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1See Ripe Olives from Spain: Final Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination, 83 FR 28186 

(June 18, 2018) (Final Determination) and 

accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

2See Letter from the ITC to Commerce, dated July 

25, 2018; see also Ripe Olives from Spain 

(Investigation Nos. 701–TA–582 and 731–TA–1377 

(Final), USITC Publication 4805, July 2018). 

3The petitioner to this investigation is the 

Coalition for Fair Trade in Ripe Olives, whose 

individual member are BellCarter Foods, Inc. and 

Musco Family Olive Co. 

Exporter/producer 

Weighted-average 

dumping margins 

(percent) 

Shanxi Guanjiaying 

Flange Forging Group 

Co., Ltd ..................... 257.11 

China-wide Entity .......... 257.11 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the 

antidumping duty order with respect to 

stainless steel flanges from China, 

pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. 

Interested parties can find a list of 

antidumping duty orders currently in 

effect at http://enforcement.trade.gov/ 

stats/iastats1.html. 

This order is issued and published in 

accordance with section 736(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: July 25, 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. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by this order are 

certain forged stainless steel flanges, whether 

unfinished, semi-finished, or finished 

(certain forged stainless steel flanges). Certain 

forged stainless steel flanges are generally 

manufactured to, but not limited to, the 

material specification of ASTM/ASME A/ 

SA182 or comparable domestic or foreign 

specifications. Certain forged stainless steel 

flanges are made in various grades such as, 

but not limited to, 304, 304L, 316, and 316L 

(or combinations thereof). The term 

‘‘stainless steel’’ used in this scope refers to 

an alloy steel containing, by actual weight, 

1.2 percent or less of carbon and 10.5 percent 

or more of chromium, with or without other 

elements. 

Unfinished stainless steel flanges possess 

the approximate shape of finished stainless 

steel flanges and have not yet been machined 

to final specification after the initial forging 

or like operations. These machining 

processes may include, but are not limited to, 

boring, facing, spot facing, drilling, tapering, 

threading, beveling, heating, or compressing. 

Semi-finished stainless steel flanges are 

unfinished stainless steel flanges that have 

undergone some machining processes. 

The scope includes six general types of 

flanges. They are: (1) Weld neck, generally 

used in butt-weld line connection; (2) 

threaded, generally used for threaded line 

connections; (3) slip-on, generally used to 

slide over pipe; (4) lap joint, generally used 

with stub-ends/butt-weld line connections; 

(5) socket weld, generally used to fit pipe 

into a machine recession; and (6) blind, 

generally used to seal off a line. The sizes 

and descriptions of the flanges within the 

scope include all pressure classes of ASME 

B16.5 and range from one-half inch to 

twenty-four inches nominal pipe size. 

Specifically excluded from the scope of this 

order are cast stainless steel flanges. Cast 

stainless steel flanges generally are 

manufactured to specification ASTM A351. 

The country of origin for certain forged 

stainless steel flanges, whether unfinished, 

semi-finished, or finished is the country 

where the flange was forged. Subject 

merchandise includes stainless steel flanges 

as defined above that have been further 

processed in a third country. The processing 

includes, but is not limited to, boring, facing, 

spot facing, drilling, tapering, threading, 

beveling, heating, or compressing, and/or any 

other processing that would not otherwise 

remove the merchandise from the scope of 

the investigation if performed in the country 

of manufacture of the stainless steel flanges. 

Merchandise subject to the order is 

typically imported under headings 

7307.21.1000 and 7307.21.5000 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS). While HTSUS subheadings 

and ASTM specifications are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope is 

dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–469–818] 

Ripe Olives From Spain: Amended 

Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination and Countervailing Duty 

Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) and the 

International Trade Commission (the 

ITC), Commerce is issuing a 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on ripe 

olives from Spain. In addition, 

Commerce is amending its final CVD 

determination with respect to ripe 

olives from Spain to correct ministerial 

errors. 

DATES: Applicable August 1, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Kolberg or Lana Nigro, AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1785 or (202) 482–1779, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with sections 705(a), 

705(d), and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.210(c), on June 18, 2018, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register an 

affirmative final determination in the 

CVD investigation of ripe olives from 

Spain.1 Interested parties submitted 

timely filed allegations that Commerce 

made certain ministerial errors in the 

final CVD determination of ripe olives 

from Spain. Section 705(e) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.224(f) define ministerial 

errors as errors in addition, subtraction, 

or other arithmetic function, clerical 

errors resulting from inaccurate 

copying, duplication, or the like, and 

any other type of unintentional error 

which the Commerce considers 

ministerial. We reviewed the allegations 

and determined that we made certain 

ministerial errors. See ‘‘Amendment to 

the Final Determination’’ section below 

for further discussion. 

