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49See section 782(b) of the Act. 

50See Certification of Factual Information to 

Import Administration During Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 42678 (July 

17, 2013) (Final Rule). Answers to frequently asked 

questions regarding the Final Rule are available at 

http://enforcement.trade.gov/tlei/notices/factual_

info_final_rule_FAQ_07172013.pdf. 

51Effective October 30, 2023, these changes will 

apply to all AD/CVD proceedings that are ongoing 

on the effective date and all AD/CVD proceedings 

initiated on or after the effective date. See 

Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other 

Procedures in Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069 (September 29, 

2023). 

information.49 Parties must use the 

certification formats provided in 19 CFR 

351.303(g).50 Commerce intends to 

reject factual submissions if the 

submitting party does not comply with 

the applicable certification 

requirements. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Interested parties must submit 

applications for disclosure under APO 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. 

Parties wishing to participate in this 

investigation should ensure that they 

meet the requirements of 19 CFR 

351.103(d) (e.g., by filing the required 

letter of appearance). Note that 

Commerce has modified its regulations 

to make permanent certain changes to 

its service procedures that were adopted 

on a temporary basis due to COVID–19, 

as well as to make additional 

clarifications and corrections to its AD/ 

CVD regulations.51

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to sections 732(c)(2) and 777(i) 

of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.203(c). 

Dated: November 6, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix—Scope of the Investigation 

The scope of the investigation covers truck 

and bus tires. Truck and bus tires are new 

pneumatic tires, of rubber, with a truck or 

bus size designation. Truck and bus tires 

covered by the scope may be tube-type, 

tubeless, radial, or non-radial (also known as 

bias construction or bias-ply). 

Subject tires have, at the time of 

importation, the symbol ‘‘DOT’’ on the 

sidewall, certifying that the tire conforms to 

applicable motor vehicle safety standards. 

Subject tires may also have one of the 

following suffixes in their tire size 

designation, which also appear on the 

sidewall of the tire: 

TR—Identifies tires for service on trucks or 

buses to differentiate them from similarly 

sized passenger car and light truck tires; and 

HC—Identifies a 17.5 inch rim diameter 

code for use on low platform trailers. 

All tires with a ‘‘TR’’ or ‘‘HC’’ suffix in 

their size designations are covered by the 

scope regardless of their intended use. 

In addition, all tires that lack one of the 

above suffix markings are included in the 

scope, as well as all tires that include any 

other prefix or suffix in their sidewall 

markings, are included in the scope, 

regardless of their intended use, as long as 

the tire is of a size that fits trucks or busses. 

Sizes that fit trucks and busses include, but 

are not limited to, the numerical size 

designations listed in the ‘‘Truck-Bus’’ 

section of the Tire and Rim Association Year 

Book, as updated annually. The scope 

includes all tires that are of a size that fits 

trucks or busses, unless the tire falls within 

one of the specific exclusions set out below. 

Truck and bus tires, whether or not 

mounted on wheels or rims, are included in 

the scope. However, if a subject tire is 

imported mounted on a wheel or rim, only 

the tire is covered by the scope. Subject 

merchandise includes truck and bus tires 

produced in the subject country whether 

mounted on wheels or rims in the subject 

country or in a third country. Truck and bus 

tires are covered whether or not they are 

accompanied by other parts, e.g., a wheel, 

rim, axle parts, bolts, nuts, etc. Truck and bus 

tires that enter attached to a vehicle are not 

covered by the scope. 

Specifically excluded from the scope are 

the following types of tires: (1) pneumatic 

tires, of rubber, that are not new, including 

recycled and retreaded tires; (2) nonpneumatic tires, such as solid rubber tires; 

and (3) tires that exhibit each of the following 

physical characteristics: (a) the designation 

‘‘MH’’ is molded into the tire’s sidewall as 

part of the size designation; (b) the tire 

incorporates a warning, prominently molded 

on the sidewall, that the tire is for ‘‘Mobile 

Home Use Only;’’ and (c) the tire is of bias 

construction (also known as non-radial 

construction) as evidenced by the fact that 

the construction code included in the size 

designation molded into the tire’s sidewall is 

not the letter ‘‘R.’’ 

The subject merchandise is currently 

classifiable under Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

subheadings: 4011.20.1015 and 

4011.20.5020. Tires meeting the scope 

description may also enter under the 

following HTSUS subheadings: 

4011.90.1010, 4011.90.1050, 4011.90.2010, 

4011.90.2050, 4011.90.8010, 4011.90.8050, 

8708.70.4530, 8708.70.4546, 8708.70.4548, 

8708.70.4560, 8708.70.6030, 8708.70.6045, 

8708.70.6060, and 8716.90.5059. 

