39056 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 153 / Wednesday, August 8, 2018 / Notices 

1See Antidumping Duty Investigation of Common 

Alloy Aluminum Sheet from the People’s Republic 

of China: Affirmative Preliminary Determination of 

Sales at Less-Than-Fair Value, Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, and Postponement of Final 

Determination, 83 FR 29088 (June 22, 2018) 

(Preliminary Determination). 

2See Letter from Mingtai, ‘‘Common Alloy 

Aluminum Sheet from the People’s Republic of 

China—Ministerial Error Allegation,’’ dated June 

26, 2018. 

3See also section 735(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (the Act). 

4See 19 CFR 351.224(g). 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigation of Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet 

from the People’s Republic of China: Allegation of 

Ministerial Error in the Preliminary 

Determination,’’ dated concurrently with this notice 

(Ministerial Error Memorandum). 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Analysis for the Amended 

Preliminary Determination of the Less-Than-FairValue Investigation of Common Alloy Aluminum 

Sheet from the People’s Republic of China for 

Henan Mingtai Al Industrial Co., Ltd. and 

Zhengzhou Mingtai Industry Co., Ltd.,’’ dated 

concurrently with this notice. 

7See Preliminary Determination, 83 FR at 29090. 

8See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Antidumping 

Duty Investigation of Common Alloy Aluminum 

Sheet from the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated 

June 15, 2018 (Preliminary Decision Memorandum), 

at 20–26. 

9See, e.g., Certain Uncoated Paper from 

Indonesia: Final Determination of Sales at Less 

Than Fair Value, 81 FR 3101 (January 20, 2016). 

10See Preliminary Decision Memorandum, at 26. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–073] 

Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet From 

the People’s Republic of China: 

Amended Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is amending the 

preliminary determination of the lessthan-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of 

common alloy aluminum sheet 

(aluminum sheet) from the People’s 

Republic of China (China) to correct a 

significant ministerial error. 

DATES: Applicable August 8, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Deborah Scott or Scott Hoefke, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–2657 or (202) 482–4947, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On June 22, 2018, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

Preliminary Determination,1 and 

completed the disclosure of all 

calculation materials to interested 

parties. On June 26, 2018, Henan 

Mingtai Al Industrial Co., Ltd. and 

Zhengzhou Mingtai Industry Co., Ltd. 

(collectively, Mingtai), timely filed a 

ministerial error allegation regarding the 

Preliminary Determination.2 Commerce 

did not receive ministerial error 

allegations or comments from any other 

interested party. 

Period of Investigation 

The period of investigation is April 1, 

2017 through September 30, 2017. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is aluminum sheet from 

China. For a complete description of the 

scope of this investigation, see the 

Appendix to this notice. 

Analysis of Significant Ministerial 

Error Allegation 

Commerce will analyze any 

comments received and, if appropriate, 

correct any significant ministerial error 

by amending the preliminary 

determination according to 19 CFR 

351.224(e). A ministerial error is 

defined in 19 CFR 351.224(f) as ‘‘an 

error in addition, subtraction, or other 

arithmetic function, clerical error 

resulting from inaccurate copying, 

duplication, or the like, and any other 

similar type of unintentional error 

which the Secretary considers 

ministerial.’’ 3 A significant ministerial 

error is defined as a ministerial error, 

the correction of which, singly or in 

combination with other errors, would 

result in: (1) A change of at least five 

absolute percentage points in, but not 

less than 25 percent of, the antidumping 

duty rate calculated in the original 

preliminary determination; or (2) a 

difference between an antidumping 

duty rate of zero or de minimis and an 

antidumping duty rate of greater than de 

minimis or vice versa.4

Amended Preliminary Determination 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e) and 

(g)(1), Commerce is amending the 

Preliminary Determination to reflect the 

correction of one ministerial error made 

in the calculation of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

Mingtai.5 This error is a significant 

ministerial error within the meaning of 

19 CFR 351.224(g) because Mingtai’s 

margin decreases from 167.16 percent to 

91.47 percent as a result of correcting 

this ministerial error, exceeding the 

specified threshold, i.e., a change of at 

least five absolute percentage points in, 

but not less than 25 percent of, the 

antidumping duty rate calculated in the 

original preliminary determination.6

Mingtai is the only mandatory 

respondent for which Commerce 

calculated a weighted-average dumping 

margin in the Preliminary 

Determination. For this reason, we 

assigned Mingtai’s calculated rate to the 

non-examined respondents that 

preliminarily received a separate rate.7

Accordingly, as part of this amended 

preliminary determination, Commerce 

will amend the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin to 91.47 

percent for each non-examined 

respondent that preliminarily received a 

separate rate. 

