Magnesium Metal From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014, 15555-15557 [2015-06727]
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EFP would authorize the applicant to
collect red drum in Federal waters using
state of MS-licensed charter and
headboat vessels (for-hire vessels). The
purpose of this study is to collect
population data specific to the genetics,
age and growth, reproduction, and food
habits of adult red drum in Federal
waters where harvest is currently
prohibited. The data would then be
used to support future stock assessment
information for red drum.
DATES: Comments must be received no
later than April 23, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on the application by any of the
following methods:
• Email:
0648.XD816.Red.Drum.EFP@noaa.gov.
Include in the subject line of the email
comment the following document
identifier: ‘‘MS Red Drum_EFP’’.
• Mail: Steve Branstetter, Southeast
Regional Office, NMFS, 263 13th
Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.
The application and related
documents are available for review
upon written request to any of the above
addresses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steve Branstetter, 727–824–5305; email:
Steve.Branstetter@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EFP is
requested under the authority of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (16
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), and regulations at
50 CFR 600.745(b) concerning exempted
fishing.
The harvest and possession of red
drum in the Federal waters of the Gulf
of Mexico (Gulf) has been prohibited
since 1988 (53 FR 24662, June 29, 1988).
The harvest and possession prohibition
was implemented to protect the Gulf red
drum stock from overfishing. The Gulf
of Mexico Fishery Management Council
(Council) is currently discussing
whether to modify or remove this
harvest and possession prohibition, but
data regarding the adult red drum in
Gulf Federal waters is limited. The
existing population data is not
representative of the Gulf red drum
population as a whole as it mainly
consists of younger and smaller red
drum samples obtained from state
waters where harvest is permitted.
The proposed collection for scientific
research involves activities that would
be prohibited by regulations at 50 CFR
part 622, as they pertain to red drum
managed by the Council. Specifically,
the EFP requests exemption from
Federal regulations at § 622.92
(Prohibited species) that prohibit the
harvest and possession of red drum in
Gulf Federal waters.
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The applicant requests authorization
through the EFP to allow state of MSlicensed for-hire vessels to have a
recreational bag and possession limit of
one red drum per person per trip from
Federal waters. There would be no size
limits applicable for the red drum
collected through this EFP.
Additionally, the red drum bag and
possession limits for captain and crew
of any for-hire vessel participating in
this study would be zero.
Beginning in the fall of 2015, the
applicant requests to collect a maximum
of 30,000 lb (13,608 kg) of red drum
during a 2-year period. The 30,000 lb
(13,608 kg) is equivalent to
approximately 2,000 red drum or about
1,000 red drum per each year of the
study. According to MS DMR, as many
as 70 for-hire vessels would be a part of
the study. For any vessel trip that plans
to harvest red drum, the vessel would be
required to hail-in and hail-out with a
representative of MS DMR using an
existing MS DMR electronic reporting
format. A representative of MS DMR
would then meet the vessel that has red
drum onboard harvested from Federal
waters to collect sample information.
The applicant would monitor the
amount of red drum collected to ensure
that the 30,000 lb (13,608 kg) sample
limit is not exceeded. After biological
sampling by MS DMR is completed for
each red drum landed by participating
for-hire vessels, recreational fishers
from the for-hire vessel would be
allowed to retain the red drum as
recreational harvest. All red drum
collected through this study would be
harvested during regular for-hire trips
using hook-and-line gear in Gulf Federal
waters. A MS-licensed for-hire vessel
would not be permitted to fish for or
possess either Gulf reef fish species or
coastal migratory pelagic species unless
that vessel also had a Federal charter
vessel/headboat permit for the
applicable species. It is not anticipated
that the study will increase any overall
fishing effort in the Gulf.
Samples to be collected by the
applicant include biological material for
red drum population genetics, age and
growth, reproduction, and food habits
analyses of adult red drum in Federal
waters. Some specific information to be
collected include using molecular
techniques to identify possible metapopulations and genetic structure,
stomach content analysis, tissue
analysis, several length measurements,
otolith sampling, and histology analysis.
The research data are intended to
provide better life history information to
assist with any future red drum stock
assessments and to assist the Council
with future management decisions.
