[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53112-53114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21773]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-421-811]


Purified Carboxymethylcellulose From the Netherlands: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014

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

SUMMARY: On June 8, 2015, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty (AD) order on purified carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) 
from the Netherlands.\1\ We invited interested parties to comment on 
the Preliminary Results. We received no comments or requests for a 
hearing. Therefore, for the final results, we continue to find that 
sales of subject merchandise by Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals, B.V./
AkzoNobel Chemicals AG (Akzo Nobel) were not made at less than normal 
value during the period of review (POR).\2\
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    \1\ See Purified Carboxymethylcellulose From the Netherlands: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-
2014, 80 FR 32340 (June 8, 2015) (Preliminary Results).
    \2\ The Department preliminarily determined to collapse Akzo 
Nobel Functional Chemicals B.V. and AkzoNobel Chemicals AG into a 
single entity. See Preliminary Results.

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DATES: Effective date: September 2, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Drury or Angelica Townshend, AD/
CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and

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Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0195, and (202) 482-3019, respectively.

Background

    On June 8, 2015, the Department published the Preliminary Results. 
The POR is July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014. We invited interested 
parties to comment on the Preliminary Results. We received no comments 
or requests for a hearing from any party. The Department conducted this 
administrative review in accordance with section 751(a)(2) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Order

    The product covered by the order is all purified CMC, sometimes 
also referred to as purified sodium CMC, polyanionic cellulose, or 
cellulose gum, which is a white to off-white, non-toxic, odorless, 
biodegradable powder, comprising sodium CMC that has been refined and 
purified to a minimum assay of 90 percent. Purified CMC does not 
include unpurified or crude CMC, CMC Fluidized Polymer Suspensions, and 
CMC that is cross-linked through heat treatment. Purified CMC is CMC 
that has undergone one or more purification operations, which, at a 
minimum, reduce the remaining salt and other by-product portion of the 
product to less than ten percent.
    The merchandise subject to the order is currently classified in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States at subheading 
3912.31.00. This tariff classification is provided for convenience and 
Customs purposes; however, the written description of the scope of the 
order is dispositive.

Final Results of Review

    As noted above, the Department received no comments concerning the 
Preliminary Results on the record of this segment of the proceeding. As 
there are no changes from, or comments upon, the Preliminary Results, 
the Department finds that there is no reason to modify its analysis. 
Thus, we continue to find that sales of subject merchandise by Akzo 
Nobel were not made at less than normal value during the POR. 
Accordingly, no decision memorandum accompanies this Federal Register 
notice. For further details of the issues addressed in this proceeding, 
see the Preliminary Results and the accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.\3\ The final weighted-average dumping margin for the period 
July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014, for Akzo Nobel is as follows:
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    \3\ See ``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Purified 
Carboxymethylcellulose from the Netherlands; 2013-2014,'' from 
Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary 
for Enforcement and Compliance, dated June 1, 2015 (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum), which can be accessed directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/..
    \4\ In the Preliminary Results of this administrative review, 
the Department determined that Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals, B.V. 
and AkzoNobel Chemicals AG should be treated as a single entity, 
based on affiliation and intertwined relations. See Preliminary 
Results, 80 FR at 32341 and n.1, and accompanying Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum at ``Affiliation and Treatment as a Single 
Entity.'' This finding is unchanged in these final results of 
review.

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Producer/Exporter                         margin
                                                            (percentage)
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Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals B.V./AkzoNobel Chemicals            0.00
 AG \4\...................................................
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Assessment Rates

    The Department will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries in this review, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b). The 
Department intends to issue assessment instructions directly to CBP 15 
days after publication of these final results of review. Because we 
have calculated a zero margin for Akzo Nobel in the final results of 
this review, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries 
without regard to antidumping duties.
    The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on 
May 6, 2003.\5\ This clarification applies to entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced and exported by Akzo Nobel for 
which it 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 effective during the POR if 
there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the 
transaction.\6\
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    \5\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003) 
(Assessment Policy Notice).
    \6\ See Assessment Policy Notice for a full discussion of this 
clarification.
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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 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) The cash deposit 
rate for Akzo Nobel will be the rate established in the final results 
of this review; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated companies 
not covered in this review, 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 or any previous review or in 
the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 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) if neither the 
exporter nor the manufacturer is a firm covered in this or any previous 
review or the investigation, the cash-deposit rate will continue to be 
the all-others rate of 14.57 percent, which is the all-others rate 
established by the Department in the LTFV investigation.\7\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \7\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Orders: Purified 
Carboxymethylcellulose from Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands and 
Sweden, 70 FR 39734, 39735 (July 11, 2005).
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Reimbursement of Duties

    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 
with this requirement could result in the Secretary'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 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.

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    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: August 27, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2015-21773 Filed 9-1-15; 8:45 am]
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