[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 56 (Friday, March 22, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10790-10792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05428]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-844]


Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge From Taiwan: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final 
Determination of No Shipments; 2016-2017

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Ming Wei 
Co., Ltd. (Ming Wei), the lone respondent in this administrative 
review, made sales of certain narrow woven ribbon with woven selvedge 
at prices below normal value during the period of review (POR) 
September 1, 2016, through August 31, 2017.

DATES: Applicable March 22, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Crespo, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3693.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The review covers five producers/exporters of the subject 
merchandise, Banduoo Ltd. (Banduoo), Fujian Rongshu Industry Co., Ltd. 
(Fujian Rongshu), Ming Wei, Roung Shu Industry Corporation (Roung Shu), 
and Xiamen Yi-He Textile Co., Ltd. (Xiamen Yi-He).
    On October 9, 2018, Commerce published the Preliminary Results in 
the Federal Register.\1\ Although we invited parties to comment on the 
preliminary results of the review,\2\ no interested

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party submitted comments. Commerce conducted this administrative review 
in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Narrow Woven Ribbons with Woven Selvedge from Taiwan: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and 
Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2016-2017, 83 FR 50637 
(October 9, 2018) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ See Preliminary Results, 83 FR at 50638.
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Scope of the Order

    The scope of this order covers narrow woven ribbons with woven 
selvedge, in any length, but with a width (measured at the narrowest 
span of the ribbon) less than or equal to 12 centimeters, composed of, 
in whole or in part, man-made fibers (whether artificial or synthetic, 
including but not limited to nylon, polyester, rayon, polypropylene, 
and polyethylene teraphthalate), metal threads and/or metalized yarns, 
or any combination thereof. Narrow woven ribbons subject to the order 
may:
     Also include natural or other non-man-made fibers;
     be of any color, style, pattern, or weave construction, 
including but not limited to single faced satin, double-faced satin, 
grosgrain, sheer, taffeta, twill, jacquard, or a combination of two or 
more colors, styles, patterns, and/or weave constructions;
     have been subjected to, or composed of materials that have 
been subjected to, various treatments, including but not limited to 
dyeing, printing, foil stamping, embossing, flocking, coating, and/or 
sizing;
     have embellishments, including but not limited to 
appliqu[eacute], fringes, embroidery, buttons, glitter, sequins, 
laminates, and/or adhesive backing;
     have wire and/or monofilament in, on, or along the 
longitudinal edges of the ribbon;
     have ends of any shape or dimension, including but not 
limited to straight ends that are perpendicular to the longitudinal 
edges of the ribbon, tapered ends, flared ends or shaped ends, and the 
ends of such woven ribbons may or may not be hemmed;
     have longitudinal edges that are straight or of any shape, 
and the longitudinal edges of such woven ribbon may or may not be 
parallel to each other;
     consist of such ribbons affixed to like ribbon and/or cut-
edge woven ribbon, a configuration also known as an ``ornamental 
trimming;''
     be wound on spools; attached to a card; hanked (i.e., 
coiled or bundled); packaged in boxes, trays or bags; or configured as 
skeins, balls, bateaus or folds; and/or
     be included within a kit or set such as when packaged with 
other products, including but not limited to gift bags, gift boxes and/
or other types of ribbon.
    Narrow woven ribbons subject to the order include all narrow woven 
fabrics, tapes, and labels that fall within this written description of 
the scope of this antidumping duty order.
    Excluded from the scope of the order are the following:
    (1) Formed bows composed of narrow woven ribbons with woven 
selvedge;
    (2) ``pull-bows'' (i.e., an assemblage of ribbons connected to one 
another, folded flat and equipped with a means to form such ribbons 
into the shape of a bow by pulling on a length of material affixed to 
such assemblage) composed of narrow woven ribbons;
    (3) narrow woven ribbons comprised at least 20 percent by weight of 
elastomeric yarn (i.e., filament yarn, including monofilament, of 
synthetic textile material, other than textured yarn, which does not 
break on being extended to three times its original length and which 
returns, after being extended to twice its original length, within a 
period of five minutes, to a length not greater than one and a half 
times its original length as defined in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
of the United States (HTSUS), Section XI, Note 13) or rubber thread;
    (4) narrow woven ribbons of a kind used for the manufacture of 
typewriter or printer ribbons;
    (5) narrow woven labels and apparel tapes, cut-to-length or cut-to-
shape, having a length (when measured across the longest edge-to-edge 
span) not exceeding eight centimeters;
    (6) narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge attached to and 
forming the handle of a gift bag;
    (7) cut-edge narrow woven ribbons formed by cutting broad woven 
fabric into strips of ribbon, with or without treatments to prevent the 
longitudinal edges of the ribbon from fraying (such as by merrowing, 
lamination, sono-bonding, fusing, gumming or waxing), and with or 
without wire running lengthwise along the longitudinal edges of the 
ribbon;
    (8) narrow woven ribbons comprised at least 85 percent by weight of 
threads having a denier of 225 or higher;
    (9) narrow woven ribbons constructed from pile fabrics (i.e., 
fabrics with a surface effect formed by tufts or loops of yarn that 
stand up from the body of the fabric);
    (10) narrow woven ribbon affixed (including by tying) as a 
decorative detail to non-subject merchandise, such as a gift bag, gift 
box, gift tin, greeting card or plush toy, or affixed (including by 
tying) as a decorative detail to packaging containing non-subject 
merchandise;
    (11) narrow woven ribbon that is (a) affixed to non-subject 
merchandise as a working component of such non-subject merchandise, 
such as where narrow woven ribbon comprises an apparel trimming, book 
marker, bag cinch, or part of an identity card holder, or (b) affixed 
(including by tying) to non-subject merchandise as a working component 
that holds or packages such non-subject merchandise or attaches 
packaging or labeling to such non-subject merchandise, such as a 
``belly band'' around a pair of pajamas, a pair of socks or a blanket;
    (12) narrow woven ribbon(s) comprising a belt attached to and 
imported with an item of wearing apparel, whether or not such belt is 
removable from such item of wearing apparel; and
    (13) narrow woven ribbon(s) included with non-subject merchandise 
in kits, such as a holiday ornament craft kit or a scrapbook kit, in 
which the individual lengths of narrow woven ribbon(s) included in the 
kit are each no greater than eight inches, the aggregate amount of 
narrow woven ribbon(s) included in the kit does not exceed 48 linear 
inches, none of the narrow woven ribbon(s) included in the kit is on a 
spool, and the narrow woven ribbon(s) is only one of multiple items 
included in the kit.
    The merchandise subject to this order is classifiable under the 
HTSUS statistical categories 5806.32.1020; 5806.32.1030; 5806.32.1050; 
and 5806.32.1060. Subject merchandise also may enter under subheadings 
5806.31.00; 5806.32.20; 5806.39.20; 5806.39.30; 5808.90.00; 5810.91.00; 
5810.99.90; 5903.90.10; 5903.90.25; 5907.00.60; and 5907.00.80 and 
under statistical categories 5806.32.1080; 5810.92.9080; 5903.90.3090; 
and 6307.90.9889. The HTSUS statistical categories and subheadings are 
provided for convenience and customs purposes; however, the written 
description of the merchandise covered by this order is dispositive.

