Certain Corrosion Inhibitors From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-570-122]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Certain Corrosion Inhibitors From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024</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 determines that the companies under review sold certain corrosion inhibitors (corrosion inhibitors) at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) March 1, 2023, through February 29, 2024. Further, Commerce is rescinding this review with respect to one company. Commerce invites interested parties to comment on the preliminary results of this review. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable January 2, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Dusten Hom or Blair Hood, 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) 482-5075 or (202) 482-8329, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On March 19, 2021, Commerce published in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain corrosion inhibitors from the People's Republic of China (China). <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On March 2, 2023, Commerce 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> <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> On May 8, 2024, based on timely requests for an administrative review, Commerce initiated this administrative review of the <E T="03">Order.</E> <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> This administrative review covers 10 companies, including two mandatory respondents, Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd. (ATC) and Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd. (Botao)  <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> On August 8, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative review by seven days. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> On November 21, 2024, Commerce extended the deadline for issuing the preliminary results of this review until December 23, 2024. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline to issue the preliminary results in this administrative review by 90 days. Accordingly, the deadline for the preliminary results of this review is now March 24, 2025. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order,</E> 86 FR 14869 (March 19, 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,</E> 89 FR 15159 (March 1, 2024). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 38871 (May 8, 2024) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic of China: “Respondent Selection,” dated June 22, 2023. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated August 8, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated November 21, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated December 9, 2024. </FTNT> For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this administrative review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> The Preliminary 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> A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included in Appendix I to this notice. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.</E> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for Preliminary Results of the 2023-2024 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic of China,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Order</HD> The products covered by the <E T="03">Order</E> are corrosion inhibitors from China. For a full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>  See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at the “Scope” section for more details. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rescission of 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 party that requested a review withdraws its request within 90 days of the date of publication of the notice of initiation. On June 5, 2024, Wincom Inc. (the petitioner) timely withdrew its request for review of Jiangyin Delian Chemical Co., Ltd. (Delian) within 90 days of the date of publication of the <E T="03">Initiation Notice.</E> <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> As a result, Commerce is rescinding this review with respect to Delian, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1). <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Petitioner's Letter, “Withdrawal of Request For Administrative Review,” dated June 5, 2024. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Commerce calculated export price in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Further, because China is a non-market economy (NME) country within the meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, Commerce calculated NV in accordance with section 773(c) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our preliminary results, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Separate Rates</HD> In all proceedings involving a NME country, Commerce maintains a rebuttable presumption that all companies are subject to government control and, thus, should be assessed a single weighted-average dumping margin unless the company can affirmatively demonstrate an absence of government control, both in law ( <E T="03">de jure</E> ) and in fact ( <E T="03">de facto</E> ), with respect to its exports ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> can affirmatively demonstrate that it is eligible for a separate rate). <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce has preliminarily determined that information placed on the record by Gold Chemical Limited (Gold Chemical) demonstrates that this company is eligible for a separate rate. <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>   <E T="03">See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and Affirmative Critical Circumstances, In Part: Certain Lined Paper Products from the People's Republic of China,</E> 71 FR 53079, 53082 (September 8, 2006); <E T="03">see also Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Partial Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances: Diamond Sawblades and Parts Thereof from the People's Republic of China,</E> 71 FR 29303, 29307 (May 22, 2006). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Preliminary Decision Memorandum at the “Separate Rate Determination” section for more details. </FTNT> The statute and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment of a separate rate to be applied to companies not selected for individual examination when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in an investigation, for guidance when calculating the rate for separate-rate respondents which Commerce did not examine individually in an administrative review. Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act articulates a preference that Commerce is not to calculate an all-others rate using rates for individually examined respondents which are zero, <E T="03">de minimis,</E> or based entirely on facts available. For the preliminary results of this review, Commerce determined the estimated dumping margins for ATC and Botao to be 96.67 and 96.04 percent, respectively. For the reasons explained in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, we are assigning a 96.46 percent rate to the non-examined respondent, Gold Chemical, which qualifies for a separate rate in this review, consistent with Commerce's practice and section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. <HD SOURCE="HD1">China-Wide Entity</HD> Commerce's policy regarding the conditional review of the China-wide entity applies to this administrative review. <SU>13</SU> <FTREF/> Under this policy, 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, the entity is not under re ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 25k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━