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1Pursuant to the Antidumping Methodologies 

Notice, 71 FR 61722, the Department intends to 

publish the annual revisions of the expected NME 

wage rates on its Web site in the fall. Since there 

is no fixed deadline for the submission of the 

relevant country data to the World Bank and ILO, 

the Department cannot specify a date certain by 

which the revision will be published. We can say, 

however, that because not all countries submit their 

data at the same time and because the Department 

must wait until all relevant data is submitted, 

publication of the revision will likely take place in 

late fall. 

recovery objectives, strategies, and 

actions, especially in regard to the 

selection of core populations, priority 

areas for reintroduction, and critical 

recovery actions; (3) the criteria for 

removing ESUs/DPSs from the Federal 

list of endangered and threatened 

wildlife and plants; and (4) estimates of 

time and cost to implement recovery 

actions. NMFS will also hold public 

meetings to provide an opportunity for 

the public to learn more about the Draft 

Plan, ask questions of NMFS staff, and 

submit oral or written comments on the 

Draft Plan. 

Public Meetings 

Four public meetings will be held, 

two in Chico, CA and two in 

Sacramento, CA . The two Chico 

meetings will occur on the same date 

with one three-hour meeting during the 

day followed by one two-hour meeting 

in the evening. The Sacramento 

meetings will follow this same day/ 

evening approach. The meetings will be 

targeted toward receiving comments 

from key stakeholders and salmon 

recovery ‘‘practitioners’’ such as local 

jurisdiction officials, state and local 

agency personnel, industry 

representatives, public and non-profit 

interest representatives, and others who 

have a professional involvement and 

knowledge of salmon recovery issues, as 

well as general public and other 

constituencies. 

Literature Cited 

McElhany, P., Ruckelshaus, M.H., 

Ford, M.J., Wainwright, T.C., and 

Bjorkstedt, E.P. 2000. Viable Salmonid 

Populations and the Conservation of 

Evolutionarily Significant Units. U.S. 

Department of Commerce. NOAA 

Technical Memorandum. NMFS 

NWFSC 42. Seattle, WA.Authority: 16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq. 

Dated:September 30, 2009. 

Angela Somma, 

Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office 

of Protected Resources, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Expected Non-Market Economy 

Wages: Request for Comments on 

2009 Calculation 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Department’’’) has a longstanding 

practice of calculating expected nonmarket economy (‘‘NME’’) wages for use 

as the surrogate value for direct labor in 

antidumping proceedings involving 

NME countries. These expected NME 

wages are calculated annually in 

accordance with the Department’s 

regulations, see 19 CFR 351.408(c)(3). 

This notice constitutes the Department’s 

2009 expected NME wages, which were 

calculated from 2007 data made 

available in 2009 according to the 

Department’s revised methodology 

described in the Federal Register notice 

entitled Antidumping Methodologies: 

Market Economy Inputs, Expected NonMarket Economy Wages, Duty 

Drawback; and Request for Comments, 

71 FR 61716, Oct. 19, 2006 (hereafter, 

the Antidumping Methodologies notice). 

The Department further provides the 

public with an opportunity to comment 

on potential clerical errors in the 

calculation. Id. 

DATES: Any comments must be 

submitted no later than 10 days after 

publication of this notice. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments (original 

and six copies) should be sent to Ronald 

Lorentzen, Acting Assistant Secretary 

for Import Administration, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Central 

Records Unit, Room 1870, 14th Street 

and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bobby Wong, Senior International Trade 

Analyst, China/NME Group, Import 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, 

(202) 482–0409. 

Background 

The Department’s regulations 

generally describe the methodology by 

which the Department calculates 

expected NME wages. For labor, the 

Secretary will use regression-based 

wage rates reflective of the observed 

relationship between wages and 

national income in market economy 

countries. The Secretary will calculate 

the wage rate to be applied in nonmarket economy proceedings each 

year.1 The calculation will be based on 

current data, and will be made available 

to the public. See 19 CFR 351.408(c)(3). 

