[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 24 (Monday, February 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5769-5770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2737]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-933]


Frontseating Service Valves From the People's Republic of China: 
Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With Final Determination and 
Notice of Amended Final Determination and Antidumping Duty Order 
Pursuant to Court Decision

SUMMARY: On January 27, 2012, the United States Court of International 
Trade (``CIT'') sustained the Department of Commerce's (``the 
Department'') final results of redetermination pursuant to the CIT's 
remand order in Zhejiang DunAn Hetian Metal Co., Ltd. v. United States, 
Court No. 09-00217, Slip Op. 11-120 (CIT Sept. 28, 2011) 
(``Remand'').\1\
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    \1\ See Final Results Of Redetermination Pursuant To Court 
Remand, Court No. 09-00217, dated January 4, 2012, available at: 
http://www.ia.ita.doc.gov/remands/index.html (``FSV 
Redetermination'').
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    Consistent with the decision of the United States Court of Appeals 
for the Federal Circuit (``CAFC'') in Timken Co. v. United States, 893 
F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (``Timken''), as clarified by Diamond 
Sawblades Mfrs. Coalition v. United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 
2010) (``Diamond Sawblades''), the Department is notifying the public 
that the final judgment in this case is not in harmony with the 
Department's final determination and is amending the final 
determination of the less-than-fair-value investigation of frontseating 
service valves (``FSVs'') from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') 
with respect to the margin assigned to Zhejiang DunAn Hetian Metal Co., 
Ltd. (``DunAn'') covering the period of investigation (``POI'') July 1, 
2007, through December 31, 2007, and the antidumping order.\2\
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    \2\ Frontseating Service Valves from the People's Republic of 
China: Final Determination of Sales at Less than Fair Value and 
Final Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 74 FR 10886 
(March 13, 2009) and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum 
(``Final Determination'') and Antidumping Duty Order: Frontseating 
Service Valves from the People's Republic of China, 74 FR 19196 
(April 28, 2009), as corrected, Notice of Correction to Antidumping 
Duty Order: Frontseating Service Valves From the People's Republic 
of China, 74 FR 26204 (June 1, 2009) (``Order'').

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DATES: Effective Date: February 6, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eve Wang, Office 8, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-6231.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Final Determination, the Department 
applied partial adverse facts available (``AFA'') to DunAn because we 
found at verification that DunAn misreported the sales quantities of 
certain models of the merchandise under investigation sold in December 
2007. As partial AFA, the Department applied the petition rate of 55.62 
percent to all of the reported December 2007 sales of these certain 
models. On September 28, 2011, the Court of International Trade 
remanded the Final Determination to the Department, following a prior 
proceeding in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 
(``CAFC'') held that the Department is only permitted to apply partial 
AFA to information which was missing from the record, namely, the 
quantity of certain models of FSVs sold in December 2007.\3\
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    \3\ See Zhejiang Dunan Hetian Metal Co., Ltd. v. United States, 
652 F.3d 1333, 1348 (Fed. Cir. 2010).
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    The Court also granted the Department's request for a voluntary 
remand to recalculate the surrogate labor rate for DunAn in accordance 
with the CAFC's holding in Dorbest Ltd. v. United States, 604 F.3d 1363 
(Fed. Cir. 2010) (``Dorbest'').\4\ In Dorbest, the CAFC held that the 
Department's ``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 Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the ``Act'').'' \5\ Specifically, the CAFC 
interpreted section 773(c) of the Act to require the use of data from 
market economy countries that are both economically comparable to the 
non-market economy (``NME'') country at issue and significant producers 
of the subject merchandise, unless such data are unavailable. Because 
the Department's regulation requires the Department to use data from 
economically dissimilar countries and from countries that do not 
produce comparable merchandise, the CAFC invalidated the Department's 
labor regulation (19 CFR 351.408(c)(3)). On June 21, 2011, the 
Department revised its labor calculation methodology for valuing an NME 
respondent's cost of labor in NME antidumping proceedings.\6\ In Labor 
Methodologies, the Department found that the best methodology for 
valuing the NME respondent's cost of labor is to use the industry-
specific labor rate from the surrogate country. Additionally, the

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Department found that the best data source for calculating the 
industry-specific labor rate for the surrogate country is the data 
reported under ``Chapter 6A: Labor Cost in Manufacturing'' from the ILO 
Yearbook of Labor Statistics.\7\
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    \4\ See id. at 1349.
    \5\ See Dorbest, 604 F.3d at 1372.
    \6\ See Antidumping Methodologies in Proceedings Involving Non-
Market Economies: Valuing the Factor of Production: Labor, 76 FR 
36092 (June 21, 2011) (``Labor Methodologies'').
    \7\ See id., at 39063.
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    On January 5, 2012, the Department issued the FSV Redetermination. 
Pursuant to Remand, we applied partial AFA to DunAn's misreported sales 
quantity using adverse inferences solely with respect to quantity. 
Specifically, we assigned to the total quantity of misreported sales to 
the higher CONNUM-specific margin of the two CONNUMs in question. 
Additionally, pursuant to Dorbest and Labor Methodologies, we revised 
the wage rate calculation methodology to comply with the CAFC's 
interpretation of section 773 of the Act. The Department's 
redetermination resulted in changing DunAn's margin from 12.95 percent 
to 11.83 percent. On January 27, 2012, the Court of International Trade 
affirmed the FSV Redetermination.\8\
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    \8\ Zhejiang DunAn Hetian Metal Co., Ltd. v. United States, Ct. 
No. 09-00217, Slip Op. 12-13 (Jan. 27. 2012).
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Timken Notice

    In its decision in Timken, 893 F.2d at 341, as clarified by Diamond 
Sawblades, the CAFC has held that, pursuant to section 516A(c) of the 
Act, the Department must publish a notice of a court decision that is 
not ``in harmony'' with a Department determination and must suspend 
liquidation of entries pending a ``conclusive'' court decision. The 
CIT's January 27, 2012 judgment sustaining the Department's remand 
redetermination with respect to DunAn constitutes a final decision of 
that court that is not in harmony with the Department's Final 
Determination. This notice is published in fulfillment of the 
publication requirements of Timken.

Amended Final Determination and Order

    Because there is now a final court decision, we are amending the 
Final Determination and Order to reflect the results of the litigation. 
The revised weighted-average dumping margin is as follows:

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                                                                Percent
                Exporter/producer combination                    margin
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Exporter: Zhejiang DunAn Hetian Metal Co., Ltd.
Producer: Zhejiang DunAn Hetian Metal Co., Ltd...............      11.83
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    DunAn participated in the first administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on FSV's, and received a cash deposit rate, so 
the rate listed above will not be applied as a cash deposit rate for 
DunAn.\9\ This notice is issued and published in accordance with 
sections 516A(c)(1), 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
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    \9\ See Frontseating Service Valves from the People's Republic 
of China: Final Results of the 2008-2010 Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order, 76 FR 70706 
(November 15, 2012).

    Dated: February 1, 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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