[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 102 (Thursday, May 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30656-30667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13097]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-970]


Multilayered Wood Flooring From the People's Republic of China: 
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

DATES: Effective Date: May 26, 2011.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``Department'') preliminarily 
determines that multilayered wood flooring from the People's Republic 
of China (``PRC'') is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United 
States at less than fair value (``LTFV''), as provided in section 733 
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). The estimated 
margins of sales at LTFV are shown in the ``Preliminary Determination'' 
section of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles Riggle, John Hollwitz, Brandon 
Petelin or Erin Kearney, AD/CVD Operations, Office 4, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0650, (202) 482-2336, (202) 482-8173 or 
(202) 482-0167, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On October 21, 2010, the Department received a petition concerning 
imports of multilayered wood flooring from the PRC filed in proper form 
by the Coalition for American Hardwood Parity \1\ (``Petitioner'').\2\ 
On October 27, 2010, the Department issued several requests for 
information and clarification of certain areas of the petition, to 
which Petitioner timely filed additional responses.
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    \1\ The Coalition for American Hardwood Parity is comprised of 
Anderson Hardwood Floors, LLC, Award Hardwood Floors, Baker's Creek 
Wood Floors, Inc., From the Forest, Howell Hardwood Flooring, 
Mannington Mills, Inc., Nydree Flooring and Shaw Industries Group, 
Inc.
    \2\ See Petitions for the Imposition of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duties: Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's 
Republic of China, dated October 21, 2010 (``Petition'').
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    On November 4, 2010, the Department received comments from Lumber 
Liquidators Services, LLC (``Lumber Liquidators'') and Home Legend LLC 
(``Home Legend''), U.S. importers of wood flooring. Lumber Liquidators 
and Home Legend are interested parties as defined by section 771(9)(A) 
of the Act. Additionally, on November 9, 2010, we

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received further comments filed by Lumber Liquidators, Home Legend and 
U.S. Floors LLC.
    The Department initiated an antidumping duty investigation of 
multilayered wood flooring from the People's Republic of China on 
November 10, 2010.\3\
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    \3\ See Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic of 
China: Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigation, 75 FR 70714 
(November 18, 2010) (``Initiation Notice'').
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    In the Initiation Notice, the Department stated that it intended to 
select PRC respondents based on quantity and value (``Q&V'') 
questionnaires.\4\ On November 15, 2010, the Department requested Q&V 
information from 190 companies identified in the petition as potential 
producers and/or exporters of multilayered wood flooring from the 
PRC.\5\ The Department received timely responses to its Q&V 
questionnaire from 80 companies. Additionally, the Department received 
documentation from Petitioner claiming that UA Wood Floors, Inc. (``UA 
Floors''), is located in Taiwan and, accordingly, does not sell 
merchandise subject to this investigation. Accordingly, Petitioner 
agreed to the redaction of UA Floors from the Department's listing of 
producers and exporters of subject merchandise for the purposes of this 
investigation.\6\ Additionally, the Department received documentation 
from UA Floors claiming that the company is located in Taiwan.\7\
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    \4\ See Initiation Notice, 75 FR at 70718.
    \5\ See Letter from Charles Riggle, Program Manager, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 4, to All Interested Parties, ``Antidumping Duty 
Investigation of Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's 
Republic of China: Quantity and Value Questionnaire'' (November 12, 
2010).
    \6\ See Letter from Petitioner, dated March 31, 2011.
    \7\ See Letter from UA Floors, dated April 5, 2011.
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    In the Initiation Notice, the Department notified parties of the 
application process by which exporters and producers may obtain 
separate-rate status in non-market economy (``NME'') investigations. 
The process requires exporters and producers to submit a separate-rate 
status application (``SRA'') \8\ and to demonstrate an absence of both 
de jure and de facto government control over their export activities. 
The SRA for this investigation was posted on the Department's Web site, 
http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ia-highlights-and-news.html, on November 12, 
2010. The deadline for filing an SRA was January 18, 2011.
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    \8\ See Policy Bulletin 05.1: Separate-Rates Practice and 
Application of Combination Rates in Antidumping Investigations 
involving Non-Market Economy Countries (April 5, 2005) (``Policy 
Bulletin 05.1''), available at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/policy/bull05-1.pdf.
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    On December 6, 2010, the International Trade Commission (``ITC'') 
preliminary determined that there is a reasonable indication that an 
industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of 
imports of multilayered wood flooring from the PRC.\9\
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    \9\ See Investigation Nos. 701-TA-476 and 731-TA-1179 
(Preliminary), 75 FR 79019 (Int'l Trade Comm'n Dec. 17, 2010).
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Postponement of Final Determination

    Section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act provides that a final determination 
may be postponed until not later than 135 days after the date of the 
publication of the preliminary determination if, in the event of an 
affirmative preliminary determination, a request for such postponement 
is made by exporters who account for a significant proportion of 
exports of the subject merchandise. In the event of a negative 
preliminary determination, a request for such a postponement must be 
made by Petitioners. See Section 735(a)(2)(B). Section 351.210(e)(2) of 
the Department's regulations requires that exporters requesting 
postponement of the final determination must also request an extension 
of the provisional measures referred to in section 733(d) of the Act 
from a four-month period until not more than six months. We received 
requests to postpone the final determination from Petitioner on April 
20, 2011, from Zhejiang Yuhua Timber Co., Ltd. (``Yuhua'') on April 27, 
2011, and from Zhejiang Layo Wood Industry Co., Ltd. (``Layo Wood'') on 
April 29, 2011. Layo Wood and Yuhua consented to the extension of 
provisional measures from a four-month period to not longer than six 
months. Because this preliminary determination is affirmative, the 
requests for postponement were made by exporters who account for a 
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise, and there 
is no compelling reason to deny the respondents' requests, we have 
extended the deadline for issuance of the final determination until the 
135th day after the date of publication of this preliminary 
determination in the Federal Register and have extended provisional 
measures to not longer than six months.

Period of Investigation

    The period of investigation (``POI'') is April 1, 2010, through 
September 30, 2010. This period corresponds to the two most recent 
fiscal quarters prior to the month of the filing of the petition, which 
was October 2011.\10\
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    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.204(b)(1).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determination

    On March 3, 2011, Petitioners made a timely request pursuant to 
section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(b)(2) and (e) for a 
50-day postponement of the preliminary determination. On March 11, 
2011, the Department published a postponement of the preliminary AD 
determination on wood flooring from the PRC.\11\
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    \11\ See Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic 
of China: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations of Antidumping 
Duty Investigations, 76 FR 13357 (March 11, 2011).
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Scope of the Investigation \12\
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    \12\ See Memorandum to Christian Marsh through Susan Kuhbach and 
Nancy Decker from Joshua Morris: Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Investigations: Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's 
Republic of China; Scope, dated May 19, 2011.
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    Multilayered wood flooring is composed of an assembly of two or 
more layers or plies of wood veneer(s) \13\ in combination with a core. 
The several layers, along with the core, are glued or otherwise bonded 
together to form a final assembled product. Multilayered wood flooring 
is often referred to by other terms, e.g., ``engineered wood flooring'' 
or ``plywood flooring.'' Regardless of the particular terminology, all 
products that meet the description set forth herein are intended for 
inclusion within the definition of subject merchandise.
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    \13\ A ``veneer'' is a thin slice of wood, rotary cut, sliced or 
sawed from a log, bolt or flitch. Veneer is referred to as a ply 
when assembled.
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    All multilayered wood flooring is included within the definition of 
subject merchandise, without regard to: Dimension (overall thickness, 
thickness of face ply, thickness of back ply, thickness of core, and 
thickness of inner plies; width; and length); wood species used for the 
face, back and inner veneers; core composition; and face grade. 
Multilayered wood flooring included within the definition of subject 
merchandise may be unfinished (i.e., without a finally finished surface 
to protect the face veneer from wear and tear) or ``prefinished'' 
(i.e., a coating applied to the face veneer, including, but not 
exclusively, oil or oil-modified or water-based polyurethanes, ultra-
violet light cured polyurethanes, wax, epoxy-ester finishes, moisture-
cured urethanes and acid-curing formaldehyde finishes.) The veneers may 
be also soaked in an acrylic-impregnated finish. All multilayered wood 
flooring is included within the definition of subject