On July 25, 2018, the ITC notified 

Commerce of its affirmative 

determination pursuant to sections 

705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the Act, 

that an industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of 

subsidized imports of ripe olives from 

Spain.2

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by this 

order is ripe olives from Spain. For a 

complete description of the scope of this 

order, see the Appendix to this notice. 

Amendment to the Final Determination 

On June 19, 2018, the petitioner,3

Aceitunas Guadalquivir S.L.U. 

(Aceitunas Guadalquivir), and Angel 

Camacho Alimentacio ́n, S.L. (Angel 

Camacho) timely alleged that the Final 

Determination contained certain 

ministerial errors and requested that 

Commerce correct such errors. On June 

25, 2018, the petitioner filed rebuttal 

comments. 

Commerce reviewed the record and, 

on July 12, 2018, agreed that certain 

errors referenced in the petitioner’s and 

Angel Camacho’s allegations constitute 

ministerial errors within the meaning of 

section 705(e) of the Act and 19 CFR 


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4See Memorandum, ‘‘Ripe Olives from Spain: 

Amended Final Determination of Countervailing 

Duty Investigation Pursuant to Ministerial Error 

Allegation,’’ dated July 12, 2018 (Ministerial Error 

Memorandum). 

5 Id. 

6 Id. 

7 Final Determination, 83 FR at 28187. 

8See Ministerial Error Memorandum. 

9See Ripe Olives from Spain: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and 

Alignment of Final Determination with Final 

Antidumping Duty Determination, 82 FR 56218 

(November 28, 2017) (Preliminary Determination) 

and accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). However, as described further 

below, entries that occurred after the final day on 

which provisional measures were in effect, until 

and through the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury determination 

in the Federal Register, are not subject to 

countervailing duties. 

10See section 706(a)(3) of the Act. 

11Commerce found the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Aceitunas Guadalquivir S.L.U.: 

Coromar Inv., S.L., AG Explotaciones Agricolas, 

S.L.U., and Grupo Aceitunas Guadalquivir, S.L. See 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 9, 

unchanged in Final Determination. 

12Commerce found the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Angel Camacho Alimentacio ́n, 

S.L.: Grupo Angel Camacho Alimentacı ́on, 

Cuarterola S.L., and Cucanoche S.L. See 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 11, 

unchanged in Final Determination. 

351.224(f).4 Commerce did not agree 

that the error alleged in Aceitunas 

Guadalquivir’s submission constituted a 

ministerial error. Commerce found that 

it made errors in calculating Angel 

Camacho’s benefit under the European 

Union Common Agricultural Policy 

Pillar I: Basic Payment Scheme— 

Greening program, and in attributing to 

Angel Camacho subsidies received by 

its cross-owned input suppliers.5

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e), 

Commerce is amending the Final 

Determination to reflect the correction 

of the ministerial errors described 

above. Based on our correction of the 

ministerial errors in Angel Camacho’s 

calculation, the subsidy rate for Angel 

Camacho increased from 13.22 percent 

ad valorem to 13.76 percent ad 

valorem.6 Because in the Final 

Determination we based the ‘‘all-others’’ 

rate, in part, on Angel Camacho’s ad 

valorem subsidy rate,7 the correction 

described above also required that we 

recalculate the ‘‘all-others’’ rate. This 

recalculation increases the ‘‘all-others’’ 

rate determined in the Final 

Determination from 14.75 percent ad 

valorem to 14.97 percent ad valorem.8

Countervailing Duty Order 

On July 25, 2018, in accordance with 

sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the 

Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its 

final determination in this investigation, 

in which it found that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured by 

reason of subsidized imports of ripe 

olives from Spain. Therefore, in 

accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the 

Act, we are issuing this CVD order. 

Because the ITC determined that 

imports of ripe olives from Spain are 

materially injuring a U.S. industry, 

unliquidated entries of such 

merchandise from Spain, entered or 

withdrawn from warehouse for 

consumption, are subject to the 

assessment of countervailing duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

706(a) of the Act, Commerce will direct 

United States Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, 

countervailing duties equal to the net 

countervailable subsidy rates, for all 

relevant entries of ripe olives from 

Spain. Upon further instruction by 

Commerce, countervailing duties will be 

assessed on unliquidated entries of ripe 

olives from Spain entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after November 28, 2017, the date of 

publication of the Preliminary 

Determination.9

Cash Deposits and Suspension of 

Liquidation 

In accordance with section 706 of the 

Act, we will instruct CBP to suspend 

liquidation on all relevant entries of ripe 

olives from Spain, as further described 

below. These instructions suspending 

liquidation will remain in effect until 

further notice. Commerce will also 

instruct CBP to require cash deposits 

equal to the amounts as indicated 

below. Accordingly, effective on the 

date of publication of the ITC’s final 

affirmative injury determination, CBP 

will require, at the same time as 

importers would normally deposit 

estimated duties on this subject 

merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the 

subsidy rates listed below.10 The allothers rate applies to all producers or 

exporters not specifically listed, as 

appropriate. 

