[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 217 (Thursday, November 8, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66952-66954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27337]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-918]


Steel Wire Garment Hangers From the People's Republic of China: 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 2010-2011

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is conducting 
the third administrative review of steel wire garment hangers from the 
People's Republic of China (``PRC'') for the period October 1, 2010, 
through September 30, 2011. The Department has preliminarily determined 
that Shanghai Wells Hanger Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Wells Ltd., (USA), and 
Hong Kong Wells Ltd.,\1\ did not sell subject merchandise in the United 
States at prices below normal value (``NV'').
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    \1\ The Department previously found that Shanghai Wells Hanger 
Co., Ltd. (``Shanghai Wells''), Hong Kong Wells Ltd. (``HK Wells'') 
and Hong Kong Wells Ltd. (USA) (``Wells USA'') are affiliated and 
that Shanghai Wells and HK Wells comprise a single entity 
(collectively, ``Shanghai Wells Group''). Because there were no 
changes in this review, we continue to find Shanghai Wells, HK 
Wells, and USA Wells are affiliated and that Shanghai Wells and HK 
Wells comprise a single entity. See Steel Wire Garment Hangers From 
the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Preliminary 
Rescission, in Part, of the First Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, 75 FR 68758, 68761 (November 9, 2010), unchanged in 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, 
27996 (May 13, 2011).

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DATES: Effective November 8, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kabir Archuletta, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 9, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2593.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise that is subject to the order is steel wire garment 
hangers. The products subject to the order are currently classified 
under U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (``HTSUS'') subheadings 
7326.20.0020, 7323.99.9060, and 7323.99.9080. Although the HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the 
written description of the merchandise remains dispositive.\2\
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    \2\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Steel Wire Garment 
Hangers from the People's Republic of China, 73 FR 58111 (October 6, 
2008).
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Withdrawal of Requests for Review

