[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 77 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23457-23459]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09286]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-916]


Laminated Woven Sacks From the People's Republic of China: Notice 
of Court Decision Not in Harmony With Final Determination Under Section 
129 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act

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

SUMMARY: On March 30, 2016, the United States Court of International 
Trade (CIT or Court) issued final judgment in Laminated Woven Sacks 
Committee, Coating Excellence International, LLC, and Polytex Fibers 
Corporation v. United States, Consol.

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Court No. 12-00301, affirming the Department of Commerce's (the 
Department) final results of redetermination pursuant to court remand. 
Consistent with the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for 
the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 
(Fed. Cir. 1990) (Timken), as clarified by Diamond Sawblades Mfrs. 
Coalition v. United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (Diamond 
Sawblades), the Department is notifying the public that the final 
judgment in this case is not in harmony with the Department's 
implemented final determination in a proceeding conducted under section 
129 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (Section 129) related to the 
Department's final affirmative determination in the antidumping duty 
(AD) investigation of laminated woven sacks (LWS) from the People's 
Republic of China (the PRC) for the period October 1, 2006, through 
March 31, 2007.\1\ The Department is amending its implemented Final 
Section 129 Determination with regard to granting adjustments to the AD 
cash deposit rates.
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    \1\ See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations, to 
Paul Piquado, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, 
``Final Determination: Section 129 Proceeding Pursuant to the WTO 
Appellate Body's Findings in WTO DS379 Regarding the Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Investigations of Laminated Woven Sacks from the 
People's Republic of China,'' (July 31, 2012) (Final Section 129 
Determination); see also Implementation of Determinations Under 
Section 129 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act: Certain New 
Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires; Circular Welded Carbon Quality Steel 
Pipe; Laminated Woven Sacks; and Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and 
Tube From the People's Republic of China, 77 FR 52683 (August 30, 
2012) (Implementation Notice).

DATES: Effective Date: April 11, 2016.\2\
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    \2\ The effective date is ten days after the date of the court 
decision in accordance with Section 516A(e) of the Tariff Act of 
1930.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Mullen, Office V, Enforcement and 
Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC, 
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20230; telephone: (202) 482-2560.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On August 7, 2008, the Department published AD and countervailing 
duty (CVD) orders on LWS imports from the PRC.\3\ The Government of the 
People's Republic of China challenged the LWS orders and three other 
sets of simultaneously imposed AD and CVD orders before the Dispute 
Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO 
Appellate Body, in March 2011, found that the United States had acted 
inconsistently with its international obligations in several respects, 
including the potential imposition of overlapping remedies, or so-
called ``double remedies.'' \4\ The U.S. Trade Representative then 
announced the United States' intention to comply with the WTO's rulings 
and recommendations, and the Department initiated a Section 129 
proceeding.\5\
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    \3\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Laminated Woven Sacks 
from the People's Republic of China, 73 FR 45941 (August 7, 2008); 
see also Laminated Woven Sacks From the People's Republic of China: 
Countervailing Duty Order, 73 FR 45955 (August 7, 2008) 
(collectively, LWS orders).
    \4\ See United States--Definitive Anti-Dumping and 
Countervailing Duties on Certain Products from China, 611, WT/DS379/
AB/R (Mar. 11, 2011).
    \5\ See Implementation Notice.
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    On July 31, 2012, the Department issued its Final Section 129 
Determination. In that determination, the Department found that an 
adjustment was warranted to the AD rates on LWS imports from the PRC to 
account for remedies that overlap those imposed by the CVD order.\6\ As 
a result, the Department reduced the applicable AD rate for separate 
rate companies from 64.28 percent to 20.19 percent and reduced the PRC-
wide entity AD rate from 91.73 percent to 47.64 percent.\7\ The 
Department published a notice implementing the Final Section 129 
Determination on August 30, 2012.\8\ Various parties challenged the 
Department's Final Section 129 Determination at the CIT.
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    \6\ See Final Section 129 Determination.
    \7\ See Implementation Notice, 77 FR at 52687.
    \8\ Id.
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    Following the final disposition of litigation related to the Final 
Section 129 Determination regarding the AD and CVD investigations of 
circular welded pipe (CWP) from the PRC, in which the Department found 
no basis for making an adjustment to the AD rates under Section 
777(A)(f) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),\9\ the CIT 
granted the Department's request for a voluntary remand in the 
litigation challenging the Final Section 129 Determination regarding 
the AD investigation of LWS from the PRC.\10\ On March 23, 2016, the 
Department issued its Final Remand Redetermination regarding the AD 
investigation of LWS from the PRC, in which it amended its Final 
Section 129 Determination regarding the AD investigation and denied the 
adjustment to the AD cash deposit rates granted to respondents in the 
Final Section 129 Determination.\11\ On March 30, 2016, the CIT 
sustained the Department's Final Remand Redetermination.\12\
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    \9\ See Wheatland Tube Co. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 
12-00298, Slip Op. 15-44 (Ct. Int'l Trade May 7, 2015); Wheatland 
Tube Co. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 12-00296, Slip Op. 15-
118 (Ct. Int'l Trade October 22, 2015).
    \10\ See Laminated Woven Sacks Comm. v. United States, Court No. 
12-00301 (December 3, 2015).
    \11\ See ``Final Redetermination Pursuant to Court Remand, 
Laminated Woven Sacks Comm. v. United States, Court No. 12-00301,'' 
(March 23, 2016) (Final Remand Redetermination).
    \12\ See Laminated Woven Sacks Comm. v. United States, Slip Op. 
16-30, Consol. Court No. 12-00301 (CIT March 30, 2016).
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Timken Notice

