[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29170-29172]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13362]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-883, A-588-878]


Glycine From India and Japan: Amended Final Affirmative 
Antidumping Duty Determination and Antidumping Duty Orders

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

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the Department of 
Commerce (Commerce) and the International Trade Commission (ITC), 
Commerce is issuing antidumping duty orders on glycine from India and 
Japan. In addition, Commerce is amending its final affirmative 
determination on glycine from India.

DATES: Applicable June 21, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edythe Artman at (202) 482-3931 or 
Kent Boydston at (202) 482-5649 (India), or John McGowan at (202) 482-
3019 (Japan), AD/CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    In accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.210(c), Commerce 
published its affirmative final determinations in the less-than-fair-
value investigations of glycine from India and Japan on May 1, 2019.\1\ 
On June 14, 2019, the ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative 
determinations that an industry in the United States is materially 
injured within the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, by 
reason of the less-than-fair-value imports of glycine from India and 
Japan.\2\
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    \1\ See Glycine from India: Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value, 84 FR 18487 (May 1, 2019) (India Final 
Determination); see also Glycine from Japan: Final Determination of 
Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 84 FR 18484 (May 1, 2019).
    \2\ See section 735(d) of the Act (requiring notification); see 
also ITC Letter dated June 14, 2019 (ITC Letter).
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Scope of the Orders

    The merchandise covered by these orders is glycine from India and 
Japan. For a complete description of the scope of the orders, see the 
Appendix to this notice.

Amendment to Final Determination

    A ministerial error is defined as an error in addition, 
subtraction, or other arithmetic function, clerical error resulting 
from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the like, and any other 
similar type of unintentional error which the Secretary considers 
ministerial.\3\
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    \3\ See section 735(e) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f).
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    Pursuant to sections 735(e) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(e) and 
(f), Commerce is amending the India Final Determination to reflect the 
correction of two ministerial errors in the final estimated weighted-
average dumping margin calculated for Kumar Industries, India (Kumar). 
In addition, because Kumar's estimated weighted-average dumping margin 
is the basis for the estimated weighted-average dumping margin 
determined for all other Indian producers and exporters of subject 
merchandise, we also are revising the ``all-others'' rate in the India 
Final

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Determination.\4\ The amended estimated weighted-average dumping 
margins are listed in the Suspension of Liquidation section below.
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    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of 
Glycine from India: Allegations of Ministerial Errors in the Final 
Determination,'' dated May 29, 2019 (Ministerial Error Memorandum).
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Antidumping Duty Orders

    On June 14, 2019, in accordance with sections 735(b)(1)(A)(i) and 
735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its final 
determinations that an industry in the United States is materially 
injured by reason of imports of glycine from India and Japan.\5\ 
Therefore, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, we 
are issuing these antidumping duty orders. Because the ITC determined 
that imports of glycine from India and Japan are materially injuring a 
U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from India and 
Japan, entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are subject 
to the assessment of antidumping duties.
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    \5\ See ITC Letter.
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    As a result of the ITC's final affirmative determinations, in 
accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further instruction 
by Commerce, antidumping duties equal to the amount by which the normal 
value of the merchandise exceeds the export price or constructed export 
price of the merchandise, for all relevant entries of glycine from 
India and Japan. In the case of entries from India, the antidumping 
duties will be adjusted for export subsidies found in the final 
determination of the companion countervailing duty investigation.\6\ 
Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of glycine 
from India and Japan entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after October 31, 2018, the date of publication of 
the Preliminary Determinations, \7\ but will not include entries 
occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and 
before publication in the Federal Register of the ITC's injury 
determination, as further described below.
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    \6\ See India Final Determination, 84 FR at 18488.
    \7\ See Glycine from India: Preliminary Affirmative 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of 
Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures, 83 FR 
54713 (October 31, 2018); Glycine from Japan: Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of 
Final Determination, 83 FR 54718 (October 31, 2018) (collectively, 
Preliminary Determinations).
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Suspension of Liquidation

