[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 129 (Thursday, July 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38368-38372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-10565]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-893]


Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the People's Republic of 
China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is currently 
conducting a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain frozen warmwater shrimp from the People's Republic of China 
(``PRC'') covering the period July 16, 2004, through July 31, 2005. The 
Department preliminarily determines that sales have not been made below 
normal value (``NV'') with respect to Zhanjiang Regal Integrated Marine 
Resources Co., Ltd. (``Zhanjiang Regal''), which participated fully and 
is entitled to a separate rate in this review. If these preliminary 
results are adopted in its final results of this review, the Department 
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to assess 
antidumping duties on entries of subject merchandise during the period 
of review (``POR'') for which the importer-specific assessment rates 
are above de minimis.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 6, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Javier Barrientos, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 9, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2243.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Case History

General

    On February 1, 2005, the Department published in the Federal 
Register an amended final determination and antidumping duty order on 
certain frozen warmwater shrimp from the PRC. See Notice of Amended 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping 
Duty Order: Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From the People's Republic 
of China, 70 FR 05149 (February 1, 2005). On August 26, 2005, the 
Department received a new shipper review request from Zhanjiang Regal. 
On September 16, 2005, the Department requested that Zhanjiang Regal 
correct certain filing deficiencies. See the Department's letter dated 
September 16, 2005. On September 20, 2005, Zhanjiang Regal resubmitted 
their new shipper review request in accordance with section 
751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 
section 351.214(c) of the Department's regulations. On September 30, 
2005, the Department initiated a new shipper review with respect to 
Zhanjiang Regal. See Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From the People's 
Republic of China: Initiation of New Shipper Review, 70 FR 58679 
(October 7, 2005) (``Initiation Notice'').
    On February 16, 2006, the Department placed the entry package it 
received from CBP for Zhanjiang Regal's new shipper sale on the record 
of this review. See Memorandum from Javier Barrientos, AD/CVD Financial 
Analyst, Office 9, through Alex Villanueva, Program Manager, Office 9, 
to the File: Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review of Certain Frozen 
Warmwater Shrimp from the People's Republic of China: Placing Entry 
Packages on the Record, dated February 9, 2006.

Questionnaires and Responses

    On October 21, 2005, the Department issued sections A, C, and D of 
the general antidumping duty questionnaire to Zhanjiang Regal, along 
with the standard importer questionnaire for new shipper reviews. 
Zhanjiang Regal submitted its response to section A of the 
questionnaire on November 21, 2005, and subsequently submitted its 
response to sections C and D, and the importer questionnaire, on 
December 9, 2005. On December 22, 2005, the Department issued its first 
supplemental questionnaire for sections A, C and D. Zhanjiang Regal 
filed its response to this supplemental questionnaire on January 17, 
2006. On March 13, 2006, the Department issued its second supplemental 
questionnaire for sections A, C, and D to Zhanjiang Regal and its 
importer. Zhanjiang Regal filed its response to the Department's second 
sections A, C, and D supplemental questionnaires on April 3, 2006, and 
to the importer's questionnaire on April 7, 2006.

Surrogate Country and Values

    On November 2, 2005, the team requested from the Office of Policy a 
memorandum listing surrogate countries. The Department received a list 
of surrogate countries on November 7, 2005. On March 2, 2006, the 
Department notified parties of the opportunity to submit comments on 
surrogate country selection and surrogate values. No party submitted 
surrogate country selection comments, although Zhanjiang Regal 
submitted

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surrogate value comments. On May 22, 2006, the Department issued its 
surrogate country selection memorandum. See Memorandum from Javier 
Barrientos, AD/CVD Financial Analyst, Office 9, through Alex 
Villanueva, Program Manager, Office 9, and Jim Doyle, Director, Office 
9, to the File: Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review of Certain Frozen 
Warmwater Shrimp from the People's Republic of China: Selection of a 
Surrogate Country, dated May 22, 2006 (``Surrogate Country Memo'').

Period of Review

    The POR covers July 16, 2004, through July 31, 2005.

