42254 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 162 / Tuesday, August 21, 2018 / Notices 

1See Uncovered Innerspring Units from the 

People’s Republic of China, South Africa, and the 

Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of 

Antidumping Duty Investigations, 73 FR 4817 

(January 28, 2008). 

2See Uncovered Innerspring Units from the 

People’s Republic of China: Notice of Antidumping 

Duty Order, 74 FR 7661 (February 19, 2009) (Order). 

3The sixth administrative review covered the 

period of review (POR) February 1, 2014, through 

January 31, 2015. See Initiation of Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 

80 FR 18202, 18212 (April 3, 2015). 

4 Id. 

5See, e.g., Memorandum to the File ‘‘Factual 

Information from the Sixth Administrative 

Review,’’ dated November 22, 2016 (AR6 Factual 

Information Memo), at Attachment 1, Macao 

Commercial’s July 21, 2016 Supplemental 

Response. In the AR6 Final Results, we found that 

‘‘Macao Commercial submitted . . . an invoice for 

not just raw materials but PRC-origin innerspring 

components from Company X.’’ See Uncovered 

Innerspring Units from the People’s Republic of 

China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2014–2015, 81 FR 62729 

(September 12, 2016) (AR6 Final Results), and 

accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at 

Comment 1. 

6See AR6 Final Results, and accompanying Issues 

and Decision Memorandum at Comment 1. 

LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT

ASSISTANCE

[08/01/2018 through 08/07/2018] 

Firm name Firm address 

Date accepted 

for 

investigation 

Product(s) 

Manufacturing Technology, Inc ...... 1702 West Washington Street, 

South Bend, IN 46628.

8/3/2018 The firm manufactures friction welding machinery 

and provides friction welding services. 

Bryce D. Jewett Machine Manufacturing Company, Inc. d/b/a 

Jewett Machine Manufacturing 

Company, Inc.

2901 Maury Street, Richmond, VA 

23224.

8/3/2018 The firm manufactures precision machined parts of 

various materials, including steel, aluminum, 

brass, plastic, and composite materials. 

Mountain Machine Works .............. 2589 Hotel Road, Auburn, ME 

04210.

8/3/2018 The firm manufactures precision machined parts, 

mandrels, and rebar bending machines. 

Accessory Match, Inc ..................... 600 West Maple Street, Waterloo, 

IN 46793.

8/3/2018 The firm manufactures trim items for wooden kitchen 

cabinets, including moldings, corbels, valences, 

and crown moldings. 

Any party having a substantial 

interest in these proceedings may 

request a public hearing on the matter. 

A written request for a hearing must be 

submitted to the Trade Adjustment 

Assistance Division, Room 71030, 

Economic Development Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Washington, DC 20230, no later than ten 

(10) calendar days following publication 

of this notice. These petitions are 

received pursuant to section 251 of the 

Trade Act of 1974, as amended. 

Please follow the requirements set 

forth in EDA’s regulations at 13 CFR 

315.9 for procedures to request a public 

hearing. The Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance official number 

and title for the program under which 

these petitions are submitted is 11.313, 

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms. 

Irette Patterson, 

Program Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17940 Filed 8–20–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–WH–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–928] 

Uncovered Innerspring Units From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Circumvention of the Antidumping 

Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that imports of uncovered innerspring 

units (innersprings) into the United 

States exported from Macau, which 

were assembled or completed in Macau 

by the Macao Commercial Group using 

materials sourced from the People’s 

Republic of China (China), are 

circumventing the antidumping duty 

(AD) order on innersprings from China. 

