[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 13 (Friday, January 20, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3711-3712]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01041]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-848]


Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber From Mexico: 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 
Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V. (Negromex) did not make sales of 
emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (ESB rubber) from Mexico at less than 
normal value during the period of review (POR), September 1, 2020, 
through August 31, 2021.

DATES: Applicable January 20, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Maciuba, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0413.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 29, 2022, Commerce published the Preliminary Results 
and invited interested parties to comment.\1\ 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 Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from Mexico: 
Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 
2020-2021, 87 FR 59050 (September 29, 2022) (Preliminary Results), 
and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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Scope of the Order 2
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    \2\ See Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from Brazil, the 
Republic of Korea, Mexico, and Poland: Antidumping Duty Orders, 82 
FR 42790 (September 12, 2017) (Order).
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    The merchandise covered by the Order is cold-polymerized emulsion 
styrene-butadiene rubber. For a complete description of the scope of 
the Order, see the Preliminary Results.

Final Results of Review

    We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margin 
exists for the respondent for the POR, September 1, 2020, through 
August 31, 2021:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V............................        0.00
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Disclosure

    Because Commerce received no comments on the Preliminary Results, 
we have not modified our analysis and no decision memorandum 
accompanies this Federal Register notice. We are adopting the 
Preliminary Results as the final results of this review. Consequently, 
there are no new calculations to disclose in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b) for these 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. For Negromex, because its weighted-average dumping margin 
is zero, we will instruct CBP to liquidate entries reported in this 
review without regard to antidumping duties. Consistent with Commerce's 
assessment practice, for entries of subject merchandise during the POR 
produced by Negromex for which it did not know its merchandise was 
destined for the United States, 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.\3\
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    \3\ 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 41 days after the date of publication of the final results of this 
review in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 356.8(a).

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 Negromex 
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 recently-completed segment of this 
proceeding; (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 has been covered in a prior completed 
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 19.52 percent,\4\ the all-others rate 
established in the LTFV investigation. These cash deposit requirements, 
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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    \4\ See Order, 82 FR at 42791.
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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 an 
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 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) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5) and 
19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).

    Dated: January 12, 2023.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2023-01041 Filed 1-19-23; 8:45 am]
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