[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 164 (Friday, August 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40560-40563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-18047]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-979]


Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled 
Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Amended Final 
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 amending its 
final results of the third administrative review of the antidumping 
duty (AD) order on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or 
not assembled into modules (solar cells), from the People's Republic of 
China (PRC). The period of review (POR) is December 1, 2014, through 
November 30, 2015. The amended final weighted-average dumping margins 
are listed below in the section entitled, ``Amended Final Results.''

DATES: Applicable August 25, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Krisha Hill, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
IV, Enforcement & Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-4037.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 27, 2017, the Department published the final results of the 
2014-2015 administrative review of the AD order on solar cells from the 
PRC in the Federal Register.\1\ In addition, on June 27, 2017, the 
Department disclosed to interested parties its calculations for the 
final results.\2\ On June 30, 2017, the Department received a timely 
filed ministerial error allegation from SolarWorld Americas, Inc. (the 
petitioner) regarding the Department's calculation of the dumping 
margin for Trina,\3\ one of the mandatory

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respondents in the review.\4\ Specifically, the petitioner alleged that 
although the Department stated its intent to disallow the debt 
restructuring offset that Trina made to its indirect selling expenses, 
the Department made a ministerial error by excluding indirect selling 
expenses reported in the INDIRSU field from the U.S. indirect selling 
expenses used in Trina's margin calculations. No rebuttal comments were 
submitted, nor were any other ministerial error allegations submitted.
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    \1\ See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not 
Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final 
Determination of No Shipments; 2014-2015, 82 FR 29033 (June 27, 
2017) (Final Results) and accompanying Issues and Decision 
Memorandum (IDM).
    \2\ See Department Letter, re: Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not 
Assembled Into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: 
Ministerial Error Comments,'' dated June 29, 2017.
    \3\ The Department treated the following six companies as a 
single entity: Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd./Trina Solar 
(Changzhou) Science & Technology Co., Ltd./Yancheng Trina Solar 
Energy Technology Co., Ltd./Changzhou Trina Solar Yabang Energy Co., 
Ltd./Turpan Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd./Hubei Trina Solar Energy 
Co., Ltd. (collectively, Trina). See Final Results and accompanying 
IDM.
    \4\ See Petitioner's June 30, 2017, Letter regarding ``Certain 
Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled 
into Modules, from the People's Republic of China: Comments on 
Ministerial Errors in the Final Results.''
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the order is crystalline silicon 
photovoltaic cells, and modules, laminates, and panels, consisting of 
crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not partially or 
fully assembled into other products, including, but not limited to, 
modules, laminates, panels and building integrated materials.\5\ 
Merchandise covered by the order is classifiable under subheading 
8501.61.0000, 8507.20.80, 8541.40.6020, 8541.40.6030, and 8501.31.8000 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, our written description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.
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    \5\ For a complete description of the scope of the order, see 
Final Results and accompanying IDM.
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Ministerial Error

    19 CFR 351.224(e) provides that the Department will analyze any 
comments received and, if appropriate, correct any ministerial error by 
amending the final determination or the final results of the review. 
Section 751(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 
CFR 351.224(f) define a ``ministerial error'' as an error ``in 
addition, subtraction, or other arithmetic function, clerical error 
resulting from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the like, and any 
other similar type of unintentional error which the Secretary considers 
ministerial.''
    We analyzed the petitioner's ministerial error comments and 
determined, in accordance with section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.224(e) and (f), that we made a ministerial error in our calculation 
of Trina's dumping margin by inadvertently not including indirect 
selling expenses reported in the INDIRSU field in the U.S. indirect 
selling expenses used in our margin calculations. Specifically, in the 
Final Results, we inadvertently treated the INDIRS2U field as 
reflecting total indirect selling expenses, including the expenses 
reflected under the INDIRSU field. However, the INDIRS2U field only 
reflects the additional expense that should be added to INDIRSU field 
if the debt restructuring offset was denied. We are correcting this 
ministerial error by including the indirect selling expenses reported 
in the INDIRSU field in Trina's U.S. indirect sales expenses.\6\
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    \6\ See memorandum: ``Amended Final Results Analysis Memorandum 
for Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd./Trina Solar (Changzhou) 
Science and Technology Co., Ltd./Yancheng Trina Solar Energy 
Technology Co., Ltd./Changzhou Trina Solar Yabang Energy Co., Ltd./
Turpan Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd./Hubei Trina Solar Energy Co., 
Ltd.,'' dated August 21, 2017.
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    Additionally, because the dumping margin for separate rate 
companies that the Department did not individually examine, but which 
demonstrated their eligibility for a separate rate, is based on the 
mandatory respondents' dumping margins,\7\ we also are revising the 
dumping margin for companies not individually examined in this review 
as a result of our correction to Trina's dumping margin. The dumping 
margin for the second mandatory respondent, Canadian Solar,\8\ remains 
unchanged from the dumping margin calculated in the Final Results.\9\
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    \7\ See Final Results, 82 FR 29035; see also memorandum: 
``Calculation of the Amended Final Dumping Margin for Separate Rate 
Recipients,'' dated August 21, 2017.
    \8\ The Department treated the following six companies as a 
single entity: Canadian Solar International Limited/Canadian Solar 
Manufacturing (Changshu), Inc./Canadian Solar Manufacturing 
(Luoyang), Inc./CSI Cells Co., Ltd./CSI-GCL Solar Manufacturing 
(YanCheng) Co., Ltd./CSI Solar Power (China) Inc. (collectively, 
Canadian Solar).
    \9\ The dumping margin for Canadian Solar remains 13.07 percent. 
See Final Results, 82 FR 29035.
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Amended Final Results

