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review (POR) of September 1, 2012,
through February 28, 2013. For the
reasons stated below, we are rescinding
the review of Hubei Nature.
DATES: Effective Date: June 20, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dmitry Vladimirov or Minoo Hatten,
AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, Import
Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482–0665 or (202) 482–
1690, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On April 26, 2013, the Department
initiated an antidumping duty new
shipper review of freshwater crawfish
tail meat from the PRC, for the period
September 1, 2012, through February
28, 2013, with respect to Hubei Nature.1
On May 9, 2013, the Department issued
a letter to Hubei Nature requesting
documentation establishing the date of
entry applicable to the U.S. sale and
shipment of freshwater crawfish tail
meat which formed the basis for the
initiation of this new shipper review.
On May 14, 2013, Hubei Nature
provided the requested information.
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Rescission of Review
Under 19 CFR 351.214(f)(2) of the
Department’s regulations, when the sale
of the subject merchandise occurs
within the POR, but the entry occurs
after the POR, the Department may
expand the POR unless the expansion
would likely prevent the completion of
the review within the time limits set by
the Department’s regulations. While the
regulations do not provide a definitive
date by which the entry must occur, the
preamble to the Department’s
regulations and 19 CFR 351.214(f)(2)(i)
state that both the entry and the sale
should occur during the POR, with the
language in the preamble clarifying
further that only under ‘‘appropriate’’
circumstances should the POR be
extended when the entry is made after
the POR.2
While the Department did not adopt
in the regulations a precise cut-off point
for expanding the POR to cover postPOR entries, 19 CFR 351.214(f)(2) and
the preamble to the Department’s
regulations leave the Department the
discretion to determine whether to
1 See Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the
People’s Republic of China: Initiation of
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 78 FR
24723 (April 26, 2013).
2 See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties;
Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27319 (May 19, 1997)
(‘‘Final Rule’’).
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expand the POR, and, if so, the length
of such expansion.3 In the majority of
prior cases, the Department extended
the POR no more than approximately 30
days in order to capture entries of POR
sales.4 The entry in this case was made
long after the end of the POR.5
In this case, pursuant to 19 CFR
351.214(f)(2), we find that an expansion
of the normal POR to include an entry
and sale to an unaffiliated customer in
the United States of subject
merchandise would likely prevent the
completion of the review of Hubei
Nature within the time limits set by the
Department’s regulations. The
Department would be required to gather
additional information for the expanded
period, analyze the information
obtained, and, if necessary, verify the
additional information. For example,
the Department would be required to
seek all necessary information from
Hubei Nature and its importer(s) in
connection with the sales and salesrelated expenses, as well as obtain the
factors of production data, applicable to
a number of months outside the POR.6
Accordingly, we are rescinding the new
shipper review with respect to Hubei
Nature for the period September 1,
2012, through February 28, 2013.
The deadline for requesting a new
shipper review covering Hubei’s entry
has not passed. See 19 CFR 351.214(c).
The Department will consider a timely
and adequate request for new shipper
3 See
Final Rule, 62 FR at 27319–20 (‘‘The
Department does not disagree with the notion that
the Secretary should have the discretion to expand
the review period in appropriate cases.’’).
4 See, e.g., Chlorinated Isocyanurates From the
People’s Republic of China: Initiation of New
Shipper Review, 76 FR 6399 (February 4, 2011)
(extending the POR by 31 days where the first
shipment entered one day after the end of the POR);
Fresh Garlic From the People’s Republic of China:
Initiation of New Shipper Reviews, 75 FR 38986
(July 7, 2010) (extending the POR by one month for
a shipment that entered less than one month after
the end of the POR); Uncovered Innerspring Units
From the People’s Republic of China: Initiation of
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 75 FR
62107 (October 7, 2010) (extending the POR by four
days); Certain Forged Stainless Steel Flanges From
India: Rescission of New Shipper Review, 66 FR
58433 (November 21, 2001) (rescinding a new
shipper review where the entry was made more
than three months after the end of the POR);
Petroleum Wax Candles from the People’s Republic
of China: Notice of Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review of
Shandong Huihe, Ltd., 69 FR 46512 (August 3,
2004) (extending the POR by less than one month
‘‘[b]ecause we determine that this short expansion
of the period will not likely prevent the completion
of the review within the prescribed time limits, we
have expanded the annual review period’’).
