Certain Corrosion Inhibitors From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of 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: Final 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) determines that companies in the People's Republic of China (China) made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) March 1, 2022, through February 28, 2023. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable October 15, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Hermes Pinilla or Dusten Hom, AD/CVD Operations, Office I, 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 April 3, 2024, Commerce published the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> of this review in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> and invited interested parties to comment on those results. <SU>1</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>2</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce conducted this administrative review in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,</E> 89 FR 20488 (April 3, 2024) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of the 2022-2023 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Corrosion Inhibitors 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  <E T="51">3</E> <E T="03">See Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders,</E> 86 FR 14869 (March 19, 2021) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The products covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> are certain corrosion inhibitors from China. A complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is contained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">China-Wide Entity</HD> As stated in the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> because no party requested a review of the China-wide entity in this review, the China-wide entity is not under review and the China-wide entity's rate, <E T="03">i.e.,</E> 241.02 percent, is not subject to change. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Results,</E> 89 FR at 22995. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties in this administrative review are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum and are listed in the appendix to this notice. The Issues and 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> 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">Changes Since the Preliminary Results</HD> Based on the comments received, we made no changes to the <E T="03"> Preliminary Results. </E> <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> For a more detailed discussion of the issues raised by parties, <E T="03">see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Results.</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Non-Examined Separate Rate Respondents</HD> The statute and our regulations do not address the establishment of a rate to be assigned to respondents not selected for individual examination when we limit our examination of companies subject to the administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2)(B) of the Act. Generally, we look 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 respondents not individually examined in an administrative review. 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 and <E T="03">de minimis</E> margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis of facts available}.” Accordingly, in the final results of review, we are assigning to the non-selected separate rate respondents an estimated weighted-average dumping margin based on the average of Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd.'s, and its affiliates (collectively Anhui), and Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd.'s (Botao) rates weighted by their publicly available ranged U.S. sales values. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of the Review</HD> Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period March 1, 2022, through February 28, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,16"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average <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 RUL="s"> <ENT I="01">Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>8.27</ENT> </ROW> <ROW EXPSTB="01" RUL="s"> <ENT I="21"> <E T="02">Review-Specific Average Rate Applicable to the Following Companies</E> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW EXPSTB="00"> <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</HD> Because we have not modified our analysis to the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> we are adopting the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> as the final results of this review. Consequently, there are no new calculations to disclose in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b) for the final results of review. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment Rates</HD> Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, and U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), for Anhui and Botao, we calculated importer-specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each importer's examined sales and the total entered value of the sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where an importer-specific assessment rate is <E T="03">de minimis</E> ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> less than 0.5 percent), the entries by that importer will be liquidated without regard to antidumping duties. For all non-selected separate rate applicants subject to this review, we will instruct CBP to liquidate all entries of subject merchandise that entered the United States during the POR at the average of the rates calculated for Anhui and Botao as listed above. For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Anhui and Botao for which they did not know their merchandise was destined for the United States, we intend to instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the China-wide rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company or companies involved in the transaction. 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">Cash Deposit Requirements</HD> The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the companies subject to this review will be the rate established in these final results of the review; (2) for previously investigated or reviewed Chinese and non-Chinese exporters not listed above that have separate rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-specific rate published for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in which they were reviewed; (3) for all Chinese exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin for the China-wide entity ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> 241.02 percent); and (4) for all non-Chinese exporters of subject merchandise which have not received ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 13k characters. 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