    In its decision in Timken, 893 F.2d at 341, as clarified by Diamond 
Sawblades, the CAFC held that, pursuant to section 516A(e) of the Act, 
the Department must publish a notice of a court decision that is not 
``in harmony'' with a Department determination and must suspend 
liquidation of entries pending a ``conclusive'' court decision. The 
CIT's March 30, 2016, judgment affirming the Final Remand 
Redetermination constitutes a final court decision that is not in 
harmony with the Department's Final Section 129 Determination. This 
notice is published in fulfillment of publication requirements of 
Timken.

Amended Final Determination

    Because there is now a final court decision with respect to the 
Department's Final Section 129 Determination regarding the AD 
investigation of LWS from the PRC, the Department is amending the Final 
Section 129 Determination, as implemented, regarding an adjustment to 
the AD cash deposit rates. The revised AD cash deposit rates are as 
follows:

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                                                            Revised AD
            Exporter                     Producer          cash deposit
                                                             rate  (%)
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Zibo Aifudi Plastic Packaging    Zibo Aifudi Plastic               64.28
 Co., Ltd.                        Packaging Co., Ltd.
Polywell Industrial Co., A.K.A.  Polywell Plastic                  64.28
 First Way (H.K.) Limited.        Product Factory.

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Zibo Linzi Worun Packing         Zibo Linzi Worun                  64.28
 Product Co., Ltd.                Packing Product Co.,
                                  Ltd.
Shandong Qikai Plastics Product  Shandong Qikai Plastics           64.28
 Co., Ltd.                        Product Co., Ltd.
Changle Baodu Plastic Co. Ltd..  Changle Baodu Plastic             64.28
                                  Co. Ltd.
Zibo Linzi Shuaiqiang Plastics   Zibo Linzi Shuaiqiang             64.28
 Co. Ltd.                         Plastics Co. Ltd.
Zibo Linzi Qitianli Plastic      Zibo Linzi Qitianli               64.28
 Fabric Co. Ltd.                  Plastic Fabric Co. Ltd.
Shandong Youlian Co. Ltd.......  Shandong Youlian Co.              64.28
                                  Ltd.
Zibo Linzi Luitong Plastic       Zibo Linzi Luitong                64.28
 Fabric Co. Ltd.                  Plastic Fabric Co. Ltd.
Wenzhou Hotson Plastics Co. Ltd  Wenzhou Hotson Plastics           64.28
                                  Co. Ltd.
Jiangsu Hotson Plastics Co. Ltd  Jiangsu Hotson Plastics           64.28
                                  Co. Ltd.
Cangnan Color Make The Bag.....  Cangnan Color Make The            64.28
                                  Bag.
Zibo Qigao Plastic Cement Co.    Zibo Qigao Plastic                64.28
 Ltd.                             Cement Co. Ltd.
Prc-Wide Rate..................  .......................           91.73
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    Unless the applicable cash deposit rates have been superseded by 
cash deposit rates calculated in an intervening administrative review 
of the AD order on LWS from the PRC, the Department will instruct U. S. 
Customs and Border Protection to require a cash deposit for estimated 
AD duties at the rate noted above for each specified exporter and 
producer combination, for entries of subject merchandise, entered or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on or after April 11, 2016.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
516A(e) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and section 129(c)(2)(A) of the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

    Dated: April 14, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2016-09286 Filed 4-20-16; 8:45 am]
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