5 Due to the business proprietary nature of
information regarding the entry date in question, we
are withholding this information. See Hubei
Nature’s letter, dated March 14, 2013.
6 The Department issued the antidumping duty
new shipper questionnaire to Hubei Nature on May
1, 2013.
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review from Hubei Nature made during
the six-month period ending with the
end of the annual anniversary month of
this order, pursuant to 19 CFR
351.214(d) of the Department’s
regulations. Therefore, if Hubei Nature
continues to meet the criteria for
requesting a new shipper review, the
Department will consider initiating a
new shipper review with the POR that
includes the sale which is the subject of
this review.
This notice serves as a reminder to
parties subject to administrative
protective order (APO) of their
responsibility concerning the
disposition of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely
written notification of the return or
destruction of APO materials or
conversion to judicial protective order is
hereby requested. Failure to comply
with the regulations and terms of an
APO is a sanctionable violation.
This determination is issued in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4)
and section 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: June 14, 2013.
Gary Taverman,
Senior Advisor for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of
Scientific Instruments
Pursuant to Section 6(c) of the
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub.
L. 89–651, as amended by Pub. L. 106–
36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301), we
invite comments on the question of
whether instruments of equivalent
scientific value, for the purposes for
which the instruments shown below are
intended to be used, are being
manufactured in the United States.
Comments must comply with 15 CFR
301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the regulations and
be postmarked on or before July 10,
2013. Address written comments to
Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room
3720, U.S. Department of Commerce,
Washington, DC 20230. Applications
may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and
5:00 p.m. at the U.S. Department of
Commerce in Room 3720.
Docket Number: 13–017. Applicant:
Ohio State University, 2041 College
Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Instrument:
Cryo-SEM System with Aquilo
Preparation Chamber. Manufacturer:
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Quorum Technologies, United
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument
will be fitted to an existing dual beam
focused ion beam (FIB) instrument in
order to provide a new capability for
3–D imaging and analysis of polymeric
materials and biomaterials at cryogenic
temperatures below ¥109 degrees
Celsius. The required performance
characteristics for this instrument are a
highly stable, thermally isolated
nitrogen gas-cooled stage which attaches
to the SEM stage and is capable of
reaching a temperature range of + 100 to
¥190 degrees Celsius, a separately
cooled cold trap with independent
temperature control capable of reaching
temperatures below ¥190 degrees
Celsius, a cryo-preparation, cryotransfer chamber that is directly
attached to the SEM, but with the
turbomolecular vacuum pumping and
advanced gas cooling system mounted
remotely, as well as a high vacuum
system consisting of a remotely
positioned 70L/s turbomolecular
pumping system capable of achieving a
vacuum of 10¥6 mbar or better in the
directly attached cryopreparation, cryotransfer chamber. The instrument will
be used for cryo-imaging that will
provide new insights in the study of
biocompatibility and failure of
orthopaedic implants, and also the
evaluation of new materials and implant
surfaces for tissue engineering
applications. The cryo-preparation,
cryo-transfer and cryo-imaging
capabilities will enable minimally
invasive approaches to be used to
investigate structures and interfaces in
their near-native vitreous state.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There
are no instruments of the same general
category manufactured in the United
States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: April 3,
2013.
Docket Number: 13–019. Applicant:
California State University Northridge,
18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA
91330. Instrument: Ultrahigh Vacuum
Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling
Microscope. Manufacturer: Unisoku Co.,
Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to study the
electronic and spin-related phenomena
(Kondo effect, spin flip, spin injection,
etc.) in low dimensional materials
including grapheme (one atomic layer of
carbon atoms), magnetic materials
(transition metals iron, cobalt, nickel
and corresponding phthalocyanine
molecules), and topological insulators.
The techniques to be implemented
include depositing magnetic atoms or
molecules on grapheme and measuring
scanning tunneling spectroscopy of
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these magnetic impurities on grapheme,
growing grapheme on ferromagnetic
materials (cobalt, iron) and measuring
the spin-polarization of grapheme
induced by the ferromagnetic materials,
as well measuring the scanning
tunneling spectroscopy on topological
insulators. The capabilities required for
these experiments that this instrument
fulfills include a high magnetic field of
8 Tesla, and measurements at low
temperature (<5 Kelvin). Justification for
Duty-Free Entry: There are no
instruments of the same general
category manufactured in the United
States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: May 1, 2013.