While HTSUS subheadings are provided 

for convenience and for customs purposes, 

the written description of the subject 

merchandise is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Meeting of the President’s Export 

Council 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The President’s Export 

Council (Council) will hold a meeting to 

deliberate on recommendations related 

to promoting the expansion of U.S. 

exports. Meeting topics will include 

strengthening U.S. leadership in clean 

technologies and climate solutions, 

promoting U.S. agricultural trade, and 

enhancing U.S. manufacturing 

competitiveness. The final agenda will 

be posted at least one week in advance 

of the meeting on the President’s Export 

Council website at https://

www.trade.gov/presidents-exportcouncil. 

DATES: November 29, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. 

ET. 

ADDRESSES: The President’s Export 

Council meeting will be broadcast via 

live webcast on the internet. Please visit 

the Council’s website at https://

www.trade.gov/presidents-exportcouncil for the link to the live webcast 

on the day of the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tricia Van Orden, Designated Federal 

Officer, President’s Export Council, 

Room 3424, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230, telephone: 

202–482–5876, email: tricia.vanorden@

trade.gov. 

Press inquiries should be directed to 

the International Trade Administration’s 

Office of Public Affairs, telephone: 202– 

482–3809. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The President’s Export 

Council was first established by 

Executive Order on December 20, 1973 

to advise the President on matters 

relating to U.S. export trade and to 

report to the President on its activities 

and recommendations for expanding 

U.S. exports. The President’s Export 

Council was renewed most recently by 

Executive Order 14109 of September 29, 

2023, for the two-year period ending 

September 30, 2025. This Committee is 

governed in accordance with the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 

U.S.C. 1001 et seq. 

Public Submissions: The public is 

invited to submit written statements to 

the President’s Export Council. 

Statements must be received by 5 p.m. 

ET on November 27, 2023 by the 

following methods: 

a. Electronic Submissions 

Submit statements electronically to 

Tricia Van Orden, Designated Federal 

Officer, President’s Export Council via 

email: tricia.vanorden@trade.gov. 


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1See Certain Hardwood Plywood Products from 

the People’s Republic of China: Initiation of LessThan-Fair-Value Investigation, 81 FR 91125 

(December 16, 2016). 2See Certain Hardwood Plywood Products from 

the People’s Republic of China: Final Determination 

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and Final 

Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part, 82 FR 53460 (November 16, 

2017) (Final Determination), and accompanying 

Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM). 

3Commerce’s general practice in non-market 

economy proceedings, consistent with section 

773(c)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act), is to calculate NV using the factors of 

production (FOP) that a respondent consumes to 

produce a unit of the subject merchandise. There 

are circumstances, however, in which Commerce 

will modify its standard FOP methodology, 

choosing instead to apply a surrogate value to an 

intermediate input instead of the individual FOPs 

used to produce that intermediate input. See Final 

Determination IDM at Comment 2. 

4See Final Determination IDM; see also Certain 

Hardwood Plywood Products from the People’s 

Republic of China: Amended Final Determination 

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, and Antidumping 

Duty Order, 83 FR 504 (January 4, 2018) (Order). 

5See Final Determination, 82 FR at 53462. 6See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant 

to Court Remand, Linyi Chengen Import and Export 

Co., Ltd., et al. v. United States, Court No. 18– 

00002, Slip Op. 19–67 (CIT June 3, 2019), dated 

August 23, 2019. For a list of these companies, see 

Appendix to this notice; see also Linyi Chengen 

Import and Export Co., Ltd., et al. v. United States, 

487 F. Supp. 3d 1349 (CIT 2020) (Remand Order 

III). 

7See Linyi Chengen Import and Export Co., Ltd., 

et al. v. United States, 433 F. Supp. 3d 1278, 1286 

(CIT 2020) (Remand Order II), at 1. 

8See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant 

to Court Remand, Linyi Chengen Import and Export 

Co., Ltd., et al. v. United States, Court No. 18– 

00002, Slip Op. 20–22 (CIT February 20, 2020), 

dated June 18, 2020 (Redetermination II). 

9See Redetermination II at 53. 

10 Id. at 15 and Issue 3; see also Petitioner’s 

Letter, ‘‘Petitions for the Imposition of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duties,’’ dated 

November 18, 2016 (Petition). 

b. Paper Submissions 

Send paper statements to Tricia Van 

Orden, Designated Federal Officer, 

President’s Export Council, Room 3424, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230. 

