Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 29-Louisville, Kentucky; Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. (Automotive Components); Harrodsburg and Berea, Kentucky, 20091-20092 [2019-09447]
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301), depending on the country of
origin. The applicable Section 301
decisions require subject merchandise
to be admitted to FTZs in privileged
foreign status.
Public comment is invited from
interested parties. Submissions shall be
addressed to the Board’s Executive
Secretary and sent to: ftz@trade.gov. The
closing period for their receipt is June
17, 2019.
A copy of the notification will be
available for public inspection in the
‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s
website, which is accessible via
www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact
Juanita Chen at juanita.chen@trade.gov
or 202–482–1378.
Dated: May 2, 2019.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–31–2019]
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Foreign-Trade Zone 134—
Chattanooga, Tennessee; Application
for Production Authority; Wacker
Polysilicon North America, LLC
(Polysilicon); Charleston, Tennessee
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board by
the Chattanooga Chamber Foundation,
grantee of FTZ 134, requesting
production authority on behalf of
Wacker Polysilicon North America, LLC
(Wacker), located in Charleston,
Tennessee. The application conforming
to the requirements of the regulations of
the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.23) was
docketed on May 2, 2019.
Wacker’s facility (700 employees, 564
acres) is located within Subzone 134B.
The facility is used for the production
of polysilicon. Production under FTZ
procedures could exempt Wacker from
customs duty payments on the foreign
components used in export production.
The company anticipates that some 90
percent of the plant’s shipments will be
exported. On its domestic sales, Wacker
would be able to choose the duty rates
during customs entry procedures that
apply to hyperpure polysilicon (dutyfree) for the foreign-status input noted
below. Wacker would be able to avoid
duty on foreign-status components
which become scrap/waste. Customs
duties also could possibly be deferred or
reduced on foreign-status production
equipment. The request indicates that
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the savings from FTZ procedures would
help improve the plant’s international
competitiveness.
Material sourced from abroad
(representing 10–20% of the value of the
finished product) is silicon metal (5.3%
duty rate). Wacker is requesting
authority subject to a restriction
prohibiting the admission of foreign
status silicon metal subject to an
antidumping or countervailing duty
order.
In accordance with the FTZ Board’s
regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to
evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application
and case record and to report findings
and recommendations to the FTZ Board.
Public comment is invited from
interested parties. Submissions shall be
addressed to the FTZ Board’s Executive
Secretary and sent to: ftz@trade.gov. The
closing period for their receipt is July 8,
2019. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing
period may be submitted during the
subsequent 15-day period to July 23,
2019.
A copy of the application will be
available for public inspection in the
‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the FTZ
Board’s website, which is accessible via
www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact
Elizabeth Whiteman at Elizabeth
Whiteman@trade.gov or (202) 482–0473.
Dated: May 2, 2019.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–09446 Filed 5–7–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–33–2019]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 29—
Louisville, Kentucky; Notification of
Proposed Production Activity; Hitachi
Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.
(Automotive Components);
Harrodsburg and Berea, Kentucky
Hitachi Automotive Systems
Americas, Inc. (Hitachi) submitted a
notification of proposed production
activity to the FTZ Board for its
facilities in Harrodsburg and Berea,
Kentucky. The notification conforming
to the requirements of the regulations of
the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was
received on May 2, 2019.
Hitachi already has authority to
produce automotive components within
Subzone 29F. The current request
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would add foreign status materials/
components to the scope of authority.
Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b),
additional FTZ authority would be
limited to the specific foreign-status
materials/components described in the
submitted notification (as described
below) and subsequently authorized by
the FTZ Board.
Production under FTZ procedures
could exempt Hitachi from customs
duty payments on the foreign-status
materials/components used in export
production. On its domestic sales, for
the foreign-status materials/components
noted below, Hitachi would be able to
choose the duty rates during customs
entry procedures that apply to the
finished products described and
approved in prior requests, including:
Electric-hybrid drive systems; mass air
sensors; throttle bodies and chambers;
starter motors; motor/generator units;
alternators; distributors; static
converters; inverter modules; rotors/
stators; batteries; ignition coils; sensors
and modules; fuel injectors; emissions
control equipment; valves; pumps;
automotive battery management
systems; fuel rail Assemblies; and,
electronic control units for engines and
transmissions (duty rate ranges from
duty-free to 4.4%). Hitachi would be
able to avoid duty on foreign-status
components which become scrap/waste.