DATES: Applicable August 21, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Matthew Renkey 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) 482–2312. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 31, 2007, Leggett and 

Platt, Incorporated (the petitioner) filed 

a petition seeking imposition of 

antidumping duties on imports of 

uncovered innerspring units from, 

among other countries, China.1

Following the completion of 

investigations by Commerce and the 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

(ITC), Commerce issued an antidumping 

duty order on innersprings from China.2

In the sixth administrative review of 

the Order,3 the petitioner requested that 

Commerce review Macao Commercial 

and Industrial Spring Mattress 

Manufacturer (Macao Commercial) and 

East Grace Corporation. Commerce 

initiated the review on April 3, 2015,4

and sent questionnaires to both of the 

respondents under review. During the 

course of the sixth administrative 

review, and in response to Commerce’s 

original and supplemental 

questionnaires, Macao Commercial 

acknowledged that it imports 

innerspring unit components from 

China for use in the production of 

innerspring units in Macau, but that it 

had no shipments of completed 

innerspring units from China to the 

United States.5 In the final results, 

Commerce found that Macao 

Commercial failed to demonstrate that it 

had no shipments of Chinese-origin 

innersprings, and assigned a rate to 

Macao Commercial using facts available 

with an adverse inference. Commerce 

stated that this determination applied 

only with respect to Macao 

Commercial’s Chinese-origin subject 

merchandise, but explained that it 

intended to evaluate whether selfinitiation of a circumvention inquiry 

would be warranted based upon 

information submitted during the 

review and in light of Commerce’s prior 

circumvention findings in this 

proceeding.6

Commerce self-initiated an anticircumvention inquiry pursuant to 

section 781(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended, (the Act) and 19 CFR 

351.225(h) to determine whether 

innersprings produced by Macao 

Commercial in Macao from materials 


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7See Uncovered Innerspring Units from the 

People’s Republic China: Initiation of 

Anticircumvention Inquiry on Antidumping Duty 

Order, 81 FR 83801 (November 22, 2016). 

8See Preliminary Decision Memorandum for the 

Anti-circumvention Inquiry of the Antidumping 

Duty Order on Uncovered Innerspring Units from 

the People’s Republic of China, dated concurrently 

with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 

(Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

9See Glycine from the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Partial Affirmative 

Determination of Circumvention of the 

Antidumping Duty Order and Initiation of Scope 

Inquiry, 77 FR 21532, 21535 (April 10, 2012). 

10See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

11See section 781(e)(3) of the Act. 

originating in China and exported to the 

United States from Macao are 

circumventing the Order.7 For a 

complete description of the events that 

followed the initiation of this inquiry, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.8 A list of topics included 

in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

I 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 Commerce building. In 

addition, a complete version of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum can 

be accessed directly at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed 

and the electronic versions of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 

identical in content. 

Affiliation and Collapsing 

As explained further in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum, we 

find, based on the record evidence, that 

Macao Commercial is affiliated, 

pursuant to sections 771(33)(A), (E) and 

(F), of the Act, with Tai Wa Machinery, 

Tai Wa Commercial, Wa Cheong Hong, 

and Heshan Tai Hua Jian Ye Machinery 

Co., Ltd. Further, based on Macao 

Commercial’s own statements and 

record evidence, we find that, pursuant 

to 19 CFR 351.401(f), these companies 

should be treated as a single entity, the 

Macao Commercial Group. 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the Order 

are uncovered innerspring units. For a 

complete description of the scope of the 

Order, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Scope of the Anti-Circumvention 

Inquiry 

The products covered by this inquiry 

are innersprings that are manufactured 

in Macau by the Macao Commercial 

Group with Chinese-origin components 

and materials and are then subsequently 

exported from Macau to the United 

States. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this anticircumvention inquiry in accordance 

with section 781(b) of the Act. For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying the Commerce’s preliminary 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Finding 

As detailed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum, we 

preliminarily determine that 

innersprings exported from Macau, 

which were manufactured in Macau by 

the Macao Commercial Group using 

components and/or materials from 

China, are circumventing the Order. 

