[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 103 (Wednesday, May 29, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24749-24751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11081]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-890]


Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the People's Republic of China: 
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final 
Determination of No Shipments in Part; 2017

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that eight of 
the 13 companies under review have not demonstrated eligibility for a 
separate rate and the other five companies under review had no 
shipments of subject merchandise during the period of review (POR) 
January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2017.

DATES: Applicable May 29, 2019.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Howard Smith, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office IV, Enforcement & Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5193.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On December 12, 2018, Commerce published its Preliminary Results of 
the review of the antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture 
(WBF) from the People's Republic of China (China) covering the period 
January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2017.\1\ On January 10, 2019, the 
American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade and Vaughan-
Bassett Furniture Company, Inc. (collectively, the petitioners) filed a 
case brief.\2\ No rebuttal briefs were filed.
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    \1\ See Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the People's Republic of 
China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2017, 83 FR 63829 (December 12, 2018) (Preliminary Results).
    \2\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the 
People's Republic of China: Petitioners' Case Brief,'' dated January 
10, 2019 (Petitioners' Case Brief).
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    Commerce exercised its discretion to toll all deadlines affected by 
the partial federal government closure from December 22, 2018, through 
the resumption of operations on January 29, 2019.\3\ The revised 
deadline for the final results of review is now May 21, 2019.
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    \3\ See Memorandum to the Record from 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, ``Deadlines 
Affected by the Partial Shutdown of the Federal Government,'' dated 
January 28, 2019. All deadlines in this segment of the proceeding 
have been extended by 40 days.
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Scope of the Order

    The product covered by the Order is wooden bedroom furniture, 
subject to certain exceptions.\4\ Imports of subject merchandise are 
classified under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS) subheadings: 9403.50.9042, 9403.50.9045, 9403.50.9080, 
9403.90.7005, 9403.90.7080, 9403.50.9041, 9403.60.8081, 9403.20.0018, 
9403.90.8041, 7009.92.1000 or 7009.92.5000. Although the HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, the 
written product description in the Order remains dispositive.\5\
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    \4\ See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Wooden Bedroom Furniture 
from the People's Republic of China, 70 FR 329 (January 4, 2005) 
(Order).
    \5\ For a complete description of the scope of the Order, see 
Memorandum, ``Issue and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of 
the 2017 Administrative Review of Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the 
People's Republic of China,'' dated concurrently with this notice 
(Issue and Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis

    In the Preliminary Results, Commerce: (1) Determined that eight 
companies, including the sole mandatory respondent, Decca Furniture 
Ltd. (Decca), did not establish their eligibility for a separate rate 
and are part of the China-wide entity; \6\ and (2) determined that five 
companies had no shipments of subject merchandise.\7\ For these final 
results of review, we have continued to treat the eight companies, 
including Decca, as part of the China-wide entity and have continued to 
find that five companies had no shipments during the POR. Because no 
party requested a review of the China-wide entity, we are not 
conducting a review of the China-wide entity.\8\ Thus, there is no 
change to the rate for the China-wide entity from the Preliminary 
Results. The existing rate for the China-wide entity is 216.01 percent.
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    \6\ The other seven companies are: (1) Dongguan Kingstone 
Furniture Co., Ltd.; Kingstone Furniture Co., Ltd.; (2) Kunshan 
Summit Furniture Co., Ltd.; (3) Qingdao Liangmu Co., Ltd.; (4) 
Restonic (Dongguan) Furniture Ltd.; Restonic Far East (Samoa) Ltd.; 
(5) Rizhao Sanmu Woodworking Co., Ltd.; (6) Techniwood Industries 
Ltd.; Ningbo Furniture Industries Ltd.; Ningbo Hengrun Furniture 
Co., Ltd.; and (7) Zhangjiagang Zheng Yan Decoration Co., Ltd. See 
Preliminary Results at 63829.
    \7\ The five companies/company groupings are: (1) Dongguan 
Sunrise Furniture Co., Ltd., Taicang Sunrise Wood Industry Co., 
Ltd., Taicang Fairmount Designs Furniture Co., Ltd., Meizhou Sunrise 
Furniture Co., Ltd.; (2) Dongguan Sunrise Furniture Co., Taicang 
Sunrise Wood Industry Co., Ltd., Shanghai Sunrise Furniture Co. 
Ltd., Fairmont Designs; (3) Eurosa (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., Eurosa 
Furniture Co., (PTE) Ltd.; (4) Shenyang Shining Dongxing Furniture 
Co., Ltd.; and (5) Yeh Brothers World Trade Inc. See Preliminary 
Results at 63829.
    \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, 65969-70 (November 
4, 2013).
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    For additional details, see the Issue and Decision Memorandum, 
which is a public document and 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, Room B8024 of the main Department of Commerce building. In 
addition, a complete version of the Issue and Decision Memorandum can 
be accessed directly on the internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The signed and the electronic versions of the Issue and 
Decision Memorandum are identical in content. The issue raised by the 
petitioners in their case brief is identified in the Appendix to this 
notice.

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.212(b), Commerce has determined, and 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance 
with the final results of this review. Commerce intends to issue 
assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the publication date of 
the final results of this review. Commerce will instruct CBP to 
liquidate any entries of subject merchandise exported during this POR 
by Decca and the other seven companies noted above which did not 
qualify for separate rate status, at the China-wide rate.
    Additionally, pursuant to Commerce's practice in non-market economy 
cases, if there are any suspended entries of subject merchandise during 
the POR under the case numbers of the five companies that claimed no 
shipments of subject merchandise during the POR, they will be 
liquidated at the China-wide rate.\9\
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    \9\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market 
Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
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 subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date in the 
Federal Register of the final results of this review, as provided by 
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For previously investigated or 
reviewed China and non-China exporters which are not under review in 
this segment of the proceeding but which received a separate rate in a 
prior segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue 
to be the existing exporter-specific rate; (2) for all China 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, which is 216.01 percent; and (3) for all non-China 
exporters of subject merchandise which have not received

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their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to 
the China exporter that supplied that non-China exporter.
    These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect 
until further notice.

Notification to Interested Parties

    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 review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of the antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (APOs) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305, which continues 
to govern business proprietary information in this segment of the 
proceeding. Timely written notification of the return/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 that is subject to sanction.
    This notice of the final results of this antidumping duty 
administrative review is issued and published in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213 and 19 CFR 
351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: May 21, 2019.
Christian Marsh,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment: Commerce Should Assign the Mandatory Respondent Decca a 
Rate Based on Total Adverse Facts Available
V. Recommendation

[FR Doc. 2019-11081 Filed 5-28-19; 8:45 am]
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