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NMFS finds this application warrants
further consideration. Possible
conditions the agency may impose on
this permit, if it is indeed granted,
include but are not limited to, a
prohibition of conducting research
within marine protected areas, marine
sanctuaries, or special management
zones, without additional authorization.
A report on the research would be due
at the end of the collection period, to be
submitted to NMFS and reviewed by the
Council.
A final decision on issuance of the
EFP will depend on NMFS’ review of
public comments received on the
application, consultations with
appropriate fishery management
agencies of the affected states, the
Council, and the U.S. Coast Guard, as
well as a determination that it is
consistent with all applicable laws.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 18, 2015.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–896]
Magnesium Metal From the People’s
Republic of China: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2013–2014
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Effective Date: March 24, 2015.
SUMMARY: On November 24, 2014, the
Department of Commerce (‘‘the
Department’’) published in the Federal
Register the preliminary results of the
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on magnesium
metal from the People’s Republic of
China (‘‘PRC’’) covering the period April
1, 2013 through March 31, 2014.1 This
review covers two PRC producer/
exporters, Tianjin Magnesium
International, Co., Ltd. (‘‘TMI’’) and
Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd.
(‘‘TMM’’). The Department gave
interested parties an opportunity to
comment on the Preliminary Results,
but we received no comments. Hence,
these final results are unchanged from
AGENCY:
1 See Magnesium Metal From the People’s
Republic of China: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013–
2014, 79 FR 69834 (November 24, 2014)
(‘‘Preliminary Results’’).
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the Preliminary Results, and we
continue to find that TMI and TMM did
not have reviewable entries during the
period of review (‘‘POR’’).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Terpstra or Erin Begnal, AD/CVD
Operations, Office III, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482–3965 or (202) 482–
1442, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 24, 2014, the
Department published the Preliminary
Results of the instant review.2 TMI and
TMM submitted timely-filed
certifications indicating that they had
no shipments of subject merchandise to
the United States during the POR.3 In
addition, in response to the
Department’s query, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) did not
provide any evidence that contradicted
TMI’s and TMM’s claims of no
shipments.4 The Department received
no comments from interested parties
concerning the results of the CBP query.
Therefore, based on TMI’s and TMM’s
certification and our analysis of CBP
information, we preliminarily
determined that TMI did not have any
reviewable entries during the POR.5 We
invited interested parties to comment on
the Preliminary Results.6 We received
no comments from interested parties.
The Department conducted this
review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (‘‘the Act’’).
Scope of the Order
The product covered by this
antidumping duty order is magnesium
metal from the PRC, which includes
primary and secondary alloy
magnesium metal, regardless of
chemistry, raw material source, form,
shape, or size. Magnesium is a metal or
alloy containing by weight primarily the
element magnesium. Primary
magnesium is produced by
decomposing raw materials into
magnesium metal. Secondary
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2 Id.
3 See letter from TMI, ‘‘Magnesium Metal from
the People’s Republic of China; A–570–896;
Certification of No Sales by Tianjin Magnesium
International, Co., Ltd.,’’ dated June 25, 2014, at 1;
and letter from TMM, ‘‘Magnesium Metal from the
People’s Republic of China; A–570–896;
Certification of No Sales by Tianjin Magnesium
Metal, Co., Ltd.,’’ dated July 21, 2014 at 1.
4 See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 69834.
5 Id.
6 Id.
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magnesium is produced by recycling
magnesium-based scrap into magnesium
metal. The magnesium covered by this
order includes blends of primary and
secondary magnesium.
The subject merchandise includes the
following alloy magnesium metal
products made from primary and/or
secondary magnesium including,
without limitation, magnesium cast into
ingots, slabs, rounds, billets, and other
shapes; magnesium ground, chipped,
crushed, or machined into rasping,
granules, turnings, chips, powder,
briquettes, and other shapes; and
products that contain 50 percent or
greater, but less than 99.8 percent,
magnesium, by weight, and that have
been entered into the United States as
conforming to an ‘‘ASTM Specification
for Magnesium Alloy’’ 7 and are thus
outside the scope of the existing
antidumping orders on magnesium from
the PRC (generally referred to as ‘‘alloy’’
magnesium).
