Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From Colombia: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023, 92621-92622 [2024-27449]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• International Trade Administration

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 226 (Friday, November 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 92621-92622]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27449]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-301-803]


Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From Colombia: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
citric acid and certain citrate salts (citric acid) from Colombia was 
not sold in the United States at less than normal value during the 
period of review (POR), July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.

DATES: Applicable November 22, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Fracke, 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) 482-3299.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On July 29, 2024, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of 
this review in the Federal Register and invited interested parties to 
comment on those results.\1\ No interested party submitted comments on 
the Preliminary Results. Accordingly, the final results remain 
unchanged from the Preliminary Results and, thus, there is no decision 
memorandum accompanying this notice. On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled 
certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days.\2\ 
The deadline for the final results is now November 26, 2024. Commerce 
conducted this administrative review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Colombia: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-
2023, 89 FR 60867 (July 29, 2024) (Preliminary Results), and 
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
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Scope of the Order 3
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    \3\ See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Belgium, 
Colombia and Thailand: Antidumping Duty Orders, 83 FR 35214 (July 
25, 2018) (Order).
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    The merchandise covered by the scope of the Order includes all 
grades and granulation sizes of citric acid, sodium citrate, and 
potassium citrate in their unblended forms, whether dry or in solution, 
and regardless of packaging type. The scope also includes blends of 
citric acid, sodium citrate, and potassium citrate; as well as blends 
with other ingredients, such as sugar, where the unblended form(s) of 
citric acid, sodium citrate, and potassium citrate constitute 40 
percent or more, by weight, of the blend.
    The scope also includes all forms of crude calcium citrate, 
including dicalcium citrate monohydrate, and tricalcium citrate 
tetrahydrate, which are intermediate products in the production of 
citric acid, sodium citrate, and potassium citrate.
    The scope includes the hydrous and anhydrous forms of citric acid, 
the dihydrate and anhydrous forms of sodium citrate, otherwise known as 
citric acid sodium salt, and the monohydrate and monopotassium forms of 
potassium citrate. Sodium citrate also includes both trisodium citrate 
and monosodium citrate which are also known as citric acid trisodium 
salt and citric acid monosodium salt, respectively.
    The scope does not include calcium citrate that satisfies the 
standards set

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forth in the United States Pharmacopeia and has been mixed with a 
functional excipient, such as dextrose or starch, where the excipient 
constitutes at least 2 percent, by weight, of the product.
    Citric acid and sodium citrate are classifiable under 2918.14.0000 
and 2918.15.1000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS), respectively. Potassium citrate and crude calcium citrate are 
classifiable under 2918.15.5000 and, if included in a mixture or blend, 
3824.99.9397 of the HTSUS. Blends that include citric acid, sodium 
citrate, and potassium citrate are classifiable under 3824.99.9397 of 
the HTSUS. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience 
and customs purposes, the written description of the merchandise is 
dispositive.

Final Results of Review

    Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping 
margin exists for the period July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023:

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                                                       Weighted-average
                Producer or exporter                    dumping margin
                                                          (percent)
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Sucroal S.A........................................                0.00
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Disclosure

    There are no new calculations to disclose in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b) for these final results.

Assessment Rate

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries covered by this review. Because the respondent's weighted-
average dumping margin or importer-specific assessment rates are zero 
in the final results of review, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties.\4\ The final results of 
this administrative review shall be the basis for the assessment of 
antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by the final 
results of this review and for future deposits of estimated duties, 
where applicable.\5\
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    \4\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102-03 (February 14, 
2012); see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
    \5\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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    Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' will apply to entries of 
subject merchandise during the POR produced by the mandatory respondent 
for which the company did not know that the merchandise it sold to an 
intermediary (e.g., a reseller, trading company, or exporter) was 
destined for the United States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP 
to liquidate unreviewed entries at the all-others rate if there is no 
rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\6\
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    \6\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this 
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the 
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will 
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties 
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within 
90 days of publication).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective 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 rates for the company 
identified above in the ``Final Results of Review'' section will be 
equal to the company-specific weighted-average dumping margin 
established in the final results of this administrative review (i.e., 
0.00 percent); (2) for merchandise exported by a company not covered in 
this administrative review but covered in a completed prior segment of 
the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the most recently completed segment of this 
proceeding; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review or 
completed prior segment of this proceeding but the producer is, the 
cash deposit rate will be the company-specific rate established for the 
most recently-completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of 
the subject merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 
producers or exporters will continue to be 28.48 percent, the rate 
established in the investigation of this proceeding.\7\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \7\ See Order, 83 FR at 35215.
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a final 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 POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement 
of antidumping duties has occurred and the subsequent assessment of 
double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to 
an APO of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of 
proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.305(a)(3), which continues to govern business proprietary 
information in this segment of the proceeding. Timely written 
notification of the return or destruction of APO materials, or 
conversion to judicial protective order, is hereby requested. Failure 
to comply with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a 
sanctionable violation.

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 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5) 
and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).

    Dated: November 18, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-27449 Filed 11-21-24; 8:45 am]
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