Certain New Pneumatic Off-The-Road Tires from the People's Republic of China; 2012-2013: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With Final Results of Administrative Review and Notice of Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 55553-55554 [2019-22666]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 201 / Thursday, October 17, 2019 / Notices hearing at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230, at a date and time to be determined.14 Parties should confirm the date, time, and location of the hearing two days before the scheduled date. Unless extended, Commerce intends to issue the final results of this administrative review, which will include the results of our analysis of all issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs, within 120 days of publication of these preliminary results in the Federal Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. Assessment Rates Upon completion of the administrative review, Commerce shall determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review.15 If the preliminary results are unchanged for the final results, we will instruct CBP to apply an ad valorem assessment rate of 204.53 percent to all entries of subject merchandise during the POR which were produced and/or exported by ASFO, Forgital and the aforementioned companies which were not selected for individual examination. We intend to issue liquidation instructions to CBP 15 days after publication of the final results of this review. Cash Deposit Requirements The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon publication of the final results of this administrative review for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for ASFO, Forgital and the other companies listed above will be equal to the dumping margin established in the final results of this administrative review; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in which they were reviewed; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or in the investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 19 CFR 351.310(d). 15 See 19 CFR 351.212(b). 17:26 Oct 16, 2019 Notification to Importers This notice also serves as a reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce’s presumption that reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties. Notification to Interested Parties We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and sections 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1) and 351.221(b)(4). Dated: October 9, 2019. Jeffrey I. Kessler, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. Appendix List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum I. Summary II. Background III. Scope of the Order IV. Application of Facts Available and Use of Adverse Inference V. Rate for Non-Selected Companies VI. Recommendation [FR Doc. 2019–22668 Filed 10–16–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration [A–570–912] Certain New Pneumatic Off-The-Road Tires from the People’s Republic of China; 2012–2013: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With Final Results of Administrative Review and Notice of Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: On September 3, 2019, the United States Court of International AGENCY: 16 See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India and Italy: Antidumping Duty Orders, 82 FR 40136, 40138 (August 24, 2017). 14 See VerDate Sep<11>2014 producers or exporters will continue to be the all-others rate of 79.17 percent, the rate established in the investigation of this proceeding.16 These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice. Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 55553 Trade (the Court) issued a final judgment in China Manufacturers Alliance, LLC. and Double Coin Holdings Ltd., et al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 15–00124; Slip Op. 19–115 (CIT September 3, 2019) (China Mfr. Alliance III), sustaining the Department of Commerce’s (Commerce) remand results for the fifth administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires (OTR tires) from the People’s Republic of China (China) covering the period of review (POR) September 1, 2012 through August 31, 2013. Commerce is notifying the public that the Court has made a final judgment that is not in harmony with Commerce’s final results of the administrative review, and that Commerce is amending the final results with respect to certain exporters identified herein. DATES: Applicable September 13, 2019. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keith Haynes, AD/CVD Operations Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20230; telephone: (202) 482–5139. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On April 15, 2015, Commerce issued its Final Results 1 in the fifth administrative review of the AD order on OTR tires from China. The plaintiffs in this litigation, mandatory respondent Double Coin Holdings Ltd and its affiliated U.S. importer China Manufacturers Alliance, LLC, and mandatory respondent Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Tyre Import and Export Co., Ltd. (collectively, GTC), timely filed complaints with the Court challenging certain aspects of Commerce’s Final Results.2 Domestic interested parties Titan Tire Corporation and United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL–CIO–CLC intervened as defendant-intervenors, but withdrew from these cases on September 29, 2017.3 On February 6, 2017, the Court remanded Commerce’s Final Results.4 In 1 See Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2012– 2013, 80 FR 20197 (April 15, 2015) (Final Results) and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM). 2 See China Mfr. Alliance III, at 2. 