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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 2006]
[B–18–2016]
Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone
172 Under Alternative Site Framework,
Oneida County, New York
Authorization of Limited Production
Activity; Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ)
186—Waterville, Maine; Flemish Master
Weavers; Subzone 186A (Area Rugs)
Sanford, Maine
[Order No. 2007]
Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone
70 (Expansion of Service Area) Under
Alternative Site Framework; Detroit,
Michigan
Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the
following Order:
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Whereas, the Board adopted the
alternative site framework (ASF) (15
CFR Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the
establishment or reorganization of
zones;
Whereas, the Greater Detroit ForeignTrade Zone, Inc., grantee of ForeignTrade Zone 70, submitted an
application to the Board (FTZ Docket B–
10–2016, docketed February 18, 2016,
amended June 9, 2016) for authority to
expand the service area of the zone to
include Livingston County and a
portion of Lenawee County, as
described in the application, adjacent to
the Detroit Customs and Border
Protection port of entry;
Whereas, notice inviting public
comment was given in the Federal
Register (81 FR 9168, February 24,
2016) and the application has been
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and
the Board’s regulations; and,
Whereas, the Board adopts the
findings and recommendations of the
examiner’s report, and finds that the
requirements of the FTZ Act and the
Board’s regulations are satisfied;
Now, Therefore, the Board hereby
orders:
The amended application to
reorganize FTZ 70 to expand the service
area under the ASF to include
Livingston County and a portion of
Lenawee County is approved, subject to
the FTZ Act and the Board’s regulations,
including Section 400.13, and to the
Board’s standard 2,000-acre activation
limit for the zone.
Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the
following Order:
Whereas, the Board adopted the
alternative site framework (ASF) (15
CFR Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the
establishment or reorganization of
zones;
Whereas, the County of Oneida,
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 172,
submitted an application to the Board
(FTZ Docket B–19–2016, docketed April
12, 2016) for authority to reorganize
under the ASF with a service area of
Oneida County, New York, adjacent to
the Syracuse Customs and Border
Protection port of entry, FTZ 172’s
existing Site 2a would be renumbered as
Site 6 and included as a magnet site,
Sites 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and Subzone 172A
would be removed from the zone, and
the grantee proposes an additional
magnet site (Site 7);
Whereas, notice inviting public
comment was given in the Federal
Register (81 FR 22210–22211, April 15,
2016) and the application has been
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and
the Board’s regulations; and,
Whereas, the Board adopts the
findings and recommendation of the
examiner’s report, and finds that the
requirements of the FTZ Act and the
Board’s regulations are satisfied;
Now, Therefore, the Board hereby
orders:
The application to reorganize FTZ 172
under the ASF is approved, subject to
the FTZ Act and the Board’s regulations,
including Section 400.13, to the Board’s
standard 2,000-acre activation limit for
the zone, and to an ASF sunset
provision for magnet sites that would
terminate authority for Site 7 if not
activated within five years from the
month of approval.
Signed at Washington, DC, July 29, 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Enforcement and Compliance, Alternate
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of
July 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Enforcement and Compliance, Alternate
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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On March 31, 2016, the City of
Waterville, Maine, grantee of FTZ 186,
submitted a notification of proposed
production activity to the FTZ Board on
behalf of Flemish Master Weavers,
within Subzone 186A, in Sanford,
Maine.
The notification was processed in
accordance with the regulations of the
FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400), including
notice in the Federal Register inviting
public comment (81 FR 22210, April 15,
2016). The FTZ Board has determined
that further review of part of the
proposed activity is warranted at this
time. The production activity described
in the notification is authorized on a
limited basis, subject to the FTZ Act and
the Board’s regulations, including
Section 400.14, and further subject to a
restriction requiring that foreign-status
polypropylene and polyester yarns
(HTSUS Subheadings 5402.59 and
5402.33) be admitted to the subzone in
privileged foreign status (19 CFR
146.41).
Dated: July 29, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty
Order, Finding, or Suspended
Investigation; Opportunity to Request
Administrative Review
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brenda E. Waters, Office of AD/CVD
Operations, Customs Liaison Unit,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202)
482–4735.
