Certain Corrosion Inhibitors From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-570-122]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Corrosion Inhibitors From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023</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) preliminarily determines that certain producers and/or exporters made sales of certain corrosion inhibitors (corrosion inhibitors) at less than normal value during the period of review (POR) March 1, 2022, through February 28, 2023. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results of review. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable April 3, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Hermes Pinilla and Dusten Hom, 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) 482-3477, and (202) 482-5075, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On March 19, 2021, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain corrosion inhibitors from the People's Republic of China (China). <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On March 2, 2023, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order.</E> <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On May 9, 2023, based on timely requests for an administrative review, Commerce initiated the administrative review of the <E T="03">Order.</E> <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> The administrative review covers 21 companies, including two mandatory respondents, Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd., and Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order,</E> 86 FR 14869 (March 19, 2021) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review,</E> 88 FR 13091 (March 2, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 88 FR 29881 (May 9, 2023) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memoranda, “Respondent Selection,” dated June 22, 2023. </FTNT> On October 30, 2023, Commerce extended the deadline for these preliminary results to March 28, 2024. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> For a complete description of the events that occurred since the initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is 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> A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included in appendix I to this notice. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be found at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results,” dated October 30, 2023. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of the 2022-2023 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic of China,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The products covered by this <E T="03">Order</E> are certain corrosion inhibitors from China. A full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is contained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Separate Rates</HD> Commerce preliminarily determines that three companies, not individually examined, are eligible for separate rates in this administrative review. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Preliminary Decision Memorandum at the “Separate Rate Determination” section for more details. </FTNT> The Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act) and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment of a separate rate to be applied to companies not selected for individual examination when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 777AI(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in an investigation, for guidance when calculating the rate for separate-rate respondents which Commerce did not examine individually in an administrative review. Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act states that the all-others rate should be calculated by averaging the weighted-average dumping margins calculated for individually-examined respondents, excluding dumping margins that are zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available. For the preliminary results of this review, Commerce determined the estimated dumping margins for Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd., and affiliates, and Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd to be 11.58, and 8.27 percent, respectively. For the reasons explained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, we are assigning the 10.49 percent rate to the three non-examined respondents, Gold Chemical Limited (Gold Chemical); Jiangyin Delian Chemical Co., Ltd. (Delian); Kanghua Chemical Co., Ltd. (Chuzhou Kanghua), which qualify for a separate rate in this review, consistent with Commerce's practice and section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. <HD SOURCE="HD1">China-Wide Entity</HD> Commerce's policy regarding the conditional review of the China-wide entity applies to this administrative review. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Under this policy, 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 assessment rate ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> 241.02 percent) is not subject to change. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> For the reasons explained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, Commerce considers all other companies for which a review was requested (none of which filed a separate rate application), 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</E> Appendix II 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">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review</HD> Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the administrative review covering the period March 1, 2022, through February 28, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s50,9"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average dumping margin (percent) </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd.; Jiangsu Trust Chem Co., Ltd.; Nanjing Trust Chem Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>11.58</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>8.27</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Gold Chemical Limited</ENT> <ENT>10.49</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Jiangyin Delian Chemical Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>10.49</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Kanghua Chemical Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>10.49</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure and Public Comment</HD> We intend to disclose the calculations performed to parties within five days after publication of this notice. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may submit case briefs no later than 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date for filing case briefs. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(d)(2), rebuttal briefs must be limited to issues raised in the case briefs. <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> Interested parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are must submit: (1) table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities. <SU>15</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.224(b). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(d); <E T="03">see also Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,</E> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 21k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━