[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 184 (Thursday, September 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65341-65342]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22888]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-952; A-583-844; C-570-953]


Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge From the People's 
Republic of China and Taiwan: Continuation of Antidumping Duty Orders 
and Countervailing Duty Order

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

SUMMARY: As a result of the determinations by the Department of 
Commerce (the ``Department'') and the International Trade Commission 
(the ``ITC'') that revocation of the antidumping duty (``AD'') orders 
on narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge (``NWRs'') from the 
People's Republic of China (``PRC'') and Taiwan and the countervailing 
duty (``CVD'') order on NWRs from the PRC would likely lead to a 
continuation or recurrence of dumping and countervailable subsidies and 
material injury to an industry in the United States, the Department is 
publishing this notice of continuation of the AD orders and the CVD 
order.

DATES: Effective September 22, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Galantucci (202-482-2923) or 
Toby Vandall (202-482-1664), AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and 
Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On August 3, 2015, the Department initiated \1\ and the ITC 
instituted \2\ five-year (sunset) reviews of the AD orders on NWRs from 
the PRC and Taiwan, and the CVD order on NWRs from the PRC, pursuant to 
section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). The 
Department conducted expedited sunset reviews of these orders. As a 
result of its reviews, the Department determined that revocation of the 
AD orders on NWRs from the PRC and Taiwan would likely lead to 
continuation or recurrence of dumping, and that revocation of the CVD 
order would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of 
countervailable subsidies.\3\ The Department, therefore, notified the 
ITC of the magnitude of the dumping margins and net countervailable 
subsidy rates likely to prevail should the AD orders and the CVD order 
be revoked.\4\ On September 15, 2016, the ITC published its 
determination, pursuant to sections 751(c) and 752 of the Act, that 
revocation of the AD orders on NWRs from the PRC and Taiwan, and the 
CVD order on NWRs from the PRC, would likely lead to continuation or 
recurrence of material injury to an industry in the United States 
within a reasonably foreseeable time.\5\
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    \1\ See Initiation of Five-Year (``Sunset'') Review, 80 FR 45945 
(August 3, 2015).
    \2\ See Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge From China and 
Taiwan; Institution of Five-Year Reviews, 80 FR 46048 (August 3, 
2015).
    \3\ See Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge From the 
People's Republic of China and Taiwan: Final Results of the 
Expedited Sunset Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Orders, 80 FR 76266 
(December 8, 2015); Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge From 
the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Expedited Sunset 
Review of the Countervailing Duty Order, 80 FR 75967 (December 7, 
2015).
    \4\ Id.
    \5\ See Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge From China and 
Taiwan, 81 FR 63494 (September 15, 2016).
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Scope of the Orders

    The merchandise covered by the scope of the orders is narrow woven 
ribbons with woven selvedge, in any length, but with a width (measured 
at the narrowest span of the ribbon) less than or equal to 12 
centimeters, composed of, in whole or in part, man-made fibers (whether 
artificial or synthetic, including but not limited to nylon, polyester, 
rayon, polypropylene, and polyethylene teraphthalate), metal threads 
and/or metalized yarns, or any combination thereof. Narrow woven 
ribbons subject to the orders may:
     Also include natural or other non-man-made fibers;
     be of any color, style, pattern, or weave construction, 
including but not limited to single-faced satin, double-faced satin, 
grosgrain, sheer, taffeta, twill, jacquard, or a combination of two or 
more colors, styles, patterns, and/or weave constructions;
     have been subjected to, or composed of materials that have 
been subjected to, various treatments, including but not limited to 
dyeing, printing, foil stamping, embossing, flocking, coating, and/or 
sizing;
     have embellishments, including but not limited to 
appliqu[eacute], fringes, embroidery, buttons, glitter, sequins, 
laminates, and/or adhesive backing;
     have wire and/or monofilament in, on, or along the 
longitudinal edges of the ribbon;
     have ends of any shape or dimension, including but not 
limited to straight ends that are perpendicular to the longitudinal 
edges of the ribbon, tapered ends, flared ends or shaped ends, and the 
ends of such woven ribbons may or may not be hemmed;
     have longitudinal edges that are straight or of any shape, 
and the longitudinal edges of such woven ribbon may or may not be 
parallel to each other;
     consist of such ribbons affixed to like ribbon and/or cut-
edge woven ribbon, a configuration also known as an ``ornamental 
trimming;''
     be wound on spools; attached to a card; hanked (i.e., 
coiled or bundled); packaged in boxes, trays or bags; or configured as 
skeins, balls, bateaus or folds; and/or