AGENCY:
Background
Each year during the anniversary
month of the publication of an
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antidumping or countervailing duty
order, finding, or suspended
investigation, an interested party, as
defined in section 771(9) of the Tariff
Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the Act’’),
may request, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213, that the Department of
Commerce (‘‘the Department’’) conduct
an administrative review of that
antidumping or countervailing duty
order, finding, or suspended
investigation.
All deadlines for the submission of
comments or actions by the Department
discussed below refer to the number of
calendar days from the applicable
starting date.
Respondent Selection
In the event the Department limits the
number of respondents for individual
examination for administrative reviews
initiated pursuant to requests made for
the orders identified below, the
Department intends to select
respondents based on U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) data for U.S.
imports during the period of review. We
intend to release the CBP data under
Administrative Protective Order
(‘‘APO’’) to all parties having an APO
within five days of publication of the
initiation notice and to make our
decision regarding respondent selection
within 21 days of publication of the
initiation Federal Register notice.
Therefore, we encourage all parties
interested in commenting on respondent
selection to submit their APO
applications on the date of publication
of the initiation notice, or as soon
thereafter as possible. The Department
invites comments regarding the CBP
data and respondent selection within
five days of placement of the CBP data
on the record of the review.
In the event the Department decides
it is necessary to limit individual
examination of respondents and
conduct respondent selection under
section 777A(c)(2) of the Act:
In general, the Department finds that
determinations concerning whether
particular companies should be
‘‘collapsed’’ (i.e., treated as a single
entity for purposes of calculating
antidumping duty rates) require a
substantial amount of detailed
information and analysis, which often
require follow-up questions and
analysis. Accordingly, the Department
will not conduct collapsing analyses at
the respondent selection phase of this
review and will not collapse companies
at the respondent selection phase unless
there has been a determination to
collapse certain companies in a
previous segment of this antidumping
proceeding (i.e., investigation,
administrative review, new shipper
review or changed circumstances
review). For any company subject to this
review, if the Department determined,
or continued to treat, that company as
collapsed with others, the Department
will assume that such companies
continue to operate in the same manner
and will collapse them for respondent
selection purposes. Otherwise, the
Department will not collapse companies
for purposes of respondent selection.
Parties are requested to (a) identify
which companies subject to review
previously were collapsed, and (b)
provide a citation to the proceeding in
which they were collapsed. Further, if
companies are requested to complete
the Quantity and Value Questionnaire
for purposes of respondent selection, in
general each company must report
volume and value data separately for
itself. Parties should not include data
for any other party, even if they believe
they should be treated as a single entity
with that other party. If a company was
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collapsed with another company or
companies in the most recently
completed segment of this proceeding
where the Department considered
collapsing that entity, complete quantity
and value data for that collapsed entity
must be submitted.
Deadline for Withdrawal of Request for
Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), a
party that requests a review may
withdraw that request within 90 days of
the date of publication of the notice of
initiation of the requested review. The
regulation provides that the Department
may extend this time if it is reasonable
to do so. In order to provide parties
additional certainty with respect to
when the Department will exercise its
discretion to extend this 90-day
deadline, interested parties are advised
that, with regard to reviews requested
on the basis of anniversary months on
or after August 2016, the Department
does not intend to extend the 90-day
deadline unless the requestor
demonstrates that an extraordinary
circumstance prevented it from
submitting a timely withdrawal request.
Determinations by the Department to
extend the 90-day deadline will be
made on a case-by-case basis.
The Department is providing this
notice on its Web site, as well as in its
‘‘Opportunity to Request Administrative
Review’’ notices, so that interested
parties will be aware of the manner in
which the Department intends to
exercise its discretion in the future.
Opportunity to request a review: Not
later than the last day of August 2016,1
interested parties may request
administrative review of the following
orders, findings, or suspended
investigations, with anniversary dates in
August for the following periods:
Period of review
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Antidumping Duty Proceedings
GERMANY:
Seamless Line and Pressure Pipe A–428–820 .....................................................................................................................
Sodium Nitrite A–428–841 .....................................................................................................................................................
ITALY: Granular Polytetrafluorethylene Resin A–475–703 ...........................................................................................................
JAPAN:
Brass Sheet & Strip A–588–704 ............................................................................................................................................
Tin Mill Products A–588–854 .................................................................................................................................................