Customs duties also could possibly be
deferred or reduced on foreign-status
production equipment.
The materials/components sourced
from abroad include cooling sheets and
wire harnesses (duty rate ranges from 5
to 5.8%). The request indicates that
certain materials/components are
subject to special duties under Section
301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (Section
301), depending on the country of
origin. The applicable Section 301
decisions require subject merchandise
to be admitted to FTZs in privileged
foreign status (19 CFR 146.41).
Public comment is invited from
interested parties. Submissions shall be
addressed to the Board’s Executive
Secretary and sent to: ftz@trade.gov. The
closing period for their receipt is June
17, 2019.
A copy of the notification will be
available for public inspection in the
‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s
website, which is accessible via
www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact
Elizabeth Whiteman at
Elizabeth.Whiteman@trade.gov or (202)
482–0473.
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Dated: May 3, 2019.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019–09447 Filed 5–7–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C–508–813]
Magnesium From Israel: Preliminary
Affirmative Countervailing Duty
Determination, and Alignment of Final
Determination With Final Antidumping
Duty Determination
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(Commerce) preliminarily determines
that countervailable subsidies are being
provided to producers and exporters of
magnesium from Israel. The period of
investigation (POI) is January 1, 2017,
through December 31, 2017. Interested
parties are invited to comment on this
preliminary determination.
DATES: Effective May 8, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ethan Talbott or Dana Mermelstein, AD/
CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement
and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482–1030 or (202) 482–1391,
respectively.
AGENCY:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
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This preliminary determination is
made in accordance with section 703(b)
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act). Commerce published the
notice of initiation of this investigation
on November 20, 2018.1 Commerce
exercised its discretion to toll all
deadlines affected by the partial federal
government closure from December 22,
2018, through the resumption of
operations on January 29, 2019.2 On
February 6, 2019, Commerce postponed
1 See Magnesium from Israel: Initiation of
Countervailing Duty Investigation, 83 FR 58529
(November 20, 2018) (Initiation Notice).
2 See Memorandum from Gary Taverman, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance,
‘‘Deadlines Affected by the Partial Shutdown of the
Federal Government,’’ dated January 28, 2019. All
deadlines in this segment of the proceeding have
been extended by 40 days.
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the preliminary determination of this
investigation until May 2, 2019.3
For a complete description of the
events that followed the initiation of
this investigation, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.4 A list of topics
discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is included as Appendix
II to this notice. The Preliminary
Decision Memorandum is a public
document and is on file electronically
via Enforcement and Compliance’s
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Centralized Electronic Service System
(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to
registered users at https://
access.trade.gov, and is available to all
parties in the Central Records Unit,
Room B8024 of the main Department of
Commerce building. In addition, a
complete version of the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum can be accessed
directly at https://enforcement.trade.gov/
frn/. The signed and electronic versions
of the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum are identical in content.
Scope of the Investigation
The product covered by this
investigation is magnesium from Israel.
For a full description of the scope of this
investigation, see Appendix I to this
notice.
Scope Comments
In accordance with the preamble to
Commerce’s regulations,5 the Initiation
Notice set aside a period of time for
parties to raise issues regarding product
coverage, (i.e., scope).6 No parties
commented on the scope of the
investigation as it appeared in the
Initiation Notice. As such, we have
made no modifications to the scope.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this
investigation in accordance with section
701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy
programs found countervailable,
Commerce preliminarily determines
that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial
contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that
gives rise to a benefit to the recipient,
and that the subsidy is specific.7
3 See
Magnesium from Israel: Postponement of
Preliminary Determination of Countervailing Duty
Investigation, 83 FR 2157 (February 6, 2019).
4 See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for
the Preliminary Determination in the
Countervailing Duty Investigation of Magnesium
from Israel,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby
adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision
Memorandum).
5 See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties,
Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997).
6 See Initiation Notice.
7 See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act
regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E)
of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of
the Act regarding specificity.
