Certain Activated Carbon 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-570-904]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Activated Carbon 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 the mandatory respondents under review sold certain activated carbon (activated carbon) to the United States from the People's Republic of China (China) at prices below normal value during the period of review (POR), April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable November 25, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Andrew Hart or Kathrine Smith, AD/CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1058 or (202) 482-0557, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On May 2, 2024, Commerce published in the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> and invited parties to comment. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> The review covers two mandatory respondents Jilin Bright Future Chemicals Co., Ltd. (Jilin Bright), and Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd. (GHC). We received case and rebuttal briefs from GHC, Jilin Bright, and Calgon Carbon Corporation and Norit Americas Inc. (collectively, the petitioners). <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Activated Carbon from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,</E> 89 FR 35797 (May 2, 2024) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> ), and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Petitioners' Letter, “Case Brief of Petitioners Concerning Jilin Bright,” dated June 12, 2024; <E T="03">see also</E> Petitioners' Letter, “Case Brief of Petitioners Concerning GHC,” dated June 12, 2024; GHC's Letter, “Case Brief of Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd.,” dated June 12, 2024; Jilin Bright's Letter, “Case Brief of Jilin Bright,” dated June 12, 2024; Petitioner's Letter, “Petitioners' Rebuttal Brief,” dated July 2, 2024; GHC's Letter, “Rebuttal Brief of Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd.,” dated July 2, 2024; and Jilin Bright's Letter, “Rebuttal Case Brief of Jilin Bright,” dated July 2, 2024. </FTNT> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On August 21, 2024, Commerce extended the deadline for the final results until November 5, 2024. <SU>4</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>5</SU> <FTREF/> <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> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Final Results of 2022-2023 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated August 21, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</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 Activated Carbon 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">6</E> <E T="03">See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Activated Carbon from the People's Republic of China,</E> 72 FR 20988 (April 27, 2007) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The product subject to the <E T="03">Order</E> is activated carbon from China. A full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order</E> is contained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> All issues raised in briefs filed by parties in this administrative review are addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum and are listed in Appendix I to this notice. The Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and 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">Separate Rate</HD> Commerce determines that GHC and Jilin Bright, the two companies individually examined in this review, and 12 companies not individually examined are eligible to receive separate rates in this review. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See Preliminary Results</E> at “Separate Rates” section. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">China-Wide Entity</HD> Under Commerce's policy regarding the conditional review of the China-wide entity, <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> 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, and Commerce did not self-initiate a review of the entity, the entity is not under review, and the entity's rate ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> 2.42 U.S. dollars per kilogram (USD/kg)) is not subject to change. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce continues to consider certain companies for which a review was requested and which did not demonstrate separate rate eligibility, listed in Appendix II to this notice, to be part of the China-wide entity. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>8</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>9</SU>   <E T="03">See Order.</E> </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</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; <E T="03">see also Preliminary Results</E> PDM at 13. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Results</HD> Based on our review of the record and comments received from interested parties on the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> and for the reasons explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, we made certain changes to the margin calculations for both GHC and Jilin Bright. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comments 1, 4, and 7. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Review</HD> For the companies subject to this review that established their eligibility for a separate rate, Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s50,12"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter</CHED> <ENT I="01">Jilin Bright Future Chemicals Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>1.95</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>1.21</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01"> Review-Specific Rate Applicable for Non-Selected Companies Under Review  <SU>13</SU> </ENT> <ENT>1.44</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">  In the second administrative review of the <E T="03">Order,</E> Commerce determined that it would calculate per-unit weighted-average dumping margins and assessment amounts for all future reviews. <E T="03">See Certain Activated Carbon from the People's Republic of China: Final Results and Partial Rescission of Second Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,</E> 75 FR 70208, 70211 (November 17, 2010). <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> appendix II. </FTNT> Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in connection with these final results of review to interested parties within five days after 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> , in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment Rates</HD> Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review. For the GHC and Jilin Bright, Commerce will calculate importer-specific assessment rates for antidumping duties, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). For entries that were not reported in the U.S. sales database submitted by the exporter individually examined during this review, Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate such entries at the China-wide rate. <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>14</SU>  For a full discussion of this practice, <E T="03">see Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,</E> 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011). </FTNT> For the respondents that were not selected for individual examination in this administrative review but qualified for a separate rate, the per uni ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 16k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━