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13See 19 CFR 351.212(b). 

14 In these preliminary results, we applied the 

assessment rate calculation method adopted in 

Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the 

Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Duty 

Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 

(February 14, 2012). 

15For a full discussion of this clarification, see 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 

(May 6, 2003). 16See Order. 

1See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India 

and Italy: Antidumping Duty Orders, 82 FR 40136 

(August 24, 2017) (Order); see also Antidumping or 

Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 

Investigation; Opportunity To Request 

Administrative Review, 84 FR 37834, 37835 (August 

2, 2019). 

2The petitioners are Weldbend Corporation and 

Boltex Manufacturing Co., L.P. (collectively, the 

petitioners). 

3See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Request for 

Administrative Review,’’ dated September 3, 2019; 

see also Gupta’s Letter, ‘‘Request for Anti-Dumping 

Continued 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review.13

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), as 

Al Jazeera reported the entered value for 

its U.S. sales, we calculated importerspecific ad valorem duty assessment 

rates based on the ratio of the total 

amount of dumping calculated for the 

examined sales to the total entered 

value of the sales.14 We will instruct 

CBP to assess antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review when the importer-specific 

assessment rate calculated in the final 

results of this review is above de 

minimis. Where the respondent’s 

weighted-average dumping margin is 

zero or de minimis within the meaning 

of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an importerspecific rate is zero or de minimis, we 

will instruct CBP to liquidate the 

appropriate entries without regard to 

antidumping duties. 

The final results of this review shall 

be the basis for the assessment of 

antidumping duties on entries of 

merchandise covered by the final results 

of this review and for future deposits of 

estimated duties, where applicable. 

In accordance with our ‘‘automatic 

assessment’’ practice, for entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR 

produced by Al Jazeera for which it did 

not know its merchandise was destined 

for the United States, we will instruct 

CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at 

the all-others rate if there is no rate for 

the intermediate company(ies) involved 

in the transaction.15

We intend to issue liquidation 

instructions to CBP 15 days after 

publication of the final results of this 

review. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following deposit requirements 

will be effective for all shipments of the 

subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the publication 

date of the final results of this 

administrative review, as provided by 

section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The 

cash deposit rate for Al Jazeera will be 

the rate established in the final results 

of this review, except if the ultimate rate 

is de minimis within the meaning of 19 

CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the 

cash deposit rates will be zero; (2) for 

previously reviewed or investigated 

companies not participating in this 

review, the cash deposit rate will 

continue to be the company-specific rate 

published for the most recentlycompleted segment of this proceeding in 

which the company was reviewed; (3) if 

the exporter is not a firm covered in this 

review, a prior review, or the less-thanfair value (LTFV) investigation, but the 

manufacturer is, then the cash deposit 

rate will be the rate established for the 

most recently-completed segment of this 

proceeding for the manufacturer of 

subject merchandise; and (4) the cash 

deposit rate for all other manufacturers 

or exporters will continue to be 7.36 

percent, the all-others rate established 

in the LTFV investigation.16 These cash 

deposit requirements, when imposed, 

shall remain in effect until further 

notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a preliminary 

reminder to importers of their 

responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping duties prior to liquidation 

of the relevant entries during this POR. 

Failure to comply with this requirement 

could result in Commerce’s 

presumption that reimbursement of 

antidumping duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of doubled 

antidumping duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

The preliminary results of this review 

are issued and published in accordance 

with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of 

the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: December 15, 2020. 

Jeffrey I. Kessler, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Discussion of the Methodology 

V. Currency Conversion 

VI. Recommendation 

[FR Doc. 2020–28092 Filed 12–18–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–533–871] 

Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from 

India: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review and Preliminary Determination 

of No Shipments; 2018–2019 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily finds that the 

Norma Group and R.N. Gupta & Co. Ltd. 

(Gupta), producers/exporters of finished 

carbon steel flanges (flanges) from India, 

did not sell subject merchandise at 

prices below normal value (NV) during 

the period of review (POR) August 1, 

2018 through July 31, 2019. 

Additionally, Commerce preliminarily 

determines that Silbo Industries, Inc. 

(Silbo) had no shipments of subject 

merchandise during the POR. We invite 

interested parties to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable December 21, 2020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Baker, George McMahon, or Margaret 

Collins, AD/CVD Operations, Office VI, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2924, 

(202) 482–1167, or (202) 482–6250, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On August 2, 2019, we published in 

the Federal Register a notice of 

opportunity to request an administrative 

review of the antidumping duty order 

on flanges from India, for the period 

August 1, 2018 through July 31, 2019.1

Subsequently, Commerce received 

timely requests for an administrative 

review from the petitioners,2 Gupta, the 

Norma Group, Bebitz Flanges Works 

Private Limited (Bebitz), and Jai Auto 

Pvt. Ltd. of India (Jai Auto).3 On October 

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Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated August 30, 

2019; Norma Group’s Letter, ‘‘Request for an 

Administrative Review,’’ dated August 30, 2019, 

and Norma Group’s Letter, ‘‘Request for AntiDumping Duty Administrative Review of Norma 

(India) Limited, USK Export Private Limited, 

Umashanker Khandelwal and Co. and Bansidhar 

Chiranjilal,’’ dated September 3, 2019; Bebitz’s 

Letter, ‘‘Requests for Administrative Review,’’ dated 

September 3, 2019; and Jai Auto’s Letter, ‘‘Request 

for Anti-Dumping Duty Administrative Review of 

Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India,’’ dated 

August 31, 2019. 

4See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 84 FR 

53411 (October 7, 2019) (Initiation Notice). 

5 In prior segments of this proceeding, we 

determined that Norma (India) Limited; USK 

Exports Private Limited; Uma Shanker Khandelwal 

& Co.; and Bansidhar Chiranjilal should be 

collapsed and treated as a single entity (the Norma 

Group). See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from 

India: Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less 

Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final 

Determination, 82 FR 9719 (February 8, 2017) 

(Preliminary Determination) and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 4–5; 

unchanged in Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from 

India: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value, 82 FR 29483 (June 29, 2017) (Final 

Determination); Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from 

India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2017–2018, 84 FR 57848, 

57849 (October 29, 2019), unchanged in Finished 

Carbon Steel Flanges from India: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2017– 

2018, 85 FR 21391 (April 17, 2020) (2017–2018 

Final Results). In this review, the Norma Group 

presented evidence that the factual basis on which 

Commerce made its prior determination has not 

changed. See Norma Group’s July 23, 2020 

Supplemental Questionnaire Response (Norma July 

23, 2020 SQR) at 2–8. Therefore, in this 

administrative review, Commerce continues to 

collapse and treat these four companies as a single 

entity. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review of Finished Carbon Steel 

Flanges from India: Respondent Selection,’’ dated 

December 27, 2019. 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Finished Carbon Steel 

Flanges from India: Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review,’’ dated April 9, 2020. 

8See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews in Response to Operational 

Adjustments Due to COVID–19,’’ dated April 24, 

2020. 

9See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews,’’ dated July 21, 2020. 

10See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review: Finished Carbon Steel 

Flanges from India; 2018–2019,’’ dated concurrently 

with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 

(Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

11For a complete description of the scope of the 

Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

12See, e.g., Xanthan Gum from the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and 

Partial Rescission; 2018–2019, 85 FR 75686, 74687 

(November 23, 2020); see also Albemarle Corp. v. 

United States, 821 F. 3d 1345 (Fed. Cir. 2016); see 

also Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber From the 

Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of the 

Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 

Order; 2018–2019, 85 FR 39534 (July 1, 2020). 

13See Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

14See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, 

and Strip from Taiwan: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and 

Final Determination of No Shipments; 2017– 2018, 

85 FR 1139 (January 9, 2020). 

7, 2019, Commerce initiated an 

administrative review of the Order with 

respect to 41 companies.4 On December 

27, 2019, Commerce selected Gupta and 

the Norma Group 5 as the mandatory 

respondents for this review.6 On April 

9, 2020, Commerce extended the 

deadline for the preliminary results of 

this review until August 28, 2020.7 On 

April 24, 2020 Commerce tolled all 

deadlines in administrative reviews by 

50 days.8 On July 21, 2020 Commerce 

tolled all deadlines in administrative 

reviews by an additional 60 days.9

Accordingly, the deadline for the 

preliminary results of this 

administrative review is now December 

16, 2020. For a complete description of 

the events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.10

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is finished carbon steel flanges 

