[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 12, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62539-62542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19629]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-117]


Wood Mouldings and Millwork Products From the People's Republic 
of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 
Final Determination of No Shipments; and Partial Rescission; 2020-2022

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
Yinfeng Imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd./Fujian Province Youxi City Mangrove 
Wood Machining Co., Ltd. (Yinfeng/Mangrove), Fujian Jinquan Trade Co., 
Ltd./Fujian Province Youxi County Baiyuan Wood Machining Co., Ltd. 
(Jinquan/Baiyuan) and 29 non-individually examined exporters of wood 
mouldings and millworks products (WMMP) from the People's Republic of 
China (China) did not sell subject merchandise to the United States at 
prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), 
August 12, 2020, through January 31, 2022. Commerce further determines 
that Fujian Shunchang Shengsheng Wood Industry Limited Company 
(Shunchang Shengsheng), Xiamen Jinxi Building Material Co., Ltd. 
(Xiamen Jinxi), and Zhangzhou Green Wood Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. 
(Greenwood) made no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR and 
that Gaomi Hongtai Home Furniture Co., Ltd. has not established 
eligibility for a separate rate and, therefore, is part of the China-
wide entity. Additionally, we are rescinding this administrative review 
with respect to three companies that are not eligible for review 
because they either had no reviewable entries during the POR or are 
U.S. resellers.

DATES: Applicable September 12, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Samantha Kinney or Brian Smith, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International 
Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2285 or (202) 482-1766, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On March 7, 2023, Commerce published the Preliminary Results.\1\ 
For events subsequent to the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.\2\
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    \1\ See Wood Mouldings and Millwork Products from the People's 
Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments, 
and Rescission in Part; 2020-2022, 88 FR 14139 (March 7, 2023) 
(Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Wood Mouldings and Millwork Products from 
the People's Republic of China: Issues and Decision Memorandum for 
the Final Results of the 2020-2022 Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 
notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order 3
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    \3\ See Wood Mouldings and Millwork Products from the People's 
Republic of China: Amended Final Antidumping Duty Determination and 
Antidumping Duty Order, 86 FR 9486 (February 16, 2021) (Order).
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    The merchandise covered by the Order is wood mouldings and millwork 
products, which are primarily classifiable under subheadings 
4409.10.0500, 4409.10.1020, 4409.10.1040, 4409.10.1060, 4409.10.1080, 
4409.10.4010, 4409.10.4090, 4409.10.4500, 4409.10.5000, 4409.10.9020, 
4409.10.9040, 4409.22.0590, 4409.22.1000, 4409.22.4000, 4409.22.5000, 
4409.22.5020, 4409.22.5040, 4409.22.5060, 4409.22.5090, 4409.22.9000, 
4409.22.9020, 4409.22.9030, 4409.22.9045, 4409.22.9060, 4409.22.9090, 
4409.29.0665, 4409.29.1100, 4409.29.4100, 4409.29.5100, 4409.29.9100, 
4412.99.5115, 4412.99.9500, 4418.91.9095, and 4421.91.9780 of the of 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). WMMP may 
also enter under HTSUS numbers 4409.10.6000, 4409.10.6500, 
4409.22.6000, 4409.22.6500, 4409.29.6100, 4409.29.6600, 4412.41.0000, 
4412.42.0000, 4412.49.0000, 4412.91.5115, 4412.92.5215, 4412.99.9700, 
4418.20.4000, 4418.20.8030, 4418.20.8060, 4418.91.9195, 4418.99.9095, 
4418.99.9195, 4421.91.9880, 4421.99.9780, and 4421.99.9880. While the 
HTSUS subheading and ASTM specification are provided for convenience 
and for customs purposes, the written description of the subject 
merchandise is dispositive. A full description of the scope of the 
Order is contained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised by interested parties in briefs are addressed in 
the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues addressed in 
the Issues and Decision Memorandum is provided in Appendix I 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 verification findings, review of the record, and 
comments received from interested parties regarding our Preliminary 
Results, we made changes to the margin calculations for Jinquan/Baiyuan 
and Yinfeng/Mangrove.\4\
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    \4\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum; see also Memorandum, 
``Final Results Calculation Memorandum for Jinquan/Baiyuan,'' dated 
concurrently with this notice; and Memorandum, ``Final Results 
Calculation Memorandum for Yinfeng Imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd/Fujian 
Province Youxi City Mangrove Wood Machining Co., Ltd.,'' dated 
concurrently with this notice.
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Final Determination of No Shipments