MALAYSIA: Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags A–557–813 ...........................................................................................................
MEXICO: Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube A–201–836 .................................................................................................
REPUBLIC OF KOREA:
Large Power Transformers A–580–867 .................................................................................................................................
Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube A–580–859 ...........................................................................................................
ROMANIA: Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe (under 41⁄2 inches) A–485–805 ...........................
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM: Frozen Fish Fillets A–552–801 ......................................................................................
1 Or the next business day, if the deadline falls
on a weekend, federal holiday or any other day
when the Department is closed.
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THAILAND: Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags A–549–821 ...........................................................................................................
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA:
Floor-Standing, Metal-Top Ironing Tables and Parts Thereof A–570–888 ............................................................................
Laminated Woven Sacks A–570–916 ....................................................................................................................................
Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube A–570–914 ...........................................................................................................
Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires A–570–016 ..........................................................................................................
Petroleum Wax Candles A–570–504 .....................................................................................................................................
Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags A–570–886 ........................................................................................................................
Sodium Nitrate A–570–925 ....................................................................................................................................................
Steel Nails A–570–909 ...........................................................................................................................................................
Sulfanilic Acid A–570–815 ......................................................................................................................................................
Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol A–570–887 ...................................................................................................................................
Tow-Behind Lawn Groomers and Parts Thereof A–570–939 ................................................................................................
UKRAINE: Silicomanganese A–823–805 ......................................................................................................................................
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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coil C–580–835 .............................................................................
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA:
Laminated Woven Sacks C–570–917 ....................................................................................................................................
Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube C–570–915 ..........................................................................................................
Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires C–570–017 ..........................................................................................................
Sodium Nitrite C–570–926 .....................................................................................................................................................
1/1/15–12/31/15
1/1/15–12/31/15
1/1/15–12/31/15
12/1/14–12/31/15
1/1/15–12/31/15
Suspension Agreements
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In accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(b), an interested party as
defined by section 771(9) of the Act may
request in writing that the Secretary
conduct an administrative review. For
both antidumping and countervailing
duty reviews, the interested party must
specify the individual producers or
exporters covered by an antidumping
finding or an antidumping or
countervailing duty order or suspension
agreement for which it is requesting a
review. In addition, a domestic
interested party or an interested party
described in section 771(9)(B) of the Act
must state why it desires the Secretary
to review those particular producers or
exporters. If the interested party intends
for the Secretary to review sales of
merchandise by an exporter (or a
producer if that producer also exports
merchandise from other suppliers)
which was produced in more than one
country of origin and each country of
origin is subject to a separate order, then
the interested party must state
specifically, on an order-by-order basis,
which exporter(s) the request is
intended to cover.
Note that, for any party the
Department was unable to locate in
prior segments, the Department will not
accept a request for an administrative
review of that party absent new
information as to the party’s location.
Moreover, if the interested party who
files a request for review is unable to
locate the producer or exporter for
which it requested the review, the
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interested party must provide an
explanation of the attempts it made to
locate the producer or exporter at the
same time it files its request for review,
in order for the Secretary to determine
if the interested party’s attempts were
reasonable, pursuant to 19 CFR
351.303(f)(3)(ii).
As explained in Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68
FR 23954 (May 6, 2003), and NonMarket Economy Antidumping
Proceedings: Assessment of
Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694
(October 24, 2011) the Department
clarified its practice with respect to the
collection of final antidumping duties
on imports of merchandise where
intermediate firms are involved. The
public should be aware of this
clarification in determining whether to
request an administrative review of
merchandise subject to antidumping
findings and orders.2
Further, as explained in Antidumping
Proceedings: Announcement of Change
in Department Practice for Respondent
Selection in Antidumping Duty
Proceedings and Conditional Review of
the Nonmarket Economy Entity in NME
Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR
65963 (November 4, 2013), the
Department clarified its practice with
regard to the conditional review of the
non-market economy (NME) entity in
administrative reviews of antidumping
2 See also the Enforcement and Compliance Web
site at https://trade.gov/enforcement/.