Scope of the Order

    The scope of this order includes certain warmwater shrimp and 
prawns, whether frozen, wild-caught (ocean harvested) or farm-raised 
(produced by aquaculture), head-on or head-off, shell-on or peeled, 
tail-on or tail-off (including the telson and the uropods), deveined or 
not deveined, cooked or raw, or otherwise processed in frozen form.
    The frozen warmwater shrimp and prawn products included in the 
scope of this order, regardless of definitions in the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), are products which are processed 
from warmwater shrimp and prawns through freezing and which are sold in 
any count size.
    The products described above may be processed from any species of 
warmwater shrimp and prawns. Warmwater shrimp and prawns are generally 
classified in, but are not limited to, the penaeidae family. Some 
examples of the farmed and wild-caught warmwater species include, but 
are not limited to, whiteleg shrimp (penaeus vannemei), banana prawn 
(penaeus merguiensis), fleshy prawn (penaeus chinensis), giant river 
prawn (macrobrachium rosenbergii), giant tiger prawn (penaeus monodon), 
redspotted shrimp (penaeus brasiliensis), southern brown shrimp 
(penaeus subtilis), southern pink shrimp (penaeus notialis), southern 
rough shrimp (trachypenaeus curvirostris), southern white shrimp 
(penaeus schmitti), blue shrimp (penaeus stylirostris), western white 
shrimp (penaeus occidentalis), and indian white prawn (penaeus 
indicus).
    Frozen shrimp and prawns that are packed with marinade, spices or 
sauce are included in the scope of this order. In addition, food 
preparations, which are not ``prepared meals,'' that contain more than 
20 percent by weight of shrimp or prawn are also included in the scope 
of this order.
    Excluded from the scope are: (1) Breaded shrimp and prawns (HTSUS 
subheading 1605.20.10.20); (2) shrimp and prawns generally classified 
in the pandalidae family and commonly referred to as coldwater shrimp, 
in any state of processing; (3) fresh shrimp and prawns whether shell-
on or peeled (HTSUS subheadings 0306.23.00.20 and 0306.23.00.40); (4) 
shrimp and prawns in prepared meals (HTSUS subheading 1605.20.05.10); 
(5) dried shrimp and prawns; 6) Lee Kum Kee's shrimp sauce; (7) canned 
warmwater shrimp and prawns (HTSUS subheading 1605.20.10.40); (8) 
certain dusted shrimp; and (9) certain battered shrimp. Dusted shrimp 
is a shrimp-based product: (1) that is produced from fresh (or thawed-
from-frozen) and peeled shrimp; (2) to which a ``dusting'' layer of 
rice or wheat flour of at least 95 percent purity has been applied; (3) 
with the entire surface of the shrimp flesh thoroughly and evenly 
coated with the flour; (4) with the non-shrimp content of the end 
product constituting between four and ten percent of the product's 
total weight after being dusted, but prior to being frozen; (5) that is 
subjected to individually quick frozen (IQF) freezing immediately after 
application of the dusting layer. Battered shrimp is a shrimp-based 
product that, when dusted in accordance with the definition of dusting 
above, is coated with a wet viscous layer containing egg and/or milk, 
and par-fried.
    The products covered by this order are currently classified under 
the following HTSUS subheadings: 0306.13.00.03, 0306.13.00.06, 
0306.13.00.09, 0306.13.00.12, 0306.13.00.15, 0306.13.00.18, 
0306.13.00.21, 0306.13.00.24, 0306.13.00.27, 0306.13.00.40, 
1605.20.10.10, and 1605.20.10.30. These HTSUS subheadings are provided 
for convenience and for Customs purposes only and are not dispositive, 
but rather the written description of the scope of this order is 
dispositive.

Verification

    On March 30, 2006, the Department issued the verification outline 
to Zhanjiang Regal. The Department conducted verification of the 
questionnaire responses submitted by Zhanjiang Regal at its office in 
Zhanjiang, PRC from April 10 -14, 2006. The Department used standard 
verification procedures, including on-site inspection of the 
facilities, and examination of relevant sales and financial records. 
The Department's verification results are outlined in the verification 
report, which is being issued concurrently with this notice. For 
further discussion, see Memorandum from Javier Barrientos, AD/CVD 
Financial Analyst, Office 9, through Alex Villanueva, Program Manager, 
Office 9, to the File: Verification of the Sales and Factors Response 
of Zhanjiang Regal Trading Co., Ltd. (``Zhanjiang Regal'') in the 
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review of Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 
from the People's Republic of China, dated June 27, 2006, (``Zhanjiang 
Regal Verification Report'').