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merchandise regardless of whether the face (or back) of the product is 
smooth, wire brushed, distressed by any method or multiple methods, or 
hand-scraped. In addition, all multilayered wood flooring is included 
within the definition of subject merchandise regardless of whether or 
not it is manufactured with any interlocking or connecting mechanism 
(for example, tongue-and-groove construction or locking joints). All 
multilayered wood flooring is included within the definition of the 
subject merchandise regardless of whether the product meets a 
particular industry or similar standard.
    The core of multilayered wood flooring may be composed of a range 
of materials, including but not limited to hardwood or softwood veneer, 
particleboard, medium-density fiberboard (MDF), high-density fiberboard 
(HDF), stone and/or plastic composite, or strips of lumber placed edge-
to-edge.
    Multilayered wood flooring products generally, but not exclusively, 
may be in the form of a strip, plank, or other geometrical patterns 
(e.g., circular, hexagonal). All multilayered wood flooring products 
are included within this definition regardless of the actual or nominal 
dimensions or form of the product.
    Specifically excluded from the scope are cork flooring and bamboo 
flooring, regardless of whether any of the sub-surface layers of either 
flooring are made from wood. Also excluded is laminate flooring. 
Laminate flooring consists of a top wear layer sheet not made of wood, 
a decorative paper layer, a core-layer of high-density fiberboard, and 
a stabilizing bottom layer.
    Imports of the subject merchandise are provided for under the 
following subheadings of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States (HTSUS): 4412.31.0520; 4412.31.0540; 4412.31.0560; 4412.31.2510; 
4412.31.2520; 4412.31.4040; 4412.31.4050; 4412.31.4060; 4412.31.4070; 
4412.31.5125; 4412.31.5135; 4412.31.5155; 4412.31.5165; 4412.31.3175; 
4412.31.6000; 4412.31.9100; 4412.32.0520; 4412.32.0540; 4412.32.0560; 
4412.32.2510; 4412.32.2520; 4412.32.3125; 4412.32.3135; 4412.32.3155; 
4412.32.3165; 4412.32.3175; 4412.32.3185; 4412.32.5600; 4412.39.1000; 
4412.39.3000; 4412.39.4011; 4412.39.4012; 4412.39.4019; 4412.39.4031; 
4412.39.4032; 4412.39.4039; 4412.39.4051; 4412.39.4052; 4412.39.4059; 
4412.39.4061; 4412.39.4062; 4412.39.4069; 4412.39.5010; 4412.39.5030; 
4412.39.5050; 4412.94.1030; 4412.94.1050; 4412.94.3105; 4412.94.3111; 
4412.94.3121; 4412.94.3131; 4412.94.3141; 4412.94.3160; 4412.94.3171; 
4412.94.4100; 4412.94.5100; 4412.94.6000; 4412.94.7000; 4412.94.8000; 
4412.94.9000; 4412.94.9500; 4412.99.0600; 4412.99.1020; 4412.99.1030; 
4412.99.1040; 4412.99.3110; 4412.99.3120; 4412.99.3130; 4412.99.3140; 
4412.99.3150; 4412.99.3160; 4412.99.3170; 4412.99.4100; 4412.99.5100; 
4412.99.5710; 4412.99.6000; 4412.99.7000; 4412.99.8000; 4412.99.9000; 
4412.99.9500; 4418.71.2000; 4418.71.9000; 4418.72.2000; and 
4418.72.9500.
    In addition, imports of subject merchandise may enter the United 
States under the following HTSUS subheadings: 4409.10.0500; 
4409.10.2000; 4409.29.0515; 4409.29.0525; 4409.29.0535; 4409.29.0545; 
4409.29.0555; 4409.29.0565; 4409.29.2530; 4409.29.2550; 4409.29.2560; 
4418.71.1000; 4418.79.0000; and 4418.90.4605.
    While HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, the written description of the subject merchandise is 
dispositive.

Non-Market Economy Country

    For purposes of initiation, Petitioner submitted an LTFV analysis 
for the PRC as an NME.\14\ The Department's most recent examination of 
the PRC's market status determined that NME status should continue for 
the PRC.\15\ In accordance with section 771(18)(C)(i) of the Act, the 
NME status remains in effect until revoked by the Department. The 
Department has not revoked the PRC's status as an NME country, and we 
have therefore treated the PRC as an NME in this preliminary 
determination and applied our NME methodology.
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    \14\ See Initiation Notice, 75 FR at 70716.
    \15\ See Memorandum for David M. Spooner, Assistant Secretary 
for Import Administration, Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain 
Lined Paper Products from the People's Republic of China (``China'') 
China's Status as a Non-Market Economy (``NME'') (August 30, 2006) 
(memorandum is on file in the CRU on the record of case number A-
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Selection of Respondents

    In accordance with section 777A(c)(2) of the Act, the Department 
selected the three largest exporters (by volume) of wood flooring as 
the mandatory respondents in this investigation based on the 
information contained in the timely submitted Quantity &Value (``Q&V'') 
questionnaire responses filed by 81 exporters/producers: Layo Wood; 
Yuhua; and Riverside Plywood Corporation, Samling Elegant Living 
Trading (Labuan) Limited, Samling Global USA, Inc., Samling Riverside 
Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Times Flooring (collectively, the ``Samling 
Group'').\16\ On January 10, 2010, the Department issued antidumping 
questionnaires to these three companies. In January and February 2011, 
Layo Wood, Yuhua and the Samling Group submitted timely responses to 
sections A, C, and D of the Department's antidumping questionnaire.
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    \16\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``Antidumping 
Duty Investigation of Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's 
Republic of China: Revised Respondent Selection Memorandum,'' dated 
February 8, 2011 (``Respondent Selection Memo'').
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    Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited (``Fine Furniture'') requested to 
be treated as a voluntary respondent in this investigation on November 
12, 2010. Shanghai Lizhong Wood Products Co., Ltd. (``Lizhong'') and 
Dun Hua City Jisen Wood Co., Ltd., asked to be treated as voluntary 
respondents on November 15, 2010. Armstrong Wood Products asked to be 
treated as a voluntary respondent on December 3, 2010. On January 31, 
2011, Fine Furniture and Lizhong each submitted unsolicited responses 
to section A of the Department's original questionnaire. On February 
23, 2011, Fine Furniture and Lizhong each submitted unsolicited 
responses to sections C and D of the Department's original 
questionnaire.
    The Department issued supplemental questionnaires to Layo Wood, 
Yuhua and the Samling Group from January to April 2011. Layo Wood, 
Yuhua and the Samling Group submitted timely responses to the 
Department's supplemental questionnaires from January to May 2011. From 
January to May 2011, Petitioner submitted comments to the Department 
regarding the submissions and/or responses of Layo Wood, Yuhua and the 
Samling Group.

Surrogate Country

    When the Department is investigating imports from an NME, section 
773(c)(1) of the Act directs it to base normal value, in most 
circumstances, on the NME producer's factors of production (``FOPs'') 
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 FOPs, the Department shall utilize, to

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the extent possible, the prices or costs of FOPs 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 we have 
used in this investigation are discussed under the ``Normal Value'' 
section below.
    The Department determined that India, the Philippines, Indonesia, 
Thailand, Ukraine and Peru are countries comparable to the PRC in terms 
of economic development.\17\ Once the countries that are economically 
comparable to the PRC have been identified, we select an appropriate 
surrogate country by determining whether an economically comparable 
country is a significant producer of comparable merchandise and whether 
the data for valuing FOPs is both available and reliable.\18\ Fine 
Furniture, Layo Wood, Petitioner, the Samling Group and Yuhua submitted 
comments regarding surrogate country selection on March 15, 2011. Layo 
Wood, Petitioner, the Samling Group and Yuhua submitted further 
comments regarding surrogate country selection on March 21, 2011. On 
April 6, 2011, Petitioner submitted further comments regarding 
surrogate country and surrogate value selection. On April 8, 2011, Layo 
Wood included comments regarding surrogate country selection in 
response to section D of the Department's second supplemental 
questionnaire. On May 2, 2011, Layo Wood submitted further comments 
regarding surrogate country and surrogate value selection.
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    \17\ See Memorandum to Wendy Frankel from Carole Showers, 
``Request for a List of Surrogate Countries for an Antidumping Duty 
Investigation of Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's 
Republic of China (``PRC'') (``Office of Policy Surrogate Countries 
Memorandum''), dated February 17, 2011. The Department notes that 
these six countries are part of a non-exhaustive list of countries 
that are at a level of economic development comparable to the PRC.
    \18\ See id.
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    We have determined that it is appropriate to use the Philippines as 
a surrogate country pursuant to section 773(c)(4) of the Act based on 
the following: (1) It is at a similar level of economic development; 
(2) it is a significant producer of comparable merchandise; and (3) we 
have reliable data from the Philippines that we can use to value the 
FOPs.\19\ Thus, we have calculated normal value (``NV'') using 
Philippine prices when available and appropriate to value the FOPs of 
the multilayered wood flooring producers under investigation. We have 
obtained and relied upon contemporaneous publicly available information 
wherever possible.\20\
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    \19\ See Memorandum to Abdelali Elouaradia from Drew Jackson, 
``Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic of China: 
Surrogate Country Memorandum'' (May 19, 2011).
    \20\ See id.
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    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3)(i), for the final 
determination in an antidumping investigation, interested parties may 
submit publicly available information to value the FOPs within 40 days 
after the date of publication of the preliminary determination.\21\
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    \21\ In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(1), for the final 
determination of this investigation, interested parties may submit 
factual information to rebut, clarify, or correct factual 
information submitted by any other interested party less than ten 
days before, on, or after, the applicable deadline for submission of 
such factual information. However, the Department notes that 19 CFR 
351.301(c)(1) permits new information only insofar as it rebuts, 
clarifies, or corrects information recently placed on the record. 
The Department generally will not accept the submission of 
additional, previously absent-from-the-record alternative surrogate 
value information. See Glycine from the People's Republic of China: 
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final 
Rescission, in part, 72 FR 58809 (October 17, 2007), and 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 2.
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Surrogate Value Comments

