[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 141 (Monday, July 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44085-44086]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15847]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-833]


Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From Thailand: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020-2021

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
sales of citric acid and certain citrate salts (citric acid) from 
Thailand have not been made at less than normal value by COFCO 
Biochemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (COFCO) or Sunshine Biotech 
International Co., Ltd. (Sunshine) during the period of review (POR), 
July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.

DATES: Applicable July 25, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joy Zhang or Patrick Barton, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1168 or (202) 482-0012, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 1, 2021, Commerce published the Preliminary Results.\1\ We 
invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results.\2\ 
This review covers two respondents: COFCO and Sunshine. No interested 
party submitted comments on the Preliminary Results. Accordingly, the 
final results remain unchanged from the Preliminary Results. Commerce 
conducted this review in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Thailand: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020-
2021, 87 FR 20820 (April 8, 2022) (Preliminary Results), and 
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
    \2\ See Preliminary Results, 87 FR at 20821.
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Scope of the Order \3\
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    \3\ See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Belgium, 
Colombia, and Thailand: Antidumping Duty Orders, 83 FR 35214, 35215 
(July 25, 2018) (Order).
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    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 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 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.
    The scope 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.
    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, if included in a mixture or blend, 
3824.99.9295 of the HTSUS. Blends that include citric acid, sodium 
citrate, and potassium citrate are classifiable under 3824.99.9295 of 
the HTSUS. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience 
and customs purposes, the written description of the merchandise is 
dispositive.

Final Results of the Review

    We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margins 
exist for the respondents for the POR, July 1, 2020, through June 30, 
2021:

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                                                             Weighted-
                                                              average
                  Exporter or producer                    dumping margin
                                                             (percent)
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COFCO Biochemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd...................            0.00
Sunshine Biotech International Co., Ltd.................            0.00
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    As noted above, Commerce received no comments on its Preliminary 
Results. As a result, we have not modified our analysis, and will not 
issue a decision memorandum to accompany this Federal Register notice. 
Further, because we have not changed our calculations since the 
Preliminary Results, there are no new calculations to disclose in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b) for these final results. We are 
adopting the Preliminary Results as the final results.

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce will determine, 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. We will calculate importer-specific assessment rates on 
the basis of the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for 
each importer's examined sales and the total entered value of the 
importer's sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
    Where the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is either 
zero or de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c), or an 
importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to 
antidumping duties.
    Commerce's ``reseller policy'' will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by companies included in these 
final results of review for which the reviewed companies did not know 
that the merchandise they sold to the intermediary (e.g., a reseller, 
trading company, or exporter) was destined for the United States. In 
such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at 
the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in the transaction.\4\
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    \4\ For a full discussion of this practice, 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).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements for estimated antidumping 
duties will be effective for all shipments of subject merchandise 
entered, or

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withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication 
date of the final results of this administrative review, as provided by 
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the 
companies listed above will be equal to each company's weighted-average 
dumping margin established in the final results of this administrative 
review (except if that rate is de minimis, in which situation the cash 
deposit rate will be zero); (2) for merchandise exported by a producer 
or exporter not covered in this review but covered in a prior completed 
segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be 
the company-specific rate published 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 has been covered in a prior 
complete segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will be the 
company-specific rate established 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 11.25 percent,\5\ the all-
others rate established in the less-than-fair-value investigation. 
These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect 
until further notice.
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    \5\ See Order.
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Notification to Importers

    This notice also 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 disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). 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 final results of administrative 
review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 
19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: July 15, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2022-15847 Filed 7-22-22; 8:45 am]
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