    In accordance with section 736 of the Act, Commerce will instruct 
CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of subject merchandise 
(i.e., glycine from India and Japan), effective the date of publication 
of the ITC final determination in the Federal Register, and to assess, 
upon further instruction by Commerce pursuant to section 736(a)(1) of 
the Act, antidumping duties for each entry of the subject merchandise 
equal to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise 
exceeds the export price or constructed export price of the 
merchandise, adjusted by the amount of export subsidies, where 
appropriate. We intend to instruct CBP to require, at the same time as 
importers would normally deposit estimated import duties on this 
merchandise, cash deposits for each entry of subject merchandise equal 
to the rates noted below. These instructions suspending liquidation 
will remain in effect until further notice. The all-others rates apply 
to all other producers or exporters not specifically listed.

Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins

    The estimated weighted-average dumping margins for each antidumping 
duty order are as follows:

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                                                      Cash deposit rate
                                Estimated weighted-     (adjusted for
       Exporter/producer          average dumping      subsidy offsets)
                                  margin (percent)        (percent)
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                                  India
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Kumar Industries, India.......                13.61                 6.62
Paras Intermediates Private                   10.86             \8\ 7.83
 Limited......................
All Others....................                12.24             \9\ 7.23
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                                  Japan
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Yuki Gosei Kogyo Co., Ltd.....                53.66                   NA
Showa Denko K.K...............                86.22                   NA
All Others....................                53.66                   NA
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NA = Not Applicable.

Provisional Measures

    Section 733(d) of the Act 8 9 states that suspension of 
liquidation pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may 
not remain in effect for more than six months. Commerce published its 
affirmative Preliminary Determinations on October 31, 2018. Therefore, 
the six-month period beginning on the date of publication of the 
Preliminary Determinations ended on April 28, 2019. Pursuant to section 
737(b) of the Act, the collection of cash deposits at the rates listed 
above will begin on the date of publication of the ITC's final injury 
determination in the Federal Register.
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    \8\ See India Final Determination, 84 FR at 18488.
    \9\ Id.; see Ministerial Error Memorandum at 4.
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    Therefore, in accordance with section 733(d) of the Act, Commerce 
instructed CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to 
liquidate, without regard to countervailing duties, unliquidated 
entries of glycine from India and Japan entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption after April 28, 2019, the date on which the 
provisional measures expired, through the day preceding the date of 
publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury determinations in the 
Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation will resume on the date of 
publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury determinations in the 
Federal Register.

Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty orders with respect to 
glycine from India and Japan pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. 
Interested parties can find a list of antidumping

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duty orders currently in effect at http://enforcement.trade.gov/stats/iastats1.html.
    These orders are published in accordance with section and 736(a) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b).

    Dated: June 18, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

Scope of the Orders

    The merchandise covered by these orders is glycine at any purity 
level or grade. This includes glycine of all purity levels, which 
covers all forms of crude or technical glycine including, but not 
limited to, sodium glycinate, glycine slurry and any other forms of 
amino acetic acid or glycine. Subject merchandise also includes 
glycine and precursors of dried crystalline glycine that are 
processed in a third country, including, but not limited to, 
refining or any other processing that would not otherwise remove the 
merchandise from the scope of these orders if performed in the 
country of manufacture of the in-scope glycine or precursors of 
dried crystalline glycine. Glycine has the Chemical Abstracts 
Service (CAS) registry number of 56-40-6. Glycine and glycine slurry 
are classified under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS) subheading 2922.49.43.00. Sodium glycinate is classified in 
the HTSUS under 2922.49.80.00. While the HTSUS subheadings and CAS 
registry number are provided for convenience and customs purposes, 
the written description of the scope of these orders is dispositive.

[FR Doc. 2019-13362 Filed 6-20-19; 8:45 am]
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