    Surrogate factor valuation comments and surrogate value information 
with which to value the FOPs for the preliminary determination in this 
proceeding were originally due March 11, 2011. On March 1, 2011, Layo 
Wood, Yuhua and the Samling Group requested an extension of time to 
submit potential surrogate value. On March 3, 2011, the Department 
extended the deadline for submission of surrogate value information for 
all interested parties until March 15, 2011. Surrogate value 
submissions were filed March 15, 2011, by Petitioner, Layo Wood, Yuhua, 
the Samling Group and Fine Furniture. Petitioner, Layo Wood, Yuhua and 
the Samling Group filed rebuttal surrogate value comments on March 21, 
2011.\22\
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    \22\ See the ``Factor Valuation'' section below; see also 
Memorandum to Abdelali Elouaradia through Charles Riggle re: 
Selection of Surrogate Values, dated May 19, 2011 (``Surrogate Value 
Memorandum'').
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Targeted Dumping

    On April 4, 2011, the Department received Petitioner's allegations 
of targeted dumping by Layo Wood, Yuhua and the Samling Group using the 
Department's methodology as established in Steel Nails.\23\ Based on 
our examination of the targeted dumping allegations filed by 
Petitioner, and pursuant to section 777A(d)(1)(B)(i) of the Act, the 
Department has determined that Petitioner's allegations sufficiently 
indicate that there is a pattern of export prices (or constructed 
export prices) for comparable merchandise that differ significantly 
among purchasers and regions.
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    \23\ See Certain Steel Nails from the United Arab Emirates: 
Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Not Less Than Fair Value, 
73 FR 33985 (June 16, 2008) (``Steel Nails'') and accompanying 
Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comments 1-9.
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    As a result, the Department has applied the targeted dumping 
analysis established in Steel Nails to Layo Wood, Yuhua and the Samling 
Group's U.S. sales to targeted purchasers and regions. The methodology 
we employed involves a two-stage test; the first stage addresses the 
pattern requirement and the second stage addresses the significant-
difference requirement.\24\ In this test we made all price comparisons 
on the basis of comparable merchandise (i.e., by control number or 
CONNUM). The test procedures are the same for the customer and region 
targeted-dumping allegations. We based all of our targeted-dumping 
calculations on the net U.S. price that we determined for U.S. sales by 
Layo Wood, Yuhua and the Samling Group in our standard margin 
calculations.\25\
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    \24\ See section 777A(d)(1)(B)(i) of the Act and Steel Nails, 
and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 2.
    \25\ For further discussion of the test and the results, see 
Samling Analysis Memorandum, Layo Analysis Memorandum and Yuhua 
Analysis Memorandum.
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    As a result of our analysis, we preliminarily determine that there 
is a pattern of prices for U.S. sales of comparable merchandise that 
differ significantly among certain purchasers and regions for Layo Wood 
and the Samling Group in accordance with section 777A(d)(1)(B)(i) of 
the Act, and our practice as discussed in Steel Nails. Our analysis, 
however, indicates that there is no pattern of prices for U.S. sales of 
comparable merchandise that differ significantly among certain 
purchasers and regions for Yuhua. We also find that the result using 
the standard average-to-average methodology is not substantially 
different from that using the alternative average-to-transaction 
methodology for Layo Wood because both methods result in a de minimis 
margin. Accordingly, for this preliminary determination we have applied 
the standard average-to-average methodology to all U.S. sales that 
Yuhua and Layo Wood reported, and have applied the alternative average-
to-transaction methodology to all U.S. sales that Samling Group 
reported.

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Affiliation

    Based on the evidence presented in Layo Wood's questionnaire 
responses, we preliminarily find that Layo Wood and Jiaxing Brilliant 
Import and Export Company (``Jiaxing Brilliant'') are not affiliated 
pursuant to section 771(33) of the Act.\26\
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    \26\ See Memorandum to Abdelali Elouaradia through Charles 
Riggle re: Preliminary Determination Regarding Affiliation and 
Collapsing of Zhejiang Layo Wood Industry Co., Ltd. and Jiaxing 
Brilliant Import & Export Co., Ltd., dated May 19, 2011.
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    Based on the evidence included in the Samling Group's questionnaire 
responses, we preliminarily find affiliation between Baroque Timber 
Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd. (``BTI''), Riverside Plywood 
Corporation (``RPC''), Samling Elegant Living Trading (Labuan) Limited 
(``SELT''), Samling Global USA, Inc. (``SGUSA''), Samling Riverside 
Co., Ltd. (``SRC''), and Suzhou Times Flooring (``STF''), pursuant to 
section 771(33)(A) and (F) of the Act. In addition, based on the 
evidence presented in the Samling Group's questionnaire responses, we 
find that BTI, RPC, and STF should be collapsed and treated as a single 
entity for purposes of this investigation, pursuant to sections 
771(33)(A) and (F) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.401(f)(1) and (2).\27\
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    \27\ See Memorandum to Abdelali Elouaradia through Charles 
Riggle re: Preliminary Determination Regarding Affiliation and 
Collapsing of Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd., 
Riverside Plywood Corporation, Samling Elegant Living Trading 
(Labuan) Limited, Samling Riverside Co., Ltd., and Suzhou Times 
Flooring Co., Ltd., dated May 19, 2011.
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    Based on the evidence included in Yuhua's questionnaire responses, 
we preliminarily determine that there is no basis for finding 
affiliation between Yuhua and A-Timber Co., Ltd., A-Timber Flooring 
Co., Ltd., or Oriental Asia International Ltd., pursuant to sections 
771(33)(A) and (F) of the Act.\28\
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    \28\ See Memorandum to Abdelali Elouaradia through Charles 
Riggle re: Preliminary Determination Regarding Affiliation Zhejiang 
Yuhua Timber Co., Ltd.
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Separate Rates

