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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 43 / Friday, March 4, 2016 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C–570–009]
Calcium Hypochlorite From the
People’s Republic of China: Initiation
of Countervailing Duty New Shipper
Review; 2014–2015
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
AGENCY:
Effective Date: March 4, 2016.
The Department of Commerce
(‘‘the Department’’) is initiating a new
shipper review (‘‘NSR’’) of the
countervailing duty (‘‘CVD’’) order on
calcium hypochlorite from the People’s
Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) with respect
to Jingmei Chemical Products Sales Co.,
Ltd. (‘‘Jingmei Chemical’’). The period
of review (‘‘POR’’) for this NSR is May
27, 2014, through December 31, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frances Veith, AD/CVD Operations,
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 202–
482–4295.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATE:
SUMMARY:
Background
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The CVD order on calcium
hypochlorite from the PRC published in
the Federal Register on January 30,
2015.1 Pursuant to section
751(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930,
as amended (‘‘the Act’’), and 19 CFR
351.214(b), we received a request for a
NSR of the order from Haixing Jingmei
Chemical.2 Jingmei Chemical certified
that it is the exporter of the subject
merchandise upon which the request is
based and that Haixing Eno Chemical
Co., Ltd. (‘‘Eno Chemical’’) is the
producer of the subject merchandise.3
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(i) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(ii)(A)
and (B), Jingmei Chemical and Eno
Chemical each certified that they did
not export subject merchandise to the
United States during the period of
investigation (‘‘POI’’).4 In addition,
pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(II) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iii)(A),
1 See Calcium Hypochlorite From the People’s
Republic of China: Countervailing Duty Order, 80
FR 5082 (January 30, 2015) (‘‘Order’’).
2 See Jingmei Chemical’s letter to the Department
regarding, ‘‘Calcium Hypochlorite from the People’s
Republic of China Entry of Appearance and Request
for New Shipper Review,’’ dated November 20,
2015 (‘‘NSR Request’’).
3 Id., at 3 and Exhibit 1.
4 Id., at Exhibit 1.
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Jingmei Chemical and Eno Chemical
each certified that, since the initiation of
the investigation, it has never been
affiliated with any PRC exporter or
producer who exported subject
merchandise to the United States during
the POI, including those respondents
not individually examined during the
investigation.5
In addition to the certifications
described above, pursuant to 19 CFR
351.214(b)(2)(iv), Jingmei Chemical
submitted documentation establishing
the following: (1) The date on which the
subject merchandise was first entered or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption; (2) the volume of its first
shipment and subsequent shipments, if
any; and (3) the date of its first sale to
an unaffiliated customer in the United
States.6 Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.214(b)(2)(v), Jingmei Chemical
certified that it informed the
government of the PRC that it will be
required to provide a full response to
the Department’s questionnaire.7 On
February 2, 2016, the Department issued
a pre-initiation supplemental
questionnaire to Jingmei Chemical,8 to
which Jingmei provided a timely
response.9
Finally, the Department conducted a
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(‘‘CBP’’) database query and confirmed
the price and quantity reported of the
sale by Jingmei Chemical that formed
the basis for this new shipper request.10
Period of Review
The Department’s regulations state, in
19 CFR 351.214(g)(2), that the POR for
a CVD NSR will be the same period as
that specified in 19 CFR 351.213(e)(2),
which states that the Department
normally will cover entries of subject
merchandise during the most recently
completed calendar year. However, 19
CFR 351.213(e)(2)(ii) provides that for
requests received during the first
anniversary month after publication of
an order, the review will cover entries
or exports during the period from the
date of suspension of liquidation to the
5 Id.
6 See
NSR Request at 3–4 and Exhibit 2.
at Exhibit 1.
8 See Letter to Jingmei from the Department titled
‘‘Calcium Hypochlorite from the People’s Republic
of China: Request for New Shipper Review,’’ dated
February 2, 2016.
9 See Jingmei’s pre-initiation supplemental
questionnaire response regarding, ‘‘Calcium
Hypochlorite from the People’s Republic of China
Response to Department’s Question About First
Sale,’’ February 8, 2016.
