[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51652-51653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18139]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-848]


Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents From Taiwan: 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 the 
sole producer and/or exporter subject to this review made sales of 
subject merchandise in the United States at less than normal value 
during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021.

DATES: Applicable August 23, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dmitry Vladimirov, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0665.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    This administrative review covers one producer and/or exporter of 
the subject merchandise, Teh Fong Ming International Co., Ltd. (TFM). 
On April 27, 2022, Commerce published the preliminary results of the 
2020-2021 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain stilbenic optical brightening agents (OBAs) from Taiwan.\1\ We 
invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results.\2\ On 
May 27, 2022, we received a case brief from TFM.\3\
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    \1\ See Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from Taiwan: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020-
2021, 87 FR 24939 (April 27, 2022) (Preliminary Results).
    \2\ Id.
    \3\ See TFM's Letter, ``Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening 
Agents (CSOBA) from Taiwan: Case Brief,'' dated May 27, 2022.
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    Commerce conducted this review in accordance with sections 
751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Order 4
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    \4\ See Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from 
Taiwan: Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value 
and Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 27419 (May 10, 2012) (Order).
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    The products covered by the Order are OBAs. A full description of 
the scope of the Order is contained in the Issues and Decision 
Memorandum.\5\
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    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening 
Agents from Taiwan: Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020-2021,'' 
dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues 
and Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised by TFM in its case brief, are addressed in the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum and are listed in the appendix to this 
notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is 
on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 
ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov. In 
addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can 
be accessed directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on our review of the record and TFM's comments, we made a 
change to the preliminary margin calculation for the company. For a 
discussion of this change, see the ``Changes Since the Preliminary 
Results'' section of the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Final Results of Review

    We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margin 
exists for the period May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Producer exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd........................       11.92
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Disclosure

    We intend to disclose the calculations performed for TFM in these 
final results to parties in this proceeding within five days after the 
date of any public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, 
within five days after the date of publication of these final results 
in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries 
covered by this review, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Commerce intends to issue assessment 
instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date of 
publication of these final results 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).
    For TFM, we calculated 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 those sales in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\6\ Where an importer-specific 
assessment rate is de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), the 
entries by that importer will be liquidated without reference to 
antidumping duties.
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    \6\ In these final results, Commerce applied the assessment rate 
calculation method adopted in Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation 
of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in 
Certain Antidumping Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 
(February 14, 2012).
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    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by TFM 
for which it did not know that its merchandise was destined for the 
United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at 
the all-others rate (i.e., 6.19 percent) \7\ if there is no rate for 
the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\8\
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    \7\ See Order, 77 FR at 27420.
    \8\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication in the Federal Register of this notice for all shipments of 
OBAs from Taiwan entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption 
on or after the date of publication as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) 
of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for TFM will be 11.92 percent, 
the weighted-average dumping margin established in these final results; 
(2) for previously investigated companies not subject to this review, 
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate 
published in the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in 
which the company participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered in this review, a prior review, or the original less-than-fair-
value (LTFV) investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate 
will be the rate established in the most recent completed segment for 
the producer of the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all 
other producers or exporters will continue to be 6.19 percent, the all-
others rate established in the LTFV investigation.\9\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \9\ See Order, 77 FR at 27420.
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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 doubled antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under the 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/destruction 
of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order is hereby 
requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms of an APO 
is a violation which is subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: August 17, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
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. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Assessment Rates for Export Price Transactions
    Comment 2: Date of Sale for Consignment Transactions
VI. Recommendation

[FR Doc. 2022-18139 Filed 8-22-22; 8:45 am]
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