[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34619-34621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14967]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-890]


Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the People's Republic of China: 
Final Results and Final Rescission, In Part, of Administrative Review 
and Final Results of New Shipper Review; 2013

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

SUMMARY: On February 11, 2015, the Department of Commerce (the 
``Department'') published the preliminary results of a new shipper 
review (``NSR'') and the ninth administrative review (``AR'') of the 
antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture (``WBF'') from the 
People's Republic of China (``PRC''), in accordance with sections 
751(a)(1)(B) and 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``the Act'').\1\ The period of review (``POR'') is January 1, 2013, 
through December 31, 2013. The AR covers 28 PRC exporters of subject 
merchandise, of which the Department selected one company for 
individual examination, Jiedong Lehouse Furniture Co., Ltd. (``Jiedong 
Lehouse''). The NSR covers one exporter-producer of subject 
merchandise: Wuxi Yushea Furniture Co., Ltd. (``Wuxi Yushea''). The 
Department invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary 
Results. We received comments from the American Furniture Manufactures 
Committee for Legal Trade and Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Company, Inc. 
(``Petitioners'') which agreed with our Preliminary Results in the 
administrative review. No other party commented. Accordingly, our final 
results remain unchanged from the Preliminary Results.
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    \1\ See Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the People's Republic of 
China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review 
and New Shipper Reviews; 2013, 80 FR 7576 (February 11, 2015) 
(``Preliminary Results'').

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DATES: Effective Date: June 17, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick O'Connor, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
0989.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    As noted above, on February 11, 2015, the Department published the 
Preliminary Results of the NSR and AR of the antidumping duty order on 
WBF from the PRC covering the period January 1, 2013, through December 
31, 2013. On March 13, 2015, Petitioners filed briefs in the AR. No 
other parties submitted comments on the Preliminary Results in the AR 
or the NSR.

Scope of the Order

    The product covered by the order is wooden bedroom furniture, 
subject to certain exceptions.\2\ Imports of subject merchandise are 
classified under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(``HTSUS'') subheadings: 9403.50.9042, 9403.50.9045, 9403.50.9080, 
9403.50.9042, 9403.50.9045, 9403.60.8081, 7009.92.1000 or 7009.92.5000. 
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, the written product description in the Order remains 
dispositive.\3\
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    \2\ See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Wooden Bedroom Furniture 
From the People's Republic of China, 70 FR 329 (January 4, 2005) 
(``Order'').
    \3\ For a complete description of the scope of the order, see 
the memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, ``Wooden Bedroom 
Furniture from the People's Republic of China: Issues and Decision 
Memorandum for the Final Results of the 2013 Administrative Review 
and New Shipper Review'' (``Issues and Decision Memorandum'').
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Analysis of the Comments Received

    The issues raised in Petitioners' case brief are addressed in the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum which is dated concurrently with, and 
hereby adopted by, this notice. A list of the issues addressed in the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum is appended to this notice. The Issues 
and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file 
electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Services System (``ACCESS). 
ACCESS is available to registered users at http://access.trade.gov and 
it is available to all parties in the Central Records Unit of the main 
Department building, Room 7046. In addition, a complete version of the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly on the internet 
at http://

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enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The signed Issues and Decision 
Memorandum and electronic version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum 
are identical in content.

Final Rescission, In Part

    In the Preliminary Results, the Department determined that 16 
companies under review in the AR, including Jiedong Lehouse, the 
company that the Department selected as a mandatory respondent, did not 
establish their eligibility for separate rate status and will be 
treated as part of the PRC-wide entity.\4\ Because no party requested a 
review of the PRC-wide entity, we will rescind the AR with respect to 
these 16 companies, including Jiedong Lehouse, as part of the PRC-wide 
entity.\5\ Further, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(``CBP'') to liquidate entries for these companies at the PRC-wide 
entity rate, which is 216.01 percent.
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    \4\ See Preliminary Results at 80 FR 7576. The 16 companies that 
did not establish their eligibility for a separate rate are: (1) Art 
Heritage International, Ltd., Super Art Furniture Co., Ltd., Artwork 
Metal & Plastic Co., Ltd., Jibson Industries Ltd., Always Loyal 
International; (2) Cheng Meng Furniture (Pte) Ltd., Cheng Meng 
Decoration & Furniture (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.; (3) Coe., Ltd.; (4) 
Dalian Huafeng Furniture Co., Ltd.; (5) Dalian Huafeng Furniture 
Group Co., Ltd.; (6) Dongguan Hung Sheng Artware Products Co., Ltd., 
Coronal Enterprise Co., Ltd.; (7) Dongguan Yujia Furniture Co., 
Ltd./Dongguan Yujia Furniture Co., Ltd.; (8) Liang Huang (Jiaxing) 
Enterprise Co., Ltd.; (9) Marvin Furniture (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; (10) 
Prime Best Factory; (11) Prime Best International Co., Ltd.; (12) 
Prime Wood International Co., Ltd; (13) Sen Yeong International Co., 
Ltd., Sheh Hau International Trading Ltd.; (14) Strongson Furniture 
(Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Strongson Furniture Co., Ltd., Strongson (Hk) 
Co.; (15) Zhang Zhou Sanlong Wood Product Co., Ltd.; and (16) 
Jiedong Lehouse Furniture Co., Ltd. See also Comment 1 of the Issues 
and Decision Memorandum.
    \5\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in 
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty 
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity 
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963, 65969-70 (November 
4, 2013).
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Final Determination of No Shipments