Docket Number: 13–021. Applicant:
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA
01003. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan.
Intended Use: The instrument will be
used to identify structure/properties
relationships of polymer based solar
cells or for the structural analysis of
polymer/nanoparticle hybrid materials
for the development of high-density
storage devices, as well as to study the
self-assembly of bio-polymer systems for
drug-delivery system development.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There
are no instruments of the same general
category manufactured in the United
States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: April 3,
2013.
Docket Number: 13–020. Applicant:
University of Texas at Austin, 2109 San
Jacinto Blvd.—D3700, Austin, TX
78712–1415. Instrument: V-Gait Dual
Belt Instrumented Treadmill.
Manufacturer: Motek Medial, the
Netherlands. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to study how
both healthy humans and humans with
various walking impairments (old age,
stroke, etc.) maintain balance and
prevent falls while they walk, and how
to develop rehabilitation interventions
that can help reduce risks of falling in
these individuals. The experiments will
include asking participants to walk on
the treadmill while they are subjected to
a variety of different types of
perturbations and manipulations. The
instrument’s software will control and
coordinate both the treadmill and the
virtual reality environment to impose
the perturbations and/or other walking
conditions that are specified. Existing
devices will be integrated into the
instrument’s virtual reality system to
synchronously record information
regarding how participants move and
their muscle activations in response to
various manipulations of their walking
behavior. The primary individual
components of this instrument that are
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required for these experiments are the
split-belt perturbation treadmill, the
virtual reality system, and the data
recording systems, as well as the ‘‘DFlow’’ system which allows each
component to communicate with one
another. Justification for Duty-Free
Entry: There are no instruments of the
same general category manufactured in
the United States. Application accepted
by Commissioner of Customs: May 1,
2013.
Docket Number: 13–023. Applicant:
Max Planck Florida Institute, One Max
Planck Way, Jupiter, FL 33458.
Instrument: Quanta 250 FEG SEM
(D8421). Manufacturer: FEI Company,
Czech Republic. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for the
fabrication of atomic force microscope
cantilevers and electron beam
deposition. The cantilevers are made
from silicon or silicon nitride, with the
radius of the tip curvature on the order
of nanometers. Electron-beam
deposition is a process of decomposing
gaseous molecules by electron beam
leading to deposition of non-volatile
fragments onto a nearby substrate. The
electron beam is usually provided by a
scanning electron microscope that
results in high spatial accuracy (less
than one nanometer), and the possibility
to produce free-standing, threedimensional structures. The cantilevers
are observed by the scanning electron
microscope. The chamber of the
scanning electron microscope is filled
with carbon gases. Then the electron
from the scanning microscope focuses
on the tip of cantilevers to deposit an
amorphous carbon. The instrument
needs to work with high beam parking
precision (∼1 nanometer) in the
environment in which the material
deposition is produced in relatively low
vacuum. Justification for Duty-Free
Entry: There are no instruments of the
same general category manufactured in
the United States. Application accepted
by Commissioner of Customs: May 16,
2013.
Dated: June 14, 2013.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Import
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
Pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651, as amended
by Pub. L. 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301), we invite comments
on the question of whether instruments of equivalent scientific value,
for the purposes for which the instruments shown below are intended to
be used, are being manufactured in the United States.
Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the
regulations and be postmarked on or before July 10, 2013. Address
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 3720, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Applications may be
examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at the U.S. Department of
Commerce in Room 3720.
Docket Number: 13-017. Applicant: Ohio State University, 2041
College Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Instrument: Cryo-SEM System with
Aquilo Preparation Chamber. Manufacturer:
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Quorum Technologies, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will
be fitted to an existing dual beam focused ion beam (FIB) instrument in
order to provide a new capability for 3-D imaging and analysis of
polymeric materials and biomaterials at cryogenic temperatures below -
109 degrees Celsius. The required performance characteristics for this
instrument are a highly stable, thermally isolated nitrogen gas-cooled
stage which attaches to the SEM stage and is capable of reaching a
temperature range of + 100 to -190 degrees Celsius, a separately cooled
cold trap with independent temperature control capable of reaching
temperatures below -190 degrees Celsius, a cryo-preparation, cryo-
transfer chamber that is directly attached to the SEM, but with the
turbomolecular vacuum pumping and advanced gas cooling system mounted
remotely, as well as a high vacuum system consisting of a remotely
positioned 70L/s turbomolecular pumping system capable of achieving a
vacuum of 10-6 mbar or better in the directly attached
cryopreparation, cryo-transfer chamber. The instrument will be used for
cryo-imaging that will provide new insights in the study of
biocompatibility and failure of orthopaedic implants, and also the
evaluation of new materials and implant surfaces for tissue engineering
applications. The cryo-preparation, cryo-transfer and cryo-imaging
capabilities will enable minimally invasive approaches to be used to
investigate structures and interfaces in their near-native vitreous
state. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of
the same general category manufactured in the United States.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 3, 2013.
