Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 13795-13799 [2017-05166]
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which is a tubular steel product used in the
drilling of an oil well is within the scope of
the antidumping and countervailing duty
orders; February 12, 2016.
A–570–970 and C–570–971: Multilayered
Wood Flooring From the People’s Republic of
China
Requestor: Old Master Products, Inc. (‘‘Old
Master’’); Old Master’s two-layer wood
flooring products are not within the scope of
the Orders on multilayered wood flooring
from the PRC because they lack the expressed
requirement of two or more layers or plies of
wood veneer in combination with a core;
February 4, 2016.
A–570–970 and C–570–971: Multilayered
Wood Flooring From the People’s Republic of
China
Requestor: Jiashan Huijiale Decoration
Material Co., Ltd. (‘‘Jiashan Huijiale’’);
Jiashan Huijiale’s two-layer engineered wood
flooring panel with bottom-surface inlays is
not within the scope of the Orders on
multilayered wood flooring from the PRC,
because it lacks the requisite two or more
layers or plies of wood veneer in
combination with a core; February 29, 2016.
A–570–875: Non-Malleable Cast Iron Pipe
Fittings From the People’s Republic of China
Requestor: SIGMA Corporation (‘‘SIGMA’’);
SIGMA’s list of 94 ductile iron pipe fittings
are covered by the scope of the non-malleable
pipe fittings order because they meet all of
the ASME and UL specifications
characterizing it as subject merchandise;
January 13, 2016.
A–570–956 and C570–957: Seamless Carbon
and Alloy Steel Standard, Line, and Pressure
Pipe From the People’s Republic of China
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Commercial Honing LLC dba Commercial
Fluid Power (‘‘Commercial Honing’’);
Commercial Honing’s 12 sizes of mechanical
tubing are outside the scope of the Orders on
seamless carbon and alloy steel standard,
line, and pressure pipe from the PRC because
they meet the exclusion language of the
scope. However, one size of Commerical
Honing’s mechanical tubing falls within the
scope of the Orders because it does not meet
the requirements set forth in the exclusion
language; February 25, 2016.
Interested parties are invited to
comment on the completeness of this
list of completed scope and
anticircumvention inquiries. Any
comments should be submitted to the
Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD
Operations, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade
Administration, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW., APO/Dockets Unit, Room
18022, Washington, DC 20230.
This notice is published in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(o).
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Dated: March 9, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Associate Assistant Secretary for
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2017–05167 Filed 3–14–17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative
Reviews
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘the Department’’) has received
requests to conduct administrative
reviews of various antidumping and
countervailing duty orders and findings
with January anniversary dates. In
accordance with the Department’s
regulations, we are initiating those
administrative reviews.
DATES: Effective March 15, 2017.
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, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482–4735.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
The Department has received timely
requests, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(b), for administrative reviews of
various antidumping and countervailing
duty orders and findings with January
anniversary dates.
All deadlines for the submission of
various types of information,
certifications, or comments or actions by
the Department discussed below refer to
the number of calendar days from the
applicable starting time.
Notice of No Sales
If a producer or exporter named in
this notice of initiation had no exports,
sales, or entries during the period of
review (‘‘POR’’), it must notify the
Department within 30 days of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. All submissions must be filed
electronically at https://access.trade.gov
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.303.1
Such submissions are subject to
1 See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures;
Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR
39263 (July 6, 2011).
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verification in accordance with section
782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (‘‘the Act’’). Further, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.303(f)(1)(i),
a copy must be served on every party on
the Department’s service list.
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, except for
the administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on wooden
bedroom furniture from the People’s
Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’), 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 place the CBP data on the
record within five days of publication of
the initiation notice and to make our
decision regarding respondent selection
within 30 days of publication of the
initiation Federal Register notice.
Comments regarding the CBP data and
respondent selection should be
submitted seven days after the
placement of the CBP data on the record
of this review. Parties wishing to submit
rebuttal comments should submit those
comments five days after the deadline
for the initial comments.
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 has found
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
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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 (‘‘Q&V’’)
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 Q&V data for that collapsed
entity must be submitted.
Respondent Selection—Wooden
Bedroom Furniture From the PRC
In the event that the Department
limits the number of respondents for
individual examination in the
antidumping duty administrative review
of wooden bedroom furniture from the
PRC, for the purposes of this segment of
the proceeding, i.e., the 2016 review
period, the Department intends to select
respondents based on volume data
contained in responses to a Q&V
questionnaire. All parties are hereby
notified that they must timely respond
to the Q&V questionnaire. The
Department’s Q&V questionnaire along
with certain additional questions will be
available in a document package on the
Department’s Web site at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/download/prcwbf/ on the date this notice is
published. The responses to the Q&V
questionnaire should be filed with the
respondents’ Separate Rate Application
or Separate Rate Certification (see the
‘‘Separate Rates’’ section below) and
their response to the additional
questions and must be received by the
Department by no later than 30 days
after publication of this notice. Please be
advised that due to the time constraints
imposed by the statutory and regulatory
deadlines for antidumping duty
administrative reviews, the Department
does not intend to grant any extensions
for the submission of responses to the
Q&V questionnaire.
Deadline for Withdrawal of Request for
Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), a
party that has requested 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
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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 the Department does not intend to
extend the 90-day deadline unless the
requestor demonstrates that an
extraordinary circumstance has
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.
