[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 222-223]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-33161]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-822]


Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances 
Review: Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From Thailand

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On November 25, 2015, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) initiated a changed circumstances review and published a 
notice of preliminary results of changed circumstances review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) from 
Thailand.\1\ In that notice, we preliminarily determined that Thai 
Union Group Public Co., Ltd. (Thai Union Group) is the successor-in-
interest to Thai Union Frozen Products Public Co., Ltd. (Thai Union 
Frozen) for purposes of determining antidumping duty cash deposits and 
liabilities. No interested party submitted comments on, or requested a 
public hearing to discuss, the Initiation and Preliminary Results. For 
these final results, the Department continues to find that Thai Union 
Group is the successor-in-interest to Thai Union Frozen.
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    \1\ See Notice of Initiation and Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review: Certain Frozen 
Warmwater Shrimp from Thailand, 80 FR 73726 (November 25, 2015) 
(Initiation and Preliminary Results).

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DATES: Effective Date: January 5, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis McClure or Elizabeth Eastwood, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
5973 or (202) 482-3874, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On September 17, 2015, Thai Union Group, a producer/exporter of 
Thai shrimp covered by this order, changed its name from Thai Union 
Frozen to Thai Union Group. On October 5, 2015, Thai Union Group 
requested that the Department conduct an expedited changed 
circumstances review under section 751(b) of the Act, 19 CFR 
351.216(c), and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3)(ii) to confirm that Thai Union 
Group is the successor-in-interest to Thai Union Frozen for purposes of 
determining antidumping duty cash deposits and liabilities. On November 
25, 2015, the Department initiated this changed circumstances review 
and published the notice of preliminary results, determining that Thai 
Union Group is the successor-in-interest to Thai Union Frozen.\2\ In 
the Initiation and Preliminary Results, we provided all interested 
parties with an opportunity to comment or request a public hearing 
regarding our preliminary finding that

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Thai Union Group is the successor-in-interest to Thai Union Frozen. We 
received no comments or requests for a public hearing from interested 
parties within the time period set forth in the Initiation and 
Preliminary Results.
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    \2\ Id., 80 FR at 73728.
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is certain frozen warmwater 
shrimp.\3\ The product is currently classified under the following 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) item numbers: 
0306.17.0003, 0306.17.0006, 0306.17.0009, 0306.17.0012, 0306.17.0015, 
0306.17.0018, 0306.17.0021, 0306.17.0024, 0306.17.0027, 0306.17.0040, 
1605.21.1030, and 1605.29.1010. Although the HTSUS numbers are provided 
for convenience and customs purposes, the written product description 
remains dispositive.
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    \3\ For a complete description of the scope of the order, see 
Initiation and Preliminary Results.
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Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review

    For the reasons stated in the Initiation and Preliminary Results, 
and because we received no comments from interested parties to the 
contrary, the Department continues to find that Thai Union Group is the 
successor-in-interest to Thai Union Frozen. As a result of this 
determination, we find that Thai Union Group should receive the cash 
deposit rate previously assigned to Thai Union Frozen in the most 
recently completed review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from 
Thailand.\4\ Consequently, the Department will instruct U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection to suspend liquidation of all shipments of 
subject merchandise produced or exported by Thai Union Group and 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the 
publication date of this notice in the Federal Register at 1.10 
percent, which is the current antidumping duty cash-deposit rate for 
the Thai Union group of companies, of which Thai Union Frozen (and now 
Thai Union Group) is a part.\5\ \6\ This cash deposit requirement shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \4\ See, e.g., Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed 
Circumstances Review: Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe 
and Tube from Mexico, 74 FR 41681, 41682 (August 18, 2009).
    \5\ This group now consists of Thai Union Group, Thai Union 
Seafood Co., Ltd., Pakfood Public Company Limited, Okeanos Co. Ltd., 
Okeanos Food Co., Ltd, Asia Pacific (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Chaophraya 
Cold Storage Co. Ltd., and Takzin Samut Co. Ltd. (collectively, 
``Thai Union'').
    \6\ Thai Union Frozen received a 1.10 percent dumping margin as 
part of Thai Union in the 2012-2013 administrative review of the AD 
order on shrimp from Thailand. See Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 
From Thailand: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, Final Determination of No Shipments, and Partial Rescission 
of Review; 2012-2013, 79 FR 51306 (August 28, 2014) (corrected by 
Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From Thailand: Notice of Correction 
to the Final Results of the 2012-2013 Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 79 FR 62099 (October 16, 2014)). We note that 
Thai Union Frozen is also a respondent in the current 2014-2015 
administrative review of this antidumping duty order. See Certain 
Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India and Thailand: Notice of 
Initiation of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, 80 FR 16634 
(March 30, 2015). Because we determined that Thai Union Group is the 
successor-in-interest to Thai Union Frozen, we will assign Thai 
Union Group an updated cash deposit rate based on the final results 
of that administrative review.
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    We are issuing this determination and publishing these final 
results and notice in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) 
and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.216 and 
351.221(c)(3).

    Dated: December 24, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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