    In the Preliminary Results, we preliminarily determined that 
Shunchang Shengsheng, Xiamen Jinxi, and Green Wood had no shipments of 
subject merchandise to the United States during the POR.\5\ No party 
filed comments with respect to this preliminary finding and we received 
no information to contradict it. Therefore, we continue to find that 
these three companies had no shipments of subject merchandise during 
the POR and will issue appropriate liquidation instructions that are 
consistent with our ``automatic assessment'' clarification for these 
final results.\6\
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    \5\ See Preliminary Results, 88 FR at 14140.
    \6\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment 
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) (Assessment 
Practice Refinement).

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Partial Rescission

    In the Preliminary Results, Commerce determined that China Cornici 
Co. Ltd. (China Cornici) had no suspended entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR. After analysis of comments received from 
interested parties and the record information, we continue to determine 
that China Cornici had no reviewable entries of subject merchandise 
during the POR.\7\ Therefore, we are rescinding this review with 
respect to China Cornici in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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    \7\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 15 for further 
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    In the Preliminary Results, Commerce determined that TL Wood 
Products Inc. (TL Wood) and Aventra, Inc. (Aventra) were not eligible 
for review pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(b)(1), because record evidence 
indicates that they are U.S. resellers. After analysis of the comments 
received from interested parties and the record information, we 
continue to determine that TL Wood and Aventra are U.S. resellers and 
not eligible for review pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(b)(1).\8\ Therefore, 
we are rescinding this review with respect to TL Wood and Aventra in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
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    \8\ Id. at Comment 16 for further discussion.
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Separate Rate Respondents

    In our Preliminary Results, we determined that 29 companies 
demonstrated their eligibility for separate rates.\9\ We received 
arguments from interested parties since the issuance of the Preliminary 
Results. After an analysis of these comments, we continue to find that 
each of these 29 companies \10\ is eligible for a separate rate, as 
indicated in the table in the ``Final Results of Review'' section of 
this notice.\11\
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    \9\ See Preliminary Results PDM at 10-13.
    \10\ See Appendix II for a list of these companies.
    \11\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comments 12 through 
19 for further discussion.
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Rate for Non-Examined Separate Rate Respondents

    The statute and our regulations do not address the establishment of 
a rate to be assigned to respondents not selected for individual 
examination when we limit our examination of companies subject to the 
administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2)(B) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Generally, we look to section 
735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the 
all-others rate in an investigation, for guidance when calculating the 
rate for respondents not individually examined in an administrative 
review. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is 
normally ``an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated 
weighted average dumping margins established for exporters and 
producers individually investigated, excluding any zero and de minimis 
margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis of facts 
available{time} .'' Accordingly, Commerce's usual practice in 
determining the rate for separate-rate respondents not selected for 
individual examination, has been to average the weighted-average 
dumping margins of the selected companies, excluding rates that are 
zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available.\12\ However, 
when the weighted-average dumping margins established for all 
individually investigated respondents are zero, de minimis, or based 
entirely on facts available, section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act permits 
Commerce to ``use any reasonable method to establish the estimated all-
others rate for exporters and producers not individually investigated, 
including averaging the estimated weighted-average dumping margins 
determined for the exporters and producers individually investigated.'' 
\13\ Because in these final results of this review we calculated a 
dumping margin of zero for both Yinfeng/Mangrove and Jinquan/Baiyuan, 
we assigned a zero dumping margin to the separate rate respondents that 
we did not individually examine consistent with Commerce's practice and 
section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act.\14\
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    \12\ See Longkou Haimeng Mach. Co. v. United States, 581 F. 
Supp. 2d 1344, 1357-60 (CIT 2008) (affirming Commerce's 
determination to assign a 4.22 percent dumping margin to the 
separate-rate respondents in a segment where the three mandatory 
respondents received dumping margins of 4.22 percent, 0.03 percent, 
and zero percent, respectively); see also Certain Kitchen Appliance 
Shelving and Racks from the People's Republic of China: Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 74 FR 36656, 36660 
(July 24, 2009).
    \13\ See Albemarle Corp. v. United States, 821 F.3d 1345 (Fed. 
Cir. 2016).
    \14\ See Preliminary Results PDM at 14; and section 735(c)(5)(B) 
of the Act.
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The China-Wide Entity