Separate Rates
In proceedings involving non-market
economy (‘‘NME’’) countries, the
Department begins with a rebuttable
presumption that all companies within
the country are subject to government
control and, thus, should be assigned a
single antidumping duty deposit rate. It
is the Department’s policy to assign all
exporters of merchandise subject to an
administrative review in an NME
country this single rate unless an
exporter can demonstrate that it is
sufficiently independent so as to be
entitled to a separate rate.
To establish whether a firm is
sufficiently independent from
government control of its export
activities to be entitled to a separate
rate, the Department analyzes each
entity exporting the subject
merchandise. In accordance with the
separate rates criteria, the Department
assigns separate rates to companies in
NME cases only if respondents can
demonstrate the absence of both de jure
and de facto government control over
export activities.
All firms listed below that wish to
qualify for separate rate status in the
administrative reviews involving NME
countries must complete, as
appropriate, either a separate rate
application or certification, as described
below. In addition, all firms that wish
to qualify for separate-rate status in the
antidumping duty administrative review
of wooden bedroom furniture from the
PRC must complete, as appropriate,
either a separate-rate certification or
application, as described below, and
respond to the additional questions and
the Q&V questionnaire on the
Department’s Web site at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/download/prcwbf/. For these
administrative reviews, in order to
demonstrate separate rate eligibility, the
Department requires entities for whom a
review was requested, that were
assigned a separate rate in the most
recent segment of this proceeding in
which they participated, to certify that
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they continue to meet the criteria for
obtaining a separate rate. The Separate
Rate Certification form will be available
on the Department’s Web site at https://
enforcement.trade.gov/nme/nme-seprate.html on the date of publication of
this Federal Register notice. In
responding to the certification, please
follow the ‘‘Instructions for Filing the
Certification’’ in the Separate Rate
Certification. Separate Rate
Certifications are due to the Department
no later than 30 calendar days after
publication of this Federal Register
notice. The deadline and requirement
for submitting a Certification applies
equally to NME-owned firms, wholly
foreign-owned firms, and foreign sellers
who purchase and export subject
merchandise to the United States. For
the antidumping duty administrative
review of wooden bedroom furniture
from the PRC, Separate Rate
Certifications, as well as a response to
the Q&V questionnaire and the
additional questions in the document
package, are due to the Department no
later than 30 calendar days after
publication of this Federal Register
notice.
Entities that currently do not have a
separate rate from a completed segment
of the proceeding 2 should timely file a
Separate Rate Application to
demonstrate eligibility for a separate
rate in this proceeding. In addition,
companies that received a separate rate
in a completed segment of the
proceeding that have subsequently
made changes, including, but not
limited to, changes to corporate
structure, acquisitions of new
companies or facilities, or changes to
their official company name,3 should
timely file a Separate Rate Application
to demonstrate eligibility for a separate
rate in this proceeding. The Separate
Rate Status Application will be
available on the Department’s Web site
at https://enforcement.trade.gov/nme/
nme-sep-rate.html on the date of
publication of this Federal Register
notice. In responding to the Separate
Rate Status Application, refer to the
instructions contained in the
application. Separate Rate Status
2 Such entities include entities that have not
participated in the proceeding, entities that were
preliminarily granted a separate rate in any
currently incomplete segment of the proceeding
(e.g., an ongoing administrative review, new
shipper review, etc.) and entities that lost their
separate rate in the most recently completed
segment of the proceeding in which they
participated.
3 Only changes to the official company name,
rather than trade names, need to be addressed via
a Separate Rate Application. Information regarding
new trade names may be submitted via a Separate
Rate Certification.
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Applications are due to the Department
no later than 30 calendar days of
publication of this Federal Register
notice. For the antidumping duty
administrative review of wooden
bedroom furniture from the PRC,
Separate Rate Status Applications, as
well as a response to the Q&V
questionnaire and the additional
questions in the document package, are
due to the Department no later than 30
calendar days after publication of this
Federal Register notice. The deadline
and requirement for submitting a
Separate Rate Status Application
applies equally to NME-owned firms,
wholly foreign-owned firms, and foreign
sellers that purchase and export subject
merchandise to the United States.
For exporters and producers who
submit a separate-rate status application
or certification and subsequently are
selected as mandatory respondents,
these exporters and producers will no
longer be eligible for separate rate status
unless they respond to all parts of the
questionnaire as mandatory
respondents.
Furthermore, this notice constitutes
public notification to all firms for which
an antidumping duty administrative
review of wooden bedroom furniture
from the PRC has been requested, and
that are seeking separate rate status in
the review, that they must submit a
timely separate rate application or
certification (as appropriate) as
described above, and a timely response
to the Q&V questionnaire and the
additional questions in the document
package on the Department’s Web site in
order to receive consideration for
separate-rate status. In other words, the
Department will not give consideration
to any timely separate rate certification
or application made by parties who
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failed to respond in a timely manner to
the Q&V questionnaire and the
additional questions. All information
submitted by respondents in the
antidumping duty administrative review
of wooden bedroom furniture from the
PRC is subject to verification. As noted
above, the separate rate certification, the
separate rate application, the Q&V
questionnaire, and the additional
questions will be available on the
Department’s Web site on the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register.
Initiation of Reviews
In accordance with 19 CFR
351.221(c)(1)(i), we are initiating
administrative reviews of the following
antidumping and countervailing duty
orders and findings. We intend to issue
the final results of these reviews not
later than January 31, 2018.