New Shipper Status

    Consistent with the Department's practice, the Department 
investigated the bona fide bona fide nature of the sale made by 
Zhanjiang Regal for this new shipper review. The Department found the 
sale in question was made on a bona fide basis. Based on the 
Department's investigation into the bona fide nature of the sale, the 
questionnaire responses submitted by Zhanjiang Regal, and the 
Department's verification thereof, as well as Zhanjiang Regal's 
eligibility for a separate rate (see below), and the Department's 
preliminarily determination that Zhanjiang Regal was not affiliated 
with any exporter or producer that had previously shipped subject 
merchandise to the United States, we preliminarily determine that the 
respondent has met the requirements to qualify as a new shipper during 
the POR. Therefore, for purposes of these preliminary results of the 
review, the Department is treating Zhanjiang Regal's sale of subject 
merchandise to the United States as an appropriate transaction for this 
new shipper review. See Memorandum from Javier Barrientos, AD/CVD 
Financial Analyst, Office 9, through Alex Villanueva, Program Manager, 
Office 9, to James C. Doyle, Office Director, Office 9: Bona Fide 
Nature of the Sale in the Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review of 
Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp: Zhanjiang Regal Trading Co., Ltd., 
dated June 27, 2006.

Separate Rates

    The Department has treated the PRC as a non-market economy 
(``NME'') country in all previous antidumping cases. See, e.g., Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Partial 
Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances: Diamond Sawblades 
and Parts Thereof from the People's Republic of China, 71 FR 29303 (May 
22, 2006).In accordance with section 771(18)(C)(i) of the Act, any 
determination that a foreign country is

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an NME country shall remain in effect until revoked by the 
administering authority. The Department has no evidence suggesting that 
this determination should be changed. Therefore, the Department treated 
the PRC as an NME country for purposes of this review and calculated NV 
by valuing the factors of production (``FOP'') in a surrogate country. 
It is the Department's policy to assign all exporters of the 
merchandise subject to review that are located in NME countries a 
single antidumping duty rate unless an exporter can demonstrate an 
absence of governmental control, both in law (de jure) de facto and in 
fact (de facto), with respect to its export activities. To establish 
whether an exporter is sufficiently independent of governmental control 
to be entitled to a separate rate, the Department analyzes the exporter 
using the criteria established in the Final Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value: Sparklers from the People's Republic of China, 56 
FR 20588 (May 6, 1991) (``Sparklers''), as adopted and amplified in the 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Silicon Carbide 
from the People's Republic of China, 59 FR 22585, 22586-87 (May 2, 
1994) (``Silicon Carbide''). Under the separate rates criteria 
established in these cases, the Department assigns separate rates to 
NME exporters only if they can demonstrate the absence of both de jure 
and de facto governmental control over their export activities.

Absence of De Jure Control

    Evidence supporting, though not requiring, a finding of de jure 
absence of government control over export activities includes: (1) an 
absence of restrictive stipulations associated with the individual 
exporter's business and export licenses; (2) any legislative enactments 
decentralizing control of companies; and (3) any other formal measures 
by the government decentralizing control of companies. See Sparklers at 
20589.
    In the instant review, Zhanjiang Regal submitted a complete 
response to the separate rates section of the Department's 
questionnaire. The evidence submitted in the instant review by 
Zhanjiang Regal includes government laws and regulations on corporate 
ownership and control, business licences, and narrative information 
regarding the company's operations and selection of management. See 
Zhanjiang Regal Verification Report at Exhibits 2 and 6. The evidence 
provided by Zhanjiang Regal supports a finding of an absence of de jure 
governmental control over its export activities because it indicates 
that: (1) there are no controls on exports of subject merchandise, such 
as quotas applied to, or licenses required for, exports of the subject 
merchandise to the United States; and (2) the subject merchandise does 
not appear on any government list regarding export provisions or export 
licensing.

