Certain Passenger Vehicles and Light Truck Tires From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2022

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[C-570-017]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Passenger Vehicles and Light Truck Tires From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 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 countervailable subsides are being provided to producers and exporters of certain passenger vehicle and light truck (PVLT) tires from the People's Republic of China (China) during the period of review (POR) of January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable August 22, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Nicholas Czajkowski, 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) 482-1395. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On May 7, 2024, Commerce published the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> of this administrative review in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> and invited comments from interested parties. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> We received no comments from interested parties on the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> and we have otherwise made no changes from the <E T="03">Preliminary Results.</E> Accordingly, no decision memorandum accompanies this <E T="04">Federal Register</E> notice; the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> are hereby adopted in these final results. On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative review by seven days. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> The deadline for the final results of this review is now September 11, 2024. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review and Rescission of Review, Part; 2022, 89 FR 38073 (May 7, 2024) (Preliminary Results)</E> , and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="51">3</E> <E T="03">See Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the People's Republic of China: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty Determination and Antidumping Duty Order; and Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Countervailing Duty Order,</E> 80 FR 47902 (August 10, 2015) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The product covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is PVLT tires from China. For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the appendix to this notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Review</HD> For the period January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022, we determine that the following net countervailable subsidy rates exist: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,18"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Company</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Subsidy rate (percent <E T="03">ad valorem</E> <ENT I="01">Jiangsu General Science Technology Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>125.50</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Winrun Tyre Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>125.50</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations of the final results of an administrative review within five days of a public announcement 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). However, because we have made no changes from the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> there are no calculations to disclose. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Cash Deposit Instructions</HD> Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), Commerce intends to instruct Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties in the amounts shown for the companies listed above for shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of the final results of this administrative review. These cash deposit instructions, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment Rates</HD> Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2), Commerce has determined, and CBP shall assess, countervailing duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review, for the above-listed companies at the applicable <E T="03">ad valorem</E> assessment rates listed. 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 <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . 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 ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> within 90 days of publication). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Administrative Protective Order</HD> 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 APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written notification of the return or 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 sanctionable violation. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Notification to Interested Parties</HD> Commerce is issuing and publishing these final results in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5). <SIG> <DATED>Dated: August 16, 2024.</DATED> <NAME>Abdelali Elouaradia,</NAME> Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. </SIG> <HD SOURCE="HED">Appendix</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The scope of this <E T="03">Order</E> is passenger vehicle and light truck tires. Passenger vehicle and light truck tires are new pneumatic tires, of rubber, with a passenger vehicle or light truck size designation. Tires covered by this Order may be tube-type, tubeless, radial, or non-radial, and they may be intended for sale to original equipment manufacturers or the replacement market. Subject tires have, at the time of importation, the symbol “DOT” on the sidewall, certifying that the tire conforms to applicable motor vehicle safety standards. Subject tires may also have the following prefixes or suffix in their tire size designation, which also appears on the sidewall of the tire: Prefix designations: <FP SOURCE="FP-1">P—Identifies a tire intended primarily for service on passenger cars</FP> <FP SOURCE="FP-1">LT—Identifies a tire intended primarily for service on light trucks</FP> Suffix letter designations: <FP SOURCE="FP-1">LT—Identifies light truck tires for service on trucks, buses, trailers, and multipurpose passenger vehicles used in nominal highway service.</FP> All tires with a “P” or “LT” prefix, and all tires with an “LT” suffix in their sidewall markings are covered by this investigation regardless of their intended use. In addition, all tires that lack a “P” or “LT” prefix or suffix in their sidewall markings, as well as all tires that include any other prefix or suffix in their sidewall markings, are included in the scope, regardless of their intended use, as long as the tire is of a size that is among the numerical size designations listed in the passenger car section or light truck section of the Tire and Rim Association Year Book, as updated annually, unless the tire falls within one of the specific exclusions set out below. Passenger vehicle and light truck tires, whether or not attached to wheels or rims, are included in the scope. However, if a subject tire is imported attached to a wheel or rim, only the tire is covered by the scope. Specifically excluded from the scope are the following types of tires: (1) racing car tires; such tires do not bear the symbol “DOT” on the sidewall and may be marked with “ZR” in size designation; (2) new pneumatic tires, of rubber, of a size that is not listed in the passenger car section or light truck section of the Tire and Rim Association Year Book; (3) pneumatic tires, of rubber, that are not new, including recycled and retreaded tires; (4) non-pneumatic tires, such as solid rubber tires; (5) tires designed and marketed exclusively as temporary use spare tires for passenger vehicles which, in addition, exhibit each of the following physical characteristics: (a) the size designation and load index combination molded on the tire's sidewall are listed in Table PCT-1B (“T” Type Spare Tires for Temporary Use on Passenger Vehicles) of the Tire and Rim Association Year Book, (b) the designation “T” is molded into the tire's sidewall as part of the size designation, and, (c) the tire's speed rating is molded on the sidewall, indicating the rated speed in MPH or a letter rating as listed by Tire and Rim Association Year Book, and the rated speed is 81 MPH or a “M” rating; (6) tires designed and marketed exclusively for specialty tire (ST) use which, in addition, exhibit each of the following conditions: (a) the size designatio ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 13k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━