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duty orders. The Department will no
longer consider the NME entity as an
exporter conditionally subject to
administrative reviews. Accordingly,
the NME entity will not be under review
unless the Department specifically
receives a request for, or self-initiates, a
review of the NME entity.3 In
administrative reviews of antidumping
duty orders on merchandise from NME
countries where a review of the NME
entity has not been initiated, but where
an individual exporter for which a
review was initiated does not qualify for
a separate rate, the Department will
issue a final decision indicating that the
company in question is part of the NME
entity. However, in that situation,
because no review of the NME entity
was conducted, the NME entity’s entries
were not subject to the review and the
rate for the NME entity is not subject to
change as a result of that review
(although the rate for the individual
exporter may change as a function of the
finding that the exporter is part of the
NME entity). Following initiation of an
antidumping administrative review
when there is no review requested of the
NME entity, the Department will
instruct CBP to liquidate entries for all
exporters not named in the initiation
notice, including those that were
suspended at the NME entity rate.
3 In accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(b)(1), parties
should specify that they are requesting a review of
entries from exporters comprising the entity, and to
the extent possible, include the names of such
exporters in their request.
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All requests must be filed
electronically in Enforcement and
Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
Electronic Service System (‘‘ACCESS’’)
on Enforcement and Compliance’s
ACCESS Web site at https://
access.trade.gov.4 Further, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.303(f)(l)(i),
a copy of each request must be served
on the petitioner and each exporter or
producer specified in the request.
The Department will publish in the
Federal Register a notice of ‘‘Initiation
of Administrative Review of
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty
Order, Finding, or Suspended
Investigation’’ for requests received by
the last day of August 2016. If the
Department does not receive, by the last
day of August 2016, a request for review
of entries covered by an order, finding,
or suspended investigation listed in this
notice and for the period identified
above, the Department will instruct CBP
to assess antidumping or countervailing
duties on those entries at a rate equal to
the cash deposit of (or bond for)
estimated antidumping or
countervailing duties required on those
entries at the time of entry, or
withdrawal from warehouse, for
consumption and to continue to collect
the cash deposit previously ordered.
For the first administrative review of
any order, there will be no assessment
of antidumping or countervailing duties
on entries of subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption during the relevant
provisional-measures ‘‘gap’’ period of
the order, if such a gap period is
applicable to the period of review.
This notice is not required by statute
but is published as a service to the
international trading community.
Dated: July 28, 2016.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
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4 See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures;
Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR
39263 (July 6, 2011).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–992]
Monosodium Glutamate From the
People’s Republic of China:
Preliminary Results of the
Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2014–2015
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the ‘‘Department’’) is conducting the
first administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on
monosodium glutamate (‘‘MSG’’) from
the People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’)
covering the period of review (‘‘POR’’)
May 8, 2014 through October 31, 2015.
This review covers 38 manufacturers/
exporters (‘‘the companies’’) of the
subject merchandise. None of these
companies have filed a separate rate
application (‘‘SRA’’) and/or a separate
rate certification (‘‘SRC’’) to establish its
separate rate status. Therefore, the
Department preliminarily finds that the
companies are part of the PRC-wide
entity. We invite interested parties to
comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Effective August 5, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kathryn Wallace or Alexander Cipolla,
AD/CVD Operations, Office VII,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce, 14th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–6251 or (202) 482–4956,
respectively.
AGENCY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 3, 2015, the Department
published a notice of opportunity to
request an administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on MSG from
the PRC.1 In response, on November 30,
2015, Ajinomoto North America, Inc.
(‘‘Petitioner’’ or ‘‘Ajinomoto’’) requested
a review of 38 companies.2 Also on
November 20, 2015, Neimenggu Fufeng
Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. and its
affiliate, Hulunbeier Northeast Fufeng
Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. (collectively,
1 See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order,
Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity
To Request Administrative Review, 80 FR 67706
(November 3, 2015).
2 See Letter from Ajinomoto to the Department of
Commerce, Re: ‘‘Monosodium Glutamate from
China: Request for Administrative Review,’’ dated
November 30, 2015, at footnote 1 which lists 38
companies for which Ajinomoto sought review.
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‘‘Fufeng’’) requested a review.3 The
Department initiated a review of all 38
companies, which included Fufeng, on
January 7, 2016.4 On February 8, 2016,
Fufeng timely withdrew its request for
review.5 No party timely submitted an
SRA or an SRC.6 Thereafter, Petitioner
submitted comments on the
Department’s selection of respondents,
encouraging the Department to employ
its customary policy to treat companies
as a part of the country-wide entity in
reviews where no party submits an SRA
or SRC.7
Scope of the Order
The product covered by this order is
MSG, whether or not blended or in
solution with other products.
