[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 13, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41207-41215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17480]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-601]


Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished or 
Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of 
the 2009-2010 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order and 
Intent To Rescind Administrative Review, in Part

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

SUMMARY: In response to requests from interested parties, the 
Department of Commerce (``Department'') is currently conducting the 
2009-2010 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
tapered roller bearings and parts thereof, finished and unfinished 
(``TRBs''), from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''), covering the 
period June 1, 2009, through May 31, 2010. We have preliminarily 
determined that sales have been made below normal value (``NV'') by 
certain companies subject to this review. Additionally, we are 
announcing that we intend to rescind the review with respect to entries 
of TRBs exported by Tainshui Hailin Import and Export Corporation 
(``Hailin I&E'') produced by any manufacturer other than Hailin Bearing 
Factory (``HB Factory''). We have preliminarily determined that Gansu 
Hailin Zhongke Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (``Hailin Zhongke'') is 
successor-in-interest to HB Factory. If these preliminary results are 
adopted in our final results of this review, we will instruct U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to assess antidumping duties on 
entries of subject merchandise during the period of review (``POR'') 
for which the importer-specific assessment rates are above de minimis.
    Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results. We will issue the final results no later than 120 days from 
the date of publication of this notice.

DATES: Effective Date: July 13, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Demitri Kalogeropoulos or Frances 
Veith, AD/CVD Operations, Office 8, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-2623 or (202) 482-4295, respectively.

Background

    On June 15, 1987, the Department published in the Federal Register 
the antidumping duty order on TRBs from the PRC.\1\ On June 1, 2010, 
the Department published a notice of opportunity to request an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on TRBs from the 
PRC.\2\ On June 30, 2010, we received the following requests for 
review: (1) The Timken Company, of Canton, Ohio (``Petitioner'') 
requested that the Department conduct an administrative review of all 
entries of TRBs during the POR exported by Peer Bearing Co., Ltd.--
Changshan (``CPZ/SKF'') and by Hailin I&E (produced by any manufacturer 
other than HB Factory); (2) CPZ/SKF and its affiliate Peer Bearing 
Company (``Peer/SKF'') requested that the Department conduct an 
administrative review of all entries of TRBs during the POR exported by 
CPZ/SKF; and (3) Bosda International USA LLC (``Bosda''), a U.S. 
importer of subject merchandise, requested that the Department conduct 
an administrative review of all entries of TRBs during the POR exported 
by Zhejiang Sihe Machine Co., Ltd. (``Sihe'') and Xinchang Kaiyuan 
Automotive Bearing Co., Ltd. (``Kaiyuan'').
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    \1\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Tapered Roller 
Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished or Unfinished, From the 
People's Republic of China, 52 FR 22667 (June 15, 1987).
    \2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative 
Review, 75 FR 30383 (June 1, 2010).
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    On July 28, 2010, the Department initiated the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on TRBs from the PRC for the 
period June 1, 2009, through May 31, 2010.\3\ On August 31, 2010, we 
amended the Initiation Notice with respect to TRBs exported by Hailin 
I&E.\4\ In the Amended Initiation Notice, we clarified that this 
administrative review covers TRBs exported by Hailin I&E that were 
produced by any manufacturer other than HB Factory, because the 
Department previously revoked the order with respect to TRBs exported 
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Hailin I&E that had been produced by HB Factory.\5\
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    \3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 75 FR 
44224 (July 28, 2010) (``Initiation Notice'').
    \4\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Deferral of Initiation of Administrative 
Review, 75 FR 53274, 53276 (August 31, 2010) (``Amended Initiation 
Notice'').
    \5\ See id. at n 5 (citing Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts 
Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, from the People's Republic of 
China: Final Results of 2000-2001 Administrative Review, Partial 
Rescission of Review, and Determination to Revoke Order, in Part, 67 
FR 68990 (November 14, 2002)).
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    On October 12, 2010, the Department exercised its authority to 
limit the number of respondents selected for individual examination 
pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``the Act''). The Department selected the two largest exporters by 
volume as our mandatory respondents for this review, that is, CPZ/SKF 
and Hailin I&E.\6\ On October 14, 2010, the Department issued its 
antidumping duty questionnaire to CPZ/SKF and Hailin I&E. Between 
November 15, 2010, and June 13, 2011, CPZ/SKF and Hailin I&E responded 
to the Department's original and supplemental questionnaires.
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    \6\ See the Department's Memorandum entitled, ``Administrative 
Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Tapered Roller Bearings and 
Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, from the People's Republic 
of China: Respondent Selection,'' dated October 12, 2010.
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    On February 24, 2011, the Department published a notice in the 
Federal Register extending the time limit for the preliminary results 
of review by the full 120 days allowed under section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act, to June 30, 2011.\7\ Between June 15, and June 21, 2011, 
Petitioner and Hailin I&E submitted pre-preliminary comments.\8\ Given 
the timing and complexity of Petitioner's June 15, 2011 comments, the 
Department intends to address them fully in the context of the final 
results.
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    \7\ See Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Extension of Time 
Limit for the Preliminary Results of the 2009-2010 Administrative 
Review of the Antidumping Duty Order, 76 FR 10336 (February 24, 
2011).
    \8\ See Petitioner's June 15, 2011, letter titled 
``Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order Covering 
Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, 
From the People's Republic of China (6/1/2009-5/31/2010); The Timken 
Company's Comments on the Department's Preliminary Results for 
SKF;'' and Petitioner's June 21, 2011, letter titled 
``Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order Covering 
Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, 
From the People's Republic of China (6/1/2009-5/31/2010); The Timken 
Company's Comments on the Department's Preliminary Results for 
Tianshui Hailin;'' and Hailin I&E's June 16, 2011, letter titled 
``Tapered Roller Bearings from the PRC.''
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Period of Review

    The POR is June 1, 2009 through May 31, 2010.

