[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 215 (Wednesday, November 10, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62508-62510]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-24579]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-883]


Glycine From India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; 2018-2020

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that producers or 
exporters subject to this administrative review made sales of subject 
merchandise below normal value during the period of review October 31, 
2018, through May 31, 2020.

DATES: Applicable November 10, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Preston Cox or Yang Jin Chun, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5041 or (202) 482-5760, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 7, 2021, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of the 
2018-2020 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
glycine from India.\1\ For a complete description of the

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events that followed the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.\2\ Commerce conducted this administrative review 
in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act).
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    \1\ See Glycine from India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; 2018-2020, 86 FR 35733 (July 7, 2021) 
(Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Glycine from India: Issues and Decision 
Memorandum for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2018-2020,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 
this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the order is glycine. For a complete 
description of the scope of this administrative review, see the Issues 
and Decision Memorandum.\3\
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    \3\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at 2-3.
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs filed by 
interested parties in this review are discussed in the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public 
document and is made available to the public 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. In addition, a complete version of the Issues 
and Decision Memorandum can be found at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. A list of the topics included in the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum is attached as an appendix to this 
notice.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on a review of the record and our analysis of the comments 
received from interested parties regarding our Preliminary Results, and 
for the reasons explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, we did 
not make changes to the Preliminary Results.

Rates for Non-Selected Respondents

    The statute and Commerce's regulations do not address the 
establishment of a rate to be applied to companies not selected for 
examination when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative 
review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce 
looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for 
calculating the all-others rate in a market economy investigation, for 
guidance when calculating the rate for companies which were not 
selected for individual examination in an administrative review. For 
the respondents that were not selected for individual examination in 
this administrative review, we have assigned to them the simple average 
of the margins for Avid Organics Private Limited and Kumar Industries/
Rudraa International,\4\ consistent with the guidance in section 
735(c)(5)(B) of the Act.\5\
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    \4\ We continue to treat Kumar Industries and Rudraa 
International as a collapsed single entity for the final results of 
this review. See Preliminary Results, 86 FR at 35734, and 
accompanying PDM at 3-4.
    \5\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum for more details.
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Final Results of Review

    We determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping 
margins exist for the period October 31, 2018, through May 31, 2020.

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                                                               Estimated
                                                               weighted-
                                                                average
                      Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Avid Organics Private Limited...............................        0.00
Kumar Industries/Rudraa International.......................       13.61
Mulji Mehta Enterprises.....................................        6.81
Mulji Mehta Pharma..........................................        6.81
Paras Intermediates Private Ltd.............................        6.81
Studio Disrupt..............................................        6.81
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses the calculations performed in 
connection with the final results of an administrative review to 
parties in the proceeding within five days of any public announcement 
or, if there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of 
publication of the notice of final results in the Federal Register, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). However, as noted above, Commerce 
has made no changes to its margin calculations since the Preliminary 
Results. Commerce disclosed its preliminary margin calculations to 
parties in this proceeding, and there are no additional calculations to 
disclose.\6\
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    \6\ See Memorandums, ``Administrative Review of the Antidumping 
Duty Order on Glycine from India; 2018-2020: Preliminary Analysis 
Memorandum for Avid Organics Private Limited,'' dated June 30, 2021 
and ``Glycine from India: Preliminary Application of Adverse Facts 
Available to Kumar Industries,'' dated June 30, 2021.
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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), 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. For any individually-examined respondent whose weighted-
average dumping margin is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent), we 
will calculate importer-specific assessment rates on the basis of the 
ratio of the total amount of antidumping duties calculated for each 
importer's examined sales and the total entered value of the sales, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\7\ Where either a respondent's 
weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-
specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.\8\ 
For entries of subject merchandise during the period of review produced 
by any of these companies for which it did not know its merchandise was 
destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate such 
entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in the transaction.\9\
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    \7\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February 14, 
2012).
    \8\ Id. at 8102-03; see also 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
    \9\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this 
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the 
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will 
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties 
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within 
90 days of publication). The final results of this administrative 
review shall be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on 
entries of merchandise under review and for future cash deposits of 
estimated antidumping duties, where applicable.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication in the Federal Register of the notice of these final 
results of administrative review for all shipments of glycine from 
India entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
the date of publication as provided by section 751(a)(2) of the Act: 
(1) The cash deposit rate for companies subject to this review will be 
equal to the company-specific weighted-average dumping margin 
established in the final results of the review; (2) for merchandise 
exported by a company not covered in this review but covered in a prior 
segment of the

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proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published in the completed segment for the most recent 
period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a 
prior review, or the original investigation but the producer is, the 
cash deposit rate will be the rate established in the completed segment 
for the most recent period for the producer of the merchandise; (4) the 
cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to 
be 7.23 percent, the all-others rate established in the less-than-fair-
value investigation, adjusted for the export-subsidy rate in the 
companion countervailing duty investigation.\10\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \10\ See Glycine from India and Japan: Amended Final Affirmative 
Antidumping Duty Determination and Antidumping Duty Orders, 84 FR 
29170, 29171 (June 21, 2019).
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Notification to Importers

    This notice 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 Commerce's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 
continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of 
the proceeding. Timely written notification of the return or 
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 and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221.

    Dated: November 4, 2021.
Ryan Majerus,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the 
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix--List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Application of Total Adverse Facts Available
    Comment 2: Use of Constructed Value To Calculate Normal Value
    Comment 3: Application of Total Adverse Facts Available
    Comment 4: Selection of the Adverse Facts Available Rate
    Comment 5: Voluntary Respondent Request for Paras
V. Recommendation

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