Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products From the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order, 12440-12441 [2017-04131]
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antidumping and countervailing duty
proceedings at the Department.
This notice of initiation is being
published in accordance with section
751(c) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(c).
Dated: February 27, 2017.
James Maeder,
Senior Director, Office for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–570–036]
Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid
Products From the People’s Republic
of China: Antidumping Duty Order
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final
determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the
International Trade Commission (ITC),
the Department is issuing the
antidumping duty order on certain
biaxial integral geogrid products
(geogrids) from the People’s Republic of
China (PRC).
DATES: Effective March 3, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julia
Hancock at (202) 482–1394, AD/CVD
Operations, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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AGENCY:
Background
In accordance with sections 735(d)
and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930,
as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR
351.210(c), on January 11, 2017, the
Department published its affirmative
final determination in the less-than-fairvalue (LTFV) investigation of geogrids
from the PRC.1 On February 24, 2017,
the ITC notified the Department of its
affirmative determination that an
industry in the United States is
materially injured within the meaning
of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, by
reason of the LTFV imports of geogrids
from the PRC, and of its determination
that critical circumstances do not exist
with respect to imports of subject
merchandise from the PRC that are
1 See Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products
from the People’s Republic of China: Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 82
FR 3284 (January 11, 2017) and accompanying
Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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subject to the Department’s affirmative
critical circumstances finding.2
Scope of the Order
The scope of this order covers
geogrids from the PRC. For a complete
description of the scope, see Appendix.
Antidumping Duty Order
On February 24, 2017, in accordance
with section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC
notified the Department of its final
determination in this investigation, in
which it found that an industry in the
United States is materially injured by
reason of imports of geogrids from the
PRC, and that critical circumstances do
not exist with respect to imports of
subject merchandise that are subject to
the Department’s affirmative critical
circumstances finding.3 Therefore, in
accordance with section 735(c)(2) of the
Act, the Department is issuing this
antidumping duty order. Because the
ITC determined that imports of geogrids
from the PRC are materially injuring a
U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of
such merchandise from the PRC,
entered or withdrawn from warehouse
for consumption, are subject to the
assessment of antidumping duties.
Therefore, in accordance with section
736(a)(1) of the Act, the Department will
direct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further
instruction by the Department,
antidumping duties equal to the amount
by which the normal value of the
merchandise exceeds the export price
(or constructed export price) of the
merchandise, for all relevant entries of
geogrids from the PRC. Antidumping
duties will be assessed on unliquidated
entries of geogrids entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after August 22,
2016, the date of publication of the
Preliminary Determination,4 but will
not include entries occurring after the
expiration of the provisional measures
period and before publication of the
ITC’s final injury determination as
further described below.
2 See Letter to Ronald Lorentzen, Acting Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and
Compliance, from Rhonda K. Schmidtlein,
Chairman of the U.S. International Trade
Commission, regarding geogrids from the PRC
(February 24, 2016) (ITC Letter).
3 See ITC Letter.
4 See Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products
from the People’s Republic of China: Affirmative
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value, Affirmative Determination of Critical
Circumstances, in Part, and Postponement of Final
Determination, 81 FR 56584 (August 22, 2016)
(Preliminary Determination) and accompanying
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section
735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will instruct
CBP to reinstitute the suspension of
liquidation of geogrids from the PRC.
We will also instruct CBP to require
cash deposits equal to the estimated
amount by which the normal value
exceeds the U.S. price as indicated in
the chart below, adjusted where
appropriate for export subsidies and
estimated domestic subsidy passthrough.5 These instructions suspending
liquidation will remain in effect until
further notice.
Accordingly, effective on the date of
publication of the ITC’s final affirmative
determinations, CBP will require, at the
same time as importers would normally
deposit estimated duties on this subject
merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the
estimated weighted-average dumping
margins, adjusted where appropriate for
export subsidies and estimated domestic
subsidy pass-through.6 The ‘‘PRC-wide’’
rate applies to all exporters of subject
merchandise.
Exporter or
producer
Weightedaverage
dumping
margin
(percent)
Cash
deposit
rate
(percent)
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372.81
Provisional Measures
Section 733(d) of the Act states that
instructions issued pursuant to an
affirmative preliminary determination
may not remain in effect for more than
four months, except where exporters
representing a significant proportion of
exports of the subject merchandise
request the Department to extend that
four-month period to no more than six
months. At the request of an exporter
that accounted for a significant
proportion of exports of geogrids from
the PRC, we extended the four-month
period to no more than six-months.8 In
the underlying investigation, the
Department published the Preliminary
Determination on August 22, 2016.