Specifically, MSG that has been blended
or is in solution with other product(s) is
included in this scope when the
resulting mix contains 15 percent or
more of MSG by dry weight. Products
with which MSG may be blended
include, but are not limited to, salts,
sugars, starches, maltodextrins, and
various seasonings. Further, MSG is
included in this order regardless of
physical form (including, but not
limited to, in monohydrate or
anhydrous form, or as substrates,
solutions, dry powders of any particle
size, or unfinished forms such as MSG
slurry), end-use application, or
packaging. MSG in monohydrate form
has a molecular formula of
C5H8NO4Na-H2O, a Chemical Abstract
Service (CAS) registry number of 6106–
04–3, and a Unique Ingredient Identifier
(UNII) number of W81N5U6R6U. MSG
in anhydrous form has a molecular
formula of C5H8NO4Na, a CAS registry
number of l42–47–2, and a UNII number
of C3C196L9FG. Merchandise covered
by the scope of this order is currently
3 See Letter from Fufeng to the Department of
Commerce, Re: ‘‘Request for the First
Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty
Order on Monosodium Glutamate from the People’s
Republic of China,’’ dated November 30, 2015.
4 See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 81 FR
736 (January 7, 2016) (‘‘Initiation Notice’’).
5 See Letter from Fufeng to the Department of
Commerce, Re: ‘‘Withdrawal of Review Request:
First Administrative Review of the Antidumping
Duty Order on Monosodium Glutamate from the
People’s Republic of China,’’ dated February 8,
2016. Because the Petitioner’s request for review
included Fufeng, it was not removed from the
administrative review.
6 Because of tolling, the deadline for SRAs and
SRCs was extended four business days until
February 12, 2016. See Memorandum from Ron
Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, Re: ‘‘Tolling of
Administrative Deadlines as a Result of the
Government Closure during Snowstorm ‘Jonas,’ ’’
dated January 27, 2016.
7 See Letter from Ajinomoto to the Department of
Commerce, Re: ‘‘MSG from China: Comments on
Respondent Selection,’’ dated February 29, 2016.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended
Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brenda E. Waters, Office of AD/CVD
Operations, Customs Liaison Unit, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone:
(202) 482-4735.
Background
Each year during the anniversary month of the publication of an
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antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended
investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 771(9) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), may request, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.213, that the Department of Commerce (``the
Department'') conduct an administrative review of that antidumping or
countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended investigation.
All deadlines for the submission of comments or actions by the
Department discussed below refer to the number of calendar days from
the applicable starting date.
Respondent Selection
In the event the Department limits the number of respondents for
individual examination for administrative reviews initiated pursuant to
requests made for the orders identified below, the Department intends
to select respondents based on U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(``CBP'') data for U.S. imports during the period of review. We intend
to release the CBP data under Administrative Protective Order (``APO'')
to all parties having an APO within five days of publication of the
initiation notice and to make our decision regarding respondent
selection within 21 days of publication of the initiation Federal
Register notice. Therefore, we encourage all parties interested in
commenting on respondent selection to submit their APO applications on
the date of publication of the initiation notice, or as soon thereafter
as possible. The Department invites comments regarding the CBP data and
respondent selection within five days of placement of the CBP data on
the record of the review.