3 Id. 4 See China Manufacturers Alliance, LLC et al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 15–00124, Slip Op E:\FR\FM\17OCN1.SGM Continued 17OCN1 55554 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 201 / Thursday, October 17, 2019 / Notices its First Remand Redetermination, Commerce: (1) Continued to reduce GTC’s U.S. sales prices to account for irrecoverable value-added tax (VAT); (2) determined that ‘‘Shanghai Port Surcharges,’’ but not other brokerage and handling or ocean freight charges, were double counted and removed the charges from the international freight surrogate value calculation; (3) made an inflation adjustment to domestic warehousing costs to match the surrogate value to the POR; and (4) assigned Double Coin a de minimis 0.14 percent margin instead of assigning it a 105.31 percent margin as part of the China-wide entity, under respectful protest.5 After issuing its First Remand Redetermination, Commerce moved for a partial voluntary remand on the issue of Double Coin’s margin in light of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC) decision in Diamond Sawblades 2017.6 On January 16, 2019, the Court sustained, in part, and remanded, in part, Commerce’s First Remand Redetermination and denied Commerce’s motion for partial voluntary remand.7 The Court sustained Commerce’s determinations to make an inflation adjustment to domestic warehousing costs and that Shanghai Port Charges were double counted for GTC.8 In denying Commerce’s motion for partial voluntary remand, the Court found that the only rate supported by the record evidence that Commerce could apply to Double Coin is the 0.14 percent margin applied in the First Remand Redetermination.9 The Court remanded Commerce’s determinations: (1) That the brokerage and handling and ocean freight charges other than the Shanghai Port Charges were not double counted for GTC; 10 and (2) to continue reducing GTC’s U.S. sales prices to account for irrecoverable VAT.11 In its Second Remand Redetermination, Commerce recalculated GTC’s U.S. sale prices 17–12 (CIT February 6, 2017) (China Mfr. Alliance I). 5 See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Remand, Court No. 15–00124, Slip Op. 17–12 (CIT 2017) (First Remand Redetermination); see also Viraj Group, Ltd. v. United States, 343 F.3d 1371, 1376 (Fed. Cir. 2003). 6 See Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. Coal. v. United States, 866 F.3d 1304 (CAFC 2017) (Diamond Sawblades 2017). 7 See China Manufacturers Alliance, LLC et al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 15–00124, Slip Op 19–7 (CIT January 16, 2019) at 42–43 (China Mfr. Alliance II). 8 Id. at 8–9. 9 Id. at 41–42. 10 Id. at 25. 11 Id. at 18–19. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:26 Oct 16, 2019 Jkt 250001 without making deductions for irrecoverable VAT, under respectful protest, and adjusted GTC’s brokerage and handling and ocean freight costs for certain double-counted expenses.12 In light of these determinations, Commerce has made changes to GTC’s margin calculation and the margin assigned to Double Coin.13 After accounting for all such changes and issues addressed in the remand redeterminations, the resulting weighted-average dumping margin for GTC is 4.59 percent, and the margin assigned to Double Coin is 0.14 percent. On September 3, 2019, the Court sustained the Second Remand Redetermination.14 Consistent with the decision of the CAFC in Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (Timken), as clarified by Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. Coalition v. United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (Diamond Sawblades), Commerce is notifying the public that the final judgment in this case is not in harmony with Commerce’s Final Results. Thus, Commerce is amending the Final Results with respect to the weighted-average dumping margins for the mandatory respondents, as listed above. Timken Notice In its decision in Timken, 893 F.2d at 341, as clarified by Diamond Sawblades, the CAFC held that, pursuant to section 516A(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), Commerce must publish a notice of a court decision that is not ‘‘in harmony’’ with a Commerce determination and must suspend liquidation of entries pending a ‘‘conclusive’’ court decision. The Court’s September 3, 2019 judgment sustaining the Second Remand Redetermination constitutes a final decision of the Court that is not in 12 See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court Remand, Court No. 15–00124, Slip Op. 19– 7 (CIT 2019) (Second Remand Redetermination). 13 See Memorandum, ‘‘Draft Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Second Court Remand in the 2012–2013 Antidumping Duty Administrative of Certain New Pneumatic Off-theRoad Tires from the People’s Republic of China: Margin Calculation and Surrogate Value Memorandum for Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Tyre Import and Export Co., Ltd.,’’ dated March 21, 2019; see also First Remand Redetermination at 21; and Memorandum, ‘‘Draft Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Second Court Remand in the 2012–2013 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the People’s Republic of China: Margin Calculation and Surrogate Value Memorandum for Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Tyre Import and Export Co., Ltd.,’’ dated March 21, 2019. 14 See China Mfr. Alliance III. PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 harmony with Commerce’s Final Results. As such, Commerce has published this notice in fulfillment of the publication requirement of Timken. Amended Final Results Because there is now a final court decision, Commerce is amending the Final Results with respect to the mandatory respondents. The revised weighted-average dumping margins for these exporters during the period September 1, 2012 through August 31, 2013 are as follows: Exporter Weightedaverage dumping margin (percent) Double Coin Holdings Ltd ........ Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd./Guizhou Tyre Export and Import Co., Ltd ......................................... 0.14 4.59 Accordingly, Commerce will continue the suspension of liquidation of the subject merchandise pending the end of the period of appeal or, if appealed, pending a final and conclusive court decision. In the event the Court’s ruling is not appealed or, if appealed, and upheld by the CAFC, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping duties on unliquidated entries of subject merchandise exported by the companies identified above using the assessment rates calculated by Commerce in the remand redeterminations, as listed in the above table. Cash Deposit Requirements Because the AD order on OTR tires from China was revoked,15 Commerce will not issue cash deposit instructions as a result of this Court decision. Notification to Interested Parties Commerce has issued and published this notice in accordance with sections 516A(e), 751(a)(1), and 777(i)(1) of the Act. Dated: October 9, 2019. Jeffrey I. Kessler, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. [FR Doc. 2019–22666 Filed 10–16–19; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 15 See Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the People’s Republic of China: Final Results of Sunset Reviews and Revocation of Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders, 84 FR 20616 (May 10, 2019). E:\FR\FM\17OCN1.SGM 17OCN1

