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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–821–811]
Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium
Nitrate From the Russian Federation;
Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; Final
Determination of No Shipments; 2014–
2015
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On May 13, 2016, the
Department of Commerce (the
Department) published the preliminary
results of the administrative review of
the antidumping duty order on solid
fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate
(ammonium nitrate) from the Russian
Federation. We invited interested
parties to comment; we received no
comments or requests for a hearing.
Therefore, for the final results, we
continue to find that sales of subject
merchandise by JSC Acron and its
affiliate JSC Dorogobuzh (collectively,
Acron) have not been made at prices
below normal value (NV) during the
period of review (POR). Further, we
continue to find that MCC EuroChem
and its affiliates OJSC NAK Azot and
OJSC Nevinnomyssky Azot
(collectively, EuroChem) made no
shipments of subject merchandise
during the POR.
DATES: Effective September 19, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Eastwood or David Crespo,
AD/CVD Operations, Office II,
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–3874, or (202) 482–3693,
respectively.
AGENCY:
On May
13, 2016, the Department published the
Preliminary Results.1 The POR is April
1, 2014, through March 31, 2015. We
invited interested parties to comment on
the Preliminary Results. We received no
comments or requests for a hearing. The
Department conducted this
administrative review in accordance
with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act).
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1 See Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate
From the Russian Federation; Preliminary Results
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review;
Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2014–
2015, 81 FR 29839 (May 13, 2016) (Preliminary
Results).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to this order
is solid, fertilizer grade ammonium
nitrate products. The merchandise
subject to this order is classified in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS) at subheadings
3102.30.00.00 and 3102.290000.
Although the HTSUS subheadings are
provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written description of the
merchandise within the scope is
dispositive.2
Final Results of Review and Final
Determination of No Shipments
As noted above, the Department
received no comments concerning the
Preliminary Results on the record of this
segment of the proceeding. As there are
no changes from, or comments upon,
the Preliminary Results, the Department
finds that there is no reason to modify
its analysis. Thus, we continue to find
that sales of subject merchandise by
Acron were not made at less than NV
during the POR. Further, we continue to
find that EuroChem made no shipments
of subject merchandise during the POR.
Accordingly, no decision memorandum
accompanies this Federal Register
notice. For further details of the issues
addressed in this proceeding, see the
Preliminary Results and the
accompanying Preliminary Decision
Memorandum. The final weightedaverage dumping margin for the period
April 1, 2014, through March 31, 2015
for Acron is as follows:
Producer/exporter
JSC Acron/JSC Dorogobuzh ......
2 For a complete description of the scope of the
order, see the memorandum from Gary Taverman,
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, entitled, ‘‘Decision
Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the
2014–2015 Administrative Review of the
Antidumping Duty Order on Solid Fertilizer Grade
Ammonium Nitrate from the Russian Federation,’’
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum), dated May 5,
2016, which can be accessed directly at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The Department notified CBP to
discontinue the collection of cash
deposits on entries of the subject
merchandise, entered or withdrawn
from warehouse, on or after August 20,
2016.5 Therefore, no cash deposit
requirements will be imposed in
response to these final results.
Reimbursement of Duties
This notice also 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
Weighted- review period. Failure to comply with
average
this requirement could result in the
dumping
Secretary’s presumption that
margin
reimbursement of antidumping duties
(percent)
occurred and the subsequent assessment
0.00 of double antidumping duties.
Assessment Rates
The Department will determine, and
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties
on all appropriate entries in this review,
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b).
The Department intends to issue
assessment instructions directly to CBP
15 days after publication of these final
results of review. Because we have
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calculated a zero margin for Acron, the
only respondent with entries of subject
merchandise during the POR, in the
final results of this review, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate
entries without regard to antidumping
duties.
The Department clarified its
‘‘automatic assessment’’ regulation on
May 6, 2003.3 This clarification applies
to entries of subject merchandise during
the POR produced and exported by
Acron or EuroChem for which Acron or
EuroChem did not know that the
merchandise was destined for the
United States. In such instances, we will
instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed
entries at the all-others rate effective
during the POR if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in
the transaction.4
Administrative Protective Order
This notice also serves as a reminder
to parties subject to administrative
protective order (APO) of their
responsibility concerning the return or
destruction of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which
continues to govern business
proprietary information in this segment
of the proceeding. Timely written
notification of the return/destruction of
APO materials or conversion to judicial
3 See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68
FR 23954 (May 6, 2003) (Assessment Policy Notice).