Absence of De Facto Control

    The absence of de facto governmental control over exports is based 
on whether the respondent: (1) sets its own export prices independent 
of the government and other exporters; (2) retains the proceeds from 
its export sales and makes independent decisions regarding the 
disposition of profits or financing of losses; (3) has the authority to 
negotiate and sign contracts and other agreements; and (4) has autonomy 
from the government regarding the selection of management. See Silicon 
Carbide at 22587; Sparklers at 20589; see also Notice of Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Furfuryl Alcohol from 
the People's Republic of China, 60 FR 22544, 22545 (May 8, 1995).
    In its questionnaire responses, Zhanjiang Regal submitted evidence 
demonstrating an absence of de facto governmental control over its 
export activities. Specifically, this evidence indicates that: (1) The 
company sets its own export prices independent of the government and 
without the approval of a government authority; (2) the company retains 
the proceeds from its sales and makes independent decisions regarding 
the disposition of profits or financing of losses; (3) the company has 
a general manager with the authority to negotiate and bind the company 
in an agreement; (4) the general manager is selected by the board of 
directors, and the general manager appoints the deputy managers and the 
manager of each department; and (5) there is no restriction on the 
company's use of export revenues. Therefore, the Department has 
preliminarily found that Zhanjiang Regal qualifies for a separate rate 
under the criteria established by Silicon Carbide and Sparklers.

Use of Facts Available

    Section 776(a)(2) of the Act, provides that, if an interested 
party: (A) withholds information that has been requested by the 
Department; (B) fails to provide such information in a timely manner or 
in the form or manner requested, subject to sections 782(c)(1) and (e) 
of the Act; (C) significantly impedes a proceeding under the 
antidumping statute; or (D) provides such information but the 
information cannot be verified, the Department shall, subject to 
subsection 782(d) of the Act, use facts otherwise available in reaching 
the applicable determination.
    In the instant review, the Department discovered that Zhanjiang 
Regal included part of its factory electricity usage under selling, 
general, and administrative (SG&A) electricity usage. Specifically, the 
company included the electricity used to run the chill compressors in 
the processing plant under the meter used for SG&A. See Zhanjiang Regal 
Verification Report at 2. Furthermore, the company could not determine 
how much of the SG&A electricity reading was from the chill 
compressors, thus preventing the Department from verifying this 
information. Id. at 31. However, the plant engineer estimated (based on 
his experience) the percentage of the SG&A meter reading that was 
attributable to the compressors. Id. Therefore, as facts otherwise 
available, pursuant to section 776(a)(2)(D) of the Act, the Department 
is assigning this estimate of the SG&A electricity meter readings to 
factory electricity. See Memorandum from Javier Barrientos, AD/CVD 
Financial Analyst, Office 9, through Alex Villanueva, Program Manager, 
Office 9, to the File: Analysis of Zhanjiang Regal Trading Co., Ltd. 
for the Preliminary Results in the Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review 
of Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the PRC, dated June 27, 2006.

Surrogate Country

    When the Department is investigating imports from an NME country, 
section 773(c)(1) of the Act directs it to base normal value (``NV''), 
in most circumstances, on the NME producer's factors of production, 
valued in a surrogate market-economy country or countries considered to 
be appropriate by the Department. In accordance with section 773(c)(4) 
of the Act, in valuing the factors of production, the Department shall 
utilize, to the extent possible, the prices or costs of factors of 
production in one or more market-economy countries that are at a level 
of economic development comparable to that of the NME country and are 
significant producers of comparable merchandise. The sources of the 
surrogate values the Department used in this review are discussed under 
the ``Normal Value'' section below.
    The Department determined that India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the 
Philippines, and Egypt are countries comparable to the PRC in terms of 
economic development. See Memorandum from Ron Lorentzen, Director, 
Office of Policy, to Alex