In the event the Department decides it is necessary to limit
individual examination of respondents and conduct respondent selection
under section 777A(c)(2) of the Act:
In general, the Department finds that determinations concerning
whether particular companies should be ``collapsed'' (i.e., treated as
a single entity for purposes of calculating antidumping duty rates)
require a substantial amount of detailed information and analysis,
which often require follow-up questions and analysis. Accordingly, the
Department will not conduct collapsing analyses at the respondent
selection phase of this review and will not collapse companies at the
respondent selection phase unless there has been a determination to
collapse certain companies in a previous segment of this antidumping
proceeding (i.e., investigation, administrative review, new shipper
review or changed circumstances review). For any company subject to
this review, if the Department determined, or continued to treat, that
company as collapsed with others, the Department will assume that such
companies continue to operate in the same manner and will collapse them
for respondent selection purposes. Otherwise, the Department will not
collapse companies for purposes of respondent selection. Parties are
requested to (a) identify which companies subject to review previously
were collapsed, and (b) provide a citation to the proceeding in which
they were collapsed. Further, if companies are requested to complete
the Quantity and Value Questionnaire for purposes of respondent
selection, in general each company must report volume and value data
separately for itself. Parties should not include data for any other
party, even if they believe they should be treated as a single entity
with that other party. If a company was collapsed with another company
or companies in the most recently completed segment of this proceeding
where the Department considered collapsing that entity, complete
quantity and value data for that collapsed entity must be submitted.
Deadline for Withdrawal of Request for Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), a party that requests a review
may withdraw that request within 90 days of the date of publication of
the notice of initiation of the requested review. The regulation
provides that the Department may extend this time if it is reasonable
to do so. In order to provide parties additional certainty with respect
to when the Department will exercise its discretion to extend this 90-
day deadline, interested parties are advised that, with regard to
reviews requested on the basis of anniversary months on or after August
2016, the Department does not intend to extend the 90-day deadline
unless the requestor demonstrates that an extraordinary circumstance
prevented it from submitting a timely withdrawal request.
Determinations by the Department to extend the 90-day deadline will be
made on a case-by-case basis.
The Department is providing this notice on its Web site, as well as
in its ``Opportunity to Request Administrative Review'' notices, so
that interested parties will be aware of the manner in which the
Department intends to exercise its discretion in the future.
Opportunity to request a review: Not later than the last day of
August 2016,\1\ interested parties may request administrative review of
the following orders, findings, or suspended investigations, with
anniversary dates in August for the following periods:
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\1\ Or the next business day, if the deadline falls on a
weekend, federal holiday or any other day when the Department is
closed.
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Period of review
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Antidumping Duty Proceedings
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GERMANY:
Seamless Line and Pressure Pipe A-428-820........ 8/1/15-7/31/16
Sodium Nitrite A-428-841......................... 8/1/15-7/31/16
ITALY: Granular Polytetrafluorethylene Resin A-475- 8/1/15-7/31/16
703.................................................
JAPAN:
Brass Sheet & Strip A-588-704.................... 8/1/15-7/31/16
Tin Mill Products A-588-854...................... 8/1/15-7/31/16
MALAYSIA: Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags A-557-813. 8/1/15-7/31/16
MEXICO: Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube A-201- 8/1/15-7/31/16
836.................................................
REPUBLIC OF KOREA:
Large Power Transformers A-580-867............... 8/1/15-7/31/16
Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube A-580-859. 8/1/15-7/31/16
ROMANIA: Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, Line, 8/1/15-7/31/16
and Pressure Pipe (under 4\1/2\ inches) A-485-805...
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM: Frozen Fish Fillets A- 8/1/15-7/31/16
552-801.............................................
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THAILAND: Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags A-549-821. 8/1/15-7/31/16
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA:
Floor-Standing, Metal-Top Ironing Tables and 8/1/15-7/31/16
Parts Thereof A-570-888.........................
Laminated Woven Sacks A-570-916.................. 8/1/15-7/31/16
Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube A-570-914. 8/1/15-7/31/16
Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires A-570-016 1/27/15-7/31/16
Petroleum Wax Candles A-570-504.................. 8/1/15-7/31/16
Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags A-570-886....... 8/1/15-7/31/16
Sodium Nitrate A-570-925......................... 8/1/15-7/31/16
Steel Nails A-570-909............................ 8/1/15-7/31/16
Sulfanilic Acid A-570-815........................ 8/1/15-7/31/16
Tetrahydrofurfuryl Alcohol A-570-887............. 8/1/15-7/31/16
Tow-Behind Lawn Groomers and Parts Thereof A-570- 8/1/15-7/31/16
939.............................................
UKRAINE: Silicomanganese A-823-805................... 8/1/15-7/31/16
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Countervailing Duty Proceedings
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REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in 1/1/15-12/31/15
Coil C-580-835......................................