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Period to be
reviewed
Antidumping Duty Proceedings
The People’s Republic of China: Potassium Permanganate A–570–001 ..........................................................................
Chongqing Changyuan Group Limited.
Pacific Accelerator Limited.
Republic of Korea: Welded Line Pipe 4 A–580–876 ...........................................................................................................
Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd.5
The People’s Republic of China: Multilayered Wood Flooring 6 A–570–970 ......................................................................
Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited and Double F Limited
The People’s Republic of China: Wooden Bedroom Furniture A–570–890 .......................................................................
Beautter Furniture Mfg. Co.
Best Beauty Furniture Co. Ltd.
C.F. Kent Co., Inc.
C.F. Kent Hospitality, Inc.
Century Distribution Systems, Inc.
Changshu Htc Import & Export Co., Ltd.
Clearwise Co., Ltd.
Decca Furniture Ltd.
Dongguan Chengcheng Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Fortune Furniture Ltd.
Dongguan Jinfeng Creative Furniture
Dongguan Kingstone Furniture Co., Ltd.; Kingstone Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Nova Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Singways Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Sunrise Furniture Co., Taicang Sunrise Wood Industry, Co., Ltd., Shanghai Sunrise Furniture Co.,
Ltd., Fairmont Designs
Dongguan Sunrise Furniture Co., Taicang Sunrise Wood Industry, Co., Ltd., Taicang Fairmont Designs Furniture
Co., Ltd., Meizhou Sunrise Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Zhisheng Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dorbest Ltd.; Rui Feng Woodwork Co., Ltd. aka Rui Feng Woodwork (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.; Rui Feng Lumber
Development Co., Ltd. aka Rui Feng Lumber Development (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Eurosa (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.; Eurosa Furniture Co., (PTE) Ltd.
Evergo Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Ltd.
Fleetwood Fine Furniture LP
Fortune Furniture Ltd.,
Foshan Bailan Imp. & Exp. Ltd.
Foshan Shunde Longjiang Zhishang Furniture Factory
Fujian Lianfu Forestry Co., Ltd. (aka Fujian Wonder Pacific Inc.)
Golden Well International (HK) Ltd. (Exporter) Zhangzhou Xym Furniture Product Co., Ltd. (Producer)
Guangzhou Maria Yee Furnishings Ltd., Pyla HK Ltd., Maria Yee, Inc.
Haining Kareno Furniture Co., Ltd.
Hang Hai Woodcrafts Art Factory
Hangzhou Cadman Trading Co., Ltd. (Exporter) Haining Changbei Furniture Co., Ltd. (Producer)
Hualing Furniture (China) Co., Ltd.; Tony House Manufacture (China) Co., Ltd.; Buysell Investments Ltd.; Tony
House Industries Co., Ltd.
Jiangmen Kinwai Furniture Decoration Co., Ltd.
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reviewed
Jiangmen Kinwai International Furniture Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu Dare Furniture Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu Xiangsheng Bedtime Furniture Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu Yuexing Furniture Group Co., Ltd.
Jiant Furniture Co. Ltd.
Jiashan Zhenxuan Furniture Co., Ltd
K Wee & Co., Ltd
Kunshan Summit Furniture Co., Ltd.
Nanhai Jiantai Woodwork Co., Ltd., Fortune Glory Industrial Ltd.(H.K. Ltd.)
Nantong Wangzhuang Furniture Co. Ltd.
Nantong Yangzi Furniture Co., Ltd.
Nathan International Ltd.; Nathan Rattan Factory
Orient International Holding Shanghai Foreign Trade Co., Ltd.
Passwell Corporation; Pleasant Wave Ltd.
Perfect Line Furniture Co., Ltd.
PuTian Jinggong Furniture Co., Ltd.
Qingdao Liangmu Co., Ltd.
Restonic (Dongguan) Furniture Ltd.; Restonic Far East (Samoa) Ltd.
RiZhao Sanmu Woodworking Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Jian Pu Export & Import Co., Ltd.
Shenyang Shining Dongxing Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Diamond Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Forest Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Jiafa High Grade Furniture Co., Ltd.; Golden Lion International Trading Ltd.
Shenzhen New Fudu Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Wonderful Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Xingli Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shing Mark Enterprise Co., Ltd.; Carven Industries Limited (BVI); Carven Industries Limited (HK); Dongguan
Zhenxin Furniture Co., Ltd.; Dongguan Yongpeng Furniture Co., Ltd.
Starwood Industries Ltd.
Sunforce Furniture (Hui-Yang) Co., Ltd.; Sun Fung Wooden Factory; Sun Fung Co.; Shin Feng Furniture Co.,
Ltd.; Stupendous International Co., Ltd.
Superwood Co., Ltd.; Lianjiang Zongyu Art Products Co., Ltd.
Techniwood Industries Ltd.; Ningbo Furniture Industries Ltd.; Ningbo Hengrun Furniture Co., Ltd.
Tradewinds Furniture Ltd. (Successor-In-Interest to Nanhai Jiantai Woodwork Co. Ltd.); Fortune Glory Industrial
Ltd. (H.K. Ltd.)
U-Rich Furniture (Zhangzhou) Co., Ltd.; U-Rich Furniture Ltd.
Weimei Furniture Co., Ltd.
Woodworth Wooden Industries (Dong Guan) Co., Ltd.
