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1Rise Furniture reported that its shipment of 

subject merchandise entered during the POR for 

this new shipper review (i.e., prior to July 1, 2009); 

however, the results of the Department’s query of 

CBP data indicate that the shipment entered shortly 

after the end of the POR. See Memorandum to the 

File through Abdelali Elouaradia, Director, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office 4: New Shipper Review of 

Wooden Bedroom Furniture, Placing CBP data on 

the record, dated concurrently with this notice. 

2Rise Furniture and Zhejiang Tianyi made no 

subsequent shipments to the United States. 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission), and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), that a meeting of the South 

Carolina Advisory Committee 

(Committee) to the Commission will 

convene on Wednesday, September 2, 

2009, at 9:30 a.m. and adjourn at 11 a.m. 

at the University of South Carolina 

School of Law, 701 Main Street, 

Columbia, South Carolina 29208. The 

purpose of the meeting is for the 

Committee to approve its report on 

equal education opportunity and plan 

activities for fiscal year 2010. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments. The 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by September 30, 2009. 

The address is U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights, 61 Forsyth St., SW., Suite 

18T40, Atlanta, GA 30303. Persons 

wishing to e-mail their comments, or to 

present their comments verbally at the 

meeting, or who desire additional 

information should contact Peter 

Minarik, Regional Director, Southern 

Regional Office, at (404) 562–7000 or 

800–877–8339 for individuals who are 

deaf, hearing impaired, and/or have 

speech disabilities or by e-mail to 

pminarik@usccr.gov. 

Hearing-impaired persons who will 

attend the meeting and require the 

services of a sign language interpreter 

should contact the Regional Office at 

least ten (10) working days before the 

scheduled date of the meeting. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Southern Regional Office, as they 

become available, both before and after 

the meeting. Persons interested in the 

work of this advisory committee are 

advised to go to the Commission’s Web 

site, http://www.usccr.gov, or to contact 

the Southern Regional Office at the 

above e-mail or street address. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the Commission and 

FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, August 12, 2009. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

A–570–890 

Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the 

People’s Republic of China: Initiation 

of Antidumping Duty New Shipper 

Reviews 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 26, 2009. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Department) has determined that two 

timely requests for new shipper reviews 

of the antidumping duty order on 

wooden bedroom furniture from the 

People’s Republic of China (PRC) meet 

the statutory and regulatory 

requirements for initiation. For one of 

the two new shipper reviews that the 

Department is initiating, the period of 

review (POR) is January 1, 2009, 

through June 30, 2009. For the other 

new shipper review where the shipment 

entered after the period January 1, 2009, 

through June 30, 2009, the Department 

is initiating and extending the POR by 

thirty days, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.214(f)(2)(ii). The POR for this new 

shipper review is January 1, 2009, 

through July 30, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Howard Smith or Drew Jackson, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office 4, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–5193 or (202) 482– 

4406, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The notice announcing the 

antidumping duty order on wooden 

bedroom furniture from the PRC was 

published on January 4, 2005. See 

Notice of Amended Final Determination 

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Antidumping Duty Order: Wooden 

Bedroom Furniture from the People’s 

Republic of China, 70 FR 329 (January 

4, 2005). On July 31, 2009, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Tariff Act 

of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 

CFR 351.214(c), the Department 

received timely requests for new 

shipper reviews from Rise Furniture 

Co., Ltd. (Rise Furniture), and Zhejiang 

Tianyi Scientific & Educational 

Equipment Co., Ltd. (Zhejiang Tianyi). 

Rise Furniture and Zhejiang Tianyi 

certified that they are each the producer 

and exporter of the subject merchandise 

upon which their respective request for 

a new shipper review was based. 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(I) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(i), 

Rise Furniture and Zhejiang Tianyi 

certified that they did not export 

wooden bedroom furniture to the 

United States during the period of 

investigation (POI). In addition, 

pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(II) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iii)(A), 

Rise Furniture and Zhejiang Tianyi 

certified that, since the initiation of the 

investigation, they have never been 

affiliated with any PRC exporter or 

producer who exported wooden 

bedroom furniture to the United States 

during the POI, including those not 

individually examined during the 

investigation. As required by 19 CFR 

351.214(b)(2)(iii)(B), Rise Furniture and 

Zhejiang Tianyi, also certified that their 

export activities were not controlled by 

the central government of the PRC. 

In addition to the certifications 

described above, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.214(b)(2)(iv), Rise Furniture and 

Zhejiang Tianyi submitted 

documentation establishing the 

following: (1) the date on which Rise 

Furniture and Zhejiang Tianyi first 

shipped wooden bedroom furniture for 

export to the United States and the date 

on which the wooden bedroom 

furniture was first entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption;1 (2) the volume of their 

first shipment;2 and (3) the date of their 

first sale to an unaffiliated customer in 

the United States. 

The Department conducted U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

database queries and confirmed that 

Rise Furniture’s and Zhejiang Tianyi’s 

shipments of subject merchandise had 

entered the United States for 

consumption and that liquidation of 

such entries had been properly 

suspended for antidumping duties. The 

Department also confirmed by 

examining the CBP data that Zhejiang 

Tianyi’s entry was made during the POR 

specified by the Department’s 

regulations. 