The Department’s expected NME 

wages are calculated each year in two 

steps. First, the relationship between 

hourly wage rates (obtained from the 

International Labour Organization’s 

(‘‘ILO’’) Yearbook of Labour Statistics) 

and per-capita gross national income 

(‘‘GNI’’) (obtained from the World Bank) 

is estimated using ordinary least squares 

(‘‘OLS’’) regression analysis. Second, the 

GNI of each of the countries designated 

by the Department to be an NME is 

applied to the regression, which yields 

an expected hourly wage rate for each 

NME. 

The Department published a notice in 

the Federal Register on October 19, 

2006, which detailed its revised 

methodology for calculating expected 

NME wages in antidumping proceedings 

involving NME countries. See the 

Antidumping Methodologies notice. In 

that notice, the Department stated that 

‘‘{e}ach year, the Department’s annual 

calculation will be subject to public 

notice prior to the adoption of the 

resulting expected NME wage rates for 

use in antidumping proceedings. 

Comment will be requested only with 

regard to potential clerical errors in the 

Department’s calculation.’’ 

Antidumping Methodology notice, 71 

FR 61722. This notice constitutes the 

Department’s 2009 calculation of 

expected NME wages in Attachment 1, 

which were calculated from 2007 data 

made available in 2009 according to the 

Department’s revised methodology 

described in the Antidumping 

Methodologies notice. The Department 

is requesting public comment only on 

the potential clerical errors in the 

calculation. Comments with regard to 

the methodology were addressed in the 

Antidumping Methodologies notice and 

will not be considered. 

In order to facilitate a full opportunity 

for comment, and because the 

underlying data are voluminous, the 

preliminary results and underlying data 

for the preliminary 2009 expected NME 

wages calculation have been posted on 

the Import Administration Web site 

(http://www.ia.ita.doc.gov). This 

preliminary calculation will not be used 

for antidumping purposes until it has 

been finalized by the Department 

following the public comment period. 

Submission of Comments 

Persons wishing to comment on 

clerical errors in the Department’s 2009 

calculation of expected NME wages 

presented in Attachment 1 should file 


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51556 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 193 / Wednesday, October 7, 2009 / Notices 

2On August 11, 2008, the United Nations 

Department of Economic and Social Affairs 

published the 4th revision of the International 

Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic 

Activities (‘‘ISIC classification’’). Therefore, with 

respect to the data selection criteria established in 

the Antidumping Methodologies Notice, where 

more than one record in the ILO database meet the 

requirements, the Department has prioritized the 

most recent update of the ISIC classification, ISIC 

Rev.4–C—manufacturing, over previous revisions. 

See Antidumping Methodologies Notice, 71 FR 

61722. 

3The Department considers Armenia, Azerbaijan, 

Belarus, The People’s Republic of China, Georgia, 

Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, 

and Vietnam to be non-market economies. 

one signed original and six copies of 

each set of comments by the date 

specified above. The Department will 

consider all comments regarding clerical 

errors received before the close of the 

comment period. Comments received 

after the end of the comment period will 

be considered, if possible, but their 

consideration cannot be assured. The 

Department will not accept comments 

accompanied by a request that a part or 

all of the material be treated 

confidentially because of its business 

proprietary nature or for any other 

reason. The Department will return such 

comments and materials to the persons 

submitting the comments and will not 

consider them. All comments 

responding to this notice will be a 

matter of public record and will be 

available for inspection and copying at 

Import Administration’s Central 

Records Unit, Room 1117. The 

Department requires that comments be 

submitted in written form. The 

Department recommends submission of 

comments in electronic form to 

accompany the required paper copies. 