Company Subsidy rate 

(%) 

Aceitunas Guadalquivir S.L.U 11 .......................................................................................................................................................... 27.02 

Agro Sevilla Aceitunas S.Coop.And .................................................................................................................................................... 7.52 

Angel Camacho Alimentacio ́n, S.L 12 .................................................................................................................................................. 13.76 

All-Others ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 14.97 

Provisional Measures 

Section 703(d) of the Act states that 

the suspension of liquidation pursuant 

to an affirmative preliminary CVD 

determination may not remain in effect 

for more than four months. In the 

underlying investigation, Commerce 

published the Preliminary 

Determination on November 28, 2017. 

Therefore, the four-month period 

beginning on the date of the publication 

of the Preliminary Determination ended 

on March 27, 2018, the final day on 

which provisional measures were in 

effect. Furthermore, section 707(b) of 

the Act states that definitive duties are 

to begin on the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final injury determination. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

703(d) of the Act and our practice, we 

instructed CBP to terminate the 

suspension of liquidation of and to 

liquidate, without regard to duties, 

unliquidated entries of ripe olives from 

Spain made on or after March 28, 2018. 

Suspension of liquidation will resume 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final determination in the Federal 

Register. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the CVD order 

with respect to ripe olives from Spain 

pursuant to section 706(a) of the Act. 

Interested parties can find a list of CVD 

orders currently in effect at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/stats/ 

iastats1.html. 

This order and amended final 

determination are published in 

accordance with section 705(d)–(e), 

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

CFR 351.211(b). 


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13Some of the major types of specialty olives and 

their curing methods are: 

• ‘‘Spanish-style’’ green olives: Spanish-style 

green olives have a mildly salty, slightly bitter taste, 

and are usually pitted and stuffed. This style of 

olive is primarily produced in Spain and can be 

made from various olive varieties. Most are stuffed 

with pimento; other popular stuffings are jalapeno, 

garlic, and cheese. The raw olives that are used to 

produce Spanish-style green olives are picked while 

they are unripe, after which they are submerged in 

an alkaline solution for typically less than a day to 

partially remove their bitterness, rinsed, and 

fermented in a strong salt brine, giving them their 

characteristic flavor. 

• ‘‘Sicilian-style’’ green olives: Sicilian-style 

olives are large, firm green olives with a natural 

bitter and savory flavor. This style of olive is 

produced in small quantities in the United States 

using a Sevillano variety of olive and harvested 

green with a firm texture. Sicilian-style olives are 

processed using a brine-cured method, and undergo 

a full fermentation in a salt and lactic acid brine 

for 4 to 9 months. These olives may be sold whole 

unpitted, pitted, or stuffed. 

• ‘‘Kalamata’’ olives: Kalamata olives are slightly 

curved in shape, tender in texture, and purple in 

color, and have a rich natural tangy and savory 

flavor. This style of olive is produced in Greece 

using a Kalamata variety olive. The olives are 

harvested after they are fully ripened on the tree, 

and typically use a brine-cured fermentation 

method over 4 to 9 months in a salt brine. 

• Other specialty olives in a full range of colors, 

sizes, and origins, typically fermented in a salt 

brine for 3 months or more. 

1See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

to Request Administrative Review, 83 FR 19047 

(May 1, 2018). 

2See Letter from the petitioners, ‘‘Polyester 

Staple Fiber from Korea—Request for Annual 

Administrative Review’’ (May 31, 2018). The 

petitioners also requested an administrative review 

of Toray Chemical Korea, Inc. (Toray). However, the 

petitioners withdrew their request for Toray before 

the review was initiated. See Letter from the 

petitioners, ‘‘Polyester Staple Fiber from Korea— 

Withdrawal of Review Request for Toray Chemical 

Korea’’ (June 26, 2018). Thus, a review was not 

initiated for Toray. 

3See Letter from Huvis, ‘‘Certain Polyester Staple 

Fiber from Korea; Request for Administrative 

Review for 2017–2018 Period’’ (May 31, 2018). 

4See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 83 FR 

32270 (July 12, 2018) (Notice of Initiation). 

5See Letter from the petitioners, ‘‘Polyester 

Staple Fiber from Korea—Withdrawal of Review 

Request for Huvis Corporation’’ (July 17, 2018); see 

also Letter from Huvis, ‘‘Certain Polyester Staple 

Fiber from Korea; Withdrawal of Request for 

Administrative Review for 2017–2018 Period’’ (July 

18, 2018). 