4 See Assessment Policy Notice for a full
discussion of this clarification.
5 See Ammonium Nitrate From the Russian
Federation: Final Results of Sunset Review and
Revocation of Antidumping Duty Order, 81 FR
61185 (August 12, 2016).
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protective order is hereby requested.
Failure to comply with the regulations
and terms of an APO is a violation,
which is subject to sanction.
We are issuing and publishing this
notice in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: September 12, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
U.S. Smart Grid Solutions Toolkit
International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice and request for public
comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Commerce announces the development
of a toolkit to promote the deployment
of U.S. smart grid technologies and
services to be launched in FY2017.
Through this Notice, the Department of
Commerce seeks broad input from all
interested stakeholders regarding the
most frequently requested ‘‘use cases’’
by electric utilities for inclusion in a
web-based U.S. Smart Grid Solutions
Toolkit. The U.S. Smart Grid Solutions
Toolkit (‘‘Toolkit’’) is intended to be
used by foreign energy officials and
foreign end-users of smart grid
technologies. The Toolkit will outline
U.S. approaches to a series of electric
utility use cases and highlight
participating U.S. vendors of relevant
U.S. smart grid technologies and
services. The Toolkit will support the
President’s National Export Initiative by
fostering export opportunities for the
U.S. energy industry.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before 4:00 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time (EDT) on October 1,
2016.
SUMMARY:
Written comments by be
submitted by email to
Victoria.Gunderson@trade.gov.
Comments submitted by email should
be machine-readable and should not be
copy protected. Written comments
should include contact information for
the submitter including name, email,
and phone number. Written comments
also may be submitted by mail to
Victoria Gunderson, Office of Energy &
Environmental Industries, Room 4053,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Victoria Gunderson, Office of Energy &
Environmental Industries, Room 4053,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230; phone 202–482–7890; fax
202–482–5665; email
Victoria.Gunderson@trade.gov.
[A–570–042]
The
development of the U.S. Smart Grid
Solutions Toolkit requires the
identification of three elements: (1) The
most frequently requested use cases by
global electric utilities; (2) a framework
logic to outline the structure of the U.S.
smart grid industry; and (3) U.S.
vendors capable of supplying relevant
goods and services to foreign buyers. At
this stage of development of the Toolkit,
and through this Notice, the Department
of Commerce invites comment to
identify the most commonly requested
‘‘use cases,’’ requested by electric
utilities. Smart grid use cases should be
limited to those applications that can be
addressed by transmission, distribution,
and energy storage related technologies
and services. Examples of use cases
include, but are not limited to, the
following: Arbitrage, distribution
upgrades due to wind/solar, curtailment
minimization, frequency regulation,
improved customer engagement, nontechnical loss reduction, outage
detection, and peak demand reduction.
Because input received will be
publicly available upon request,
businesses or individuals responding to
this notice should not include any
business confidential. Final selection of
included use cases into the Toolkit will
not be attributed.
A subsequent Federal Register notice
will be issued at a later date for U.S.
vendors capable of supplying relevant
goods and services to foreign buyers to
express interest and provide relevant
information to be listed in the Toolkit.
AGENCY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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ADDRESSES:
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230.
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Man Cho,
Deputy Director, Office of Energy and
Environmental Industries.
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Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip From
the People’s Republic of China:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and
Preliminary Affirmative Determination
of Critical Circumstances
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(Department) preliminarily determines
that imports of stainless steel sheet and
strip (stainless sheet and strip) from the
People’s Republic of China (PRC) are
being, or are likely to be, sold in the
United States at less than fair value
(LTFV). The period of investigation is
July 1, 2015, through December 31,
2015. The estimated dumping margins
are shown in the ‘‘Preliminary
Determination’’ section of this notice.
We invite interested parties to comment
on this preliminary determination.
DATES: Effective September 19, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Toni
Page at (202) 482–1398 or Lingjun Wang
at (202) 482–2316, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VII, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Department published the notice
of initiation of this investigation on
March 10, 2016.1 For a complete
description of the events that followed
the initiation of this investigation, see
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
dated concurrently with and hereby
adopted by this notice.2 A list of topics
included in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is included as Appendix
I. The Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is a public document and
is on file electronically via Enforcement
and Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
1 See Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip From the
People’s Republic of China: Initiation of Less Than
Fair Value Investigation, 81 FR 12711 (March 10,
2016) (Initiation Notice).