10 See Memorandum to the File from Frances
Veith, Senior International Trade Analyst, Office V,
Enforcement and Compliance, regarding ‘‘Calcium
Hypochlorite from the People’s Republic of China;
U.S. Imports of Calcium Hypochlorite,’’ dated
concurrently with this notice.
7 Id.,
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end of the most recently completed
calendar or fiscal year. Accordingly, the
POR is May 27, 2014, through December
31, 2015.
Initiation of New Shipper Review
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B) of the
Act, 19 CFR 351.214(b), and 19 CFR
351.214(d)(1), and based on the
evidence provided by Jingmei Chemical,
we find that its request meets the
threshold requirements for initiation of
the NSR for shipments of calcium
hypochlorite from the PRC produced by
Eno Chemical and exported by Jingmei
Chemical.11 If the information supplied
by Jingmei Chemical is found to be
incorrect or insufficient during the
course of this proceeding, the
Department may rescind the review for
Jingmei Chemical or apply facts
available pursuant to section 776 of the
Act, depending on the facts on the
record.
Absent a determination that the new
shipper review is extraordinarily
complicated, the Department intends to
issue the preliminary results of this NSR
within 180 days from the date of
initiation and the final results within 90
days after the date on which the
preliminary results are issued.12
We will instruct CBP to allow, at the
option of the importer, the posting, until
the completion of this review, of a bond
or security in lieu of a cash deposit for
each entry of the subject merchandise
from the requesting company in
accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iii)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(e).
Because Jingmei Chemical certified that
Eno Chemical produced the subject
merchandise that Jingmei Chemical
exported, the sales of which are the
basis for the NSR request, we will
instruct CBP to permit the use of a bond
only for subject merchandise that Eno
Chemical produced and Jingmei
Chemical exported.
Interested parties requiring access to
proprietary information in this NSR
should submit applications for
disclosure under administrative
protective order, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.305 and 19 CFR 351.306.
This initiation and notice are in
accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of
the Act, 19 CFR 351.214, and 19 CFR
351.221(c)(1)(i).
11 See Memorandum to the File, through
Catherine Bertrand, Program Manager, Office V,
Enforcement and Compliance, from Frances Veith,
Senior International Trade Analyst, Office V,
Enforcement and Compliance, titled ‘‘Initiation of
CVD New Shipper Review: Calcium Hypochlorite
from the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated
concurrently with this notice.
12 See section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.214(i).
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Dated: February 29, 2016.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
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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 March 24,
2016. 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: 15–044. Applicant:
University of Pittsburgh, 116 Atwood
Street, Suite 201, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
Instrument: Scios Dual Beam Field
Emission Scanning Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: Scios, Czech
Republic. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to reveal the surface and
sub-surface microstructure metrics of
structural materials such as steels, Nibased superalloys, Al-, Ti-, Mn-base and
other specialty alloys, functional
materials based on ceramic, metal and
semiconducting thin films, particulates
and composites. Justification for DutyFree Entry: There are no instruments of
the same general category manufactured
in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
December 15, 2015.
Docket Number: 15–047. Applicant:
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450
Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02210.
Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: JEOL, LTD., Japan.
Intended Use: The instrument will be
used to study a wide range of
biomolecules with the overall objective
of better understanding the biological
processes underlying normal and
abnormal (cancer) biological activity.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There
are no instruments of the same general
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category manufactured in the United
States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: December
15, 2015.
Docket Number: 15–049. Applicant:
University of Maryland College Park,
2125 J. M. Patterson, College Park, MD
20742. Instrument: Laser lithography
system Photonic Professional GT and
accessories. Manufacturer: Nanoscribe
GmbH, Hermon Von Hermholtz Platz 1,
Germany. Intended Use: The
fundamental capabilities of the
instrument target the nanoscale
fabrication of complex 3-dimensional
polymer components and systems. The
instrument will be used for the
characterization and optimization of
fabrication resolution and precision for
specific applications and device and
system level characterization of
components manufactured using the
nanoscribe tool. It will be used to
perform research into the nanoscale
patterning of photoactive polymer
materials, including epoxy-based
photoresists. Unique features of this
instrument include two photon
polymerization of various UV-curable
photoresists, two photon exposure of
common positive tone photoresists, and
the highest resolution available for a 3D
printer. 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: December
7, 2015.
