[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 125 (Friday, June 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42298-42300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13964]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-533-884]


Glycine From India: Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review and Rescission, in Part; 2021

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds 
that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and 
exporters of glycine from India during the period of review, January 1, 
2021, through December 31, 2021. Interested parties are invited to 
comment on these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable June 30, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scarlet Jaldin or Harrison Tanchuck, 
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) 482-4275 or (202) 
482-7421, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On June 21, 2019, Commerce published the countervailing duty order 
on glycine from India.\1\ On June 3, 2022, Commerce published in the 
Federal Register a notice of initiation of an administrative review of 
the Order.\2\ Between June 27 and 30, 2022, Commerce received timely 
requests for administrative reviews of several companies from various 
interested parties, in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act) and 19 CFR 351.213(b)(1).\3\ On 
August 9, 2022, based on these timely requests for review, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce published in the 
Federal Register a notice of initiation of the Order covering five 
producers/exporters.\4\ On September 23, 2022, Paras withdrew its 
request for review of itself.\5\ On November 7, 2022, Avid timely 
withdrew its request for review of itself \6\ and the petitioner timely 
withdrew its request for an administrative review of Avid.\7\ On 
November 9, 2022, Commerce notified interested parties of its intent to 
rescind the review, in part, with respect to Avid.\8\ On February 27, 
2023, Commerce extended the time period for issuing these preliminary 
results by 119 days, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act, to no later than June 29, 2023.\9\
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    \1\ See Glycine from India and the People's Republic of China: 
Countervailing Duty Orders, 84 FR 29173 (June 21, 2019) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 48459, 48463 (August 9, 2022) 
(Initiation Notice).
    \3\ See Kumar Industries, India's (Kumar) Letter, ``Request for 
Administrative Review of Countervailing Duty,'' dated June 27, 2022; 
see also Paras Intermediates Private Limited's (Paras) Letter, 
``Request for Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,'' dated 
June 28, 2022; Avid Organics Private Limited's (Avid) Letter, 
``Request for Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,'' dated 
June 28, 2022; and GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc.'s (the petitioner) 
Letter, ``Request for Administrative Review,'' dated June 30, 2022.
    \4\ See Initiation Notice, 87 FR at 48463.
    \5\ See Paras' Letter, ``Withdrawal of Review Request for 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,'' dated September 23, 
2022 (Paras Withdrawal of Review Request).
    \6\ See Avid's Letter, ``Withdrawal of Review Request for 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,'' dated November 7, 2022 
(Avid Withdrawal of Review Request).
    \7\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Partial Withdrawal of Request for 
Administrative Review,'' dated November 7, 2022 (Petitioner 
Withdrawal of Review Request).
    \8\ See Memorandum, ``Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In 
Part,'' dated November 9, 2022.
    \9\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review,'' dated 
February 27, 2023.
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    For a complete description of the events that followed the 
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\10\ 
A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 
included as an appendix to this notice. The Preliminary 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 Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
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    \10\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Administrative Review of the Countervailing Duty 
Order on Glycine from India; 2021,'' dated concurrently with, and 
hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review, in whole or in part, if the parties that 
requested a review withdraw the request within 90 days of the date of 
publication of the notice of initiation. Commerce received timely-filed 
letters withdrawing the requests from Avid, Paras, and the petitioner, 
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1).\11\ Because the withdrawal letters 
were timely filed, and no other party requested a review of the 
companies listed in the withdrawal letters, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.213(d)(1), Commerce is rescinding this review of the Order with 
respect to Avid and Paras.
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    \11\ See Avid Withdrawal of Review Request; see also Petitioner 
Withdrawal of Review Request; and Paras Withdrawal of Review 
Request.
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the Order is glycine from India. For a 
complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(A) of the Act. For each of the subsidy programs found to be 
countervailable, we preliminarily find that there is a subsidy, i.e., a 
financial contribution

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that gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, and that the subsidy is 
specific.\12\ For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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    \12\ See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act regarding 
financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) of the Act regarding 
benefit; and section 771(5A) of the Act regarding specificity.
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Companies Not Selected for Individual Review

