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6 In accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(d)(2), within 

30 days after the filing of a scope ruling application, 

if Commerce determines that it intends to address 

the scope issue raised in the application in another 

segment of the proceeding (such as a circumvention 

inquiry under 19 CFR 351.226 or a covered 

merchandise inquiry under 19 CFR 351.227), it will 

notify the applicant that it will not initiate a scope 

inquiry, but will instead determine if the product 

is covered by the scope at issue in that alternative 

segment. 

7See Notice of Clarification: Application of ‘‘Next 

Business Day’’ Rule for Administrative 

Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act 

of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005). 

8This structure maintains the intent of the 

applicable regulation, 19 CFR 351.225(d)(1), to 

allow day 30 and day 31 to be separate business 

days. 

9See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

53205 (September 27, 2021). 

1See Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results and 

Partial Rescission of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2020–2022, 88 FR 20488 

(April 6, 2023) (Preliminary Results), and 

accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the 2020– 

2022 Administrative Review of the Antidumping 

Duty Order on Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the 

People’s Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently 

with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and 

Decision Memorandum). 

3See Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the 

People’s Republic of China: Antidumping Duty and 

Countervailing Duty Orders, 86 FR 14869 (March 

19, 2021) (Order). 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(d)(1), 

if Commerce has not rejected a scope 

ruling application nor initiated the 

scope inquiry within 30 days after the 

filing of the application, the application 

will be deemed accepted and a scope 

inquiry will be deemed initiated the 

following day—day 31.6 Commerce’s 

practice generally dictates that where a 

deadline falls on a weekend, Federal 

holiday, or other non-business day, the 

appropriate deadline is the next 

business day.7 Accordingly, if the 30th 

day after the filing of the application 

falls on a non-business day, the next 

business day will be considered the 

‘‘updated’’ 30th day, and if the 

application is not rejected or a scope 

inquiry initiated by or on that particular 

business day, the application will be 

deemed accepted and a scope inquiry 

will be deemed initiated on the next 

business day which follows the 

‘‘updated’’ 30th day.8

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.225(m)(2), if there are companion 

AD and CVD orders covering the same 

merchandise from the same country of 

origin, the scope inquiry will be 

conducted on the record of the AD 

proceeding. Further, please note that 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(m)(1), 

Commerce may either apply a scope 

ruling to all products from the same 

country with the same relevant physical 

characteristics, (including chemical, 

dimensional, and technical 

characteristics) as the product at issue, 

on a country-wide basis, regardless of 

the producer, exporter, or importer of 

those products, or on a companyspecific basis. 

For further information on procedures 

for filing information with Commerce 

through ACCESS and participating in 

scope inquiries, please refer to the 

Filing Instructions section of the Scope 

Ruling Application Guide, at https://

access.trade.gov/help/Scope_Ruling_

Guidance.pdf. Interested parties, apart 

from the scope ruling applicant, who 

wish to participate in a scope inquiry 

and be added to the public service list 

for that segment of the proceeding must 

file an entry of appearance in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.103(d)(1) 

and 19 CFR 351.225(n)(4). Interested 

parties are advised to refer to the case 

segment in ACCESS as well as 19 CFR 

351.225(f) for further information on the 

scope inquiry procedures, including the 

timelines for the submission of 

comments. 

Please note that this notice of scope 

ruling applications filed in AD and CVD 

proceedings may be published before 

any potential initiation, or after the 

initiation, of a given scope inquiry 

based on a scope ruling application 

identified in this notice. Therefore, 

please refer to the case segment on 

ACCESS to determine whether a scope 

ruling application has been accepted or 

rejected and whether a scope inquiry 

has been initiated. 

Interested parties who wish to be 

served scope ruling applications for a 

particular AD or CVD order may file a 

request to be included on the annual 

inquiry service list during the 

anniversary month of the publication of 

the AD or CVD order in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.225(n) and Commerce’s 

procedures.9

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on the completeness of this 

monthly list of scope ruling applications 

received by Commerce. Any comments 

should be submitted to James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, via email to 

CommerceCLU@trade.gov. 

This notice of scope ruling 

applications filed in AD and CVD 

proceedings is published in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.225(d)(3). 

Dated: October 3, 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–570–122] 

Certain Corrosion Inhibitors From the 

People’s Republic of China: Final 

Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review, 2020–2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

companies in the People’s Republic of 

China (China) made sales of subject 

merchandise at less than normal value 

(NV) during the period of review (POR) 

September 10, 2020, through February 

28, 2022. 

