Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From Ecuador: Initiation of Expedited Review of the Countervailing Duty Order

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[C-331-806]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From Ecuador: Initiation of Expedited Review of the Countervailing Duty Order</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 initiating an expedited review of the countervailing duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) from Ecuador. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable March 6, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Reginald Anadio or Zachary Shaykin, AD/CVD Operations, Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3166 or (202) 482-2638, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On December 26, 2024, Commerce published the countervailing duty order on shrimp from Ecuador. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On January 24, 2025, Commerce received requests for an expedited review of the <E T="03">Order</E> from six companies: Empacadora del Pacifico S.A. (Edpacif); Nirsa S.A. (Nirsa); Procesadora Posorja S.A. (Proposorja); Productos Perecibles y Marisco S.A. (Propemar); Exportadora Total Seafood S.A. (Total Seafood); and Natluk S.A. (Natluk). <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> These companies, which were not selected for individual examination during the investigation, made these requests pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(l). <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Indonesia: Antidumping Duty Order; Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador, India, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Countervailing Duty Orders,</E> 89 FR 104982 (December 26, 2024) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Edpacif's Letter, “Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador—Empacadora del Pacifico's Request for Expedited Review,” dated January 24, 2025; <E T="03">see also</E> Nirsa and Proposorja's Letter, “Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador—Nirsa's and Proposorja's Requests for Expedited Review,” dated January 24, 2025; Propemar's Letter, “Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador—Propemar's Request for Expedited Review,” dated January 24, 2025; Total Seafood's Letter, “Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador—Total Seafood's Request for Expedited Review,” dated January 24, 2025; and Natluk's Letter, “Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador—Natluk's Request for Expedited Review,” dated January 24, 2025. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Period of Review</HD> As specified by 19 CFR 351.214(l)(3)(i), the period of review will be the same as the original period of investigation, <E T="03">i.e.,</E> January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope of the Review</HD> The merchandise covered by this expedited review is shrimp from Ecuador. For a full description of the scope of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the appendix to this notice. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Filing Requirements</HD> All submissions to Commerce must be filed electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS), unless an exemption applies. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> An electronically filed document must be received successfully in its entirety by the time and date it is due. <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures; Administrative Protective Order Procedures,</E> 76 FR 39263 (July 6, 2011); <E T="03">see also Enforcement and Compliance; Change of Electronic Filing System Name,</E> 79 FR 69046 (November 20, 2014), for details of Commerce's electronic filing requirements, effective August 5, 2011. Information on using ACCESS can be found at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/help.aspx</E> and a handbook can be found at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/help/Handbook_on_Electronic_Filing_Procedures.pdf.</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Initiation of Expedited Review</HD> In accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(l)(1)(i)-(iii), each company that requested a review certified that it exported the subject merchandise to the United States during the period of investigation; that it was not affiliated with an exporter or producer that Commerce individually examined in the investigation; and that it informed the Government of Ecuador, as the government of the exporting country, that the government will be required to provide a full response to Commerce's countervailing duty questionnaire. Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(k), we are initiating an expedited review of the countervailing duty order on shrimp from Ecuador. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(i)(1) (l)(3), we intend to issue the preliminary results of this expedited review not later than 180 days from the date of initiation of this review. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>  Under 19 CFR 351.214(k)(i)(2), this period may be extended to 300 days. </FTNT> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(l)(3)(ii), the final results of this expedited review will not be the basis for the assessment of countervailing duties. Instead, this expedited review is intended to establish individual cash deposit rates for those companies that requested an expedited review, or to exclude from the countervailing duty order a company for which the final results of expedited review are zero or <E T="03">de minimis,</E> as provided in 19 CFR 351.214(l)(3)(iii). Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(f), we will rescind the expedited review for any company that withdraws its request for expedited review within 60 days after the date of publication of this notice of initiation. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Submission of Factual Information</HD> Factual information is defined in 19 CFR 351.102(b)(21) as: (i) evidence submitted in response to questionnaires; (ii) evidence submitted in support of allegations; (iii) publicly available information to value factors under 19 CFR 351.408(c) or to measure the adequacy of remuneration under 19 CFR 351.511(a)(2); (iv) evidence placed on the record by Commerce; and (v) evidence other than factual information described in (i)-(iv). Section 351.301(b) of Commerce's regulations requires any party, when submitting factual information, to specify under which subsection of 19 CFR 351.102(b)(21) the information is being submitted  <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> and, if the information is submitted to rebut, clarify, or correct factual information already on the record, to provide an explanation identifying the information already on the record that the factual information seeks to rebut, clarify, or correct. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> Time limits for the submission of factual information are addressed in 19 CFR 351.301, which provides specific time limits based on the type of factual information being submitted. Interested parties should review the regulations prior to submitting factual information in this review. <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.301(b). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.301(b)(2). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Extension of Time Limits</HD> Parties may request an extension of time limits before the expiration of a time limit established under 19 CFR 351.301, or as otherwise specified by Commerce. In general, an extension request will be considered untimely if it is filed after the expiration of the time limit established under 19 CFR 351.301, or as otherwise specified by Commerce. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> For submissions that are due from multiple parties simultaneously, an extension request will be considered untimely if it is filed after 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on the due date. Under certain circumstances, Commerce may elect to specify a different time limit by which extension requests will be considered untimely for submissions which are due from multiple parties simultaneously. In such a case, we will inform parties in a letter or memorandum of the deadline (including a specified time) by which extension requests must be filed to be considered timely. An extension request must be made in a separate, standalone submission; under limited circumstances we will grant untimely filed requests for the extension of time limits, where we determine, based on 19 CFR 351.302, that extraordinary circumstances exist. Parties should review Commerce's regulations concerning the extension of time limits and the <E T="03">Time Limits Final Rule</E> prior to submitting factual information in these investigations. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.301; <E T="03">see also Extension of Time Limits; Final Rule,</E> 78 FR 57790 (September 20, 2013) ( <E T="03">Time Limits Final Rule</E> ), available at <E T="03">https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-09-20/html/2013-22853.html.</E> </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.302; <E T="03">see also, e.g., Time Limits Final Rule.</E> </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Certification Requirements</HD> Any party submitting factual information in an antidumping or countervailing duty proceeding must certify the accuracy and completeness of that information. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Parties must use the certification formats provided in 19 CFR 351.303(g). <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce intends to reject factual submissions if the submitting party does not comply with the applicable certification requirements. <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> section 782(b) of the Act. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See Certification of Factual Information to Import Administration During Antidumping and Countervailing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 15k characters. 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