Therefore, the six-month period
beginning on the date of the publication
of the Preliminary Determination ended
5 See Final Determination, 82 FR at 3286
(describing the adjustments to the AD duty rate for
the PRC-wide entity in more detail); see also
sections 772(c)(1)(C) and 777A(f) of the Act,
respectively.
6 Id. at 3286 (we did not make any adjustment to
the cash deposit rates for export subsidy rates or
domestic subsidy pass-through).
7 As discussed in the Final Determination, the
PRC-wide entity includes BOSTD Geosynthetics
Qingdao Ltd. (BOSTD) and Taian Modern Plastic
Co., Ltd. (Taian Modern).
8 See Preliminary Determination, 81 FR at 56586.
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on February 22, 2017. Furthermore,
section 737(b) of the Act states that
definitive duties are to begin on the date
of publication of the ITC’s final injury
determination.
Therefore, in accordance with section
733(d) of the Act and our practice, we
will instruct CBP to terminate the
suspension of liquidation and to
liquidate, without regard to
antidumping duties, unliquidated
entries of geogrids from the PRC
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,
for consumption after February 22,
2017, the date the provisional measures
expired, until and through the day
preceding the date of publication of the
ITC’s final injury determination in the
Federal Register. Suspension of
liquidation will resume on the date of
publication of the ITC’s final
determination in the Federal Register.
Critical Circumstances
With regard to the ITC’s negative
critical circumstances determination on
imports of geogrids from the PRC, we
will instruct CBP to lift suspension and
to refund any cash deposits made to
secure the payment of estimated
antidumping duties with respect to
geogrids from the PRC entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after May 24, 2016
(i.e., 90 days prior to the date of
publication of the Preliminary
Determination), but before August 22,
2016 (i.e., the date of publication of the
Preliminary Determination).
However, for the one respondent,
BOSTD, where we found critical
circumstances at the Final
Determination, we will instruct CBP to
lift suspension and to refund any cash
deposits made to secure payment of
estimated antidumping duties with
respect to geogrids entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption by BOSTD on or after
October 13, 2016 (i.e., 90 days prior to
the date of publication of the Final
Determination), but before January 11,
2017 (i.e., the date of publication of the
Final Determination).
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the
antidumping duty order with respect to
geogrids from the PRC pursuant to
section 736(a) of the Act. Interested
parties can find a list of antidumping
duty orders currently in effect at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/stats/
iastats1.html.
This order is issued and published in
accordance with section 736(a) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
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Dated: February 24, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Appendix
Stainless Steel Bar From Spain:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2015–
2016
The products covered by the scope are
certain biaxial integral geogrid products.
Biaxial integral geogrid products are a
polymer grid or mesh material (whether or
not finished, slit, cut-to-length, attached to
woven or non-woven fabric or sheet material,
or packaged) in which four-sided openings in
the form of squares, rectangles, rhomboids,
diamonds, or other four-sided figures
predominate. The products covered have
integral strands that have been stretched to
induce molecular orientation into the
material (as evidenced by the strands being
thinner in width toward the middle between
the junctions than at the junctions
themselves) constituting the sides of the
openings and integral junctions where the
strands intersect. The scope includes
products in which four-sided figures
predominate whether or not they also contain
additional strands intersecting the four-sided
figures and whether or not the inside corners
of the four-sided figures are rounded off or
not sharp angles. As used herein, the term
‘‘integral’’ refers to strands and junctions that
are homogenous with each other. The
products covered have a tensile strength of
greater than 5 kilonewtons per meter (‘‘kN/
m’’) according to American Society for
Testing and Materials (‘‘ASTM’’) Standard
Test Method D6637/D6637M in any direction
and average overall flexural stiffness of more
than 100,000 milligram-centimeter according
to the ASTM D7748/D7748M Standard Test
Method for Flexural Rigidity of Geogrids,
Geotextiles and Related Products, or other
equivalent test method standards.
Subject merchandise includes material
matching the above description that has been
finished, packaged, or otherwise further
processed in a third country, including by
trimming, slitting, coating, cutting, punching
holes, stretching, attaching to woven or nonwoven fabric or sheet material, or any other
finishing, packaging, or other further
processing that would not otherwise remove
the merchandise from the scope of the
investigations if performed in the country of
manufacture of the biaxial integral geogrid.
The products subject to the scope are
currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (‘‘HTSUS’’)
under the following subheading:
3926.90.9995. Subject merchandise may also
enter under subheadings 3920.20.0050 and
3925.90.0000. The HTSUS subheadings set
forth above are provided for convenience and
U.S. Customs purposes only. The written
description of the scope is dispositive.