Scope of the Order

    Imports covered by this order are shipments of tapered roller 
bearings and parts thereof, finished and unfinished, from the PRC; 
flange, take up cartridge, and hanger units incorporating tapered 
roller bearings; and tapered roller housings (except pillow blocks) 
incorporating tapered rollers, with or without spindles, whether or not 
for automotive use. These products are currently classifiable under 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS'') item 
numbers 8482.20.00, 8482.91.00.50, 8482.99.15, 8482.99.45, 8483.20.40, 
8483.20.80, 8483.30.80, 8483.90.20, 8483.90.30, 8483.90.80, 
8708.99.80.15 \9\ and 8708.99.80.80.\10\ Although the HTSUS item 
numbers are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written 
description of the scope of the order is dispositive.
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    \9\ Effective January 1, 2007, the HTSUS subheading 8708.99.8015 
is renumbered as 8708.99.8115. See United States International Trade 
Commission (``USITC'') publication entitled, ``Modifications to the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Under Section 1206 
of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988,'' USITC 
Publication 3898 (December 2006) found at http://www.usitc.gov.
    \10\ Effective January 1, 2007, the USHTS subheading 
8708.99.8080 is renumbered as 8708.99.8180; see id.
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Successor in Interest and Intent To Rescind, in Part, the 
Administrative Review

    In the 14th administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
TRBs from the PRC (POR: June 1, 2000 through May 31, 2001), the 
Department revoked the order on entries or sales of TRBs exported by 
Hailin I&E that were produced by HB Factory.\11\ In response to 
questionnaires issued in the current review, Hailin I&E stated that HB 
Factory was no longer in existence, and during the POR covered by the 
current review, Hailin Zhongke was the producer of all of the TRBs that 
Hailin I&E exported to the United States. In addition, in its 
questionnaire responses, Hailin I&E stated that Hailin Zhongke is the 
successor-in-interest to HB Factory because: (1) In 2001 all of HB 
Factory's manufacturing assets were transferred to Hailin Zhongke; (2) 
Hailin Zhongke is located at the same physical location as HB Factory; 
and (3) Hailin Zhongke has the same management, suppliers, and customer 
base as HB Factory.
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    \11\ See Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
Unfinished, from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of 
2000-2001 Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of Review, and 
Determination to Revoke Order, in Part, 67 FR 68990 (November 14, 
2002).
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    In order to determine whether Hailin I&E's exports of subject 
merchandise to the United States during the POR are subject to the 
review, the Department is conducting a successor-in-interest analysis 
to determine whether Hailin Zhongke is the successor-in-interest to HB 
Factory. In determining whether one company is the successor to another 
for purposes of applying the antidumping duty law, the Department 
examines a number of factors including, but not limited to, changes in: 
(1) Management, (2) production facilities, (3) supplier relationships, 
and (4) customer base.\12\ Although no single or even several of these 
factors will necessarily provide a dispositive indication of 
succession, generally the Department will consider one company to be a 
successor to another company if its resulting operation is not 
materially dissimilar to that of its predecessor.\13\ Thus, if the 
``totality of circumstances'' demonstrates that, with respect to the 
production and sale of the subject merchandise, the new company 
operates as the same business entity as the former company, the 
Department will treat the successor company the same as the predecessor 
for antidumping purposes.\14\
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    \12\ See, e.g., Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France: 
Final Results of Changed-Circumstances Review, 75 FR 34688 (June 18, 
2010), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (``IDM'') at 
Comment 1.
    \13\ See, e.g., Fresh and Chilled Atlantic Salmon From Norway; 
Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 64 FR 9979 (March 1, 1999).
    \14\ See id. at 9980; see also Brass Sheet and Strip from 
Canada: Final Result of Administrative Review, 57 FR 20461 (May 13, 
1992) at Comment 1.
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    In Hailin I&E's initial responses and subsequent responses to the 
Department's supplemental questionnaires, we found evidence that 
indicated that since the 14th review, ownership of the HB Factory was 
restructured on multiple occasions. Specifically, in the 14th review, 
HB Factory was a state owned enterprise, owned 100 percent by ``all the 
people.'' Based on our review of Hailin I&E's submissions, we found 
that, over an eight year period (2001-2008), the state owned assets in 
HB Factory and its successors were restructured to ultimately form 
Tianshui Hailin Bearing Co., Ltd. (``Hailin Bearing'') as the 
predominant owner of Hailin Zhongke.\15\
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    \15\ See Hailin I&E's section A and supplemental section A 
submissions dated November 18, 2010, and May 20, 2011, respectively; 
see also the Department's Memorandum entitled ``2009-2010 
Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Tapered 
Roller Bearings from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary 
Successor-In-Interest Determination,'' dated concurrently with this 
notice (``Preliminary Successor-In-Interest Memorandum'').
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    Because the antidumping duty order has been revoked in part for the 
exporter/producer combination of Hailin I&E/HB Factory, and Hailin 
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submissions indicate that HB Factory was restructured to form Hailin 
Zhongke, the Department has reviewed the information on the record to 
determine whether Hailin Zhongke is the successor-in-interest to HB 
Factory. The Department preliminarily finds, based on the totality of 
the circumstances, that Hailin Zhongke is the successor-in-interest to 
HB Factory. The record in this review indicates the following: (1) That 
several senior managers operating Hailin I&E and HB Factory continue to 
perform the same functions for Hailin I&E and Hailin Zhongke's; (2) 
that while in the 14th review HB Factory was state-owned (i.e., by 
``all the people''), SASAC later established Hailin Zhongke and 
transferred ownership of HB Factory's entire business complex, 
inclusive of physical plant and equipment, to Hailin Zhongke and that 
production continued virtually uninterrupted during and since the time 
of the transfer; (3) that Hailin Zhongke continued to purchase a 
significant portion of its steel bar and rod from the same supplier; 
(4) that Hailin Zhongke continued to supply essentially the same U.S. 
customer base it acquired from HB Factory's asset transfer, through 
Hailin I&E as HB Factory did during the 14th POR. Under these 
circumstances, the Department preliminarily finds that Hailin Zhongke 
is operating as the same business entity as HB Factory. As such, we 
preliminarily determine that Hailin Zhongke is the successor-in-
interest to the producer HB Factory.\16\ However, for the final 
results, we intend to solicit additional information to further 
consider this issue, as well as information concerning whether Hailin 
Zhongke was the sole producer of the subject merchandise sold by Hailin 
I&E to the United States during the POR.
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    \16\ See Preliminary Successor-In-Interest Memorandum.
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    In its Amended Initiation Notice, the Department indicated that the 
administrative review covers entries of TRBs exported by Hailin I&E 
that were produced by any manufacturer other than HB Factory. Because 
we have preliminarily determined that all TRBs exported by Hailin I&E 
were produced by Hailin Zhongke, the successor-in-interest to HB 
Factory, we intend to rescind the review as to Hailin I&E on the basis 
of no shipments of merchandise subject to the review pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.213(d)(3).