Wuxi Yushea Furniture Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Yongquan Sci-Tech Development Co., Ltd.
Yeh Brothers World Trade Inc.
Yihua Timber Industry Co., Ltd.; Guangdong Yihua Timber Industry Co., Ltd.
Zhangjiagang Daye Hotel Furniture Co., Ltd.
Zhangzhou Guohui Industrial & Trade Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Tianyi Scientific & Educational Equipment Co., Ltd.
Zhong Shun Wood Art Co.
Zhongshan Fookyik Furniture Co., Ltd.
Zhongshan Golden King Furniture Industrial Co., Ltd.
Zhoushan For-Strong Wood Co., Ltd.
Countervailing Duty Proceedings
The People’s Republic of China: Multilayered Wood Flooring 7 C–570–971 .....................................................................
Hangzhou Dazhuang Floor Co. (dba Dasso Industrial Group Co., Ltd.)
1/1/15–12/31/15
Suspension Agreements
None.
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Duty Absorption Reviews
between the first and second or third
and fourth anniversary of the
publication of an antidumping duty
order under 19 CFR 351.211 or a
determination under 19 CFR
351.218(f)(4) to continue an order or
During any administrative review
covering all or part of a period falling
4 In the initiation notice that published on
February 13, 2017 (82 FR 10457) the POR for the
above referenced case was incorrect. The period
listed above is the correct POR for this case.
5 The company listed above was inadvertently
omitted from the initiation notice that published on
February 13, 2017 (82 FR 10457).
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6 The The department inadvertently omitted
Double F Limited from the initiation notice that
published on February 13, 2017 (82 FR 10457).
7 The department inadvertently omitted dba from
the company listed above in the initiation notice
that published on February 13, 2017 (82 FR 10457).
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suspended investigation (after sunset
review), the Secretary, if requested by a
domestic interested party within 30
days of the date of publication of the
notice of initiation of the review, will
determine whether antidumping duties
have been absorbed by an exporter or
producer subject to the review if the
subject merchandise is sold in the
United States through an importer that
is affiliated with such exporter or
producer. The request must include the
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name(s) of the exporter or producer for
which the inquiry is requested.
Gap Period Liquidation
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 POR.
Administrative Protective Orders and
Letters of Appearance
Interested parties must submit
applications for disclosure under
administrative protective orders in
accordance with the procedures
outlined in the Department’s regulations
at 19 CFR 351.305. Those procedures
apply to administrative reviews
included in this notice of initiation.
Parties wishing to participate in any of
these administrative reviews should
ensure that they meet the requirements
of these procedures (e.g., the filing of
separate letters of appearance as
discussed at 19 CFR 351.103(d)).
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Factual Information Requirements
The Department’s regulations identify
five categories of factual information in
19 CFR 351.102(b)(21), which are
summarized as follows: (i) Evidence
submitted in response to questionnaires;
(ii) evidence submitted in support of
allegations; (iii) publicly available
information to value factors under 19
CFR 351.408(c) or to measure the
adequacy of remuneration under 19 CFR
351.511(a)(2); (iv) evidence placed on
the record by the Department; and (v)
evidence other than factual information
described in (i)–(iv). These regulations
require any party, when submitting
factual information, to specify under
which subsection of 19 CFR
351.102(b)(21) the information is being
submitted and, if the information is
submitted to rebut, clarify, or correct
factual information already on the
record, to provide an explanation
identifying the information already on
the record that the factual information
seeks to rebut, clarify, or correct. The
regulations, at 19 CFR 351.301, also
provide specific time limits for such
factual submissions based on the type of
factual information being submitted.
Please review the final rule, available at
https://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/2013/
8 See
section 782(b) of the Act.
Certification of Factual Information To
Import Administration During Antidumping and
9 See
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1304frn/2013-08227.txt, prior to
submitting factual information in this
segment.
Any party submitting factual
information in an antidumping duty or
countervailing duty proceeding must
certify to the accuracy and completeness
of that information.8 Parties are hereby
reminded that revised certification
requirements are in effect for company/
government officials as well as their
representatives. All segments of any
antidumping duty or countervailing
duty proceedings initiated on or after
August 16, 2013, should use the formats
for the revised certifications provided at
the end of the Final Rule.9 The
Department intends to reject factual
submissions in any proceeding
segments if the submitting party does
not comply with applicable revised
certification requirements.
Extension of Time Limits Regulation
Parties may request an extension of
time limits before a time limit
established under Part 351 expires, or as
otherwise specified by the Secretary.
See 19 CFR 351.302. In general, an
extension request will be considered
untimely if it is filed after the time limit
established under Part 351 expires. For
submissions which are due from
multiple parties simultaneously, an
extension request will be considered
untimely if it is filed after 10:00 a.m. on
the due date. Examples include, but are
not limited to: (1) Case and rebuttal
briefs, filed pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309;
(2) factual information to value factors
under 19 CFR 351.408(c), or to measure
the adequacy of remuneration under 19
CFR 351.511(a)(2), filed pursuant to 19
CFR 351.301(c)(3) and rebuttal,
clarification and correction filed
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3)(iv); (3)
comments concerning the selection of a
surrogate country and surrogate values
and rebuttal; (4) comments concerning
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
data; and (5) quantity and value
questionnaires. Under certain
circumstances, the Department may
elect to specify a different time limit by
which extension requests will be
considered untimely for submissions
which are due from multiple parties
simultaneously. In such a case, the
Department will inform parties in the
letter or memorandum setting forth the
deadline (including a specified time) by
which extension requests must be filed
to be considered timely. This
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 42678 (July
17, 2013) (‘‘Final Rule’’); see also the frequently
asked questions regarding the Final Rule, available
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modification also requires that an
extension request must be made in a
separate, stand-alone submission, and
clarifies the circumstances under which
the Department will grant untimelyfiled requests for the extension of time
limits. These modifications are effective
for all segments initiated on or after
October 21, 2013. Please review the
final rule, available at https://
www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-09-20/
html/2013-22853.htm, prior to
submitting factual information in these
segments.
