[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 135 (Monday, July 17, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45390-45392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-15058]


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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; 2021-2022

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


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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that the 
sole producer and/or exporter subject to this review, Teh Fong Ming 
International Co., Ltd. (TFM), made sales of subject merchandise in the 
United States at less than normal value during the period of review 
(POR), May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022.

DATES: Applicable July 17, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla, 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) 482-3477.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On May 19, 2023, Commerce published the preliminary results of the 
2021-2022 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\ No 
interested parties submitted comments. Commerce conducted this review 
in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act).
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    \1\ See Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from Taiwan: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-
2022, 88 FR 32194 (May 19, 2023) (Preliminary Results), and 
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ See Preliminary Results, 88 FR at 32194.
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Scope of the Order 3
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    \3\ 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 provided in the Preliminary Results.\4\
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    \4\ See Preliminary Results PDM at 2.
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Final Results of Review

    We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margin 
exists for the period May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd........................        3.89
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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)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b), 
Commerce has determined, 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 
intend to instruct CBP to apply the importer-specific ad valorem 
assessment rates we calculated for the Preliminary Results 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 same 
sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\5\ If the importer-
specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, then Commerce will 
instruct CBP to liquidate such entries without regard to antidumping 
duties.
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    \5\ See 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) \6\ if there is no rate for 
the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
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    \6\ See Order, 77 FR at 27420.
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    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).

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 3.89 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.\7\ These cash 
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \7\ Id.
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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

    Commerce is issuing and publishing the final results of this review 
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 
CFR 351.221(b)(5).


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    Dated: July 11, 2023.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2023-15058 Filed 7-14-23; 8:45 am]
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