    In the Initiation Notice, the Department notified parties of the 
application process by which exporters and producers may obtain 
separate-rate status in NME investigations.\29\ The process requires 
exporters and producers to submit an SRA.\30\ The standard for 
eligibility for a separate rate is whether a firm can demonstrate an 
absence of both de jure and de facto government control over its export 
activities. In the instant investigation, the Department received 
timely-filed SRAs from 73 companies.\31\
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    \29\ See Initiation Notice, 75 FR 70718.
    \30\ See Policy Bulletin 05.1: ``While continuing the practice 
of assigning separate rates only to exporters, all separate rates 
that the Department will now assign in its NME investigations will 
be specific to those producers that supplied the exporter during the 
period of investigation. Note, however, that one rate is calculated 
for the exporter and all of the producers which supplied subject 
merchandise to it during the period of investigation. This practice 
applied both to mandatory respondents receiving an individually 
calculated separate rate as well as the pool of non-investigated 
firms receiving the weighted-average of the individually calculated 
rates. This practice is referred to as the application of 
`combination rates' because such rates apply to specific 
combinations of exporters and one or more producers. The cash-
deposit rate assigned to an exporter will apply only to merchandise 
both exported by the firm in question and produced by a firm that 
supplied the exporter during the period of investigation.'' See 
Policy Bulletin 05.1 at 6.
    \31\ The 73 separate-rate applicants are: (1) MuDanJiang Bosen 
Wood Industry Co., Ltd., (2) Huzhou Chenghang Wood Co., Ltd., (3) 
Hangzhou Hanje Tec Co., Ltd., (4) Nakahiro Jyou Sei Furniture 
(Dalian) Co., Ltd., (5) Shenyang Haobainian Wooden Co., Ltd., (6) 
Dalian Dajen Wood Co., Ltd., (7) HaiLin LinJing Wooden Products, 
Ltd., (8) Dun Hua Sen Tai Wood Co., Ltd., (9) Dunhua Jisheng Wood 
Industry Co., Ltd., (10) Hunchun Forest Wolf Industry Co., Ltd., 
(11) Guangzhou Panyu Southern Star Co., Ltd., (12) Nanjing Minglin 
Wooden Industry Co., Ltd., (13) Zhejiang Fudeli Timber Industry Co., 
Ltd., (14) Suzhou Dongda Wood Co., Ltd., (15) Guangzhou Pan Yu Kang 
Da Board Co., Ltd., (16) Kornbest Enterprises Ltd., (17) 
Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc., (18) Zhejiang Longsen Lumbering 
Co., Ltd., (19) Xinyuan Wooden Industry Co., Ltd., (20) Dasso 
Industrial Group Co., Ltd., (21) Hong Kong Easoon Wood Technology 
Co., Ltd., (22) Armstrong Wood Products Kunshan Co., Ltd., (23) 
Baishan Huafeng Wooden Product Co., Ltd., (24) Changbai Mountain 
Development and Protection Zone Hongtu Wood Industry Co., Ltd., (25) 
Changzhou Hawd Flooring Co., Ltd., (26) Dalian Jiuyuan Wood Industry 
Co., Ltd., (27) Dalian Penghong Floor Products Co., Ltd., (28) 
Dongtai Fuan Universal Dynamics LLC, (29) Dunhua City Dexin Wood 
Industry Co., Ltd., (30) Dunhua City Hongyuan Wood Industry Co., 
Ltd., (31) Dunhua City Jisen Wood Industry Co., Ltd., (32) Dunhua 
City Wanrong Wood Industry Co., Ltd., (33) Fusong Jinlong Wooden 
Group Co., Ltd., (34) Fusong Qianqiu Wooden Product Co., Ltd., (35) 
GTP International, (36) Guangdong Yihua Timber Industry Co., Ltd., 
(37) HaiLin LinJing Wooden Products, Ltd., (38) Huzhou Fulinmen Imp 
& Exp. Co., Ltd., (39) Huzhou Fuma Wood Bus. Co., Ltd., (40) Jiafeng 
Wood (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., (41) Jiashan Hui Jia Le Decoration Material 
Co., Ltd., (42) Jilin Forest Industry Jinqiao Flooring Group Co., 
Ltd., (43) Karly Wood Product Limited, (44) Kunshan Yingyi-Nature 
Wood Industry Co., Ltd., (45) Puli Trading Limited, (46) Shanghai 
Eswell Timber Co. Ltd., (47) Shanghai Lairunde Wood Co., Ltd., (48) 
Shanghai New Sihe Wood Co., Ltd., (49) Shanghai Shenlin Corporation, 
(50) Shenzhenshi Huanwei Woods Co., Ltd., (51) Vicwood Industry 
(Suzhou) Co., Ltd., (52) Xiamen Yung De Ornament Co., Ltd., (53) 
Xuzhou Shenghe Wood Co., Ltd., (54) Yixing Lion-King Timber Industry 
Co., Ltd., (55) Jiangsu Simba Flooring Industry Co., Ltd, (56) 
Zhejiang Biyork Wood Co., Ltd., (57) Zhejiang Dadongwu GreenHome 
Wood Co., Ltd., (58) Zhejiang Desheng Wood Industry Co., Ltd., (59) 
Zhejiang Shiyou Timber Co., Ltd., (60) Zhejiang Tianzhen Bamboo & 
Wood Development Co., Ltd., (61) Chinafloors Timber (China) Co. 
Ltd., (62) Shanghai Lizhong Wood Products Co., Ltd., (63) Fine 
Furniture (Shanghai) Limited, (64) Huzhou Sunergy World Trade Co. 
Ltd., (65) Huzhou Jesonwood Co., Ltd., (66) A&W (Shanghai) Woods 
Co., Ltd., (67) Fu Lik Timber (HK) Company Limited, (68) Yekalon 
Industry, Inc./Sennorwell International Group (Hong Kong) Limited, 
(69) Kemian Wood Industry (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., (70) Dalian Kemian 
Wood Industry Co., Ltd., (71) Dalian Huilong Wooden Products Co., 
Ltd., (72) Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd., and 
(73) Real Wood Floors, LLC.
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    Of the SR applicants, Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., 
Ltd. and Guangdong Yihua Timber Industry Co., Ltd. submitted SRAs on 
January 31, 2011, and January 21, 2011, respectively, pursuant to 
extensions granted by the Department. In addition to the aforementioned 
73 companies, in response to the Department's requests for information, 
Jiaxing Brilliant provided information in Layo Wood's responses to the 
Department's supplemental questionnaires on January 31, 2011, February 
23, 2011, April 5, 2011 and April 8, 2011. Based on the information 
provided in those responses, the Department preliminarily finds that 
Jiaxing Brilliant is eligible for a separate rate.
    In proceedings involving NME countries, the Department has a 
rebuttable presumption that all companies within the country are 
subject to government control and thus should be assessed a single 
antidumping duty rate. It is the Department's policy to assign all 
exporters of merchandise subject to investigation in an NME country 
this single rate unless an exporter can demonstrate that it is 
sufficiently independent so as to be entitled to a separate rate. 
Exporters can demonstrate this independence through the absence of both 
de jure and de facto governmental control over export activities. The 
Department analyzes each entity exporting the subject merchandise under 
a test arising from 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 further developed in Final Determination 
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Silicon Carbide from the People's 
Republic of China, 59 FR 22585 (May 2, 1994) (``Silicon Carbide''). In 
accordance with the separate-rates criteria, the Department assigns 
separate rates in NME cases only if respondents can demonstrate the 
absence of both de jure and de facto governmental control over export 
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A. Separate-Rate Recipients \32\
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    \32\ All separate-rate applicants receiving a separate rate are 
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1. Wholly Foreign-Owned or Located in a Market Economy
    Twelve separate rate applicants provided evidence in their SRAs 
that they are wholly owned by individuals or companies located in a 
market economy (``ME'') (collectively ``Foreign-Owned SR 
Applicants'').\33\ Therefore, because they are wholly foreign-owned or 
located in a market economy, and we have no evidence indicating that 
they are under the control of the PRC, a separate-rate analysis is not 
necessary to determine whether these companies are independent from 
government control.\34\ Accordingly, we have preliminarily granted a 
separate rate to these companies.
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    \33\ The wholly foreign-owned SR Applicants are: (1) Jianfeng 
Wood (Suzhou) Co, Ltd; (2) Fu Lik Timber (HK) Company Limited; (3) 
Xiamen Yung De Ornament Co., Ltd; (4) Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, 
Inc.; (5) A&W (Shanghai) Woods Co., Ltd.; (6) Vicwood Industry 
(Suzhou) Co., Ltd.; (7) Armstrong Wood Products Kunshan Co., Ltd.; 
(8) Kunshan Yingyi-Nature Wood Industry Co., Ltd.; (9) Dongtai Fuan 
Universal Dynamics LLC; (10) Yixing Lion-King Timber Industry Co., 
Ltd.; (11) Chinafloors Timber (China) Co., Ltd.; and (12) Fine 
Furniture (Shanghai) Limited.
    \34\  See, e.g., Certain New Pneumatic Off-The-Road Tires From 
the People's Republic of China; Preliminary Determination of Sales 
at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination, 73 
FR 9278, 9284 (February 20, 2008) (unchanged for the final 
determination).
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2. Joint Ventures Between Chinese and Foreign Companies or Wholly 
Chinese-Owned Companies
    Sixty-two of the separate-rate companies in this investigation 
stated that they are either joint ventures between Chinese and foreign 
companies or are wholly Chinese-owned companies (collectively ``PRC SR 
Applicants''). Therefore, the Department must analyze whether these 
respondents can demonstrate the absence of both de jure and de facto 
governmental control over export activities.
a. Absence of De Jure Control
    The Department considers the following de jure criteria in 
determining whether an individual company may be granted a separate 
rate: (1) An absence of restrictive stipulations associated with an 
individual exporter's business and export licenses; (2) any legislative 
enactments decentralizing control of companies; and (3) other formal 
measures by the government decentralizing control of companies.\35\
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    The evidence provided by the PRC SR Recipients supports a 
preliminary finding of de jure absence of governmental control based on 
the following: (1) An absence of restrictive stipulations associated 
with the individual exporters' business and export licenses; (2) there 
are applicable legislative enactments decentralizing control of the 
companies; and (3) and there are formal measures by the government 
decentralizing control of Chinese companies.
b. Absence of De Facto Control
    Typically, the Department considers four factors in evaluating 
whether each respondent is subject to de facto government control of 
its export functions: (1) Whether the export prices are set by or are 
subject to the approval of a government agency; (2) whether the 
respondent has authority to negotiate and sign contracts and other 
agreements; (3) whether the respondent has autonomy from the government 
in making decisions regarding the selection of management; and (4) 
whether the respondent retains the proceeds of its export sales and 
makes independent decisions regarding disposition of profits or 
financing of losses.\36\ The Department has determined that an analysis 
of de facto control is critical in determining whether respondents are, 
in fact, subject to a degree of government control which would preclude 
the Department from assigning separate rates.
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    \36\ See Silicon Carbide, 59 FR at 22586-87; 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).
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    In this investigation, the separate rate applicants each asserted 
the following: (1) That the export prices are not set by, and are not 
subject to, the approval of a governmental agency; (2) they have 
authority to negotiate and sign contracts and other agreements; (3) 
they have autonomy from the government in making decisions regarding 
the selection of management; and (4) they retain the proceeds of their 
export sales and make independent decisions regarding disposition of 
profits or financing of losses. Additionally, each of these companies' 
SRA responses indicates that its pricing during the POI does not 
involve coordination among exporters.
    Evidence placed on the record of this investigation by 73 of the SR 
Applicants demonstrates an absence of de jure and de facto government 
control with respect to their exports of the merchandise under 
investigation, in accordance with the criteria identified in Sparklers 
and Silicon Carbide. Therefore, we are preliminarily granting a 
separate rate to these entities and have identified each of them in the 
Preliminary Determination section of this notice, below.
Companies Not Receiving a Separate Rate
    Real Wood Floors, LLC (``RWF''), submitted a timely response to the 
Department's separate rate application on January 19, 2011. In its 
response, RWF claims that it is the first seller of the subject 
merchandise in the United States. Sales-related documentation submitted 
by RWF in its SRA indicates that RWF is an importer of subject 
merchandise.\37\ As RWF is neither an exporter, nor a Chinese producer, 
of subject merchandise that entered the United States during the POI, 
the Department finds that RWF is not eligible to apply for a separate 
rate.
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    \37\ See Separate Rate Application of Real Wood Floors, LLC: 
Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic of China, 
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Application of Facts Available and Adverse Facts Available
The PRC-Wide Entity and PRC-Wide Rate
    We issued our request for Q&V information to 190 potential Chinese 
exporters of the subject merchandise, in addition to posting the Q&V 
questionnaire on the Department's Web site.\38\ While information on 
the record of this investigation indicates that there are numerous 
producers/exporters of multilayered wood flooring in the PRC, we 
received 80 timely filed Q&V responses. Although all exporters were 
given an opportunity to provide Q&V information, not all exporters 
provided a response to the Department's Q&V letter. Therefore, the 
Department has preliminarily determined that there were exporters/
producers of the subject merchandise during the POI from the PRC that 
did not respond to the Department's request for information. We have 
treated these non-responsive PRC producers/exporters as part of the 
PRC-wide entity because they did not demonstrate their eligibility for 
a separate rate.\39\
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    \38\ See Respondent Selection Memo.
    \39\ See, e.g., Kitchen Racks Prelim, unchanged in Kitchen Racks 
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    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 subsections 782(c)(1) and (e) of the 
Act, (C) significantly impedes a proceeding under the antidumping 
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information cannot be verified, the Department shall, subject to 
subsection 782(d) of the Act, use facts otherwise available in reaching 
the applicable determination.
    Information on the record of this investigation indicates that the 
PRC-wide entity was non-responsive. Specifically, certain companies did 
not respond to our questionnaire requesting Q&V information. 
Accordingly, we find that the PRC-entity withheld information requested 
by the Department; failed to provide information in a timely manner and 
neither indicated that it was having difficulty providing the 
information nor requested that it be allowed to submit the information 
in an alternate form; and significantly impeded the proceeding by not 
submitting the requested information. As a result, pursuant to sections 
776(a)(2)(A)-(C) of the Act, we find that the use of facts available is 
appropriate to determine the PRC-wide rate. See Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Affirmative Preliminary 
Determination of Critical Circumstances and Postponement of Final 
