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such a case, we will inform parties in
the letter or memorandum setting forth
the deadline (including a specified time)
by which extension requests must be
filed to be considered timely. An
extension request must be made in a
separate, stand-alone submission; under
limited circumstances we will grant
untimely-filed requests for the extension
of time limits. Review Extension of
Time Limits; Final Rule, 78 FR 57790
(September 20, 2013), available at
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-201309-20/html/2013-22853.htm, prior to
submitting factual information in this
investigation.
Certification Requirements
Any party submitting factual
information in an AD or CVD
proceeding must certify to the accuracy
and completeness of that information.29
Parties are hereby reminded that revised
certification requirements are in effect
for company/government officials, as
well as their representatives.
Investigations initiated on the basis of
petitions filed on or after August 16,
2013, and other segments of any AD or
CVD proceedings initiated on or after
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section 782(b) of the Act.
Certification of Factual Information To
Import Administration During Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 42678 (July
17, 2013) (‘‘Final Rule’’); see also frequently asked
questions regarding the Final Rule, available at
https://enforcement.trade.gov/tlei/notices/factual_
info_final_rule_FAQ_07172013.pdf.
30 See
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Appendix I—Scope of the Investigation
The merchandise covered by this
investigation includes all grades of aqueous
acidic (non-neutralized) concentrations of 1hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic acid
(HEDP), also referred to as hydroxye
thylidenendiphosphonic acid, hydro
xyethanediphosphonic acid, acetodi
phosphonic acid, and etidronic acid. The
CAS (Chemical Abstract Service) registry
number for HEDP is 2809–21–4.
The merchandise subject to this
investigation is currently classified in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States (HTSUS) at subheading 2931.90.9043.
It may also enter under HTSUS subheadings
2811.19.6090 and 2931.90.9041. While
HTSUS subheadings and the CAS registry
number are provided for convenience and
customs purposes only, the written
description of the scope of this investigation
is dispositive.
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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; 2014–2015
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On January 5, 2016, the
Department of Commerce
(‘‘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, 2014, through March 31, 2015.1 This
review covers two PRC companies,
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 the Preliminary
Results, and we continue to find that
TMI and TMM did not have reviewable
AGENCY:
Interested parties must submit
applications for disclosure under APO
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. On
January 22, 2008, the Department
published Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Documents Submission Procedures;
APO Procedures, 73 FR 3634 (January
22, 2008). Parties wishing to participate
in this investigation should ensure that
they meet the requirements of these
procedures (e.g., the filing of letters of
appearance as discussed at 19 CFR
351.103(d)).
This notice is issued and published
pursuant to sections 702 and 777(i) of
the Act.
29 See
Dated: April 20, 2016.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
entries during the period of review
(‘‘POR’’).
DATES: Effective Date: April 28, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Terpstra or Brendan Quinn, 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–
5848, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On January 5, 2016, the Department
published the Preliminary Results.2 We
invited interested parties to comment on
the Preliminary Results, but no
comments were received. Also, as
explained in the memorandum from the
Acting Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement & Compliance, the
Department exercised its authority to
toll all administrative deadlines due to
the recent closure of the Federal
Government.3 As a consequence, all
deadlines in this segment of the
proceeding have been extended by four
business days. The revised deadline for
the final results is now May 10, 2016.
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,
2 Id.
1 See
Magnesium Metal From the People’s
Republic of China: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2014–
2015, 81 FR 220 (January 5, 2016) (‘‘Preliminary
Results’’).
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3 See Memorandum to the File from Ron
Lorentzen, Acting A/S for Enforcement &
Compliance, ‘‘Tolling of Administrative Deadlines
As a Result of the Government Closure During
Snowstorm Jonas,’’ dated January 27, 2016.
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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’’ 4 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’’ 5; (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.6
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
4 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.
5 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).
6 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
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are provided for convenience and
customs purposes, the written
description of the merchandise is
dispositive.
Final Determination of No Shipments
As explained, in the Preliminary
Results, the Department found that TMI
and TMM did not have reviewable
entries during the POR.7 Also in the
Preliminary Results, the Department
stated that consistent with its recently
announced refinement to its assessment
practice in non-market economy
(‘‘NME’’) cases, it is appropriate not to
rescind the review in part 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.8
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
determination. 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.9 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 and TMM’s antidumping
duty case number (i.e., at that exporter’s
rate) will be liquidated at the PRC-wide
rate.10
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
7 See
Preliminary Results, 81 FR at 221.
Non-Market Economy Antidumping
Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76
FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) (‘‘Assessment Practice
Refinement’’) and the ‘‘Assessment Rates’’ section,
below.
9 See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
10 See Assessment Practice Refinement, 76 FR
65694.
8 See
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results of the administrative review, as
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the
Act: (1) For TMI and TMM, which
claimed no shipments, the cash deposit
rate will remain unchanged from the
rate assigned to TMI and TMM in the
most recently completed review of the
companies; (2) for previously
investigated or reviewed PRC and nonPRC 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, the cash deposit rate will
be the PRC-wide rate of 141.49
percent; 11 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.
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.
11 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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Dated: April 14, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
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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; 2014-2015
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On January 5, 2016, the Department of Commerce
(``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, 2014, through March 31, 2015.\1\ This review covers
two PRC companies, 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 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; 2014-
2015, 81 FR 220 (January 5, 2016) (``Preliminary Results'').
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DATES: Effective Date: April 28, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Terpstra or Brendan Quinn, 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) 482-5848, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On January 5, 2016, the Department published the Preliminary
Results.\2\ We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary
Results, but no comments were received. Also, as explained in the
memorandum from the Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement &
Compliance, the Department exercised its authority to toll all
administrative deadlines due to the recent closure of the Federal
Government.\3\ As a consequence, all deadlines in this segment of the
proceeding have been extended by four business days. The revised
deadline for the final results is now May 10, 2016.
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\2\ Id.
\3\ See Memorandum to the File from Ron Lorentzen, Acting A/S
for Enforcement & Compliance, ``Tolling of Administrative Deadlines
As a Result of the Government Closure During Snowstorm Jonas,''
dated January 27, 2016.
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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,
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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'' \4\ 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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\4\ 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'' \5\; (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.\6\
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\5\ 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).
\6\ 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, in the Preliminary Results, the Department found that
TMI and TMM did not have reviewable entries during the POR.\7\ Also in
the Preliminary Results, the Department stated that consistent with its
recently announced refinement to its assessment practice in non-market
economy (``NME'') cases, it is appropriate not to rescind the review in
part 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.\8\
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\7\ See Preliminary Results, 81 FR at 221.
\8\ 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 determination.
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.\9\ 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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\9\ 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 and TMM's
antidumping duty case number (i.e., at that exporter's rate) will be
liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.\10\
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\10\ 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 and TMM, which claimed no
shipments, the cash deposit rate will remain unchanged from the rate
assigned to TMI and TMM in the most recently completed review of the
companies; (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, the cash deposit rate will be the
PRC-wide rate of 141.49 percent; \11\ 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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\11\ 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.
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Dated: April 14, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2016-09884 Filed 4-27-16; 8:45 am]
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