Notice of Scope Ruling Applications Filed in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <SUBJECT>Notice of Scope Ruling Applications Filed in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings</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) received scope ruling applications, requesting that scope inquiries be conducted to determine whether identified products are covered by the scope of antidumping duty (AD) and/or countervailing duty (CVD) orders and that Commerce issue scope rulings pursuant to those inquiries. In accordance with Commerce's regulations, we are notifying the public of the filing of the scope ruling applications listed below in the month of August 2025. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable September 24, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Yasmin Bordas, AD/CVD Operations, Customs Liaison Unit, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-3813. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Notice of Scope Ruling Applications</HD> In accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(d)(3), we are notifying the public of the following scope ruling applications related to AD and CVD orders and findings filed in or around the month of August 2025. This notification includes, for each scope application: (1) identification of the AD and/or CVD orders at issue (19 CFR 351.225(c)(1)); (2) concise public descriptions of the products at issue, including the physical characteristics (including chemical, dimensional and technical characteristics) of the products (19 CFR 351.225(c)(2)(ii)); (3) the countries where the products are produced and the countries from where the products are exported (19 CFR 351.225(c)(2)(i)(B)); (4) the full names of the applicants; and (5) the dates that the scope applications were filed with Commerce and the name of the scope segment on Commerce's online e-filing and document management system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Electronic Service System (ACCESS), where the scope applications can be found. <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> This notice does not include applications which have been rejected and not properly resubmitted. The scope ruling applications listed below are available on ACCESS at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov.</E> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws,</E> 86 FR 52300, 52316 (September 20, 2021) (“It is our expectation that the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> list will include, where appropriate, for each scope application the following data: (1) identification of the AD and/or CVD orders at issue; (2) a concise public summary of the product's description, including the physical characteristics (including chemical, dimensional and technical characteristics) of the product; (3) the country(ies) where the product is produced and the country from where the product is exported; (4) the full name of the applicant; and (5) the date that the scope application was filed with Commerce.”). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Scope Ruling Applications</HD> <FP SOURCE="FP-1"> Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the People's Republic of China (China) (A-570-016/C-570-017); Light Truck Tires;  <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> produced and exported from China; submitted by Transamerica Tire Co., Ltd. (Transamerica); August 25, 2025; ACCESS scope segment “Transamerica” </FP> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>  The products are new pneumatic light truck tires of rubber, radial, with a “LT” prefix or suffix in their sidewall markings, of a size that is not listed in the light truck section of the 2023, 2024, and 2025 Tire and Rim Association Year Books. The products have outer diameters ranging between 31-39 inches, section widths ranging between 11.5 and 15.5 inches, radial construction, and inner diameters ranging between 17 and 26 inches. The products have ply ratings between 10 and 12, load indices ranging between 100 and 128, and speed ratings of Q, P, or S. </FTNT> <FP SOURCE="FP-1"> Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet from China (A-570-073/C-570-074); Aluminum Composite Panels;  <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> produced and exported from China; submitted by Hong Kong Harbour Company Limited (HKH); August 28, 2025; ACCESS scope segment “HKH Aluminum Composite Panels” </FP> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>  The products are aluminum composite panels (a.k.a., aluminum composite materials). An aluminum composite panel consists of a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) core, sandwiched and permanently bonded between two aluminum coil sheets of 3003-H24 series. The material used for bonding the LDPE core and the aluminum coil sheets is adhesive film, which is coated on both sides of the LDPE core. The two aluminum coil sheets are painted in different colors, and the top layer aluminum sheet is additionally covered by a protective film. The total thickness of the aluminum composite panels at issue for this scope ruling is 3mm. Regarding the thickness of the aluminum coil sheets, the thickness of the top layer sheet is either 0.5mm or 0.3mm as it varies with specific products, whereas the bottom layer sheet is 0.3mm uniformly among all products. </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Notification to Interested Parties</HD> This list of scope ruling applications is not an identification of scope inquiries that have been initiated. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(d)(1), if Commerce has not rejected a scope ruling application nor initiated the scope inquiry within 30 days after the filing of the application, the application will be deemed accepted and a scope inquiry will be deemed initiated the following day—day 31. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce's practice generally dictates that where a deadline falls on a weekend, Federal holiday, or other non-business day, the appropriate deadline is the next business day. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> Accordingly, if the 30th day after the filing of the application falls on a non-business day, the next business day will be considered the “updated” 30th day, and if the application is not rejected or a scope inquiry initiated by or on that particular business day, the application will be deemed accepted and a scope inquiry will be deemed initiated on the next business day which follows the “updated” 30th day. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>  In accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(d)(2), within 30 days after the filing of a scope ruling application, if Commerce determines that it intends to address the scope issue raised in the application in another segment of the proceeding (such as a circumvention inquiry under 19 CFR 351.226 or a covered merchandise inquiry under 19 CFR 351.227), it will notify the applicant that it will not initiate a scope inquiry, but will instead determine if the product is covered by the scope at issue in that alternative segment. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See Notice of Clarification: Application of “Next Business Day” Rule for Administrative Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended,</E> 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>  This structure maintains the intent of the applicable regulation, 19 CFR 351.225(d)(1), to allow day 30 and day 31 to be separate business days. </FTNT> In accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(m)(2), if there are companion AD and CVD orders covering the same merchandise from the same country of origin, the scope inquiry will be conducted on the record of the AD proceeding. Further, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(m)(1), Commerce may either apply a scope ruling to all products from the same country with the same relevant physical characteristics (including chemical, dimensional, and technical characteristics) as the product at issue, on a country-wide basis, regardless of the producer, exporter, or importer of those products, or on a company-specific basis. For further information on procedures for filing information with Commerce through ACCESS and participating in scope inquiries, refer to the Filing Instructions section of the Scope Ruling Application Guide, at <E T="03">https://access.trade.gov/help/Scope_Ruling_Guidance.pdf.</E> Interested parties, apart from the scope ruling applicant, who wish to participate in a scope inquiry and be added to the public service list for that segment of the proceeding must file an entry of appearance, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.103(d)(1) and 19 CFR 351.225(n)(4). Interested parties are advised to refer to the case segment in ACCESS as well as 19 CFR 351.225(f) for further information on the scope inquiry procedures, including the timelines for the submission of comments. This notice of scope ruling applications filed in AD and CVD proceedings may be published before any potential initiation, or after the initiation, of a given scope inquiry based on a scope ruling application identified in this notice. Therefore, refer to the case segment on ACCESS to determine whether a scope ruling application has been accepted or rejected and whether a scope inquiry has been initiated. Interested parties who wish to be served scope ruling applications for a particular AD or CVD order may file a request to be included on the annual inquiry service list during the anniversary month of the publication of the AD or CVD order, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(n) and Commerce's procedures. <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List; and Informational Sessions,</E> 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021). </FTNT> Interested parties are invited to comment on the completeness of this monthly list of scope ruling applications received by Com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 11k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━