de minimis, we will apply the assessment rate to the 
entered value of the importer's/customer's entries during the review 
period. See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    Where we do not have entered values for all U.S. sales, we 
calculated a per-unit assessment rate by aggregating the antidumping 
duties due for all U.S. sales to each importer (or customer) and 
dividing this amount by the total quantity sold to that importer (or 
customer). See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). To determine whether the duty 
assessment rates are de minimis, in accordance with the requirement set 
forth in 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), we calculated importer (or customer)-
specific ad valorem ratios based on the estimated entered value. Where 
an importer (or customer)-specific ad valorem rate is zero or de 
minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without 
regard to antidumping duties. See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
    For the companies receiving a separate rate that were not selected 
for individual review (i.e., LABEC, Winhere, Hongda, Luqi, Wally, ZLAP, 
ZGOLD, TLC, Jinzheng, Gren, Yinghao, and Dixion), we will calculate an 
assessment rate based on the weighted average of the cash deposit rates 
calculated for the companies selected for individual review pursuant to 
section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act. Where the weighted average ad valorem 
rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate 
appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. See 19 CFR 
351.106(c)(2).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of the new shipper review for all 
shipments of subject merchandise from Tylon entered or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after publication date: (1) For 
subject merchandise manufactured and exported by Tylon, the cash 
deposit rate will be zero percent; and (2) for subject merchandise 
exported by Tylon but not manufactured by Tylon, the cash deposit rate 
will be the PRC-wide rate.
    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of the administrative review for all 
shipments of brake rotors from the PRC entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided by section 751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rates 
for Haimeng, Meita, LABEC, Winhere, Hongda, Luqi, Wally, ZLAP, ZGOLD, 
TLC, Jinzheng, Gren, Yinghao, and Dixion will be the rates determined 
in the final results of review (except that if a rate is de minimis, 
i.e., less than 0.50 percent, a zero cash deposit will be required); 
(2) the cash deposit rate for previously investigated or reviewed PRC 
and non-PRC exporters who received a separate rate in a prior segment 
of the proceeding (which were not reviewed in this segment of the 
proceeding) will continue to be the rate assigned in that segment of 
the proceeding; (3) the cash deposit rate for all PRC exporters of 
subject merchandise that have not been found to be entitled to a 
separate rate will be the PRC-wide rate of 43.32 percent; and (4) the 
cash deposit rate for all non-PRC exporters of subject merchandise 
which have not received their own rate will be the rate applicable to 
the PRC exporter that supplied that non-PRC exporter. These 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.

Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this

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review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in 
the Secretary's presumption that reimbursement of anti

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