These initiations and this notice are
in accordance with section 751(a) of the
Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR
351.221(c)(1)(i).
Dated: March 9, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty
Order, Finding, or Suspended
Investigation; Advance Notification of
Sunset Reviews
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
AGENCY:
Background
Every five years, pursuant to section
751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (‘‘the Act’’), the Department of
Commerce (‘‘the Department’’) and the
International Trade Commission
automatically initiate and conduct a
review to determine whether revocation
of a countervailing or antidumping duty
order or termination of an investigation
suspended under section 704 or 734 of
the Act would be likely to lead to
continuation or recurrence of dumping
or a countervailable subsidy (as the case
may be) and of material injury.
Upcoming Sunset Reviews for April
2017
The following Sunset Reviews are
scheduled for initiation in April 2017
and will appear in that month’s Notice
of Initiation of Five-Year Sunset
Reviews (‘‘Sunset Reviews’’).
at https://enforcement.trade.gov/tlei/notices/factual_
info_final_rule_FAQ_07172013.pdf.
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[Notices]
[Pages 13795-13799]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative
Reviews
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') has received
requests to conduct administrative reviews of various antidumping and
countervailing duty orders and findings with January anniversary dates.
In accordance with the Department's regulations, we are initiating
those administrative reviews.
DATES: Effective March 15, 2017.
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, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-
4735.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Department has received timely requests, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.213(b), for administrative reviews of various antidumping and
countervailing duty orders and findings with January anniversary dates.
All deadlines for the submission of various types of information,
certifications, or comments or actions by the Department discussed
below refer to the number of calendar days from the applicable starting
time.
Notice of No Sales
If a producer or exporter named in this notice of initiation had no
exports, sales, or entries during the period of review (``POR''), it
must notify the Department within 30 days of publication of this notice
in the Federal Register. All submissions must be filed electronically
at https://access.trade.gov in accordance with 19 CFR 351.303.\1\ Such
submissions are subject to verification in accordance with section
782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). Further, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.303(f)(1)(i), a copy must be served on every
party on the Department's service list.
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\1\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Electronic Filing Procedures; Administrative Protective Order
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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, except for the
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom
furniture from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''), 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 place the CBP data on the record within five days of
publication of the initiation notice and to make our decision regarding
respondent selection within 30 days of publication of the initiation
Federal Register notice. Comments regarding the CBP data and respondent
selection should be submitted seven days after the placement of the CBP
data on the record of this review. Parties wishing to submit rebuttal
comments should submit those comments five days after the deadline for
the initial comments.
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 has found 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
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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 (``Q&V'') 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 Q&V
data for that collapsed entity must be submitted.
Respondent Selection--Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the PRC
In the event that the Department limits the number of respondents
for individual examination in the antidumping duty administrative
review of wooden bedroom furniture from the PRC, for the purposes of
this segment of the proceeding, i.e., the 2016 review period, the
Department intends to select respondents based on volume data contained
in responses to a Q&V questionnaire. All parties are hereby notified
that they must timely respond to the Q&V questionnaire. The
Department's Q&V questionnaire along with certain additional questions
will be available in a document package on the Department's Web site at
https://enforcement.trade.gov/download/prc-wbf/ on the date
this notice is published. The responses to the Q&V questionnaire should
be filed with the respondents' Separate Rate Application or Separate
Rate Certification (see the ``Separate Rates'' section below) and their
response to the additional questions and must be received by the
Department by no later than 30 days after publication of this notice.
Please be advised that due to the time constraints imposed by the
statutory and regulatory deadlines for antidumping duty administrative
reviews, the Department does not intend to grant any extensions for the
submission of responses to the Q&V questionnaire.
Deadline for Withdrawal of Request for Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), a party that has requested 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 the
Department does not intend to extend the 90-day deadline unless the
requestor demonstrates that an extraordinary circumstance has 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.
Separate Rates
In proceedings involving non-market economy (``NME'') countries,
the Department begins with a rebuttable presumption that all companies
within the country are subject to government control and, thus, should
be assigned a single antidumping duty deposit rate. It is the
Department's policy to assign all exporters of merchandise subject to
an administrative review in an NME country this single rate unless an
exporter can demonstrate that it is sufficiently independent so as to
be entitled to a separate rate.
To establish whether a firm is sufficiently independent from
government control of its export activities to be entitled to a
separate rate, the Department analyzes each entity exporting the
subject merchandise. In accordance with the separate rates criteria,
the Department assigns separate rates to companies in NME cases only if
respondents can demonstrate the absence of both de jure and de facto
government control over export activities.