In the Preliminary Determination, we 

found that Nanjie Resources Co., 

Limited, Yong Jie New Material Co., 

Ltd., and Zhejiang Yongjie Aluminum 

Co., Ltd. (collectively, the Yongjie 

Companies), Zhejiang GKO Aluminium 

Stock Co., Ltd. (GKO Aluminium), and 

the China-wide entity failed to 

cooperate by not acting to the best of 

their ability to comply with requests for 

information and, thus, found that an 

adverse inference was warranted in 

selecting from the facts otherwise 

available.8 In an investigation, 

Commerce’s practice with respect to the 

assignment of a rate based on adverse 

facts available is to select the higher of: 

(1) The highest dumping margin alleged 

in the petition or (2) the highest 

calculated dumping margin of any 

respondent in the investigation.9 In the 

Preliminary Determination, because the 

highest margin in the initiation of this 

investigation (i.e., 59.72 percent) was 

less than the 167.16 percent margin 

calculated for Mingtai, we assigned the 

167.16 percent rate to the Yongjie 

Companies, GKO Aluminium, and the 

China-wide entity as adverse facts 

available.10 For this amended 

preliminary determination, we 

examined whether the highest margin in 

the initiation of the investigation (i.e., 

59.72 percent) was less than or equal to 

the highest calculated margin, and 

determined that the highest calculated 

margin of 91.47 percent was the higher 

of the two. Because this rate is a 

calculated rate based on a mandatory 

respondent’s data in this segment of the 

proceeding, it does not constitute 

secondary information and, therefore, it 

does not need to be corroborated. 

Therefore, for this amended preliminary 

determination, as facts available based 

on an adverse inference, we have 

assigned to the Yongjie Companies, 


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11See Preliminary Determination, 83 FR at 29089 

and Preliminary Decision Memorandum, at 4–7. 

12We preliminarily determined that Henan 

Mingtai Al Industrial Co., Ltd. and Zhengzhou 

Mingtai Industry Co., Ltd. are a single entity. See 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum, at 17–19; see 

also Memorandum, ‘‘Preliminary Affiliation and 

Collapsing Memorandum for Henan Mingtai Al 

Industrial Co., Ltd. and Zhengzhou Mingtai 

Industry Co., Ltd.,’’ dated June 15, 2018. 

GKO Aluminium, and the China-wide 

entity a dumping margin of 91.47 

percent, which is the highest calculated 

rate in this proceeding. 

Amended Cash Deposits and 

Suspension of Liquidation 

The collection of cash deposits and 

suspension of liquidation will be 

revised according to the rates calculated 

in this amended preliminary 

determination. Because these amended 

rates result in reduced cash deposits, 

the amended rate for Mingtai will be 

effective retroactively to June 22, 2018, 

the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination. As 

Commerce preliminarily found that 

critical circumstances exist for imports 

of subject merchandise from the nonexamined respondents that 

preliminarily received a separate rate, 

the Yongjie Companies, GKO 

Aluminium, and the China-wide 

entity,11 the amended rates for these 

entities will be effective retroactively to 

March 24, 2018, i.e., 90 days before the 

publication of the Preliminary 

Determination. Parties will be notified 

of this determination, in accordance 

with section 733(d) and (f) of the Act. 

Amended Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage antidumping duty margins 

exist: 

Exporter Producer 

Weightedaverage 

margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit 

adjusted for 

subsidy offset 

(percent) 

Henan Mingtai Al Industrial Co., Ltd./Zhengzhou 

Mingtai Industry Co., Ltd.12.

Henan Mingtai Al Industrial Co., Ltd./Zhengzhou 

Mingtai Industry Co., Ltd.

91.47 91.47 

Alcha International Holdings Limited ............................ Jiangsu Alcha Aluminium Co., Ltd ............................... 91.47 91.47 

Alumax Composite Material (Jiangyin) Co., Ltd ........... Chalco Ruimin Co., Ltd ................................................ 91.47 91.47 

Granges Aluminum (Shanghai) Co., Ltd ...................... Granges Aluminum (Shanghai) Co., Ltd ...................... 91.47 91.47

Henan Founder Beyond Industry Co., Ltd ................... Henan Xintai Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd .................... 91.47 91.47

Huafon Nikkei Aluminium Corporation ......................... Huafon Nikkei Aluminium Corporation ......................... 91.47 91.47 

