[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22212-22213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08229]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-836]


Glycine From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2014-2015

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on glycine from the 
People's Republic of China (PRC). The period of review (POR) is March 
1, 2014, through February 28, 2015. This review covers five companies, 
Baoding Mantong Fine Chemistry Co., Ltd. (Baoding Mantong), Nutracare 
International (Nutracare), Ravi Industries (Ravi), Kumar Industries 
(Kumar), and Rudraa International (Rudraa). The Department 
preliminarily finds that these five companies did not have reviewable 
entries during the POR. We invite interested parties to comment on 
these preliminary results.

DATES: Effective Date: April 15, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dena Crossland or Brian Davis, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3362 or (202) 482-7924, respectively.

Scope of the Order

    The product covered by the antidumping duty order is glycine, which 
is a free-flowing crystalline material, like salt or sugar.\1\ The 
subject merchandise is currently classifiable under the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheading 2922.49.4020. 
The HTSUS subheading is provided for convenience and customs purposes 
only; the written product description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.\2\
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    \1\ See ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Glycine from the People's 
Republic of China; 2014-2015'' 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), for a complete description of the 
scope of the order.
    \2\ See Glycine from the People's Republic of China: Antidumping 
Duty Order, 60 FR 16116 (March 29, 1995).
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Methodology

    The Department is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). For a 
full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, see 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum. This memorandum is a public document 
and is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service 
System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at http://access.trade.gov and is available to all parties in the Central Records 
Unit, Room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building. In 
addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can 
be accessed directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed 
and the electronic versions of the memorandum are identical in content.

Background

    On April 30, 2015, in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act, 
the Department published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation 
of this antidumping duty administrative review.\3\ For a detailed 
background discussion, see Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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    \3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 80 FR 24233 (April 30, 2015).
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Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department preliminarily determines that Baoding Mantong, 
Kumar, Nutracare, Ravi, and Rudraa did not have reviewable transactions 
of subject merchandise during the POR.

Disclosure and Public Comment

    Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary 
results and may submit case briefs and/or written comments, filed 
electronically using ACCESS, within 30 days of the date of publication 
of this notice, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii). Rebuttal briefs, 
limited to issues raised in the case

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briefs, will be due five days after the due date for case briefs, 
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(d). Parties that submit case or rebuttal 
briefs in this proceeding are requested to submit with each argument a 
statement of the issue, a summary of the argument not to exceed five 
pages, and a table of statutes, regulations, and cases cited, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2).
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties, who wish to 
request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant 
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, 
filed electronically using ACCESS. Electronically filed case briefs/
written comments and hearing requests must be received successfully in 
their entirety by the Department's electronic records system, ACCESS, 
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, within 30 days after the date of publication 
of this notice.\4\ Hearing requests 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. Issues raised in the hearing will 
be limited to those issues raised in the respective case briefs. If a 
request for a hearing is made, parties will be notified of the time and 
date of the hearing which will be held at the U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. The 
Department intends to issue the final results of this administrative 
review, including the results of its analysis of the issues raised in 
any written briefs, not later than 120 days after the date of 
publication of this notice, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.
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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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Assessment Rates

    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department will determine, 
and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries 
covered by this review. The Department intends to issue assessment 
instructions to CBP 15 days after the publication date of the final 
results of this review. Additionally, pursuant to a refinement to its 
assessment practice in NME cases, if the Department continues to 
determine that an exporter under review had no shipments of the subject 
merchandise, any suspended entries that entered under the exporter's 
case number (i.e., at that exporter's rate) will be liquidated at the 
PRC-wide rate. For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market 
Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 
FR 65694 (October 23, 2011).

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) For Baoding 
Mantong, Nutracare International, Ravi Industries, Kumar Industries, 
and Rudraa International, which all claimed no shipments, the cash 
deposit rate will remain unchanged from rates assigned to these 
companies in the most recently completed reviews of these companies; 
(2) for previously investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters 
who are not under review in this segment of the proceeding but who have 
separate rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-
specific rate published for the most recent period; (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 PRC-wide 
rate of 453.79 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(s) that supplied 
the 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 certification 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries of this 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.
    This administrative review and notice are in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: April 4, 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2016-08229 Filed 4-14-16; 8:45 am]
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