Non-Market Economy Country Status

    Pursuant to section 771(18)(C)(i) of the Act, any determination 
that a foreign country is a non-market economy (``NME'') country shall 
remain in effect until revoked by the administering authority. In every 
case conducted by the Department involving the PRC, the PRC has been 
treated as an NME country.\17\ None of the parties to this review has 
contested such treatment. Accordingly, we calculated normal value in 
accordance with section 773(c) of the Act, which applies to NME 
countries.
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    \17\ See, e.g., Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, 
Finished or Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: 
Preliminary Results of the 2008-2009 Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order, 75 FR 41148 (July 15, 2010), unchanged in 
Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, 
from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the 2008-2009 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 76 FR 3086 (January 19, 
2011).
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Surrogate Country

    Section 773(c)(1) of the Act directs the Department to base NV on 
the NME producer's factors of production (``FOPs''), valued in a 
surrogate market-economy (``ME'') 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 use, to the extent 
possible, the prices or costs of the FOPs in one or more market economy 
countries that are: (1) At a level of economic development comparable 
to that of the NME country; and (2) significant producers of comparable 
merchandise. The sources of the surrogate factor values are discussed 
under the ``Factor Valuations'' section below.\18\
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    \18\ See also the Department's memorandum entitled, 
``Preliminary Results of the 2009-2010 Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, 
Finished or Unfinished, from the People's Republic of China: 
Surrogate Value Memorandum,'' dated concurrently with this notice 
(``Surrogate Value Memorandum'').
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    On November 3, 2010, the Department identified six countries as 
being at a level of economic development comparable to the PRC for the 
specified POR: India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Ukraine, 
and Peru.\19\ On December 7, 2010, the Department invited all 
interested parties to submit comments on the surrogate country 
selection.\20\ On January 7, 2011, Petitioner and CPZ/SKF submitted 
comments regarding the Department's selection of a surrogate country 
for the preliminary results.
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    \19\ See Attachment I of the Department's letter dated December 
7, 2010, in which we requested all interested parties to provide 
comments on surrogate-country selection and provide FOP values from 
the potential surrogate countries (i.e., India, Indonesia, the 
Philippines, Thailand, Ukraine, and Peru) (``Surrogate Countries 
Letter''). Attachment I contains the Department's Memorandum from 
Carole Showers, Director, Office of Policy, to Erin Begnal, Program 
Manager, AD/CVD Operations, Office 8, entitled, ``Request for a List 
of Surrogate Countries for an Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, 
Finished and Unfinished (``TRBs'') from the People's Republic of 
China (``PRC''),'' dated November 3, 2010 (``Surrogate Countries 
Memorandum''); see the Department's Policy Bulletin No. 04.1, 
regarding, ``Non-Market Economy Surrogate Country Selection 
Process,'' (March 1, 2004) (``Policy Bulletin 04.1''), available on 
the Department's Web site at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/policy/bull04-1.html.
    \20\ See Surrogate Countries Letter.
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    With respect to the Department's selection of surrogate country, 
both Petitioner and CPZ/SKF argue that India is the most appropriate 
surrogate country from which to derive surrogate factor values for the 
PRC because India is economically comparable to the PRC, is a 
significant producer of TRBs, and there is reliable information from 
India on the record that can be used to value respondents' FOPs.\21\ 
Both parties also state that the Department should rely on India to 
derive surrogate factor values for the PRC, as it did in the 2006-2007, 
2007-2008, and 2008-2009 administrative reviews. Hailin I&E did not 
submit comments regarding surrogate country selection.
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    \21\ See Petitioner's and CPZ/SKF's submissions dated January 7, 
2011, regarding the appropriate surrogate country to be used for 
purposes of valuing FOPs in this administrative review.
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    The Department uses per capita Gross National Income (``GNI'') as 
the primary basis for determining economic comparability.\22\ Once the 
countries that are economically comparable to the PRC have been 
identified, the Department selects an appropriate surrogate country by 
determining whether an economically comparable country is a significant 
producer of comparable merchandise and whether data for valuing FOPs 
are both available and reliable. Therefore, the Department is 
preliminarily selecting India as the surrogate country on the basis 
that: (1) It is at a similar level of economic development to the PRC, 
pursuant to 773(c)(4) of the Act; (2) it is a significant producer of 
comparable merchandise; and (3) we have reliable data from India that 
we can use to value the FOPs. Accordingly, we have calculated NV using 
Indian prices when available and appropriate to value each respondent's 
FOPs.\23\ In certain instances where Indian surrogate values (``SV'') 
were not deemed to be the best available data, we have relied on Thai 
SVs in the alternative. Thailand is also at a similar level of economic 
development to the PRC and is a significant producer of comparable 
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with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3)(ii), for the final results of an 
administrative review, interested parties may submit publicly available 
information to value the FOPs within 20 days after the date of 
publication of these preliminary results.\24\
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    \22\ See Policy Bulletin 04.1.
    \23\ See Surrogate Value Memorandum; see also ``Factor 
Valuations'' section, below.
    \24\ In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(1), for the final 
results of this administrative review, interested parties may submit 
factual information to rebut, clarify, or correct factual 
information submitted by an 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 pursuant to 19 CFR 351.301(c)(1). 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 IDM at Comment 2.
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Separate Rates