The scope of this order excludes: (1)
All forms of pure magnesium, including
chemical combinations of magnesium
and other material(s) in which the pure
magnesium content is 50 percent or
greater, but less than 99.8 percent, by
weight, that do not conform to an
‘‘ASTM Specification for Magnesium
Alloy’’ 8; (2) magnesium that is in liquid
or molten form; and (3) mixtures
containing 90 percent or less
magnesium in granular or powder form
by weight and one or more of certain
non-magnesium granular materials to
make magnesium-based reagent
mixtures, including lime, calcium
metal, calcium silicon, calcium carbide,
calcium carbonate, carbon, slag
coagulants, fluorspar, nephaline syenite,
feldspar, alumina (Al203), calcium
aluminate, soda ash, hydrocarbons,
graphite, coke, silicon, rare earth
metals/mischmetal, cryolite, silica/fly
ash, magnesium oxide, periclase,
ferroalloys, dolomite lime, and
colemanite.9
7 The meaning of this term is the same as that
used by the American Society for Testing and
Materials in its Annual Book for ASTM Standards:
Volume 01.02 Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys.
8 The material is already covered by existing
antidumping orders. See Notice of Antidumping
Duty Orders: Pure Magnesium from the People’s
Republic of China, the Russian Federation and
Ukraine; Notice of Amended Final Determination of
Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Pure Magnesium from the Russian
Federation, 60 FR 25691 (May 12, 1995); and
Antidumping Duty Order: Pure Magnesium in
Granular Form from the People’s Republic of China,
66 FR 57936 (November 19, 2001).
9 This third exclusion for magnesium-based
reagent mixtures is based on the exclusion for
reagent mixtures in the 2000–2001 investigations of
magnesium from China, Israel, and Russia. See
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
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The merchandise subject to this order
is classifiable under items 8104.19.00,
and 8104.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States
(‘‘HTSUS’’). Although the HTSUS items
are provided for convenience and
customs purposes, the written
description of the merchandise is
dispositive.
Final Determination of No Shipments
As explained above, in the
Preliminary Results, the Department
found that TMI and TMM did not have
reviewable entries during the POR.10
Also in the Preliminary Results, the
Department stated that consistent with
its refinement to its assessment practice
in non-market economy (‘‘NME’’) cases,
it is appropriate not to rescind the
review in this circumstance but, rather,
to complete the review with respect to
TMI and TMM and to issue appropriate
instructions to CBP based on the final
results of the review.11
After issuing the Preliminary Results,
the Department received no comments
from interested parties, nor has it
received any information that would
cause it to revisit its preliminary results.
Therefore, for these final results, the
Department continues to find that TMI
and TMM did not have any reviewable
entries during the POR.
Assessment Rates
The Department determined, and CBP
shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries of subject
merchandise in accordance with the
final results of this review.12 The
Department intends to issue assessment
instructions to CBP 15 days after the
date of publication of these final results
of review.
Additionally, consistent with the
Department’s refinement to its
assessment practice in NME cases,
because the Department determined that
TMI and TMM had no shipments of
subject merchandise during the POR,
any suspended entries that entered
under TMI’s antidumping duty case
Value: Pure Magnesium in Granular Form From the
People’s Republic of China, 66 FR 49345
(September 27, 2001); Final Determination of Sales
at Less Than Fair Value: Pure Magnesium From
Israel, 66 FR 49349 (September 27, 2001); Final
Determination of Sales at Not Less Than Fair Value:
Pure Magnesium From the Russian Federation, 66
FR 49347 (September 27, 2001). These mixtures are
not magnesium alloys, because they are not
combined in liquid form and cast into the same
ingot.
10 See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 69834–35.
11 See Non-Market Economy Antidumping
Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76
FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) (‘‘Assessment Practice
Refinement’’) and the ‘‘Assessment Rates’’ section,
below.
