[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 230 (Friday, December 1, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56949-56951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-25904]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-520-803]


Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip From the United 
Arab Emirates: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2015-2016

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 polyethylene 
terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET Film) from the United Arab 
Emirates (UAE). The period of review (POR) is November 1, 2015, through 
October 31, 2016. The review covers two producer/exporters of the 
subject merchandise, JBF RAK LLC (JBF) and UFlex Limited (UFlex). The 
Department preliminarily determines that sales of subject merchandise 
have been made below normal value by JBF. In addition, the Department 
preliminarily finds that UFlex had no shipments during the POR. 
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable December 1, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Huston, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4261.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is polyethylene terephthalate 
film. The product is currently classified under the following 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheading: 
3920.62.00.90. Although the HTSUS number is provided for convenience 
and for customs purposes, the written product description, available in 
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, remains dispositive.\1\
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    \1\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Polyethylene 
Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from the United Arab Emirates 
and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments'' (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum), dated concurrently with this notice.
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Methodology

    The Department is conducting this review in accordance with section

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751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Export price 
and constructed export price are calculated in accordance with section 
772 of the Act. Normal value is calculated in accordance with section 
773 of the Act.
    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, which is hereby 
adopted by this notice.\2\ A list of topics included in the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum is included as an Appendix to this notice. The 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum 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 in the Central Records 
Unit in room B8024 of the main Commerce building. In addition, a 
complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed 
directly on the Internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The 
signed Preliminary Decision Memorandum and electronic versions of the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical in content.
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    \2\ Id.
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Preliminary Determination of No Shipments

    On February 1, 2017, UFlex reported that it made no shipments of 
subject merchandise to the United States during the POR.\3\ To confirm 
UFlex's no shipment claim, the Department issued a no-shipment inquiry 
to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) requesting that it review 
UFlex's no shipment claim.\4\ CBP did not report that it had any 
information to contradict UFlex's claim of no shipments during the POR.
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    \3\ See letter from FLEX Middle East FZE and UFlex, 
``Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from the United 
Arab Emirates: Notice of No Sales,'' dated February 1, 2017.
    \4\ See No shipment inquiry for polyethylene terephthalate film, 
sheet, and strip from the United Arab Emirates produced and/or 
reported by UFlex Limited (A-520-803), message number 7053303 
(February 22, 2017).
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    Given that UFlex certified that it made no shipments of subject 
merchandise to the United States during the POR and there is no 
information calling its claim into question, we preliminarily determine 
that UFlex made no shipments during the POR. Consistent with the 
Department's practice, we will not rescind the review with respect to 
UFlex but, rather, will complete the review and issue instructions to 
CBP based on the final results.\5\
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    \5\ See, e.g., Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Thailand; 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 
Partial Rescission of Review, Preliminary Determination of No 
Shipments; 2012-2013, 79 FR 15951, 15952 (March 24, 2014), unchanged 
in Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Thailand: Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, Final Determination of No 
Shipments, and Partial Rescission of Review; 2012-2013, 79 FR 51306, 
51306-51307 (August 28, 2014).
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Preliminary Results of Review

    As a result of our review, we preliminarily determine the following 
weighted-average dumping margin for the period November 1, 2015, 
through October 31, 2016:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                    Manufacturer/Exporter                       margin
                                                               (percent)
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JBF RAK LLC.................................................       19.01
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    The Department intends to disclose the calculations used in our 
analysis to parties in this review within five days of the date of 
publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 
Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results of 
this review. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), interested parties 
may submit case briefs not later than 30 days after the date of 
publication of this notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 
in the case briefs, may not be filed later than five days after the 
time limit for filing case briefs.\6\ Parties who submit case briefs or 
rebuttal briefs in this review are requested to submit with each brief: 
(1) A statement of the issue, (2) a brief summary of the argument, and 
(3) a table of authorities.\7\ Executive summaries should be limited to 
five pages total, including footnotes.\8\
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    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1).
    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2), (d)(2).
    \8\ Id.
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), any interested party may request a 
hearing within 30 days of the publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register. If a hearing is requested, the Department will notify 
interested parties of the hearing schedule. Interested parties who wish 
to request a hearing, or to participate if one is requested, must 
submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 
Compliance, filed electronically via ACCESS within 30 days after the 
date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain: (1) The 
party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of 
participants; and (3) a list of the issues to be discussed. Issues 
raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in the respective 
case briefs.
    We intend to issue the final results of this administrative review, 
including the results of our analysis of issues raised by the parties 
in the written comments, within 120 days of publication of these 
preliminary results in the Federal Register, unless otherwise 
extended.\9\
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    \9\ See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
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Assessment Rates

    Upon issuing the final results of the review, the Department shall 
determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries. The Department intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 
15 days after the date of publication of the final results of review.
    For any individually examined respondents whose weighted-average 
dumping margin is above de minimis, we will calculate importer-specific 
ad valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount 
of dumping calculated for the importer's examined sales to the total 
entered value of those same sales in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1).\10\ We will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on 
all appropriate entries covered by this review when the importer-
specific assessment rate calculated in the final results of this review 
is above de minimis. Where either the respondent's weighted-average 
dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-specific 
assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
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    \10\ In these preliminary results, the Department applied the 
assessment rate calculation methodology adopted in Antidumping 
Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 
Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final 
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
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    The final results of this review shall be the basis for the 
assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by 
the final results of this review and for future deposits of estimated 
duties, where applicable.
    In accordance with the Department's ``automatic assessment'' 
practice, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by 
JBF for which it did not know that its merchandise was destined for the 
United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at 
the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in the transaction.\11\ In addition, if the 
Department determines that UFlex had no shipments of subject 
merchandise, any suspended entries

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that entered under UFlex's case number will be liquidated at the all-
others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate companies involved 
in the transaction.\12\
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    \11\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
    \12\ Id.
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of PET Film from the UAE entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided for by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for the companies 
under review will be the rate established in the final results of this 
review (except, if the rate is zero or de minimis, no cash deposit will 
be required); (2) for previously reviewed or investigated companies not 
listed above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter 
is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the less-than-
fair-value investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit 
rate will be the rate established for the most recent period for the 
manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all 
other manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 4.05 percent, the 
all-others rate established in the investigation.\13\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \13\ See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from 
Brazil, the People's Republic of China and the United Arab Emirates: 
Antidumping Duty Orders and Amended Final Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value for the United Arab Emirates, 73 FR 66595, 
66597 (November 10, 2008).
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Notification to Importers

    This notice also serves as a preliminary 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 review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    These preliminary results of administrative review are issued and 
published in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the 
Act.

    Dated: November 27, 2017.
Carole Showers,
Executive Director, Office of Policy, performing the duties of the 
Deputy Assistant Secretary, for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum

1. Summary
2. Background
3. Scope of the Order
4. Date of Sale
5. Discussion of Methodology
6. Product Comparisons
7. Export Price/Constructed Export Price
8. Normal Value
9. Currency Conversions
10. Conclusion

[FR Doc. 2017-25904 Filed 11-30-17; 8:45 am]
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