60926 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 171 / Wednesday, September 6, 2023 / Notices 

ACCESS as ‘‘AISL-January Anniversary.’’ Note that 

there will be only one annual inquiry service list 

segment per case number, and the anniversary 

month will be pre-populated in ACCESS. 12See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206. 13See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 14 Id. 

1See Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the People’s 

Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Order, 81 FR 

55436 (August 19, 2016) (Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

to Request Administrative Review and Join Annual 

Inquiry Service List, 87 FR 47187 (August 2, 2022). 

3See HFC Coalition’s Letter, ‘‘Request for 

Administrative Review,’’ dated August 31, 2022; see 

also Sanmei’s Letter, ‘‘Request for Administrative 

Review,’’ dated August 31, 2022. 

4See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 

61278 (October 11, 2022) (Initiation Notice). 

5The Initiation Notice listed 18 companies. 

However, Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd. 

is the same company as Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical 

Industry Co., Ltd. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of 2021–2022 Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated April 10, 2023. 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the 2021–2022 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of 

Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the People’s 

Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

As mentioned in the Procedural 

Guidance, beginning in January 2022, 

Commerce will update these annual 

inquiry service lists on an annual basis 

when the Opportunity Notice for the 

anniversary month of the order or 

suspended investigation is published in 

the Federal Register.12 Accordingly, 

Commerce will update the annual 

inquiry service lists for the above-listed 

antidumping and countervailing duty 

proceedings. All interested parties 

wishing to appear on the updated 

annual inquiry service list must take 

one of the two following actions: (1) 

new interested parties who did not 

previously submit an entry of 

appearance must submit a new entry of 

appearance at this time; or (2) interested 

parties who were included in the 

preceding annual inquiry service list 

must submit an amended entry of 

appearance to be included in the next 

year’s annual inquiry service list. For 

these interested parties, Commerce will 

change the entry of appearance status 

from ‘‘Active’’ to ‘‘Needs Amendment’’ 

for the annual inquiry service lists 

corresponding to the above-listed 

proceedings. This will allow those 

interested parties to make any necessary 

amendments and resubmit their entries 

of appearance. If no amendments need 

to be made, the interested party should 

indicate in the area on the ACCESS form 

requesting an explanation for the 

amendment that it is resubmitting its 

entry of appearance for inclusion in the 

annual inquiry service list for the 

following year. As mentioned in the 

Final Rule,13 once the petitioners and 

foreign governments have submitted an 

entry of appearance for the first time, 

they will automatically be added to the 

updated annual inquiry service list each 

year. 

Interested parties have 30 days after 

the date of this notice to submit new or 

amended entries of appearance. 

Commerce will then finalize the annual 

inquiry service lists five business days 

thereafter. For ease of administration, 

please note that Commerce requests that 

law firms with more than one attorney 

representing interested parties in a 

proceeding designate a lead attorney to 

be included on the annual inquiry 

service list. 

Commerce may update an annual 

inquiry service list at any time as 

needed based on interested parties’ 

amendments to their entries of 

appearance to remove or otherwise 

modify their list of members and 

representatives, or to update contact 

information. Any changes or 

announcements pertaining to these 

procedures will be posted to the 

ACCESS website at https://

access.trade.gov. 

Special Instructions for Petitioners and 

Foreign Governments 

In the Final Rule, Commerce stated 

that, ‘‘after an initial request and 

placement on the annual inquiry service 

list, both petitioners and foreign 

governments will automatically be 

placed on the annual inquiry service list 

in the years that follow.’’ 14

Accordingly, as stated above and 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the 

petitioners and foreign governments 

will not need to resubmit their entries 

of appearance each year to continue to 

be included on the annual inquiry 

service list. However, the petitioners 

and foreign governments are responsible 

for making amendments to their entries 

of appearance during the annual update 

to the annual inquiry service list in 

accordance with the procedures 

described above. 

This notice is not required by statute 

but is published as a service to the 

international trading community. 

