International Trade Administration November 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Secretary of Commerce, through the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis (``OTEA''), issued an amended Export Trade Certificate of Review (``Certificate'') to ALCC on October 26, 2021.

In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) is rescinding the administrative review, in part, of the antidumping duty order on certain crystalline silicon photovoltaic products (solar products) from Taiwan during the period of review (POR), February 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021. Specifically, Commerce is rescinding the review with respect to eleven companies under review, including the mandatory respondents, Inventec Solar Energy Corporation (ISEC) and Sino-American Silicon Products Inc. (SAS), because all requests to review these companies have been timely withdrawn. Moreover, Commerce preliminarily determines that sixteen of the companies under review made no shipments of solar products from Taiwan during the POR. Finally, with respect to the companies that did not submit no-shipment certifications and were not selected as mandatory respondents, we have determined to preliminarily apply a rate of 7.89 percent, i.e., the non-selected rate from the prior administrative review under this antidumping duty order. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

The Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that Comfort Coil Technology Sdn. Bhd. (Comfort Coil), the only company subject to review, had no shipments of subject merchandise during the period of review (POR), February 1, 2020, through January 31, 2021. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

As a result of this expedited sunset review, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) order on hydrofluorocarbon blends (HFC blends) from the People's Republic of China (China) would be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping at the levels indicated in the ``Final Results of Review'' section of this notice.

The U.S. Department of Commerce Trade Finance Advisory Council (TFAC or the Council) will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday, December 2, 2021. The meeting is open to the public with registration instructions provided below.

The Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that certain producers/exporters of certain hot-rolled steel flat products (hot-rolled steel) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) received countervailable subsidies during the period of review (POR) January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2019. Additionally, we are rescinding this review with respect to 13 companies. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

The Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that certain producers/exporters of stainless steel flanges (flanges) from India made sales of subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2020. We preliminarily find that BFN Forgings Private Limited (BFN Forgings) is the successor-in-interest to Bebitz Flanges Works Private Limited (Bebitz Flanges). Finally, we are rescinding this review with respect to 38 companies. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

On October 22, 2021, the Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in Carbon Activated Tianjin Co., Ltd. and Carbon Activated Corporation, et al. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 20-00007, sustaining the Department of Commerce (Commerce)'s remand results pertaining to the eleventh administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain activated carbon from the People's Republic of China (China) covering the period of April 1, 2017, through March 31, 2018. Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's final results of the administrative review, and that Commerce is amending the final results with respect to the dumping margin assigned to Carbon Activated Tianjin Co., Ltd. (Carbon Activated), Datong Juqiang Activated Carbon Co., Ltd. (Datong Juqiang) (collectively, the mandatory respondents), Beijing Pacific Activated Carbon Products Co., Ltd. (Beijing Pacific), Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd. (GHC), Ningxia Mineral & Chemical Limited (Ningxia Mineral), and Shanxi Sincere Industrial Co., Ltd. (Shanxi Sincere).

This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed topics for a meeting of the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC).