Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 41 / Thursday, March 4, 2021 / Notices 12623 

1See Certain Large Vertical Shaft Engines 

Between 225cc and 999cc, and Parts Thereof, from 

the People’s Republic of China: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Final Affirmative Critical Circumstances 

Determination, 86 FR 1936 (January 11, 2021) (Final 

Determination), and accompanying Issues and 

Decision Memorandum (IDM). 

2 Id. 

3See ITC Notification Letter, Investigation No. 

701–TA–637 and 731–TA–1471 (Final), dated 

February 24, 2021 (ITC Notification Letter). 

4See section 735(e) of the Act; see also 19 CFR 

351.224(f). 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Certain Vertical Shaft Engines 

Between 225cc and 999cc, and Parts Thereof, from 

China: Allegation of Ministerial Errors in Final 

Determination of AD Investigation,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Ministerial Error Memorandum). 

6 Id. 

7See ITC Notification Letter. 

8 Id. 

9See Certain Vertical Shaft Engines Between 

225cc and 999cc, and Parts Thereof, From the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, Postponement of Final 

Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 85 FR 51015 (August 19, 2020) 

(Preliminary Determination). 

Notification to Interested Parties 

These preliminary results of 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: February 25, 2021. 

Christian Marsh, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–119] 

Certain Large Vertical Shaft Engines 

Between 225cc and 999cc, and Parts 

Thereof, From the People’s Republic of 

China: Amended Final Antidumping 

Duty Determination and Antidumping 

Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) and the 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

Commerce is issuing an antidumping 

duty (AD) order on certain large vertical 

shaft engines between 225cc and 999cc, 

and parts thereof (large vertical shaft 

engines) from the People’s Republic of 

China (China). In addition, Commerce is 

amending its final determination to 

correct a ministerial error with respect 

to the final dumping rate determination 

for Loncin Motor Co., Ltd. (Loncin) and, 

therefore, is also amending its final 

determination as to the rate applicable 

to the separate rate companies. 

DATES: Applicable March 4, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leo 

Ayala AD/CVD Operations, Office VII, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3945. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with sections 735(d) 

and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act, as 

amended (the Act), on January 11, 2021, 

Commerce published its Final 

Determination in the less-than-fair-value 

(LTFV) investigation of imports of large 

vertical shaft engines from China.1 On 

January 12, 2021, Commerce received 

ministerial error allegations with respect 

to Loncin in the Final Determination.2

No other party made an allegation of 

ministerial errors. See the ‘‘Analysis of 

Ministerial Error Allegations’’ section of 

this notice for further discussion. After 

reviewing the allegations, we determine 

that the Final Determination included a 

ministerial error with respect to 

Loncin’s final rate determination. 

Therefore, we made certain changes, as 

described below, to the Final 

Determination. 

On February 24, 2021, the ITC 

notified Commerce of its final 

determination, pursuant to section 

735(d) of the Act, that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured 

within the meaning of section 

735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of 

LTFV imports of large vertical shaft 

engines from China.3

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by this order 

are large vertical shaft engines from 

China. For a complete description of the 

scope of this order, see the appendix to 

this notice. 

Amendment to Final Determination 

A ministerial error is defined in 19 

CFR 351.224(f) as ‘‘an error in addition, 

subtraction, or other arithmetic 

function, clerical error resulting from 

inaccurate copying, duplication, or the 

like, and any other similar type of 

unintentional error which the Secretary 

considers ministerial.’’ 4 Pursuant to 19 

CFR 351.224(e), and as explained 

further in the Ministerial Error 

Memorandum 5 issued concurrently 

with this notice, Commerce is amending 

the Final Determination to reflect the 

correction of a ministerial error in the 

final estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin calculated for Loncin.6

Correction of this error changes the final 

rate determined for Loncin, and also 

changes the rate applicable to the 

separate rate companies. 

AD Order 

On February 24, 2021, in accordance 

with section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC 

notified Commerce of its final 

determination in this investigation, in 

which it found that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured by 

reason of imports of large vertical shaft 

engines from China.7 Therefore, in 

accordance with section 735(c)(2) of the 

Act, Commerce is issuing this AD order. 

