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12See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Petitioner’s Request for 

Postponement of Final Determination,’’ dated 

November 3, 2023. 

1See Thermal Paper from Germany, Japan, the 

Republic of Korea, and Spain: Antidumping Duty 

Orders, 86 FR 66284 (November 22, 2021) (Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation Opportunity to 

Continued 

Co., Inc. (the petitioner) requested that 

Commerce postpone the final 

determination and that provisional 

measures be extended to a period not to 

exceed six months.12 In accordance with 

section 735(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(b)(2)(i), because: (1) the 

preliminary determination is negative; 

(2) the petitioner has requested the 

postponement of the final 

determination; and (3) no compelling 

reasons for denial exist, Commerce is 

postponing the final determination. 

Because we have preliminarily 

determined that sales of subject 

merchandise are not being sold at less 

than fair value, provisional measures are 

not being applied to imports of subject 

merchandise pursuant to section 733(d) 

of the Act. Accordingly, Commerce’s 

final determination will be issued no 

later than 135 days after the date of 

publication of this preliminary 

determination. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. If the 

final determination is affirmative, the 

ITC will determine 75 days after the 

final determination whether imports of 

boltless steel shelving from India are 

materially injuring, or threaten material 

injury to, the U.S. industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: November 21, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The scope of this investigation covers 

boltless steel shelving units prepackaged for 

sale, with or without decks (boltless steel 

shelving). The term ‘‘prepackaged for sale’’ 

means that, at a minimum, the steel vertical 

supports (i.e., uprights and posts) and steel 

horizontal supports (i.e., beams, braces) 

necessary to assemble a completed shelving 

unit (with or without decks) are packaged 

together for ultimate purchase by the enduser. The scope also includes add-on kits. 

Add-on kits include, but are not limited to, 

kits that allow the end-user to add an 

extension shelving unit onto an existing 

boltless steel shelving unit such that the 

extension and the original unit will share 

common frame elements (e.g., two posts). 

The term ‘‘boltless’’ refers to steel shelving in 

which the vertical and horizontal supports 

forming the frame are assembled primarily 

without the use of nuts and bolts, or screws. 

The vertical and horizontal support members 

for boltless steel shelving are assembled by 

methods such as, but not limited to, fitting 

a rivet, punched or cut tab, or other similar 

connector on one support into a hole, slot or 

similar receptacle on another support. The 

supports lock together to form the frame for 

the shelving unit, and provide the structural 

integrity of the shelving unit separate from 

the inclusion of any decking. The incidental 

use of nuts and bolts, or screws to add 

accessories, wall anchors, tie-bars or shelf 

supports does not remove the product from 

scope. Boltless steel shelving units may also 

come packaged as partially assembled, such 

as when two upright supports are welded 

together with front-to-back supports, or are 

otherwise connected, to form an end unit for 

the frame. The boltless steel shelving covered 

by these investigations may be commonly 

described as rivet shelving, welded frame 

shelving, slot and tab shelving, and punched 

rivet (quasi-rivet) shelving as well as by other 

trade names. The term ‘‘deck’’ refers to the 

shelf that sits on or fits into the horizontal 

supports (beams or braces) to provide the 

horizontal storage surface of the shelving 

unit. 

The scope includes all boltless steel 

shelving meeting the description above, 

regardless of: (1) vertical support or post type 

(including but not limited to open post, 

closed post and tubing); (2) horizontal 

support or beam/brace profile (including but 

not limited to Z-beam, C-beam, L-beam, step 

beam and cargo rack); (3) number of 

supports; (4) surface coating (including but 

not limited to paint, epoxy, powder coating, 

zinc and other metallic coating); (5) number 

of levels; (6) weight capacity; (7) shape 

(including but not limited to rectangular, 

square, and corner units); (8) decking 

material (including but not limited to wire 

decking, particle board, laminated board or 

no deck at all); or (9) the boltless method by 

which vertical and horizontal supports 

connect (including but not limited to keyhole 

and rivet, slot and tab, welded frame, 

punched rivet and clip). 

Specifically excluded from the scope are: 

• wall-mounted shelving, defined as 

shelving that is hung on the wall and does 

not stand on, or transfer load to, the floor. 

