<NOTICE>
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
<SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY>
<DEPDOC>[A-570-156, C-570-157, A-588-881]</DEPDOC>
<SUBJECT>Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates From Japan and the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Order; Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates From the People's Republic of China: Countervailing Duty Order</SUBJECT>
<HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD>
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
<SUM>
<HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD>
Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing the antidumping duty (AD) orders on aluminum lithographic printing plates (printing plates) from the People's Republic of China (China) and Japan and a countervailing duty (CVD) order on printing plates from China.
</SUM>
<DATES>
<HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD>
Applicable November 22, 2024.
</DATES>
<FURINF>
<HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD>
Benito Ballesteros (AD China), Caroline Carroll (AD Japan), and Ajay Menon (CVD China), AD/CVD Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-7435; (202) 482-4948, and (202) 482-0208, respectively.
</FURINF>
<SUPLINF>
<HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD>
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD>
In accordance with sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), on September 27, 2024, Commerce published its affirmative final determinations of sales at less than fair value (LTFV) for printing plates from China and Japan,
<SU>1</SU>
<FTREF/>
and its affirmative final determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of printing plates from China.
<SU>2</SU>
<FTREF/>
<FTNT>
<SU>1</SU>
<E T="03">See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair-Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances,</E>
89 FR 79256 (September 27, 2024) (
<E T="03">China Final LTFV Determination</E>
); and
<E T="03">Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from Japan: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair-Value,</E>
89 FR 79250 (September 27, 2024).
</FTNT>
<FTNT>
<SU>2</SU>
<E T="03">See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances,</E>
89 FR 79248 (September 27, 2024).
</FTNT>
On November 12, 2024, pursuant to sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative determinations that an industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of dumped imports of printing plates from China and Japan, and subsidized imports of printing plates from China, within the meaning of sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.
<SU>3</SU>
<FTREF/>
On November 18, 2024, the ITC published its final determinations in the
<E T="04">Federal Register</E>
.
<SU>4</SU>
<FTREF/>
Further, the ITC determined that critical circumstances do not exist with respect to LTFV imports and subsidized imports of printing plates from China.
<SU>5</SU>
<FTREF/>
<FTNT>
<SU>3</SU>
<E T="03">See</E>
ITC's Letter, “Notification of ITC Final Determination,” dated November 12, 2024 (ITC Notification Letter).
</FTNT>
<FTNT>
<SU>4</SU>
<E T="03">See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from China and Japan: Determinations</E>
89 FR 90737 (November 18, 2024).
</FTNT>
<FTNT>
<SU>5</SU>
<E T="03">Id.</E>
</FTNT>
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Orders</HD>
The products covered by these orders are printing plates from China and Japan. For a complete description of the scope of the orders,
<E T="03">see</E>
the appendix to this notice.
<HD SOURCE="HD1">AD Orders</HD>
On November 12, 2024, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its final determinations that an industry in the United States is materially injured within the meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of imports of printing plates from China and Japan that are sold in the United States at LTFV.
<SU>6</SU>
<FTREF/>
Therefore, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act, Commerce is issuing these AD orders. Because the ITC determined that imports of printing plates from China and Japan are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such merchandise from China and Japan, entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, are subject to the assessment of antidumping duties.
<FTNT>
<SU>6</SU>
<E T="03">See</E>
ITC Notification Letter.
</FTNT>
Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties equal to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise on all relevant entries of printing plates from China and Japan. Antidumping duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of printing plates entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 1, 2024, the date of publication of the
<E T="03">LTFV Preliminary Determinations,</E>
<SU>7</SU>
<FTREF/>
but will not include entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and before publication of the ITC's final injury determination, as further described below.
<FTNT>
<SU>7</SU>
<E T="03">See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, and Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional Measures,</E>
89 FR 35062 (May 1, 2024) (
<E T="03">China LTFV Preliminary Determination</E>
); and
<E T="03">Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from Japan: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures,</E>
89 FR 35065 (May 1, 2024) (collectively,
<E T="03">LTFV Preliminary Determinations</E>
).
</FTNT>
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Critical Circumstances—AD China</HD>
With respect to the ITC's negative critical circumstances determination on imports of printing plates from China, we will instruct CBP to lift suspension and to refund any cash deposits made to secure the payment of estimated antidumping duties with respect to entries of the subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after February 1, 2024 (
<E T="03">i.e.,</E>
90 days prior to the date of the publication of the
<E T="03">China LTFV Preliminary Determination</E>
), but before May 1, 2024 (
<E T="03">i.e.,</E>
the date of
publication of the
<E T="03">China LTFV Preliminary Determination</E>
).
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits—AD</HD>
Except as noted in the “Provisional Measures—AD” section of this notice, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation on all relevant entries of printing plates from China and Japan, in accordance with section 736 of the Act. These instructions suspending liquidations will remain in effect until further notice.
Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins indicated in the tables below, adjusted by the relevant export subsidy offsets. Accordingly, effective on the date of publication in the
<E T="04">Federal Register</E>
of the notice of the ITC's final affirmative injury determination, CBP must require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated customs duties on subject merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed in the tables below.
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins</HD>
The estimated weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:
<FTREF/>
<FTNT>
<SU>8</SU>
<E T="03">See China Final LTFV Determination,</E>
89 FR 79257.
</FTNT>
<GPOTABLE COLS="4" OPTS="L2,i1" CDEF="s50,r50,14,14">
<TTITLE>China</TTITLE>
<CHED H="1">Exporter</CHED>
<CHED H="1">Producer</CHED>
<ENT I="01">Fujifilm Printing Plate (China) Co., Ltd</ENT>
<ENT>Fujifilm Printing Plate (China) Co., Ltd</ENT>
<ENT>115.85</ENT>
<ENT>115.84</ENT>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENT I="01">China-wide Entity</ENT>
<ENT/>
<ENT>317.44</ENT>
<ENT>317.43</ENT>
</ROW>
</GPOTABLE>
<GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,i1" CDEF="s100,14">
<TTITLE>Japan</TTITLE>
<CHED H="1">Exporter/producer</CHED>
<ENT I="01">Fujifilm Corporation; Fujifilm Shizuoka Co., Ltd</ENT>
<ENT>91.83</ENT>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENT I="01">Miraclon Corporation Ltd</ENT>
<ENT>160.11</ENT>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<ENT I="01">All Others</ENT>
<ENT>91.83</ENT>
</ROW>
</GPOTABLE>
<HD SOURCE="HD1">Provisional Measures—AD</HD>
Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months. At the request of exporters that accounted for a significant proportion of exports of printing plates from China and Japan, Commerce extended the four-month period to no more than six months.
<SU>9</SU>
<FTREF/>
In the underlying investigations, Commerce published the
<E T="03">LTFV Preliminary Determinations</E
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