[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 56 (Monday, March 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15955-15957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06388]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-427-818]


Low-Enriched Uranium From France; Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2012-2013

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 low-enriched 
uranium (LEU) from France.\1\ The period of review (POR) is February 1, 
2012, through January 31, 2013. The review covers one producer or 
exporter of the subject merchandise, Eurodif S.A., AREVA NC, and AREVA 
NC, Inc. (collectively AREVA). The Department preliminarily determines 
that AREVA made no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR. We 
invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. The 
deadline for the preliminary results of this review was March 17, 2014. 
Due to the closure of the Federal Government in Washington, DC on March 
17, 2014, the Department reached this determination on the next 
business day (i.e., March 18, 2014). See Notice of Clarification: 
Application of ``Next Business Day'' Rule for Administrative 
Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended, 
70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005).
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 78 FR 
19197 (March 9, 2013).

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DATES: Effective Date: March 24, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Huston, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
4261.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of the Order

    The product covered by the order is all low-enriched uranium. Low-
enriched uranium is enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) with 
a U\235\ product assay of less than 20 percent that has not been 
converted into another chemical form, such as UO2, or 
fabricated into nuclear fuel assemblies, regardless of the means by 
which the LEU is produced (including low-enriched uranium produced 
through the down-blending of highly enriched uranium).\2\
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    \2\ For a full description of the scope of the order, see 
``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review: Low-Enriched Uranium from France: 2012-
2013'' from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum), dated concurrently with these results and 
hereby adopted by this notice.
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Methodology

    The Department is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). For a full 
description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, see the

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Preliminary Decision Memorandum. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum 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, and it is available to all parties in the Central 
Records Unit in Room 7046 of the main 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 electronic versions of the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum are identical in content.

Preliminary Determination of No Shipments

    AREVA timely filed a ``no shipment'' certification stating that 
they had no entries of subject merchandise during the POR. However, 
data that the Department obtained from U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection showed entries of LEU from AREVA during the POR. The 
Department issued two questionnaires to AREVA, and received timely 
responses. Based on the questionnaire responses filed by AREVA, we 
preliminarily determine that AREVA had no shipments of merchandise 
subject to the antidumping order on LEU from France during the POR. In 
addition, the Department finds that it is not appropriate to rescind 
the review with respect to AREVA but, rather, to complete the review 
and issue appropriate instructions to U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) based on the final results of this review, as is our 
current practice.\3\
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    \3\ See, e.g., Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From Thailand: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and 
Intent To Revoke the Order (in Part); 2011-2012, 78 FR 15686 (March 
12, 2013) and the accompanying Decision Memorandum at 7-8.
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Preliminary Determination of Revised Entry Requirements

    During the course of this review, the Department identified 
irregularities associated with AREVA's filing of the required 
certifications for re-exportation.\4\ In light of these problems, and 
to ensure proper enforcement of the order, the Department preliminarily 
determines that shipments of LEU from France by AREVA, where the 
importer claims the above-noted scope exclusion, shall be suspended as 
antidumping entries with a cash deposit requirement of zero percent ad 
valorem. These requirements will be effective as of the date of 
publication of the final results of this administrative review. We 
invite all interested parties to comment on this issue.
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    \4\ See Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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Assessment Rates

    Since the Department preliminarily found that AREVA had no 
shipments during the POR, we did not calculate importer-specific 
assessment rates for these preliminary results of review.
    The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on 
May 6, 2003. This clarification will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by companies included in the final 
results of review for which these companies did not know that the 
merchandise was destined for the United States. In such instances, we 
will instruct CBP to liquidate un-reviewed entries at the all-others 
rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in 
the transaction.\5\
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    \5\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    We intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 days after publication of 
the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of LEU from France entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the date of publication of the final results of 
this administrative review, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of 
the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for AREVA will remain unchanged from 
the rate assigned to the company in the most recently completed review 
of that company, except for entries excluded from the order under the 
re-export provision of the scope, which will require a cash deposit 
rate of zero percent; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated 
companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be 
the company-specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) if 
the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or 
the less-than-fair-value investigation, but the manufacturer is, the 
cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent 
period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash 
deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will continue to 
be 19.95 percent, the all-others rate established in the 
investigation.\6\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \6\ See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Low Enriched Uranium 
From France, 67 FR 6680 (February 13, 2002).
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Comments

    Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results and submit written arguments or case briefs within 30 days 
after the date of publication of this notice, unless otherwise notified 
by the Department.\7\ Parties are reminded that written comments or 
case briefs are not the place for submitting new factual material. 
Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, will be 
due five days later.\8\ Parties that submit case or rebuttal briefs are 
requested to submit with each argument: (1) A statement of the issue; 
and (2) a brief summary of the argument. Parties are requested to 
provide a summary of the arguments not to exceed five pages and a table 
of statutes, regulations, and cases cited.
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    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d).
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    Any interested party who wishes to request a hearing, or to 
participate if one is requested, must submit a written request to the 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance within 30 days after 
the day of publication of this notice. A request should contain: (1) 
The party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of 
participants; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed.\9\ Issues 
raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in case briefs. 
The Department will issue the final results of administrative review, 
including the results of our analysis of issues raised in any briefs, 
within 90 days after the date on which the preliminary results were 
issued, unless the deadline for the final results is extended.\10\
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    \9\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.213(h).
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to the 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 Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    These preliminary results of administrative review are issued and 
published in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the 
Act.


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    Dated: March 18, 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2014-06388 Filed 3-21-14; 8:45 am]
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