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number (i.e., at that exporter’s rate) will
be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.17
If we proceed to a final rescission of
the NSR, Bolong’s entries will be
assessed at the rate entered.18 If we do
not proceed to a final rescission of the
NSR, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1),
we will calculate an importer-specific
assessment rate for Bolong. We will
instruct CBP to assess antidumping
duties on all appropriate entries covered
by this NSR if the importer-specific
assessment rate calculated in the final
results of this NSR is above de
minimis.19
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements will be effective upon
publication of the final results of this
administrative review for all shipments
of the subject merchandise entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the publication
date, as provided for by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For the
exporters listed above which have a
separate rate, the cash deposit rate will
be the rate established in the final
results of this review (except, if the rate
is zero or de minimis, then a cash
deposit rate of zero will be established
for that company); (2) for previously
investigated or reviewed PRC and nonPRC exporters not listed above that have
separate rates, the cash deposit rate will
continue to be the exporter-specific rate
published for the most recently
completed segment of this proceeding;
(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 rate for the PRCwide entity, 92.84 percent; 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.
Effective upon publication of the final
rescission or the final results of the
NSR, pursuant to section
751(a)(2)(B)(iii) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.214(e), the Department will instruct
CBP to discontinue the option of posting
a bond or security in lieu of a cash
deposit for entries of subject
merchandise by Bolong. If the
Department proceeds to a final
rescission of the NSR, the cash deposit
rate will continue to be the PRC-wide
rate for Bolong because the Department
will not have determined an individual
margin of dumping for this company. If
the Department issues final results for
the NSR, the Department will instruct
CBP to collect a cash deposit, effective
upon the publication of the final results,
at the rate established therein.
Notification to Importers
This notice also serves as a
preliminary reminder to importers of
their responsibility under 19 CFR
351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding
the reimbursement of antidumping
duties prior to liquidation of the
relevant entries during this review
period. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in the
Secretary’s presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties
occurred and the subsequent assessment
of double antidumping duties.
We are issuing and publishing these
preliminary results of reviews in
accordance with sections 751(a)(l),
751(a)(2)(B) and 777(i)(l) of the Act, and
19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: July 5, 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
1. Summary
2. Background
3. Scope of the Order
4. Bona Fides Analysis
5. Discussion of the Methodology for the
Administrative Review
a. Non-Market Economy Country
b. Separate Rates
c. Separate Rate Assigned to Non-Selected
Companies
d. The PRC-Wide Entity
e. Collapsing of CPZ/SKF With Another
Producer of TRBs
f. Surrogate Country
g. Date of Sale
h. Comparisons to Normal Value
i. Determination of Comparison Method
j. Constructed Export Price
k. Value-Added Tax (VAT)
l. Normal Value
m. Currency Conversion
6. Conclusion
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17 For a full discussion of this practice, see NonMarket Economy Antidumping Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694
(October 24, 2011).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XE693
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic
Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and
Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization
Cost Recovery Program
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of fee percentage.
AGENCY:
NMFS publishes notification
of a 1.60 percent fee for cost recovery
under the Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands Crab Rationalization Program.
This action is intended to provide
holders of crab allocations with the fee
percentage for the 2016/2017 crab
fishing year so they can calculate the
required payment for cost recovery fees
that must be submitted by July 31, 2017.
DATES: The Crab Rationalization
Program Registered Crab Receiver
permit holder is responsible for
submitting the fee liability payment to
NMFS on or before July 31, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Keeley Kent, 907–586–7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
NMFS Alaska Region administers the
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab
Rationalization Program (Program) in
the North Pacific. Fishing under the
Program began on August 15, 2005.
Regulations implementing the Program
can be found at 50 CFR part 680.
The Program is a limited access
system authorized by section 313(j) of
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act). The Program
includes a cost recovery provision to
collect fees to recover the actual costs
directly related to the management, data
collection, and enforcement of the
Program. The Program implemented
under the authority of section 313(j) is
consistent with the cost recovery
provisions included under section
304(d)(2)(A) of the Magnuson-Stevens
Act. NMFS developed the cost recovery
provision to conform to statutory
requirements and to reimburse the
agency for the actual costs directly
related to the management, data
collection, and enforcement of the
Program. The cost recovery provision
allows collection of 133 percent of the
actual management, data collection, and
enforcement costs up to 3 percent of the
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ex-vessel value of crab harvested under
the Program. The Program provides that
a proportional share of fees charged for
management and enforcement be
forwarded to the State of Alaska for its
share of management and data
collection costs for the Program. The
cost recovery provision also requires the
harvesting and processing sectors to
each pay half the cost recovery fees.
Catcher/processor quota shareholders
are required to pay the full fee
percentage for crab processed at sea.