Final Determination of No Shipments

    As explained in the Preliminary Results, we preliminarily 
determined that Banduoo, Fujian Rongshu, Roung Shu, and Xiamen Yi-He 
had no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR. Also, in the 
Preliminary Results, Commerce stated that, consistent with its 
practice, it would complete the review with respect to these companies 
and issue appropriate instructions to U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) based on the final results.\3\
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    \3\ See Preliminary Results, 83 FR at 50638.
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    After issuing the Preliminary Results, Commerce received no 
comments from interested parties, and has not received any information 
that would cause it to

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alter its preliminary determinations. Therefore, because the record 
indicates that these companies did not export subject merchandise to 
the United States, Commerce continues to find that Banduoo, Fujian 
Rongshu, Roung Shu, and Xiamen Yi-He had no shipments of subject 
merchandise during the POR. Commerce received no comments for 
consideration in these final results.

Final Results of the Review

    Because Commerce received no comments for consideration in these 
final results, our determinations, as explained in the Preliminary 
Results, remain unchanged. Accordingly, no decision memorandum 
accompanies this Federal Register notice.\4\ As a result of this 
review, we determine the dumping margin for Ming Wei for the period 
September 1, 2016, through August 31, 2017, is as follows:
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    \4\ For further details of the issues addressed in this 
proceeding, see Preliminary Results and PDM.

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                                                          Dumping margin
                   Exporter/producer                        (percent)
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Ming Wei Co., Ltd......................................          137.20
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Assessment Rates

    In accordance with the final results of this review, Commerce has 
determined, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries pursuant to 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 these final results of review. 
For Ming Wei, we will instruct CBP to apply an assessment rate to all 
entries it produced and/or exported equal to the dumping margin 
indicated above. Additionally, because Commerce determined that 
Banduoo, Fujian Rongshu, Roung Shu, and Xiamen Yi-He had no shipments 
of subject merchandise during the POR, any suspended entries that 
entered under Banduoo, Fujian Rongshu, Roung Shu, or Xiamen Yi-He's 
case number (i.e., at that exporter's rate) will be liquidated at the 
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) 
involved in the transaction.\5\
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    \5\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after the publication date of the final results 
of this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of 
the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Ming Wei will be the rate shown 
above; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated companies not 
participating in this review, 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 
previous review, or the original less-than-fair value (LTFV) 
investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate will be 
the rate established for the most recent segment for the manufacturer 
of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other 
manufacturers or exporters will continue to be 4.37 percent, the all-
others rate made effective by the LTFV investigation.\6\ These deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \6\ See Narrow Woven Ribbons with Woven Selvedge from Taiwan and 
the People's Republic of China: Amended Antidumping Duty Orders, 75 
FR 56982, 56985 (September 17, 2010).
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Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as the only 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 Order

    This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written 
notification of return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to 
judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with 
the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h) and 
351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: March 18, 2019.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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