    In antidumping proceedings involving NME countries, it is the 
Department's practice to begin with a rebuttable presumption that the 
export activities of 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 review 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 
government control over export activities. The Department analyzes each 
entity exporting the subject merchandise under a test arising from the 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Sparklers from 
the People's Republic of China, 56 FR 20588 (May 6, 1991) 
(``Sparklers''), as further developed in the 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''). 
However, if the Department determines that a company is wholly foreign-
owned or located in a market economy, then a separate-rate analysis is 
not necessary to determine whether it is independent from government 
control.
    CPZ/SKF submitted information indicating that CPZ/SKF is a wholly 
foreign-owned limited liability company. Therefore, for the purposes of 
these preliminary results, the Department finds that it is not 
necessary to perform a separate-rate analysis for CPZ/SKF. Sihe and 
Kaiyuan each have submitted information indicating that they are 
limited liability PRC companies that have no foreign ownership. 
Therefore, the Department must analyze whether Sihe and Kaiyuan have 
demonstrated the absence of both de jure and de facto government 
control over export activities, and are therefore entitled to a 
separate rate.

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.\25\
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    \25\ See Sparklers, 56 FR at 20589.
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    The evidence provided by Sihe and Kaiyuan supports a preliminary 
finding of de jure absence of government control based on the 
following: (1) An absence of restrictive stipulations associated with 
the individual exporter's business and export licenses; (2) there are 
applicable legislative enactments decentralizing control of the 
companies; and (3) there are formal measures by the government 
decentralizing control of the companies.\26\
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    \26\ See Sihe's Separate Rate Application (``SRA''), dated 
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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.\27\
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    \27\ 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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    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 over export activities which would 
preclude the Department from assigning separate rates. For Sihe and 
Kaiyuan, we determine that the evidence on the record supports a 
preliminary finding of de facto absence of government control based on 
record statements and supporting documentation showing the following: 
(1) Each respondent sets its own export prices independent of the 
government and without the approval of a government authority; (2) each 
respondent retains the proceeds from its sales and makes independent 
decisions regarding disposition of profits or financing of losses; (3) 
each respondent has the authority to negotiate and sign contracts and 
other agreements; and (4) each respondent has autonomy from the 
government regarding the selection of management.\28\
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    \28\ See Sihe's SRA, dated October 21, 2010, and Kaiyuan's SRA 
dated October 21, 2010.
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    The evidence placed on the record of this review by each respondent 
demonstrates an absence of de jure and de facto government control with 
respect to its exports of the merchandise under review, in accordance 
with the criteria identified in Sparklers and Silicon Carbide. 
Therefore, we are preliminarily granting Sihe and Kaiyuan a separate 
rate.

Margin for Separate Rate Companies

    The Act and the Department's regulations do not address the 
establishment of a rate to be applied to individual companies not 
selected for examination where the Department limited its examination 
in an administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. 
Generally, we have looked to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which 
provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in an 
investigation, for guidance when calculating the rate for respondents 
we did not examine in an administrative review. For the exporters 
subject to a review that were determined to be eligible for separate 
rate status, but were not selected as mandatory respondents, the 
Department generally weight-averages the rates calculated for the 
mandatory respondents, excluding any rates that are zero, de minimis, 
or based entirely on adverse facts available.
    As discussed above, the Department received a timely and complete 
separate rate certification from Sihe and Kaiyuan, exporters of TRBs 
from the PRC during the POR and neither Sihe nor Kaiyuan were selected 
as mandatory respondents in this review. These companies have 
demonstrated their eligibility for a separate rate, as discussed above. 
Consistent with the Department's practice, as the separate

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rate, we have established a margin for Sihe and Kaiyuan based on the 
rate we calculated for the individually examined respondent, CPZ/SKF.