Comments filed in electronic form 

should be submitted either by e-mail to 

the Webmaster below, or on CD–ROM, 

as comments submitted on diskettes are 

likely to be damaged by postal radiation 

treatment. Comments received in 

electronic form will be made available 

to the public in Portable Document 

Format (‘‘PDF’’) on the Internet at the 

Import Administration Web site at the 

following address: http:// 

www.ia.ita.doc.gov. Any questions 

concerning file formatting, document 

conversion, access on the Internet, or 

other electronic filing issues should be 

addressed to Andrew Lee Beller, Import 

Administration Webmaster, at (202) 

482–0866, e-mail address: Webmastersupport@ita.doc.gov. 

Dated: September 29, 2009. 

Ronald K. Lorentzen, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

Attachment 1—2009 Calculation of 

Expected NME Wages 

Following the criteria and 

methodology described in the 

Antidumping Methodologies notice, and 

using the data available to the 

Department as of September 22, 2009, 

the Department used 2006 and 2007 

data in Chapter 5B of the International 

Labour Statistics (‘‘ILO’’) that had 

available and suitable ‘‘earnings’’ data 

for 88 entities: Albania, Andorra, 

Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, 

Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda, 

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, 

Bulgaria,2 Canada, Chile, China, 

Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, 

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, 

Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, 

France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, 

Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, 

Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, 

Indonesia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, 

Japan, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Republic of 

Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, 

Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Malta, 

Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, 

Montenegro, New Zealand, Nicaragua, 

Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, 

Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto 

Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian 

Federation, Serbia, Seychelles, 

Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South 

Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, 

Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, United 

Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands 

(U.S.), and West Bank and Gaza Strip. 

Within the earnings data set above, for 

2006 and 2007, Armenia, Azerbaijan, 

China, Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic 

(Kyrgyzstan), and Moldova, were not 

included in the regression because they 

are designated as NME countries by the 

Department.3

Of the remaining 82 entities, for the 

reasons further discussed below, 16 

additional entities were excluded from 

the regression data set. 

The Department notes that the 

earnings data from Switzerland and 

Paraguay appear to be aberrant, and may 

be the result of a typographical or 

reporting error by the ILO Web site, and 

has thus been excluded from the 

regression data set. 

There were no 2007 GNI data 

available for Andorra, Bahrain, 

Bermuda, Cuba, Gibraltar, Guam, Isle of 

Man, Jersey, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Taiwan, 

Virgin Islands (U.S.), and West Bank 

and Gaza Strip. 

The Department also excluded Bosnia 

& Herzegovina, as the IFS CPI datum 

was unavailable to inflate the entities’ 

reported 2006 ILO earnings. 

There were no further entities 

eliminated based on the availability of 

the 2006 and 2007 earnings, CPI, GNI, 

or exchange rate data for the remaining 

66 entities. 

Accordingly, the Department ran its 

preliminary 2009 expected NME wage 

regression on the following 66 

countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia, 

Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, 

Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, 

Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, 

Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, 

Finland, France, Germany, Guatemala, 

Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, 

Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, 

Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, 

Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, 

Macao, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, 

Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, New 

Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, 

Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, 

Romania, Russia, Serbia, Seychelles, 

Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, 

South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, 

Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the 

United States. 

Following the data compilation and 

regression methodology described in the 

Antidumping Methodologies notice, and 

using GNI and wage data for Base Year 

2007, the regression results are: 

Expected Wages = 0.0004265(GNI)— 

0.2616639. 

2007 GNI Expected 

wages 

Armenia ................ 2,580.00 1.36 

Azerbaijan ............. 2,710.00 1.42 

Belarus .................. 4,240.00 2.07 

China (PRC) ......... 2,360.00 1.27 

Georgia ................. 2,090.00 1.15 

Kyrgyz Republic .... 610.00 0.52 

Moldova ................ 1,130.00 0.74 

Tajikistan ............... 460.00 0.46 

Uzbekistan ............ 730.00 0.57 

Vietnam ................. 770.00 0.59 

The World Bank did not publish a 

GNI for Turkmenistan. 

As stated above, the full preliminary 

results and underlying data for the 2009 

expected NME wages calculation have 

been posted on the Import 

Administration Web site (http:// 

ia.ita.doc.gov). 

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