from India. The product is currently 

classified under subheadings 

7307.91.5010 and 7307.91.5050 of the 

Harmonized Tariff System of the United 

States (HTSUS). Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of merchandise 

subject to the scope is dispositive.11

Rate for Non-Selected Companies 

The statute and Commerce’s 

regulations do not address the 

establishment of a rate to be applied to 

companies not selected for individual 

examination when Commerce limits its 

examination in an administrative review 

pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 

Generally, Commerce looks to section 

735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides 

instructions for calculating the allothers rate in a market economy 

investigation, for guidance when 

calculating the rate 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 weightedaverage of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins established 

for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero or de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely {on the 

basis of facts available {time}’’ 

We preliminarily calculated a zero 

percent dumping margin for Gupta and 

the Norma Group, the mandatory 

respondents in this review, and have 

assigned this rate (i.e., 0.00 percent) to 

the non-selected companies.12 For 

additional information, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

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 http://access.trade.gov. In addition, a 

complete version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/ 

index.html. The signed Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum and the 

electronic version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum are identical in 

content. A list of the topics discussed in 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

is attached as an Appendix to this 

notice. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B) 

and (2) of the Act. Export price is 

calculated in accordance with section 

772 of the Act and normal value is 

calculated in accordance with section 

773 of the Act. For a full description of 

the methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments 

Based on our analysis of U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) 

information and information provided 

by Silbo, we preliminarily determine 

that Silbo had no shipments of the 

subject merchandise during the POR.13

Consistent with Commerce’s practice, 

we will not rescind the review with 

respect to Silbo, but will complete the 

review and issue instructions to CBP 

based on the final results.14

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, Commerce 

preliminarily determines that the 

following weighted-average dumping 

margins exist for the period August 1, 

2018 through July 31, 2019: 

Producers/exporters 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

R. N. Gupta & Co., Ltd. ........ 0.00 

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15Commerce initiated on ‘‘Uma Shanker 

Khandelwal & Co.’’ and ‘‘Umashanker Khandelwal 

and Co.’’ based on the requests for administrative 

review that Commerce received from the interested 

parties. See Initiation Notice. Because of the minor 

differences in the spelling of the aforementioned 

company names, we have combined them under the 

name Uma Shanker Khandelwal & Co., which is 

part of the collapsed entity, the Norma Group. 

Furthermore, we initiated on ‘‘USK Export Private 

Limited,’’ but the requests for a review of this 

company referenced both ‘‘USK Export Private 

Limited’’ and ‘‘USK Exports Private Limited.’’ In 

these preliminary results, we have combined them 

under the name USK Exports Private Limited, 

which is part of the collapsed entity, the Norma 

Group. 

16See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii). 

17See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Temporary 

Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements Due 

to COVID–19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 

41363 (July 10, 2020). 

18See 19 CFR 351.303(f). 

19See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

20See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act; and 19 CFR 

351.213(h). 

21See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

22For a full discussion of this clarification, see 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 

(May 6, 2003). 

Producers/exporters 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Norma (India) Limited/USK 

Exports Private Limited/ 

Uma Shanker Khandelwal 

& Co./Bansidhar 

Chiranjilal 15 ....................... 0.00 

Review-Specific Average Rate Applicable 

to the Following Companies: 