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     be included within a kit or set such as when packaged with 
other products, including but not limited to gift bags, gift boxes and/
or other types of ribbon.
    Narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge subject to the orders 
include all narrow woven fabrics, tapes, and labels that fall within 
this written description of the scope of the AD orders. Excluded from 
the scope of the orders are the following:
    (1) Formed bows composed of narrow woven ribbons with woven 
selvedge;
    (2) ``pull-bows'' (i.e., an assemblage of ribbons connected to one 
another, folded flat and equipped with a means to form such ribbons 
into the shape of a bow by pulling on a length of material affixed to 
such assemblage) composed of narrow woven ribbons;
    (3) narrow woven ribbons comprised at least 20 percent by weight of 
elastomeric yarn (i.e., filament yarn, including monofilament, of 
synthetic textile material, other than textured yarn, which does not 
break on being extended to three times its original length and which 
returns, after being extended to twice its original length, within a 
period of five minutes, to a length not greater than one and a half 
times its original length as defined in the (HTSUS, Section XI, Note 
13) or rubber thread;
    (4) narrow woven ribbons of a kind used for the manufacture of 
typewriter or printer ribbons;
    (5) narrow woven labels and apparel tapes, cut-to-length or cut-to-
shape, having a length (when measured across the longest edge-to-edge 
span) not exceeding eight centimeters;
    (6) narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge attached to and 
forming the handle of a gift bag;
    (7) cut-edge narrow woven ribbons formed by cutting broad woven 
fabric into strips of ribbon, with or without treatments to prevent the 
longitudinal edges of the ribbon from fraying (such as by merrowing, 
lamination, sono-bonding, fusing, gumming or waxing), and with or 
without wire running lengthwise along the longitudinal edges of the 
ribbon;
    (8) narrow woven ribbons comprised at least 85 percent by weight of 
threads having a denier of 225 or higher;
    (9) narrow woven ribbons constructed from pile fabrics (i.e., 
fabrics with a surface effect formed by tufts or loops of yarn that 
stand up from the body of the fabric);
    (10) narrow woven ribbon affixed (including by tying) as a 
decorative detail to non-subject merchandise, such as a gift bag, gift 
box, gift tin, greeting card or plush toy, or affixed (including by 
tying) as a decorative detail to packaging containing non-subject 
merchandise;
    (11) narrow woven ribbon that is (a) affixed to non-subject 
merchandise as a working component of such non-subject merchandise, 
such as where narrow woven ribbon comprises an apparel trimming, book 
marker, bag cinch, or part of an identity card holder, or (b) affixed 
(including by tying) to non-subject merchandise as a working component 
that holds or packages such non-subject merchandise or attaches 
packaging or labeling to such non-subject merchandise, such as a 
``belly band'' around a pair of pajamas, a pair of socks or a blanket;
    (12) narrow woven ribbon(s) comprising a belt attached to and 
imported with an item of wearing apparel, whether or not such belt is 
removable from such item of wearing apparel; and
    (13) narrow woven ribbon(s) included with non-subject merchandise 
in kits, such as a holiday ornament craft kit or a scrapbook kit, in 
which the individual lengths of narrow woven ribbon(s) included in the 
kit are each no greater than eight inches, the aggregate amount of 
narrow woven ribbon(s) included in the kit does not exceed 48 linear 
inches, none of the narrow woven ribbon(s) included in the kit is on a 
spool, and the narrow woven ribbon(s) is only one of multiple items 
included in the kit.
    The merchandise subject to the orders is classifiable under the 
HTSUS statistical categories 5806.32.1020; 5806.32.1030; 5806.32.1050 
and 5806.32.1060. Subject merchandise also may enter under subheadings 
5806.31.00; 5806.32.20; 5806.39.20; 5806.39.30; 5808.90.00; 5810.91.00; 
5810.99.90; 5903.90.10; 5903.90.25; 5907.00.60; and 5907.00.80 and 
under statistical categories 5806.32.1080; 5810.92.9080; 5903.90.3090; 
and 6307.90.9889. The HTSUS statistical categories and subheadings are 
provided for convenience and customs purposes; however, the written 
description of the merchandise covered by the orders is dispositive.

Continuation of the Orders

    As a result of the determinations by the Department and the ITC 
that revocation of the AD and CVD orders would likely lead to 
continuation or recurrence of dumping and countervailable subsidies and 
material injury to an industry in the United States, pursuant to 
section 751(d)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(a), the Department 
hereby orders the continuation of the AD orders on NWRs from the PRC 
and Taiwan and the CVD order on NWRs from the PRC. United States 
Customs and Border Protection will continue to collect AD and CVD cash 
deposits at the rates in effect at the time of entry for all imports of 
subject merchandise.
    The effective date of the continuation of the orders will be the 
date of publication in the Federal Register of this notice of 
continuation. Pursuant to section 751(c)(2) of the Act, the Department 
intends to initiate the next five-year reviews of the orders not later 
than 30 days prior to the fifth anniversary of the effective date of 
continuation of the orders.
    These five-year sunset reviews and this notice are in accordance 
with section 751(c) of the Act and published pursuant to section 
777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(f)(4).

    Dated: September 15, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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