    In the Preliminary Results, we determined that 12 companies subject 
to this AR did not have any reviewable transactions during the POR.\6\ 
We did not receive any comments concerning our finding of no shipments 
by these 12 companies. In these final results, we continue to determine 
that these 12 companies had no reviewable transactions of subject 
merchandise during the POR.
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    \6\ See Preliminary Results and accompanying Decision Memorandum 
at 6-7. Those 12 companies with no shipments during the POR are: (1) 
Baigou Crafts Factory Of Fengkai; (2) Clearwise Company Limited; (3) 
Dongguan Chengcheng Furniture Co., Ltd./Dongguan Chengcheng 
Furniture Co., Ltd.; (4) Dongguan Singways Furniture Co., Ltd.; (5) 
Eurosa (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., Eurosa Furniture Co., (Pte) Ltd.; (6) 
Golden Well International (HK) Ltd./Zhangzhou XYM Furniture Product 
Co., Ltd.; (7) Hangzhou Cadman Trading Co., Ltd./Haining Changbei 
Furniture Co., Ltd.; (8) Hualing Furniture (China) Co., Ltd., Tony 
House Manufacture (China) Co., Ltd., Buysell Investments Ltd., Tony 
House Industries Co., Ltd.; (9) Rizhao Sanmu Woodworking Co., Ltd.; 
(10) Shenyang Shining Dongxing Furniture Co., Ltd.; (11) Yeh 
Brothers World Trade, Inc.; and (12) Zhejiang Tianyi Scientific & 
Educational Equipment Co., Ltd./Zhejiang Tianyi Scientific & 
Educational Equipment Co., Ltd.
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Final Results of the 2013 New Shipper Review

    The Department has determined that the following dumping margin 
exists for the exporter-producer combination listed below for the 
period January 1, 2013, through December 31, 2013:

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                                                      Weighted-average
            Exporter                  Producer         dumping margin
                                                          (percent)
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Wuxi Yushea Furniture Co., Ltd.  Wuxi Yushea                       0.00
                                  Furniture Co.,
                                  Ltd.
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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b), 
the Department has determined, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties 
on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with 
the final results of these reviews. The Department intends to issue 
assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the publication date of 
these final results of reviews. For Wuxi Yushea, whose weighted average 
dumping margin is zero, the Department will instruct CBP to liquidate 
appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.\7\ We intend 
to instruct CBP to liquidate entries of subject merchandise exported by 
the PRC-wide entity at the PRC-wide rate.
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    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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    If the Department determines that an exporter under review had no 
shipments of subject merchandise, any suspended entries that entered 
under that exporter's case number will be liquidated at the PRC-wide 
rate.\8\
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    \8\ 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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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of these reviews for shipments of the 
subject merchandise from the PRC entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after the publication date in the Federal 
Register of the final results of review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) With respect to Wuxi Yushea, the new 
shipper respondent, the Department established a combination cash 
deposit rate for this company, consistent with its practice, as 
follows: (1) For subject merchandise produced and exported by Wuxi 
Yushea, a zero cash deposit will be required. For subject merchandise 
exported by Wuxi Yushea, but not produced by Wuxi Yushea, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate for the PRC-wide entity. For subject 
merchandise produced by Wuxi Yushea, but not exported by Wuxi Yushea, 
the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the exporter; (2) 
For previously investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters named 
above that did not have any reviewable transactions during the POR that 
received a separate rate in a prior segment of this proceeding, the 
cash deposit rate will continue to be the existing exporter-specific 
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 the rate for the PRC-wide entity, which is 216.01 percent; (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 final 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 
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this requirement could result in the Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under the APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 
continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of 
the proceeding. Timely written notification of the return/destruction 
of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order is hereby 
requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms of an APO 
is a violation which is subject to sanction.
    These final results of reviews are issued and published in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1), 751(a)(2)(B), and 777(i) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.213, 351.214.

    Dated: June 10, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary, for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

Summary
Background
Scope of the Order
Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Whether Jiedong Lehouse has Demonstrated Eligibility 
for Separate Rate Status
Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2015-14967 Filed 6-16-15; 8:45 am]
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