Docket Number: 15–054. Applicant:
University of Connecticut Health
Center, 263 Farmington Ave.,
Farmington, CT 06030. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI
Company, Czech Republic. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to
investigate the organization of various
organs and tissues obtained from mice.
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: November
24, 2015.
Docket Number: 15–056. Applicant:
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN
38105. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech
Republic. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to study cell and tissue
cultures, model systems and human
tissue biopsies. Justification for DutyFree Entry: There are no instruments of
the same general category manufactured
in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
December 15, 2015.
Docket Number: 15–059. Applicant:
Rutgers University, 136 Frelinghuysen
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Road, Piscataway, NK 08854.
Instrument: Low Temperature Scanning
Tunneling Microscope. Manufacturer:
Unisoku, Japan. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to prepare
atomically flat and clean surfaces of
samples with proper heat treatment,
measure crystal surface’s electronic
structure with ultimate spatial and
energy resolution, observe quantum
phenomena accompanied with
temperature or magnetic field change at
the atomic scale, find the atomic origin
of quantum phenomena in strongly
correlated materials and control the
quantum phenomena by material
deposition or atom manipulation.
Techniques will include making and
maintaining ultra-high vacuum,
lowering the temperature by using
cryogenic liquids, heating of samples in
the vacuum chamber by electron beam
heating, cleaving of samples at low
temperature, vacuum material
evaporation, and scanning probe
techniques to get electronic structures of
the specimen (scanning tunneling
microscopy, scanning tunneling
spectroscopy, tip treatment or atom
manipulation). Unique features of this
instrument include operation
temperature of lower than 5K with
liquid helium, ultra high vacuum at
1.3x10¥8 Pa (9.8x10¥11 Torr), high
magnetic field supplied
superconducting magnet with a
maximum 8 Tesla field perpendicular to
the sample plane, preparation chamber
with direct current heating up to 1300C
and e-beam heating up to 1500C, IS
40C1 Sputter Cleaning Ion Source with
gas inlet package, MAN–SLT cooling
and cleaving manipulator, and UHV
multi-element miniature evaporator ME
series. 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: December
15, 2015.
Docket Number: 15–060. Applicant:
Kent State University, 1425 University
Esplanade, Kent, OH 44242. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI
company, the Netherlands. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to
characterize various kinds of solid state
materials and fabricate nanostructures
and devices. 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: December
8, 2015.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-570-009]
Calcium Hypochlorite From the People's Republic of China:
Initiation of Countervailing Duty New Shipper Review; 2014-2015
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATE: Effective Date: March 4, 2016.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is initiating
a new shipper review (``NSR'') of the countervailing duty (``CVD'')
order on calcium hypochlorite from the People's Republic of China
(``PRC'') with respect to Jingmei Chemical Products Sales Co., Ltd.
(``Jingmei Chemical''). The period of review (``POR'') for this NSR is
May 27, 2014, through December 31, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frances Veith, AD/CVD Operations,
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 202-482-4295.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The CVD order on calcium hypochlorite from the PRC published in the
Federal Register on January 30, 2015.\1\ Pursuant to section
751(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''),
and 19 CFR 351.214(b), we received a request for a NSR of the order
from Haixing Jingmei Chemical.\2\ Jingmei Chemical certified that it is
the exporter of the subject merchandise upon which the request is based
and that Haixing Eno Chemical Co., Ltd. (``Eno Chemical'') is the
producer of the subject merchandise.\3\
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\1\ See Calcium Hypochlorite From the People's Republic of
China: Countervailing Duty Order, 80 FR 5082 (January 30, 2015)
(``Order'').
\2\ See Jingmei Chemical's letter to the Department regarding,
``Calcium Hypochlorite from the People's Republic of China Entry of
Appearance and Request for New Shipper Review,'' dated November 20,
2015 (``NSR Request'').
\3\ Id., at 3 and Exhibit 1.
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Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.214(b)(2)(ii)(A) and (B), Jingmei Chemical and Eno Chemical each
certified that they did not export subject merchandise to the United
States during the period of investigation (``POI'').\4\ In addition,
pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(II) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.214(b)(2)(iii)(A), Jingmei Chemical and Eno Chemical each certified
that, since the initiation of the investigation, it has never been
affiliated with any PRC exporter or producer who exported subject
merchandise to the United States during the POI, including those
respondents not individually examined during the investigation.\5\
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\4\ Id., at Exhibit 1.