Dated: August 23, 2023. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–028] 

Hydrofluorocarbon Blends From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review; 2021– 

2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that the sole mandatory 

respondent under review did not make 

sales of Hydrofluorocarbon Blends (HFC 

blends) from the People’s Republic of 

China (China) at less than normal value 

(NV) during the period of review (POR), 

August 31, 2021, through July 31, 2022. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable September 6, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex 

Wood, AD/CVD Operations, Office II, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1959. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On August 19, 2016, Commerce 

published the antidumping duty (AD) 

order on HFC blends from China.1 On 

August 2, 2022, Commerce published a 

notice of opportunity to request an 

administrative review of the Order, 

covering the POR, pursuant to section 

751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act).2 On October 11, 

2022, based on timely requests for 

review from American HFC Coalition 

and Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Industry 

Co., Ltd. (Sanmei),3 Commerce initiated 

an administrative review of the Order 

covering the POR.4 The administrative 

review covers 17 companies,5 including 

the mandatory respondent, Sanmei. On 

April 10, 2023, Commerce extended the 

deadline for the preliminary results of 

this review to no later than August 31, 

2023.6

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the Order 

are shipments of HFC blends from 

China. For a full description of the 

scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.7

Separate Rate 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that one respondent, Sanmei, the only 

company individually examined in this 


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8 Id. at ‘‘Separate Rates’’ section. 

9See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement 

of Change in Department Practice for Respondent 

Selection in Antidumping Duty Proceedings and 

Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy 

Entity in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 

FR 65963 (November 4, 2013). 

10See Order. 

11See Initiation Notice (‘‘All firms listed below 

that wish to qualify for separate rate status in the 

administrative reviews involving NME countries 

must complete, as appropriate, either a separate rate 

application or certification, as described below.’’), 

87 FR at 61285; see also Appendix II, infra, for the 

list of companies that are subject to this 

administrative review that are considered to be part 

of the China-wide entity. 

12See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 

‘‘Discussion of the Methodology.’’ 

13See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

14See 19 CFR 351.309(c). 

15See 19 CFR 351.309(c); see also Temporary 

Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements Due 

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

41363 (July 10, 2020) (Temporary Rule). 

16See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

17See 19 CFR 351.303. 

18See Temporary Rule. 

19See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

20See 19 CFR 351.310(d). 

21See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.213(h). 

22See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

23See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of 

the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 

Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 

(February 14, 2012). 

24See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

25For a full discussion of this practice, see NonMarket Economy Antidumping Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 

(October 24, 2011). 

review, is eligible to receive a separate 

rate in this review.8

China-Wide Entity 

Under Commerce’s policy regarding 

the conditional review of the Chinawide entity,9 the China-wide entity will 

not be under review unless a party 

specifically requests, or Commerce selfinitiates, a review of the entity. Because 

no party requested a review of the 

China-wide entity in this review, the 

entity is not under review, and the 

entity’s rate (i.e., 216.37 percent) is not 

subject to change.10 Commerce 

considers the 16 companies for which a 

review was requested (which did not 

file a separate rate application or did not 

demonstrate separate rate eligibility) 

listed in Appendix II to this notice, to 

be part of the China-wide entity.11

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

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

of the Act. We calculated export price 

in accordance with section 772 of the 

Act. Because China is an NME country 

within the meaning of section 771(18) of 

the Act, we calculated normal value in 

accordance with section 773(c) of the 

Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

preliminary results, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.12 A list of 

topics discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is included as 

Appendix I 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 found at 

https://access.trade.gov/public/

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following weighted-average 

dumping margin exists for the period 

August 31, 2021, through July 31, 2022: 

Exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Sanmei Chemical Industry 

Co., Ltd ............................. 0.00 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose the 

calculations performed in connection 

with these preliminary results to 

interested parties within five days after 

the date of publication of this notice.13

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to Commerce no later 

than 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice.14 Rebuttal 

briefs, limited to issues raised in the 

case briefs, may be filed no later than 

seven days after the time limit for filing 

case briefs.15 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.16 Case and rebuttal briefs 

should be filed using ACCESS.17 Note 

that Commerce has temporarily 

modified certain of its requirements for 

serving documents containing business 

proprietary information, until further 

notice.18

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, filed electronically via 

ACCESS within 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice.19 Hearing 

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 

issues raised in the briefs. If a request 

for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at a date and 

time to be determined.20 Parties should 

confirm by telephone the date and time 

of the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. An electronically filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on the established 

deadline. 

Unless the deadline is extended, 

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.21

Assessment Rates 

Upon completion of the final results, 

Commerce shall determine, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review.22 If the preliminary results are 

unchanged for the final results, we will 

instruct CBP to apply an ad valorem 

assessment rate of 216.37 percent to all 

entries of subject merchandise during 

the POR which were exported by the 

companies considered to be a part of the 

China-wide entity listed in Appendix II 

of this notice. 

