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1See Glycine from India, the People’s Republic of 

China, and Thailand: Initiation of Countervailing 

Duty Investigations, 83 FR 18002 (April 25, 2018) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Glycine from India, the People’s Republic of 

China, and Thailand: Postponement of Preliminary 

Determinations of Countervailing Duty 

Investigations, 83 FR 26415 (June 7, 2018). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Determination of the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Glycine from 

the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently 

with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 

(Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

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

5See Initiation Notice. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Glycine from India, Japan, 

the People’s Republic of China and Thailand: Scope 

Comments Decision Memorandum for the 

Preliminary Determinations,’’ dated August 27, 

2018. (Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum). 

7See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 8See sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–081] 

Glycine From the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination 

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 

glycine from the People’s Republic of 

China (China) for the period of 

investigation January 1, 2017, through 

December 31, 2017. Interested parties 

are invited to comment on this 

preliminary determination. 

DATES: Applicable September 4, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yasmin Bordas or Tyler Weinhold, 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) 482–3813 or (202) 482–1121, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 703(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on April 25, 2018.1 On June 7, 2018, in 

accordance with section 703(c)(1)(A) of 

the Act, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination of this 

investigation to August 27, 2018.2 For a 

complete description of the events that 

followed the initiation of this 

investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics 

discussed 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 http://

access.trade.gov and is available 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 accessed 

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

frn/. The signed and electronic versions 

of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is glycine from China. For 

a complete description of the scope of 

this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,4 the Initiation 

Notice set aside a period of time for 

parties to raise issues regarding product 

coverage, (i.e., scope).5 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.6 Commerce is not 

preliminarily modifying the scope 

language as it appeared in the Initiation 

Notice. See scope at Appendix I. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy 

programs found countervailable, 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial 

contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.7

Commerce notes that, in making these 

findings, we relied in total on facts 

available and, because we find that the 

mandatory respondents did not act to 

the best of their ability to respond to 

Commerce’s requests for information, 

we drew an adverse inference in 

selecting from among the facts 

otherwise available.8 For further 

information, see ‘‘Use of Facts 

Otherwise Available and Adverse 

Inferences’’ in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 703(d)(1)(A) and 705(c)(5)(A) 

of the Act provide that, in the 

preliminary determination, Commerce 

shall determine an estimated all-others 

rate for companies not individually 

examined. This rate shall be an amount 

equal to the weighted average of the 

estimated subsidy rates established for 

those companies individually 

examined, excluding any zero and de 

minimis rates and any rates based 

entirely under section 776 of the Act. 

Pursuant to section 705(c)(5)(A)(ii) of 

the Act, if the individual estimated 

countervailable subsidy rates 

established for all exporters and 

producers individually examined are 

zero, de minimis, or determined based 

entirely on facts otherwise available, 

Commerce may use any reasonable 

method to establish the estimated 

subsidy rate for all-other producers or 

exporters. In this investigation, we 

preliminarily determined the 

individually estimated subsidy rate for 

each of the individually examined 

respondents based entirely on facts 

available under section 776 of the Act. 

There is no other information on the 

record with which to determine an allothers rate. Consequently, pursuant to 

section 705(c)(5)(A)(ii) of the Act, we 

have established the all-others rate by 

applying the countervailable subsidy 

rate assigned to the mandatory 

respondents. For a full description of 

the methodology underlying 

Commerce’s analysis, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Determination 

We preliminarily determine that the 

following estimated countervailable 

subsidy rates exist: 

Company 

Subsidy 

rate 

(percent) 

JC Chemicals Limited ................. 144.01 

Simagchem Corp ........................ 144.01 

All-Others .................................... 144.01 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

703(d)(1)(B) and (d)(2) of the Act, 

Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 


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9See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise as described in the scope 

of the investigation section entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. Further, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.205(d), Commerce will instruct CBP 

to require a cash deposit equal to the 

rates indicated above. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations and analysis performed to 

interested parties in this preliminary 

determination within five days of its 

public announcement, or if there is no 

public announcement, within five days 

of the date of this notice, in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Verification 

Because the examined respondents in 

this investigation did not provide 

information requested by Commerce 

and we preliminarily determine each of 

the examined respondents to have been 

uncooperative, we will not conduct 

verification. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than 25 days after 

the date of publication of the 

preliminary determination. Rebuttal 

briefs, limited to issues raised in case 

briefs, may be submitted no later than 

five days after the deadline date for case 

briefs.9 Pursuant to 19 CFR 

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

submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in 

this investigation 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. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 703(f) of 

the Act, we will notify the International 

Trade Commission (ITC) of its 

determination. If the final determination 

is affirmative, the ITC will determine 

before the later of 120 days after the date 

of this preliminary determination or 45 

days after the final determination. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 703(f) 

and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(c). 

Dated: August 27, 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 I—Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is glycine at any purity level or 

grade. This includes glycine of all purity 

levels, which covers all forms of crude or 

technical glycine including but not limited to 

sodium glycinate, glycine slurry and any 

other forms of amino acetic acid or glycine. 

Subject merchandise also includes glycine 

and precursors of dried crystalline glycine 

that are processed in a third country, 

including, but not limited to, refining 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 in-scope glycine or 

precursors of dried crystalline glycine. 

Glycine has the Chemical Abstracts Service 

(CAS) registry number of 56–40–6. Glycine 

and glycine slurry are classified under 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS) subheading 2922.49.4300. 

Sodium glycinate is classified in the HTSUS 

under 2922.49.8000. While the HTSUS 

subheadings and CAS registry number are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

scope of this investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II—List of Topics Discussed 

in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Injury Test 

IV. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

V. Analysis of Programs 

VI. Calculation of the All-Others Rate 

VII. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Post-Disaster Research Methods 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) and 

the National Center for Disaster 

Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) 

will hold an open meeting on Thursday, 

September 6, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 

5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and on Friday, 

September 7, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 

12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The primary 

purpose of this meeting is to discuss the 

state-of-the-practice in post-disaster 

field data collection methods, including 

sampling methodologies across multiple 

disciplines. The agenda will be posted 

on the NIST website at https://

www.nist.gov/topics/disaster-failurestudies/national-construction-safetyteam-ncst/hurricane-maria-ncst. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, September 6, 2018 from 8:30 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time and on 

Friday, September 7, 2018 from 8:30 

a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

person and via teleconference at the 

Henry M. Jackson Foundation 

Headquarters, 6720A Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, Maryland 20817. For 

instructions on how to participate in the 

meeting, please see the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Banner, Administrative Office 

Assistant, Community Resilience 

Program, Engineering Laboratory, NIST, 

100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 8615, 

Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899–8604. 

Ms. Banner’s email address is 

Melissa.Banner@nist.gov; and her phone 

number is (301) 975–8912. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST) and the National 

Center for Disaster Medicine and Public 

Health (NCDMPH) will hold an open 

meeting on Thursday, September 6, 

2018 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time and on Friday, September 7, 2018 

from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time. The primary purpose of this 

meeting is to discuss the state-of-thepractice in post-disaster field data 

collection methods including sampling 

methodologies across multiple 

disciplines. The agenda will be posted 

on the NIST website at https://


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