Foreign-Trade Zone 27-Boston, Massachusetts; Application for Subzone; Ipswich Shellfish Company, Inc.; Ipswich, Massachusetts, 36529-36530 [2020-13077]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[S–104–2020]
Foreign-Trade Zone 27—Boston,
Massachusetts; Application for
Subzone; Ipswich Shellfish Company,
Inc.; Ipswich, Massachusetts
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board
(the Board) by the Massachusetts Port
Authority, grantee of FTZ 27, requesting
subzone status for the facility of Ipswich
Shellfish Company, Inc., located in
Ipswich, Massachusetts. The application
was submitted pursuant to the
provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones
Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u),
and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR
part 400). It was formally docketed on
June 11, 2020.
The proposed subzone (0.19 acres) is
located at 9 & 11 Hayward Street,
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.
No authorization for production activity
has been requested at this time. The
proposed subzone would be subject to
the existing activation limit of FTZ 27.
In accordance with the Board’s
regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to
review the application and make
recommendations to the Executive
Secretary.
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 July
27, 2020. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during
the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period to
August 11, 2020.
A copy of the application 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
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482–0473.
Dated: June 11, 2020.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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Certain Hardwood Plywood Products
From the People’s Republic of China:
Initiation of Anti-Circumvention
Inquiries and Scope Inquiries on the
Antidumping Duty and Countervailing
Duty Orders; Vietnam Assembly
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: In response to allegations of
circumvention from the Coalition for
Fair Trade in Hardwood Plywood (the
petitioner), the Department of
Commerce (Commerce) is initiating
country-wide anti-circumvention
inquiries to determine whether certain
hardwood plywood products (plywood)
completed in Vietnam using plywood
components (face veneer, back veneer,
and/or either an assembled core or
individual core veneers) manufactured
in the People’s Republic of China
(China), or Chinese components
(assembled cores, multi-ply core panels,
or individual core veneers) combined in
Vietnam with other components (face
and/or back veneers) manufactured in
Vietnam or third countries, are
circumventing the antidumping duty
(AD) and countervailing duty (CVD)
orders on plywood from China. We are
also initiating scope inquiries to
determine whether any of the products
produced under various production
scenarios alleged by the petitioner are
covered by the scope of the AD/CVD
orders on plywood from China. Finally,
we are aligning the deadline for the
scope inquiries associated with a
covered merchandise referral from U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
under the Enforce and Protect Act of
2015 (EAPA) with the
anticircumvention inquiries.
DATES: Applicable June 17, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kabir Archuletta, AD/CVD Operations,
Office V, Enforcement & Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482–2593.
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Background
On January 4, 2018, Commerce issued
AD and CVD orders on plywood from
China.1 On September 16, 2019,
Commerce received an EAPA covered
merchandise referral from CBP.2 On
January 17, 2020, Commerce published
a notice of initiation of scope inquiries
related to this referral in order to
determine whether plywood produced
by Vietnam Finewood Company
Limited from China-origin materials are
covered merchandise subject to the
Orders.3
On February 25, 2020, pursuant to
section 781(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930,
as amended (the Act) and 19 CFR
351.225(c) and (h), the petitioner
requested that Commerce issue a scope
ruling, or in the alternative, an anticircumvention ruling, that plywood
completed in Vietnam using plywood
components manufactured in China,
and imported into the United States as
Vietnamese-origin plywood, are either
within the scope of the Orders or are
circumventing the Orders. Specifically,
the petitioner alleged that Chinese
plywood components are undergoing
minor assembly and finishing in
Vietnam that does not remove the
merchandise from coverage of the
Orders, and that these products are
entering the United States as
Vietnamese-origin plywood for the
express purpose of avoiding AD/CVD
duties. In the alternative to a scope
ruling, the petitioner requested that
Commerce find that these products
constitute merchandise completed or
assembled in a third country that is
circumventing, and should be included
within, the scope of the Orders.4
On March 4, 2020, Commerce
accepted the petitioner’s scope-ruling
and circumvention-ruling request and
established deadlines for interested
parties to provide comments.5 Between
1 See Certain Hardwood Plywood Products from
the People’s Republic of China: Amended Final
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,
and Antidumping Duty Order, 83 FR 504 (January
4, 2018); and Certain Hardwood Plywood Products
from the People’s Republic of China: Countervailing
Duty Order, 83 FR 513 (January 4, 2018)
(collectively, Orders).
2 See Certain Hardwood Plywood from the
People’s Republic of China: Notice of Covered
Merchandise Referral and Initiation of Scope
Inquiry, 85 FR 3024 (January 17, 2020) (EAPA
Scope Inquiry Initiation).