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International Trade Administration
[A–469–805]
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the Department) is conducting an
administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar (SSB) from Spain. The period
of review (POR) is March 1, 2015,
through February 29, 2016. The review
covers one producer/exporter of the
subject merchandise, Gerdau Aceros
Especiales Europa, S.L. (Gerdau). The
Department preliminarily finds that
subject merchandise has been sold in
the United States at prices below normal
value (NV) during the POR.
DATES: Effective March 3, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ryan Mullen, AD/CVD Operations,
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–5260.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Scope of the Order
The product covered by this
investigation is SSB from Spain. For a
full description of the scope of the
order, see Appendix I of this notice.
Methodology
The Department is conducting this
review in accordance with section
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act). For a full
description of the methodology
underlying our conclusions, see the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.1 A
list of the topics included in the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is
included as an appendix to this notice.
The Preliminary Decision Memorandum
is a public document and is made
available to the public via Enforcement
and Compliance’s Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Centralized
1 See Memorandum from James Maeder, Senior
Director, Office I, for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Ronald K.
Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance, ‘‘Decision
Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review:
Stainless Steel Bar from Spain; 2015–2016’’
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum) dated
concurrently with this notice.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-036]
Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products From the People's
Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of
Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (ITC),
the Department is issuing the antidumping duty order on certain biaxial
integral geogrid products (geogrids) from the People's Republic of
China (PRC).
DATES: Effective March 3, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julia Hancock at (202) 482-1394, AD/
CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.210(c), on January 11,
2017, the Department published its affirmative final determination in
the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of geogrids from the
PRC.\1\ On February 24, 2017, the ITC notified the Department of its
affirmative determination that an industry in the United States is
materially injured within the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the
Act, by reason of the LTFV imports of geogrids from the PRC, and of its
determination that critical circumstances do not exist with respect to
imports of subject merchandise from the PRC that are subject to the
Department's affirmative critical circumstances finding.\2\
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\1\ See Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products from the
People's Republic of China: Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value, 82 FR 3284 (January 11, 2017) and accompanying
Issues and Decision Memorandum.
\2\ See Letter to Ronald Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, from Rhonda K.
Schmidtlein, Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission,
regarding geogrids from the PRC (February 24, 2016) (ITC Letter).
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Scope of the Order
The scope of this order covers geogrids from the PRC. For a
complete description of the scope, see Appendix.
Antidumping Duty Order
On February 24, 2017, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act,
the ITC notified the Department of its final determination in this
investigation, in which it found that an industry in the United States
is materially injured by reason of imports of geogrids from the PRC,
and that critical circumstances do not exist with respect to imports of
subject merchandise that are subject to the Department's affirmative
critical circumstances finding.\3\ Therefore, in accordance with
section 735(c)(2) of the Act, the Department is issuing this
antidumping duty order. Because the ITC determined that imports of
geogrids from the PRC are materially injuring a U.S. industry,
unliquidated entries of such merchandise from the PRC, entered or
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment
of antidumping duties.
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\3\ See ITC Letter.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the
Department will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
assess, upon further instruction by the Department, antidumping duties
equal to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise
exceeds the export price (or constructed export price) of the
merchandise, for all relevant entries of geogrids from the PRC.
Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of geogrids
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after
August 22, 2016, the date of publication of the Preliminary
Determination,\4\ but will not include entries occurring after the
expiration of the provisional measures period and before publication of
the ITC's final injury determination as further described below.
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\4\ See Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products from the
People's Republic of China: Affirmative Preliminary Determination of
Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Affirmative Determination of Critical
Circumstances, in Part, and Postponement of Final Determination, 81
FR 56584 (August 22, 2016) (Preliminary Determination) and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we will
instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of geogrids
from the PRC. We will also instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal
to the estimated amount by which the normal value exceeds the U.S.
price as indicated in the chart below, adjusted where appropriate for
export subsidies and estimated domestic subsidy pass-through.\5\ These
instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further
notice.
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\5\ See Final Determination, 82 FR at 3286 (describing the
adjustments to the AD duty rate for the PRC-wide entity in more
detail); see also sections 772(c)(1)(C) and 777A(f) of the Act,
respectively.
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Accordingly, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's
final affirmative determinations, CBP will require, at the same time as
importers would normally deposit estimated duties on this subject
merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the estimated weighted-average
dumping margins, adjusted where appropriate for export subsidies and
estimated domestic subsidy pass-through.\6\ The ``PRC-wide'' rate
applies to all exporters of subject merchandise.