Because the ITC determined that large 

vertical shaft engines from China are 

materially injuring a U.S. industry, 

unliquidated entries of such 

merchandise from China, entered or 

withdrawn from warehouse for 

consumption, are subject to the 

assessment of antidumping duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

736(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce will 

direct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, antidumping 

duties equal to the amount by which the 

normal value of the merchandise 

exceeds the export price (or constructed 

export price) of the merchandise, for all 

relevant entries of large vertical shaft 

engines from China. In addition, the ITC 

made a negative finding concerning 

critical circumstances with regard to 

imports of large vertical engines from 

China that are sold in the United States 

at LTFV. As a result, these imports will 

not be subject to retroactive 

antidumping duties.8 With the 

exception of entries occurring after the 

expiration of the provisional measures 

period and before publication of the 

ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determinations, as further described 

below, antidumping duties will be 

assessed on unliquidated entries of large 

vertical shaft engines entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption, on or after August 19, 

2020, the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination.9

Suspension of Liquidation 

Except as noted in the ‘‘Provisional 

Measures’’ section of this notice, in 

accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of 

the Act, Commerce will instruct CBP to 

continue to suspend liquidation on all 

relevant entries of large vertical shaft 

engines from China. These instructions 


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12624 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 41 / Thursday, March 4, 2021 / Notices 

10See Preliminary Determination. 11See, e.g., Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel 

Products from India, the People’s Republic of 

China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan: 

Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping 

Determination for India and Taiwan, and 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390, 48392 

(July 25, 2016). 

suspending liquidation will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

Commerce will also instruct CBP to 

require cash deposits equal to the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin indicated in the tables below. 

Accordingly, effective on the date of 

publication in the Federal Register of 

the notice of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determination, CBP will require, 

at the same time as importers would 

normally deposit estimated duties on 

subject merchandise, a cash deposit 

equal to the rates listed below. 

Provisional Measures 

Section 733(d) of the Act states that 

suspension of liquidation pursuant to an 

affirmative preliminary determination 

may not remain in effect for more than 

four months, except where exporters 

representing a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise 

request that Commerce extend the fourmonth period to no more than six 

months. At the request of exporters that 

account for a significant proportion of 

large vertical shaft engines from China, 

Commerce extended the four-month 

period to six months in this 

investigation. Commerce published the 

Preliminary Determination in this 

investigation on August 19, 2020.10

The extended provisional measures 

period, beginning on the date of 

publication of the preliminary 

determination, ended on January 4, 

2021. Therefore, in accordance with 

section 733(d) of the Act and our 

practice,11 Commerce will instruct CBP 

to terminate the suspension of 

liquidation and to liquidate, without 

regard to antidumping duties, 

unliquidated entries of large vertical 

shaft engines from China entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption after January 4, 2021, the 

final day on which the provisional 

measures were in effect, until and 

through the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determination in the Federal 

Register. Suspension of liquidation and 

the collection of cash deposits will 

resume on the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final determination in the Federal 

Register. 

Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping 

Margins 

The estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 

Producer Exporter 

Estimated 

weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit 

rate (adjusted 

for export 

subsidy offset) 

(percent) 

Loncin Motor Co., Ltd ............................................. Loncin Motor Co. Ltd ............................................. 185.65 173.42 

Chongqing Zongshen General Power Machine 

Co., Ltd.

Chongqing Zongshen General Power Machine 

Co., Ltd.

336.26 323.91 

Chongqing Rato Technology Co., Ltd .................... Chongqing Rato Technology Co., Ltd ................... 274.24 261.93 

Jialing-Honda Motors Co., Ltd ................................ Jialing-Honda Motors Co., Ltd ............................... 274.24 261.93 

Yamaha Motor Powered Products Jiangsu Co., 

Ltd.

Yamaha Motor Powered Products Jiangsu Co., 

Ltd.

274.24 261.93 

China-Wide Entity ........................................................................................................................................ 468.33 456.1 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the AD order 

with respect to large vertical shaft 

engines from China pursuant to section 

736(a) of the Act. Interested parties can 

find a list of AD orders currently in 

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

stats/iastats1.html. 

This amended final determination 

and AD order is published in 

accordance with sections 735(e) and 

736(a) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.224(e) 

and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: February 26, 2021. 

Christian Marsh, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix—Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by this order 

consists of spark-ignited, non-road, vertical 

shaft engines, whether finished or 

unfinished, whether assembled or 

unassembled, primarily for riding lawn 

mowers and zero-turn radius lawn mowers. 

Engines meeting this physical description 

may also be for other non-hand-held outdoor 

power equipment such as, including but not 

limited to, tow-behind brush mowers, 

grinders, and vertical shaft generators. The 

subject engines are spark ignition, single or 

multiple cylinder, air cooled, internal 

combustion engines with vertical power take 

off shafts with a minimum displacement of 

225 cubic centimeters (cc) and a maximum 

displacement of 999cc. Typically, engines 

with displacements of this size generate gross 

power of between 6.7 kilowatts (kw) to 42 

kw. 

Engines covered by this scope normally 

must comply with and be certified under 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) air 

pollution controls title 40, chapter I, 

subchapter U, part 1054 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations standards for small nonroad spark-ignition engines and equipment. 