Fair Value Comparisons

    To determine whether sales of TRBs to the United States by CPZ/SKF 
were made at less than fair value, we compared constructed export price 
(``CEP'') to NV, as described in the ``U.S. Price'' and ``Normal 
Value'' sections of this notice, below, pursuant to section 771(35) of 
the Act.

U.S. 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 sections 772(c) and 
(d) of the Act. In accordance with section 772(b) of the Act, we used 
CEP for CPZ/SKF's sales because the exporter first sold subject 
merchandise to its affiliated company in the United States, Peer/SKF, 
which in turn sold subject merchandise to unaffiliated U.S. customers. 
We calculated CEP based on delivered prices to unaffiliated purchasers 
in the United States. We made deductions from the U.S. sales price for 
movement expenses in accordance with section 772(c)(2)(A) of the Act. 
These included foreign inland freight and foreign brokerage and 
handling from the plant to the port of exportation, international 
freight, U.S. brokerage and handling, marine insurance, other U.S. 
transportation, U.S. customs duty, U.S. warehousing expenses, where 
applicable, U.S. inland freight from port to the warehouse, and U.S. 
inland freight from the warehouse to the customer.
    We valued foreign brokerage and handling using a price list of 
export procedures necessary to export a standardized cargo of goods 
from India where foreign brokerage and handling fees were provided by 
PRC service providers or paid for in renminbi. The price list is 
compiled based on a survey case study of the procedural requirements 
for trading a standard shipment of goods by ocean transport in India as 
reported in ``Doing Business 2010: India'' published by the World 
Bank.\29\ Where foreign inland freight or international freight were 
provided by PRC service providers or paid for in renminbi, we based 
those charges on surrogate rates from India. See ``Factor Valuations'' 
section below for further discussion of these surrogate values.
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    In accordance with section 772(d)(1) of the Act, the Department 
deducted 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.\30\
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    \30\ See the Department's memorandum entitled, ``2009-2010 
Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Tapered 
Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished or Unfinished, from the 
People's Republic of China: Analysis of the Preliminary 
Determination Margin Calculation for Peer Bearing Company--
Changshan,'' dated concurrently with this notice (``CPZ/SKF Program 
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    We compared NV to individual CEP transactions in accordance with 
section 777A(d)(2) of the Act, as appropriate. Section 773(c)(1) of the 
Act provides that the Department shall determine NV using an FOP 
methodology if: (1) The merchandise is exported from an NME country; 
and (2) 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. When determining NV in an NME context, the 
Department will base NV on FOPs because the presence of government 
controls on various aspects of these economies renders price 
comparisons and the calculation of production costs invalid under our 
normal methodologies. Under section 773(c)(3) of the Act, FOPs include 
but are not limited to: (1) Hours of labor required; (2) quantities of 
raw materials employed; (3) amounts of energy and other utilities 
consumed; and (4) representative capital costs. The Department used 
FOPs reported by CPZ/SKF for materials, energy, labor and packing.
    In the instant review, CPZ/SKF reported sales that were further 
manufactured or assembled in a third country. Consistent with TRBs 
2007-2008 and TRBs 2008-2009,\31\ the Department has determined that 
the finishing operations in the third country do not constitute 
substantial transformation and, hence, do not confer a new country of 
origin for antidumping purposes. As such, we have determined NV for 
such sales based on the country of origin (i.e., the PRC), pursuant to 
section 773(a)(3)(A) of the Act, because CPZ/SKF knew at the time of 
the sale of merchandise to the third country that it was destined for 
export to the United States. The Department also included the further 
manufacturing and assembly costs incurred in the third country in the 
NV calculation, as well as the expense of transporting the merchandise 
from the factory in the PRC to the further manufacturing plant in the 
third country.\32\
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    \31\ See Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished or 
Unfinished, from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of 
2007-2008 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order, 75 FR 
844 (January 6, 2010) (``TRBs 2007-2008''), and accompanying IDM at 
Comment 1; and Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished 
and Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Final Results 
of the 2008-2009 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 76 FR 3086 
(January 19, 2011) (``TRBs 2008-2009''), and accompanying IDM at 
Comment 6.
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Factor Valuations

