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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 78, No. 7 

Thursday, January 10, 2013 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Order No. 1874] 

Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 44; 

Morris County, NJ 

Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the 

following Order: 

Whereas, the New Jersey Department 

of State, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 

44, submitted an application to the 

Board for authority to expand FTZ 44, 

to add a new site (Site 7) in Flanders, 

New Jersey, within and adjacent to the 

New York/Newark Customs and Border 

Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 83– 

2011, filed 12/20/11); 

Whereas, notice inviting public 

comment has been given in the Federal 

Register (76 FR 80885, 12/27/11) and 

the application has been processed 

pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s 

regulations; and, 

Whereas, the Board adopts the 

findings and recommendations of the 

examiner’s report, and finds that the 

requirements of the FTZ Act and the 

Board’s regulations are satisfied, and 

that the proposal is in the public 

interest; 

Now, Therefore, the Board hereby 

orders: 

The application to expand FTZ 44 is 

approved, subject to the FTZ Act and 

the Board’s regulations, including 

Section 400.13. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of 

December 2012. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import 

Administration, Alternate Chairman, ForeignTrade Zones Board. 

Attest: 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00348 Filed 1–9–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–433–811] 

Xanthan Gum From Austria: 

Preliminary Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value and 

Postponement of Final Determination 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Department’’) preliminarily 

determines that xanthan gum from 

Austria is being, or is likely to be, sold 

in the United States at less than fair 

value (‘‘LTFV’’), as provided in section 

733 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (‘‘the Act’’). The period of 

investigation (‘‘POI’’) is April 1, 2011, 

through March 31, 2012. The estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin of 

sales at LTFV is shown in the 

‘‘Preliminary Determination’’ section of 

this notice. The final determination will 

be issued 135 days after publication of 

this preliminary determination in the 

Federal Register. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 10, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Drew Jackson or Karine Gziryan AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office 4, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–4406 or (202) 482– 

4081, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Investigation 

The scope of this investigation covers 

dry xanthan gum, whether or not coated 

or blended with other products. Further, 

xanthan gum is included in this 

investigation regardless of physical 

form, including, but not limited to, 

solutions, slurries, dry powders of any 

particle size, or unground fiber. 

Xanthan gum that has been blended 

with other product(s) is included in this 

scope when the resulting mix contains 

15 percent or more of xanthan gum by 

dry weight. Other products with which 

xanthan gum may be blended include, 

but are not limited to, sugars, minerals, 

and salts. 

Xanthan gum is a polysaccharide 

produced by aerobic fermentation of 

Xanthomonas campestris. The chemical 

structure of the repeating 

pentasaccharide monomer unit consists 

of a backbone of two P-1,4-D-Glucose 

monosaccharide units, the second with 

a trisaccharide side chain consisting of 

P-D-Mannose-(1,4)- P-DGlucuronic acid- 

(1,2) - a-D-Mannose monosaccharide 

units. The terminal mannose may be 

pyruvylated and the internal mannose 

unit may be acetylated. 

Merchandise covered by the scope of 

this investigation is classified in the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States at subheading 3913.90.20. 

This tariff classification is provided for 

convenience and customs purposes; 

however, the written description of the 

scope is dispositive. 

Methodology 

The Department has conducted this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Constructed export 

prices have been calculated in 

accordance with section 772 of the Act. 

Normal value (‘‘NV’’) has been 

calculated in accordance with section 

773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see ‘‘Decision 

Memorandum for Preliminary 

Determination for the Antidumping 

Duty Investigation: Xanthan Gum from 

Austria,’’ (‘‘Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum’’) from Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations, to Paul Piquado, Assistant 

Secretary for Import Administration, 

dated concurrently with this 

determination and hereby adopted by 

this notice. The Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is a public document and 

is made available to the public via 

Import Administration’s Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (‘‘IA 

ACCESS’’). IA ACCESS is available to 

registered users at https:// 


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