Raw Honey From India: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024

<NOTICE> DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE <SUBAGY>International Trade Administration</SUBAGY> <DEPDOC>[A-533-903]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Raw Honey From India: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, 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) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on raw honey from India for the period of review (POR) June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024. Commerce preliminarily finds that sales of subject merchandise were not made at prices below normal value (NV) during the POR. We are also rescinding the review, in part, with respect to 15 companies that had no entries of the subject merchandise during the POR. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. </SUM> <DATES> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Applicable November 18, 2025. </DATES> <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> Brittany Bauer or Javier Barrientos, AD/CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3860 or (202) 482-2243, respectively. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background</HD> On July 29, 2024, Commerce initiated an administrative review of the AD order on raw honey from India, <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). This review covers 29 producers/exporters of subject merchandise. <SU>2</SU> <FTREF/> Commerce selected two mandatory respondents for individual examination, Indocan Honey Private Limited (Indocan) and Shakti Apifoods Pvt., Ltd. (Shakti). <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>   <E T="03">See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews,</E> 89 FR 60871 (July 29, 2024) ( <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> ); <E T="03">see also Raw Honey from Argentina, Brazil, India, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders,</E> 87 FR 35501 (June 10, 2022) ( <E T="03">Order</E> ). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>2</SU>  Although the <E T="03">Initiation Notice</E> lists 31 companies, Pearlcot Enterprises and Queenbee Foods Pvt. Ltd. were subsequently found to be part of a single entity with Indocan Honey Private Limited. <E T="03">See Raw Honey from India: Final Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2023,</E> 90 FR 16864 (April 22, 2025). </FTNT> On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by 90 days  <SU>3</SU> <FTREF/> and, on May 22, 2025, Commerce extended the deadline for these preliminary results until September 26, 2025. <SU>4</SU> <FTREF/> For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this review, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <SU>5</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>3</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated December 9, 2024. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>4</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,” dated May 22, 2025. </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>5</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Raw Honey from India; 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 subject to the <E T="03">Order</E> is raw honey from India. For a full description of the scope, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part</HD> Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), when there are no reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR subject to the AD order for which liquidation is suspended, Commerce may rescind an administrative review, in whole or only with respect to a particular exporter or producer. At the end of the administrative review, any suspended entries are liquidated at the assessment rate computed for the review period. Therefore, for an administrative review to be conducted, there must be at least one reviewable, suspended entry that Commerce can instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the newly calculated assessment rate. On August 11, 2025, Commerce notified all interested parties of its intent to rescind this review with respect to 15 companies because those companies had no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise, and we invited parties to comment. <SU>6</SU> <FTREF/> We did not receive comments regarding our Intent to Rescind Memorandum and are, therefore, rescinding this review, in part, with regard to the 15 companies listed in Appendix II. <FTNT> <SU>6</SU>   <E T="03">See</E> Memorandum, “Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In Part,” dated August 11, 2025 (Intent to Rescind Memorandum). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Methodology</HD> Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Act. We calculated export price and constructed export price in accordance with section 772 of the Act. We calculated NV in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying these preliminary results, <E T="03">see</E> the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as Appendix I 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> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Rate for Companies Not Individually Examined</HD> The Act and Commerce's regulations do not address the establishment of a weighted-average dumping margin to be assigned 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 determining the weighted-average dumping margin for companies which were not selected for individual examination in an administrative review. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally “an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted average dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero and <E T="03">de minimis</E> margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis of facts available}.” In this administrative review, we preliminarily calculated dumping margins of zero percent for both Indocan and Shakti. Thus, in accordance with the expected method, and consistent with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's decision in <E T="03">Albemarle,</E> <SU>7</SU> <FTREF/> and Commerce's practice, <SU>8</SU> <FTREF/> we preliminarily assigned to the non-selected company a zero percent rate, based on the rates calculated for the two mandatory respondents. <FTNT> <SU>7</SU>   <E T="03">See Albemarle Corp.</E> v. <E T="03">United States,</E> 821 F.3d 1345, 1352 (Fed. Cir. 2016) ( <E T="03">Albemarle</E> ) (holding that Commerce may only use “other reasonable methods” if it reasonably concludes that the expected method is “not feasible” or “would not be reasonably reflective of potential dumping margins”). </FTNT> <FTNT> <SU>8</SU>   <E T="03">See, e.g., Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020-2021,</E> 87 FR 60989 (October 7, 2022), unchanged in <E T="03">Certain Cold-Rolled Steel Flat Products from the Republic of Korea: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020-2021,</E> 88 FR 20218 (April 5, 2023). </FTNT> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Preliminary Results of the Review</HD> We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average dumping margins exist for the period June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024: <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>9</SU>  The exporters or producers not selected for individual examination are listed in Appendix III. </FTNT> <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s100,15"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Exporter/producer</CHED> <CHED H="1"> Weighted-average dumping margin (percent) </CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Indocan Honey Private Limited; Queenbee Foods Private Limited; and Pearlcot Enterprises</ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Shakti Apifoods Pvt., Ltd </ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01"> Companies Not Selected for Individual Review  <SU>9</SU> </ENT> <ENT>0.00</ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Disclosure</HD> Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in connection with these preliminary results to interested parties 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">Pu ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 23k characters. 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