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\6\ Id. at 3286 (we did not make any adjustment to the cash
deposit rates for export subsidy rates or domestic subsidy pass-
through).
\7\ As discussed in the Final Determination, the PRC-wide entity
includes BOSTD Geosynthetics Qingdao Ltd. (BOSTD) and Taian Modern
Plastic Co., Ltd. (Taian Modern).
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Weighted-
average Cash
Exporter or producer dumping deposit
margin rate
(percent) (percent)
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PRC-Wide Entity \7\........................... 372.81 372.81
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Provisional Measures
Section 733(d) of the Act states that instructions issued pursuant
to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in effect
for more than four months, except where exporters representing a
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request
the Department to extend that four-month period to no more than six
months. At the request of an exporter that accounted for a significant
proportion of exports of geogrids from the PRC, we extended the four-
month period to no more than six-months.\8\ In the underlying
investigation, the Department published the Preliminary Determination
on August 22, 2016. Therefore, the six-month period beginning on the
date of the publication of the Preliminary Determination ended
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on February 22, 2017. Furthermore, section 737(b) of the Act states
that definitive duties are to begin on the date of publication of the
ITC's final injury determination.
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\8\ See Preliminary Determination, 81 FR at 56586.
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Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act and our
practice, we will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of
liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties,
unliquidated entries of geogrids from the PRC entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption after February 22, 2017, the date the
provisional measures expired, until and through the day preceding the
date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the
Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation will resume on the date of
publication of the ITC's final determination in the Federal Register.
Critical Circumstances
With regard to the ITC's negative critical circumstances
determination on imports of geogrids from the PRC, we will instruct CBP
to lift suspension and to refund any cash deposits made to secure the
payment of estimated antidumping duties with respect to geogrids from
the PRC entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or
after May 24, 2016 (i.e., 90 days prior to the date of publication of
the Preliminary Determination), but before August 22, 2016 (i.e., the
date of publication of the Preliminary Determination).
However, for the one respondent, BOSTD, where we found critical
circumstances at the Final Determination, we will instruct CBP to lift
suspension and to refund any cash deposits made to secure payment of
estimated antidumping duties with respect to geogrids entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption by BOSTD on or after October
13, 2016 (i.e., 90 days prior to the date of publication of the Final
Determination), but before January 11, 2017 (i.e., the date of
publication of the Final Determination).
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to
geogrids from the PRC pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. Interested
parties can find a list of antidumping duty orders currently in effect
at https://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
This order is issued and published in accordance with section
736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).
Dated: February 24, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
The products covered by the scope are certain biaxial integral
geogrid products. Biaxial integral geogrid products are a polymer
grid or mesh material (whether or not finished, slit, cut-to-length,
attached to woven or non-woven fabric or sheet material, or
packaged) in which four-sided openings in the form of squares,
rectangles, rhomboids, diamonds, or other four-sided figures
predominate. The products covered have integral strands that have
been stretched to induce molecular orientation into the material (as
evidenced by the strands being thinner in width toward the middle
between the junctions than at the junctions themselves) constituting
the sides of the openings and integral junctions where the strands
intersect. The scope includes products in which four-sided figures
predominate whether or not they also contain additional strands
intersecting the four-sided figures and whether or not the inside
corners of the four-sided figures are rounded off or not sharp
angles. As used herein, the term ``integral'' refers to strands and
junctions that are homogenous with each other. The products covered
have a tensile strength of greater than 5 kilonewtons per meter
(``kN/m'') according to American Society for Testing and Materials
(``ASTM'') Standard Test Method D6637/D6637M in any direction and
average overall flexural stiffness of more than 100,000 milligram-
centimeter according to the ASTM D7748/D7748M Standard Test Method
for Flexural Rigidity of Geogrids, Geotextiles and Related Products,
or other equivalent test method standards.
Subject merchandise includes material matching the above
description that has been finished, packaged, or otherwise further
processed in a third country, including by trimming, slitting,
coating, cutting, punching holes, stretching, attaching to woven or
non-woven fabric or sheet material, or any other finishing,
packaging, or other further processing that would not otherwise
remove the merchandise from the scope of the investigations if
performed in the country of manufacture of the biaxial integral
geogrid.
The products subject to the scope are currently classified in
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS'')
under the following subheading: 3926.90.9995. Subject merchandise
may also enter under subheadings 3920.20.0050 and 3925.90.0000. The
HTSUS subheadings set forth above are provided for convenience and
U.S. Customs purposes only. The written description of the scope is
dispositive.
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