2 See Memorandum from Gary Taverman,
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
to Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations,
entitled ‘‘Decision Memorandum for the
Preliminary Determination in the Antidumping
Duty Investigation of Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip
from the People’s Republic of China’’ (Preliminary
Decision Memorandum).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-821-811]
Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate From the Russian
Federation; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review;
Final Determination of No Shipments; 2014-2015
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On May 13, 2016, the Department of Commerce (the Department)
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on solid fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate
(ammonium nitrate) from the Russian Federation. We invited interested
parties to comment; we received no comments or requests for a hearing.
Therefore, for the final results, we continue to find that sales of
subject merchandise by JSC Acron and its affiliate JSC Dorogobuzh
(collectively, Acron) have not been made at prices below normal value
(NV) during the period of review (POR). Further, we continue to find
that MCC EuroChem and its affiliates OJSC NAK Azot and OJSC
Nevinnomyssky Azot (collectively, EuroChem) made no shipments of
subject merchandise during the POR.
DATES: Effective September 19, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Eastwood or David Crespo,
AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3874, or (202) 482-3693, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 13, 2016, the Department published
the Preliminary Results.\1\ The POR is April 1, 2014, through March 31,
2015. We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary
Results. We received no comments or requests for a hearing. The
Department conducted this administrative review in accordance with
section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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\1\ See Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate From the Russian
Federation; Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2014-2015, 81 FR
29839 (May 13, 2016) (Preliminary Results).
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to this order is solid, fertilizer grade
ammonium nitrate products. The merchandise subject to this order is
classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS) at subheadings 3102.30.00.00 and 3102.290000. Although the
HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes,
the written description of the merchandise within the scope is
dispositive.\2\
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\2\ For a complete description of the scope of the order, see
the memorandum from Gary Taverman, Associate Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to
Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance,
entitled, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the
2014-2015 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on
Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate from the Russian
Federation,'' (Preliminary Decision Memorandum), dated May 5, 2016,
which can be accessed directly at https://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
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Final Results of Review and Final Determination of No Shipments
As noted above, the Department received no comments concerning the
Preliminary Results on the record of this segment of the proceeding. As
there are no changes from, or comments upon, the Preliminary Results,
the Department finds that there is no reason to modify its analysis.
Thus, we continue to find that sales of subject merchandise by Acron
were not made at less than NV during the POR. Further, we continue to
find that EuroChem made no shipments of subject merchandise during the
POR. Accordingly, no decision memorandum accompanies this Federal
Register notice. For further details of the issues addressed in this
proceeding, see the Preliminary Results and the accompanying
Preliminary Decision Memorandum. The final weighted-average dumping
margin for the period April 1, 2014, through March 31, 2015 for Acron
is as follows:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
JSC Acron/JSC Dorogobuzh.................................... 0.00
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Assessment Rates
The Department will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries in this review, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b). The
Department intends to issue assessment instructions directly to CBP 15
days after publication of these final results of review. Because we
have calculated a zero margin for Acron, the only respondent with
entries of subject merchandise during the POR, in the final results of
this review, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries
without regard to antidumping duties.
The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on
May 6, 2003.\3\ This clarification applies to entries of subject
merchandise during the POR produced and exported by Acron or EuroChem
for which Acron or EuroChem did not know that the merchandise was
destined for the United States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP
to liquidate unreviewed entries at the all-others rate effective during
the POR if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved
in the transaction.\4\
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\3\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003)
(Assessment Policy Notice).
\4\ See Assessment Policy Notice for a full discussion of this
clarification.
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The Department notified CBP to discontinue the collection of cash
deposits on entries of the subject merchandise, entered or withdrawn
from warehouse, on or after August 20, 2016.\5\ Therefore, no cash
deposit requirements will be imposed in response to these final
results.
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\5\ See Ammonium Nitrate From the Russian Federation: Final
Results of Sunset Review and Revocation of Antidumping Duty Order,
81 FR 61185 (August 12, 2016).
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Reimbursement of Duties
This notice also 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 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.
Administrative Protective Order
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which
continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of
the proceeding. Timely written notification of the return/destruction
of APO materials or conversion to judicial
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protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the
regulations and terms of an APO is a violation, which is subject to
sanction.
We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: September 12, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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