Pure Magnesium 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-570-832]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Pure Magnesium 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) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on pure magnesium from the People's Republic of China (China). We determine that Tianjin Magnesium Metal Co., Ltd. (MMC) and Tianjin Magnesium International Co., Ltd. (TMI) made sales at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable December 13, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> John Conniff, AD/CVD Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1009. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On June 5, 2024, Commerce published the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> and invited interested parties to comment. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On September 24, 2024, Commerce extended the final results by 25 days until November 14, 2024. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On November 8, 2024, Commerce extended the final results by 22 days until December 6, 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>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Pure Magnesium from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2022-2023,</E> 89 FR 48149 (June 5, 2024) ( <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> ) and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM). </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> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated September 24, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated November 8, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Issues and Decision Memorandum for Pure Magnesium from the People's Republic of China; 2022-2023,” 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 Orders: Pure Magnesium from the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation and Ukraine; Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Antidumping Duty Investigation of Pure Magnesium from the Russian Federation</E> , 60 FR 25691 (May 12, 1995) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> The product covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is pure magnesium from China, regardless of chemistry, form or size, unless expressly excluded from the scope of the <E T="03">Order.</E> For a complete description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Issues and Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Analysis of Comments Received</HD> The issues raised by MMC/TMI and the petitioner in their case and rebuttal briefs are listed in the appendix to this notice and addressed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum. 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 at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Changes Since the Preliminary Results</HD> Based on our review and analysis of the comments received from the interested parties, we made several changes to the <E T="03">Preliminary Results</E> margin calculation for MMC/TMI which resulted in a change to its preliminary margin. <HD SOURCE="HD1">The China-Wide Entity</HD> In accordance with Commerce's policy, the China-wide entity will not be under review unless a party specifically requests, or Commerce self-initiates, a review of the China-wide entity. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> As stated in the <E T="03">Preliminary Results,</E> because no party requested a review of the China-wide entity, 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> 111.73 percent, is not subject to change. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> Moreover, we determine that MMC/TMI is eligible for a separate rate and thus not part of the China-wide entity. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 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, 78 FR 65963, 65969-70 (November 4, 2013). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Pure Magnesium from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the 2008-2009 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order, 75 FR 80791 (December 23, 2010) (Pure Magnesium 2008-2009 Final); see also Preliminary Results, 89 FR at 48150. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>  In the 2011-2012 administrative review, Commerce collapsed both TMI and MMC into a single entity. <E T="03">See Pure Magnesium from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2011-2012</E> , 79 FR 94 (January 2, 2014), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at fn 1. Because there is no information on the record of this administrative review that would lead us to revisit this determination, we are continuing to treat these companies as part of a single entity for the purposes of this administrative review. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Final Results of Review</HD> Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,9C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter</CHED> <ENT I="01">Tianjin Magnesium International Co., Ltd./Tianjin Magnesium Metal Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>32.60</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Commerce intends to disclose to parties to the proceeding the calculations performed for these final results of 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). <HD SOURCE="HD1">Assessment Rates</HD> Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with these final results of review. Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date of publication of these final results 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). For MMC/TMI, which have a final weighted-average dumping margin that is not zero or <E T="03">de minimis</E> ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> less than 0.5 percent), we will calculate importer-specific assessment rates, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), where the respondent reported the entered value of its U.S. sales, we will calculate importer-specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the examined sales to the total entered value of the sales for which entered value was reported. Where the respondent did not report entered value, we will calculate importer-specific per-unit duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of antidumping duties calculated for the examined sales to the total quantity of those sales. To determine whether an importer-specific per-unit assessment rate is <E T="03">de minimis</E> in accordance with 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), we will also calculate an importer-specific <E T="03">ad valorem</E> ratio based on estimated entered values. Pursuant to a refinement in our non-market economy practice, for sales that were not reported in the U.S. sales data submitted by MMC/TMI, we will instruction CBP to liquidate entries associated with those sales at the rate for the China-wide entity. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Cash Deposit Requirements</HD> The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon publication of the final results of this review for shipments of the subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) for MMC/TMI, which has a separate rate, the c ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 13k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━