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA:
Laminated Woven Sacks C-570-917.................. 1/1/15-12/31/15
Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube C-570-915. 1/1/15-12/31/15
Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires C-570-017 12/1/14-12/31/15
Sodium Nitrite C-570-926......................... 1/1/15-12/31/15
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Suspension Agreements
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In accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(b), an interested party as
defined by section 771(9) of the Act may request in writing that the
Secretary conduct an administrative review. For both antidumping and
countervailing duty reviews, the interested party must specify the
individual producers or exporters covered by an antidumping finding or
an antidumping or countervailing duty order or suspension agreement for
which it is requesting a review. In addition, a domestic interested
party or an interested party described in section 771(9)(B) of the Act
must state why it desires the Secretary to review those particular
producers or exporters. If the interested party intends for the
Secretary to review sales of merchandise by an exporter (or a producer
if that producer also exports merchandise from other suppliers) which
was produced in more than one country of origin and each country of
origin is subject to a separate order, then the interested party must
state specifically, on an order-by-order basis, which exporter(s) the
request is intended to cover.
Note that, for any party the Department was unable to locate in
prior segments, the Department will not accept a request for an
administrative review of that party absent new information as to the
party's location. Moreover, if the interested party who files a request
for review is unable to locate the producer or exporter for which it
requested the review, the interested party must provide an explanation
of the attempts it made to locate the producer or exporter at the same
time it files its request for review, in order for the Secretary to
determine if the interested party's attempts were reasonable, pursuant
to 19 CFR 351.303(f)(3)(ii).
As explained in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003), and Non-
Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping
Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) the Department clarified its
practice with respect to the collection of final antidumping duties on
imports of merchandise where intermediate firms are involved. The
public should be aware of this clarification in determining whether to
request an administrative review of merchandise subject to antidumping
findings and orders.\2\
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Further, as explained in Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of
Change in Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping
Duty Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013),
the Department clarified its practice with regard to the conditional
review of the non-market economy (NME) entity in administrative reviews
of antidumping duty orders. The Department will no longer consider the
NME entity as an exporter conditionally subject to administrative
reviews. Accordingly, the NME entity will not be under review unless
the Department specifically receives a request for, or self-initiates,
a review of the NME entity.\3\ In administrative reviews of antidumping
duty orders on merchandise from NME countries where a review of the NME
entity has not been initiated, but where an individual exporter for
which a review was initiated does not qualify for a separate rate, the
Department will issue a final decision indicating that the company in
question is part of the NME entity. However, in that situation, because
no review of the NME entity was conducted, the NME entity's entries
were not subject to the review and the rate for the NME entity is not
subject to change as a result of that review (although the rate for the
individual exporter may change as a function of the finding that the
exporter is part of the NME entity). Following initiation of an
antidumping administrative review when there is no review requested of
the NME entity, the Department will instruct CBP to liquidate entries
for all exporters not named in the initiation notice, including those
that were suspended at the NME entity rate.
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\3\ In accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(b)(1), parties should
specify that they are requesting a review of entries from exporters
comprising the entity, and to the extent possible, include the names
of such exporters in their request.
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All requests must be filed electronically in Enforcement and
Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic
Service System (``ACCESS'') on Enforcement and Compliance's ACCESS Web
site at https://access.trade.gov.\4\ Further, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.303(f)(l)(i), a copy of each request must be served on the
petitioner and each exporter or producer specified in the request.
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\4\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Electronic Filing Procedures; Administrative Protective Order
Procedures, 76 FR 39263 (July 6, 2011).
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The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of
``Initiation of Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing
Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation'' for requests received
by the last day of August 2016. If the Department does not receive, by
the last day of August 2016, a request for review of entries covered by
an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this notice and
for the period identified above, the Department will instruct CBP to
assess antidumping or countervailing duties on those entries at a rate
equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated antidumping or
countervailing duties required on those entries at the time of entry,
or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption and to continue to
collect the cash deposit previously ordered.
For the first administrative review of any order, there will be no
assessment of antidumping or countervailing duties on entries of
subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption during the relevant provisional-measures ``gap'' period of
the order, if such a gap period is applicable to the period of review.
This notice is not required by statute but is published as a
service to the international trading community.
Dated: July 28, 2016.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2016-18540 Filed 8-4-16; 8:45 am]
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