Jiangsu Lidao New Material Co., Ltd ........................... Henan Jinyang Luyue Co., Ltd ..................................... 91.47 91.47 

Jiangsu Lidao New Material Co., Ltd ........................... Jiangsu Zhong He Aluminum Co., Ltd ......................... 91.47 91.47 

Jiangyin Litai Ornamental Materials Co., Ltd ............... Jiangyin Litai Ornamental Materials Co., Ltd ............... 91.47 91.47 

Jiangyin New Alumax Composite Material Co. Ltd ...... Chalco Ruimin Co., Ltd ................................................ 91.47 91.47 

Shandong Fuhai Industrial Co., Ltd ............................. Shandong Fuhai Industrial Co., Ltd ............................. 91.47 91.47 

Tianjin Zhongwang Aluminium Co., Ltd ....................... Tianjin Zhongwang Aluminium Co., Ltd ....................... 91.47 91.47 

Xiamen Xiashun Aluminum Foil Co., Ltd ..................... Xiamen Xiashun Aluminum Foil Co., Ltd ..................... 91.47 91.47

Yantai Jintai International Trade Co., Ltd .................... Shandong Nanshan ......................................................

Aluminium Co., Ltd .......................................................

91.47 91.47 

Yinbang Clad Material Co., Ltd .................................... Yinbang Clad Material Co., Ltd .................................... 91.47 91.47 

Zhengzhou Silverstone Limited .................................... Henan Zhongyuan Aluminum Co., Ltd ......................... 91.47 91.47 

Zhengzhou Silverstone Limited .................................... Luoyang Xinlong Aluminum Co., Ltd ............................ 91.47 91.47 

Zhengzhou Silverstone Limited .................................... Shanghai Dongshuo Metal Trade Co., Ltd .................. 91.47 91.47 

Zhengzhou Silverstone Limited .................................... Zhengzhou Mingtai Industry Co., Ltd ........................... 91.47 91.47 

China-Wide Entity 91.47 91.47 

Disclosure 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed to parties in this proceeding 

within five days after public 

announcement of the amended 

preliminary determination, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, we will notify the International 

Trade Commission of our amended 

preliminary determination. 

This amended preliminary 

determination is issued and published 

pursuant to sections 733(f) and 777(i) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(e). 

Dated: July 31, 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 Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is aluminum common alloy 

sheet (common alloy sheet), which is a flatrolled aluminum product having a thickness 

of 6.3 mm or less, but greater than 0.2 mm, 

in coils or cut-to-length, regardless of width. 

Common alloy sheet within the scope of this 

investigation includes both not clad 

aluminum sheet, as well as multi-alloy, clad 

aluminum sheet. With respect to not clad 

aluminum sheet, common alloy sheet is 

manufactured from a 1XXX-, 3XXX-, or 

5XXX-series alloy as designated by the 

Aluminum Association. With respect to 

multi-alloy, clad aluminum sheet, common 

alloy sheet is produced from a 3XXX-series 

core, to which cladding layers are applied to 

either one or both sides of the core. 

Common alloy sheet may be made to 

ASTM specification B209–14, but can also be 

made to other specifications. Regardless of 

specification, however, all common alloy 

sheet meeting the scope description is 

included in the scope. Subject merchandise 

includes common alloy sheet that has been 

further processed in a third country, 

including but not limited to annealing, 

tempering, painting, varnishing, trimming, 

cutting, punching, and/or slitting, or any 

otherprocessing that would not otherwise 

remove the merchandise from the scope of 

the investigation if performed in the country 

of manufacture of the common alloy sheet. 

Excluded from the scope of this 

investigation is aluminum can stock, which 

is suitable for use in the manufacture of 

aluminum beverage cans, lids of such cans, 

or tabs used to open such cans. Aluminum 

can stock is produced to gauges that range 

from 0.200 mm to 0.292 mm, and has anH– 

19, H–41, H–48, or H–391 temper. In 


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1See Certain Plastic Decorative Ribbon from the 

People’s Republic of China: Initiation of Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation, 83 FR 3126 (January 23, 

2018) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Deadlines Affected by the 

Shutdown of the Federal Government,’’ dated 

January 23, 2018 (Tolling Memorandum). 

Accordingly, all deadlines in this segment of the 

proceeding have been extended by 3 days. 