DATES: Applicable October 10, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Hermes Pinilla or Dusten Hom, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office I, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–3477 and (202) 482–5075, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 6, 2023, Commerce 

published the preliminary results of this 

review in the Federal Register and 

invited interested parties to comment on 

those results.1 For a complete 

description of the events that occurred 

since the Preliminary Results, see the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum.2

Commerce conducted this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). 

Scope of the Order 3

The products covered by the Order 

are certain corrosion inhibitors from 

China. A complete description of the 

scope of the Order is contained in the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum. 


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4See Preliminary Results. 5See Order, 86 FR at 14871. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs by parties in this 

administrative review are addressed in 

the Issues and Decision Memorandum 

and are listed in the 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 version of the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly at https://access.trade.gov/ 

public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

Based on the comments received, we 

made no changes to the Preliminary 

Results.4 For a more detailed discussion 

of the issues raised by parties, see the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

Rate for Non-Examined Separate Rate 

Respondents 

The statute and our regulations do not 

address the establishment of a rate to be 

assigned to respondents not selected for 

individual examination when we limit 

our examination of companies subject to 

the administrative review pursuant to 

section 777A(c)(2)(B) of the Act. 

Generally, we look to section 735(c)(5) 

of the Act, which provides instructions 

for calculating the all-others rate in an 

investigation, for guidance when 

calculating the rate for respondents not 

individually examined in an 

administrative review. Under section 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others 

rate is normally ‘‘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 {on the 

basis of facts available}.’’ Accordingly, 

in the final results of review, we are 

assigning to the non-selected separate 

rate respondents an estimated weightedaverage dumping margin based on the 

average of Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd.’s, 

and its affiliates (collectively Anhui), 

and Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd’s 

(Botao) rates weighted by their publicly 

available ranged U.S. sales values. 

Final Results of the Review 

Commerce determines that the 

following estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins exist for the period 

September 10, 2020, through February 

28, 2022: 

Exporter 

Weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................... 6.12 

Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................... 14.66 

Review-Specific Average Rate Applicable to the Following Companies: 

Gold Chemical Limited ......................................................................................................................................................... 9.95 

Jiangyin Delian Chemical Co., Ltd ....................................................................................................................................... 9.95 

Kanghua Chemical Co., Ltd ................................................................................................................................................. 9.95 

Disclosure 

Because we have not modified our 

analysis to the Preliminary Results, we 

are adopting the Preliminary Results as 

the final results of this review. 

Consequently, there are no new 

calculations to disclose in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.224(b) for the final 

results of review. 

Assessment Rates 

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

Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), 

Commerce intends to determine, and 

U.S. Customs and Border Protections 

(CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties 

on all appropriate entries of subject 

merchandise in accordance with the 

final results of this review. Pursuant to 

19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), for Anhui and 

Botao, we calculated importer-specific 

ad valorem duty assessment rates based 

on the ratio of the total amount of 

dumping calculated for each importer’s 

examined sales and the total entered 

value of the sales in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where an importerspecific assessment rate is de minimis 

(i.e., less than 0.5 percent), the entries 

by that importer will be liquidated 

without regard to antidumping duties. 

For all non-selected separate rate 

applicants subject to this review, we 

will instruct CBP to liquidate all entries 

of subject merchandise that entered the 

United States during the POR at the 

average of the rates calculated for Anhui 

and Botao as listed above. For entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR 

produced by Anhui and Botao for which 

they did not know their merchandise 

was destined for the United States, we 

intend to instruct CBP to liquidate such 

entries at the China-wide rate if there is 

no rate for the intermediate company or 

companies involved in the transaction. 

Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after the 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 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 the companies 

subject to this review will be the rate 

established in these final results of the 

review; (2) for previously investigated or 

reviewed Chinese and non-Chinese 

exporters not listed above that have 

separate rates, the cash deposit rate will 

continue to be the exporter-specific rate 

published for the most recently 

completed segment of this proceeding in 

which they were reviewed; (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 equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

the China-wide entity (i.e., 241.02 

percent); and (4) for all non-Chinese 

exporters of subject merchandise which 

have not received their own separate 

rate, the cash deposit rate will be the 

rate applicable to the Chinese 

exporter(s) that supplied that nonChinese exporter.5 These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 


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1See Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from 

Brazil, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, and Poland: 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 82 FR 42790 (September 

12, 2017) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 87 FR 

66275 (November 3, 2022) (Initiation Notice). The 

Initiation Notice references the six companies for 

which the petitioner requested review: Continental 

Tires de Mexico S.A. de C.V. (Continental Tires); 

Dynasol Elastomeros; Dynasol LLC (Dynasol); 

Hyundai Glovis Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. (Hyundai 

Glovis); Negromex; and Pirelli Neumaticos, S.A. de 

C.V. (Pirelli Neumaticos). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Respondent Selection,’’ 

December 6, 2022. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of the 2021–2022 Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated May 18, 2023. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Administrative 

Review of the Antidumping Duty Order: Emulsion 

Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from Mexico; 2021– 

2022,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

6See Dynasol Elastomeros’s Letter, ‘‘Notification 

of No Shipments,’’ dated November 4, 2022. 