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-912]


Certain New Pneumatic Off-The-Road Tires from the People's 
Republic of China; 2012-2013: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony 
With Final Results of Administrative Review and Notice of Amended Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: On September 3, 2019, the United States Court of International 
Trade (the Court) issued a final judgment in China Manufacturers 
Alliance, LLC. and Double Coin Holdings Ltd., et al. v. United States, 
Consol. Court No. 15-00124; Slip Op. 19-115 (CIT September 3, 2019) 
(China Mfr. Alliance III), sustaining the Department of Commerce's 
(Commerce) remand results for the fifth administrative review of the 
antidumping duty (AD) order on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires 
(OTR tires) from the People's Republic of China (China) covering the 
period of review (POR) September 1, 2012 through August 31, 2013. 
Commerce is notifying the public that the Court has made a final 
judgment that is not in harmony with Commerce's final results of the 
administrative review, and that Commerce is amending the final results 
with respect to certain exporters identified herein.

DATES: Applicable September 13, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keith Haynes, AD/CVD Operations Office 
III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 
DC, 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5139.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On April 15, 2015, Commerce issued its Final Results \1\ in the 
fifth administrative review of the AD order on OTR tires from China. 
The plaintiffs in this litigation, mandatory respondent Double Coin 
Holdings Ltd and its affiliated U.S. importer China Manufacturers 
Alliance, LLC, and mandatory respondent Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd. and 
Guizhou Tyre Import and Export Co., Ltd. (collectively, GTC), timely 
filed complaints with the Court challenging certain aspects of 
Commerce's Final Results.\2\ Domestic interested parties Titan Tire 
Corporation and United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, 
Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers 
International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC intervened as defendant-intervenors, 
but withdrew from these cases on September 29, 2017.\3\
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    \1\ See Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the 
People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2012-2013, 80 FR 20197 (April 15, 2015) 
(Final Results) and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum 
(IDM).
    \2\ See China Mfr. Alliance III, at 2.
    \3\ Id.
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    On February 6, 2017, the Court remanded Commerce's Final 
Results.\4\ In