\5\ Id.
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In addition to the certifications described above, pursuant to 19
CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iv), Jingmei Chemical submitted documentation
establishing the following: (1) The date on which the subject
merchandise was first entered or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption; (2) the volume of its first shipment and subsequent
shipments, if any; and (3) the date of its first sale to an
unaffiliated customer in the United States.\6\ Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.214(b)(2)(v), Jingmei Chemical certified that it informed the
government of the PRC that it will be required to provide a full
response to the Department's questionnaire.\7\ On February 2, 2016, the
Department issued a pre-initiation supplemental questionnaire to
Jingmei Chemical,\8\ to which Jingmei provided a timely response.\9\
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\6\ See NSR Request at 3-4 and Exhibit 2.
\7\ Id., at Exhibit 1.
\8\ See Letter to Jingmei from the Department titled ``Calcium
Hypochlorite from the People's Republic of China: Request for New
Shipper Review,'' dated February 2, 2016.
\9\ See Jingmei's pre-initiation supplemental questionnaire
response regarding, ``Calcium Hypochlorite from the People's
Republic of China Response to Department's Question About First
Sale,'' February 8, 2016.
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Finally, the Department conducted a U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (``CBP'') database query and confirmed the price and
quantity reported of the sale by Jingmei Chemical that formed the basis
for this new shipper request.\10\
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\10\ See Memorandum to the File from Frances Veith, Senior
International Trade Analyst, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance,
regarding ``Calcium Hypochlorite from the People's Republic of
China; U.S. Imports of Calcium Hypochlorite,'' dated concurrently
with this notice.
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Period of Review
The Department's regulations state, in 19 CFR 351.214(g)(2), that
the POR for a CVD NSR will be the same period as that specified in 19
CFR 351.213(e)(2), which states that the Department normally will cover
entries of subject merchandise during the most recently completed
calendar year. However, 19 CFR 351.213(e)(2)(ii) provides that for
requests received during the first anniversary month after publication
of an order, the review will cover entries or exports during the period
from the date of suspension of liquidation to the end of the most
recently completed calendar or fiscal year. Accordingly, the POR is May
27, 2014, through December 31, 2015.
Initiation of New Shipper Review
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.214(b), and
19 CFR 351.214(d)(1), and based on the evidence provided by Jingmei
Chemical, we find that its request meets the threshold requirements for
initiation of the NSR for shipments of calcium hypochlorite from the
PRC produced by Eno Chemical and exported by Jingmei Chemical.\11\ If
the information supplied by Jingmei Chemical is found to be incorrect
or insufficient during the course of this proceeding, the Department
may rescind the review for Jingmei Chemical or apply facts available
pursuant to section 776 of the Act, depending on the facts on the
record.
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\11\ See Memorandum to the File, through Catherine Bertrand,
Program Manager, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, from Frances
Veith, Senior International Trade Analyst, Office V, Enforcement and
Compliance, titled ``Initiation of CVD New Shipper Review: Calcium
Hypochlorite from the People's Republic of China,'' dated
concurrently with this notice.
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Absent a determination that the new shipper review is
extraordinarily complicated, the Department intends to issue the
preliminary results of this NSR within 180 days from the date of
initiation and the final results within 90 days after the date on which
the preliminary results are issued.\12\
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\12\ See section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.214(i).
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We will instruct CBP to allow, at the option of the importer, the
posting, until the completion of this review, of a bond or security in
lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the subject merchandise from
the requesting company in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iii) of
the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(e). Because Jingmei Chemical certified that
Eno Chemical produced the subject merchandise that Jingmei Chemical
exported, the sales of which are the basis for the NSR request, we will
instruct CBP to permit the use of a bond only for subject merchandise
that Eno Chemical produced and Jingmei Chemical exported.
Interested parties requiring access to proprietary information in
this NSR should submit applications for disclosure under administrative
protective order, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 19 CFR 351.306.
This initiation and notice are in accordance with section
751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.214, and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i).
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Dated: February 29, 2016.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations.
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