Adinath International ............. 0.00 

Allena Group ......................... 0.00 

Alloyed Steel ......................... 0.00 

Bebitz Flanges Works Private Limited ....................... 0.00 

C.D. Industries ...................... 0.00 

CHQ Forge ........................... 0.00 

CHW Forge Pvt. Ltd ............. 0.00 

Citizen Metal Depot .............. 0.00 

Corum Flange ....................... 0.00 

DN Forge Industries ............. 0.00 

Echjay Forgings Limited ....... 0.00 

Falcon Valves and Flanges 

Private Limited .................. 0.00 

Heubach International .......... 0.00 

Hindon Forge Pvt. Ltd. ......... 0.00 

Jai Auto Private Limited ....... 0.00 

Kinnari Steel Corporation ..... 0.00 

M F Rings and Bearing 

Races Ltd. ......................... 0.00 

Mascot Metal Manufactures 0.00 

OM Exports ........................... 0.00 

Punjab Steel Works (PSW) .. 0.00 

R. D. Forge ........................... 0.00 

Raaj Sagar Steels ................ 0.00 

Ravi Ratan Metal Industries 0.00 

Rolex Fittings India Pvt. Ltd. 0.00 

Rollwell Forge Pvt. Ltd. ........ 0.00 

SHM (ShinHeung Machinery) 0.00 

Siddhagiri Metal & Tubes ..... 0.00 

Sizer India ............................. 0.00 

Steel Shape India ................. 0.00 

Sudhir Forgings Pvt. Ltd. ...... 0.00 

Tirupati Forge ....................... 0.00 

Umashanker Khandelwal 

Forging Limited ................. 0.00 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce intends to disclose the 

calculations performed in connection 

with these preliminary results to 

interested parties within five days of the 

date of publication of this notice, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Interested parties may submit case 

briefs to Commerce no later than 30 

days after the date of publication of this 

notice.16 Rebuttal briefs, limited to 

issues raised in the case briefs, may be 

filed no later than seven days after the 

date for filing case briefs.17 Pursuant to 

19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), parties 

who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs 

in this proceeding are encouraged to 

submit with each argument: (1) A 

statement of the issue; (2) a brief 

summary of the argument; and (3) a 

table of authorities. 

All submissions to Commerce must be 

filed electronically using ACCESS, and 

must also be served on interested 

parties.18 An electronically filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by Commerce’s electronic 

records system, ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on the date that the 

document is due. 

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 within 30 days of publication 

of this notice.19 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 respective case and rebuttal 

briefs. 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2), 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of its analysis of 

issues raised in any written briefs, not 

later than 120 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, unless 

extended.20

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuance of the final results, 

Commerce shall determine, and CBP 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review.21

For any individually examined 

respondents whose weighted-average 

dumping margin is above de minimis 

(i.e., greater than or equal to 0.5 percent) 

in the final results of this review, we 

will calculate importer-specific ad 

valorem duty assessment rates based on 

the ratio of the total amount of 

antidumping duties calculated for the 

examined sales to the total entered 

value of the examined sales to that 

importer, and we will instruct CBP to 

assess antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review. For entries of subject 

merchandise during the POR produced 

by each respondent for which it did not 

know its merchandise was destined for 

the United States, we will instruct CBP 

to liquidate such entries at the all-others 

rate if there is no rate for the 

intermediate company(ies) involved in 

the transaction.22 Where either the 

individually-selected respondent’s 

weighted-average dumping margin is 

zero or de minimis, or an importerspecific assessment rate is zero or de 

minimis, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate the appropriate entries 

without regard to antidumping duties. 

For the companies which were not 

selected for individual review, we 

intend to assign an assessment rate 

based on the methodology described in 

the ‘‘Rates for Non-Examined 

Companies’’ section. The final results of 

this review shall be the basis for the 

assessment of antidumping duties on 

entries of merchandise covered by this 

review where applicable. 

We intend to issue instructions to 

CBP 15 days after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following deposit requirements 

will be effective upon publication of the 

notice of final results of administrative 

review for all shipments of the subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the publication date, as provided 

by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the 

cash deposit rate for the companies 

under review will be the rate 

established in the final results of this 

review, except if the rate is de minimis 

within the meaning of 19 CFR 

351.106(c)(1) (i.e., less than 0.50 

percent), in which case the cash deposit 

rate will be zero; (2) for merchandise 

exported by manufacturers or exporters 

not covered in this review but covered 

in a prior segment of the proceeding, the 

cash deposit rate will continue to be the 

company-specific rate published for the 

most recently completed segment; (3) if 

the exporter is not a firm covered in this 

review, a prior review, or the original 

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23See Order. 

investigation, but the manufacturer is, 

the cash deposit rate will be the rate 

established for the most recently 

completed segment for the manufacturer 

of the merchandise; and (4) the cash 

deposit rate for all other manufacturers 

or exporters will continue to be 11.95 

percent, the all-others rate established 

in the less-than-fair-value 

investigation.23 These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a 

preliminary reminder to importers of 

their responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping duties prior to liquidation 

of the relevant entries during this 

review period. Failure to comply with 

this requirement could result in the 

Secretary’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: December 15, 2020. 

