Hydrofluorocarbon Blends From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-570-028]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Hydrofluorocarbon Blends From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that the sole mandatory respondent, Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Sanmei) sold hydrofluorocarbon blends (HFC blends) from the People's Republic of China (China) at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), August 31, 2021, through July 31, 2022. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable March 8, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Jerry Xiao, AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2273. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On September 6, 2023, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E>   <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> of the 2021-2022 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on HFC blends from China  <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> and invited interested parties to comment. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> Subsequent to the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> we received case briefs and rebuttal briefs from Sanmei and the American HFC Coalition (the petitioner). <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> On December 6, 2023, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), Commerce extended the deadline for issuing these final results until March 1, 2024. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> For a complete description of the events that occurred since the <E T="03">Preliminary Results, see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review;</E> 2021-2022, 88 FR 60926 (September 6, 2023) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order,</E> 81 FR 55436 (August 19, 2016) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Results,</E> 88 FR at 60926. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Petitioner's Letter, “Case Brief of the HFC Coalition,” dated October 20, 2023; and Sanmei's Letter, “Zhejiang Sanmei's Case Brief,” dated October 20, 2023; <E T="03">see also</E> Petitioner's Letter, “Rebuttal Brief on behalf of the American HFC Coalition,” dated November 1, 2023; and Sanmei's Letter “Zhejiang Sanmei's Rebuttal Brief,” dated November 1, 2023. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated December 6, 2023. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the 2021-2022 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the People's Republic of China,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The products subject to the <E T="03">Order</E> are HFC blends from China. A full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is contained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in briefs filed by parties in this administrative review are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum and are listed in Appendix I to this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov.</E> In addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Separate Rate</HD> Commerce preliminarily determines that one respondent, Sanmei, the only company individually examined in this review, is eligible to receive a separate rate in this review. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Results</E> at “Separate Rates” section. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">China-Wide Entity</HD> Under Commerce's policy regarding the conditional review of the China-wide entity, <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> the China-wide entity will not be under review unless a party specifically requests, or Commerce self-initiates, a review of the entity. Because no party requested a review of the China-wide entity in this review, the entity is not under review, and the entity's rate ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> 216.37 percent) is not subject to change. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce considers the 16 companies for which a review was requested (which did not file a separate rate application or did not demonstrate separate rate eligibility) listed in Appendix II to this notice, to be part of the China-wide entity. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings,</E> 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See Order.</E> </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation Notice,</E> 87 FR at 61285, (stating “{a}ll firms listed below that wish to qualify for separate rate status in the administrative reviews involving NME countries must complete, as appropriate, either a separate rate application or certification, as described below.”); <E T="03">see also</E> Appendix II, <E T="03">infra,</E> for the list of companies that are subject to this administrative review that are considered to be part of the China-wide entity. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Results</HD> Based on our review of the record and comments received from interested parties regarding our <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> and for the reasons explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, we made certain changes to the margin calculations for Sanmei. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Issues and Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Review</HD> For the company subject to this review that established its eligibility for a separate rate, Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period August 31, 2021, through July 31, 2022: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,9C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter</CHED> <ENT I="01">Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Industry Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>101.14</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in connection with these final results of review to interested parties within five days after public announcement of the final results or, if there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of the notice of final results in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> <E T="03">,</E> in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment Rates</HD> Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), Commerce shall 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. For Sanmei, Commerce will calculate importer-specific assessment rates for antidumping duties, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where the respondent reported reliable entered values, Commerce intends to calculate importer-specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> assessment rates by aggregating the amount of dumping calculated for all U.S. sales to the importer and dividing this amount by the total entered value of the merchandise sold to the importer. Where the respondent did not report entered values, Commerce will calculate importer-specific assessment rates by dividing the amount of dumping for reviewed sales to the importer by the total quantity of those sales. Commerce will calculate an estimated <E T="03">ad valorem</E> importer-specific assessment rate to determine whether the per-unit assessment rate is <E T="03">de minimis;</E> however, Commerce will use the per-unit assessment rate where entered values were not reported. Where an importer-specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> assessment rate is not zero or <E T="03">de minimis,</E> Commerce will instruct CBP to collect the appropriate duties at the time of liquidation. Where either the respondent's weighted average dumping margin is zero or <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or an importer-specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> assessment rate is zero or <E T="03">de minimis,</E> Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). </FTNT> For e ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 16k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━