12 See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
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number (i.e., at that exporter’s rate) will
be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.13 As
TMM’s entries are subject to the PRCwide rate, any suspended entries will
also be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements will be effective for all
shipments of subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the
publication date of this notice of final
results of the administrative review, as
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the
Act: (1) For TMI, which claimed no
shipments, the cash deposit rate will
remain unchanged from the rate
assigned to TMI in the most recently
completed review of the company; (2)
for previously investigated or reviewed
PRC and non-PRC exporters who are not
under review in this segment of the
proceeding but who have separate rates,
the cash deposit rate will continue to be
the exporter-specific rate published for
the most recent period; (3) for all PRC
exporters of subject merchandise that
have not been found to be entitled to a
separate rate (including TMM, which
claimed no shipments, but has not been
found to be separate from the PRC-wide
entity), the cash deposit rate will be the
PRC-wide rate of 141.49 percent; 14 and
(4) for all non-PRC exporters of subject
merchandise which have not received
their own rate, the cash deposit rate will
be the rate applicable to the PRC
exporter(s) that supplied that non-PRC
exporter. These deposit requirements,
when imposed, shall remain in effect
until further notice.
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a final 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 POR. Failure to comply with
this requirement could result in the
Department’s presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties
occurred and the subsequent assessment
of double antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Order
This notice also 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
13 See Assessment Practice Refinement, 76 FR
65694.
14 See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order:
Magnesium Metal From the People’s Republic of
China, 70 FR 19928 (April 15, 2005).
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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.
We are issuing and publishing these
final results and this notice in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and
777(i) of the Act.
Dated: March 18, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[Docket No. 141015853–4853–01]
RIN 0648–XD563
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Notice of 12-Month Finding
on a Petition To List the Harbor
Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the
Baltic Sea as an Endangered or
Threatened Distinct Population
Segment (DPS) Under the Endangered
Species Act (ESA)
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of 12-month Finding.
AGENCY:
We, NMFS, announce a 12month finding on a petition to list the
harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
in the Baltic Sea as an endangered or
threatened distinct population segment
(DPS) under the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, as amended. We conducted
a DPS analysis based on our joint U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service and NMFS
DPS Policy. Based on the best available
scientific and commercial information,
we find that the harbor porpoise
population in the Baltic Sea is not a DPS
because it does not meet the criterion
for significance outlined by our DPS
Policy. Thus, we find this population is
not warranted for listing.
DATES: This finding was made on March
24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Information used to make
this finding is available for public
inspection by appointment during
normal business hours at NMFS, Office
of Protected Resources, 1315 East West
Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910. The
petition and a list of the references we
used can also be found at https://
SUMMARY:
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www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/
petition81.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Heather Coll, NMFS, Office of Protected
Resources, (301) 427–8455.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 15, 2013, we received a
petition from the WildEarth Guardians
to list 81 marine species or
subpopulations as threatened or
endangered under the Endangered
Species Act (ESA). We found that the
petitioned actions may be warranted for
24 species and 3 subpopulations,
announced the initiation of status
reviews, and solicited information from
the public for each of the 24 species and
3 subpopulations (78 FR 63941, October
25, 2013; 78 FR 66675, November 6,
2013; 78 FR 69376, November 19, 2013;
79 FR 9880, February 21, 2014; and 79
FR 10104, February 24, 2014). We
completed comprehensive status
reviews under the ESA for six foreign
marine species and evaluated whether
one foreign marine subpopulation met
our DPS Policy criteria in response to
the petition (79 FR 74954; December 16,
2014).
This notice addresses the finding for
one of the petitioned subpopulations: a
putative Baltic Sea harbor porpoise
(Phocoena phocoena) subpopulation (79
FR 9880; February 21, 2014). The
remaining species and subpopulation
will be addressed in subsequent
findings.
We are responsible for determining
whether species are threatened or
endangered under the ESA (16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.). To make this
determination, we first consider
whether a group of organisms
constitutes a ‘‘species’’ under the ESA,
then whether the status of the species
qualifies it for listing as either
threatened or endangered. Section 3 of
the ESA defines a ‘‘species’’ as ‘‘any
subspecies of fish or wildlife or plants,
and any distinct population segment of
any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife
which interbreeds when mature.’’ On
February 7, 1996, NMFS and the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS;
together, the Services) adopted a policy
describing what constitutes a DPS of a
taxonomic species or subspecies (the
DPS Policy; 61 FR 4722). The DPS
Policy identified two elements that must
be considered when identifying a DPS:
(1) The discreteness of the population
segment in relation to the remainder of
the species (or subspecies) to which it
belongs; and (2) the significance of the
population segment to the remainder of
the species (or subspecies) to which it
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-896]
Magnesium Metal From the People's Republic of China: Final
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Effective Date: March 24, 2015.