Determination: Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic 
of Vietnam, 68 FR 4986 (January 31, 2003), unchanged in Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Affirmative Critical 
Circumstances: Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic 
of Vietnam, 68 FR 37116 (June 23, 2003).
    Section 776(b) of the Act provides that, in selecting from among 
the facts otherwise available, the Department may employ an adverse 
inference if an interested party fails to cooperate by not acting to 
the best of its ability to comply with requests for information.\40\ We 
find that, because the PRC-wide entity did not respond to our requests 
for information, it has failed to cooperate to the best of its ability. 
Furthermore, the PRC-wide entity's refusal to provide the requested 
information constitutes circumstances under which it is reasonable to 
conclude that less than full cooperation has been shown.\41\ Therefore, 
the Department preliminarily finds that, in selecting from among the 
facts available, an adverse inference is appropriate.
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    \40\ See Statement of Administrative Action, accompanying the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (``URAA''), H.R. Rep. No. 103-316, 870 
(1994) (``SAA''); see also Notice of Final Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality 
Steel Products from the Russian Federation, 65 FR 5510, 5518 
(February 4, 2000).
    \41\ See Nippon Steel Corporation v. United States, 337 F.3d 
1373, 1383 (Fed. Cir. 2003) (``Nippon Steel'') (noting that the 
Department need not show intentional conduct existed on the part of 
the respondent, but merely that a ``failure to cooperate to the best 
of a respondent's ability'' existed (i.e., information was not 
provided ``under circumstances in which it is reasonable to conclude 
that less than full cooperation has been shown'')).
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    When employing an adverse inference, section 776 of the Act 
indicates that the Department may rely upon information derived from 
the petition, the final determination from the LTFV investigation, a 
previous administrative review, or any other information placed on the 
record. In selecting a rate for AFA, the Department selects a rate that 
is sufficiently adverse to ensure that the uncooperative party does not 
obtain a more favorable result by failing to cooperate than if it had 
fully cooperated. It is the Department's practice to select, as AFA, 
the higher of the (a) Highest margin alleged in the petition, or (b) 
the highest calculated rate of any respondent in the investigation.\42\ 
The petition identified rates of 194.49 and 280.60 percent.\43\ These 
rates are higher than any of the calculated rates assigned to 
individually examined companies. Thus, as AFA, the Department's 
practice would be to assign the rate of 280.60 percent to the PRC-wide 
entity.
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    \42\ See Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: 
Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Quality Steel Products from the People's 
Republic of China, 65 FR 34660 (May 31, 2000), and accompanying 
Issues and Decision Memorandum, at ``Facts Available.''
    \43\ See Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic 
of China: Initiation of Antidumping Investigation, 75 FR 70714 
(November 18, 2010).
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Corroboration of Information
    Section 776(c) of the Act, however, requires the Department to 
corroborate, to the extent practicable, secondary information used as 
facts available. Secondary information is defined as ``information 
derived from the petition that gave rise to the investigation or 
review, the final determination concerning the subject merchandise, or 
any previous review under section 751 concerning the subject 
merchandise.'' See 19 CFR 351.308(c) and (d).
    The SAA clarifies that ``corroborate'' means that the Department 
will satisfy itself that the secondary information to be used has 
probative value. See the SAA at 870. The SAA also states that 
independent sources used to corroborate such evidence may include, for 
example, published price lists, official import statistics and customs 
data, and information obtained from interested parties during the 
particular investigation. Id. To corroborate secondary information, the 
Department will, to the extent practicable, examine the reliability and 
relevance of the information used.
    In order to determine the probative value of the margins in the 
petition for use as AFA for purposes of this preliminary determination, 
we analyzed the U.S. prices and normal values for each of the 
individually investigated parties. Based on this analysis, we 
determined that while there were U.S. prices within the range of the 
prices contained in the petition, the normal value information 
contained in the petition does not have probative value for purposes of 
this preliminary determination. Thus, with respect to AFA, for the 
preliminary determination, we have assigned the PRC-wide entity the 
rate of 82.65 percent, the highest calculated transaction-specific rate 
among mandatory respondents. No corroboration of this rate is necessary 
because we are relying on information obtained in the course of this 
investigation, rather than secondary information.\44\
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    \44\ See 19 CFR 351.308(c) and (d) and section 776(c) of the 
Act; see also Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value 
and Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part: 
Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube from the People's Republic of 
China, 73 FR 35652, 35653 (June 24, 2008), and accompanying Issues 
and Decision Memorandum at 1.
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Margin for the Separate Rate Companies
    As discussed above, the Department has preliminarily determined 
that in addition to the individually investigated entities, 73 other 
companies have demonstrated their eligibility for a separate rate. 
Normally, the Department's practice is to establish a margin, as the 
separate rate, for these entities based on the average of the rates we 
calculated for the mandatory respondents, excluding any rates that were 
zero, de minimis, or based entirely on AFA.\45\ In the instant 
investigation, only one of the margins assigned is neither zero or de 
minimis nor based on AFA. Thus, we are assigning that rate, 10.88%, to 
the separate rate applicants.\46\ The separate-rate applicants are 
listed in the ``Suspension of Liquidation'' section of this notice.
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    \45\ See, e.g., Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value and Partial Affirmative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances: Certain Polyester Staple Fiber from the People's 
Republic of China, 71 FR 77373, 77377 (December 26, 2006), unchanged 
in Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Partial 
Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances: Certain 
Polyester Staple Fiber from the People's Republic of China, 72 FR 
19690 (April 19, 2007).
    \46\ See Section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act; see also Certain 
Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks From the People's Republic of 
China: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 74 FR 
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Date of Sale
    19 CFR 351.401(i) states that, ``in identifying the date of sale of 
the merchandise under consideration or foreign like product, the 
Secretary normally will use the date of invoice, as recorded in the 
exporter or producer's records kept in the normal course of business.'' 
In Allied Tube & Conduit Corp. v. United States, the CIT noted that a 
``party seeking to establish a date of sale other than invoice date 
bears the burden of producing sufficient evidence to `satisf{y{time} ' 
the Department that `a different date better reflects the date on which 
the exporter or producer establishes the material terms of sale.''' 
\47\ The date of sale is generally the date on which the parties agree 
upon all substantive terms of the sale. This normally includes the 
price, quantity, delivery terms and payment terms.\48\
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    \47\ Allied Tube & Conduit Corp. v. United States 132 F. Supp. 
2d 1087, 1090 (CIT 2001).
    \48\ See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Trinidad and 
Tobago: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 72 
FR 62824 (November 7, 2007), and accompanying Issue and Decision 
Memorandum at Comment 1; Notice of Final Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value: Certain Cold-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon Quality 
Steel Products from Turkey, 65 FR 15123 (March 21, 2000), and 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 2.
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    For sales by the Samling Group, we used the commercial invoice date 
as the sale date because record evidence indicates that the terms of 
sale were not set until the issuance of the commercial invoice.
    Consistent with 19 CFR 351.401(i), for sales made by Layo Wood and 
Yuhua, the Department finds that the date of invoice does not always 
reflect the date on which the terms of sale were finalized. For those 
sales made by Layo Wood and Yuhua that shipped prior to the invoice 
date, the Department has used the shipment date as the date of sale. 
For all other relevant sales made by Layo Wood and Yuhua over the 
course of POI, the Department has used invoice date as the date of 
sale.\49\
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Fair Value Comparisons
    To determine whether sales of multilayered wood flooring to the 
United States by the respondents were made at LTFV, we compared export 
price (``EP'') and constructed export price (``CEP'') to normal value 
(``NV''), as described in the ``Constructed Export Price,'' ``Export 
Price,'' and ``Normal Value'' sections of this notice.
U.S. Price
Constructed Export Price
    In accordance with section 772(b) of the Act, CEP is ``the price at 
which the subject merchandise is first sold (or agreed to be sold) in 
the United States before or after the date of importation by or for the 
account of the producer or exporter of such merchandise or by a seller 
affiliated with the producer or exporter, to a purchaser not affiliated 
with the producer or exporter, as adjusted under subsections (c) and 
(d).'' In its questionnaire responses, the Samling Group stated that it 
made certain CEP sales through U.S. affiliates. In accordance with 
section 772(b) of the Act, we used CEP for the Samling Group's U.S. 
sales where the merchandise subject to this investigation was sold 
directly to an affiliated purchaser located in the United States.
    For sales reported by the Samling Group as CEP sales, we calculated 
CEP based on delivered prices to unaffiliated purchasers in the United 
States. We made deductions from the U.S. sales price, where applicable, 
for movement expenses in accordance with section 772(c)(2)(A) of the 
Act. These included such expenses as foreign inland freight from the 
plant to the port of exportation and marine insurance. In accordance 
with section 772(d)(1) of the Act, the Department deducted commissions, 
billing adjustments, early payment discounts, domestic inland freight, 
domestic brokerage and handling, U.S. inland freight, other U.S. 
transportation costs, U.S. duties, direct and indirect selling 
expenses, international freight and marine insurance, credit expenses, 
inventory carrying costs and indirect selling expenses from the U.S. 
price, all of which relate to commercial activity in the United States. 
Finally, we deducted CEP profit, in accordance with sections 772(d)(3) 
and 772(f) of the Act.\50\
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Export Price
    In accordance with section 772(a) of the Act, we used EP for 
certain U.S. sales reported by the Samling Group and all sales reported 
by Layo Wood and Yuhua. We calculated EP based on the packed prices to 
unaffiliated purchasers in, or for exportation to, the United States. 
We made deductions, as appropriate, for any movement expenses (e.g., 
foreign inland freight from the plant to the port of exportation, 
domestic brokerage, international freight to the port of importation) 
in accordance with section 772(c)(2)(A) of the Act. Where foreign 
inland freight or foreign brokerage and handling fees were provided by 
PRC service providers or paid for in renminbi, we based those charges 
on surrogate value rates.\51\
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Normal Value
    Section 773(c)(1) of the Act provides that the Department shall 
determine the NV using an FOP methodology if the merchandise is 
exported from an NME and the information does not permit the 
calculation of NV using home-market prices, third-country prices, or 
constructed value under section 773(a) of the Act. The Department bases 
NV on the FOPs because the presence of government controls on various 
aspects of NMEs renders price comparisons and the calculation of 
production costs invalid under the Department's normal methodologies. 
Therefore, for this preliminary determination we have calculated NV 
based on FOPs in accordance with sections 773(c)(3) and (4) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.408(c). The FOPs include: (1) Hours of labor required; 
(2) quantities of raw materials employed; (3) amounts of energy and 
other utilities consumed; and (4) representative capital costs.\52\ In 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.408(c)(1), the Department will normally use 
publicly available information to find an appropriate surrogate value 
to value FOPs, but when a producer sources an input from a ME and pays 
for it in a ME currency, the Department may value the factor using the 
actual price paid for the input.\53\
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    \52\ See Section 773(c)(3)(A)-(D) of the Act.
    \53\ See 19 CFR 351.408(c)(1); see also Shakeproof Assembly 
Components Div of Ill v. United States, 268 F.3d 1376, 1382-83 (Fed. 
Cir. 2001) (affirming the Department's use of market-based prices to 
value certain FOPs).
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Factor Valuation Methodology
    In accordance with section 773(c) of the Act, we calculated NV 
based on FOP data reported by respondents during the POI. To calculate 
NV, we multiplied the reported per-unit factor-consumption rates by 
publicly available surrogate values (except as discussed below). In 
selecting the surrogate values, we considered the quality, specificity, 
and contemporaneity of the data.\54\ As appropriate, we adjusted input 
prices by including freight costs to make them delivered prices. 
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Indian surrogate freight cost using the shorter of the reported 
distance from the domestic supplier to the factory or the distance from 
the nearest seaport to the factory where appropriate. This adjustment 
is in accordance with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's 
decision in Sigma Corp. v. United States, 117 F.3d 1401, 1407-08 (Fed. 
Cir. 1997) (remanding to Commerce its freight expense calculation to 
avoid double-counting). A detailed description of all surrogate values 
used for Layo Wood, Yuhua and the Samling Group can be found in the 
Surrogate Value Memorandum.
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    \54\ See, e.g., New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the 
People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales 