    On February 28, 2012, M&B Metal Products Co., Inc (``Petitioner''), 
withdrew its request for an administrative review of 52 of the 59 
companies under review.\3\ On July 11, 2012, the Department published a 
notice of rescission in the Federal Register for those companies for 
which the request for review was withdrawn and which also had a 
separate rate from a previous segment of this proceeding.\4\ The 
Department stated that it would address the disposition of the 
remaining withdrawn companies that do not have a separate rate in the 
preliminary results of this review.\5\
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    \3\ See Letter from Petitioner to the Secretary of Commerce 
``Third Administrative Review of Steel Wire Garment Hangers from 
China--Petitioner's Withdrawal of Review Requests for Specific 
Companies'' (February 28, 2012).
    \4\ See Steel Wire Garment Hangers From the People's Republic of 
China: Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 
77 FR 40853, 40854 (July 11, 2012).
    \5\ See id. at 77 FR 40854 n.5.
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    The deadline to file a separate rate application, separate rate 
certification, or a notification of no sales, exports or entries, is 60 
days after the initiation of the administrative review,\6\ which in 
this case was January 29, 2012. Therefore, as of January 30, 2012, the 
remaining companies under review that did not demonstrate eligibility 
for a separate rate effectively became part of the PRC-wide entity. 
Accordingly, while the requests for review of those companies were 
withdrawn by Petitioner on February 28, 2012, those withdrawn companies 
remain under review as part of the PRC-wide entity, and the Department 
will make a determination with respect to the PRC-wide entity in these 
preliminary results and, ultimately, the final results.\7\
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    \6\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation In Part, 76 FR 
74041, 74041 (November 30, 2011).
    \7\ The following companies are considered part of the PRC-wide 
entity for these preliminary results: Brightwell (Hong Kong) 
Enterprise Ltd.; Delmar International (China Inc.; Hangzhou Chenyang 
Plastic Dipping Co., Ltd.; Hezhou City Yaolong Trade Co Ltd; Jiaxing 
Boyi Medical Device Co. Ltd.; Jingdezhen Honghe Im. & Ex. Trade Co. 
Ltd.; Kingtex Imp & Exp Co., Ltd.; Mao's Clothes Hangers Co., Ltd.; 
Ningbo Beilun Huafa Metal Products; Quanzhou Xiongxin Trade Co., 
Ltd.; Quyky Yanglei International Co., Ltd.; Shaan Xi Succeed 
Tradeing Co., Ltd.; Shandong Autjinrong Found-Assemble Co., Ltd.; 
Shanghai Almex Co., Ltd.; Shanghai China Light Industry 
International; Shanghai Jinda Imp & Exp Inc.; Shanghai M2M Imp. Exp. 
Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Mosta Wath & Clock Imp. Exp.; Shanghai Ruishan 
Metal Products Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Sagacity International; Shanghai 
Sanmao Import & Export; Shanghai Shengsing Enterprise Co.; Shanghai 
Textile Raw Materials; Shanghai Textile United Co., Ltd.; Shanghai 
Yangfan Industrial Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Zonghui Int Trade Co., Ltd.; 
Shaoxing Guochao Metallic Products Co., Ltd.; Shaoxing Kinglaw Metal 
Products Co., Ltd.; Shaoxing Leiluo Metal Manufactured; Shaoxing 
Meideli Metal Manufactured Co., Ltd.; Shenzhen SED Industry Co., 
Ltd., a/k/a Shenzhen SED Electronics Co.; Suzhou Daoyuan Import & 
Export Co., Ltd.; Suzhou Hengsheng Import & Export Co., Ltd.; Wesken 
International (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.; Winwell Industrial Ltd.; Yiwu 
An'tai Imp. Exp. Co., Ltd.; Yiwu Ao-si Metal Products Co., Ltd.; 
Zhejiang Jiashan Rigging Industry Co., Ltd.; Zhejiang Perfect Arts & 
Crafts Co., Ltd.; Zhejiang Tatzhou Hongda Metal Products Co., Ltd. 
(a/k/a Taizhou Hongda Metal Materials Co., Ltd.); Zhejiang Willing 
Foreign Trading Co. Ltd.; and Zhuocheng Plastic Co., Ltd. Petitioner 
also withdrew its requests for review of Angang Clothes Rack 
Manufacture Co. (``Angang'') and Laidlaw Company, LLC (``Laidlaw''), 
neither of which are producers/exporters located in the PRC. 
However, if these preliminary results are adopted in our final 
results, any of Angang or Laidlaw's PRC-origin exports of subject 
merchandise made during the POR shall be liquidated at the PRC-wide 
rate.
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Methodology

    The Department is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). 
Constructed export prices and export prices have been calculated in 
accordance with section 772 of the Act. Because the PRC is a nonmarket 
economy within the meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, normal value 
has been calculated in accordance with section 773(c). Specifically, 
the Shanghai Wells Group's factors of production have been valued using 
Philippine prices, a country that is economically comparable to the PRC 
and that is a significant producer of comparable merchandise.
    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, please see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\8\ The

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Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file 
electronically via Import Administration's Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (``IA 
ACCESS''). IA ACCESS is available to registered users at http://iaaccess.trade.gov and in the Central Records Unit (``CRU''), room 7046 
of the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete 
version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
on the Internet at http://www.trade.gov/ia/. The signed Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum and the electronic versions of the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum are identical in content.
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    \8\ See ``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results for the 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Steel Wire Garment Hangers 
from the People's Republic of China,'' (``Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum'') from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, dated concurrently 
with these results and hereby adopted by this notice.
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Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department determines that the following preliminary dumping 
margins exist for the period October 1, 2010, through September 30, 
2011:

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                                                     Weighted-average
             Manufacturer/Exporter                    dumping margin
                                                        (percent)
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Shanghai Wells Group \9\.......................                     0.00
PRC-Wide Entity................................                   187.25
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\9\ The Shanghai Wells Group consists of Shanghai Wells Hanger Co.,
  Ltd., and Hong Kong Wells Ltd., (USA).

Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department will disclose the calculations used in our analysis 
to parties in this review within five days of the date of publication 
of this notice.\10\ Interested parties are invited to comment on the 
preliminary results of this review. The Department will consider case 
briefs filed by interested parties within 30 days after the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register.\11\ Interested 
parties may file rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case 
briefs.\12\ The Department will consider rebuttal briefs filed not 
later than five days after the time limit for filing case briefs.\13\ 
Parties who submit arguments are requested to submit with each argument 
a statement of the issue, a brief summary of the argument, and a table 
of authorities cited.\14\
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    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1)-(2).
    \13\ See id.
    \14\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2), (d)(2).
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    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, filed electronically using IA ACCESS. An electronically filed 
document must be received successfully in its entirety by the 
Department's electronic records system, IA ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern 
Time within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice.\15\ 
Requests should contain the party's name, address, and telephone 
number; the number of participants; and a list of the issues to be 
discussed.\16\ Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those 
raised in the respective case briefs. If a request for a hearing is 
made, the Department will inform parties of the scheduled date for the 
hearing which will be held at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230, at a time and 
location to be determined. Parties should confirm by telephone the 
date, time, and location of the hearing.
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    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \16\ See id.
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    Unless the deadline is extended pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act, the Department intends to issue the final results of this 
administrative review, including the results of our analysis of issues 
raised in the written comments, within 120 days of publication of these 
preliminary results in the Federal Register, pursuant to section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

Deadline for Submission of Publicly Available Surrogate Value 
Information

    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3)(ii), for the final results 
of this administrative review, interested parties may submit publicly 
available information to value factors of production (``FOPs'') within 
20 days after the date of publication of these preliminary results. 
Interested parties must provide the Department with supporting 
documentation for the publicly available information to value each FOP. 
Additionally, 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 cannot accept the submission of additional, previously 
absent-from-the-record alternative surrogate value information pursuant 
to 19 CFR 351.301(c)(1).\17\
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    \17\ 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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Assessment Rates

    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department will determine, 
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review.\18\ The Department intends to issue assessment instructions to 
CBP 15 days after the publication date of the final results of this 
review. In these preliminary results, the Department applied the 
assessment rate calculation method adopted in Final Modification for 
Reviews, i.e., on the basis of monthly average-to-average comparisons 
using only the transactions associated with that importer with offsets 
being provided for non-dumped comparisons.\19\
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    \18\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
    \19\ See Antidumping Proceeding: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14, 
2012) (``Final Modification for Reviews'').
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    Where the respondent has reported reliable entered values, we 
calculated importer (or customer)-specific ad valorem rates by 
aggregating the dumping margins calculated for all U.S. sales to each 
importer (or customer) and dividing this amount by the total entered 
value of the sales to each importer (or customer).\20\ Where the 
Department calculated a weighted-average dumping margin by dividing the 
total amount of dumping for reviewed sales to that party by the total 
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quantity associated with those transactions, the Department will direct 
CBP to assess importer-specific assessment rates based on the resulting 
per-unit rates.\21\ Where an importer- (or customer-) specific ad 
valorem or per-unit rate is greater than de minimis, the Department 
will instruct CBP to collect the appropriate duties at the time of 
liquidation.\22\ Where an importer- (or customer-) specific ad valorem 
or per-unit rate is zero or de minimis, the Department will instruct 
CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping 
duties.\23\
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    \20\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \21\ See id.
    \22\ See id.
    \23\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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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 entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided by sections 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For the exporters 
listed above, the cash deposit rate will be established in the final 
results of this review (except, if the rate is zero or de minimis, then 
no cash deposit will be required); (2) for previously investigated or 
reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters not listed above that received a 
separate rate in a prior segment of this proceeding, 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 
that have not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash 
deposit rate will be the PRC-wide rate of 187.25 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 exporter 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)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    This determination is issued and published in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: November 1, 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-27337 Filed 11-7-12; 8:45 am]
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