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1See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

To Request Administrative Review, 82 FR 41595 

(September 1, 2017). 

2See Shandong Huitong’s letter, ‘‘New Pneumatic 

Off-The-Road Tires from the People’s Republic of 

China: Shandong Huitong Tire Co., Ltd.’s Request 

for Administrative Review,’’ dated October 2, 2017. 

See also Techking’s letter, ‘‘New Pneumatic Off-theRoad Tires from the People’s Republic of China: 

Techking Tires Limited’s Request for 

Administrative Review,’’ dated October 2, 2017. See 

also Tianjin Leviathan’s letter, ‘‘New Pneumatic 

Off-the-Road Tires from the PRC: Request for 

Antidumping Administrative Review,’’ dated 

September 26, 2017. 

3See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 82 FR 

52268 (November 13, 2017) (Initiation Notice). 

4See Shandong Huitong’s letter, ‘‘New Pneumatic 

Off-The-Road Tires from the People’s Republic of 

China: Withdrawal of Request for Review for 

Shandong Huitong Tyre Co., Ltd.,’’ dated on 

November 17, 2017. See also Techking’s letter, 

‘‘New Pneumatic Off-The-Road Tires from the 

People’s Republic of China: Withdrawal of Request 

for Review for Techking Tires Limited,’’ dated on 

November 17, 2017. 

5See Letter to GOC, ‘‘2016 Administrative Review 

of the Countervailing Duty Order on Certain New 

Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from China: 

Questionnaire,’’ dated on January 19, 2018 (Initial 

Questionnaire). 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review of Certain New Pneumatic 

Off-The-Road Tires from the People’s Republic of 

China; 2016’’ (Preliminary Decision Memorandum), 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 

this notice. 

section of the notice, specifically the 

Partial Rescission Notice did not cite the 

correct period for which Commerce will 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping 

duties. The corrected assessment section 

appears below. 

Assessment 

Commerce will instruct U.S. CBP to 

assess anti-dumping duties on all 

appropriate entries. Subject 

merchandise of Flex will be assessed 

antidumping duties at rates equal to the 

cash deposit of estimated antidumping 

duties required at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, during the period 

November 1, 2016, through October 31, 

2017, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to 

issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 

days after the date of publication of this 

notice. 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with section 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4). 

Dated: June 29, 2018. 

Scot Fullerton, 

Director, Office VI, Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–913] 

Certain New Pneumatic Off-The-Road 

Tires From the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Results and Partial 

Rescission of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2016 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to producers and exporters of 

certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires 

(OTR Tires) from the People’s Republic 

of China (China) during the period of 

review (POR) January 1 through 

December 31, 2016. Additionally, 

Commerce is rescinding this review, in 

part, with respect to two companies. We 

invite interested parties to comment on 

these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable July 11, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chloee Sagmoe or Chien-Min Yang, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office VII, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2273 or 

(202) 482–5484. 

Background 

On September 1, 2017, Commerce 

published a notice of opportunity to 

request an administrative review of the 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on OTR 

Tires from China covering the period 

January 1, 2016, through December 31, 

2016.1 Commerce received timely 

requests from Shandong Huitong Tyre 

Co., Ltd. (Shandong Huitong), Techking 

Tires Limited (Techking), and Tianjin 

Leviathan International Trade Co., Ltd. 

(Tianjin Leviathan), for an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty order.2 On 

November 13, 2017, Commerce 

published a notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the CVD order 

on OTR Tires from China with regard to 

the three companies.3 On November 17, 

2017, Shandong Huitong and Techking 

each timely withdrew its request for an 

administrative review.4

Rescission, in Part, of Countervailing 

Duty Administrative Review 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), 

Commerce will rescind an 

administrative review, in whole or in 

part, if a party that requested the review 

withdraws the request within 90 days of 

the date of publication of the notice of 

initiation of the requested review. 

Shandong Huitong and Techking timely 

submitted withdrawal requests within 

the 90-day period. Accordingly, we are 

rescinding the administrative review of 

the CVD order on OTR Tires from China 

with respect to these two companies, 

and continuing the administrative 

review with respect to Tianjin 

Leviathan. 

Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Application of Adverse Inferences to 

Tianjin Leviathan 

Subsequent to the initiation of this 

administrative review, Commerce 

issued the initial questionnaire in a 

letter to Government of China (GOC) 

and Tianjin Leviathan dated January 19, 

2018.5 Tianjin Leviathan, which did not 

withdraw its review request, failed to 

respond entirely to the questionnaire by 

the specified deadline. Additionally, the 

GOC did not submit requested 

information related to Tianjin Leviathan 

in response to Commerce’s initial 

questionnaire. Therefore, because 

necessary information is not available 

on the record and because both Tianjin 

Leviathan and the GOC failed to 

respond to Commerce’s request for 

information, we preliminarily find that 

the use of facts available is warranted, 

pursuant to section 776(a)(1) and 

776(a)(2)(A) and (C) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). Moreover, 

because Tianjin Leviathan and the GOC 

did not cooperate to the best of their 

ability, pursuant to 776(b) of the Act, we 

preliminarily find that use of adverse 

facts available (AFA) is warranted to 

ensure that Tianjin Leviathan does not 

obtain a more favorable result by failing 

to cooperate than if it had fully 

complied with our request for 

information. For further information, 

see ‘‘Use of Facts Otherwise Available 

and Adverse Inferences’’ in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum.6

Preliminary Results of Review 

Consistent with Commerce’s CVD 

AFA methodology, we preliminarily 

determine the net AFA countervailing 

subsidy rate for Tianjin Leviathan to be 

91.94 percent ad valorem. 

Disclosure 

Normally, Commerce discloses to 

interested parties the calculations 

performed in connection with the 

preliminary results of a review within 

ten days of its public announcement, or 

if there is no public announcement, 

within five days of the date of 


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7See Memorandum, ‘‘Preliminary Results of the 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review of 

Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the 

People’s Republic of China: Application of Adverse 

Facts Available for Tianjin Leviathan International 

Trade Co., Ltd.,’’ (Tianjin Leviathan AFA 

Memorandum), dated concurrently with this notice. 

8See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii). 

9See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1). 

10See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

11See 19 CFR 351.303. 

12See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

13 Id. 14See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

publication of the notice of preliminary 

results in the Federal Register, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

However, because Commerce 

preliminarily applied AFA to the sole 

company that is still under review 

(Tianjin Leviathan), in accordance with 

section 776 of the Act, and because our 

calculation of the AFA subsidy rate is 

outlined in the Tianjin Leviathan AFA 

Memorandum,7 there are no further 

calculations to disclose. 

Public Comment 

Interested parties may submit case 

briefs not later than 30 days after the 

date of publication of this notice.8

Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 

in the case briefs, may be filed no later 

than five days after the time limit for 

filing case briefs.9 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.10 Case and rebuttal briefs 

should be filed using ACCESS.11

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing must submit a written request to 

the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance, filed electronically via 

ACCESS. An electronically-filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by ACCESS by 5 p.m. 

Eastern Time within 30 days after the 

date of publication of this notice.12

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, parties 

will be notified of the time and date for 

the hearing to be held at the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230.13 Commerce intends to issue 

the final results of this administrative 

review, including the results of its 

analysis of arguments raised in any 

written briefs, not later than 120 days 

after the publication of these 

preliminary results in the Federal 

Register, unless otherwise extended.14

Assessment 

Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) to assess 

CVDs on all appropriate entries. 

Shandong Huitong and Techking shall 

be assessed CVDs at rates equal to the 

cash deposit of estimated countervailing 

duties in effect at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, during the period January 

1, 2016, through December 31, 2016, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to 

issue appropriate assessment 

instructions to CBP 15 days after 

publication of this notice. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Orders 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to the administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

responsibility concerning the 

disposition of proprietary information 

disclosed under an 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 terms of an APO is a 

violation which is subject to sanction. 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(4) and 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: July 5, 2018. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Application for 

Commercial Fisheries Authorization 

Under Section 118 of the Marine 

Mammal Protection Act 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before September 10, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

internet at pracomments@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Amy Sloan, 301–427.8401 

ext 8432 or amy.sloan@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Marine Mammal Protection Act 

requires any commercial fisherman 

operating in Category I and II fisheries 

to register for a certificate of 

authorization that will allow the 

fisherman to take marine mammals 

incidental to commercial fishing 

operations. Category I and II fisheries 

are those identified by NOAA as having 

either frequent or occasional takings of 

marine mammals. All states have 

integrated the National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS) registration process into 

the existing state fishery registration 

process and vessel owners do not need 

to file a separate federal registration. If 

applicable, vessel owners will be 

notified of this simplified registration 

process when they apply for their state 

or Federal permit or license. 

II. Method of Collection 

Fishermen have their information 

imported directly into the Marine 

Mammal Authorization Program 

(MMAP) from their state. If they do not 

have a state or Federal fishery permit or 

license, they can request an MMAP 

registration form from their regional 

NMFS office and mail in the registration 

form. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0293. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Individuals or 

households. 


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