[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 103 (Tuesday, May 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46067-46068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11599]


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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; 2022

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that 
certain stilbenic optical brightening agents (OBAs) from Taiwan were 
sold in the United States at less than normal value during the period 
of review (POR) May 1, 2022, through November 26, 2022.

DATES: Applicable May 28, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joshua Weiner, 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) 482-3902.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 2, 2024, Commerce published in the Federal Register the 
preliminary results of the 2022 administrative review \1\ of the 
antidumping duty order on OBAs from Taiwan.\2\ We invited interested 
parties to comment on the Preliminary Results.\3\ No interested party 
submitted comments. Accordingly, the final results of review remain 
unchanged from the Preliminary Results and no decision memorandum 
accompanies this notice. 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; 2022, 
89 FR 7361 (February 2, 2024) (Preliminary Results), and 
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
    \2\ 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).
    \3\ See Preliminary Results, 89 FR at 7361.
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Scope of the Order

    The products covered by the Order are OBAs. For a full description 
of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Results.\4\
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    \4\ See Preliminary Results PDM.
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Final Results of Review

    We determine that the following weighted-average dumping margin 
exists for the POR:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Producer/exporter                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd........................         1.04
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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 Teh 
Fong Min International Co., Ltd., 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).

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 
351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: May 20, 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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