Jeffrey I. Kessler, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments 

V. Rates for Non-Examined Companies 

VI. Discussion of the Methodology 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Limitation of Duty-Free Imports of 

Apparel Articles Assembled in Haiti 

Under the Caribbean Basin Economic 

Recovery Act (CBERA), as Amended 

by the Haitian Hemispheric 

Opportunity Through Partnership 

Encouragement Act (HOPE) 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notification of Annual 

Quantitative Limit on Imports of Certain 

Apparel from Haiti. 

SUMMARY: CBERA, as amended, 

provides duty-free treatment for certain 

apparel articles imported directly from 

Haiti. One of the preferences is known 

as the ‘‘value-added’’ provision, which 

requires that apparel meet a minimum 

threshold percentage of value added in 

Haiti, the United States, and/or certain 

beneficiary countries. The provision is 

subject to a quantitative limitation, 

which is calculated as a percentage of 

total apparel imports into the United 

States for each 12-month period. For the 

period from December 20, 2020 through 

December 19, 2021, the quantity of 

imports eligible for preferential 

treatment under the value-added 

provision is 337,967,087 square meters 

equivalent. 

DATES: The new limitations become 

effective December 20, 2020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laurie Mease, International Trade 

Specialist, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–2043. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: Section 213A of the 

Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act 

(19 U.S.C. 2703a) (‘‘CBERA’’), as 

amended; and as implemented by 

Presidential Proc. No. 8114, 72 FR 

13655 (March 22, 2007), and No. 8596, 

75 FR 68153 (November 4, 2010). 

Background: Section 213A(b)(1)(B) of 

CBERA, as amended (19 U.S.C. 

2703a(b)(1)(B)), outlines the 

requirements for certain apparel articles 

imported directly from Haiti to qualify 

for duty-free treatment under a ‘‘valueadded’’ provision. In order to qualify for 

duty-free treatment, apparel articles 

must be wholly assembled, or knit-toshape, in Haiti from any combination of 

fabrics, fabric components, components 

knit-to-shape, and yarns, as long as the 

sum of the cost or value of materials 

produced in Haiti or one or more 

beneficiary countries, as described in 

CBERA, as amended, or any 

combination thereof, plus the direct 

costs of processing operations 

performed in Haiti or one or more 

beneficiary countries, as described in 

CBERA, as amended, or any 

combination thereof, is not less than an 

applicable percentage of the declared 

customs value of such apparel articles. 

Pursuant to CBERA, as amended, the 

applicable percentage for the period 

December 20, 2020 through December 

19, 2021 is 60 percent. 

For every twelve-month period 

following the effective date of CBERA, 

as amended, duty-free treatment under 

the value-added provision is subject to 

a quantitative limitation. CBERA, as 

amended, provides that the quantitative 

limitation will be recalculated for each 

subsequent 12-month period. Section 

213A(b)(1)(C) of CBERA, as amended 

(19 U.S.C. 2703a(b)(1)(C)), requires that, 

for the twelve-month period beginning 

on December 20, 2020, the quantitative 

limitation for qualifying apparel 

imported from Haiti under the valueadded provision will be an amount 

equivalent to 1.25 percent of the 

aggregate square meter equivalent of all 

apparel articles imported into the 

United States in the most recent 12- 

month period for which data are 

available. The aggregate square meters 

equivalent of all apparel articles 

imported into the United States is 

derived from the set of Harmonized 

System lines listed in the Annex to the 

World Trade Organization Agreement 

on Textiles and Clothing (‘‘ATC’’), and 

the conversion factors for units of 

measure into square meter equivalents 

used by the United States in 

implementing the ATC. For purposes of 

this notice, the most recent 12-month 

period for which data are available as of 

December 20, 2020 is the 12-month 

period ending on October 31, 2020. 

Therefore, for the one-year period 

beginning on December 20, 2020 and 

extending through December 19, 2021, 

the quantity of imports eligible for 

preferential treatment under the valueadded provision is 337,967,087 square 

meters equivalent. Apparel articles 

entered in excess of these quantities will 

be subject to otherwise applicable 

tariffs. 

Lloyd Wood, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles, 

Consumer Goods and Materials. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–909] 

Certain Steel Nails From the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review, Preliminary Determination of 

No Shipments, and Partial Rescission; 

2018–2019 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that certain steel nails (nails) from the