International Trade Administration August 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) from Brazil. This administrative review covers one respondent, Terphane, Inc. (Terphane) and the period of review (POR) is November 1, 2009 through October 31, 2010. Since Terphane did not respond to the Department's requests for information, we have assigned Terphane a margin based on adverse facts available (AFA). If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results of this review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise made during the POR. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. We intend to issue the final results no later than 120 days from the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

In response to requests by interested parties, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta (``pasta'') from Italy for the period of review (``POR'') July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010. This review covers two producers/exporters of subject merchandise: Molino e Pastificio Tomasello S.p.A. (``Tomasello'') and Pastificio Lucio Garofalo S.p.A. (``Garofalo''). We preliminarily determine that during the POR, Tomasello and Garofalo sold subject merchandise at less than normal value (``NV''). If these preliminary results are adopted in the final results of this administrative review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise during the POR. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.

On April 7, 2011, the Department of Commerce (the ``Department'') published in the Federal Register its preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 1-hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic acid (``HEDP'') from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''), covering the period April 23, 2009 through March 31, 2010.\1\ The Department gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Results. After reviewing the interested parties' comments, the Department has not made changes to the margin for the final results. The final dumping margin for this review is listed in the ``Final Results of Review'' section below.

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review under the countervailing duty (CVD) order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet and strip (PET Film) from India. This review covers one respondent, Ester Industries Ltd. (Ester), a producer and exporter of PET Film from India. We preliminarily determine that Ester has benefitted from countervailable subsidies provided on the production and export of PET Film from India. See the ``Preliminary Results of Administrative Review'' section, below. If the final results remain the same as the preliminary results of this review, we intend to instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess countervailing duties. Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results of this administrative review. See the ``Disclosure and Public Hearing'' section of this notice, below.

On April 1, 2011, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') initiated the second sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain large diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line and pressure pipe (``large diameter pipe'') from Japan and certain small diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line and pressure pipe (``small diameter pipe'') from Japan and Romania. The Department has conducted expedited sunset reviews of these orders. As a result of these reviews, the Department finds that revocation of the antidumping duty orders would likely lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping at the margins identified in the ``Final Results of Review'' section of this notice.

The Department of Commerce (``Department'') is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen fish fillets from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (``Vietnam''). See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Frozen Fish Fillets From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 68 FR 47909 (August 12, 2003). On September 22, 2010, the Department initiated the August 1, 2009, through July 31, 2010, antidumping duty administrative review on certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Requests for Revocation, 75 FR 60076, (September 29, 2010). Based upon requests for review from various parties, the Department initiated this review with respect to 26 companies.\1\ On December 27, 2010, Agifish withdrew its request for an administrative review. On December 28, 2010, SAMEFICO withdrew its request for an administrative review. On December 28, 2010, Petitioners \2\ partially withdrew their August 31, 2010, request for an administrative review for four companies. These companies include: (1) Agifish; (2) Nam Viet; (3) Nam Viet Corporation; and (4) SAMEFICO. On March 11, 2011, Cadovimex II withdrew its request for an administrative review. On March 14, 2011, Petitioners withdrew their review request for Cadovimex II. The preliminary results of this administrative review are currently due no later than August 31, 2011.\3\

The U.S. Department of Commerce issued an amended Export Trade Certificate of Review to Wood Machinery Manufacturers of America on July 18, 2011. The Certificate has been amended twelve times. The previous amendment was issued to WMMA on August 16, 2010, and a notice of its issuance was published in the Federal Register on August 20, 2010 (75 FR 51439). The original Export Trade Certificate of Review No. 88-00016 was issued on February 3, 1989, and published in the Federal Register on February 9, 1989 (54 FR 6312).

On August 13, 2010, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') published in the Federal Register the Preliminary Results \1\ regarding its request for comments on the scope of antidumping duty order on petroleum wax candles from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''),\2\ in which we preliminarily determined a new interpretation for analyzing candle scope ruling requests and applied this interpretation to pending scope requests. We gave interested parties an opportunity to present comments and rebuttals on the Preliminary Results. Based upon our analysis of the comments and information received, we have changed our interpretation of the scope of the Order from the Preliminary Results. As discussed in more detail below, the Department intends to apply the interpretation articulated in these final results to all pending and future scope determinations involving the Order.

In accordance with section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is automatically initiating a five-year review (``Sunset Review'') of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders listed below. The International Trade Commission (``the Commission'') is publishing concurrently with this notice its notice of Institution of Five-Year Review which covers the same orders.