3 Id.
4 See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hardwood
Plywood Products from the People’s Republic of
China: Request for Scope Ruling/AntiCircumvention Ruling,’’ dated February 25, 2020
(Petitioner’s Request).
5 See Memorandum, ‘‘Certain Hardwood Plywood
Products from the People’s Republic of China:
Deadline for Comments on the Vietnam Assembly
Scope Ruling Request,’’ dated March 4, 2020.
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March 18, 2020 and May 1, 2020, we
received comments from interested
parties in response to the allegations
made by the petitioner.6
On April 14, 2020, Commerce
extended the deadline for either issuing
a final scope and/or anti-circumvention
ruling or initiating a formal scope and/
or anti-circumvention inquiry to June 2,
2020.7 On May 8, 2020, we requested
additional information from the
petitioner,8 and on May 13, 2020, the
petitioner submitted its response to this
request.9 In this response, the petitioner
requested that Commerce expand its
inquiry to determine whether plywood
assembled in Vietnam from mainly
Chinese components, but also including
face and/or back veneers from Vietnam
or third countries, are within the scope
or are circumventing the Orders.10
On June 2, 2020, we again extended
the deadline to either issue a final scope
and/or anti-circumvention ruling or
6 See Vietnam Timber and Forest Product
Association’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hardwood Plywood
Products from the People’s Republic of China:
Response Comments to Scope/Anti-Circumvention
Inquiry Requests,’’ dated March 18, 2020; see also
Truong Son Industrial Wood JSC’s Letter, ‘‘The
Petitioner’s Request for Determining Range of
Products/Anti-Circumvention Investigation into
Certain Hardwood Plywood Products,’’ dated March
20, 2020; VietBac Plywood JSC and Plywood Source
LLC’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hardwood Plywood Products
from the People’s Republic of China: Response
Comments to Scope/Anti-Circumvention Inquiry
Requests,’’ dated March 20, 2020; TL Trung Viet
Co., Ltd.’s Letter, ‘‘Letter of Request to Consider
about Tax Imposition,’’ dated March 20, 2020;
Thanh Hoa Wood Industry Co., Ltd.’s Letter, ‘‘The
Petitioner’s Request for Determining Range of
Products/Anti-Circumvention Investigation into
Certain Hardwood Plywood Products,’’ dated March
20, 2020; DH Respondent Letter, ‘‘Hardwood
Plywood from the People’s Republic of China:
Comments to Petitioner’s Request for Scope/AntiCircumvention Inquiry,’’ dated March 20, 2020;
Importers Alliance’s Letter, ‘‘Investigation of the
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on
Hardwood Plywood Products from the People’s
Republic of China, Scope-Vietnam Assembly:
Objection to Request for Scope and AntiCircumvention Inquiry,’’ dated March 20, 2020;
Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Letter,
‘‘The Petitioner’s Request for Scope of Ruling/AntiCircumvention Ruling for Hardwood Plywood
Products,’’ dated March 25, 2020; and Ike Trading
Co., Ltd.’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hardwood Plywood
Products from the People’s Republic of China:
Resubmission of Ike Trading’s Scope Comments,’’
dated May 1, 2020.
7 See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hardwood
Plywood Products from the People’s Republic of
China: Extension of Deadline,’’ dated April 14,
2020.
8 See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hardwood
Plywood from the People’s Republic of China:
Clarification of Scope Ruling/Anticircumvention
Ruling Request,’’ dated May 8, 2020.
9 See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Hardwood Plywood
Products from the People’s Republic of China:
Coalition’s Response to Request for Clarification,’’
dated May 12, 2020 (Petitioner’s Clarification).
10 Id.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[S-104-2020]
Foreign-Trade Zone 27--Boston, Massachusetts; Application for
Subzone; Ipswich Shellfish Company, Inc.; Ipswich, Massachusetts
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Massachusetts Port Authority, grantee of FTZ
27, requesting subzone status for the facility of Ipswich Shellfish
Company, Inc., located in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The application was
submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR
part 400). It was formally docketed on June 11, 2020.
The proposed subzone (0.19 acres) is located at 9 & 11 Hayward
Street, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. No authorization for
production activity has been requested at this time. The proposed
subzone would be subject to the existing activation limit of FTZ 27.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman of
the FTZ Staff is designated examiner to review the application and make
recommendations to the Executive Secretary.
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 July 27, 2020.
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
to August 11, 2020.
A copy of the application 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
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[email protected] or (202) 482-0473.
Dated: June 11, 2020.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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