All firms listed below that wish to qualify for separate rate
status in the administrative reviews involving NME countries must
complete, as appropriate, either a separate rate application or
certification, as described below. In addition, all firms that wish to
qualify for separate-rate status in the antidumping duty administrative
review of wooden bedroom furniture from the PRC must complete, as
appropriate, either a separate-rate certification or application, as
described below, and respond to the additional questions and the Q&V
questionnaire on the Department's Web site at https://enforcement.trade.gov/download/prc-wbf/. For these
administrative reviews, in order to demonstrate separate rate
eligibility, the Department requires entities for whom a review was
requested, that were assigned a separate rate in the most recent
segment of this proceeding in which they participated, to certify that
they continue to meet the criteria for obtaining a separate rate. The
Separate Rate Certification form will be available on the Department's
Web site at https://enforcement.trade.gov/nme/nme-sep-rate.html on the
date of publication of this Federal Register notice. In responding to
the certification, please follow the ``Instructions for Filing the
Certification'' in the Separate Rate Certification. Separate Rate
Certifications are due to the Department no later than 30 calendar days
after publication of this Federal Register notice. The deadline and
requirement for submitting a Certification applies equally to NME-owned
firms, wholly foreign-owned firms, and foreign sellers who purchase and
export subject merchandise to the United States. For the antidumping
duty administrative review of wooden bedroom furniture from the PRC,
Separate Rate Certifications, as well as a response to the Q&V
questionnaire and the additional questions in the document package, are
due to the Department no later than 30 calendar days after publication
of this Federal Register notice.
Entities that currently do not have a separate rate from a
completed segment of the proceeding \2\ should timely file a Separate
Rate Application to demonstrate eligibility for a separate rate in this
proceeding. In addition, companies that received a separate rate in a
completed segment of the proceeding that have subsequently made
changes, including, but not limited to, changes to corporate structure,
acquisitions of new companies or facilities, or changes to their
official company name,\3\ should timely file a Separate Rate
Application to demonstrate eligibility for a separate rate in this
proceeding. The Separate Rate Status Application will be available on
the Department's Web site at https://enforcement.trade.gov/nme/nme-sep-rate.html on the date of publication of this Federal Register notice.
In responding to the Separate Rate Status Application, refer to the
instructions contained in the application. Separate Rate Status
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Applications are due to the Department no later than 30 calendar days
of publication of this Federal Register notice. For the antidumping
duty administrative review of wooden bedroom furniture from the PRC,
Separate Rate Status Applications, as well as a response to the Q&V
questionnaire and the additional questions in the document package, are
due to the Department no later than 30 calendar days after publication
of this Federal Register notice. The deadline and requirement for
submitting a Separate Rate Status Application applies equally to NME-
owned firms, wholly foreign-owned firms, and foreign sellers that
purchase and export subject merchandise to the United States.
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\2\ Such entities include entities that have not participated in
the proceeding, entities that were preliminarily granted a separate
rate in any currently incomplete segment of the proceeding (e.g., an
ongoing administrative review, new shipper review, etc.) and
entities that lost their separate rate in the most recently
completed segment of the proceeding in which they participated.
\3\ Only changes to the official company name, rather than trade
names, need to be addressed via a Separate Rate Application.
Information regarding new trade names may be submitted via a
Separate Rate Certification.
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For exporters and producers who submit a separate-rate status
application or certification and subsequently are selected as mandatory
respondents, these exporters and producers will no longer be eligible
for separate rate status unless they respond to all parts of the
questionnaire as mandatory respondents.
Furthermore, this notice constitutes public notification to all
firms for which an antidumping duty administrative review of wooden
bedroom furniture from the PRC has been requested, and that are seeking
separate rate status in the review, that they must submit a timely
separate rate application or certification (as appropriate) as
described above, and a timely response to the Q&V questionnaire and the
additional questions in the document package on the Department's Web
site in order to receive consideration for separate-rate status. In
other words, the Department will not give consideration to any timely
separate rate certification or application made by parties who failed
to respond in a timely manner to the Q&V questionnaire and the
additional questions. All information submitted by respondents in the
antidumping duty administrative review of wooden bedroom furniture from
the PRC is subject to verification. As noted above, the separate rate
certification, the separate rate application, the Q&V questionnaire,
and the additional questions will be available on the Department's Web
site on the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
Initiation of Reviews
In accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we are initiating
administrative reviews of the following antidumping and countervailing
duty orders and findings. We intend to issue the final results of these
reviews not later than January 31, 2018.
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Antidumping Duty Proceedings
The People's Republic of China: Potassium 01/1/16-12/31/16
Permanganate A-570-001........................
Chongqing Changyuan Group Limited..........
Pacific Accelerator Limited................
Republic of Korea: Welded Line Pipe \4\ A-580- 5/22/15-11/30/16
876...........................................
Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd.\5\
The People's Republic of China: Multilayered 12/1/15-11/30/16
Wood Flooring \6\ A-570-970...................
Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited and
Double F Limited
The People's Republic of China: Wooden Bedroom 01/1/16-12/31/16
Furniture A-570-890...........................
Beautter Furniture Mfg. Co. .......................
Best Beauty Furniture Co. Ltd.
C.F. Kent Co., Inc.
C.F. Kent Hospitality, Inc.
Century Distribution Systems, Inc.
Changshu Htc Import & Export Co., Ltd.
Clearwise Co., Ltd.
Decca Furniture Ltd.
Dongguan Chengcheng Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Fortune Furniture Ltd.
