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**GENERAL INFORMATION, INSTRUCTIONS, AND**

**DEFINITIONS FOR COMMISSION FOREIGN**

**PRODUCER/EXPORTER QUESTIONNAIRES**

**CERTAIN LIGHTWEIGHT THERMAL PAPER FROM CHINA, GERMANY, AND KOREA**

**Investigation Nos. 701-TA-451 and 731-TA-1126-1128 (Preliminary)**

*[Further information]{.underline}.‑‑If you have any questions
concerning the enclosed*

*questionnaire(s) or other matters related to these investigations, you
may contact*

*the following member of the Commission=s staff (Fax 202-205-3205):*

*Christopher Cassise, investigator (202‑708-5408; E-mail
chris.cassise@usitc.gov)*

**[GENERAL INFORMATION, INSTRUCTIONS, AND DEFINITIONS]{.underline}**

**[GENERAL INFORMATION]{.underline}**

***[Background]{.underline}***.‑‑These investigations were instituted in
response to a petition filed on September 19, 2007 by Appleton Papers,
Inc., Appleton, WI. Countervailing and antidumping duties may be
assessed on the subject imports as a result of these investigations if
the Commission makes an affirmative determination of injury, threat, or
material retardation, and if the U.S. Department of Commerce makes an
affirmative determination of subsidization and/or dumping.

Questionnaires and other information pertinent to these investigations
are available at
[**http://www.usitc.gov/trade_remedy/731_ad_701_cvd/investigations/active/index.htm**](http://www.usitc.gov/trade_remedy/731_ad_701_cvd/investigations/active/index.htm).

Address all correspondence to the United States International Trade
Commission, Washington, DC 20436. Hearing‑impaired individuals can
obtain information regarding these investigations via the Commission=s
TDD terminal (202‑205‑1810).

***[Due date of questionnaire(s)]{.underline}***.‑‑Return the completed
questionnaire(s) to the United States International Trade Commission by
no later than October 3, 2007. Use of an overnight mail service may be
necessary to ensure that your response actually reaches the Commission
by October 3, 2007. Please make sure the completed questionnaire is sent
to the attention of Christopher Cassise. **Return [only one]{.underline}
copy of the completed questionnaire(s), but please keep a copy for your
records so that you can refer to it if the Commission staff contacts you
with any questions during the course of the investigations.**

***[Service of questionnaire response(s)]{.underline}***.\--In the event
that your firm is a party to these investigations, you are required to
serve a copy of the questionnaire(s), once completed, on parties to the
proceeding that are subject to administrative protective order (see 19
CFR \' 207.7). A list of such parties is maintained by the Commission=s
Secretary and may be obtained by calling 202-205-1803. A certificate of
service must accompany the copy of the completed questionnaire(s) you
submit (see 19 CFR \' 207.7).

***[Confidentiality]{.underline}***.\--The commercial and financial data
furnished in response to the enclosed questionnaire(s) that reveal the
individual operations of your firm will be treated as confidential by
the Commission to the extent that such data are not otherwise available
to the public and will not be disclosed except as may be required by law
(see 19 U.S.C. \' 1677f). Such confidential information will not be
published in a manner that will reveal the individual operations of your
firm; however, nonnumerical characterizations of numerical business
proprietary information (such as discussion of trends) will be treated
as confidential business information only at the request of the
submitter for good cause shown.

**[GENERAL INFORMATION, INSTRUCTIONS, AND
DEFINITIONS]{.underline}\--*Continued***

**[GENERAL INFORMATION]{.underline}‑‑*Continued***

***[Verification]{.underline}*.‑‑The information submitted in the
enclosed questionnaire(s) is subject to audit and verification by the
Commission. To facilitate possible verification of data, please keep all
your workpapers and supporting documents used in the preparation of the
questionnaire response(s).**

***[Release of information]{.underline}***.\--The information provided
by your firm in response to the questionnaire(s), as well as any other
business proprietary information submitted by your firm to the
Commission in connection with the investigations, may become subject to,
and released under, the administrative protective order provisions of
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. \' 1677f) and section 207.7 of the
Commission=s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR \' 207.7). This
means that certain lawyers and other authorized individuals may
temporarily be given access to the information for use in connection
with these investigations or other import-injury investigations
conducted by the Commission on the same or similar merchandise; those
individuals would be subject to severe penalties if the information were
divulged to unauthorized individuals.

