Certain Aluminum Foil From the Republic of Türkiye: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-489-844]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Aluminum Foil From the Republic of Türkiye: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, 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 finds that certain producers/exporters subject to this administrative review made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) November 1, 2022, through October 31, 2023. Additionally, Commerce is rescinding the review, in part, with respect to two companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable December 13, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Christopher Williams or Bryan Hansen, AD/CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5166 or (202) 482-3683, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On November 12, 2021, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the antidumping duty order on certain aluminum foil (aluminum foil) from the Republic of Türkiye (Türkiye). <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On November 2, 2023, we published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> for the POR. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On December 29, 2023, based on timely requests for an administrative review, Commerce initiated an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> with respect to six companies. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On January 26, 2023, Commerce selected the Assan Single Entity  <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> and ASAS Aluminyum Sanayi Ve Ticaret (ASAS) as the mandatory respondents in this administrative review. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> On March 28, 2024, the Aluminum Association Trade Enforcement Working Group (the petitioners) and ASAS withdrew their review requests for ASAS. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> On April 8, 2024, Commerce selected Panda Aluminyum A.S. (Panda) as a replacement mandatory respondent in this administrative review. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Aluminum Foil from the Republic of Armenia, Brazil, the Sultanate of Oman, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Türkiye: Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 86 FR 62790 (November 12, 2021) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List,</E> 88 FR 75270 (November 2, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 88 FR 90168, 90172 (December 29, 2023) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). Three of these six companies comprise a single entity. <E T="03">See</E> footnote 4, <E T="03">infra.</E> </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>  Commerce previously determined that Assan Aluminyum Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Kibar Dis Ticaret A.S., and Ispak Esnek Ambalaj Sanayi A.S., comprise the Assan Single Entity. <E T="03">See Certain Aluminum Foil from the Republic of Türkiye: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,</E> 86 FR 52880 n.10 (September 23, 2021); <E T="03">see also Initiation Notice,</E> 88 FR 51 (“Commerce will not conduct collapsing analyses at the respondent selection phase of this review and will not collapse companies at the respondent selection phase unless there has been a determination to collapse certain companies in a previous segment of this {antidumping duty} proceeding ( <E T="03">e.g.,</E> investigation, administrative review, new shipper review, or changed circumstances review).”). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Respondent Selection,” dated January 30, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> ASAS' Letter, “Withdrawal of Request for Administrative Review;” and the Petitioners Letter, “Petitioners' Partial Withdrawal of Request for Review,” both dated March 28, 2024 (collectively, the ASAS Withdrawal Letters). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Selection of a Replacement Mandatory Respondent,” dated April 8, 2024. </FTNT> On July 11, 2024, Commerce extended the time limit for these preliminary results to November 29, 2024. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. The deadline for the preliminary results is now December 6, 2024. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> For a complete description of the events following the initiation of the administrative review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,” dated July 11, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The merchandise covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> is aluminum foil from Türkiye. For a complete description of the scope of this <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an administrative review, in whole or in part, if the parties that requested the review withdraw their review requests within 90 days of the date of publication of the notice of initiation for the requested review. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> On March 28, 2024, the petitioners and ASAS withdrew their review requests for ASAS within the 90-day deadline. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> No other parties requested an administrative review of ASAS. <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation Notice,</E> 88 FR 90169. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> the ASAS Withdrawal Letters. </FTNT> Also, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is Commerce's practice to rescind an administrative review of an antidumping duty order where it concludes that there were no suspended entries of subject merchandise during the POR. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended entries are liquidated at the antidumping duty assessment rate for the review period. <SU>14</SU> <FTREF/> Therefore, for an administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry that Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the calculated antidumping duty assessment rate for the review period. <SU>15</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to rescind the instant review regarding <E T="03">Ilda Pack Ambalaj</E> because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise from this company during the POR and invited interested parties to comment. <SU>16</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Certain Carbon and Alloy Steel Cut-to Length Plate from the Federal Republic of Germany: Recission of Antidumping Administrative Review; 2020-2021,</E> 88 FR 4154 (January 24, 2023). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>14</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>15</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Shanghai Sunbeauty Trading Co.</E> v. <E T="03">United States,</E> 380 F. Supp. 3d 1328, 1337 (CIT 2019), at 12 (referring to section 751(a) of the Act, the U.S. Court of International Trade held that “{w}hile the statute does not explicitly require that an entry be suspended as a prerequisite for establishing entitlement to a review, it does explicitly state the determined rate will be used as the liquidation rate for the reviewed entries. This result can only obtain if the liquidation of entries has been suspended”; <E T="03">see also Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2018-2019,</E> 86 FR 36102, and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comment 4; and <E T="03">Solid Fertilizer Grade Ammonium Nitrate from the Russian Federation: Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,</E> 77 FR 65532 (October 29, 2012) (noting that “for an administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry to be liquidated at the newly calculated assessment rate”). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>16</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data Release,” dated January 3, 2024; <E T="03">see also</E> Memorandum, “Intent to Rescind Review, in Part,” dated January 31, 2024. </FTNT> No parties commented on our intent to rescind. 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