[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 23, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53449-53450]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-23052]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-918]


Steel Wire Garment Hangers From the People's Republic of China: 
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 Shanghai 
Wells Hanger Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Wells Ltd., and Hong Kong Wells Ltd. 
(USA) (collectively, Shanghai Wells) sold subject merchandise in the 
United States at prices below normal value during the period of review 
(POR), October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017.

DATES: Applicable October 23, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ian Hamilton, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4798.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Commerce published the Preliminary Results of this administrative 
review on steel wire garment hangers from the People's Republic of 
China (China) on July 13, 2018.\1\ For a discussion of the events 
subsequent to the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.\2\
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    \1\ See Steel Wire Garment Hangers from the People's Republic of 
China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2016-2017, 83 FR 32634 (July 13, 2018) (Preliminary 
Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Steel Wire 
Garment Hangers from the People's Republic of China; 2016-2017,'' 
dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues 
and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the Order is steel wire garment 
hangers.\3\ The products are currently classifiable under the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings: 
7326.20.0020, 7323.99.9060, and 7323.99.9080. Although the HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the 
written product description of the scope of the order remains 
dispositive. For a full description of the scope of the Order, see 
Issues and Decision Memorandum.\4\
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    \3\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Steel Wire Garment 
Hangers from the People's Republic of China, 73 FR 58111 (October 6, 
2008) (Order).
    \4\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at 2.
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case briefs filed by parties in this 
review are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, which is 
incorporated herein by reference. A list of the issues which each party 
raised, follows in the Appendix to this notice. The Issues and Decision 
Memorandum is a public document and is made available to the public via 
Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 
registered users at https://access.trade.gov, and it is available to 
all parties in the Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of the main 
Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete version of the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum is available at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed and electronic versions of the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum are identical in content.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on a review of the record and comments received from 
interested parties regarding our Preliminary Results, and for the 
reasons explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, we made 
revisions to our preliminary calculations of the weighted-average 
dumping margin for Shanghai Wells.\5\
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    \5\ Id. at 2-4.
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Separate Rates

    In the Preliminary Results, we found that information placed on the 
record by Shanghai Wells demonstrates that this entity is entitled to 
separate rate status, which we preliminarily granted.\6\ We received no 
information since the issuance of the Preliminary Results that provides 
a basis for reconsidering the determination with respect to the 
separate rate status of this entity. Therefore, for the final results, 
we continue to find that Shanghai Wells is eligible for a separate 
rate.
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    \6\ See Preliminary Results, 83 FR at 32634; see also 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 4-5.
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Final Results of the Review

    Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping 
margin exists for the POR from October 1, 2016, through September 30, 
2017:
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    \7\ In the first administrative review of the Order, Commerce 
found that Shanghai Wells Hanger Co., Ltd. and Hong Kong Wells Ltd. 
(collectively Shanghai Wells) are a single entity and, because there 
were no changes to the facts that supported that decision since that 
determination was made, we continue to find that these companies are 
part of a single entity for this administrative review. See 
Preliminary Results, 83 FR at 32635; see also Steel Wire Garment 
Hangers from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and 
Preliminary Rescission, in Part, of the First Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 75 FR 68758, 68761 (November 9, 2010), 
unchanged in First Administrative Review of Steel Wire Garment 
Hangers from the People's Republic of China: Final Results and Final 
Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 76 FR 
27994, 27996 (May 13, 2011); see also Steel Wire Garment Hangers 
from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review, 2015-2016, 82 FR 54324 (November 17, 
2017).

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                        Exporter                          dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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Shanghai Wells Hanger Co., Ltd./Hong Kong Wells Ltd. \7\            2.68
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    Commerce's policy regarding conditional review of the China-wide 
entity applies to this administrative review.\8\ Under this policy, the 
China-wide entity will not be under review unless a party specifically 
requests, or Commerce self-initiates, a review of the China-wide 
entity. Because no party requested a review of the China-wide entity in 
this review, and we did not self-initiate a review, the entity is not 
under review and the entity's rate is not subject to change, (i.e., 
187.25 percent).\9\
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    \8\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in 
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty 
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity 
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013).
    \9\ See Steel Wire Garment Hangers from the People's Republic of 
China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2013-2014, 80 FR 41480 (July 15, 2015), and accompanying 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum, unchanged in Steel Wire Garment 
Hangers from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 2013-2014, 80 FR 69942 
(November 12, 2015).
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Assessment Rates

    Commerce will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of 
subject merchandise in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.212(b). Commerce intends to issue assessment 
instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of the final 
results of this review in the Federal Register.
    For any individually examined respondent whose (estimated) ad 
valorem weighted-average dumping margin is not zero or de minimis 
(i.e., less than 0.50 percent), Commerce will calculate importer-
specific ad valorem assessment rates on the basis of the ratio of the 
total amount of dumping calculated for the importer's examined sales 
and the total entered value of those 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 ad valorem assessment rate calculated is not zero or de 
minimis. Where either the respondent's ad valorem weighted-average 
dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-specific ad 
valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis,\11\ we will instruct CBP 
to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping 
duties.
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    \10\ 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 Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 
8101 (February 14, 2012).
    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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    Consistent with Commerce's assessment practice in a review 
involving a non-market economy, for sales that were not reported in the 
U.S. sales data submitted by companies individually examined during 
this review, we will instruct CBP to liquidate entries associated with 
those sales at the rate for the China-wide entity. Furthermore, where 
we found that an exporter under review had no shipments of the subject 
merchandise, any suspended entries that entered under that exporter's 
case number (i.e., at that exporter's cash deposit rate) will be 
liquidated at the rate for the China-wide entity.\12\
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    \12\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment 
Practice Refinement, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for 
shipments of the subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For each specific 
company listed in the final results of this review, the cash deposit 
rate will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established 
in the final results of this review (except, if the ad valorem rate is 
de minimis, then the cash deposit rate will be zero); (2) for 
previously investigated or reviewed Chinese and non-Chinese exporters 
not listed above that have received a separate rate in a prior segment 
of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the 
existing exporter-specific cash deposit rate published for the 
completed segment of the most recent period; (3) for all Chinese 
exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be 
entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate for 
the China-wide entity (i.e., 187.25 percent); and (4) for all non-
Chinese exporters of subject merchandise which have not received their 
own separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to 
the Chinese exporter that supplied that non-Chinese exporter. These 
cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.

Disclosure

    We intend to disclose the calculations performed within five days 
of the date of public announcement of these final results of review, 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)(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 Commerce's presumption that reimbursement 
of antidumping duties has occurred and the subsequent assessment of 
double antidumping duties.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Order

    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 APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), 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.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these final results of administrative 
review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: October 16, 2018.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

Issues and Decision Memorandum

    Summary
    Background
    Scope of the Order
    Changes Since the Preliminary Results
    Discussion of the Issue
    Comment: Whether to Treat Other Income as an Offset to Selling, 
General, and Administrative Expenses
    Recommendation
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