Certain Activated Carbon From the People's Republic of China: Amended 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: Amended 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 amending the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain activated carbon (activated carbon) from the People's Republic of China (China) to correct ministerial errors. Based on the amended final results, we find that the companies under review sold activated carbon in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable December 26, 2024. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Andrew Hart or Katherine 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 November 25, 2024, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the final results of the 2022-2023 administrative review of the AD order on activated carbon from China. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On November 20, 2024, we received a timely submitted ministerial error allegation from the mandatory respondents, Jilin Bright Future Chemicals Co., Ltd. (Jilin Bright) and Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd. (GHC). <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On November 25, 2024, Calgon Carbon Corporation and Norit Americas Inc. (the petitioners), submitted comments in response to the ministerial error allegations filed on behalf of GHC and Jilin Bright. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> We received no other ministerial error comments from interested parties. Commerce is amending the <E T="03">Final Results</E> to correct the ministerial errors. <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Activated Carbon from the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,</E> 89 FR 92893 (November 25, 2024) ( <E T="03">Final Results</E> ), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Jilin Bright's Letter, “Ministerial Error Allegations,” dated November 20, 2024 (Jilin Bright's Ministerial Error Allegation); <E T="03">see also</E> GHC's Letter, “Ningxia Guanghua Cherishment Ministerial Error Allegations,” dated November 20, 2024 (GHC's Ministerial Error Allegation). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Petitioners' Letter, “Petitioners' Response to GHC's Ministerial Error Allegation,” dated November 25, 2024; <E T="03">see also</E> Petitioners' Letter, “Petitioners' Response to Jilin Bright's Ministerial Error Allegation,” dated November 25, 2024. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Legal Framework</HD> Section 751(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), defines a “ministerial error” as including “errors in addition, subtraction, or other arithmetic function, clerical errors resulting from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the like, and any other unintentional error which the administering authority considers ministerial.”  <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> With respect to final results of administrative reviews, 19 CFR 351.224(e) provides that Commerce “will analyze any comments received and, if appropriate, correct any . . . ministerial error by amending the final results of review . . .” <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.224(f). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Ministerial Error</HD> Commerce reviewed the record, and we agree that the errors alleged by the mandatory respondents constitute ministerial errors within the meaning of section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f). <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> Specifically, we find that we made inadvertent errors related to the inclusion of two selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) expenses in the average financial ratios utilized in the review. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> We also agree with GHC's allegation related to the incorrect surrogate value being applied to a factor of production. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e), Commerce is amending the <E T="03">Final Results</E> to reflect the correction of the ministerial errors, as described in the Ministerial Error Memorandum. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> Based on the corrections, Jilin Bright's final dumping margin changed from 1.95 dollars per kilogram to 1.90 dollars per kilogram and GHC's final dumping margin changed from 1.21 dollars per kilogram to 1.10 dollars per kilogram. As a result, we are also revising the rate assigned to the non-individually examined separate rate companies, utilizing the same methodology in the <E T="03">Final Results,</E> <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> from 1.44 dollars per kilogram to 1.35 dollars per kilogram. The amended estimated weighted-average dumping margins are listed in the “Amended Final Determination” section below. <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Analysis of Ministerial Error Allegation,” dated concurrently with this <E T="04">Federal Register</E> notice (Ministerial Error Memorandum). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Jilin Bright's Ministerial Error Allegation at 2-3; <E T="03">see also</E> GHC's Ministerial Error Allegation at 3-4. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> GHC's Ministerial Error Allegation at 2-3. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Analysis of Ministerial Error Allegation,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Ministerial Error Memorandum); <E T="03">see also</E> Memorandum, “Amended Final Analysis Memorandum for Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd.;” Memorandum, “Amended Final Analysis Memorandum for Jilin Bright Future Chemicals Co., Ltd.;” and Memorandum, “Calculation of the Amended Final Margin for Respondents Not Selected for Individual Examination,” all dated concurrently with this notice. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</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). </FTNT> For a complete discussion of the ministerial error allegation, as well as Commerce's analysis, <E T="03">see</E> the accompanying Ministerial Error Memorandum. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> The Ministerial Error Memorandum is on file electronically via ACCESS. ACCESS is available to registered users at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov.</E> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">Id.</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Amended Final Results of Review</HD> As a result of correcting these ministerial errors described above, 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="s50,20"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average dumping margin (U.S. dollars per kilogram)  <SU>11</SU> </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Jilin Bright Future Chemicals Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>1.90</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd</ENT> <ENT>1.10</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01"> Separate Rate Applicable For Non-Selected Companies Under Review  <SU>12</SU> </ENT> <ENT>1.35</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, 75 FR 70208, 70211</E> (November 17, 2010). <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> the appendix for the list of non-individually examined companies receiving a separate rate. </FTNT> Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in connection with these amended final results of review to interested parties within five days after public announcement of the amended final results or, if there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of the notice of amended 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 amended 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>13</SU> <FTREF/> For the respondents that were not selected for individual examination in this administrative review but qualified for a separate rate, the per unit assessment rate will be the rate established for these companies in these amended final results of review. <FTNT> <SU>13</SU>  For a full discussion of this practice, ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 16k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━