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its First Remand Redetermination, Commerce: (1) Continued to reduce 
GTC's U.S. sales prices to account for irrecoverable value-added tax 
(VAT); (2) determined that ``Shanghai Port Surcharges,'' but not other 
brokerage and handling or ocean freight charges, were double counted 
and removed the charges from the international freight surrogate value 
calculation; (3) made an inflation adjustment to domestic warehousing 
costs to match the surrogate value to the POR; and (4) assigned Double 
Coin a de minimis 0.14 percent margin instead of assigning it a 105.31 
percent margin as part of the China-wide entity, under respectful 
protest.\5\ After issuing its First Remand Redetermination, Commerce 
moved for a partial voluntary remand on the issue of Double Coin's 
margin in light of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's 
(CAFC) decision in Diamond Sawblades 2017.\6\
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    \4\ See China Manufacturers Alliance, LLC et al. v. United 
States, Consol. Court No. 15-00124, Slip Op 17-12 (CIT February 6, 
2017) (China Mfr. Alliance I).
    \5\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Remand, 
Court No. 15-00124, Slip Op. 17-12 (CIT 2017) (First Remand 
Redetermination); see also Viraj Group, Ltd. v. United States, 343 
F.3d 1371, 1376 (Fed. Cir. 2003).
    \6\ See Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. Coal. v. United States, 866 F.3d 
1304 (CAFC 2017) (Diamond Sawblades 2017).
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    On January 16, 2019, the Court sustained, in part, and remanded, in 
part, Commerce's First Remand Redetermination and denied Commerce's 
motion for partial voluntary remand.\7\ The Court sustained Commerce's 
determinations to make an inflation adjustment to domestic warehousing 
costs and that Shanghai Port Charges were double counted for GTC.\8\ In 
denying Commerce's motion for partial voluntary remand, the Court found 
that the only rate supported by the record evidence that Commerce could 
apply to Double Coin is the 0.14 percent margin applied in the First 
Remand Redetermination.\9\ The Court remanded Commerce's 
determinations: (1) That the brokerage and handling and ocean freight 
charges other than the Shanghai Port Charges were not double counted 
for GTC; \10\ and (2) to continue reducing GTC's U.S. sales prices to 
account for irrecoverable VAT.\11\
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    \7\ See China Manufacturers Alliance, LLC et al. v. United 
States, Consol. Court No. 15-00124, Slip Op 19-7 (CIT January 16, 
2019) at 42-43 (China Mfr. Alliance II).
    \8\ Id. at 8-9.
    \9\ Id. at 41-42.
    \10\ Id. at 25.
    \11\ Id. at 18-19.
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    In its Second Remand Redetermination, Commerce recalculated GTC's 
U.S. sale prices without making deductions for irrecoverable VAT, under 
respectful protest, and adjusted GTC's brokerage and handling and ocean 
freight costs for certain double-counted expenses.\12\
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    \12\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court 
Remand, Court No. 15-00124, Slip Op. 19-7 (CIT 2019) (Second Remand 
Redetermination).
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    In light of these determinations, Commerce has made changes to 
GTC's margin calculation and the margin assigned to Double Coin.\13\ 
After accounting for all such changes and issues addressed in the 
remand redeterminations, the resulting weighted-average dumping margin 
for GTC is 4.59 percent, and the margin assigned to Double Coin is 0.14 
percent. On September 3, 2019, the Court sustained the Second Remand 
Redetermination.\14\
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    \13\ See Memorandum, ``Draft Results of Redetermination Pursuant 
to Second Court Remand in the 2012-2013 Antidumping Duty 
Administrative of Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the 
People's Republic of China: Margin Calculation and Surrogate Value 
Memorandum for Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Tyre Import and 
Export Co., Ltd.,'' dated March 21, 2019; see also First Remand 
Redetermination at 21; and Memorandum, ``Draft Results of 
Redetermination Pursuant to Second Court Remand in the 2012-2013 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Certain New Pneumatic Off-
the-Road Tires from the People's Republic of China: Margin 
Calculation and Surrogate Value Memorandum for Guizhou Tyre Co., 
Ltd. and Guizhou Tyre Import and Export Co., Ltd.,'' dated March 21, 
2019.
    \14\ See China Mfr. Alliance III.
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    Consistent with the decision of the CAFC in Timken Co. v. United 
States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (Timken), as clarified by Diamond 
Sawblades Mfrs. Coalition v. United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 
2010) (Diamond Sawblades), Commerce is notifying the public that the 
final judgment in this case is not in harmony with Commerce's Final 
Results. Thus, Commerce is amending the Final Results with respect to 
the weighted-average dumping margins for the mandatory respondents, as 
listed above.

Timken Notice

    In its decision in Timken, 893 F.2d at 341, as clarified by Diamond 
Sawblades, the CAFC held that, pursuant to section 516A(e) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), Commerce must publish a 
notice of a court decision that is not ``in harmony'' with a Commerce 
determination and must suspend liquidation of entries pending a 
``conclusive'' court decision. The Court's September 3, 2019 judgment 
sustaining the Second Remand Redetermination constitutes a final 
decision of the Court that is not in harmony with Commerce's Final 
Results. As such, Commerce has published this notice in fulfillment of 
the publication requirement of Timken.

Amended Final Results

    Because there is now a final court decision, Commerce is amending 
the Final Results with respect to the mandatory respondents. The 
revised weighted-average dumping margins for these exporters during the 
period September 1, 2012 through August 31, 2013 are as follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                          Exporter                             dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Double Coin Holdings Ltd...................................         0.14
Guizhou Tyre Co., Ltd./Guizhou Tyre Export and Import Co.,          4.59
 Ltd.......................................................
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    Accordingly, Commerce will continue the suspension of liquidation 
of the subject merchandise pending the end of the period of appeal or, 
if appealed, pending a final and conclusive court decision. In the 
event the Court's ruling is not appealed or, if appealed, and upheld by 
the CAFC, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(CBP) to assess antidumping duties on unliquidated entries of subject 
merchandise exported by the companies identified above using the 
assessment rates calculated by Commerce in the remand redeterminations, 
as listed in the above table.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    Because the AD order on OTR tires from China was revoked,\15\ 
Commerce will not issue cash deposit instructions as a result of this 
Court decision.
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    \15\ See Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the 
People's Republic of China: Final Results of Sunset Reviews and 
Revocation of Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders, 84 FR 
20616 (May 10, 2019).
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Notification to Interested Parties

    Commerce has issued and published this notice in accordance with 
sections 516A(e), 751(a)(1), and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: October 9, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2019-22666 Filed 10-16-19; 8:45 am]
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