Dongguan Jinfeng Creative Furniture
Dongguan Kingstone Furniture Co., Ltd.;
Kingstone Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Nova Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Singways Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Sunrise Furniture Co., Taicang
Sunrise Wood Industry, Co., Ltd., Shanghai
Sunrise Furniture Co., Ltd., Fairmont
Designs
Dongguan Sunrise Furniture Co., Taicang
Sunrise Wood Industry, Co., Ltd., Taicang
Fairmont Designs Furniture Co., Ltd.,
Meizhou Sunrise Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dongguan Zhisheng Furniture Co., Ltd.
Dorbest Ltd.; Rui Feng Woodwork Co., Ltd.
aka Rui Feng Woodwork (Dongguan) Co.,
Ltd.; Rui Feng Lumber Development Co.,
Ltd. aka Rui Feng Lumber Development
(Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Eurosa (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.; Eurosa
Furniture Co., (PTE) Ltd.
Evergo Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Ltd.
Fleetwood Fine Furniture LP
Fortune Furniture Ltd.,
Foshan Bailan Imp. & Exp. Ltd.
Foshan Shunde Longjiang Zhishang Furniture
Factory
Fujian Lianfu Forestry Co., Ltd. (aka
Fujian Wonder Pacific Inc.)
Golden Well International (HK) Ltd.
(Exporter) Zhangzhou Xym Furniture Product
Co., Ltd. (Producer)
Guangzhou Maria Yee Furnishings Ltd., Pyla
HK Ltd., Maria Yee, Inc.
Haining Kareno Furniture Co., Ltd.
Hang Hai Woodcrafts Art Factory
Hangzhou Cadman Trading Co., Ltd.
(Exporter) Haining Changbei Furniture Co.,
Ltd. (Producer)
Hualing Furniture (China) Co., Ltd.; Tony
House Manufacture (China) Co., Ltd.;
Buysell Investments Ltd.; Tony House
Industries Co., Ltd.
Jiangmen Kinwai Furniture Decoration Co.,
Ltd.
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Jiangmen Kinwai International Furniture
Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu Dare Furniture Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu Xiangsheng Bedtime Furniture Co.,
Ltd.
Jiangsu Yuexing Furniture Group Co., Ltd.
Jiant Furniture Co. Ltd.
Jiashan Zhenxuan Furniture Co., Ltd
K Wee & Co., Ltd
Kunshan Summit Furniture Co., Ltd.
Nanhai Jiantai Woodwork Co., Ltd., Fortune
Glory Industrial Ltd.(H.K. Ltd.)
Nantong Wangzhuang Furniture Co. Ltd.
Nantong Yangzi Furniture Co., Ltd.
Nathan International Ltd.; Nathan Rattan
Factory
Orient International Holding Shanghai
Foreign Trade Co., Ltd.
Passwell Corporation; Pleasant Wave Ltd.
Perfect Line Furniture Co., Ltd.
PuTian Jinggong Furniture Co., Ltd.
Qingdao Liangmu Co., Ltd.
Restonic (Dongguan) Furniture Ltd.;
Restonic Far East (Samoa) Ltd.
RiZhao Sanmu Woodworking Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Jian Pu Export & Import Co., Ltd.
Shenyang Shining Dongxing Furniture Co.,
Ltd.
Shenzhen Diamond Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Forest Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Jiafa High Grade Furniture Co.,
Ltd.; Golden Lion International Trading
Ltd.
Shenzhen New Fudu Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Wonderful Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shenzhen Xingli Furniture Co., Ltd.
Shing Mark Enterprise Co., Ltd.; Carven
Industries Limited (BVI); Carven
Industries Limited (HK); Dongguan Zhenxin
Furniture Co., Ltd.; Dongguan Yongpeng
Furniture Co., Ltd.
Starwood Industries Ltd.
Sunforce Furniture (Hui-Yang) Co., Ltd.;
Sun Fung Wooden Factory; Sun Fung Co.;
Shin Feng Furniture Co., Ltd.; Stupendous
International Co., Ltd.
Superwood Co., Ltd.; Lianjiang Zongyu Art
Products Co., Ltd.
Techniwood Industries Ltd.; Ningbo
Furniture Industries Ltd.; Ningbo Hengrun
Furniture Co., Ltd.
Tradewinds Furniture Ltd. (Successor-In-
Interest to Nanhai Jiantai Woodwork Co.
Ltd.); Fortune Glory Industrial Ltd. (H.K.
Ltd.)
U-Rich Furniture (Zhangzhou) Co., Ltd.; U-
Rich Furniture Ltd.
Weimei Furniture Co., Ltd.
Woodworth Wooden Industries (Dong Guan)
Co., Ltd.
Wuxi Yushea Furniture Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Yongquan Sci-Tech Development Co.,
Ltd.
Yeh Brothers World Trade Inc.
Yihua Timber Industry Co., Ltd.; Guangdong
Yihua Timber Industry Co., Ltd.
Zhangjiagang Daye Hotel Furniture Co., Ltd.
Zhangzhou Guohui Industrial & Trade Co.,
Ltd.
Zhejiang Tianyi Scientific & Educational
Equipment Co., Ltd.
Zhong Shun Wood Art Co.
Zhongshan Fookyik Furniture Co., Ltd.
Zhongshan Golden King Furniture Industrial
Co., Ltd.
Zhoushan For-Strong Wood Co., Ltd.