Docket Number: 13-019. Applicant: California State University
Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330. Instrument:
Ultrahigh Vacuum Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope.
Manufacturer: Unisoku Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to study the electronic and spin-related phenomena (Kondo
effect, spin flip, spin injection, etc.) in low dimensional materials
including grapheme (one atomic layer of carbon atoms), magnetic
materials (transition metals iron, cobalt, nickel and corresponding
phthalocyanine molecules), and topological insulators. The techniques
to be implemented include depositing magnetic atoms or molecules on
grapheme and measuring scanning tunneling spectroscopy of these
magnetic impurities on grapheme, growing grapheme on ferromagnetic
materials (cobalt, iron) and measuring the spin-polarization of
grapheme induced by the ferromagnetic materials, as well measuring the
scanning tunneling spectroscopy on topological insulators. The
capabilities required for these experiments that this instrument
fulfills include a high magnetic field of 8 Tesla, and measurements at
low temperature (<5 Kelvin). Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There
are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 1,
2013.
Docket Number: 13-021. Applicant: University of Massachusetts
Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to identify structure/properties relationships
of polymer based solar cells or for the structural analysis of polymer/
nanoparticle hybrid materials for the development of high-density
storage devices, as well as to study the self-assembly of bio-polymer
systems for drug-delivery system development. Justification for Duty-
Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: April 3, 2013.
Docket Number: 13-020. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin,
2109 San Jacinto Blvd.--D3700, Austin, TX 78712-1415. Instrument: V-
Gait Dual Belt Instrumented Treadmill. Manufacturer: Motek Medial, the
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study how
both healthy humans and humans with various walking impairments (old
age, stroke, etc.) maintain balance and prevent falls while they walk,
and how to develop rehabilitation interventions that can help reduce
risks of falling in these individuals. The experiments will include
asking participants to walk on the treadmill while they are subjected
to a variety of different types of perturbations and manipulations. The
instrument's software will control and coordinate both the treadmill
and the virtual reality environment to impose the perturbations and/or
other walking conditions that are specified. Existing devices will be
integrated into the instrument's virtual reality system to
synchronously record information regarding how participants move and
their muscle activations in response to various manipulations of their
walking behavior. The primary individual components of this instrument
that are required for these experiments are the split-belt perturbation
treadmill, the virtual reality system, and the data recording systems,
as well as the ``D-Flow'' system which allows each component to
communicate with one another. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There
are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 1,
2013.
Docket Number: 13-023. Applicant: Max Planck Florida Institute, One
Max Planck Way, Jupiter, FL 33458. Instrument: Quanta 250 FEG SEM
(D8421). Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for the fabrication of atomic force microscope
cantilevers and electron beam deposition. The cantilevers are made from
silicon or silicon nitride, with the radius of the tip curvature on the
order of nanometers. Electron-beam deposition is a process of
decomposing gaseous molecules by electron beam leading to deposition of
non-volatile fragments onto a nearby substrate. The electron beam is
usually provided by a scanning electron microscope that results in high
spatial accuracy (less than one nanometer), and the possibility to
produce free-standing, three-dimensional structures. The cantilevers
are observed by the scanning electron microscope. The chamber of the
scanning electron microscope is filled with carbon gases. Then the
electron from the scanning microscope focuses on the tip of cantilevers
to deposit an amorphous carbon. The instrument needs to work with high
beam parking precision (~1 nanometer) in the environment in which the
material deposition is produced in relatively low vacuum. Justification
for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general
category manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: May 16, 2013.
Dated: June 14, 2013.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Import Administration.
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