    As a result of correcting this ministerial error, we determine that 
the following weighted-average dumping margins exist for the POR:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                        Exporter                              dumping
                                                              margins
                                                             (Percent)
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Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd./Trina Solar                  5.82
 (Changzhou) Science and Technology Co., Ltd./Yancheng
 Trina Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd./Changzhou Trina
 Solar Yabang Energy Co., Ltd./Turpan Trina Solar Energy
 Co., Ltd./Hubei Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd............
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.........................            7.82
ERA Solar Co., Ltd......................................            7.82
ET Solar Energy Limited.................................            7.82
Hangzhou Sunny Energy Science & Technology Co., Ltd.....            7.82
Hengdian Group DMEGC Magnetics Co., Ltd.................            7.82
JA Solar Technology Yangzhou Co., Ltd...................            7.82
Jiawei Solarchina (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd...................            7.82
Jiawei Solarchina Co., Ltd..............................            7.82
JingAo Solar Co., Ltd...................................            7.82
Lightway Green New Energy Co., Ltd......................            7.82
Ningbo ETDZ Holdings, Ltd...............................            7.82
Risen Energy Co., Ltd...................................            7.82
Shanghai BYD Co., Ltd...................................            7.82
Shanghai JA Solar Technology Co., Ltd...................            7.82
Shenzhen Sungold Solar Co., Ltd.........................            7.82
Shenzhen Topray Solar Co., Ltd..........................            7.82
Star Power International Limited........................            7.82
Systemes Versilis, Inc..................................            7.82

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Taizhou BD Trade Co., Ltd...............................            7.82
tenKsolar (Shanghai) Co., Ltd...........................            7.82
Toenergy Technology Hangzhou Co., Ltd...................            7.82
Wuxi Tianran Photovoltaic Co., Ltd......................            7.82
Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited/Baoding Tianwei               7.82
 Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd./Tianjin Yingli
 New Energy Resources Co., Ltd./Hengshui Yingli New
 Energy Resources Co., Ltd./Lixian Yingli New Energy
 Resources Co., Ltd./Baoding Jiasheng Photovoltaic
 Technology Co., Ltd./Beijing Tianneng Yingli New Energy
 Resources Co., Ltd./Hainan Yingli New Energy Resources
 Co., Ltd./Shenzhen Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd
Zhejiang Era Solar Technology Co., Ltd..................            7.82
Zhejiang Sunflower Light Energy Science & Technology                7.82
 Limited Liability Company..............................
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Assessment

    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 these Amended Final Results. In 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), we are calculating importer- (or 
customer-) specific assessment rates for the merchandise subject to 
this review. For any individually examined respondent whose weighted-
average dumping margin is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent), the 
Department will calculate importer- (or customer-) specific assessment 
rates for merchandise subject to this review. Where the respondent 
reported reliable entered values, the Department calculated importer- 
(or customer-) specific ad valorem rates by aggregating the dumping 
margins calculated for all U.S. sales to the importer- (or customer) 
and dividing this amount by the total entered value of the sales to the 
importer- (or customer).\10\ Where the Department calculated an 
importer- (or customer-) specific weighted-average dumping margin by 
dividing the total amount of dumping for reviewed sales to the 
importer- (or customer) by the total sales quantity associated with 
those transactions, the Department will direct CBP to assess importer- 
(or customer-) specific assessment rates based on the resulting per-
unit rates.\11\ Where an importer- (or customer-) specific ad valorem 
or per-unit rate is greater than de minimis, the Department will 
instruct CBP to collect the appropriate duties at the time of 
liquidation. Where either the respondent's weighted average dumping 
margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer (or customer-) specific ad 
valorem or per-unit rate is zero or de minimis, the Department will 
instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to 
antidumping duties.\12\
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    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    \11\ Id.
    \12\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14, 
2012).
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    For merchandise whose sale/entry was not reported in the U.S. sales 
database submitted by an exporter individually examined during this 
review, but that entered under the case number of that exporter (i.e., 
at the individually-examined exporter's cash deposit rate), the 
Department will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the PRC-wide 
rate. Additionally, if the Department determines that an exporter under 
review had no shipments of the subject merchandise, any suspended 
entries that entered under that exporter's case number will be 
liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.\13\
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    \13\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment 
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011), for a full 
discussion of this practice.
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after June 27, 2017, the date of 
publication of the Final Results, as provided for by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For the exporters listed above, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate listed for each exporter in the table in 
the ``Amended Final Results'' section of this notice, except if the 
rate is zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), then the cash 
deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously investigated PRC and non-
PRC exporters that received a separate rate in a prior segment of this 
proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the existing 
exporter-specific rate; (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 rate previously established for the 
PRC-wide entity (i.e., 238.95 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 that supplied that non-PRC exporter. These deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.

Disclosure

    We intend to disclose the calculations performed for these Amended 
Final Results within five days of publication of this notice in the 
Federal Register in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Notification to Importers Regarding the Reimbursement of Duties

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) 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.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders (APO)

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to APO of 
their responsibility concerning the return or destruction of 
proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.305, 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 which is subject to 
sanction.

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    These amended final results and notice are issued and published in 
accordance with sections 751(h) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.224(e).

    Dated: August 21, 2017.
Gary Taverman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations, performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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