The addition of a wall bracket or other device 

to attach otherwise freestanding subject 

merchandise to a wall does not meet the 

terms of this exclusion; 

• wire shelving units, which consist of 

shelves made from wire that incorporates 

both a wire deck and wire horizontal 

supports (taking the place of the horizontal 

beams and braces) into a single piece with 

tubular collars that slide over the posts and 

onto plastic sleeves snapped on the posts to 

create the finished shelving unit; 

• bulk-packed parts or components of 

boltless steel shelving units; and 

• made-to-order shelving systems. 

Subject boltless steel shelving enters the 

United States through Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

statistical subheading 9403.20.0075. While 

the HTSUS subheading is 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. Period of Investigation 

IV. Scope Comments 

V. Scope of the Investigation 

VI. Discussion of the Methodology 

VII. Currency Conversion 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–428–850] 

Thermal Paper From the Republic of 

Germany: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2021–2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that certain producers/ 

exporters subject to this administrative 

review made sales of subject 

merchandise at less than normal value 

(NV) during the period of review (POR) 

of May 12, 2021, through October 31, 

2022. Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable November 29, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ashley Cossaart, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0462. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 22, 2021, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

antidumping duty order on thermal 

paper from the Republic of Germany 

(Germany).1 On November 1, 2022, 

Commerce published in the Federal 

Register a notice of opportunity to 

request an administrative review of the 

Order for the POR.2 On January 3, 2023, 


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Inquiry Service List, 87 FR 65750 (November 1, 

2022). 

3See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

50 (January 3, 2023); see also Initiation of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 15642 (March 14, 

2023) (correcting our mistake in initiating a review 

of Matra, a U.S. importer of subject merchandise). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Respondent Selection,’’ 

dated February 7, 2023; Memorandum, ‘‘Additional 

Respondent Selection,’’ dated February 23, 2023; 

and Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Matra Americas LLC 

Reporting Methodology,’’ dated March 17, 2023. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of the 2021–2022 Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review,’’ dated June 27, 2023. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the 2021–2022 

Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 

Order on Thermal Paper from the Republic of 

Germany,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

7Commerce has preliminarily determined to 

collapse these companies and treat them as a single 

entity. For further discussion, see Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

8For a full discussion of this practice, see 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 

(May 6, 2003). 

9See Order, 86 FR at 66286. 

10See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

based on timely requests for review, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an 

administrative review of the Order.3

Commerce is examining Koehler Paper 

SE and Koehler Kehl GmbH 

(collectively, Koehler) as the sole 

mandatory respondent in this review.4

In June 2023, we extended the deadline 

for preliminary results of this 

administrative review to no later than 

November 22, 2023.5 For a complete 

description of the events that followed 

the initiation of this review, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum.6

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise subject to the Order 

is thermal paper from Germany. For a 

complete description of the scope of the 

Order, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751(a) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 

We calculated constructed export price 

in accordance with section 772 of the 

Act. We calculated NV in accordance 

with section 773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. A list of the 

topics discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is attached as an 

appendix 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. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, we 

preliminarily determine that the 

following weighted-average dumping 

margin exists for the period May 12, 

2021, through October 31, 2022: 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Koehler Paper SE; Koehler Kehl 

GmbH 7 .................................... 0.75 

Assessment Rates 

Upon completion of the 

administrative review, Commerce shall 

determine, and U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries covered by this review. Pursuant 

to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), because 

Koehler reported the entered value for 

all of its U.S. sales, we calculated 

importer-specific ad valorem duty 

assessment rates based on the ratio of 

the total amount of antidumping duties 

calculated for the examined sales to the 

total entered value of the sales for which 

entered value was reported. Where 

either Koehler’s weighted-average 

dumping margin is zero or de minimis 

within the meaning of 19 CFR 

351.106(c), or an importer-specific rate 

is zero or de minimis, we will instruct 

CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries 

without regard to antidumping duties. 

Commerce’s ‘‘automatic assessment’’ 

will apply to entries of subject 

merchandise during the POR produced 

by Koehler for which it did not know 

that the merchandise it sold to an 

intermediary (e.g., a reseller, trading 

company, or exporter) was destined for 

the United States. In such instances, we 

will instruct CBP to liquidate those 

entries at the all-others rate if there is no 

rate for the intermediate company(ies) 

involved in the transaction.8

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, the final results 

of this review shall be the basis for the 

assessment of antidumping duties on 

entries of merchandise covered by the 

final results of this review and for future 

deposits of estimated duties, where 

applicable. Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review in the Federal Register. If a 

timely summons is filed at the U.S. 

