[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 21, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 44638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11132]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-824]


Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip From India: 
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review

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

SUMMARY: On February 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce 
(Commerce) published the preliminary results of the changed 
circumstances review (CCR) of the antidumping duty (AD) order on 
polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) from 
India. For these final results, Commerce continues to find that Garware 
Hi-Tech Films Limited (Garware Hi-Tech) is the successor-in-interest to 
Garware Polyester Limited (Garware Polyester).

DATES: Applicable May 21, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline Arrowsmith, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5255.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 22, 2023, Commerce published the notice of initiation of 
the requested CCR.\1\ On February 26, 2024, Commerce published the 
preliminary results of this CCR, determining that Garware Hi-Tech is 
the successor-in-interest to Garware Polyester and should be assigned 
the same AD cash deposit rate assigned to Garware Polyester in the AD 
order on PET film from India,\2\ and provided all interested parties 
with an opportunity to comment.\3\ No interested party submitted 
comments on the Preliminary Results. Accordingly, the final results 
remain unchanged from the Preliminary Results.
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    \1\ See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from 
India: Initiation of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review; 
Garware, 88 FR 57090 (August 22, 2023).
    \2\ See Notice of Amended Final Antidumping Duty Determination 
of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: 
Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from India, 67 FR 
44175 (July 1, 2002) (Order).
    \3\ See Antidumping Duty Order on Polyethylene Terephthalate 
Film, Sheet, and Strip from India: Preliminary Results of Changed 
Circumstances Review, 89 FR 14053 (February 26, 2024) (Preliminary 
Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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Scope of the Order

    The products covered by the order are all gauges of raw, 
pretreated, or primed PET film, whether extruded or coextruded. 
Excluded are metallized films and other finished films that have had at 
least one of their surfaces modified by the application of a 
performance-enhancing resinous or inorganic layer of more than 0.00001 
inches thick. Imports of PET film are currently classifiable in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under item 
number 3920.62.00.90. HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience 
and customs purposes. The written description of the scope of this 
order is dispositive.

Final Results of CCR

    For the reasons stated in the Preliminary Results, and because we 
received no comments from interested parties challenging our 
preliminary finding, Commerce continues to find that Garware Hi-Tech is 
the successor-in-interest to Garware Polyester. As a result of this 
determination and consistent with our established practice, we find 
that Garware Hi-Tech should receive the AD cash deposit rate currently 
assigned to Garware Polyester with respect to entries of subject 
merchandise in the above-noted proceeding.\4\ Because there are no 
changes from the Preliminary Results, there is no decision memorandum 
accompanying this notice and we are adopting the Preliminary Results as 
the final results of this CCR.
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    \4\ Id.
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    Consequently, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection to suspend liquidation of all shipments of subject 
merchandise produced and/or exported by Garware Hi-Tech and entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication 
date of this notice in the Federal Register at 4.45 percent, which is 
the current AD cash deposit rate for Garware Polyester.\5\ This cash 
deposit requirement shall remain in effect until further notice.
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    \5\ See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from 
India: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 
2017-2018, 85 FR 14883, 14884 (March 16, 2020), as amended by 
Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from India: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017-2018; 
Correction, 88 FR 87751 (December 19, 2023).
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Administrative Protective Order

    This notice serves as the only 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 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 this determination and publishing these final 
results and notice in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) 
and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.216(e), 
351.221(b), and 351.221(c)(3).

    Dated: May 15, 2024.
Ryan Majerus,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the 
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement and Compliance.
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