Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents From Taiwan: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2019-2020
| Published date | 15 September 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 51342 |
| Record Number | 2021-19912 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | International Trade Administration |
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1
See Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from
Taiwan: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2019–2020, 86 FR 37741
(July 16, 2021) (Preliminary Results).
2
Id.
3
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).
4
The brackets in this sentence are part of the
chemical formula.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Emergency Approval;
Comment Request; Risks in the
Semiconductor Supply Chain
The Department of Commerce (Bureau
of Industry and Security) led the 100
Day Supply Chain Review of
Semiconductors and Advanced
Packaging that was mandated by
Presidential Executive Order 14017. On
February 24, 2021, President Biden
issued Executive Order 14017 (E.O.
14017) on ‘‘America’s Supply Chains,’’
which directs several federal agency
actions to secure and strengthen
America’s supply chains.
This review, included in the White
House Report ‘‘Building Resilient
Supply Chains, Revitalizing Domestic
Manufacturing, and Fostering Broad-
Based Growth (100-day-supplychain-
review-report.pdf (whitehouse.gov)’’,
identified numerous areas of supply
chain vulnerabilities. In addition to the
longer-term goals such as strengthening
the domestic semiconductor
manufacturing ecosystem and
promoting U.S. leadership, this report
called upon the Department of
Commerce to partner with industry to
facilitate information flow between
semiconductor producers and suppliers
and end-users to address the current
semiconductor shortage. The ongoing
shortages in the semiconductor product
supply chain is having an adverse
impact on a wide range of industry
sectors. With the goal of accelerating the
information flow across various
segments of the supply chain and
identifying data gaps and bottlenecks in
the supply chain, the Department is
seeking input from interested parties
(including domestic and foreign
semiconductor design firms,
semiconductor manufacturers, materials
and equipment suppliers, as well as
semiconductor intermediate and end-
users).
The Department invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden.
Agency: Bureau of Industry and
Security, Commerce.
Title: Risks in the Semiconductor
Supply Chain.
OMB Control Number: 0694–xxxx.
Form Number(s): 0694–xxxx.
Type of Request: Emergency
Clearance Request, new collection.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Average Hours per Response: 4 hours.
Burden Hours: 400.
Needs and Uses: This data is needed
to assess the status of the semiconductor
industry and identify specific issues and
challenges in the supply chain.
Qualitative questions are used in some
limited cases to complement the
statistical data. Using the aggregated
form data, the overall goal is to enable
Commerce and other government
agencies to add transparency on the
semiconductor supply and demand
mismatch and identify common
bottlenecks and chokepoints. This
information will advance transparency
in the semiconductor supply chain and
inform any government or private sector
actions to address the ongoing shortage
and alleviate the economic impact of the
shortage.
Affected Public: Business or other for-
profit organizations.
Frequency: One time only.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Executive Order
14017.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within two days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering the title of the collection,
‘‘Risks in the Semiconductor Supply
Chain.’’
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening
Agents From Taiwan: Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review; 2019–2020
AGENCY
: Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY
: The Department of Commerce
(Commerce) determines that the sole
producer/exporter subject to this review
made sales of subject merchandise in
the United States at less than normal
value during the period of review (POR),
May 1, 2019, through April 30, 2020.
DATES
: Applicable September 15, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Dmitry Vladimirov, 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) 482–0665.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
Background
On July 16, 2021, Commerce
published the Preliminary Results of the
2019–2020 administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on certain
stilbenic optical brightening agents
(stilbenic OBAs) from Taiwan.
1
This
administrative review covers one
producer/exporter of the subject
merchandise, Teh Fong Ming
International Co., Ltd. (TFM). We
invited parties to comment on the
Preliminary Results.
2
No party
submitted comments. Accordingly, the
final results remain unchanged from the
Preliminary Results.
Commerce conducted this review in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B)
and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act).
Scope of the Order
3
The stilbenic OBAs covered by this
Order are all forms (whether free acid or
salt) of compounds known as
triazinylaminostilbenes (i.e., all
derivatives of 4,4′-bis [1,3,5- triazin-2-
yl]
4
amino- 2,2′-stilbenedisulfonic acid),
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Id.
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In these final results, Commerce applied the
assessment rate calculation method adopted in
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).
7
See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68
FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
8
See Order, 91 FR at 27420.
9
See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
except for compounds listed in the
following paragraph. The stilbenic
OBAs covered by this Order include
final stilbenic OBA products, as well as
intermediate products that are
themselves triazinylaminostilbenes
produced during the synthesis of
stilbenic OBA products.
Excluded from this Order are all
forms of 4,4′-bis[4-anilino-6-
morpholino-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl]
5
amino-
2,2′-stilbenedisulfonic acid,
C40H40N12O8S2 (‘‘Fluorescent
Brightener 71’’). This Order covers the
above-described compounds in any state
(including but not limited to powder,
slurry, or solution), of any
concentrations of active stilbenic OBA
ingredient, as well as any compositions
regardless of additives (i.e., mixtures or
blends, whether of stilbenic OBAs with
each other, or of stilbenic OBAs with
additives that are not stilbenic OBAs),
and in any type of packaging.
These stilbenic OBAs are classifiable
under subheading 3204.20.8000 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS), but they may
also enter under subheadings
2933.69.6050, 2921.59.4000 and
2921.59.8090. Although the HTSUS
subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the
written description of the merchandise
is dispositive.
Final Results of Review
As noted above, Commerce received
no comments concerning the
Preliminary Results. As there are no
changes from, or comments upon, the
Preliminary Results, Commerce finds
that there is no reason to modify its
analysis and calculations. Accordingly,
we adopt the analysis and explanation
in our Preliminary Results for the
purposes of these final results of review
and we have not prepared an Issues and
Decision Memorandum to accompany
this Federal Register notice. The final
weighted-average dumping margin of
2.91 percent exists for entries of subject
merchandise that were produced and
exported by TFM during the POR.
Assessment Rates
Commerce shall determine, and U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this
review, in accordance with section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b). 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 TFM, we calculated importer-
specific assessment rates 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
sales in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1).
6
Where an importer-
specific assessment rate is de minimis
(i.e., less than 0.5 percent), the entries
by that importer will be liquidated
without reference to antidumping
duties.
For entries of subject merchandise
during the POR produced by TFM 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 if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in
the transaction.
7
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit
requirements will be effective upon
publication in the Federal Register of
this notice for all shipments of stilbenic
OBAs from Taiwan entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the date of
publication as provided by section
751(a)(2) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit
rate for TFM will be 2.91percent, the
weighted-average dumping margin
established in the final results of this
administrative review; (2) for
merchandise exported by companies not
covered in this review but covered in a
prior segment of this proceeding, the
cash deposit rate will continue to be the
company-specific rate published for the
most recent period; (3) if the exporter is
not a firm covered in this review, a prior
review, or the original investigation but
the producer is, then the cash deposit
rate will be the rate established for the
most recently completed segment for the
producer of the merchandise; (4) the
cash deposit rate for all other producers
or exporters will continue to be 6.19
percent, the all-others rate established
in the less-than-fair-value
investigation.
8
These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Disclosure
Normally, Commerce discloses to the
parties in a proceeding the calculations
performed in connection with a final
results of review within five days after
public announcement of final results.
9
However, because Commerce made no
adjustments to the margin calculation
methodology used in the Preliminary
Results, there are no calculations to
disclose for the final results of review.
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 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
We are issuing and publishing this
notice in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19
CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: September 9, 2021.
Christian Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement
and Compliance.
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