[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 190 (Monday, October 1, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49360-49361]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-21325]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-848]


Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents From Taiwan: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Teh Fong 
Ming International Co., Ltd. (TFM) has made sales of subject 
merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review 
(POR), May 1, 2016, through April 30, 2017.

DATES: Applicable October 1, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Romani, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0198.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On June 11, 2018, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of the 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stilbenic 
optical brightening agents (OBAs from Taiwan.\1\ The administrative 
review covers one producer/exporter of the subject merchandise, TFM. We 
gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the Preliminary 
Results but received none. Hence, these final results are unchanged 
from the Preliminary Results. Commerce conducted this review in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from 
Taiwan: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2016-2017, 83 FR 26950 (June 11, 2018) (Preliminary 
Results).
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Scope of the Order

    The stilbenic OBAs covered by this order are all forms (whether 
free acid or salt) of compounds known as triazinylaminostilbenes (i.e., 
all derivatives of 4,4'-bis [1,3,5- triazin-2-yl] \2\ amino-2,2'-
stilbenedisulfonic acid), except for compounds listed in the following 
paragraph. The stilbenic OBAs covered by this order include final 
stilbenic OBA products, as well as intermediate products that are 
themselves triazinylaminostilbenes produced during the synthesis of 
stilbenic OBA products.
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    \2\ The brackets in this sentence are part of the chemical 
formula.
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    Excluded from this order are all forms of 4,4'-bis[4-anilino-6-
morpholino-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl] \3\ amino-2,2'-stilbenedisulfonic acid, 
C40H40N12O8S2 (``Fluorescent Brightener 71''). This order covers the 
above-described compounds in any state (including but not limited to 
powder, slurry, or solution), of any concentrations of active stilbenic 
OBA ingredient, as well as any compositions regardless of additives 
(i.e., mixtures or blends, whether of stilbenic OBAs with each other, 
or of stilbenic OBAs with additives that are not stilbenic OBAs), and 
in any type of packaging.
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    \3\ Id.
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    These stilbenic OBAs are classifiable under subheading 3204.20.8000 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), but 
they may also enter under subheadings 2933.69.6050, 2921.59.4000 and 
2921.59.8090. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the 
merchandise is dispositive.

Final Results of the Administrative Review

    We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margin 
exists for the period of May 1, 2016, through April 30, 2017.

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                                                            Weighted-
                                                         average dumping
                   Producer/exporter                          margin
                                                            (percent)
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Teh Fong Ming International Co., Ltd...................            1.31
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Assessment

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, and CBP shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in 
accordance with the final results of this review. We calculated an 
importer-specific assessment rate on the basis of the ratio of the 
total amount of antidumping duties calculated for each importer's 
examined sales and the total entered value of the sales in accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\4\
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    \4\ In these final results, Commerce applied the assessment rate 
calculation method adopted in Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation 
of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in 
Certain Antidumping Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 
(February 14, 2012).

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    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by TFM 
for which it did not know 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 
involved in the transaction. We intend to issue assessment instructions 
to CBP 15 days after publication of the final results of this review.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the notice of final results of administrative review for 
all shipments of stilbenic OBAs from Taiwan entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication as 
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate 
for TFM will be 1.31 percent, the weighted-average dumping margin 
established in the final results of this administrative review; (2) for 
merchandise exported by producers or exporters not covered in this 
administrative review but covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, 
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate 
published for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding; 
(3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior 
review, or the original investigation, but the producer is, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recently 
completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of the subject 
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers or 
exporters will continue to be 6.19 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the investigation.\5\
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    \5\ See Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from 
Taiwan: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 77 FR 
17027 (March 23, 2012).
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    These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in 
effect until further notice.

Notification to Importers

    This notice 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 review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the destruction of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). 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.
    We are issuing and publishing these results of an administrative 
review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: September 25, 2018.
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.
[FR Doc. 2018-21325 Filed 9-28-18; 8:45 am]
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