[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 236 (Friday, December 9, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75594-75595]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-26787]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-523-810]


Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin From the Sultanate of Oman: 
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) has determined that 
OCTAL SAOC--FZC (OCTAL), the sole respondent subject to this 
antidumping duty (AD) administrative review, made sales of subject 
merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review (POR) 
May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021.

DATES: Applicable December 9, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Hill, 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) 482-3518.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 7, 2022, Commerce published the Preliminary Results in the 
Federal Register and invited interested parties to comment on those 
results.\1\ On July 14, 2022, DAK Americas LLC, Indorama Ventures USA, 
Inc., and Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America (collectively, the 
petitioners) filed a case brief and OCTAL filed a letter in lieu of a 
case brief.\2\ On July 22, 2022, OCTAL filed a rebuttal brief.\3\ For a 
complete description of the events that occurred since publication of 
the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\4\
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    \1\ See Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from the Sultanate of 
Oman: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 
2020-2021, 87 FR 34643 (June 7, 2022), and accompanying Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum (Preliminary Results).
    \2\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin 
from the Sultanate of Oman: Petitioners' Case Brief,'' dated July 
14, 2022; see also OCTAL's Letter, ``OCTAL's Letter in Lieu of Case 
Brief: Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Resin from the 
Sultanate of Oman,'' dated July 14, 2022.
    \3\ See OCTAL's Letter, ``OCTAL's Rebuttal Brief Certain 
Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Resin from the Sultanate of Oman,'' 
dated July 22, 2022.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the 2020-2021 Administrative Review of the 
Antidumping Duty Order on Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from the 
Sultanate of Oman,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 
this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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    Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with 
section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by this order is PET resin having an 
intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.70, but not more than 0.88, 
deciliters per gram. The merchandise subject to this Order is properly 
classified under subheadings 3907.60.00.30, 3907.61.0000, 3907.61.0010, 
3907.61.0050, 3907.69.0000, 3907.69.0010, and 3907.69.0050 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).\5\ Although 
the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, the written description of the merchandise covered by this 
Order is dispositive. For a complete description of the scope of the 
order, see Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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    \5\ On January 27, 2017, Commerce added HTSUS subheadings 
3907.61.0000 and 3907.69.0000 to the Case Reference File. See 
Memorandum, ``Request from Customs and Border Protection to Update 
the ACE Case Reference File: Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin form 
the Sultanate of Oman (A-523-810),'' dated January 31, 2017. 
Further, on February 28, 2019, Commerce added HTSUS subheadings 
3907.61.0010, 3907.61.0050, 3907.69.0010, and 3907.69.0050 to the 
Case Reference File. See Memorandum, ``Request from U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection to Update the ACE Case Reference File: 
Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin form the Sultanate of Oman (A-523-
810),'' dated February 28, 2019.
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Analysis of Comments Received

    We listed all the issues that interested parties raised in their 
case and rebuttal briefs, and which we addressed in the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum, in

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the Appendix to this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a 
public document that 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 
http://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 a review of the record and comments received from 
interested parties, we made certain changes to the Preliminary Results. 
See the Issues and Decision Memorandum for a description of those 
changes.

Final Results of Review

    We are assigning the following weighted-average dumping margin to 
the firm listed below for the period May 1, 2020, through April 30, 
2021:

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                                                               Weighted
                                                                average
                     Producers/exporters                        dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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OCTAL SAOC-FZC..............................................        3.96
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Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in 
connection with these final results to interested parties within five 
days of the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register, 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    Commerce has determined, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries in 
this review, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 
CFR 351.212(b). 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).
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), where the respondent reported the 
entered value of its U.S. sales, we calculated importer-specific ad 
valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of 
dumping calculated for the examined sales to the importer to the total 
entered value of those sales. Where the respondent did not report 
entered value, we calculated importer-specific per-unit duty assessment 
rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for 
the examined sales to the importer to the total quantity of those 
sales. To determine whether an importer-specific per-unit duty 
assessment rate was de minimis, we calculated an estimated entered 
value. 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 regard to dumping duties.\6\
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    \6\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 
Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 (February 14, 
2012).
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    For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by OCTAL 
for which it did not know that its merchandise was destined for the 
United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the 
all-others rate (i.e., 7.62 percent) \7\ if there is no rate for the 
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\8\
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    \7\ See Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from Canada, 
the People's Republic of China, India, and the Sultanate of Oman: 
Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination (Sultanate of 
Oman) and Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 27979, 27981 (May 6, 2016).
    \8\ 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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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of this 
notice in the Federal Register, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of 
the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for OCTAL will be equal to the 
weighted-average dumping margin listed in the above table; (2) for 
subject merchandise exported by producers or exporters not covered in 
this review, but covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, the cash 
deposit rate will continue to be the rate established for the producer 
or exporter in the most recently completed segment of this proceeding 
in which it participated; (3) if the exporter of the subject 
merchandise does not have a company-specific cash deposit rate, but the 
producer does, then the cash deposit rate will be the cash deposit rate 
established for the producer in the most recently completed segment of 
this proceeding; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers 
or exporters will continue to be 7.62 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the less-than-fair-value investigation. These deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.

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 and/or countervailing 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 and/or countervailing 
duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping 
duties and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the 
amount of the countervailing 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), which continues to govern 
business proprietary information in this segment of the proceeding. 
Timely written notification of return/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 this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: December 2, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Sections 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: The Appropriate Date of Sale
    Comment 2: Whether to Adjust the Reported General and 
Administrative Expenses
VI. Recommendation

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