SUMMARY: On November 24, 2014, the Department of Commerce (``the
Department'') published in the Federal Register the preliminary results
of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on magnesium
metal from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') covering the period
April 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014.\1\ This review covers two PRC
producer/exporters, Tianjin Magnesium International, Co., Ltd.
(``TMI'') and Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd. (``TMM''). The
Department gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the
Preliminary Results, but we received no comments. Hence, these final
results are unchanged from
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the Preliminary Results, and we continue to find that TMI and TMM did
not have reviewable entries during the period of review (``POR'').
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\1\ See Magnesium Metal From the People's Republic of China:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-
2014, 79 FR 69834 (November 24, 2014) (``Preliminary Results'').
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Terpstra or Erin Begnal, AD/CVD
Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
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3965 or (202) 482-1442, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 24, 2014, the Department published the Preliminary
Results of the instant review.\2\ TMI and TMM submitted timely-filed
certifications indicating that they had no shipments of subject
merchandise to the United States during the POR.\3\ In addition, in
response to the Department's query, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(``CBP'') did not provide any evidence that contradicted TMI's and
TMM's claims of no shipments.\4\ The Department received no comments
from interested parties concerning the results of the CBP query.
Therefore, based on TMI's and TMM's certification and our analysis of
CBP information, we preliminarily determined that TMI did not have any
reviewable entries during the POR.\5\ We invited interested parties to
comment on the Preliminary Results.\6\ We received no comments from
interested parties.
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\2\ Id.
\3\ See letter from TMI, ``Magnesium Metal from the People's
Republic of China; A-570-896; Certification of No Sales by Tianjin
Magnesium International, Co., Ltd.,'' dated June 25, 2014, at 1; and
letter from TMM, ``Magnesium Metal from the People's Republic of
China; A-570-896; Certification of No Sales by Tianjin Magnesium
Metal, Co., Ltd.,'' dated July 21, 2014 at 1.
\4\ See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 69834.
\5\ Id.
\6\ Id.
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The Department conducted this review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act'').
Scope of the Order
The product covered by this antidumping duty order is magnesium
metal from the PRC, which includes primary and secondary alloy
magnesium metal, regardless of chemistry, raw material source, form,
shape, or size. Magnesium is a metal or alloy containing by weight
primarily the element magnesium. Primary magnesium is produced by
decomposing raw materials into magnesium metal. Secondary magnesium is
produced by recycling magnesium-based scrap into magnesium metal. The
magnesium covered by this order includes blends of primary and
secondary magnesium.
The subject merchandise includes the following alloy magnesium
metal products made from primary and/or secondary magnesium including,
without limitation, magnesium cast into ingots, slabs, rounds, billets,
and other shapes; magnesium ground, chipped, crushed, or machined into
rasping, granules, turnings, chips, powder, briquettes, and other
shapes; and products that contain 50 percent or greater, but less than
99.8 percent, magnesium, by weight, and that have been entered into the
United States as conforming to an ``ASTM Specification for Magnesium
Alloy'' \7\ and are thus outside the scope of the existing antidumping
orders on magnesium from the PRC (generally referred to as ``alloy''
magnesium).
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\7\ The meaning of this term is the same as that used by the
American Society for Testing and Materials in its Annual Book for
ASTM Standards: Volume 01.02 Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys.