A crab allocation holder generally
incurs a cost recovery fee liability for
every pound of crab landed. The crab
allocations include Individual Fishing
Quota, Crew Individual Fishing Quota,
Individual Processing Quota,
Community Development Quota, and
the Adak community allocation. The
Registered Crab Receiver (RCR) permit
holder must collect the fee liability from
the crab allocation holder who is
landing crab. Additionally, the RCR
permit holder must collect his or her
own fee liability for all crab delivered to
the RCR. The RCR permit holder is
responsible for submitting this payment
to NMFS on or before July 31, in the
year following the crab fishing year in
which landings of crab were made.
The dollar amount of the fee due is
determined by multiplying the fee
percentage (not to exceed 3 percent) by
the ex-vessel value of crab debited from
the allocation. Specific details on the
Program’s cost recovery provision may
be found in the implementing
regulations at 50 CFR 680.44.
Fee Percentage
Each year, NMFS calculates and
publishes in the Federal Register the fee
percentage according to the factors and
methodology described in Federal
regulations at § 680.44(c)(2). The
formula for determining the fee
percentage is the ‘‘direct program costs’’
divided by ‘‘value of the fishery,’’ where
‘‘direct program costs’’ are the direct
program costs for the Program for the
previous fiscal year, and ‘‘value of the
fishery’’ is the ex-vessel value of the
catch subject to the crab cost recovery
fee liability for the current year. Fee
collections for any given year may be
less than, or greater than, the actual
costs and fishery value for that year,
because, by regulation, the fee
percentage is established in the first
quarter of a crab fishery year based on
the fishery value and the costs of the
prior year.
Based upon the fee percentage
formula described above, the estimated
percentage of costs to value for the
2015/2016 fishery was 1.60 percent.
Therefore, the fee percentage will be
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1.60 percent for the 2016/2017 crab
fishing year. This is an increase of 0.12
percent from the 2015/2016 fee
percentage of 1.48 percent (80 FR 42792,
July 20, 2015). The change in the fee
percentage from 2015/2016 to 2016/
2017 is due to an increase in Alaska
Department of Fish and Game
management costs. These additional
costs were necessary to process,
analyze, and report fishery data for
monitoring and management of the crab
fisheries in the Program. Additionally,
the value of crab harvested under the
Program decreased by $1.6 million. This
decrease in value of the fishery
contributed to the increase in the fee
percentage between 2015/2016 and
2016/2017.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1862; Pub. L. 109–
241; Pub. L. 109–479.
Dated: July 11, 2016.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions;
General Provisions for Domestic
Fisheries; Application for Exempted
Fishing Permits
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Assistant Regional
Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries,
Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has
made a preliminary determination that
an Exempted Fishing Permit application
contains all of the required information
and warrants further consideration. The
Exempted Fishing Permit would allow
one commercial fishing vessel to fish
outside of the summer flounder, scup,
and black sea bass regulations in
support of research conducted by the
Cornell Cooperative Extension. These
exemptions would enable research
designed to quantify codend mesh
selectivity for summer flounder, black
sea bass, and scup.
Regulations under the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act require publication of
this notification to provide interested
parties the opportunity to comment on
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applications for proposed Exempted
Fishing Permits.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before July 29, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written
comments by any of the following
methods:
• Email: nmfs.gar.efp@noaa.gov.
Include in the subject line ‘‘CCE FSB
mesh selectivity EFP.’’
• Mail: John K. Bullard, Regional
Administrator, NMFS, Greater Atlantic
Regional Fisheries Office, 55 Great
Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930.
Mark the outside of the envelope
‘‘Comments on CCE FSB mesh
selectivity EFP.’’
• Fax: (978) 281–9135.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Scheimer, Fisheries
Management Specialist, 978–281–9236.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Cornell
Cooperative Extension (CCE) submitted
a complete application for an Exempted
Fishing Permit (EFP) on June 6, 2016.
They are seeking regulatory exemptions
to allow gear research to be conducted
on a commercial vessel fishing for a
project funded by the Mid-Atlantic
Fishery Management Council’s
collaborative research initiative. The
EFP would authorize exemptions from
the minimum mesh size and net
modification requirements found at 50
CFR 648.108, 648.125, and 648.144. Any
fishing activity conducted outside the
scope of the exempted fishing activity
would be prohibited, including landing
fish in excess of a possession limit or
below the minimum size.
Experimental fishing activity would
compare the composition, commercial
yield, retention efficiency, discards, and
size selectivity of five different codends
in the summer flounder, scup, and black
sea bass commercial bottom trawl
fishery in the Mid-Atlantic. The current
regulated mesh sizes are 5.5-inch (13.97cm) diamond or 6-inch (15.24-cm)
square for summer flounder, 5-inch
(12.7-cm) diamond for scup, and 4.5inch (11.43-cm) diamond for black sea
bass. This project would test diamond
mesh in 4.5-inch (11.43-cm), 5-inch
(12.7-cm), 5.5-inch (13.97-cm), 6-inch
(15.24-cm), and 6-inch (15.24-cm)
square mesh.