Therefore, we preliminarily determine 

that it is appropriate to include this 

merchandise within the Order and to 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to suspend any entries 

of innersprings from Macau, which were 

manufactured in Macau by the Macao 

Commercial Group using components 

and/or materials from China. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

As stated above, Commerce has made 

a preliminary affirmative finding of 

circumvention of the Order by exports 

to the United States of innersprings 

exported from Macau, which were 

manufactured in Macau by the Macao 

Commercial Group using components 

and/or materials from China. In 

accordance with section 19 CFR 

351.225(l)(2), Commerce will direct CBP 

to suspend liquidation and to require a 

cash deposit of estimated duties on 

unliquidated entries of innersprings 

assembled or completed in Macau from 

Chinese-origin components or materials 

that were entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

November 22, 2016, the date of 

initiation of the anti-circumvention 

inquiry. 

The suspension of liquidation 

instructions will remain in effect until 

further notice. Commerce will instruct 

CBP to require AD cash deposits equal 

to the China-wide rate of 234.51 

percent, unless the importer/exporter 

can demonstrate to CBP that the 

Chinese-origin innersprings assembled 

or completed in Macau by the Macao 

Commercial Group were supplied by a 

Chinese manufacturer with a separate 

rate. In that instance, the cash deposit 

rate will be the rate of the Chinese 

innersprings manufacturer that has its 

own rate.9

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than 14 days after 

the publication of this preliminary 

determination in the Federal Register, 

unless the Secretary alters the time 

limit. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues 

raised in case briefs, may be submitted 

no later than five days after the deadline 

date for case briefs.10 Pursuant to 19 

CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), parties 

who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs 

in this anti-circumvention inquiry 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. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice. Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants, whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and a 

list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230, at a time and date to be 

determined. Parties should confirm by 

telephone the date, time, and location of 

the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. 

ITC Notification 

Commerce, consistent with section 

781(e)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.225(f)(7)(i)(B), has notified the ITC 

of this preliminary determination to 

include the merchandise subject to this 

anti-circumvention inquiry within the 

scope of the Order. Pursuant to section 

781(e)(2) of the Act, the ITC may request 

consultations concerning Commerce’s 

proposed inclusion of the merchandise. 

If, after consultations, the ITC believes 

that a significant injury issue is 

presented by the proposed inclusion, it 

will have 60 days from the date of 

notification by Commerce to provide 

written advice.11


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Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with section 

781(b) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.225(f). 

Dated: August 9, 2018. 

James Maeder, 

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations performing the duties of Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations. 

Appendix I—List of Topics Discussed in 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Scope of the Anti-circumvention Inquiry 

V. Period of Anticircumvention Inquiry 

VI. Affiliation and Collapsing 

VII. Statutory Framework 

VIII. Application of Adverse Facts Available 

With an Adverse Inference 

IX. Statutory Analysis 

X. Recommendation 

[FR Doc. 2018–17784 Filed 8–20–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[Docket No.: 180719677–8677–01] 

Call for Applications for the 

International Buyer Program Quarters 

2 and 3 Calendar Year 2019 

AGENCY: Industry and Analysis, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and call for applications. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, the U.S. 

Department of Commerce (DOC) 

International Trade Administration 

(ITA) announces that it will accept 

applications for the International Buyer 

Program (IBP) for quarters 2 and 3 of 

calendar year 2019 (April 1, 2019, 

through September 30, 2019). The IBP is 

currently undergoing a program review 

that may result in new ITA products 

and services for trade shows and it will 

take ITA some time to implement the 

recommended changes. Therefore, IBP 

is only moving forward with the current 

program until September 30, 2019. 

Should the program review result in 

new ITA products and services for trade 

shows, they will be announced 

separately in the Federal Register. This 

announcement also sets out the 

objectives, procedures and application 

review criteria for the IBP. The purpose 

of the IBP is to bring international 

buyers together with U.S. firms in 

industries with high export potential at 

leading U.S. trade shows. Specifically, 

through the IBP, the ITA selects 

domestic trade shows which will 

receive ITA services in the form of 

global promotion in foreign markets, 

recruitment of foreign buyers, and 

provision of export counseling to 

exhibitors at the trade show. This notice 

covers selection for IBP participation 

during quarters 2 and 3 of calendar year 

2019. 