    In the Preliminary Results, Commerce found that Gaomi Hongtai did 
not establish eligibility for a separate rate because it did not file a 
timely separate rate application or a separate rate certification, as 
appropriate.\15\ After analyzing the comments received from interested 
parties and record information, we continue to determine that Gaomi 
Hongtai did not establish its eligibility for a separate rate.\16\ 
Therefore, for these final results, we determine Gaomi Hongtai to be 
part of the China-wide entity. Because no party requested a review of 
the China-wide entity, and Commerce no longer considers the China-wide 
entity as an exporter conditionally subject to administrative 
reviews,\17\ we did not conduct a review of the China-wide entity. 
Thus, the weighted-average dumping margin for the China-wide entity, as 
adjusted for export subsidies (i.e., 220.87 percent),\18\ is not 
subject to change as a result of this review.
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    \15\ See Preliminary Results PDM at 13-14.
    \16\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 14 for 
further discussion.
    \17\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in 
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty 
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity 
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963, 65969-70 (November 
4, 2013).
    \18\ See Order, 86 FR at 9488. The weighted-average dumping 
margin for the China-wide entity (231.60 percent) was adjusted for 
export subsidies to determine the cash deposit rate (220.87 percent) 
for companies in the China-wide entity.
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Final Results of Review

    For companies subject to this review which established their 
eligibility for a separate rate, Commerce determines that the following 
weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period August 12, 2020, 
through January 31, 2022:
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    \19\ See Appendix II.

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                                                        Weighted-average
                      Exporters                          dumping margin
                                                           (percent)
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Fujian Jinquan Trade Co., Ltd./Baiyuan Wood Machining               0.00
 Co., Ltd............................................
Yinfeng Imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd./Fujian Province                 0.00
 Youxi City Mangrove Wood Machining Co., Ltd.........
Non-Selected Companies Under Review Receiving a                     0.00
 Separate Rate \19\..................................
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Disclosure

    We intend to disclose the calculations performed to parties in this 
proceeding within five days of the date of publication of this notice 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).

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 these final results of review. Commerce 
intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days 
after the date of publication of these final results. 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 Yinfeng/Mangrove, Jinquan/Baiyuan and the other respondents 
which were not selected for individual examination and which qualified 
for a separate rate, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties.\20\ For entries that were 
not reported in the U.S. sales databases submitted by Yinfeng/Mangrove 
and Jinquan/Baiyuan during this review, Commerce will instruct CBP to 
liquidate such entries at the China-wide rate (i.e., 220.87 percent).
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    \20\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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    For the company identified as part of the China-wide entity, Gaomi 
Hontai, we will instruct CBP to apply the China-wide rate (i.e., 220.87 
percent) to all entries of subject merchandise during the POR which 
were exported by this company.
    For Shunchang Shengsheng, Xiamen Jinxi, and Green Wood, which 
Commerce determined had no shipments of the subject merchandise during 
the POR, any suspended entries that entered under that exporter's case 
number (i.e., at that exporter's cash deposit rate) will be liquidated 
at the rate for the China-wide entity, consistent with Commerce's 
assessment practice in non-market economy cases.\21\ For China Cornici, 
TL Wood, and Aventra, for which the administrative review is rescinded, 
antidumping duties shall be assessed at a rate equal to the cash 
deposit of estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry, 
or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i).
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    \21\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Assessment 
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) for Jinquan/Baiyuan, 
Yinfeng/Mangrove, and the other companies which were found eligible for 
a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously 
investigated or reviewed Chinese and non-Chinese exporters not listed 
above that have separate rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to 
be the exporter-specific rate published for the most recently completed 
segment of this proceeding in which they were reviewed; (3) for all 
Chinese exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be 
entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be equal to the 
weighted-average dumping margin for the China-wide entity (i.e., 220.87 
percent); and (4) for all non-Chinese exporters of subject merchandise 
which have not received their own separate rate, the cash deposit rate 
will be the rate applicable to the Chinese exporter(s) that supplied 
that non-Chinese exporter. These per-unit cash deposit requirements, 
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.

