[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 73 (Tuesday, April 18, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18284-18285]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07805]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-853]


Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From Canada: Final Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2015-2016

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On January 30, 2017, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published the preliminary results of the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on citric acid and certain citrate 
salts from Canada. The review covers one producer/exporter of the 
subject merchandise, Jungbunzlauer Canada, Inc. (JBL Canada). The 
period of review (POR) is May 1, 2015, through April 30, 2016. The 
final weighted-average dumping margin for JBL Canada, which does not 
differ from the preliminary results, is listed below in the ``Final 
Results of Review'' section of this notice.

DATES: Effective April 18, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Johnson or George Ayache, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4929 or (202) 
482-2623, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    This review covers one producer/exporter of the subject 
merchandise, JBL Canada. On January 30, 2017, the Department published 
in the Federal Register the Preliminary Results.\1\ We invited parties 
to comment on the Preliminary Results.\2\ No interested party submitted 
comments.\3\ Further, no party submitted a request for a hearing in the 
instant review. The Department conducted this administrative review in 
accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act).
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    \1\ See Citric Acid and Citrate Salts from Canada: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2015-2016, 82 FR 
8722 (January 30, 2017) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying 
Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review: Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from 
Canada from Gary Taverman, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations to Ronald K. 
Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance 
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
    \2\ Preliminary Results, 82 FR at 8723.
    \3\ JBL Canada submitted a case brief stating: ``Respondent JBL 
has no comments on the Department's Preliminary Results. We reserve 
the right to submit a rebuttal brief in response to any issues which 
may be raised by petitioners in their case brief.'' See Letter from 
JBL ``Seventh Administrative Review of the Antidumping Order on 
Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Sales from Canada--JBL Canada's Case 
Brief,'' dated March 1, 2017.
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Scope of the Order \4\
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    \4\ See Citric Acid and Citrate Salts from Canada and the 
People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders, 74 FR 25703 
(May 29, 2009) (the Order).
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    The merchandise subject to the order is citric acid and certain 
citrate salts from Canada. The product is currently classified under 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings 
2918.14.0000, 2918.15.1000, 2918.15.5000, and 3824.90.9290. Although 
the HTSUS numbers are provided for convenience and customs purposes, 
the written product description, available in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum,\5\ remains dispositive.
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    \5\ For a complete description of the scope of the Order, see 
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 2, which can be accessed 
directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
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Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    As no parties submitted comments on the margin calculation 
methodology used in the Preliminary Results, the Department made no 
adjustments to that methodology in the final results of this review.

Final Results of the Review

    As a result of this review, the Department determines that the 
following weighted-average dumping margin exists for entries of subject 
merchandise that were produced and/or exported by the following company 
during the POR:

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                                                            Weighted-
                 Manufacturer/Exporter                    average margin
                                                            (percent)
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Jungbunzlauer Canada, Inc..............................            0.00
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Assessment Rates

    The Department shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of 
this review, pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b).\6\ Because we calculated a zero margin for JBL Canada in 
the final results of this review, we intend to

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instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to 
antidumping duties.
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    \6\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b).
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    The Department intends to issue the appropriate assessment 
instructions to CBP 41 days after the date of publication of these 
final results of review, in accordance with 19 CFR 356.8(a).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of these final results for all shipments of 
citric acid and certain citrate salts from Canada entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date as 
provided by section 751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for 
JBL Canada will be zero; (2) for merchandise exported by manufacturers 
or exporters not covered in this review but covered in a completed 
prior segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to 
be the company-specific rate published for the most recently completed 
segment; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a 
prior review, or the original investigation but the manufacturer is, 
the cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most 
recently completed segment for the manufacturer of the merchandise; (4) 
the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will 
continue to be 23.21 percent, the all-others rate established in the 
Order. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in 
effect until further notice.

Notification to Importers

    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 POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties has occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), 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 the APO, which continues to 
govern business proprietary information in this segment of the 
proceeding. Timely written notification of the return or 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 subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We intend to issue and publish these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h) and 
351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: April 13, 2017.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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