[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17817-17819]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05169]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-016]


Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires From the People's 
Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2021-2022

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that the 
exporters of passenger vehicle and light truck tires (passenger tires) 
from the People's Republic of China (China) listed in the ``Final 
Results of Review'' section below, sold subject merchandise at less 
than normal value during the period of review (POR), August 1, 2021, 
through July 31, 2022. Further, we also determine that certain 
companies under review had no shipments of subject merchandise to the 
United States during the POR.

DATES: Applicable March 12, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caroline Carroll or Terre Keaton 
Stefanova, AD/CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4948 
or (202) 482-1280, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 7, 2023, we published the Preliminary Results and 
invited interested parties to comment.\1\ On December 4, 2023, Commerce 
extended the deadline of the final results of this administrative 
review to March 5, 2024, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2).\2\ 
For details regarding the events that occurred since the Preliminary 
Results, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\3\
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    \1\ See Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the 
People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, Partial Rescission, and Preliminary 
Determination of No Shipments; 2021-2022, 88 FR 61506 (September 7, 
2023) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of 
2021-2022 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated December 
4, 2023.
    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of 
Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the People's 
Republic of China and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2021-
2022,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice.
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Scope of the Order 4
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    \4\ See Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the 
People's Republic of China: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping 
Duty Determination and Antidumping Duty Order; and Amended Final 
Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Countervailing 
Duty Order, 80 FR 47902 (August 10, 2015) (Order).
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    The products covered by this Order are certain passenger vehicle 
and light truck tires from China. For a complete description of the 
scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Results.

Analysis of Comments Received

    We addressed all the issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs 
in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues that 
parties raised is provided in Appendix I of 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 comments received from interested parties regarding the 
Preliminary Results, we have made certain changes to the margin 
calculations for Giti and Sumitomo.\5\ For a discussion of these 
changes, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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    \5\ Giti consists of the following companies: Giti Tire Global 
Trading Pte. Ltd.; Giti Radial Tire (Anhui) Company Ltd.; Giti Tire 
(Fujian) Company Ltd.; Giti Tire (Hualin) Company, Ltd.; Giti Tire 
Greatwall Company. Ltd.; Giti Tire (Anhui) Company; Giti Tire 
(Yinchuan) Company Ltd.; and Giti Tire (Chongqing) Company Ltd. 
(collectively, Giti). Sumitomo consists of the following companies: 
Sumitomo Rubber (Hunan) Co., Ltd.; Sumitomo Rubber (Changshu) Co., 
Ltd. (SRC); and Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (collectively, 
Sumitomo).

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Final Determination of No Shipments

    In the Preliminary Results, we determined that the following 
companies did not have shipments of subject merchandise during the POR: 
(1) Crown International Corporation; (2) Prinx Chengshan (Shandong) 
Tire Company, Ltd.; (3) Qingdao Nama Industrial Co., Ltd.; (4) Shandong 
Changfeng Tyres Co., Ltd.; (5) Shandong Duratti Rubber Corporation Co., 
Ltd.; (6) Shandong Transtone Tyre Co., Ltd.; (7) Shandong Yongsheng 
Rubber Group Co., Ltd.; and (8) Triangle Tyre Co., Ltd. (Triangle 
Tyre).\6\ We received comments from the petitioner \7\ and Triangle 
Tyre regarding the no-shipments claim for Triangle Tyre.\8\ However, we 
continue to find that each of the above-listed companies had no 
shipments of subject merchandise during the POR and we will issue 
appropriate liquidation instructions consistent with our ``automatic 
assessment'' clarification for these final results.\9\
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    \6\ See Preliminary Results, 88 FR at 61507.
    \7\ The petitioner is the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, 
Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers 
International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC.
    \8\ See the Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 7 for a 
discussion of the comments received regarding Triangle Tyre's no-
shipment claim.
    \9\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment 
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) (Non-Market 
Economy Assessment Notice).
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Separate Rates

