[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 149 (Friday, August 2, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37836-37837]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16551]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-853]


Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products From Taiwan: 
Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances 
Review

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

SUMMARY: On June 10, 2019, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
published the preliminary results of the changed circumstances review 
of the antidumping duty order on certain crystalline silicon 
photovoltaic products (solar products) from Taiwan. For these final 
results, Commerce continues to find that United Renewable Energy Co., 
Ltd. (URE) is the successor-in-interest to Gintech Energy Corporation 
(Gintech), Neo Solar Power Corporation (Neo Solar), and Solartech 
Energy Corporation (Solartech).

DATES: Applicable August 2, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Galantucci, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2923.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 18, 2015, Commerce published in the Federal Register an 
antidumping duty order on solar

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products from Taiwan.\1\ On February 1, 2019, Commerce received a 
request on behalf of URE for an expedited changed circumstances review 
(CCR) to determine whether URE is the successor-in-interest to Gintech, 
Neo Solar, and Solartech.\2\ On March 26, 2019, we initiated a CCR and 
published a notice in the Federal Register.\3\
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    \1\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from 
Taiwan: Antidumping Duty Order, 80 FR 8596 (February 18, 2015) 
(Order).
    \2\ See URE's Letter, ``Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic 
Products from Taiwan: Request for Changed Circumstances Review and 
Successor-in-Interest Determination,'' dated February 1, 2019.
    \3\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from 
Taiwan: Initiation of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 
84 FR 11284 (March 26, 2019).
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    On June 10, 2019, we published the Preliminary Results of this 
review, in which we determined that URE is the successor-in-interest to 
Gintech, Neo Solar, and Solartech.\4\ In the Preliminary Results, we 
provided all interested parties with an opportunity to comment and 
request a public hearing regarding our preliminary finding.\5\ We 
received no comments or requests for a public hearing from interested 
parties.
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    \4\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from 
Taiwan: Notice of Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed 
Circumstances Review, 84 FR 26816 (June 10, 2019) (Preliminary 
Results).
    \5\ Id. at 26817.
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the Order is crystalline silicon 
photovoltaic cells, and modules, laminates and/or panels consisting of 
crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not partially or 
fully assembled into other products, including building integrated 
materials.
    Merchandise covered by the order is currently classified in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under 
subheadings 8501.61.0000, 8507.20.8030, 8507.20.8040, 8507.20.8060, 
8507.20.8090, 8541.40.6020, 8541.40.6030, and 8501.31.8000. These HTSUS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes; the 
written description of the scope of the order is dispositive. For a 
full description of the scope of the order, please refer to the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\6\
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    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review: 
Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from Taiwan,'' 
dated June 4, 2019 (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review

    For the reasons stated in the Preliminary Results, and because we 
received no comments from interested parties to the contrary, Commerce 
continues to find that URE is the successor-in-interest to Gintech, Neo 
Solar, and Solartech.\7\ As a result of this determination and 
consistent with established practice, we find that URE should receive 
the cash deposit rate previously assigned to Gintech, Neo Solar, and 
Solartech in the most recently completed review of the Order. The cash 
deposit rate assigned to Gintech, Neo Solar, and Solartech in the most 
recently completed review was 1.33 percent.\8\ Consequently, Commerce 
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend liquidation 
of all shipments of subject merchandise produced or exported by URE and 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the 
publication date of this notice in the Federal Register at 1.33 
percent, which is the current antidumping duty cash deposit rate for 
Gintech, Neo Solar, and Solartech. This cash deposit requirement shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \7\ See Preliminary Results, 84 FR at 26817.
    \8\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from 
Taiwan: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 
2016-2017, 83 FR 30401, 30402 (June 28, 2018).
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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 this determination and publishing these final 
results and notice in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) 
and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.216 and 
351.221(c)(3).

    Dated: July 19, 2019.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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