**[INSTRUCTIONS]{.underline}**

***[Answer all questions]{.underline}***.‑‑Do not leave any question or
section blank unless a questionnaire expressly directs you to skip over
certain questions or sections. If the answer to any question is Anone,@
write Anone.@ **If information is not readily available from your
records in exactly the form requested, furnish carefully prepared
estimates‑‑designated as such by the letter AE@‑‑and explain the basis
of your estimates**. Answers to questions and any necessary comments or
explanations should be supplied in the space provided or on separate
sheets attached to the appropriate page of the questionnaire(s). If your
firm is completing more than one questionnaire in connection with these
investigations (i.e., a producer, importer, purchaser, and/or foreign
producer questionnaire) then you need not respond to duplicated
questions in the questionnaires.

***[Consolidate all establishments in China, Germany, or
Korea]{.underline}***.‑‑Report the requested data for your
establishment(s) located in China, Germany, and Korea. **Firms operating
more than one establishment in a particular country should combine the
data for all establishments into a single report.**

**[DEFINITIONS]{.underline}**

***[Certain lightweight thermal paper ("certain LW thermal
paper")]{.underline}***.‑‑Thermal paper with a basis weight of 70 grams
per square meter ("g/m^2^") (with a tolerance of [+]{.underline} 4.0
g/m^2^) or less; irrespective of dimensions;[^1] with or without a base
coat[^2] on one or both sides; with thermal active coating(s)[^3] on one
or both sides that is a mixture of the dye and the developer that react
and form an image when heat is applied; with or without a top coat;[^4]
and without an adhesive backing. Certain lightweight thermal paper is
typically (but not exclusively) used in point-of-sale applications such
as ATM receipts, credit card receipts, gas pump receipts, and retail
store receipts.

The merchandise subject to these investigations is provided for in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States ("HTSUS") under
subheadings 4811.90.8040 and 4811.90.9090. Although HTSUS numbers are
provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description
of the scope of these investigations is dispositive.

***[Firm]{.underline}***.‑‑An individual proprietorship, partnership,
joint venture, association, corporation (including any subsidiary
corporation), business trust, cooperative, trustee in bankruptcy, or
receiver under decree of any court.

***[Related firm]{.underline}***.‑‑A firm that your firm solely or
jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled; a firm that solely or
jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled your firm; and/or a firm
that was solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled by a
firm that also solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled
your firm.

***[Establishment]{.underline}***.‑‑Each facility of a firm in China,
Germany, or Korea involved in the production of certain LW thermal paper
(as defined above), including auxiliary facilities operated in
conjunction with (whether or not physically separate from) such
facilities.

***[United States]{.underline}***.‑‑For purposes of these
investigations, the 50 States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and
the District of Columbia.

***[Importer]{.underline}***.‑‑Any person or firm engaged, either
directly or through a parent company or subsidiary, in importing certain
lightweight thermal paper (as defined above) into the United States from
a foreign manufacturer or through its selling agent.

***[Average production capacity]{.underline}***.‑‑The level of
production that your establishment(s) could reasonably have expected to
attain during the specified periods. Assume normal operating conditions
(i.e., using equipment and machinery in place and ready to operate;
normal operating levels (hours per week/weeks per year) and time for
downtime, maintenance, repair, and cleanup; and a typical or
representative product mix).

***[Production]{.underline}***.‑‑All production in your establishment(s)
in China, Germany, or Korea, including production consumed internally
within your firm

***[Shipments]{.underline}***.\--Shipments of products produced in your
establishment(s) in China, Germany, or Korea. Quantities reported should
be net of returns.

> ***[Home market commercial shipments]{.underline}***.\--Shipments,
> other than internal consumption and transfers to related firms, within
> China, Germany, or Korea.
>
> ***[Home market internal consumption/transfers to related
> firms]{.underline}***.‑‑Shipments made to related firms in China,
> Germany, or Korea, including product consumed internally by your firm.
>
> ***[Export shipments]{.underline}***.‑‑Shipments to destinations
> outside China, Germany, or Korea, including shipments to related
> firms.

***[Inventories]{.underline}***.‑‑Finished goods inventory, not raw
materials or work‑in‑progress.

[^1]: Certain LW thermal paper is typically produced in jumbo rolls that
    are slit to the specifications of the converting equipment and then
    converted into finished slit rolls. Both jumbo rolls and converted
    rolls (as well as certain LW thermal paper in any other forms,
    presentations, or dimensions) are covered by the scope of these
    investigations.

[^2]: A base coat, when applied, is typically made of clay and/or latex
    and like materials and is intended to cover the rough surface of the
    paper substrate and to provide insulating value.

[^3]: A thermal active coating is typically made of sensitizer, dye, and
    co-reactant.

[^4]: A top coat, when applied, is typically made of polyvinyl acetone,
    polyvinyl alcohol, and/or like materials and is intended to provide
    environmental protection, an improved surface for press printing,
    and/or wear protection for the thermal print head.