Court of International Trade, the 

assessment instructions will direct CBP 

not to liquidate relevant entries until the 

time for parties to file a request for a 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following deposit requirements 

will be effective for all shipments of the 

subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the publication 

date of the final results of this 

administrative review, as provided by 

section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the 

cash deposit rate for the company listed 

above will be that established in the 

final results of this review, except if the 

rate is less than 0.50 percent and, 

therefore, de minimis within the 

meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in 

which case the cash deposit rate will be 

zero; (2) for previously reviewed or 

investigated companies not covered by 

this review, the cash deposit will 

continue to be the company-specific rate 

published for the most recently 

completed segment of this proceeding in 

which the company participated; (3) if 

the exporter is not a firm covered in this 

review, or the less-than-fair-value 

(LTFV) investigation, but the 

manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate 

will be the rate established for the most 

recent segment for the manufacturer of 

the merchandise; and (4) the cash 

deposit rate for all other manufacturers 

and/or exporters will continue to be 

2.90 percent, the all-others rate 

established in the LTFV investigation.9

These deposit requirements, when 

imposed, shall remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed for these preliminary results 

to interested parties within five days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice.10 Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), 

interested parties may submit case briefs 

to Commerce no later than seven days 

after the date of the last verification 

report issued in this administrative 

review. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues 

raised in the case briefs, may be filed 

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11See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative 

Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 

88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023). 

12See 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

13We use the term ‘‘issue’’ here to describe an 

argument that Commerce would normally address 

in a comment of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

14See Administrative Protective Order, Service, 

and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 

67069 (September 29, 2023). 

15See 19 CFR 351.310(d). 

16See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Request for 

Verification,’’ dated April 13, 2023. 

filing case briefs.11 Interested parties 

who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs 

in this proceeding must submit: (1) a 

table of contents listing each issue; and 

(2) a table of authorities.12

As provided under 19 CFR 

351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior 

proceedings we have encouraged 

interested parties to provide an 

executive summary of their briefs that 

should be limited to five pages total, 

including footnotes. In this review, we 

instead request that interested parties 

provide at the beginning of their briefs 

a public, executive summary for each 

issue raised in their briefs.13 Further, we 

request that interested parties limit their 

executive summary of each issue to no 

more than 450 words, not including 

citations. We intend to use the executive 

summaries as the basis of the comment 

summaries included in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum that will 

accompany the final results in this 

administrative review. We request that 

interested parties include footnotes for 

relevant citations in the executive 

summary of each issue. Note that 

Commerce has amended certain of its 

requirements pertaining to the service of 

documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).14

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing must submit a written request to 

the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance, filed electronically via 

ACCESS. Requests should contain: (1) 

the party’s name, address, and 

telephone number; (2) the number of 

participants; and (3) a list of issues to be 

discussed. Issues raised in the hearing 

will be limited to those raised in the 

respective case briefs. An electronically 

filed hearing request must be received 

successfully in its entirety by 

Commerce’s electronic records system, 

ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern Time within 

30 days after the date of publication of 

this notice. If a request for a hearing is 

made, parties will be notified of the 

time and date for the hearing.15

Unless otherwise extended, 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of its analysis 

raised in any written briefs, not later 

than 120 days after the publication of 

this notice in the Federal Register, 

pursuant to 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 

19 CFR 351.213(h)(1). 

Verification 

On April 13, 2023, Domtar 

Corporation and Appvion, LLC 

(collectively, the petitioners in this 

proceeding) requested that Commerce 

conduct verification of the factual 

information submitted by the 

respondent in this administrative 

review.16 Accordingly, as provided in 

section 782(i)(3) of the Act, Commerce 

intends to verify the information relied 

upon for its final results. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a 

preliminary reminder to importers of 

their responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding 

the reimbursement of antidumping 

duties prior to liquidation of the 

relevant entries during this review 

period. Failure to comply with this 

requirement could result in the 

Commerce’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

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

CFR 351.213 and 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: November 21, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Affiliation and Collapsing 

V. Discussion of the Methodology 

VI. Currency Conversion 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER24–454–000] 

Mountain Top Energy LLC; 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of 

Mountain Top Energy LLC’s application 

for market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is December 12, 

2023. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http://

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

may mail similar pleadings to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 

20426. Hand delivered submissions in 

docketed proceedings should be 

delivered to Health and Human 

Services, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 


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