Statements will be posted on the 

President’s Export Council website 

(https://www.trade.gov/presidentsexport-council) without change, 

including any business or personal 

information provided such as names, 

addresses, email addresses, or telephone 

numbers. All statements received, 

including attachments and other 

supporting materials, are part of the 

public record and subject to public 

disclosure. You should submit only 

information that you wish to make 

publicly available. 

Meeting minutes: Copies of the 

Council’s meeting minutes will be 

available within ninety (90) days of the 

meeting. 

Dated: November 8, 2023. 

Tricia Van Orden, 

Designated Federal Officer, President’s Export 

Council. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–051] 

Certain Hardwood Plywood Products 

From the People’s Republic of China: 

Notice of Court Decision Not in 

Harmony With the Final Determination 

of Antidumping Duty Investigation; 

Notice of Amended Determination 

Pursuant to Court Decision; and Notice 

of Revocation of Antidumping Duty 

Order, in Part 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On October 10, 2023, the U.S. 

Court of International Trade (CIT) 

issued its final judgment in Linyi 

Chengen Import and Export Co., Ltd., et 

al., v. United States, Consol. Court no. 

18–00002, sustaining the U.S. 

Department of Commerce (Commerce)’s 

fifth remand results of redetermination 

pertaining to the less-than-fair-value 

(LTFV) antidumping duty investigation 

of certain hardwood plywood products 

(hardwood plywood) from the People’s 

Republic of China (China). Commerce is 

notifying the public that the CIT’s final 

judgment is not in harmony with 

Commerce’s final LTFV determination. 

Consequently, the final antidumping 

duty margin calculated for mandatory 

respondent Linyi Chengen Import and 

Export Co., Ltd. (Chengen) is now zero 

percent and the rate assigned to the 

companies who received separate rates 

and are party to this litigation (Separate 

Rate Plaintiffs) is the rate assigned to 

Chengen, zero percent. In addition, 

because the final margin assigned to 

Chengen and the two companies that 

requested voluntary respondent 

treatment and submitted all of the 

threshold information necessary to be 

eligible for voluntary respondent 

treatment, Zhejiang Dehua TB Import & 

Export Co. (Dehua TB) and Xuzhou 

Jiangyang Wood Industries, Co., Ltd. 

(Jiangyang), is zero, Chengen, Dehua TB, 

and Jiangyang, in the exporter-producer 

combinations assigned in the 

investigation, are excluded from the 

Order. 

DATES: Applicable October 20, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kabir Archuletta, 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) 482–2953. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 8, 2016, Commerce 

initiated an LTFV investigation on 

plywood from China,1 and we issued 

our Final Determination in this 

investigation in November 2017.2 In the 

Final Determination, Commerce 

calculated the normal value (NV) for 

mandatory respondent Chengen by 

applying the ‘‘intermediate input’’ 

methodology and valuing Chengen’s 

consumption of wood veneers,3 rather 

than by valuing Chengen’s consumption 

of wood logs.4 Commerce further 

assigned to the companies eligible for a 

separate rate, in combination with their 

suppliers, an estimated weightedaverage dumping margin based on 

Chengen’s estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin.5

In Linyi Chengen Imp. & Exp. Co. v. 

United States, 391 F. Supp. 3d 1283 

(CIT 2019) (Remand Order I), the CIT 

requested further explanation regarding 

our Final Determination. On remand, 

Commerce provided further explanation 

and continued to apply the intermediate 

input methodology, as in the underlying 

Final Determination, and made no 

change to the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin calculated for 

Chengen and assigned to the Separate 

Rate Plaintiffs.6

In its Remand Order II, the CIT found 

Commerce’s explanation contrary to law 

and instructed it to accept certain 

information previously not permitted on 

the record.7 On remand and under 

respectful protest, Commerce accepted 

this new factual information from 

Chengen, reconsidered the application 

of the intermediate input methodology 

to Chengen, and calculated an estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin 

based on the valuation of Chengen’s log 

FOPs, which resulted in an estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

Chengen of zero percent.8 Because 

Chengen received a zero percent rate, 

Commerce explained that it intended to 

exclude hardwood plywood produced 

by Linyi Dongfangjuxin Wood Co., Ltd. 

(Dongfangjuxin) and exported by 

Chengen from the Order.9 In addition, 

Commerce revised the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

the China-wide entity to be equal to the 

highest dumping margin alleged in the 

Petition, 114.72 percent,10 and revised 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin assigned to the 

Separate Rate Plaintiffs by averaging 

Chengen’s zero percent rate with the 


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