[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 89 (Friday, May 9, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19670-19672]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08162]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-010]
Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products From the
People's Republic of China: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony
With the Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; Notice
of Amended Final Results
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On April 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT)
issued its final judgment in Trina Solar Co., Ltd., et al. v. United
States, Slip Op. 25-40, Court no. 23-213, sustaining the U.S.
Department of Commerce (Commerce)'s remand results pertaining to the
administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain
crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from the People's Republic of
China (China) covering the period February 1, 2021, through January 31,
2022 (POR). Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final
judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's final results of the
administrative review, and that Commerce is amending the final results
with respect to the dumping margin assigned to: (1) Trina Solar
(Changzhou) Science & Technology Co., Ltd.; (2)
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Trina Solar Co., Ltd.; (3) Yancheng Trina Guoneng Photovoltaic
Technology Co., Ltd. (a.k.a. Yancheng Trina Solar Guoneng Science &
Technology Co., Ltd.); (4) Trina Solar Yiwu Technology Co., Ltd.; (5)
Trina Solar (Su Qian) Technology Co., Ltd.; (6) Trina Solar (Yancheng
Dafeng) Co., Ltd.; (7) Changzhou Trina Hezhong Photoelectric Co., Ltd.
(a.k.a. Changzhou Trina Hezhong PV Co., Ltd.); (8) Changzhou Trina
Solar Yabang Energy Co., Ltd.; and (9) Turpan Trina Solar Energy Co.,
Ltd. (collectively, Trina).
DATES: Applicable April 24, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Krisha Hill, AD/CVD Operations, Office
IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4037.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 8, 2023, Commerce published the Final Results in the
2021-2022 AD administrative review of certain crystalline silicon
photovoltaic products from China, in which it calculated a weighted-
average dumping margin of 10.50 percent for Trina.\1\
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\1\ See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from
the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2021-
2022, 88 FR 62049 (September 8, 2023) (Final Results), and
accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM).
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Trina appealed Commerce's Final Results. On August 20, 2024, the
CIT remanded the Final Results to Commerce to further explain or
reconsider its decision not to adjust the prices of Trina's sales of
subject merchandise during the POR by the countervailing duties imposed
on certain programs in the 2017 administrative review of the companion
countervailing duty order.\2\
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\2\ See Trina Solar Co., Ltd., et al. v. United States, Court
No. 23-00213, Slip Op. 24-96 (CIT August 20, 2024) (Remand Order);
see also Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Products from the
People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Countervailing
Duty Administrative Review, and Rescission of Review in Part; 2017,
84 FR 15585 (April 16, 2019) and accompanying Preliminary Decision
Memorandum, unchanged in Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic
Products from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2017; 84 FR 56765
(October 23, 2019), and accompanying IDM.
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In its final results of redetermination, issued on December 18,
2024, Commerce, under respectful protest, adjusted the prices of
Trina's sales of subject merchandise during the POR by the
countervailing duties imposed on three of the six subsidy programs at
issue.\3\ On April 14, 2025, the CIT sustained Commerce's final remand
redetermination.\4\
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\3\ See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant to Court
Remand, Trina Solar Co., Ltd., et al. v. United States, Court No.
23-00213, Slip Op. 24-96 (CIT August 20, 2024), dated December 18,
2024, available at: https://access.trade.gov/public/FinalRemandRedetermination.aspx.
\4\ See Trina Solar Co., Ltd., et al. v. United States, Court
No. 23-213, Slip Op. 25-40 (CIT April 14, 2025).
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Timken Notice
In its decision in Timken,\5\ as clarified by Diamond Sawblades,\6\
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that, pursuant
to section 516A(c) and (e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act), Commerce must publish a notice of court decision that is not ``in
harmony'' with a Commerce determination and must suspend liquidation of
entries pending a ``conclusive'' court decision. The CIT's April 14,
2025, judgment constitutes a final decision of the CIT that is not in
harmony with Commerce's Final Results. Thus, this notice is published
in fulfillment of the publication requirements of Timken.
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\5\ See Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir.
1990) (Timken).
\6\ See Diamond Sawblades Manufacturers Coalition v. United
States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010) (Diamond Sawblades).
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Amended Final Results
Because there is now a final court judgment, Commerce is amending
its Final Results and with respect to Trina as follows:
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Weighted-
average
Exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Trina Solar (Changzhou) Science & Technology Co., Ltd./ 9.09
Trina Solar Co., Ltd./Yancheng Trina Guoneng Photovoltaic
Technology Co., Ltd. (a.k.a. Yancheng Trina Solar Guoneng
Science & Technology Co., Ltd.)/Trina Solar Yiwu
Technology Co., Ltd./Trina Solar (Su Qian) Technology Co.,
Ltd./Trina Solar (Yancheng Dafeng) Co., Ltd./Changzhou
Trina Hezhong Photoelectric Co., Ltd. (a.k.a. Changzhou
Trina Hezhong PV Co., Ltd.)/Changzhou Trina Solar Yabang
Energy Co., Ltd./Turpan Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd.......
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Cash Deposit Requirements
Because Trina does not have a superseding cash deposit rate, i.e.,
there have been no final results published in a subsequent
administrative review covering Trina, Commerce will issue revised cash
deposit instructions for Trina to U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP). Commerce will revise Trina's cash deposit rate from 10.50
percent to 9.09 percent ad valorem.
Liquidation of Suspended Entries
At this time, Commerce remains enjoined by CIT order from
liquidating entries that: were exported by Trina and were entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period February 1,
2021, through January 31, 2022. These entries will remain enjoined
pursuant to the terms of the injunction during the pendency of any
appeals process.
In the event the CIT's ruling is not appealed, or, if appealed,
upheld by a final and conclusive court decision, Commerce intends to
instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on unliquidated entries of
subject merchandise exported by Trina in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(b). We will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this review when the importer-specific
ad valorem assessment rate is not zero or de minimis. Where an import-
specific ad valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis,\7\ we will
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to
antidumping duties.
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\7\ See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections
516A(c) and (e) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.
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Dated: May 5, 2025.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-08162 Filed 5-8-25; 8:45 am]
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