The research would be conducted on
a commercial fishing vessel using a
trouser trawl that would allow an
experimental codend and the control
codend to be fished at the same time.
The control codend would be a standard
squid liner with 6-cm diamond mesh.
The researchers would conduct the
experiment across the wide range of
strata and conditions representative of
this fishery. Tow speeds, tow cable
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XE693
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea
and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Cost Recovery Program
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of fee percentage.
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SUMMARY: NMFS publishes notification of a 1.60 percent fee for cost
recovery under the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization
Program. This action is intended to provide holders of crab allocations
with the fee percentage for the 2016/2017 crab fishing year so they can
calculate the required payment for cost recovery fees that must be
submitted by July 31, 2017.
DATES: The Crab Rationalization Program Registered Crab Receiver permit
holder is responsible for submitting the fee liability payment to NMFS
on or before July 31, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keeley Kent, 907-586-7228.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
NMFS Alaska Region administers the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Crab Rationalization Program (Program) in the North Pacific. Fishing
under the Program began on August 15, 2005. Regulations implementing
the Program can be found at 50 CFR part 680.
The Program is a limited access system authorized by section 313(j)
of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act). The Program includes a cost recovery provision
to collect fees to recover the actual costs directly related to the
management, data collection, and enforcement of the Program. The
Program implemented under the authority of section 313(j) is consistent
with the cost recovery provisions included under section 304(d)(2)(A)
of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. NMFS developed the cost recovery provision
to conform to statutory requirements and to reimburse the agency for
the actual costs directly related to the management, data collection,
and enforcement of the Program. The cost recovery provision allows
collection of 133 percent of the actual management, data collection,
and enforcement costs up to 3 percent of the
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ex-vessel value of crab harvested under the Program. The Program
provides that a proportional share of fees charged for management and
enforcement be forwarded to the State of Alaska for its share of
management and data collection costs for the Program. The cost recovery
provision also requires the harvesting and processing sectors to each
pay half the cost recovery fees. Catcher/processor quota shareholders
are required to pay the full fee percentage for crab processed at sea.
A crab allocation holder generally incurs a cost recovery fee
liability for every pound of crab landed. The crab allocations include
Individual Fishing Quota, Crew Individual Fishing Quota, Individual
Processing Quota, Community Development Quota, and the Adak community
allocation. The Registered Crab Receiver (RCR) permit holder must
collect the fee liability from the crab allocation holder who is
landing crab. Additionally, the RCR permit holder must collect his or
her own fee liability for all crab delivered to the RCR. The RCR permit
holder is responsible for submitting this payment to NMFS on or before
July 31, in the year following the crab fishing year in which landings
of crab were made.
The dollar amount of the fee due is determined by multiplying the
fee percentage (not to exceed 3 percent) by the ex-vessel value of crab
debited from the allocation. Specific details on the Program's cost
recovery provision may be found in the implementing regulations at 50
CFR 680.44.
Fee Percentage
Each year, NMFS calculates and publishes in the Federal Register
the fee percentage according to the factors and methodology described
in Federal regulations at Sec. 680.44(c)(2). The formula for
determining the fee percentage is the ``direct program costs'' divided
by ``value of the fishery,'' where ``direct program costs'' are the
direct program costs for the Program for the previous fiscal year, and
``value of the fishery'' is the ex-vessel value of the catch subject to
the crab cost recovery fee liability for the current year. Fee
collections for any given year may be less than, or greater than, the
actual costs and fishery value for that year, because, by regulation,
the fee percentage is established in the first quarter of a crab
fishery year based on the fishery value and the costs of the prior
year.
Based upon the fee percentage formula described above, the
estimated percentage of costs to value for the 2015/2016 fishery was
1.60 percent. Therefore, the fee percentage will be 1.60 percent for
the 2016/2017 crab fishing year. This is an increase of 0.12 percent
from the 2015/2016 fee percentage of 1.48 percent (80 FR 42792, July
20, 2015). The change in the fee percentage from 2015/2016 to 2016/2017
is due to an increase in Alaska Department of Fish and Game management
costs. These additional costs were necessary to process, analyze, and
report fishery data for monitoring and management of the crab fisheries
in the Program. Additionally, the value of crab harvested under the
Program decreased by $1.6 million. This decrease in value of the
fishery contributed to the increase in the fee percentage between 2015/
2016 and 2016/2017.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1862; Pub. L. 109-241; Pub. L. 109-479.
Dated: July 11, 2016.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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