at Less than Fair Value and Partial Affirmative Determination of 
Critical Circumstances, 73 FR 40485 (July 15, 2008), and 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 9.
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    For the preliminary determination, in accordance with the 
Department's practice, we used data from the Philippine Import 
Statistics and other publicly available sources from the Philippines in 
order to calculate surrogate values for Layo Wood, Yuhua and the 
Samling Group's FOPs (direct materials, energy, and packing materials) 
and certain movement expenses. In selecting the best available 
information for valuing FOPs in accordance with section 773(c)(1) of 
the Act, the Department's practice is to select, to the extent 
practicable, surrogate values which are non-export average values, most 
contemporaneous with the POI, product-specific, and tax-exclusive.\55\ 
The record shows that data in the Philippines' Import Statistics, as 
well as those from the other sources from the Philippines, are 
contemporaneous with the POI, product-specific, and tax-exclusive.\56\ 
In those instances where we could not obtain publicly available 
information contemporaneous to the POI with which to value factors, we 
adjusted the surrogate values using, where appropriate, the 
Philippines' WPI as published in the IMF's International Financial 
Statistics.\57\
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    \55\ See, e.g., Notice of Preliminary Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value, Negative Preliminary Determination of Critical 
Circumstances and Postponement of Final Determination: Certain 
Frozen and Canned Warmwater Shrimp From the Socialist Republic of 
Vietnam, 69 FR 42672, 42682 (July 16, 2004), unchanged in Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Frozen and 
Canned Warmwater Shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 69 
FR 71005 (December 8, 2004).
    \56\ See Surrogate Value Memorandum.
    \57\ See, e.g., Kitchen Racks, 74 FR at 9600.
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    Furthermore, with regard to the Philippines' import-based surrogate 
values, we have disregarded import prices that we have reason to 
believe or suspect may be subsidized. We have reason to believe or 
suspect that prices of inputs from India, Indonesia, South Korea, and 
Thailand may have been subsidized. We have found in other proceedings 
that these countries maintain broadly available, non-industry-specific 
export subsidies and, therefore, it is reasonable to infer that all 
exports to all markets from these countries may be subsidized.\58\
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    \58\ See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value and Negative Final Determination of Critical 
Circumstances: Certain Color Television Receivers From the People's 
Republic of China, 69 FR 20594 (April 16, 2004), and accompanying 
Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 7; see, also, Carbazole 
Violet Pigment 23 from India: Final Results of the Expedited Five-
year (Sunset) Review of the Countervailing Duty Order, 75 FR 13257 
(March 19, 2010), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at 
pages 4-5; Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Quality Steel Plate from 
Indonesia: Final Results of Expedited Sunset Review, 70 FR 45692 
(August 8, 2005), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at 
page 4; Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from the 
Republic of Korea: Final Results of Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review, 74 FR 2512 (January 15, 2009), and 
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at pages 17, 19-20; 
Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination: Certain Hot-
Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Thailand, 66 FR 50410 
(October 3, 2001), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum 
at page 23.
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    Further, guided by the legislative history, it is the Department's 
practice not to conduct a formal investigation to ensure that such 
prices are not subsidized.\59\ Rather, the Department bases its 
decision on information that is available to it at the time it makes 
its determination.\60\ Therefore, we have not used prices from these 
countries in calculating the Philippines' import-based surrogate 
values. Additionally, we 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 country or a country with general export subsidies.\61\
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    \59\ See Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, 
Conference Report to accompany H.R. Rep. 100-576 at 590 (1988) 
reprinted in 1988 U.S.C.C.A.N. 1547, 1623-24; see also Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Coated Free Sheet 
Paper from the People's Republic of China, 72 FR 30758 (June 4, 
2007) unchanged in Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Coated Free Sheet Paper from the People's Republic of China, 
72 FR 60632 (October 25, 2007).
    \60\ See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from 
the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Determination of Sales 
at Less Than Fair Value, 73 FR 24552, 24559 (May 5, 2008), unchanged 
in Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from the 
People's Republic of China: Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value, 73 FR 55039 (September 24, 2008).
    \61\ See id.
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.408(c)(1), when a respondent sources inputs 
from an ME supplier in meaningful quantities (i.e., not insignificant 
quantities), we use the actual price paid by respondent for those 
inputs, except when prices may have been distorted by findings of 
dumping by the PRC and/or subsidies.\62\ Where we find ME purchases to 
be of significant quantities (i.e., 33 percent or more), in accordance 
with our statement of policy as outlined in Antidumping Methodologies: 
Market Economy Inputs,\63\ we use the actual purchases of these inputs 
to value the inputs. Where the quantity of the reported input purchased 
from ME suppliers is below 33 percent of the total volume of the input 
purchased from all sources during the POI, and were otherwise valid, we 
weight-average the ME input's purchase price with the appropriate 
surrogate value for the input according to their respective shares of 
the reported total volume of purchases.\64\ Where appropriate, we add 
freight to the ME prices of inputs.
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    \62\ See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties; Final Rule, 
62 FR 27296, 27366 (May 19, 1997).
    \63\ See Antidumping Methodologies: Market Economy Inputs, 
Expected Non-Market Economy Wages, Duty Drawback; and Request for 
Comments, 71 FR 61716, 61717 (October 19, 2006) (``Antidumping 
Methodologies: Market Economy Inputs'').
    \64\ See Antidumping Methodologies: Market Economy Inputs, 71 FR 
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    Layo Wood, Yuhua and the Samling Group all claimed that certain of 
their reported raw material inputs were sourced from an ME country and 
paid for in ME currencies. Because information reported by Yuhua and 
Samling Group demonstrates that they each purchased significant 
quantities (i.e., 33 percent or more) of certain inputs from market 
economy suppliers, the Department used each respondent's actual market 
economy purchase prices to value each of their FOPs for those 
inputs.\65\ Where appropriate, freight expenses were added to the 
market economy prices of these inputs.
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    Because Layo Wood was unable to demonstrate that it purchased its 
inputs from ME sources, the Department has valued all of Layo Wood's 
inputs using surrogate values.
    On May 14, 2010, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 
(``CAFC) in Dorbest Ltd. v. United States, 604 F.3d 1363, 1372 (CAFC 
2010) (``Dorbest IV''), found that the regression-based method for 
calculating wage rates, as stipulated by 19 CFR 351.408(c)(3), uses 
data not permitted by the statutory requirements laid out in section 
773 of the Act (i.e., 19 U.S.C. 1677b(c)). The Department is continuing 
to evaluate options for determining labor values in light of the recent 
CAFC decision. See Antidumping Methodologies in Proceedings Involving 
Non-Market Economies: Valuing the Factor of Production: Labor; Request 
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Comment, 76 FR 9544 (February 18, 2011). However, for this preliminary 
determination we have calculated an hourly wage rate to use in valuing 
respondents' reported labor input by averaging industry-specific 
earnings and/or wages in countries that are economically comparable to 
the PRC and that are significant producers of comparable merchandise.
    For the preliminary determination of this investigation, the 
Department is valuing labor using a simple average industry-specific 
wage rate using earnings or wage data reported under Chapter 5B by the 
International Labor Organization (``ILO''). To achieve an industry-
specific labor value, we relied on industry-specific labor data from 
the countries we determined to be both economically comparable to the 
PRC, and significant producers of comparable merchandise. A full 
description of the industry-specific wage rate calculation methodology 
is provided in the Surrogate Value Memorandum. The Department 
calculated a simple average industry-specific wage rate of $1.15 for 
this preliminary determination. Specifically, for this review, the 
Department has calculated the wage rate using a simple average of the 
data provided to the ILO under Sub-Classification 20 of the ISIC-
Revision 3 standard by countries determined to be both economically 
comparable to the PRC and significant producers of comparable 
merchandise. The Department finds the two-digit description under ISIC-
Revision 3 (``Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, 
except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting 
materials'') to be the best available wage rate surrogate value on the 
record because it is specific and derived from industries that produce 
merchandise comparable to the subject merchandise. Consequently, we 
averaged the ILO industry-specific wage rate data or earnings data 
available from the following countries found to be economically 
comparable to the PRC and are significant producers of comparable 
merchandise: Philippines, Egypt, Indonesia, Ukraine, Jordan, Thailand, 
Ecuador and Peru. For further information on the calculation of the 
wage rate, see Surrogate Values Memorandum.
    We valued truck freight expenses using a per-unit average rate for 
Indian truck freight calculated from data on the Infobanc Web site: 
http://www.infobanc.com/logistics/logtruck.htm.\66\ The logistics 
section of this Web site contains inland freight truck rates between 
many large Indian cities. We used this source because there were no 
reliable Philippine data on the record with which to value truck 
freight.
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    \66\ See Samling Group Surrogate Value Suggestions, submitted 
March 15, 2011, at Exhibit 10.
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    We valued electricity using contemporaneous Philippine data from 
The Cost of Doing Business in Camarines Sur available at the Philippine 
government's Web site for the province: http://www.camarinessur.gov.ph. 
These data pertained only to industrial consumption.
    To value factory overhead, selling, general, and administrative 
expenses, and profit, we used audited financial statements from the 
following producers of comparable merchandise in the Philippines: Davao 
Panels Enterprises, Inc., Megaplywood Corporation, Premium Plywood 
Manufacturing Corporation and Winlex Marketing Corporation, and, each 
covering the fiscal year ending December 2009. The Department may 
consider other publicly available financial statements for the final 
determination, as appropriate.
Currency Conversion
    Where necessary, we made currency conversions into U.S. dollars, in 
accordance with section 773A(a) of the Act, based on the exchange rates 
in effect on the dates of the U.S. sales as certified by the Federal 
Reserve Bank.
Verification
    As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the Act, we intend to verify 
the information from Layo Wood, Yuhua and the Samling Group.
Combination Rates
    In the Initiation Notice, the Department stated that it would 
calculate combination rates for respondents that are eligible for a 
separate rate in this investigation.\68\ This practice is described in 
Policy Bulletin 05.1.
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Preliminary Determination
    The weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                                Weighted
             Exporter                        Producer           average
                                                                 margin
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Zhejiang Layo Wood Industry Co.,    Zhejiang Layo Wood            * 0.00
 Ltd.                                Industry Co., Ltd.
The Samling Group \**\............  The Samling Group \**\...      10.88
Zhejiang Yuhua Timber Co., Ltd....  Zhejiang Yuhua Timber         * 0.00
                                     Co., Ltd.
Jiaxing Brilliant Import & Export   Zhejiang Layo Wood             10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
MuDanJiang Bosen Wood Industry      MuDanJiang Bosen Wood          10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
MuDanJiang Bosen Wood Industry      Dun Hua Sen Tai Wood Co.,      10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Ltd.
Huzhou Chenghang Wood Co., Ltd....  Huzhou Chenghang Wood          10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Hangzhou Hanje Tec Co., Ltd.......  Zhejiang Jiechen Wood          10.88
                                     Industry Co., Ltd.
Nakahiro Jyou Sei Furniture         Nakahiro Jyou Sei              10.88
 (Dalian) Co., Ltd.                  Furniture (Dalian) Co.,
                                     Ltd.
Shenyang Haobainian Wooden Co.,     Shenyang Sende Wood Co.,       10.88
 Ltd.                                Ltd.
Shenyang Haobainian Wooden Co.,     Shenyang Haobainian            10.88
 Ltd.                                Wooden Co., Ltd.
Shenyang Haobainian Wooden Co.,     Shanghai Demeijia Wooden       10.88
 Ltd.                                Co., Ltd.
Dalian Dajen Wood Co., Ltd........  Dalian Dajen Wood Co.,         10.88
                                     Ltd.
HaiLin LinJing Wooden Products,     HaiLin LinJing Wooden          10.88
 Ltd.                                Products, Ltd.
Dun Hua Sen Tai Wood Co., Ltd.....  Dun Hua Sen Tai Wood Co.,      10.88
                                     Ltd.
Dunhua Jisheng Wood Industry Co.,   Dunhua Jisheng Wood            10.88
 Ltd.                                Industry Co., Ltd.
Hunchun Forest Wolf Industry Co.,   Hunchun Forest Wolf            10.88
 Ltd.                                Industry Co., Ltd.
Guangzhou Panyu Southern Star Co.,  Guangzhou Jiasheng Timber      10.88
 Ltd.                                Industry Co., Ltd.
Nanjing Minglin Wooden Industry     Nanjing Minglin Wooden         10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Fudeli Timber Industry     Zhejiang Fudeli Timber         10.88
 Co., Ltd..                          Industry Co., Ltd.
Suzhou Dongda Wood Co., Ltd.......  Suzhou Dongda Wood Co.,        10.88
                                     Ltd.
Guangzhou Pan Yu Kang Da Board      Guangzhou Pan Yu Kang Da       10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Board Co., Ltd.

