[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 248 (Thursday, December 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78333-78335]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-30919]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-924]


Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip From the 
People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2011-2012

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, formerly Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is conducting 
an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene 
terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (``PET film'') from the People's 
Republic of China (``PRC''). The period of review (``POR'') is November 
1, 2011, through October 31, 2012. The review covers two mandatory 
respondents (Shaoxing Xiangyu Green Packing Co., Ltd. and Tianjin 
Wanhua Co., Ltd.) and three separate rate respondents. We have 
preliminarily found that the respondents have made sales of subject 
merchandise at less than normal value (``NV''). Interested parties are 
invited to comment on these preliminary results.

DATED:  Effective Date: December 26, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Hill or Thomas Martin, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office IV, Enforcement & Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3518 or (202) 
482-3936, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order

    The products covered by the order are all gauges of raw, pre-
treated, or primed PET film, whether extruded or co-extruded.\1\ PET 
film is classifiable under subheading 3920.62.00.90 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS''). Although the HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, our 
written description of the scope of the order is dispositive.
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    \1\ For a complete description of the scope of the order, see 
``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of 2011-2012 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Polyethylene Terephthalate 
Film, Sheet, and Strip from the People's Republic of China'' from 
Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Operations to Ronald K. Lorentzen, Acting 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, dated 
concurrently with this notice (``Preliminary Decision Memorandum'').
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Tolling of Deadlines for Preliminary Results

    As explained in the memorandum from the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement and Compliance, the Department has exercised its discretion 
to toll deadlines for the duration of the closure of the Federal 
Government from October 1, through October 16, 2013.\2\ Therefore, all 
deadlines in this segment of the proceeding have been extended by 16 
days. The revised deadline for the preliminary results of this review 
is now December 18, 2013.
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    \2\ See Memorandum for the Record from Paul Piquado, Assistant 
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, ``Deadlines Affected by 
the Shutdown of the Federal Government,'' (October 18, 2013).
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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''). 
Export prices have been calculated in accordance with section 772 of 
the Act. Because the PRC is a non-market 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.
    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, please see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, which is 
hereby adopted by this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a 
public document and is on file electronically via Enforcement and 
Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic 
Service System (``IA ACCESS''). IA ACCESS is available to registered 
users at http://iaaccess.trade.gov. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
is also available 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 at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
and the electronic version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 
identical in content.

Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department preliminarily determines that the following 
weighted-average dumping margins exist for the POR:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                          Exporter                              dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Shaoxing Xiangyu Green Packing Co., Ltd.....................       34.69
Tianjin Wanhua Co., Ltd.....................................       22.07
Fuwei Films (Shandong) Co., Ltd.............................       31.77
Sichuan Dongfang Insulating Material Co., Ltd...............       31.77
DuPont Teijin Films China Ltd., DuPont Hongji Films Foshan         31.77
 Co., Ltd., and DuPont Teijin Hongji Films Ningbo Co., Ltd..
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department intends to 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

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preliminary results of review.\3\ Rebuttal briefs may be filed no later 
than five days after case briefs are filed and may respond only to 
arguments raised in the case briefs.\4\ A table of contents, list of 
authorities used and an executive summary of issues should accompany 
any briefs submitted to the Department. This summary should be limited 
to five pages total, including footnotes.
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    \3\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c).
    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
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    Interested parties who wish to request a hearing must submit a 
written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement & 
Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, within 30 days after the date 
of publication of this notice.\5\ Requests should contain the party's 
name, address, and telephone number, the number of participants, and a 
list of the issues to be discussed. Oral argument presentations will be 
limited to issues raised in the briefs. If a request for a hearing is 
made, the Department intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. Department 
of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230, at a date and time to be determined.\6\ Parties should confirm 
by telephone the date, time, and location of the hearing two days 
before the scheduled date.
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    \5\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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    All submissions, with limited exceptions, must be filed 
electronically using IA ACCESS.\7\ 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 (``ET'') 
on the due date. Documents excepted from the electronic submission 
requirements must be filed manually (i.e., in paper form) with the APO/
Dockets Unit in Room 1870 and stamped with the date and time of receipt 
by 5 p.m. ET on the due date.\8\
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    \7\ See generally 19 CFR 351.303.
    \8\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Electronic Filing Procedures; Administrative Protective Order 
Procedures, 76 FR 39263 (July 6, 2011).
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    The Department intends to issue the final results of this 
administrative review, which will include the results of its analysis 
of issues raised in any briefs, within 120 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 of this review. In accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.301(c)(1), if an interested party submits factual 
information less than 10 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 information no 
later than ten days after such factual information is served on the 
interested party. However, if the deadline for submission of surrogate 
value information has passed, the Department generally will not accept 
in the rebuttal submission additional or alternative surrogate value 
information not previously on the record.\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 of this review, the Department 
will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') shall 
assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review.\11\ The Department intends to issue assessment instructions to 
CBP 15 days after the publication date of the final results of this 
review. We intend to instruct CBP to liquidate entries containing 
subject merchandise exported by the PRC-wide entity at the PRC-wide 
rate. Where either a 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. For any individually examined 
respondent and its importer(s) where neither of those situations is the 
case, in the final results of this review we will calculate an 
importer-specific per-unit assessment rate by dividing the total 
dumping margins for reviewed sales to the importer by the total sales 
quantity associated with those sales.
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    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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    On October 24, 2011, the Department announced a refinement to its 
assessment practice in NME antidumping duty cases.\12\ Pursuant to this 
refinement in practice, for merchandise that was not reported in the 
U.S. sales databases submitted by an exporter individually examined 
during this review, but that entered under the case number of that 
exporter (i.e., at the individually-examined exporter's cash deposit 
rate), the Department will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at 
the PRC-wide rate. Additionally, pursuant to this refinement, if the 
Department determines that an exporter under review had no shipments of 
the subject merchandise, any suspended entries that entered under that 
exporter's case number will be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.
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    \12\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment 
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011), for a full 
discussion of this practice.
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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 
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 the exporters 
listed above, the cash deposit rate will be equal to the weighted-
average dumping margin established in the final results of this review 
(except, if the rate is zero or de minimis, then the cash deposit rate 
will be zero for that exporter); (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 which have 
not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate 
will be the rate for the PRC-wide entity, 76.72 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

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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: December 18, 2013.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

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

1. Background
2. Scope of the Order
3. Non-Market Economy Country
4. Separate Rate
5. Surrogate Country and Surrogate Value Data
6. Fair Value Comparisons
7. U.S. Price
8. Normal Value
9. Export Subsidy Adjustment
10. Section 777A(f) of the Act
11. Currency Conversion

[FR Doc. 2013-30919 Filed 12-24-13; 8:45 am]
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