[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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