    In accordance with section 773(c) of the Act, we calculated NV 
based on FOPs reported by CPZ/SKF for the POR. In accordance with 19 
CFR 351.408(c)(1), the Department will normally use publicly available 
information to find an appropriate SV to value FOPs, but when a 
producer sources an input from a market economy and pays for it in 
market economy currency, the Department normally will value the factor 
using the actual price paid for the input if the quantities were 
meaningful and where the prices have not been distorted by dumping or 
subsidies.\33\ To calculate NV, we multiplied the reported per-unit 
factor-consumption rates by publicly available SVs (except as discussed 
below). 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, SVs which are non-export 
average values, most contemporaneous with the POR, product-specific, 
and tax-exclusive.\34\ We considered the quality, specificity, and 
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appropriate, we adjusted input prices by including freight costs to 
make them delivered prices. Specifically, we added to import SVs a 
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).
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    \33\ See Shakeproof Assembly Components Div of Ill Tool Works 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).
    \34\ 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).
    \35\ See, e.g., Fresh Garlic From the People's Republic of 
China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 67 FR 
72139 (December 4, 2002), and accompanying IDM at Comment 6; and 
Final Results of First New Shipper Review and First Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review: Certain Preserved Mushrooms From the People's 
Republic of China, 66 FR 31204 (June 11, 2001), and accompanying IDM 
at Comment 5.
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    On December 7, 2010, the Department invited all interested parties 
to submit publicly available information to value FOPs for 
consideration in the Department's preliminary results of review.\36\ On 
January 14, 2011, Petitioner and CPZ/SKF each submitted publicly 
available information to value FOPs for the preliminary results and 
CPZ/SKF submitted rebuttal comments on January 24, 2011. A detailed 
description of all surrogate values used for CPZ/SKF can be found in 
the Surrogate Value Memorandum.
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    For the preliminary results, in accordance with the Department's 
practice, except where noted below, we used data from the Indian import 
statistics in the Global Trade Atlas (``GTA''), published by Global 
Trade Information Services, Inc. (``GTIS'') and other publicly 
available Indian sources to calculate SVs for CPZ/SKF's FOPs (i.e., 
direct materials, energy, and packing materials) and certain movement 
expenses. The GTA reports import statistics, such as from India, in the 
original reporting currency and thus this data corresponds to the 
original currency value reported by each country. The record shows that 
data in the Indian import statistics, as well as those from the other 
Indian sources, are contemporaneous with the POR, product-specific, and 
tax-exclusive.\37\ In those instances where we could not obtain 
publicly available information contemporaneous to the POR with which to 
value factors, we adjusted the SVs using, where appropriate, the Indian 
Wholesale Price Index (``WPI'') as published in the International 
Monetary Fund's International Financial Statistics.\38\
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    \37\ See Surrogate Value Memorandum.
    \38\ See, e.g., Certain Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks 
From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Determination of 
Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final 
Determination, 74 FR 9600 (March 5, 2009), unchanged in Certain 
Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks From the People's Republic of 
China: Final Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value, 74 FR 
36656 (July 24, 2009).
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    As explained in the legislative history of the Omnibus Trade and 
Competitiveness Act of 1988, the Department continues to apply its 
long-standing practice of disregarding SVs if it has a reason to 
believe or suspect the source data may reflect subsidized prices.\39\ 
In this regard, the Department has previously found that it is 
appropriate to disregard such prices from India, Indonesia, South Korea 
and Thailand because we have determined that these countries maintain 
broadly available, non-industry specific export subsidies.\40\ Based on 
the existence of these subsidy programs that were generally available 
to all exporters and producers in these countries at the time of the 
POR, the Department finds that it is reasonable to infer that all 
exporters from India, Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand may have 
benefitted from these subsidies. Additionally, we disregarded prices 
from NME countries.\41\ 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 generally 
available export subsidies.\42\
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    \39\ Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, Conf. Report 
to Accompany H.R. 3, H.R. Rep. No. 576, 100th Cong., 2nd Sess. 
(1988) (``OTCA 1988'') at 590, reprinted in 1988 U.S.C.C.A.N. 1547, 
1623-24.
    \40\ See, e.g., Expedited Sunset Review of the Countervailing 
Duty Order on Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 from India, 75 FR 13257 
(March 19, 2010), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at 
4-5; Expedited Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty Order on 
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Quality Steel Plate from Indonesia, 70 
FR 45692 (August 8, 2005), and accompanying Issues and Decision 
Memorandum at 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 17, 19-20; Final 
Results of 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 23.
    \41\ See Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished or 
Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results 
of the 2008-2009 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Order, 76 FR 34048, unchanged in TRBs 2008-2009.
    \42\ See id.
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    CPZ/SKF claimed that certain of its reported raw material inputs 
were sourced from an ME country and paid for in ME currencies. When a 
respondent sources inputs from an ME supplier in meaningful quantities, 
we use the actual price paid by respondent for those inputs, except 
when prices may have been distorted by dumping or subsidies.\43\ Where 
we found 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,\44\ we used the 
actual purchase prices of these inputs to value the full input.
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    \43\ See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties; Final Rule, 
62 FR 27296, 27366 (May 19, 1997).
    \44\ See Antidumping Methodologies: Market Economy Inputs, 
Expected Non-Market Economy Wages, Duty Drawback; and Request for 
Comments, 71 FR 61716, 61717-18 (October 19, 2006) (``Antidumping 
Methodologies: Market Economy Inputs'').
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    Accordingly, we valued certain of CPZ/SKF's inputs using the ME 
currency prices paid where the total volume of the input purchased from 
all ME sources during the POR exceeds or is equal to 33 percent of the 
total volume of the input purchased from all sources during the period. 
Where the quantity of the reported input purchased from ME suppliers 
was below 33 percent of the total volume of the input purchased from 
all sources during the POR, and were otherwise valid, we weight-
averaged 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.\45\ Where appropriate, we added 
freight to the ME prices of inputs. For a detailed description of the 
actual values used for the ME inputs reported, see CPZ/SKF Program 
Analysis Memorandum.
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    \45\ See Antidumping Methodologies: Market Economy Inputs, 71 FR 
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    Among the FOPs for which the Department calculated SVs using Indian 
import statistics are steel tube, cage steel, steel scrap, anti-rust 
oil, and all packing materials.
    With respect to the valuation of wire rod, Petitioner submitted 
data from two HTS categories, Indian HTS 7228.50.90--Other steel bars, 
not cold formed, other, and Thai HTS 7228.50.10--Other steel bars, not 
cold formed, of circular cross-section. CPZ/SKF recommended that Thai 
import data be used to value its wire rod, citing the preceding 
antidumping review of TRBs in which the Department chose Thai data 
because the Indian data were determined to be aberrational and less 
specific to the input.\46\ CPZ/SKF argues that similar circumstances 
are present in this segment of the proceeding and so the Department 
should again reject the Indian import data in favor of the Thai import 
data.
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    For the preliminary results, we have determined to use 