    There are two companies for which a review was requested and not 
rescinded, and which were not selected as mandatory respondents or 
found to be cross-owned with the mandatory respondent (Kumar): Rudraa 
International; and Rexisize Rasayan Industries. The Act and Commerce's 
regulations do not directly address the subsidy rate to be applied to 
companies not selected for individual examination where Commerce limits 
its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 
777A(e)(2) of the Act. However, Commerce normally determines the rates 
for non-selected companies in reviews in a manner that is consistent 
with section 705(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for 
calculating the all-others rate in an investigation.
    Section 777A(e)(2) of the Act provides that ``the individual 
countervailable subsidy rates determined under subparagraph (A) shall 
be used to determine the all-others rate under section 705(c)(5) {of 
the Act{time} .'' Section 705(c)(5)(A) of the Act articulates a 
preference that we are not to calculate an all-others rate using rates 
which are zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available. 
Accordingly, Commerce's usual practice in determining the rate for non-
examined respondents has been to weight-average the net subsidy rates 
for the selected companies, excluding rates that are zero, de minimis, 
or based entirely on facts available.\13\
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    \13\ See, e.g., Certain Pasta from Italy: Final Results of the 
13th (2008) Countervailing Duty Administrative Review, 75 FR 37387 
(June 29, 2010).
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    For these preliminary results, Kumar is the sole mandatory 
respondent with a calculated rate above de minimis that is not based 
entirely on facts available. Therefore, we are preliminarily assigning 
Kumar's net countervailable subsidy rate to the two remaining, non-
examined companies, for which an individual rate was not calculated: 
Rudraa International; and Rexisize Rasayan Industries.

Preliminary Results of Review

    For the period January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2021, we 
preliminarily find that the following net subsidy rates exist:
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    \14\ In this review, Commerce found the following company to be 
cross-owned with Kumar: Advance Chemical Corporation. See 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum; see also Memorandum, ``Preliminary 
Results Calculation Memorandum for Kumar Industries, India,'' dated 
concurrently with this notice.

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                                                           Subsidy rate
                         Company                            (percent ad
                                                             valorem)
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Kumar Industries, India \14\............................            6.03
Rudraa International....................................            6.03
Rexisize Rasayan Industries.............................            6.03
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Assessment Rate

    Consistent with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(2), upon issuance of the final results, Commerce shall 
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 
countervailing duties on all appropriate entries covered by this 
review. For companies for which this review is rescinded, Commerce will 
instruct CBP to assess countervailing duties on all appropriate entries 
at a rate equal to the cash deposit of estimated countervailing duties 
required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for 
consumption during period January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2021, 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). For the companies remaining 
in the review, 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

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce intends, upon 
publication of the final results, to instruct CBP to collect cash 
deposits of estimated countervailing duties in the amounts shown for 
each of the respondents listed above on shipments of subject 
merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
after the date of publication of the final results of this 
administrative review. For all non-reviewed firms, Commerce will 
instruct CBP to continue to collect cash deposits of estimated 
countervailing duties at the all-others rate or the most recent 
company-specific rate applicable to the company, as appropriate. These 
cash deposit instructions, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.

Disclosure

    Commerce intends to disclose to parties to this proceeding the 
calculations performed in reaching the preliminary results within five 
days of the date of publication of these preliminary results, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

Public Comment

    Case briefs or other written documents may be submitted to the 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance no later than 30 
days after the date of publication of this Federal Register notice. 
Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in case briefs, may be 
submitted within seven days after the time limit for filing case 
briefs.\15\ Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 19 CFR 351.309(d)(2), 
parties which submit arguments are requested to submit with each 
argument: (1) a statement of the issue; (2) a brief summary of the 
argument; and (3) a table of authorities.\16\ Note that Commerce has 
temporarily modified certain of its requirements for serving documents 
containing business proprietary information, until further notice.\17\
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    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii) and 351.309(d)(1); see also 19 
CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements).
    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 351.309(d)(2).
    \17\ See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements 
Due to COVID-19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 
10, 2020).
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    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to 
request a hearing, limited to issues raised in the case and rebuttal 
briefs, must do so within 30 days of publication of this notice by 
submitting a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 
and Compliance.\18\ Hearing requests should contain: (1) the party's 
name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants and 
whether a participant is a foreign national; and (3) a list of the 
issues to be discussed. If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce 
intends to hold the hearing at a time and date to be determined. 
Parties should confirm by telephone the date and time of the hearing 
two days before the scheduled date.
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    \18\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
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    Parties are reminded that all briefs and hearing requests must be 
filed electronically using ACCESS and that electronically filed 
documents must be

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received successfully in their entirety by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on the 
due date.
    Unless the deadline is extended, Commerce intends to issue the 
final results of this administrative review, including the results of 
our analysis of the issues raised by the parties in their comments, no 
later than 120 days after the date of publication of this notice, 
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).

Notification to Interested Parties

    These preliminary results and notice are issued and published in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.213 and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: June 26, 2023.
James Maeder,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Period of Review
IV. Scope of the Order
V. Rescission of Administrative Review, In Part
VI. Rate for Non-Examined Companies
VII. Subsidies Valuation Information
VIII. Benchmarks and Interest Rates
IX. Analysis of Programs
X. Recommendation

[FR Doc. 2023-13964 Filed 6-29-23; 8:45 am]
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