3Note that the revised deadline reflects a full 

postponement to 190 days after the date on which 

this investigation was initiated, in addition to the 

3-day extension due to closure of the Federal 

Government. See Certain Plastic Decorative Ribbon 

from the People’s Republic of China: Postponement 

of Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-FairValue Investigation, 83 FR 13256 (March 28, 2018). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Antidumping 

Duty Investigation of Certain Plastic Decorative 

Ribbon from the People’s Republic of China’’ 

(Preliminary Decision Memorandum), dated 

concurrently with and hereby adopted by this 

notice. 

5See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 

6See Initiation Notice, 83 FR at 3126. 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Certain Plastic Decorative 

Ribbon from the People’s Republic of China: Scope 

Comments Preliminary Decision Memorandum’’ 

(Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum), dated 

concurrently with and hereby adopted by this 

notice. 

8See Enforcement and Compliance’s Policy 

Bulletin No. 05.1 regarding ‘‘Separate-Rates Practice 

and Application of Combination Rates in 

Antidumping Investigations involving Non-Market 

Economy Countries,’’ (April 5, 2005) (Policy 

addition, aluminum can stock has a lubricant 

applied to the flat surfaces of the can stock 

to facilitate its movement through machines 

used in the manufacture of beverage cans. 

Aluminum can stock is properly classified 

under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) subheadings 

7606.12.3045 and 7606.12.3055. 

Where the nominal and actual 

measurements vary, a product is within the 

scope if application of either the nominal or 

actual measurement would place it within 

the scope based on the definitions set for the 

above. 

Common alloy sheet is currently 

classifiable under HTSUS subheadings 

7606.11.3060, 7606.11.6000, 7606.12.3090, 

7606.12.6000, 7606.91.3090, 7606.91.6080, 

7606.92.3090, and 7606.92.6080. Further, 

merchandise that falls within the scope of 

this investigation may also be entered into 

the United States under HTSUS subheadings 

7606.11.3030, 7606.12.3030, 7606.91.3060, 

7606.91.6040, 7606.92.3060, 7606.92.6040, 

7607.11.9090. Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for convenience 

and customs purposes, the written 

description of the scope of this investigation 

is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–075] 

Certain Plastic Decorative Ribbon 

From the People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that certain plastic decorative ribbon 

(plastic ribbon) from the People’s 

Republic of China (China) is being, or is 

likely to be, sold in the United States at 

less than fair value (LTFV), for the 

period of investigation (POI) April 1, 

2017, through September 30, 2017. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable August 8, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy Decker, Lauren Caserta, or Caitlin 

Monks, 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) 482–0196, 

(202) 482–4737, or (202) 482–2670, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Commerce published the notice of 

initiation of this investigation on 

January 23, 2018.1 Commerce exercised 

its discretion to toll deadlines affected 

by the closure of the Federal 

Government from January 20 through 

22, 2018.2 Subsequently, Commerce 

postponed the deadline for the 

preliminary determination to July 30, 

2018.3 For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.4 A list of topics 

included in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II 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, and to all parties in the 

Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of 

the main Department of Commerce 

building. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be found at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum and 

the electronic version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum are identical in 

content. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is plastic ribbon from 

China. For a full description of the 

scope of this investigation, see the 

‘‘Scope of the Investigation’’ in 

Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

the Commerce’s regulations,5 the 

Initiation Notice set aside a period of 

time for parties to raise issues regarding 

product coverage (i.e., scope).6 Certain 

interested parties commented on the 

scope of the investigation as it appeared 

in the Initiation Notice. For a summary 

of the product coverage comments and 

rebuttal responses submitted to the 

record for this preliminary 

determination, and accompanying 

discussion and analysis of all comments 

timely received, see the Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum.7 In 

response to the submitted comments, 

Commerce is preliminarily modifying 

the scope language as it appeared in the 

Initiation Notice to exclude certain 

shredded plastic film/strip and to clarify 

‘‘exclusion (4).’’ See ‘‘Scope of the 

Investigation’’ in Appendix I, which 

includes the additional clarifying 

language. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Export prices have been 

calculated in accordance with section 

772(a) of the Act. Because China is a 

non-market economy within the 

meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, 

we calculated normal value (NV) in 

accordance with section 773(c) of the 

Act. In addition, Commerce has 

preliminarily relied upon facts available 

under section 776(a)(1) of the Act, 

including the use of an adverse 

inference under section 776(b) of the 

Act, for determining the antidumping 

margin for one producer and exporter 

combination, as well as for the Chinawide entity. For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

preliminary conclusions, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Combination Rates 

In the Initiation Notice, Commerce 

stated that it would calculate producer/ 

exporter combination rates for the 

respondents that are eligible for a 

separate rate in this investigation. Policy 

Bulletin 05.1 describes this practice.8


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