7Additionally, Commerce issued a no-shipment 

inquiry to U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(CBP), which is pending at this time. 

8See, e.g., Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of 

Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review and Preliminary 

Determination of No Shipments; 2016–2017, 84 FR 

4046, 4047 (February 14, 2019), unchanged in 

Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of Korea: Final 

Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 

2016–2017, 84 FR 27762 (June 14, 2019). 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a final reminder 

to importers of their responsibility 

under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a 

certificate regarding the reimbursement 

of antidumping and/or countervailing 

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 and/or 

countervailing duties has occurred and 

the subsequent assessment of double 

antidumping duties, and/or an increase 

in the amount of antidumping duties by 

the amount of countervailing duties. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a final 

reminder to parties subject to an 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility concerning the 

return or destruction of proprietary 

information disclosed under APO in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), 

which continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. Timely written 

notification of the return or destruction 

of APO materials or conversion to 

judicial protective order is hereby 

requested. Failure to comply with the 

regulations and the terms of an APO is 

a sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

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

CFR 351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: October 3, 2023. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Change Since the Preliminary Results 

V. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce 

Incorrectly Valued Overhead Materials 

as Direct Materials 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should 

Use the Initial Factors of Production 

(FOP) Database to Calculate Surrogate 

Values (SV) 

Comment 3: Use of Financial Statements 

(FS) to Value Factory Overhead, Selling, 

General, and Administrative Expenses, 

and Profit 

Comment 4: Whether Commerce Should 

Continue to Assign Separate Rate Status 

to Kanghua Chemical Co., Ltd. (Chuzhou 

Kanghua) 

Comment 5: Whether Commerce Should 

Value Air Freight Based on International 

Air Transport Association (IATA) or 

Malaysian Investment Development 

Authority (MIDA) Data 

Commerce 6: Whether Commerce Should 

Value Labor Rates Based on Malaysian 

International Labor Organization 

(ILOSTAT) Data Instead of European 

Union Statistics Service (EUROSTAT) 

Labor Data 

Commerce 7: Whether Commerce Should 

Offset Botao’s AD Margin by the Double 

Remedy Pass Through Subsidies 

Calculated in the Companion 

Countervailing Duty (CVD) Proceeding 

Commerce 8: Whether Commerce’s 

Application of the Cohen’s d Test to 

Botao’s U.S. Sales Is Supported by Law 

VI. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–201–848] 

Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber 

From Mexico: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review, Preliminary Determination of 

No Shipments, and Notice of Intent To 

Rescind, in Part; 2021–2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

finds that producers/exporters of 

emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (ESB 

rubber) from Mexico did not make sales 

at prices below normal value during the 

period of review (POR) September 1, 

2021, through August 31, 2022. We also 

preliminarily find that Dynasol 

Elastomeros S.A. de C.V. (Dynasol 

Elastomeros) had no shipments during 

the POR. We invite interested parties to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable October 10, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Maciuba, 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) 482–0413. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 12, 2017, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

antidumping duty order on ESB rubber 

from Mexico.1 On November 3, 2022, 

Commerce initiated an administrative 

review of the Order, in accordance with 

section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as Amended (the Act).2 We selected 

Negromex as the sole mandatory 

respondent in this review.3

On May 18, 2023, Commerce 

extended the deadline for issuance of 

the preliminary results until September 

29, 2023.4 For a complete description of 

the events that followed the initiation of 

the review, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.5

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise subject to the Order 

is ESB rubber from Mexico. For a 

complete description of the scope, see 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments 

On November 4, 2022, we received a 

letter from Dynasol Elastomeros 

notifying Commerce that it had no 

exports, sales, or entries of subject 

merchandise during the POR.6 This 

certification was consistent with entry 

data obtained by Commerce.7 Therefore, 

we preliminarily determine that 

Dynasol Elastomeros had no shipments 

of subject merchandise to the United 

States during the POR. Consistent with 

Commerce’s practice,8 we find that it is 

not appropriate to rescind the review 

with respect to Dynasol Elastomeros, 

but rather to complete the review and 


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