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Thai import data from HTS category 7228.50.10 to calculate an SV for 
wire rod because these data are more specific to the input than the 
Indian import data. Specifically, the Indian HTS category contains rod 
of a type identified as ``other,'' whereas the Thai HTS category 
identifies a particular type of rod that is of ``circular cross-
section,'' corresponding to the shape of CPZ/SKF's actual wire rod 
input.\47\
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    We valued truck freight expenses using a per-unit average rate 
calculated from data on the infobanc Web site: http://www.infobanc.com/logistics/logtruck.htm. The logistics section of this Web site contains 
inland freight truck rates between many large Indian cities.\48\
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    \48\ See id.
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    We valued electricity using the updated electricity price data for 
small, medium, and large industries, as published by the Central 
Electricity Authority, an administrative body of the Government of 
India, in its publication titled ``Electricity Tariff & Duty and 
Average Rates of Electricity Supply in India,'' dated March 2008. These 
electricity rates represent actual country-wide, publicly-available 
information on tax-exclusive electricity rates charged to small, 
medium, and large industries in India.\49\ Because the rates listed in 
this source became effective on a variety of different dates, we are 
not adjusting the average value for inflation. In other words, the 
Department did not inflate this value to the POR because the utility 
rates represent current rates, as indicated by the effective date 
listed for each of the rates provided.\50\
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    \49\ See id.
    \50\ See, e.g., Wire Decking from the People's Republic of 
China: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 75 FR 
32905 (June 10, 2010), and accompanying IDM at Comment 3.
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    Because CPZ/SKF had shipments of subject merchandise to a third 
country for further manufacturing during the POR, we added the 
additional international freight cost to NV, and applied the SV for 
international freight from the PRC to the third country. The Department 
valued ocean freight using publicly available data collected from 
Maersk Line.\51\
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    Section 733(c) of the Act provides that the Department will value 
the FOPs in NME cases using the best available information regarding 
the value of such factors in a ME country or countries considered to be 
appropriate by the administering authority. The Act requires that when 
valuing FOPs, the Department utilizes, to the extent possible, the 
prices or costs of FOPs in one or more ME countries that are: (1) At a 
comparable level of economic development and (2) significant producers 
of comparable merchandise.\52\
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    Previously, the Department used regression-based wages that 
captured the worldwide relationship between per capita GNI and hourly 
manufacturing wages, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.408(c)(3), to value the 
respondent's cost of labor. However, on May 14, 2010, the Court of 
Appeals for the Federal Circuit (``CAFC''), in Dorbest Ltd. v. United 
States, 604 F.3d 1363, 1372 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (``Dorbest''), invalidated 
19 CFR 351.408(c)(3). As a consequence of the CAFC's ruling in Dorbest, 
the Department no longer relies on the regression-based wage rate 
methodology described in its regulations. On February 18, 2011, the 
Department published in the Federal Register a request for public 
comment on the interim methodology, and the data sources.\53\
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    \53\ See Antidumping Methodologies in Proceedings Involving Non-
Market Economies: Valuing the Factor of Production: Labor, Request 
for Comment, 76 FR 9544 (Feb. 18, 2011).
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    On June 21, 2011, the Department revised its methodology for 
valuing the labor input in NME antidumping proceedings.\54\ In Labor 
Methodologies, the Department determined that the best methodology to 
value the labor input is to use industry-specific labor rates from the 
primary surrogate country. Additionally, the Department determined that 
the best data source for industry-specific labor rates is Chapter 6A: 
Labor Cost in Manufacturing, from the International Labor Organization 
(ILO) Yearbook of Labor Statistics (``Yearbook'').
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    \54\ See Antidumping Methodologies in Proceedings Involving Non-
Market Economies: Valuing the Factor of Production: Labor, 76 FR 
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    In these preliminary results, the Department calculated the labor 
input using the wage method described in Labor Methodologies. To value 
the respondent's labor input, the Department relied on data reported by 
India to the ILO in Chapter 6A of the Yearbook. The Department further 
finds the two-digit description under ISIC-Revision 3 (``29--
Manufacture of machinery and equipment'') to be the best available 
information on the record because it is specific to the industry being 
examined, and is therefore derived from industries that produce 
comparable merchandise. This two-digit category contains the sub-
category for class 2913--``manufacture of bearings, gears, gearing and 
driving elements.'' Accordingly, relying on Chapter 6A of the Yearbook, 
the Department calculated the labor input using labor data reported by 
India to the ILO under Sub-Classification 29 of the ISIC-Revision 3 
standard, in accordance with Section 773(c)(4) of the Act. For these 
preliminary results, the calculated industry-specific wage rate is 
$1.66. Because this wage rate does not separate the labor rates into 
different skill levels or types of labor, the Department has applied 
the same wage rate to all skill levels and types of labor reported by 
CPZ/SKF.\55\ A more detailed description of the wage rate calculation 
methodology is provided in the preliminary surrogate value 
memorandum.\56\
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    As stated above, the Department used India's ILO data reported 
under Chapter 6A of Yearbook, which reflects all costs related to 
labor, including wages, benefits, housing, training, etc. Since the 
financial statements used to calculate the surrogate financial ratios 
include itemized detail of indirect labor costs, the Department made 
adjustments to the surrogate financial ratios.\57\
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.408(c)(4), the Department valued factory 
overhead, selling, general and administrative expenses and profit using 
non-proprietary information gathered from producers of identical or 
comparable merchandise in the surrogate country. The Department's 
practice is to disregard financial information containing evidence that 
the company received subsidies that the Department has previously found 
to be countervailable, and where there are other reliable data on the 
record for purposes of calculating the surrogate financial ratios.\58\ 
For these preliminary results, we used the average of the ratios 
derived from the financial statements of three Indian producers of 
TRBs: ABC Bearings Limited (for the year ending on March 31, 2009), FAG 
Bearings India Limited (for the year ending on December 31, 2009), and 
NRB Bearing (for the year ending on March 31, 2010). We did not use 
financial statements from three other Indian producers, SKF India, 
Timken India, and Austin Bearing, because they each contained evidence 
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countervailable.\59\ Specifically, these three Indian producers 
received benefits under the Duty Entitlement Pass Book, a program that 
the Department has previously determined to be countervailable.\60\
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    \58\ See First Administrative Review of Steel Wire Garment 
Hangers From the People's Republic of China: Final Results and Final 
Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 76 FR 
27994 (May 13, 2011) and IDM at Comment 2.
    \59\ See Surrogate Value Memorandum.
    \60\ See, e.g., Certain Iron-Metal Castings from India: 
Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review, 64 FR 61592 (Nov. 12, 1999), unchanged in 
Certain Iron-Metal Castings from India: Final Results of 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review, 65 FR 31515 (May 18, 
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    CPZ/SKF reported that steel scrap was recovered as a by-product of 
the production of subject merchandise and successfully demonstrated 
that the scrap has commercial value. Therefore, we have granted a by-
product offset for the quantities of the reported by-product, valued 
using Indian GTA data.\61\
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Currency Conversion