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Villanueva, Program Manager, Office 9; New Shipper Review of Certain 
Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the People's Republic of China (PRC): 
Request for a List of Surrogate Countries, dated November, 2005. 
Because of India's and Indonesia's relative levels of shrimp 
production, which is consistent with worldwide characteristics of 
frozen shrimp production, these two countries were selected as 
significant producers of comparable merchandise. See Surrogate Country 
Memo at 4. The Department select an appropriate surrogate country based 
on the availability and reliability of data from the countries. See 
Department Policy Bulletin No. 04.1: Non-Market Economy Surrogate 
Country Selection Process (``Policy Bulletin''), dated March 1, 2004. 
In this case, the Department found that India is a significant producer 
of comparable merchandise, is at a similar level of economic 
development pursuant to section 773(c)(4) of the Act, and has publicly 
available and reliable data. See Surrogate Country Memo.

U.S. Price

    In accordance with section 772(a) of the Act, the Department 
calculated the export price (``EP'') for sales to the United States for 
Zhanjiang Regal because the first sale to an unaffiliated party was 
made before the date of importation and the use of constructed EP was 
not otherwise warranted. The Department calculated EP based on the 
price to unaffiliated purchasers in the United States. Consistent with 
section 772(c) of the Act, as appropriate, the Department deducted from 
the starting price to the unaffiliated purchaser: foreign inland 
freight; brokerage and handling; and international freight. For 
Zhanjiang Regal, foreign inland freight and brokerage and handling were 
provided by an NME vendor or paid for using an NME currency. Thus, the 
Department based the deduction of these movement charges on surrogate 
values. See Memorandum from Javier Barrientos, AD/CVD Financial 
Analyst, through Alex Villanueva, Program Manager, Office 9, to the 
File; New Shipper Review of Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the 
People's Republic of China: Surrogate Values for the Preliminary 
Results, dated June 27, 2006 (``Surrogate Values Memo'') for details 
regarding the surrogate values for movement expenses. For international 
freight, provided by a non-market economy provider, but paid for in 
U.S. dollars, the Department based the deduction on a surrogate value.

Normal Value

    In accordance with section 773(c) of the Act, the Department 
calculated NV based on factors of production (``FOP'') reported by the 
respondents for the POR. To calculate NV, the Department valued the 
reported FOP by multiplying the per-unit factor quantities by publicly 
available Indian surrogate values. In selecting surrogate values, the 
Department considered the quality, specificity, and contemporaneity of 
the available values. As appropriate, the Department adjusted the value 
of material inputs to account for delivery costs. Where appropriate, 
the Department increased Indian surrogate values by surrogate inland 
freight costs. The Department calculated these inland freight costs 
using the shorter of the reported distances from the PRC port to the 
PRC factory, or from the domestic supplier to the factory. This 
adjustment is in accordance with the United States Court of Appeals for 
the Federal Circuit's (``CAFC'') decision in Sigma Corp. v. United 
States, 117 F. 3d 1401, 1407-1408 (Fed.Cir. 1997). For those values not 
contemporaneous with the POR, the Department adjusted for inflation or 
deflation using data published in the IMF's International Financial 
Statistics. The Department excluded from the surrogate country import 
data used in the Department's calculations imports from Korea, 
Thailand, and Indonesia due to generally available export subsidies. 
See China Nat'l Mach. Import & Export Corp. v. United States, 293 F. 
Supp. 2d 1334 (CIT 2003), aff'd 104 Fed. Appx. 183 (Fed. Cir. 2004) and 
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Romania: Notice of Final 
Results and Final Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, 70 FR 12651 (March 15, 2005) and accompanying Issues and 
Decision Memorandum at Comment 4. Furthermore, the Department 
disregarded prices from NME countries. Finally, imports that were 
labeled as originating from an ``unspecified'' country were excluded 
from the average value, because the Department could not be certain 
that they were not from either an NME or a country with general export 
subsidies. Finally, the Department converted the surrogate values to 
U.S. dollars as appropriate, using the official exchange rate recorded 
on the date of sale of subject merchandise in this case, obtained from 
Import Administration's website at http://www.ia.ita.doc.gov/exchange/index.html. For further detail, see the Surrogate Values Memo.

