[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 121 (Tuesday, June 23, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37626-37627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13269]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-853]


Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From Canada: Final Results 
of Sunset Review and Revocation of Order

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

SUMMARY: On May 1, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
initiated the second sunset review of the antidumping duty order on 
citric acid and certain citrate salts from Canada. Because the domestic 
interested parties withdrew their intent to participate in this sunset 
review, Commerce is revoking this antidumping duty order.

DATES: Applicable June 24, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zachary Shaykin, 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) 482-2638.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On May 29, 2009, Commerce issued an antidumping duty order on 
citric acid and certain citrate salts from Canada.\1\ On June 24, 2015, 
Commerce published a continuation of the order.\2\ On May 1, 2020, 
Commerce initiated a second sunset review of this order.\3\
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    \1\ See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Canada and 
the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders, 74 FR 25703 
(May 29, 2009).
    \2\ See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Canada and 
the People's Republic of China: Continuation of the Antidumping Duty 
Orders on Canada and the People's Republic of China, and 
Continuation of the Countervailing Duty Order on the People's 
Republic of China, 80 FR 36318 (June 24, 2015) (2015 Continuation 
Notice).
    \3\ See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 85 FR 25386 
(May 1, 2020).

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    On May 18, 2020, within the applicable deadline, Commerce received 
a Notice of Intent to Participate from Archer Daniels Midland Company, 
Cargill, Incorporated, and Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC, the 
domestic interested parties in this proceeding.\4\ However, on May 29, 
2020, the domestic interested parties withdrew their Notice of Intent 
to Participate and notified Commerce that they would not be filing a 
substantive response to the notice of initiation for the antidumping 
duty order on citric acid and certain citrate salts from Canada.
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    \4\ See 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(i).
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    In light of the withdrawal of domestic interested parties to this 
proceeding, Commerce determines that there is no domestic participation 
or adequate substantive responses from a domestic interested party in 
this sunset review, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(i)(C). On June 2, 
2020, Commerce notified the International Trade Commission, in writing, 
that we intended to issue a final determination revoking this 
antidumping duty order.\5\
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    \5\ See Commerce's Letter, ``Status Update for Sunset Review 
Initiated on May 1, 2020, for Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 
from Canada,'' dated June 2, 2020.
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Scope of the Order

    The scope of the order includes all grades and granulation sizes of 
citric acid, sodium citrate, and potassium citrate in their unblended 
forms, whether dry or in solution, and regardless of packaging type. 
The scope also includes blends of citric acid, sodium citrate, and 
potassium citrate; as well as blends with other ingredients, such as 
sugar, where the unblended form(s) of citric acid, sodium citrate, and 
potassium citrate constitute 40 percent or more, by weight, of the 
blend. The scope of the order also includes all forms of crude calcium 
citrate, including dicalcium citrate monohydrate, and tricalcium 
citrate tetrahydrate, which are intermediate products in the production 
of citric acid, sodium citrate, and potassium citrate. The scope of the 
order does not include calcium citrate that satisfies the standards set 
forth in the United States Pharmacopeia and has been mixed with a 
functional excipient, such as dextrose or starch, where the excipient 
constitutes at least 2 percent, by weight, of the product. The scope of 
the order includes the hydrous and anhydrous forms of citric acid, the 
dihydrate and anhydrous forms of sodium citrate, otherwise known as 
citric acid sodium salt, and the monohydrate and monopotassium forms of 
potassium citrate. Sodium citrate also includes both trisodium citrate 
and monosodium citrate, which are also known as citric acid trisodium 
salt and citric acid monosodium salt, respectively. Citric acid and 
sodium citrate are classifiable under 2918.14.0000 and 2918.15.1000 of 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), 
respectively. Potassium citrate and crude calcium citrate are 
classifiable under 2918.15.5000 and 3824.90.9290 of the HTSUS, 
respectively. Blends that include citric acid, sodium citrate, and 
potassium citrate are classifiable under 3824.90.9290 of the HTSUS. 
Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, our written description of the scope is dispositive.

Determination To Revoke

    Pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act) and 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(iii)(B)(3), if no domestic 
interested party files a notice of intent to participate, Commerce 
shall, within 90 days after the initiation of the review, issue a final 
determination revoking the order. Because all the domestic interested 
parties withdrew their notice of intent to participate in this sunset 
review, Commerce finds that no domestic interested party is 
participating in this sunset review. Therefore, consistent with the 
section 751(c)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(i)(2)(i), we are 
revoking the antidumping duty order on citric acid and certain citrate 
salts from Canada.\6\
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    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(i); see also 19 CFR 
351.218(e)(1)(i)(C)(1).
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Effective Date of Revocation

    The effective date of revocation is June 24, 2020, the fifth 
anniversary of the date of publication in the Federal Register of the 
most recent notice of continuation of this antidumping duty order.\7\
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    \7\ See 2015 Continuation Notice.
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    Pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(A) of the Act, Commerce intends to 
issue instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 15 days after 
the publication of this notice, to terminate the suspension of 
liquidation of the merchandise subject to this order entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, on or after June 24, 2020. Entries of subject 
merchandise prior to the effective date of revocation will continue to 
be subject to suspension of liquidation and antidumping duty deposit 
requirements. Commerce will complete any pending administrative reviews 
of this order and will conduct administrative reviews of subject 
merchandise entered prior to the effective date of revocation in 
response to appropriately filed requests for review.
    This five-year (sunset) review and notice of revocation are 
published in accordance with sections 751(c) and 777(i)(1) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(iii)(B)(3) and 19 CFR 351.222(i)(1)(i).

    Dated: June 15, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2020-13269 Filed 6-22-20; 8:45 am]
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