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Kornbest Enterprises Ltd..........  Guangzhou Pan Yu Kang Da       10.88
                                     Board Co., Ltd.
Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc.  Dalian Huilong Wooden          10.88
                                     Products Co., Ltd.
Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc.  Mudanjiang Bosen Wood          10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc.  Nakahiro Jyou Sei              10.88
                                     Furniture (Dalian) Co.,
                                     Ltd.
Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc.  Hunchun Forest Wolf            10.88
                                     Wooden Industry Co., Ltd.
Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc.  Kemian Wood Industry           10.88
                                     (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
Metropolitan Hardwood Floors, Inc.  Shenyang Haobainian            10.88
                                     Wooden Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Longsen Lumbering Co.,     Zhejiang Longsen               10.88
 Ltd.                                Lumbering Co., Ltd.
Xinyuan Wooden Industry Co., Ltd..  Xinyuan Wooden Industry        10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Dasso Industrial Group Co., Ltd...  Dasso Industrial Group         10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong Easoon Wood Technology    Dasso Industrial Group         10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Co., Ltd.
Armstrong Wood Products Kunshan     Armstrong Wood Products        10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Kunshan Co., Ltd.
Baishan Huafeng Wooden Product      Baishan Huafeng Wooden         10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Product Co., Ltd.
Changbai Mountain Development and   Changbai Mountain              10.88
 Protection Zone Hongtu Wood         Development and
 Industry Co., Ltd.                  Protection Zone Hongtu
                                     Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
Changzhou Hawd Flooring Co., Ltd..  Changzhou Hawd Flooring        10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Dalian Jiuyuan Wood Industry Co.,   Dalian Jiuyuan Wood            10.88
 Ltd.                                Industry Co., Ltd.
Dalian Penghong Floor Products      Dalian Penghong Floor          10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Products Co., Ltd.
Dongtai Fuan Universal Dynamics     Dongtai Fuan Universal         10.88
 LLC.                                Dynamics LLC.
Dunhua City Dexin Wood Industry     Dunhua City Dexin Wood         10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
Dunhua City Hongyuan Wood Industry  Dunhua City Hongyuan Wood      10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
Dunhua City Jisen Wood Industry     Dunhua City Jisen Wood         10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
Dunhua City Wanrong Wood Industry   Dunhua City Wanrong Wood       10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
Fusong Jinlong Wooden Group Co.,    Fusong Jinlong Wooden          10.88
 Ltd.                                Group Co., Ltd.
Fusong Qianqiu Wooden Product Co.,  Fusong Qianqiu Wooden          10.88
 Ltd.                                Product Co., Ltd.
GTP International.................  Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and      10.88
                                     Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
GTP International.................  Jiafeng Wood (Suzhou)          10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
GTP International.................  Suzhou Dongda Wood Co.,        10.88
                                     Ltd.
GTP International.................  Kemian Wood Industry           10.88
                                     (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
Guangdong Yihua Timber Industry     Guangdong Yihua Timber         10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
HaiLin LinJing Wooden Products,     HaiLin LinJing Wooden          10.88
 Ltd.                                Products, Ltd.
Huzhou Fulinmen Imp & Exp. Co.,     Huzhou Fulinmen Wood           10.88
 Ltd.                                Floor Co., Ltd.
Huzhou Fuma Wood Bus. Co., Ltd....  Huzhou Fuma Wood Bus.          10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Jiafeng Wood (Suzhou) Co., Ltd....  Jiafeng Wood (Suzhou)          10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Jiashan Hui Jia Le Decoration       Jiashan Hui Jia Le             10.88
 Material Co., Ltd.                  Decoration Material Co.,
                                     Ltd.
Jilin Forest Industry Jinqiao       Jilin Forest Industry          10.88
 Flooring Group Co., Ltd.            Jinqiao Flooring Group
                                     Co., Ltd.
Karly Wood Product Limited........  Karly Wood Product             10.88
                                     Limited.
Kunshan Yingyi-Nature Wood          Kunshan Yingyi-Nature          10.88
 Industry Co., Ltd.                  Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
Puli Trading Ltd..................  Baiying Furniture              10.88
                                     Manufacturer Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Eswell Timber Co. Ltd....  Shanghai Eswell Timber         10.88
                                     Co. Ltd.
Shanghai Lairunde Wood Co., Ltd...  Shanghai Lairunde Wood         10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Shanghai New Sihe Wood Co., Ltd...  Shanghai New Sihe Wood         10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Shenlin Corporation......  Shanghai Shenlin               10.88
                                     Corporation.
Shenzhenshi Huanwei Woods Co., Ltd  Shenzhenshi Huanwei Woods      10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Vicwood Industry (Suzhou) Co., Ltd  Vicwood Industry (Suzhou)      10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Xiamen Yung De Ornament Co., Ltd..  Xiamen Yung De Ornament        10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Xuzhou Shenghe Wood Co., Ltd......  Xuzhou Shenghe Wood Co.,       10.88
                                     Ltd.
Yixing Lion-King Timber Industry    Yixing Lion-King Timber        10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu Simba Flooring Industry     Yixing Lion-King Timber        10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Biyork Wood Co., Ltd.....  Zhejiang Biyork Wood Co.,      10.88
                                     Ltd.
Zhejiang Dadongwu GreenHome Wood    Zhejiang Dadongwu              10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           GreenHome Wood Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Desheng Wood Industry      Zhejiang Desheng Wood          10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Industry Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Shiyou Timber Co., Ltd...  Zhejiang Shiyou Timber         10.88
                                     Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Tianzhen Bamboo & Wood     Zhejiang Tianzhen Bamboo       10.88
 Development Co., Ltd.               & Wood Development Co.,
                                     Ltd.
Chinafloors Timber (China) Co. Ltd  Chinafloors Timber             10.88
                                     (China) Co. Ltd.
Shanghai Lizhong Wood Products      Shanghai Lizhong Wood          10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Products Co., Ltd.
Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited.  Fine Furniture (Shanghai)      10.88
                                     Limited.
Huzhou Sunergy World Trade Co. Ltd  Zhejiang Haoyun Wood Co.,      10.88
                                     Ltd.
Huzhou Sunergy World Trade Co. Ltd  Nanjing Minglin Wooden         10.88
                                     Industry Co., Ltd.
Huzhou Sunergy World Trade Co. Ltd  Zhejiang AnJi XinFeng          10.88
                                     Bamboo & Wood Co., Ltd.
Huzhou Jesonwood Co., Ltd.........  Zhejiang Jeson Wood Co.,       10.88
                                     Ltd.
Huzhou Jesonwood Co., Ltd.........  Huzhou Jesonwood Co., Ltd      10.88
A&W (Shanghai) Woods Co., Ltd.....  A&W (Shanghai) Woods Co.,      10.88
                                     Ltd.
A&W (Shanghai) Woods Co., Ltd.....  Suzhou Anxin Weiguang          10.88
                                     Timber Co., Ltd.
Fu Lik Timber (HK) Company Limited  Guangdong Fu Lin Timber        10.88
                                     Technology Limited.
Yekalon Industry, Inc./Sennorwell   Jilin Xinyuan Wooden           10.88
 International Group (Hong Kong)     Industry Co., Ltd.
 Limited.
Kemian Wood Industry (Kunshan)      Kemian Wood Industry           10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
Dalian Kemian Wood Industry Co.,    Dalian Kemian Wood             10.88
 Ltd.                                Industry Co., Ltd.
Dalian Huilong Wooden Products      Dalian Huilong Wooden          10.88
 Co., Ltd.                           Products Co., Ltd.
Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood      Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and      10.88
 Industry Co., Ltd.                  Wood Industry Co., Ltd.

