Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 From India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-838]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 From India: Preliminary Results of 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 producers/exporters subject to this review did not make sales of subject merchandise at prices below normal value. The period of review (POR) is December 1, 2022, through November 30, 2023. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable September 13, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Dennis McClure or Henry Wolfe, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5973, and (202) 482-0574, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On February 8, 2024, based on a timely request for review, and in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), Commerce initiated this administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on carbazole violet pigment 23 (CVP-23) from India covering three companies: Gharda Chemicals, Ltd. (Gharda), Meghmani Pigments (Meghmani), and Navpad Pigments Pvt. Ltd. (Navpad). <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On March 1, 2024, we limited the number of respondents for individual examination in this administrative review to Meghmani and Navpad. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> The deadline for the preliminary results is now September 9, 2024. For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 8641 (February 8, 2024). Additionally, we collapsed Meghmani Pigments and its affiliated company, Meghmani LLC, into a single entity based on our affiliation and collapsing analysis. <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 form India; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and herby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Respondent Selection,” dated March 1, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Preliminary Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1"> Scope of the Order  <E T="51">5</E> <E T="03">See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 from India,</E> 69 FR 77988 (December 29, 2004) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The product covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is CVP-23, in any form. For a full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act. Export price is calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Normal value is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as an appendix to this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum 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> In addition, the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for the Non-Examined Company</HD> To determine the rate for non-selected companies in an administrative review, generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in a market economy investigation. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally “an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted average dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero or <E T="03">de minimis</E> margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis of facts available.}” Where the dumping margin for individually examined respondents are all zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or based entirely on facts available, section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act provides that Commerce may use “any reasonable method to establish the estimated all-others rate for exporters and producers not individually investigated, including averaging the estimated weighted average dumping margins determined for the exporters and producers individually investigated.” In this review, we calculated weighted-average dumping margins for Meghmani and Navpad that are zero and we did not calculate any margins which are not zero, <E T="03">de minims,</E> or determined entirely on the basis of facts available. Therefore, consistent with section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act, we are applying to Gharda, the company not selected for individual examination in this review, a margin of zero percent. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of Review</HD> As a result of our review, we preliminarily determine the following estimated weight-average dumping margins for the period December 1, 2022, through November 30, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,9"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer/exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average dumping margin (percent) </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Gharda Chemicals Limited</ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Meghmani Pigments/Meghmani LLC</ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Navpad Pigments Pvt. Ltd</ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure and Public Comment</HD> Commerce intends to disclose the calculations used in our analysis to interested parties in this review within five days of the date of publication of this notice in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> , in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). Interested parties may submit case briefs to Commerce no later than 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> 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>7</SU> <FTREF/> Interested parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); <E T="03">see also</E> 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</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> 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023) ( <E T="03">APO and Service Procedures</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2) </FTNT> As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an executive summary of their brief that should be limited to five pages total, including footnotes. In this review, we instead request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Further, we request that interested parties limit their public executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We intend to use the public executive summaries as the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision memorandum that will accompany the final results in this administrative review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant citations in the public executive summary of each issue. Note that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f). <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>  We use the term “issue” here to describe an argument that Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See APO and Service Procedures.</E> </FTNT> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via ACCESS. Requests should contain: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in the respective case briefs. 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