Changes from Verification

    For electricity, the Department is assigning the plant engineer's 
estimate of the SG&A electricity meter readings to factory electricity. 
See Facts Available section above.
    For direct labor, the Department discovered at verification that 
Zhanjiang Regal made a clerical/transposing error in summing certain 
fields in their worksheets. See Zhanjiang Regal Verification Report at 
32. This error affected the direct labor usage rate for both growing 
and processing direct labor. Therefore, the Department will use its 
verification findings for direct labor. See Zhanjiang Regal Analysis 
Memo.
    For international freight, Zhanjiang Regal provided the actual cost 
it incurred in U.S. dollars in its sales database. However, at 
verification the Department found the freight carrier was based in an 
NME country. See Zhanjiang Regal Verification Report at 25. Therefore, 
the Department used a surrogate value for the international freight 
expense Zhanjiang Regal incurred on its sale of the subject 
merchandise.

Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department preliminarily determines that the following weight 
average margin exist during the period July 16, 2004, through July 31, 
2005:

              Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the PRC
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                       Weighted-Average
                Exporter/Manufacturer                  Margin (Percent)
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Zhanjiang Regal Integrated Marine Resources Co.,                    0.00
 Ltd................................................
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Public Comment

    The Department will disclose to parties to this proceeding the 
calculations performed in reaching the preliminary results within ten 
days of the date of announcement of these preliminary results. An 
interested party may request a hearing within 30 days of publication of 
these preliminary results. See 19 CFR 351.310(c). Interested parties 
may submit written comments (case briefs) within 30 days of publication 
of the preliminary results and rebuttal comments (rebuttal briefs), 
which must be limited to issues raised in the case briefs, within five 
days after the time limit for filing case briefs. See 19 CFR 
351.309(c)(1)(ii) and 19 CFR 351.309(d). Parties who submit arguments 
are requested to submit with the argument: (1) a statement of the 
issues; (2) a brief summary of the

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argument; and (3) a table of authorities. Further, the Department 
requests that parties submitting written comments provide the 
Department with a diskette containing the public version of those 
comments. Unless the deadline is extended pursuant to section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department will issue the final results of 
this new shipper review, including the results of the Department's 
analysis of the issues raised by the parties in their comments, within 
120 days of publication of these preliminary results. The assessment of 
antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by this review and 
future deposits of estimated duties shall be based on the final results 
of this review.

Assessment Rates

    Upon issuing the final results of the review, the Department shall 
determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries. The Department will issue appropriate appraisement 
instructions for the companies subject to this review directly to CBP 
within 15 days of publication of the final results of this review. 
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), the Department will calculate 
importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio 
of the total amount of the dumping margins calculated for the examined 
sales to the total entered value of those same sales. The Department 
will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries covered by this review if any importer-specific assessment rate 
calculated in the final results of this review is above de minimis.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    Upon completion of this review, the Department will require cash 
deposits at the rate established in the final results as further 
described below.
    Bonding will no longer be permitted to fulfill security 
requirements for shipments of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from the 
PRC produced and exported by Zhanjiang Regal that are entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication 
date of the final results of this new shipper review. See 19 CFR Sec.  
351.214(e). The following cash deposit requirements will be effective 
upon publication of the final results of this new shipper review for 
all shipments of subject merchandise from Zhanjiang Regal entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication 
date: (1) For subject merchandise manufactured and exported by 
Zhanjiang Regal, the cash deposit rate will be the rate established in 
the final results of this review, except that no cash deposit will be 
required if the cash deposit rate calculated in the final results is 
zero or de minimis; and (2) for subject merchandise exported by 
Zhanjiang Regal but not manufactured by itself, the cash deposit rate 
will continue to be the
    PRC-wide rate (i.e., 112.81 percent); and (3) for subject 
merchandise produced by Zhanjiang Regal but not exported by itself, the 
cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the exporter. These 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until publication of 
the final results of the next administrative review.
    Notification to Importers
    This notice serves as a preliminary 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 the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    This new shipper review and notice are in accordance with sections 
751(a)(1), 751(a)(2)(B), and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(h)(i).

    Dated: June 27, 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
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