    In the Preliminary Results, we found that Zhongce Rubber Group Co., 
Ltd. (Zhongce) did not establish its eligibility for a separate 
rate.\10\ Moreover, we determined that 14 other companies under review 
did not establish their eligibility for a separate rate because they 
failed to provide either a separate rate application, a separate rate 
certification, or a no-shipment certification (if they were already 
eligible for a separate rate). As such, we preliminarily determined 
that Zhongce and these 14 other companies are part of the China-wide 
entity. No party filed comments on these determinations in the 
Preliminary Results. Therefore, for the final results, we continue to 
find that these 15 companies are part of the China-wide entity. See 
Appendix III for a complete list of these 15 companies.
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    \10\ See Preliminary Results PDM at 11.
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    In the Preliminary Results, we determined that Giti, Sumitomo, and 
12 other companies demonstrated their eligibility for separate 
rates.\11\ No party filed comments on these determinations in the 
Preliminary Results. Therefore, we made no changes to our preliminary 
separate rate findings and we continue to find that Giti, Sumitomo, and 
the 12 companies listed in Appendix II have demonstrated their 
eligibility for a separate rate in this review.
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    \11\ Id. at 10.
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Rate for Non-Selected Separate Rate Respondents

    The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address what rate to 
apply to respondents not selected for individual examination when 
Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to 
section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks 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 non-selected respondents that are not examined individually in 
an administrative review. Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act states that 
the all-others rate should be calculated by averaging the weighted-
average dumping margins for individually examined respondents, 
excluding rates that are zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts 
available. When the rates for individually examined companies are all 
zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available, section 
735(c)(5)(B) of the Act provides that Commerce may use ``any reasonable 
method'' to establish the all-others rate. Accordingly, for these final 
results, we calculated a simple average of the dumping margin for the 
separate rate respondents using the calculated rates of the mandatory 
respondents, Giti and Sumitomo, which are not zero, de minimis, or 
determined entirely on the basis of facts available. See Appendix II 
for the list of these companies.

Final Results of Review

    We are assigning the following dumping margins to the firms listed 
below for the period August 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022:

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                                                        Weighted-average
                       Exporter                          dumping margin
                                                           (percent)
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Giti Tire Global Trading Pte. Ltd.; Giti Radial Tire               53.41
 (Anhui) Company Ltd.; Giti Tire (Fujian) Company
 Ltd.; Giti Tire (Hualin) Company Ltd.; Giti Tire
 Greatwall Company, Ltd.; Giti Tire (Anhui) Company,
 ltd.; Giti Tire (Yinchuan) Company, Ltd.; and Giti
 Tire (Chongqing) Company, Ltd.......................
Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.; Sumitomo Rubber                    2.47
 (Hunan) Co., Ltd.; and Sumitomo Rubber (Changshu)
 Co., Ltd............................................
Separate Rate Companies \12\.........................              27.94
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Disclosure
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    \12\ See Appendix II for the list of these companies.
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    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

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b), 
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. 
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).
    For Giti and Sumitomo, we calculated importer-specific assessment 
rates on the basis of the ratio of the total amount of antidumping 
duties calculated for each importer's examined sales and the total 
entered value of the sales, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 
Where either a respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is zero or 
de minimis, within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1) of the Act, or 
an importer-specific rate is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP 
to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.