Countervailing Duty Proceedings
The People's Republic of China: Multilayered 1/1/15-12/31/15
Wood Flooring \7\ C-570-971...................
Hangzhou Dazhuang Floor Co. (dba Dasso
Industrial Group Co., Ltd.)
Suspension Agreements
None.
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\4\ In the initiation notice that published on February 13, 2017
(82 FR 10457) the POR for the above referenced case was incorrect.
The period listed above is the correct POR for this case.
\5\ The company listed above was inadvertently omitted from the
initiation notice that published on February 13, 2017 (82 FR 10457).
\6\ The The department inadvertently omitted Double F Limited
from the initiation notice that published on February 13, 2017 (82
FR 10457).
\7\ The department inadvertently omitted dba from the company
listed above in the initiation notice that published on February 13,
2017 (82 FR 10457).
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During any administrative review covering all or part of a period
falling between the first and second or third and fourth anniversary of
the publication of an antidumping duty order under 19 CFR 351.211 or a
determination under 19 CFR 351.218(f)(4) to continue an order or
suspended investigation (after sunset review), the Secretary, if
requested by a domestic interested party within 30 days of the date of
publication of the notice of initiation of the review, will determine
whether antidumping duties have been absorbed by an exporter or
producer subject to the review if the subject merchandise is sold in
the United States through an importer that is affiliated with such
exporter or producer. The request must include the
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name(s) of the exporter or producer for which the inquiry is requested.
Gap Period Liquidation
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 POR.
Administrative Protective Orders and Letters of Appearance
Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under
administrative protective orders in accordance with the procedures
outlined in the Department's regulations at 19 CFR 351.305. Those
procedures apply to administrative reviews included in this notice of
initiation. Parties wishing to participate in any of these
administrative reviews should ensure that they meet the requirements of
these procedures (e.g., the filing of separate letters of appearance as
discussed at 19 CFR 351.103(d)).
Factual Information Requirements
The Department's regulations identify five categories of factual
information in 19 CFR 351.102(b)(21), which are summarized as follows:
(i) Evidence submitted in response to questionnaires; (ii) evidence
submitted in support of allegations; (iii) publicly available
information to value factors under 19 CFR 351.408(c) or to measure the
adequacy of remuneration under 19 CFR 351.511(a)(2); (iv) evidence
placed on the record by the Department; and (v) evidence other than
factual information described in (i)-(iv). These regulations require
any party, when submitting factual information, to specify under which
subsection of 19 CFR 351.102(b)(21) the information is being submitted
and, if the information is submitted to rebut, clarify, or correct
factual information already on the record, to provide an explanation
identifying the information already on the record that the factual
information seeks to rebut, clarify, or correct. The regulations, at 19
CFR 351.301, also provide specific time limits for such factual
submissions based on the type of factual information being submitted.
Please review the final rule, available at https://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/2013/1304frn/2013-08227.txt, prior to
submitting factual information in this segment.
Any party submitting factual information in an antidumping duty or
countervailing duty proceeding must certify to the accuracy and
completeness of that information.\8\ Parties are hereby reminded that
revised certification requirements are in effect for company/government
officials as well as their representatives. All segments of any
antidumping duty or countervailing duty proceedings initiated on or
after August 16, 2013, should use the formats for the revised
certifications provided at the end of the Final Rule.\9\ The Department
intends to reject factual submissions in any proceeding segments if the
submitting party does not comply with applicable revised certification
requirements.
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\8\ See section 782(b) of the Act.
\9\ See Certification of Factual Information To Import
Administration During Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Proceedings, 78 FR 42678 (July 17, 2013) (``Final Rule''); see also
the frequently asked questions regarding the Final Rule, available
at https://enforcement.trade.gov/tlei/notices/factual_info_final_rule_FAQ_07172013.pdf.
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Extension of Time Limits Regulation
Parties may request an extension of time limits before a time limit
established under Part 351 expires, or as otherwise specified by the
Secretary. See 19 CFR 351.302. In general, an extension request will be
considered untimely if it is filed after the time limit established
under Part 351 expires. For submissions which are due from multiple
parties simultaneously, an extension request will be considered
untimely if it is filed after 10:00 a.m. on the due date. Examples
include, but are not limited to: (1) Case and rebuttal briefs, filed
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309; (2) factual information to value factors
under 19 CFR 351.408(c), or to measure the adequacy of remuneration
under 19 CFR 351.511(a)(2), filed pursuant to 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3) and
rebuttal, clarification and correction filed pursuant to 19 CFR
351.301(c)(3)(iv); (3) comments concerning the selection of a surrogate
country and surrogate values and rebuttal; (4) comments concerning U.S.
Customs and Border Protection data; and (5) quantity and value
questionnaires. Under certain circumstances, the Department may elect
to specify a different time limit by which extension requests will be
considered untimely for submissions which are due from multiple parties
simultaneously. In such a case, the Department will inform parties in
the letter or memorandum setting forth the deadline (including a
specified time) by which extension requests must be filed to be
considered timely. This modification also requires that an extension
request must be made in a separate, stand-alone submission, and
clarifies the circumstances under which the Department will grant
untimely-filed requests for the extension of time limits. These
modifications are effective for all segments initiated on or after
October 21, 2013. Please review the final rule, available at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-09-20/html/2013-22853.htm, prior to
submitting factual information in these segments.
These initiations and this notice are in accordance with section
751(a) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i).
Dated: March 9, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Operations.
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