[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 130 (Monday, July 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40692-40694]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-16344]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-601]


Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and New Shipper Reviews; 2011-
2012

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Department) is conducting an 
administrative review and two new shipper reviews (NSRs) of the 
antidumping duty order on tapered roller bearings and parts thereof, 
finished and unfinished (TRBs), from the People's Republic of China 
(PRC). The administrative review covers six exporters of the subject 
merchandise,\1\ of which the Department selected one mandatory 
respondent for individual examination (i.e., Changshan Peer Bearing Co. 
Ltd. (CPZ/SKF)). The NSRs cover Haining Automann Parts Co., Ltd. 
(Automann), and Zhejiang Zhengda Bearing Co., Ltd. (Zhengda). The 
period of review is June 1, 2011, through May 31, 2012.
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    \1\ This figure does not include two companies for which the 
Department has rescinded this administrative review. See Tapered 
Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished From the 
People's Republic of China: Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 78 FR 34985 (June 11, 2013).
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    We have preliminarily determined that certain respondents sold 
subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value 
(NV). If these preliminary results are adopted in the final results of 
these reviews, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border

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Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate 
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entries.

DATES: Effective Date: July 8, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blaine Wiltse or Henry Almond, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 2, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
6345 or (202) 482-0049, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order includes tapered roller 
bearings. The subject merchandise is currently classifiable under 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings: 
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, 
8708.70.6060, 8708.99.2300, 8708.99.4850, 8708.99.6890, 8708.99.8115, 
and 8708.99.8180. The HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience 
and customs purposes only; the written description of the scope of the 
order is dispositive.\2\
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    \2\ 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), for a 
complete description of the scope of the order.
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Methodology

    The Department has conducted this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 
Constructed export and export prices have been calculated 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, NV has been 
calculated in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. Specifically, 
the respondents' factors of production have been valued using surrogate 
values from Thailand, 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, which is hereby 
adopted by this notice.\3\ 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 is available to all 
parties 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.
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    \3\ See ``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and New Shipper Reviews: 
Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and Unfinished, 
from the People's Republic of China'' from Christian Marsh, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Import 
Administration, dated July 1, 2013 (Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum), issued concurrently with and hereby adopted by this 
notice.
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Preliminary Results of Review

    Regarding the administrative review, we preliminarily determine 
that the following weighted-average dumping margins exist for the 
period June 1, 2011, through May 31, 2012:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                        Exporter                              dumping
                                                              margin
                                                             (percent)
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Changshan Peer Bearing Co., Ltd.........................            0.63
Dana Heavy Axle S.A. de C. V. *.........................            0.63
Zhejiang Sihe Machine Co., Ltd *........................            0.63
Zhejiang Zhaofeng Mechanical and Electronic Co., Ltd. *.            0.63
PRC-Wide Entity \4\.....................................           92.84
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* This company applied for or demonstrated eligibility for a separate
  rate in this administrative review. The rate for this company is the
  calculated weighted-average dumping margin for CPZ/SKF. See the
  Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

     
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    \4\ The PRC-Wide Entity includes all entities for which the 
Department initiated a review but which did not establish their 
eligibility for a separate rate. See the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.
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    Regarding the NSRs, we preliminarily determine that the following 
weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period June 1, 2011, 
through May 31, 2012:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
             Exporter                     Producer            dumping
                                                              margin
                                                             (percent)
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Haining Automann Parts Co., Ltd...  Haining Automann               59.59
                                     Parts Co., Ltd.
Zhejiang Zhengda Bearing Co., Ltd.  Zhejiang Zhengda                0.00
                                     Bearing 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 case briefs no later than 30 days after 
the date of publication of these preliminary results of review.\5\ 
Rebuttals to case briefs may be filed no later than five days after the 
written comments are filed and all rebuttal comments must be limited to 
comments raised in the case briefs.\6\
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    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c).
    \6\ 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.\7\ 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.\8\
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    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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    The Department will issue the final results of this administrative 
review and these NSRs, which will include the results of its analysis 
of all issues raised in the case briefs, within 120 days of publication 
of these preliminary results, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

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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)(1) (2012), if an interested party submits factual 
information less than ten days before or on the applicable deadline for 
submission of such factual information, an interested party may submit 
factual information to rebut, clarify, or correct the factual 
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.\9\ 
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.\10\
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    \9\ 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.
    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.301(c)(3).
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Assessment Rates

    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department will determine, 
and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries 
covered by these reviews.\11\ The Department intends to issue 
assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the publication date of 
the final results of these reviews.
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    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
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    For each individually examined respondent in these reviews (i.e., 
CPZ/SKF, Automann, and Zhengda) which has a weighted-average dumping 
margin which is not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), 
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 sales, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). For the respondents which were 
not selected for individual examination in this administrative review 
and which qualified for a separate rate, the assessment rate will be 
equal to the weighted-average dumping margin assigned to each 
respondent in the final results of this administrative review. For the 
PRC-wide entity, the assessment rate will be equal to the weighted-
average dumping margin assigned to it in the final results of this 
administrative review.
    We will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries covered by these reviews. 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 
companies individually examined during this review, the Department will 
instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the PRC-wide rate. 
Additionally, if the Department determines that an exporter 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.

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 for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For the exporters 
listed above which have a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be 
the rate established in the final results of this review (except, if 
the rate is zero or de minimis, then a cash deposit rate of zero will 
be established for that company); (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 recently completed segment of this 
proceeding; (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 rate for the PRC-wide entity, 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 exporter(s) that supplied that non-PRC exporter.
    With respect to the NSRs, consistent with the Department's 
practice, the Department has established a combination cash deposit 
rate for Automann and Zhengda as follows: (1) For subject merchandise 
exported and produced by Automann or Zhengda, the cash deposit rate 
will be the rate established for each company in the final results of 
this review; (2) for subject merchandise exported by Automann or 
Zhengda but not produced by the same company, the cash deposit rate 
will be the rate for the PRC-wide entity, 92.84 percent; (3) for 
subject merchandise produced by Automann or Zhengda but not exported by 
the same company, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to 
that 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 reviews 
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1), 751(a)(2)(B) and 777(i)(1) of 
the Act.

    Dated: July 1, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum

1. Summary
2. Background
3. Scope of the Order
4. Bona Fides Analysis
5. Discussion of the Methodology
    a. Non-Market Economy Country
    b. Separate Rates
    c. Separate Rate for Non-Selected Companies
    d. Surrogate Country
    e. Date of Sale
    f. Normal Value Comparisons
6. Conclusion

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