Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin From the Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-523-810]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin From the Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary Results of 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 OCTAL SAOC FZC (OCTAL), the mandatory respondent in this administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on polyethylene terephthalate resin (PET resin) from the Sultanate of Oman (Oman), sold subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results of this administrative review. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable September 11, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Dylan Hill, 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) 482-1197, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On May 6, 2016, Commerce published the AD order on PET resin from Oman. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> On May 2, 2024, Commerce notified interested parties of an opportunity to request an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> covering the POR. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> Based on timely requests for review, in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), on July 5, 2024, Commerce initiated an administrative review of the <E T="03">Order</E> with respect to OCTAL covering the POR. <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> On July 22, and December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days and 90 days, respectively. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> On May 5, 2025, Commerce extended the deadline for these preliminary results of review until September 5, 2025. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from Canada, the People's Republic of China, India, and the Sultanate of Oman: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination (Sultanate of Oman) and Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 81 FR 27979 (May 6, 2016) ( <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> 89 FR 35778 (May 2, 2024). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>  While Commerce initiated this administrative review with respect to OCTAL and OCTAL Inc., OCTAL Inc. is OCTAL's affiliated U.S. importer, and as such, Commerce should not have included OCTAL Inc. in the <E T="03">Initiation.</E> We intend to correct this error in the next notice of initiation of antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews. <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 55567, 55572 (July 5, 2024) ( <E T="03">Initiation</E> ); <E T="03">see also</E> OCTAL's Letter, “OCTAL SAOC-FZC Section A Response,” dated September 3, 2024, at 8. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memoranda, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024, and “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated December 9, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated May 5, 2025. </FTNT> For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as an appendix to this notice. 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> 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>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from the Sultanate of Oman; 2023-2024,” 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 PET resin having an intrinsic viscosity of at least 0.70, but not more than 0.88, deciliters per gram. For a full description of the scope of the <E T="03">Order, see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) the Act. In conducting the review, we calculated export and constructed export prices and NV in accordance with sections 772 and 773 of the Act, respectively. For a full description of the methodology underlying the preliminary results of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of Review</HD> We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024: <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s25,9C"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Producer/exporter</CHED> <ENT>3.06</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">  While Commerce initiated this administrative review with respect to OCTAL SAOC FZC and OCTAL Inc., OCTAL Inc. is OCTAL's affiliated U.S. importer, and as such, Commerce should not have included OCTAL Inc. in the <E T="03">Initiation Notice.</E> </FTNT> Commerce intends to disclose its calculations for the preliminary results of review to parties to the proceeding within five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public announcement, 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">Public Comment</HD> Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), we have modified the deadline for interested parties to submit case briefs to Commerce to no later than 21 days after the date of the publication of this notice in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> . Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the due date for filing case briefs. <SU>9</SU> <FTREF/> Parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are encouraged to submit with each argument: (1) a statement of the issue; and (2) a table of authorities. <SU>10</SU> <FTREF/> All briefs must be filed electronically using ACCESS. An electronically filed document must be received successfully in its entirety in ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established deadline. <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(d); <E T="03">see also Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,</E> 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023) ( <E T="03">APO and Service Final Rule</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>10</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). </FTNT> As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior proceedings we have encouraged interested parties to provide an executive summary of their brief that should be limited to five pages total, including footnotes. In this review, we instead request that interested parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs. <SU>11</SU> <FTREF/> Further, we request that interested parties limit their executive summary of each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We intend to use the executive summaries as the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision memorandum that will accompany the final results in this administrative review. We request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant citations in the executive summary of each issue. Note that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f). <SU>12</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>11</SU>  We use the term “issue” here to describe an argument that Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and Decision Memorandum. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>12</SU>   <E T="03">See APO and Service Final Rule,</E> 88 FR at 67070. </FTNT> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to request a hearing must submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed electronically via ACCESS. Requests should contain: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. An ele ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 17k characters. 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