DATES: Applications for the IBP for 

quarters 2 and 3 of calendar year 2019 

must be received by October 5, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: The application form can be 

found at www.export.gov/ibp. 

Applications may be submitted by any 

of the following methods: (1) Mail/Hand 

(including express) Delivery Service: 

International Buyer Program, Trade 

Promotion Programs, International 

Trade Administration, U.S. Department 

of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Ave. 

NW, Mailstop 52024, Washington, DC 

20230; or (2) email: IBP2019@trade.gov. 

Email applications will be accepted as 

interim applications, but must be 

followed by a signed original 

application that is received by the 

program no later than five (5) business 

days after the application deadline. To 

ensure that applications are received by 

the deadline, applicants are strongly 

urged to send applications by express 

delivery service (e.g., U.S. Postal Service 

Express Delivery, Federal Express, UPS, 

etc.). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Vidya Desai, Senior Advisor for Trade 

Events, Trade Promotion Programs, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20230; Telephone (202) 482–2311; 

Email: IBP2019@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The IBP 

was established in the Omnibus Trade 

and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (Pub. 

L. 100–418, title II, § 2304, codified at 

15 U.S.C. 4724) to bring international 

buyers together with U.S. firms by 

promoting leading U.S. trade shows in 

industries with high export potential. 

The IBP emphasizes cooperation 

between the DOC and trade show 

organizers to benefit U.S. firms 

exhibiting at selected shows and 

provides practical, hands-on assistance 

such as export counseling and market 

analysis to U.S. companies interested in 

exporting. Shows selected for the IBP 

will provide a venue for U.S. companies 

interested in expanding their sales into 

international markets. 

Through the IBP, ITA selects U.S. 

trade shows, with participation by U.S. 

firms interested in exporting, that ITA 

determines to be leading international 

trade shows, for promotion in overseas 

markets by U.S. Embassies and 

Consulates. The DOC is authorized to 

provide successful applicants with 

services in the form of overseas 

promotion of the show; outreach to 

show participants about exporting; 

recruitment of potential buyers to attend 

the events; and staff assistance in setting 

up international trade centers at the 

shows. Worldwide promotion is 

executed through ITA offices at U.S. 

Embassies and Consulates in more than 

70 countries representing the United 

States’ major trading partners, and also 

in Embassies in countries where ITA 

does not maintain offices. 

ITA is accepting applications from 

trade show organizers for the IBP for 

trade shows taking place between April 

1, 2019, and September 30, 2019. 

Selection of a trade show is valid for 

one show, i.e., a trade show organizer 

seeking selection for a recurring show 

must submit a new application for 

selection for each occurrence of the 

show. For shows that occur more than 

once in a calendar year, the trade show 

organizer must submit a separate 

application for each show. 

For the IBP in quarters 2 and 3 of 

calendar year 2019, the ITA expects to 

select approximately 8 shows from 

among the applicants. The ITA will 

select those shows that are determined 

to most clearly meet the statutory 

mandate in 15 U.S.C. 4721 to promote 

U.S. exports, especially those of smalland medium-sized enterprises, and the 

selection criteria articulated below. 

There is no fee required to submit an 

application. If accepted into the 

program for quarter 2 or 3 of calendar 

year 2019, a participation fee of $9,800 

is required for shows of five days or 

fewer. For trade shows more than five 

days in duration, or requiring more than 

one International Trade Center, a 

participation fee of $15,000 is required. 

For trade shows ten days or more in 

duration, and/or requiring more than 

two International Trade Centers, the 

participation fee will be determined by 

DOC and stated in the written 

notification of acceptance calculated on 

a full cost recovery basis. Successful 

applicants will be required to enter into 

a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) 

with ITA within 10 days of written 

notification of acceptance into the 

program. The participation fee (by check 

or credit card) is due within 30 days of 

written notification of acceptance into 

the program. 

The MOA constitutes an agreement 

between ITA and the show organizer 

specifying which responsibilities for 

international promotion and export 

assistance services at the trade shows 

are to be undertaken by ITA as part of 


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