[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 115 (Friday, June 14, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27764-27766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-12608]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-010]
Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products From the
People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2017-2018
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On March 6, 2019, the Department of Commerce (Commerce)
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published its Preliminary Results for the February 1, 2017, through
January 31, 2018, administrative review of the antidumping duty order
on Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products (solar products)
from the People's Republic of China (China). Although invited to do so,
interested parties did not comment on our Preliminary Results. We have
adopted the Preliminary Results as the final results.
DATES: Applicable June 14, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Pedersen, AD/CVD Operations,
Office IV, Enforcement & Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2769.
Background
On March 6, 2019, Commerce published its Preliminary Results of the
review of the antidumping duty order on solar products from China for
Sol-lite Manufacturing Company Limited (Sol-lite), Ri Shen Products
(SZ) (Ri Shen), and Shenzhen Sungold Solar Co., Ltd. (Sungold) covering
the period February 1, 2017, through January 31, 2018 (the period of
review (POR)).\1\ No parties commented on the Preliminary Results.
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\1\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from
the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018, 84 FR 8081 (March 6, 2019)
(Preliminary Results) and accompanying Preliminary Decision
Memorandum (PDM).
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Scope of the Order
The product covered by the Order is certain crystalline silicon
photovoltaic products. Commerce preliminarily revised the scope to
include the harmonized tariff schedule numbers under which subject
merchandise is entered.\2\ No parties commented on this revision.
Hence, we have adopted this revision in these final results. Under this
revision, imports of subject merchandise are classified under the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings:
8501.61.0000, 8507.20.8030, 8507.20.8040, 8507.20.8060, 8507.20.8090,
8541.40.60.15, 8541.40.6020, 8541.40.6030, 8541.40.60.35. Although the
HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes,
the written product description in the Order remains dispositive.\3\
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\2\ See Preliminary Results, 84 FR at 8081 and the PDM at 3,
n.15 (discussing the revisions to the HTSUS numbers in the scope).
\3\ See PDM for a complete description of the scope of the
Order.
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Analysis
As noted above, no parties commented on the Preliminary Results.
Therefore, we are adopting the decisions in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum for these final results of review. In the Preliminary
Results, Commerce: (1) Determined that all three companies under
review--Sol-lite, Ri Shen, and Sungold--did not establish their
eligibility for a separate rate and are part of the China-wide
entity.\4\ For these final results of review, we have continued to
treat Sol-lite, Ri Shen, and Sungold as part of the China-wide entity.
Because no party requested a review of the China-wide entity, we are
not conducting a review of the China-wide entity.\5\ Thus, there is no
change to the rate for the China-wide entity. The existing rate for the
China-wide entity is 151.98 percent.
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\4\ See Preliminary Results, 84 FR 8081.
\5\ 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 Preliminary 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 Preliminary Results 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 Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical in
content.
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) 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 intends to instruct CBP to liquidate
any entries of subject merchandise exported during this POR by Sol-
lite, Ri Shen, and Sungold at the China-wide rate.
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 151.98 percent; and (3) for all non-China
exporters of subject merchandise which have not received their own
rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the Chinese
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
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with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213 and 19
CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: June 6, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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