[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 104 (Thursday, May 30, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32367-32369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-12855]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-970]


Multilayered Wood Flooring From the People's Republic of China; 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review; 2011-2012

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is conducting 
a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on multilayered wood 
flooring (``MLWF'') from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). The 
period of review (``POR'') is May 26, 2011 through May 31, 2012. The 
review covers one exporter of subject merchandise, Power Dekor Group 
Co., Ltd. (``Power Dekor''). We have preliminarily found that Power 
Dekor has not made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal 
value.

DATES: Effective Date: May 30, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trisha Tran, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
4, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-4852.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order includes MLWF, subject to 
certain exceptions.\1\ The subject merchandise is currently 
classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(``HTSUS'') subheadings: 4412.31.0520; 4412.31.0540; 4412.31.0560; 
4412.31.2510; 4412.31.2520; 4412.31.4040; 4412.31.4050; 4412.31.4060; 
4412.31.4070; 4412.31.4075; 4412.31.4080; 4412.31.5125; 4412.31.5135; 
4412.31.5155; 4412.31.5165; 4412.31.6000; 4412.31.9100; 4412.32.0520; 
4412.32.0540; 4412.32.0560; 4412.32.0565; 4412.32.0570; 4412.32.2510; 
4412.32.2520; 4412.32.2525; 4412.32.2530; 4412.32.3125; 4412.32.3135; 
4412.32.3155; 4412.32.3165; 4412.32.3175; 4412.32.3185; 4412.32.5600; 
4412.39.1000; 4412.39.3000; 4412.39.4011; 4412.39.4012; 4412.39.4019; 
4412.39.4031; 4412.39.4032; 4412.39.4039; 4412.39.4051; 4412.39.4052; 
4412.39.4059; 4412.39.4061; 4412.39.4062; 4412.39.4069; 4412.39.5010; 
4412.39.5030; 4412.39.5050; 4412.94.1030; 4412.94.1050; 4412.94.3105; 
4412.94.3111; 4412.94.3121; 4412.94.3131; 4412.94.3141; 4412.94.3160; 
4412.94.3171; 4412.94.4100; 4412.94.5100; 4412.94.6000; 4412.94.7000; 
4412.94.8000; 4412.94.9000; 4412.94.9500; 4412.99.0600; 4412.99.1020; 
4412.99.1030; 4412.99.1040; 4412.99.3110; 4412.99.3120; 4412.99.3130; 
4412.99.3140; 4412.99.3150; 4412.99.3160; 4412.99.3170; 4412.99.4100; 
4412.99.5100; 4412.99.5105; 4412.99.5115; 4412.99.5710; 4412.99.6000; 
4412.99.7000; 4412.99.8000; 4412.99.9000; 4412.99.9500; 4418.71.2000; 
4418.71.9000; 4418.72.2000; and 4418.72.9500.
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    \1\ See Memorandum from Gary Taverman, Senior Advisor for 
Antidumping Countervailing Duty Operations to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration ``Decision Memorandum 
for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review: 
Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People's Republic of China,'' 
dated May 23, 2013 (``Preliminary Decision Memorandum'') for a full 
description of the Scope of the Order.
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    The HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes only; the written product description of the scope of the 
order is dispositive.

Methodology

    The Department is conducting this review in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1)(B) and 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act'') and 19 CFR 351.214. The Department calculated 
export prices in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Because the 
PRC is a nonmarket economy (``NME'') within the meaning of section 
771(18) of the Act, the Department calculated normal value in 
accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. Specifically, we valued the 
respondent's factors of production using the Philippines as the 
surrogate country, which is economically comparable to the PRC and a 
significant producer of comparable merchandise.
    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, dated 
concurrently with these results and hereby adopted by this notice. The 
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, 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.

Preliminary Results of New Shipper Review

    The Department preliminarily determines that the following 
weighted-average dumping margin exists:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
            Exporter                     Producer         dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Power Dekor Group Co., Ltd.....  Guangzhou Homebon                  0.00
                                  Timber Manufacturing
                                  Co., Ltd.
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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.\2\ Rebuttals to written comments may be filed no later than 
five days after the written comments are filed.\3\
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    \2\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c).
    \3\ 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.\4\ 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, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230.\5\
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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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    The Department will issue the final results of this new shipper 
review, which will include the results of its analysis of issues raised 
in any such comments, within 90 days of publication of these 
preliminary results, 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), the deadline for 
submission of publicly available information to value factors of 
production under 19 CFR 351.408(c) is 20 days after the date of 
publication of the preliminary results. In accordance with 19 CFR 
351.301(c)(4), if an interested party submits factual information less 
than ten days before, on, or after (if the Department has extended the 
deadline), the applicable deadline for submission of such factual 
information, an interested party may submit factual information to 
rebut, clarify, or correct the factual

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information no later than ten days after such factual information is 
served on the interested party. However, the Department generally will 
not accept in the rebuttal submission additional or alternative 
surrogate value information not previously on the record, if the 
deadline for submission of surrogate value information has passed.\6\ 
Furthermore, the Department generally will not accept business 
proprietary information in either the surrogate value submissions or 
the rebuttals thereto, as the regulation regarding the submission of 
surrogate values allows only for the submission of publicly available 
information.\7\
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    \6\ See, e.g., 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.
    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3).
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Assessment Rates

    Upon issuing the final results of the new shipper review, the 
Department shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(``CBP'') shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. 
The Department intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days 
after the date of publication of the final results of this new shipper 
review. For any individually examined respondents whose weighted-
average dumping margin is above de minimis, we will calculate importer-
specific ad valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the 
total amount of dumping calculated for the importer's examined sales to 
the total entered value of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1).\8\
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    \8\ In these preliminary results, the Department applied the 
assessment rate calculation method adopted in Antidumping 
Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final 
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
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    We will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries covered by this new shipper review when the 
importer-specific assessment rate calculated in the final results of 
this review is above de minimis. Where either the respondent's 
weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-
specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. 
The Department recently announced a refinement to its assessment 
practice in NME cases. Pursuant to this refinement in practice, for 
entries that were not reported in the U.S. sales databases submitted by 
Power Dekor for this new shipper review, the Department will instruct 
CBP to liquidate such entries at the PRC-wide rate. In addition, if the 
Department determines that the exporter under review had no shipments 
of the subject merchandise, any suspended entries that entered under 
that exporter's case number (i.e., at that exporter's rate) will be 
liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.\9\
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    \9\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market 
Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
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    The final results of this new shipper review shall be the basis for 
the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered 
by the final results of this review and for future deposits of 
estimated duties, where applicable.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this new shipper review for 
shipments of the subject merchandise from the PRC 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 merchandise 
produced by Guangzhou Homebon Timber Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and 
exported by Power Dekor, the cash deposit rate will be that established 
in the final results of this review (except, if the rate is zero or de 
minimis, then zero 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 existing producer/
exporter-specific combination rate; (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 that for the PRC-wide 
entity; 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 producer/exporter combination 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.
    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213.

    Dated: May 23, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Appendix I

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

1. Scope of the Order
2. Bona Fide Sale Analysis
3. Non-Market Economy Country Status
4. Separate Rates
5. Surrogate Country
6. Economic Comparability
7. Significant Producer of Comparable Merchandise
8. Data Availability
9. Date of Sale
10. Fair Value Comparisons
11. Differential Pricing Analysis
12. U.S. Price
13. Normal Value
14. Factor Valuations
15. Currency Conversion
16. Section 777A(f) of the Act

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