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PRC-wide Entity...................  .........................      82.65
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* de minimis.
** The Samling Group consists of the following companies: Baroque Timber
  Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd, Riverside Plywood Corporation,
  Samling Elegant Living Trading (Labuan) Limited, Samling Riverside
  Co., Ltd, and Suzhou Times Flooring Co., Ltd

Disclosure
    We will disclose the calculations performed to parties in this 
proceeding within five days of the date of publication of this notice 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Suspension of Liquidation
    In accordance with section 733(d) of the Act, we will instruct U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to suspend liquidation of all 
appropriate entries of multilayered wood flooring from the PRC as 
described in the ``Scope of Investigation'' section, entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register. We will instruct 
CBP to require a cash deposit or the posting of a bond equal to the 
weighted-average amount by which the normal value exceeds U.S. price, 
as follows: (1) The rate for the exporter/producer combinations listed 
in the chart above will be the rate we have determined in this 
preliminary determination; (2) for all PRC exporters of subject 
merchandise which have not received their own rate, the cash-deposit 
rate will be the PRC-wide rate; and (3) for all non-PRC exporters of 
subject merchandise which have not received their own rate, the cash-
deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the PRC exporter/producer 
combination that supplied that non-PRC exporter. These suspension-of-
liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice.
International Trade Commission Notification
    In accordance with section 733(f) of the Act, we have notified the 
ITC of our preliminary affirmative determination of sales at LTFV. 
Section 735(b)(2) of the Act requires the ITC to make its final 
determination as to whether the domestic industry in the United States 
is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by reason of 
imports of multilayered wood flooring, or sales (or the likelihood of 
sales) for importation, of the merchandise under consideration within 
45 days of our final determination.
Public Comment
    CBP has indicated to the Department that imports of subject 
merchandise entering under HTSUS subheadings 4409.10.0500; 
4409.10.2000; 4409.29.0515; 4409.29.0525; 4409.29.0535; 4409.29.0545; 
4409.29.0555; 4409.29.0565; 4409.29.2530; 4409.29.2550; 4409.29.2560; 
4418.71.1000; 4418.79.0000; and 4418.90.4605 would be incorrectly 
classified. Therefore we invite comment on whether those HTSUS 
subheadings should be eliminated from the scope description. These 
comments may be submitted to the Department no later than 20 days after 
the date of publication of this notice, and rebuttal comments no later 
than five days later.
    Case briefs or other written comments for all other, non-scope 
related issues, may be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Import 
Administration no later than seven days after the date on which the 
final verification report is issued in this proceeding, and rebuttal 
briefs, limited to issues raised in case briefs, may be submitted no 
later than five days after the deadline date for case briefs.\69\ A 
table of contents, list of authorities used and an executive summary of 
issues should accompany any briefs submitted to the Department. This 
summary should be limited to five pages total, including footnotes. The 
Department also requests that parties provide an electronic copy of its 
case and rebuttal brief submissions in either a ``Microsoft Word'' or a 
``pdf'' format.
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    In accordance with section 774 of the Act, we will hold a public 
hearing, if requested, to afford interested parties an opportunity to 
comment on arguments raised in case or rebuttal briefs. Interested 
parties, who wish to request a hearing, or to participate if one is 
requested, must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for 
Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1870, within 
30 days after the date of publication of this notice.\70\ Requests 
should contain the party's name, address, and telephone number, the 
number of participants, and a list of the issues to be discussed. If a 
request for a hearing is made, we intend to hold the hearing at the 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20230, at a time and location to be determined.\71\ 
Parties should confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the 
hearing two days before the scheduled date.
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    We will make our final determination no later than 135 days after 
the date of publication of this preliminary determination, pursuant to 
section 735(a)(2) of the Act.
    This determination is issued and published in accordance with 
sections 733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: May 19, 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-13097 Filed 5-25-11; 8:45 am]
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