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The scope of this order excludes: (1) All forms of pure magnesium,
including chemical combinations of magnesium and other material(s) in
which the pure magnesium content is 50 percent or greater, but less
than 99.8 percent, by weight, that do not conform to an ``ASTM
Specification for Magnesium Alloy'' \8\; (2) magnesium that is in
liquid or molten form; and (3) mixtures containing 90 percent or less
magnesium in granular or powder form by weight and one or more of
certain non-magnesium granular materials to make magnesium-based
reagent mixtures, including lime, calcium metal, calcium silicon,
calcium carbide, calcium carbonate, carbon, slag coagulants, fluorspar,
nephaline syenite, feldspar, alumina (Al203), calcium aluminate, soda
ash, hydrocarbons, graphite, coke, silicon, rare earth metals/
mischmetal, cryolite, silica/fly ash, magnesium oxide, periclase,
ferroalloys, dolomite lime, and colemanite.\9\
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\8\ The material is already covered by existing antidumping
orders. See Notice of Antidumping Duty Orders: Pure Magnesium from
the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation and Ukraine;
Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value: Antidumping Duty Investigation of Pure Magnesium from the
Russian Federation, 60 FR 25691 (May 12, 1995); and Antidumping Duty
Order: Pure Magnesium in Granular Form from the People's Republic of
China, 66 FR 57936 (November 19, 2001).
\9\ This third exclusion for magnesium-based reagent mixtures is
based on the exclusion for reagent mixtures in the 2000-2001
investigations of magnesium from China, Israel, and Russia. See
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Pure Magnesium
in Granular Form From the People's Republic of China, 66 FR 49345
(September 27, 2001); Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair
Value: Pure Magnesium From Israel, 66 FR 49349 (September 27, 2001);
Final Determination of Sales at Not Less Than Fair Value: Pure
Magnesium From the Russian Federation, 66 FR 49347 (September 27,
2001). These mixtures are not magnesium alloys, because they are not
combined in liquid form and cast into the same ingot.
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The merchandise subject to this order is classifiable under items
8104.19.00, and 8104.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (``HTSUS''). Although the HTSUS items are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the
merchandise is dispositive.
Final Determination of No Shipments
As explained above, in the Preliminary Results, the Department
found that TMI and TMM did not have reviewable entries during the
POR.\10\ Also in the Preliminary Results, the Department stated that
consistent with its refinement to its assessment practice in non-market
economy (``NME'') cases, it is appropriate not to rescind the review in
this circumstance but, rather, to complete the review with respect to
TMI and TMM and to issue appropriate instructions to CBP based on the
final results of the review.\11\
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\10\ See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 69834-35.
\11\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) (``Assessment
Practice Refinement'') and the ``Assessment Rates'' section, below.
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After issuing the Preliminary Results, the Department received no
comments from interested parties, nor has it received any information
that would cause it to revisit its preliminary results. Therefore, for
these final results, the Department continues to find that TMI and TMM
did not have any reviewable entries during the POR.
Assessment Rates
The Department determined, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties
on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with
the final results of this review.\12\ The Department intends to issue
assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of
these final results of review.
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\12\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
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Additionally, consistent with the Department's refinement to its
assessment practice in NME cases, because the Department determined
that TMI and TMM had no shipments of subject merchandise during the
POR, any suspended entries that entered under TMI's antidumping duty
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number (i.e., at that exporter's rate) will be liquidated at the PRC-
wide rate.\13\ As TMM's entries are subject to the PRC-wide rate, any
suspended entries will also be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.
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\13\ See Assessment Practice Refinement, 76 FR 65694.
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption on or after the publication date of this notice of
final results of the administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For TMI, which claimed no shipments, the
cash deposit rate will remain unchanged from the rate assigned to TMI
in the most recently completed review of the company; (2) for
previously investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters who are
not under review in this segment of the proceeding but who have
separate rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-
specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) for all PRC
exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be
entitled to a separate rate (including TMM, which claimed no shipments,
but has not been found to be separate from the PRC-wide entity), the
cash deposit rate will be the PRC-wide rate of 141.49 percent; \14\ and
(4) for all non-PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not
received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate
applicable to the PRC exporter(s) that supplied that non-PRC exporter.
These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until
further notice.
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\14\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Magnesium Metal From
the People's Republic of China, 70 FR 19928 (April 15, 2005).
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a final 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 POR. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in the Department's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of double antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Order
This notice also 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.
We are issuing and publishing these final results and this notice
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.
Dated: March 18, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2015-06727 Filed 3-23-15; 8:45 am]
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