[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 82 (Monday, April 29, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 18006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08574]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-570-959]


Certain Coated Paper Suitable for High-Quality Print Graphics 
Using Sheet-Fed Presses From the People's Republic of China: Rescission 
of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2017

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) is rescinding the 
administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on certain 
coated paper suitable for high-quality print graphics using sheet-fed 
presses (coated paper) from the People's Republic of China (China) for 
the period of review (POR) January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2017, 
based on the timely withdrawal of the requests for review.

DATES: Applicable April 29, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Kolberg, 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) 482-1785.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 1, 2018, Commerce published the notice of opportunity 
to request an administrative review of the CVD order on coated paper 
from China for the POR January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2017.\1\ 
On November 30, 2018, Verso Corporation (Verso) and Sappi North America 
(Sappi), domestic producers of subject merchandise, and the United 
Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied 
Industrial and Service Workers Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (USW), a union 
representing workers engaged in the production of coated paper 
(collectively, the petitioner), requested that Commerce conduct an 
administrative review of Shandong Sun Paper Industry Joint Stock Co., 
Ltd., Yanzhou Tianzhang Paper Industry Co., Ltd., .Shandong 
International Paper and Sun Coated Paperboard Co., Ltd., International 
Paper and Sun Cartonboard Co., Ltd., Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co., 
Ltd., Gold Huasheng Paper Co., Ltd., Gold East (Hong Kong) Trading Co., 
Ltd., Ningbo Zhonghua Paper Co., Ltd., Ningbo Asia Pulp and Paper Co., 
Ltd., Hainan Jinhai Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd., Shandong Huatai Paper 
Industry Shareholding Co., Ltd., Chenming HK, Ltd., Jingxi Chenming 
Paper Co., Ltd., and Sinar Mas Paper (China) Investment Co. Ltd.\2\ No 
other parties requested an administrative review of these companies, or 
any other companies. On February 6, 2019, Commerce published in the 
Federal Register a notice of initiation of an administrative review of 
the countervailing duty order on coated paper from China covering the 
POR.\3\ On March 19, 2019, the petitioner timely withdrew its request 
for administrative review of all the companies named in its request.\4\
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    \1\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative 
Review, 83 FR 54912 (November 1, 2018).
    \2\ See Letter from the petitioner, ``Coated Paper Suitable for 
High-Quality Print Graphics Using Sheet-Fed Presses from the 
People's Republic of China: Request for Administrative Review,'' 
dated November 30, 2018.
    \3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 84 FR 2159 (February 6, 2019). The notice of 
initiation was delayed as a result of the partial shutdown of the 
Federal Government from December 22, 2018 through the resumption of 
normal operations on January 28, 2019.
    \4\ See Letter from the petitioner, ``Coated Paper Suitable for 
High-Quality Print Graphics Using Sheet-Fed Presses from the 
People's Republic of China: Withdrawal of Request for Administrative 
Review,'' dated March 19, 2019.
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Rescission of Review

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review, in whole or in part, if the party or parties 
that requested a review withdraws the request within 90 days of the 
publication date of the notice of initiation of the requested review. 
As noted above, all requests for review were withdrawn, and the 
petitioner withdrew their requests within 90 days of the publication 
date of the notice of initiation. No other parties requested an 
administrative review of the order. Therefore, in accordance with 1 9 
CFR 351.213(d)(1), we are rescinding this review in its entirety.

Assessment

    Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 
assess countervailing duties on all appropriate entries of coated paper 
from China. Countervailing duties shall be assessed at rates equal to 
the cash deposit of estimated countervailing duties required at the 
time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to issue 
appropriate assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of 
publication of this notice of rescission of administrative review.

Notifications

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under an 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 sanctionable 
violation.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(l) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 C 
FR 351.213(d)(4).

    Dated: April 22, 2019.
James Maeder,
Associate Deputy Assistant Director for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations performing the duties of Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2019-08574 Filed 4-26-19; 8:45 am]
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