Dated: July 25, 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. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by this order are 

certain processed olives, usually referred to 

as ‘‘ripe olives.’’ The subject merchandise 

includes all colors of olives; all shapes and 

sizes of olives, whether pitted or not pitted, 

and whether whole, sliced, chopped, minced, 

wedged, broken, or otherwise reduced in 

size; all types of packaging, whether for 

consumer (retail) or institutional (food 

service) sale, and whether canned or 

packaged in glass, metal, plastic, 

multilayered airtight containers (including 

pouches), or otherwise; and all manners of 

preparation and preservation, whether low 

acid or acidified, stuffed or not stuffed, with 

or without flavoring and/or saline solution, 

and including in ambient, refrigerated, or 

frozen conditions. 

Included are all ripe olives grown, 

processed in whole or in part, or packaged 

in Spain. Subject merchandise includes ripe 

olives that have been further processed in 

Spain or a third country, including but not 

limited to curing, fermenting, rinsing, 

oxidizing, pitting, slicing, chopping, 

segmenting, wedging, stuffing, packaging, or 

heat treating, or any other processing that 

would not otherwise remove the 

merchandise from the scope of the order if 

performed in Spain. 

Subject merchandise includes ripe olives 

that otherwise meet the definition above that 

are packaged together with non-subject 

products, where the smallest individual 

packaging unit (e.g., can, pouch, jar, etc.) of 

any such product—regardless of whether the 

smallest unit of packaging is included in a 

larger packaging unit (e.g., display case, 

etc.)—contains a majority (i.e., more than 50 

percent) of ripe olives by net drained weight. 

The scope does not include the non-subject 

components of such product. 

Excluded from the scope are: (1) Specialty 

olives 13 (including ‘‘Spanish-style,’’ 

‘‘Sicilian-style,’’ and other similar olives) that 

have been processed by fermentation only, or 

by being cured in an alkaline solution for not 

longer than 12 hours and subsequently 

fermented; and (2) provisionally prepared 

olives unsuitable for immediate consumption 

(currently classifiable in subheading 0711.20 

of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS)). 

The merchandise subject to this order is 

currently classifiable under subheadings 

2005.70.0230, 2005.70.0260, 2005.70.0430, 

2005.70.0460, 2005.70.5030, 2005.70.5060, 

2005.70.6020, 2005.70.6030, 2005.70.6050, 

2005.70.6060, 2005.70.6070, 2005.70.7000, 

2005.70.7510, 2005.70.7515, 2005.70.7520, 

and 2005.70.7525 HTSUS. Subject 

merchandise may also be imported under 

subheadings 2005.70.0600, 2005.70.0800, 

2005.70.1200, 2005.70.1600, 2005.70.1800, 

2005.70.2300, 2005.70.2510, 2005.70.2520, 

2005.70.2530, 2005.70.2540, 2005.70.2550, 

2005.70.2560, 2005.70.9100, 2005.70.9300, 

and 2005.70.9700. Although HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for convenience 

and U.S. Customs purposes, they do not 

define the scope of the order; rather, the 

written description of the subject 

merchandise is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–580–839] 

Polyester Staple Fiber From the 

Republic of Korea: Rescission of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2017–2018 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is rescinding the 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on polyester 

staple fiber (PSF) from the Republic of 

Korea (Korea), based on the timely 

withdrawal of requests for review. The 

period of review (POR) is May 1, 2017, 

through April 30, 2018. 

DATES: Applicable August 1, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Brown, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3702. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On May 1, 2018, Commerce published 

a notice of opportunity to request an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on PSF from 

Korea for the POR of May 1, 2017, 

through April 30, 2018.1 On May 31, 

2018, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213, 

Commerce received a timely-filed 

request from DAK Americas LLC and 

Auriga Polymers, Inc. (collectively, the 

petitioners) for an administrative review 

of, among others, Huvis Corporation 

(Huvis).2 Also on May 31, 2018, Huvis 

Corporation (Huvis) requested an 

administrative review of its POR sales.3

On July 12, 2018, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce 

published a notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of Huvis.4 On 

July 17 and 18, 2018, respectively, 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), both 

the petitioners and Huvis timely 

withdrew their requests for an 

administrative review of Huvis.5

Rescission of Review 

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

Commerce will rescind an 

administrative review, in whole or in 

part, if the party, or parties, that 

requested a review withdraw(s) the 

request(s) within 90 days of the 

publication date of the notice of 

initiation of the requested review. As 

noted above, both the petitioners and 

Huvis withdrew their requests for 

review of Huvis within 90 days of the 

publication date of the notice of 


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