    Where appropriate, 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.

Preliminary Results of Review

    We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average 
dumping margin exists for the period June 1, 2009, through May 31, 
2010:

                            TRBs From the PRC
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                       Exporters                         average percent
                                                             margin
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Changshan Peer Bearing Co., Ltd.......................              5.61
Zhejiang Sihe Machine Co., Ltd........................              5.61
Xinchang Kaiyuan Automotive Bearing Co., Ltd..........              5.61
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department will disclose calculations performed for these 
preliminary results to the parties within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 
Interested parties may submit written comments no later than 30 days 
after the date of publication of these preliminary results of 
review.\62\ Rebuttals to written comments may be filed no later than 
five days after the written comments are filed.\63\ Further, parties 
submitting written comments and rebuttal comments are requested to 
provide the Department with an additional copy of those comments on 
diskette.
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    \62\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c).
    \63\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
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    Any interested party may request a hearing within 30 days of 
publication of this notice.\64\ Hearing requests should contain the 
following information: (1) The party's name, address, and telephone 
number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of the issues to 
be discussed. Oral presentations will be limited to issues raised in 
the briefs. If a request for a hearing is made, parties will be 
notified of the time and date for the hearing to be held at the U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.\65\
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    \64\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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    The Department will issue the final results of this administrative 
review, which will include the results of its analysis of issues raised 
in any such comments, within 120 days of publication of these 
preliminary results, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

Assessment Rates

    The Department will determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance 
with the final results of this review. For assessment purposes, we 
calculated exporter/importer (or customer) -specific assessment rates 
for merchandise subject to this review. Where appropriate, we 
calculated an ad valorem rate for each importer (or customer) by 
dividing the total dumping margins for reviewed sales to that party by 
the total entered values associated with those transactions. For duty-
assessment rates calculated on this basis, we will direct CBP to assess 
the resulting ad valorem rate against the entered customs values for 
the subject merchandise. Where appropriate, we calculated a per-unit 
rate for each importer (or customer) by dividing the total dumping 
margins for reviewed sales to that party by the total sales quantity 
associated with those transactions. For duty-assessment rates 
calculated on this basis, we will direct CBP to assess the resulting 
per-unit rate against the entered quantity of the subject merchandise. 
Where an importer (or customer) -specific assessment rate is de minimis 
(i.e., less than 0.50 percent), the Department will instruct CBP to 
assess that importer (or customer's) entries of subject merchandise 
without regard to antidumping duties. We intend to instruct CBP to 
liquidate entries containing subject merchandise exported by the PRC-
wide entity at the PRC-wide rate we determine in the final results of 
this review. The Department intends to issue appropriate assessment 
instructions directly to CBP 15 days after publication of the final 
results of this review.
    With regard to Hailin I&E, if we continue to find in our final 
results of review that Hailin Zhongke (1) Is the successor-in-interest 
to HB Factory, and (2) was Hailin I&E's sole supplier of TRBs sold to 
the United States during the POR, we will instruct CBP to liquidate 
Hailin I&E's entries of subject merchandise produced by Hailin Zhongke 
without regard to antidumping duties.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise from the PRC entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For CPZ/SKF, Sihe, and 
Kaiyuan, the cash deposit rate will be their respective rates 
established in the final results of this review, except if the rate is 
zero or de minimis no cash deposit will be required; (2) for previously 
investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters not listed above 
that have separate rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the 
exporter-specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) for 
all PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not been found to 
be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be the PRC-
wide rate of 92.84 percent; and (4) 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 exporters that 
supplied that non-PRC exporter. These deposit requirements, when 
imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.

Notification to Importers

    This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of 
their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of review 
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accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.213.

     Dated: June 30, 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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