If the individually examined 

respondent’s weighted-average dumping 

margin is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 

percent) in the final results of this 

review, we will calculate an importerspecific assessment rate on the basis of 

the ratio of the total amount of dumping 

calculated for each importer’s examined 

sales and, where possible, the total 

entered value of those same sales in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).23

Where an importer- (or customer-) 

specific ad valorem rate is zero or de 

minimis, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate appropriate entries without 

regard to antidumping duties.24

For entries that were not reported in 

the U.S. sales database submitted by 

exporter individually examined during 

this review, Commerce will instruct 

CBP to liquidate such entries at the 

China-wide rate.25


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1See Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of 

Carbon and Alloy Steel from India: Preliminary 

Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2021, 88 FR 14143 (March 7, 2023) 

(Preliminary Results), and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

2 Id., 88 FR at 14143. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review, 2021,’’ dated May 30, 2023. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review: 

Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon 

and Alloy Steel from India; 2021,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). 

5See Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of 

Carbon and Alloy Steel from the People’s Republic 

of China and India: Countervailing Duty Orders, 83 

FR 4637 (February 1, 2018) (Order); see also Certain 

Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and 

Alloy Steel from the People’s Republic of China and 

India: Countervailing Duty Orders; Correction, 86 

FR 30595 (June 9, 2021). 

Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review in the Federal Register. If a 

timely summons is filed at the U.S. 

Court of International Trade, the 

assessment instructions will direct CBP 

not to liquidate relevant entries until the 

time for parties to file a request for a 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review for all shipments 

of the subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the publication 

date, as provided for by section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) for the 

subject merchandise exported by the 

company listed above that has a 

separate rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be equal to the weighted-average 

dumping margin established in the final 

results of this administrative review 

(except, if the rate is zero or de minimis, 

then zero cash deposit will be required); 

(2) for previously investigated or 

reviewed Chinese and non-Chinese 

exporters not listed above that received 

a separate rate in a prior segment of this 

proceeding, the cash deposit rate will 

continue to be the existing exporterspecific rate; (3) for all Chinese 

exporters of subject merchandise that 

have not been found to be entitled to a 

separate rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be that for the China-wide entity; and 

(4) for all non-Chinese exporters of 

subject merchandise which have not 

received their own rate, the cash deposit 

rate will be the rate applicable to the 

Chinese exporter that supplied that nonChinese exporter. These deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

These 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) 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 Commerce’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 

preliminary results of review in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(l) and 

777(i)(l) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: August 29, 2023. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I—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 

Appendix II—Companies Considered 

To Be Part of the China-Wide Entity 

1. Changzhou Vista Chemical Co., Ltd. 

2. Daikin Fluorochemicals (China) Co., Ltd. 

3. Dongyang Weihua Refrigerants Co., Ltd. 

4. Hangzhou Icetop Refrigeration Co., Ltd. 

5. Jiangsu Sanmei Chemicals Co., Ltd. 

6. Oasis Chemical Co., Limited 

7. Sinochem Environmental Protection 

Chemicals (Taicang) Co., Ltd. 

8. Superfy Industrial Limited 

9. Tianjin Synergy Gases Products, Co., Ltd. 

10. Weitron International Refrigeration 

Equipment (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. 

11. Weitron International Refrigeration 

Equipment Co., Ltd. 

12. Yangfar Industry Co., Ltd 

13. Zhejiang Lantian Environmental 

Protection Fluoro Material Co. Ltd 

14. Zhejiang Quzhou Lianzhou Refrigerants 

Co., Ltd 

15. Zhejiang Yonghe Refrigerant Co., Ltd 

16. Zhejiang Zhonglan Refrigeration 

Technology Co., Ltd 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–874] 

Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing 

of Carbon and Alloy Steel From India: 

Final Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2021 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to producers and exporters of 

certain cold-drawn mechanical tubing of 

carbon and alloy steel (cold-drawn 

mechanical tubing) from India during 

the period of review, January 1, 2021, 

through December 31, 2021. 

DATES: Applicable September 6, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eliza DeLong or Eric Hawkins, 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) 482–3878 or (202) 482–1988, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Commerce published the Preliminary 

Results of this review on March 7, 

2023.1 We invited interested parties to 

comment on the Preliminary Results.2

On May 30, 2023, Commerce extended 

the deadline for the final results of this 

review until September 1, 2023.3 For a 

complete description of the events that 

occurred since the Preliminary Results, 

see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum.4

Scope of the Order 5

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is cold-drawn mechanical tubing 

from India. For a complete description 

of the scope of the Order, see the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in interested parties’ 

briefs are addressed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum. A list of the 

issues raised by interested parties, to 

which we responded in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum, is provided as 

an appendix to this notice. The Issues 

and 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 


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