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    Pursuant to Commerce's assessment practice,\13\ for entries that 
were not reported in the U.S. data submitted by Giti and Sumitomo, we 
will instruct to CBP to liquidate such entries at the China-wide rate 
(i.e., 76.46 percent).\14\ Additionally, where Commerce determined that 
an exporter under review had no shipments of subject merchandise to the 
United States during the POR, any suspended entries of subject 
merchandise that entered under that exporter's CBP case number during 
the POR will be liquidated at the weighted-average dumping margin 
assigned to the China-wide entity.
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    \13\ See Non-Market Economy Assessment Notice, 76 FR at 65694, 
for a full discussion of this practice.
    \14\ See Order, 80 FR at 47906.
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    For respondents not individually examined in this administrative 
review that qualified for a separate rate, the assessment rate will be 
equal to the simple average of the dumping margin calculated using the 
rates assigned to Giti and Sumitomo in these final results.
    For the companies found not eligible for a separate rate and part 
of the China-wide entity, we will instruct CBP to liquidate all entries 
of subject merchandise during the POR exported by these companies at 
the China-wide assessment rate of 76.46 percent.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date for the 
final results of review, as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 
Act: (1) for Giti, Sumitomo, and the other exporters listed above that 
have a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
established in the final results of review (except, if the rate is zero 
or de minimis, then a cash deposit rate of zero will be established for 
that company); (2) for previously investigated or reviewed exporters 
not listed in the table above that have separate rates, the cash 
deposit rate will continue to be the existing exporter-specific rate 
published for the most recently-completed segment of this proceeding; 
(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 
the rate for the China-wide entity (i.e., 76.46 percent); and (4) for 
all exporters of subject merchandise which are not located in China and 
have not received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the 
rate applicable to the Chinese exporter(s) that supplied that non-China 
exporter. These cash 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 POR. 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 an 
administrative protective order (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 these final results of administrative review and 
publishing this notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 
777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1) and 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: March 5, 2024.
Ryan Majerus,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, performing 
the non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix I

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
IV. Discussion of the Issues
    Comment 1: Selection of Surrogate Country
    Comment 2: Surrogate Financial Statements
    Comment 3: Surrogate Value (SV) for Labor
    Comment 4: SVs for Electricity and Water
    Comment 5: SV for Truck Freight
    Comment 6: Whether To Grant an Export Subsidy Offset
    Comment 7: Triangle Tyre Co., Ltd's (Triangle Tyre) No-Shipment 
Status
    Comment 8: Whether Commerce Should Inform U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) Regarding the Shipments Addressed by Prinx 
Chengshan (Shandong) Tire Company Ltd. (PCT)
    Comment 9: Whether Commerce Should Use Giti's Reported Factoring 
Discount
    Comment 10: Ministerial Errors for Giti
    Comment 11: Differential Pricing Analysis
    Comment 12: Offset for SRC's Production of Turn Up Bladders 
(TUB)
    Comment 13: Ministerial Errors for Sumitomo
V. Recommendation

Appendix II

Separate Rate Companies

1. Anhui Jichi Tire Co., Ltd.
2. Hankook Tire China Co., Ltd.
3. Jiangsu Hankook Tire Co., Ltd.
4. Koryo International Industrial Limited
5. Mayrun Tyre (Hong Kong) Limited
6. Qingdao Keter International Co., Limited
7. Qingdao Sentury Tire Co., Ltd.; Sentury (Hong Kong) Trading Co., 
Limited
8. Qingdao Sunfulcess Tyre Co., Ltd.
9. Shandong Haohua Tire Co., Ltd.
10. Shandong Linglong Tyre Co., Ltd.
11. Shandong New Continent Tire Co., Ltd.
12. Shandong Province Sanli Tire Manufactured Co., Ltd.

Appendix III

Companies Found To Be Part of the China-Wide Entity

1. Aeolus Tyre Corp., Ltd.
2. Double Coin Tire Ltd.
3. Hongtyre Group Co.
4. Nankang (Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone) Rubber Industrial Co., 
Ltd.
5. Qingdao Crowntyre Industries Co., Ltd.
6. Shandong Habilead Rubber Co., Ltd.
7. Shangdong Hengfeng Rubber & Plastic Co., Ltd.
8. Shangdong Hengyu Science & Technology Co., Ltd.
9. Shangdong Longyue Rubber Co., Ltd. (aka ZODO Tire Co., Ltd.)
10. Shangdong Yongfeng Tyres Co., Ltd.
11. Shanghai Tire & Rubber (Group) Ltd.
12. Tianjin Wanda Tyre Group Company, Ltd.
13. Tyrechamp Group Co., Limited
14. Wendeng Sanfeng Tyre Co., Ltd.
15. Zhongce Rubber Group Co., Ltd.

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