Engines that otherwise meet the physical 

description of the scope but are not certified 

under 40 CFR part 1054 and are not certified 

under other parts of subchapter U of the EPA 

air pollution controls are not excluded from 

the scope of this proceeding. Engines that 

may be certified under both 40 CFR part 1054 

as well as other parts of subchapter U remain 

subject to the scope of this proceeding. 

For purposes of this order, an unfinished 

engine covers at a minimum a sub-assembly 

comprised of, but not limited to, the 

following components: Crankcase, 

crankshaft, camshaft, piston(s), and 

connecting rod(s). Importation of these 

components together, whether assembled or 

unassembled, and whether or not 

accompanied by additional components such 

as an oil pan, manifold, cylinder head(s), 

valve train, or valve cover(s), constitutes an 

unfinished engine for purposes of this order. 

The inclusion of other products such as spark 

plugs fitted into the cylinder head or 

electrical devices (e.g., ignition modules, 

ignition coils) for synchronizing with the 

motor to supply tension current does not 

remove the product from the scope. The 

inclusion of any other components not 

identified as comprising the unfinished 

engine subassembly in a third country does 

not remove the engine from the scope. 

The engines subject to this order are 

typically classified in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) at 

subheadings: 8407.90.1020, 8407.90.1060, 

and 8407.90.1080. The engine subassemblies 

that are subject to this order enter under 

HTSUS 8409.91.9990. Engines subject to this 

order may also enter under HTSUS 

8407.90.9060 and 8407.90.9080. The HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for convenience 

and customs purposes only, and the written 


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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 41 / Thursday, March 4, 2021 / Notices 12625 

1See Methionine from France, Japan and Spain: 

Initiation of Less-than-Fair-Value Investigations, 85 

FR 52324 (August 25, 2020) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Methionine from France, Japan and Spain: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 85 FR 80774 

(December 14, 2020). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Methionine from Japan,’’ 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 

5See Initiation Notice. 

description of the merchandise subject to this 

order is dispositive. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04476 Filed 3–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–588–879] 

Methionine From Japan: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances and Postponement of 

Final Determination and Extension of 

Provisional Measures 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that methionine from Japan is being, or 

is likely to be, sold in the United States 

at less than fair value (LTFV). The 

period of investigation is July 1, 2019, 

through June 30, 2020. Interested parties 

are invited to comment on this 

preliminary determination. 

DATES: Applicable March 4, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Scully, 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) 482–0572. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on August 25, 2020.1 On December 14, 

2020, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination of this 

investigation, and the revised deadline 

is now February 24, 2021.2 For a 

complete description of the events that 

followed the initiation of this 

investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics 

included in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II 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 https://

access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

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

The signed and the electronic versions 

of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are methionine from 

Japan. For a complete description of the 

scope of this investigation, see 

Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,4 the Initiation 

Notice set aside a period of time for 

parties to raise issues regarding product 

coverage (i.e., scope).5 No interested 

parties commented on the scope of the 

investigation as it appeared in the 

Initiation Notice. Commerce is not 

preliminarily modifying the scope 

language as it appeared in the Initiation 

Notice. See the scope in Appendix I to 

this notice. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Commerce has 

calculated constructed export prices in 

accordance with section 772(a) of the 

Act. Normal value is calculated in 

accordance with section 773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying the 

preliminary determination, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Critical Circumstances 

In accordance with section 733(e) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.206, Commerce 

preliminarily finds that critical 

circumstances exist for Sumitomo 

Chemical Company, Ltd. (Sumitomo 

Chemical), and for all other producers 

and exporters in Japan. For a full 

description of the methodology and 

results of Commerce’s critical 

circumstances analysis, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Section 733(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act 

provides that in the preliminary 

determination Commerce shall 

determine an estimated all-others rate 

for all exporters and producers not 

individually examined. Pursuant to 

section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, this rate 

shall be 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 de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. 

Commerce calculated an individual 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin for Sumitomo Chemical. 

Therefore, for purposes of determining 

the all-others rate, and pursuant to 

section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, we are 

using the dumping margin calculated 

for Sumitomo Chemical, which is not 

zero, de minimis, or determined entirely 

under section 776 of the Act. For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying Commerce’s analysis, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Sumitomo Chemical Company, 

Ltd ........................................... 135.10 

All Others .................................... 135.10 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

suspend liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise, as described in Appendix 

I, entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. Further, pursuant 

to section 733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(d), where appropriate, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to require 

a cash deposit equal to the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin or 

the estimated all-others rate, as follows: 

(1) The cash deposit rate for the 

respondent listed above will be equal to 

the company-specific estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

determined in this preliminary 

determination; (2) if the exporter is not 

a respondent identified above, but the 


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