Notification to Importers Regarding the Reimbursement of Duties

    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 and/or countervailing duties 
prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during this POR. Failure 
to comply with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption 
that reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing duties has 
occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties, 
and/or increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of 
the countervailing duties.

Administrative Protective Order (APO)

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an APO 
of their responsibility concerning the return or destruction 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 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 violation which 
is subject to sanction.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these final results of administrative 
review and notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: September 5, 2023.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix I--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
    General
    Comment 1: Whether to Apply Adverse Facts Available to Yinfeng/
Mangrove
    Comment 2: Whether to Apply AFA to Jinquan/Baiyuan
    Comment 3: Market Economy Inputs
    Comment 4: Importer-Specific Assessment Rates
    Comment 5: Valuation of Water-Based Paint
    Jinquan/Baiyuan
    Comment 6: Valuation of Power Adhesive of Pre-Gelatinized Starch
    Comment 7: Valuation of Polyvinyl Alcohol
    Comment 8: Jinquan/Baiyuan's Electricity Offset
    Comment 9: Clerical Errors in Jinquan/Baiyuan's Margin 
Calculations
    Yinfeng/Mangrove
    Comment 10: Valuation of Acrylic Polymer
    Comment 11: Yinfeng/Mangrove's Radiata Pine Log Inputs
    Separate Rate Companies
    Comment 12: Whether Raoping HongRong Is Eligible for a Separate 
Rate
    Comment 13: Whether Bel Trade Is Eligible for a Separate Rate
    Comment 14: Whether to Rescind the Review for Gaomi Hongtai
    Comment 15: Whether China Cornici Is Eligible for a Separate 
Rate
    Comment 16: Whether TL Wood Is Eligible for a Separate Rate
    Comment 17: Clarification of Chen Sheng's Separate Rate
    Comment 18: Whether Shenzhen Xinjintai Industrial Co., Ltd. Is 
Eligible for a Separate Rate
    Comment 19: Whether Shaxian Hengtong Wood Industry Co., Ltd. Is 
Eligible for a Separate Rate
VI. Recommendation

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Appendix II--Non-Selected Companies Under Review Receiving a Separate 
Rate

1. Anji Huaxin Bamboo & Wood Products Co., Ltd.
2. Baixing Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd Youxi Fujian
3. Bel Trade Wood Industrial Co., Ltd Youxi Fujian
4. Fotiou Frames Limited
5. Fujian Hongjia Craft Products Co., Ltd.
6. Fujian Sanming City Donglai Wood Co., Ltd
7. Fujian Wangbin Decorative Material Co., Ltd
8. Fujian Youxi Best Arts & Crafts Co. Ltd
9. Fujian Zhangping Kimura Forestry Products Co., Ltd.
10. Homebuild Industries Co., Ltd.
11. Jiangsu Chen Sheng Forestry Development Co., Ltd.
12. Jiangsu Wenfeng Wood Co., Ltd.
13. Jim Fine Wooden Products Co., Ltd.
14. Longquan Jiefeng Trade Co., Ltd.
15. Nanping Huatai Wood & Bamboo Co., Ltd
16. Omni One, Co., Limited
17. Putian Yihong Wood Industry Co., Ltd.
18. Raoping HongRong Handicrafts, Co., Ltd.
19. Shandong Miting Household Co., Ltd.
20. Shaxian Hengtong Wood Industry Co., Ltd
21. Shaxian Shiyiwood, Ltd
22. Shenzhen Xinjintai Industrial Co., Ltd.
23. Shuyang Kevin International Co., Ltd
24. Sun Valley Shade Co., Ltd.
25. Suqian Sulu Import & Export Trading Co., Ltd
26. Tim Feng Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
27. Wuxi Boda Bamboo & Wood Industrial Co., Ltd.
28. Zhangzhou Wangjiamei Industry & Trade Co., Ltd.
29. Zhangzhou Yihong Industrial Co., Ltd.

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