When the sale of the subject 

merchandise occurs within the POR 

specified by the Department’s 

regulations but the entry occurs after the 


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POR, the specified POR may be 

extended unless it would be likely to 

prevent the completion of the review 

within the time limits set by the 

Department’s regulations. See 19 CFR 

351.214(f)(2)(ii). Additionally, the 

preamble to the Department’s 

regulations states that both the entry 

and the sale should occur during the 

POR, and that under ‘‘appropriate’’ 

circumstances the Department has the 

flexibility to extend the POR. See 

Antidumping Duties; Countervailing 

Duties; Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27319– 

27320 (May 19, 1997). In this instance, 

Rise Furniture’s sale of subject 

merchandise was made during the POR 

specified by the Department’s 

regulations but the shipment entered 

within thirty days after the end of that 

POR. The Department finds that 

extending the POR to capture this entry 

would not prevent the completion of the 

review within the time limits set by the 

Department’s regulations. Therefore, the 

Department has extended the POR for 

the new shipper review of Rise 

Furniture by thirty days. See 

Memorandum to the File through 

Abdelali Elouaradia, Director, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office 4: New Shipper 

Review of Wooden Bedroom Furniture, 

Placing CBP data on the record, dated 

concurrently with this notice. 

Initiation of New Shipper Reviews 

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

Act and 19 CFR 351.214(d)(1), the 

Department finds that Rise Furniture 

and Zhejiang Tianyi meet the threshold 

requirements for initiation of new 

shipper reviews of their shipments of 

wooden bedroom furniture from the 

PRC. See Memorandum to the File 

through Abdelali Elouaradia, Director, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office 4: Initiation 

of AD New Shipper Review: Wooden 

Bedroom from the People’s Republic of 

China, and the attached New Shipper 

Initiation Checklists, dated concurrently 

with this notice. 

The POR for the new shipper review 

of Zhejiang Tianyi is January 1, 2009, 

through June 30, 2009. See 19 CFR 

351.214(g)(1)(i)(B). As discussed above, 

the POR for the new shipper review of 

Rise Furniture is January 1, 2009, 

through July 30, 2009. The Department 

intends to issue the preliminary results 

of these reviews no later than 180 days 

from the date of initiation, and the final 

results of these reviews no later than 

270 days from the date of initiation. See 

section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act. 

It is the Department’s usual practice, 

in cases involving non–market 

economies, to require that a company 

seeking to establish eligibility for an 

antidumping duty rate separate from the 

country–wide rate provide evidence of 

de jure and de facto absence of 

government control over the company’s 

export activities. Accordingly, we will 

issue questionnaires to Rise Furniture 

and Zhejiang Tianyi, which will include 

a separate rate section. The review of 

each exporter will proceed if the 

response provides sufficient indication 

that the exporter is not subject to either 

de jure or de facto government control 

with respect to its export of wooden 

bedroom furniture. 

We will instruct the CBP to allow, at 

the option of the importer, the posting, 

until the completion of the review, of a 

bond or security in lieu of a cash 

deposit for each entry of the subject 

merchandise from Rise Furniture and 

Zhejiang Tianyi in accordance with 

section 751(a)(2)(B)(iii) of the Act and 

19 CFR 351.214(e). Because Rise 

Furniture and Zhejiang Tianyi certified 

that they both produce and export the 

subject merchandise, the sale of which 

is the basis for these new shipper review 

requests, we will apply the bonding 

privilege to each respondent only for 

subject merchandise which the 

respondent both produced and 

exported. 

Interested parties requiring access to 

proprietary information in these new 

shipper reviews should submit 

applications for disclosure under 

administrative protective order in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 

351.306. 

This initiation and notice are 

published in accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.214 and 351.221(c)(1)(i). 

Dated: August 20, 2009. 

John M. Andersen, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Judges Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige 

National Quality Award 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of closed meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 

2, notice is hereby given that the Judges 

Panel of the Malcolm Baldrige National 

Quality Award will meet Thursday, 

September 10, 2009. The Judges Panel is 

composed of twelve members 

prominent in the fields of quality, 

innovation, and performance excellence 

and appointed by the Secretary of 

Commerce. The purpose of this meeting 

is to review applicant consensus scores 

and select applicants for site visit 

review. The applications under review 

by Judges contain trade secrets and 

proprietary commercial information 

submitted to the Government in 

confidence. 

DATES: The meeting will convene 

September 10, 2009 at 8:15 a.m. and 

adjourn at 5 p.m. on September 10, 

2009. The entire meeting will be closed. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, Administration Building, 

Lecture Room B, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Harry Hertz, Director, Baldrige National 

Quality Program, National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, 

Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, 

telephone number (301) 975–2361. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Assistant Secretary for Administration, 

with the concurrence of the General 

Counsel, formally determined on 

January 08, 2009, that the meeting of the 

Judges Panel will be closed pursuant to 

Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, as 

amended by Section 5(c) of the 

Government in the Sunshine Act, Public 

Law 94–409. The meeting, which 

involves examination of Award 

applicant data from U.S. companies and 

other organizations and a discussion of 

this data as compared to the Award 

criteria in order to recommend Award 

recipients, may be closed to the public 

in accordance with Section 552b(c)(4) of 

Title 5, United States Code, because the 

meetings are likely to disclose trade 

secrets and commercial or financial 

information obtained from a person 

which is privileged or confidential. 

Dated: August 19, 2009. 

Katharine Gebbie, 

Director, Physics Laboratory. 

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