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Alignment
As noted in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum, in accordance with
section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.210(b)(4), Commerce is aligning the
final countervailing duty (CVD)
determination in this investigation with
the final determination in the
companion antidumping duty (AD)
investigation of Magnesium from Israel
based on a request made by the
petitioner.8 Consequently, the final CVD
determination will be issued on the
same date as the final AD
determination, which is currently
scheduled to be issued no later than
September 16, 2019, unless postponed.
All-Others Rate
Sections 703(d) and 705(c)(5)(A) of
the Act provide that, in the preliminary
determination, Commerce shall
determine an estimated all-others rate
for companies not individually
examined. This rate shall be an amount
equal to the weighted average of the
estimated subsidy rates established for
those companies individually
examined, excluding any zero and de
minimis rates and any rates based
entirely under section 776 of the Act.
Commerce calculated an individual
estimated countervailable subsidy rate
for Dead Sea Magnesium, Ltd. (DSM),9
the only individually examined
exporter/producer in this investigation.
Because the only individually
calculated rate is not zero, de minimis,
or based entirely on facts available, the
countervailable subsidy rate calculated
for DSM is the rate assigned to all other
producers and exporters, pursuant to
section 705(c)(5)(A)(i) of the Act.
Preliminary Determination
Commerce preliminarily determines
that the following estimated
countervailable subsidy rates exist:
Company
Subsidy rate
(percent)
Dead Sea Magnesium, Ltd ...
All Other Companies ............
7.48
7.48
Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section
703(d)(1)(B) and (d)(2) of the Act,
8 See Letter from the petitioner, ‘‘Petitions for the
Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing
Duties on Imports of Magnesium From Israel,’’
dated October 24, 2019. The petitioner is US
Magnesium LLC.
9 As discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum, Commerce has found the following
companies to be cross-owned with DSM: Israel
Chemicals Ltd., ICL Israel Ltd., Dead Sea Works
Ltd., Dead Sea Bromine Company Ltd., Rotem
Amfert Negev Ltd., Bromine Compounds Ltd., and
Fertilizers & Chemicals, Ltd.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-33-2019]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 29--Louisville, Kentucky; Notification
of Proposed Production Activity; Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas,
Inc. (Automotive Components); Harrodsburg and Berea, Kentucky
Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. (Hitachi) submitted a
notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board for its
facilities in Harrodsburg and Berea, Kentucky. The notification
conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15
CFR 400.22) was received on May 2, 2019.
Hitachi already has authority to produce automotive components
within Subzone 29F. The current request would add foreign status
materials/components to the scope of authority. Pursuant to 15 CFR
400.14(b), additional FTZ authority would be limited to the specific
foreign-status materials/components described in the submitted
notification (as described below) and subsequently authorized by the
FTZ Board.
Production under FTZ procedures could exempt Hitachi from customs
duty payments on the foreign-status materials/components used in export
production. On its domestic sales, for the foreign-status materials/
components noted below, Hitachi would be able to choose the duty rates
during customs entry procedures that apply to the finished products
described and approved in prior requests, including: Electric-hybrid
drive systems; mass air sensors; throttle bodies and chambers; starter
motors; motor/generator units; alternators; distributors; static
converters; inverter modules; rotors/stators; batteries; ignition
coils; sensors and modules; fuel injectors; emissions control
equipment; valves; pumps; automotive battery management systems; fuel
rail Assemblies; and, electronic control units for engines and
transmissions (duty rate ranges from duty-free to 4.4%). Hitachi would
be able to avoid duty on foreign-status components which become scrap/
waste. Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on
foreign-status production equipment.
The materials/components sourced from abroad include cooling sheets
and wire harnesses (duty rate ranges from 5 to 5.8%). The request
indicates that certain materials/components are subject to special
duties under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 (Section 301),
depending on the country of origin. The applicable Section 301
decisions require subject merchandise to be admitted to FTZs in
privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41).
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary and sent to:
[email protected]. The closing period for their receipt is June 17, 2019.
A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection
in the ``Reading Room'' section of the Board's website, which is
accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact Elizabeth Whiteman at
[email protected] or (202) 482-0473.
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Dated: May 3, 2019.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-09447 Filed 5-7-19; 8:45 am]
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