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8See Regulations to Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021) 

(Final Rule). 

9See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

53205 (September 27, 2021) (Procedural Guidance). 

10 Id. 

11This segment has been combined with the 

ACCESS Segment Specific Information (SSI) field 

which will display the month in which the notice 

of the order or suspended investigation was 

published in the Federal Register, also known as 

the anniversary month. For example, for an order 

under case number A–000–000 that was published 

in the Federal Register in January, the relevant 

segment and SSI combination will appear in 

ACCESS as ‘‘AISL-January Anniversary.’’ Note that 

there will be only one annual inquiry service list 

segment per case number, and the anniversary 

month will be pre-populated in ACCESS. 

12See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206. 

13See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 14 Id. 

Establishment of and Updates to the 

Annual Inquiry Service List 

On September 20, 2021, Commerce 

published the final rule titled 

‘‘Regulations to Improve Administration 

and Enforcement of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Laws’’ in the 

Federal Register.8 On September 27, 

2021, Commerce also published the 

notice entitled ‘‘Scope Ruling 

Application; Annual Inquiry Service 

List; and Informational Sessions’’ in the 

Federal Register.9 The Final Rule and 

Procedural Guidance provide that 

Commerce will maintain an annual 

inquiry service list for each order or 

suspended investigation, and any 

interested party submitting a scope 

ruling application or request for 

circumvention inquiry shall serve a 

copy of the application or request on the 

persons on the annual inquiry service 

list for that order, as well as any 

companion order covering the same 

merchandise from the same country of 

origin.10

In accordance with the Procedural 

Guidance, for orders published in the 

Federal Register before November 4, 

2021, Commerce created an annual 

inquiry service list segment for each 

order and suspended investigation. 

Interested parties who wished to be 

added to the annual inquiry service list 

for an order submitted an entry of 

appearance to the annual inquiry 

service list segment for the order in 

ACCESS, and on November 4, 2021, 

Commerce finalized the initial annual 

inquiry service lists for each order and 

suspended investigation. Each annual 

inquiry service list has been saved as a 

public service list in ACCESS, under 

each case number, and under a specific 

segment type called ‘‘AISL-Annual 

Inquiry Service List.’’ 11

As mentioned in the Procedural 

Guidance, beginning in January 2022, 

Commerce will update these annual 

inquiry service lists on an annual basis 

when the Opportunity Notice for the 

anniversary month of the order or 

suspended investigation is published in 

the Federal Register.12 Accordingly, 

Commerce will update the annual 

inquiry service lists for the above-listed 

antidumping and countervailing duty 

proceedings. All interested parties 

wishing to appear on the updated 

annual inquiry service list must take 

one of the two following actions: (1) 

new interested parties who did not 

previously submit an entry of 

appearance must submit a new entry of 

appearance at this time; (2) interested 

parties who were included in the 

preceding annual inquiry service list 

must submit an amended entry of 

appearance to be included in the next 

year’s annual inquiry service list. For 

these interested parties, Commerce will 

change the entry of appearance status 

from ‘‘Active’’ to ‘‘Needs Amendment’’ 

for the annual inquiry service lists 

corresponding to the above-listed 

proceedings. This will allow those 

interested parties to make any necessary 

amendments and resubmit their entries 

of appearance. If no amendments need 

to be made, the interested party should 

indicate in the area on the ACCESS form 

requesting an explanation for the 

amendment that it is resubmitting its 

entry of appearance for inclusion in the 

annual inquiry service list for the 

following year. As mentioned in the 

Final Rule,13 once the petitioners and 

foreign governments have submitted an 

entry of appearance for the first time, 

they will automatically be added to the 

updated annual inquiry service list each 

year. 

Interested parties have 30 days after 

the date of this notice to submit new or 

amended entries of appearance. 

Commerce will then finalize the annual 

inquiry service lists five business days 

thereafter. For ease of administration, 

please note that Commerce requests that 

law firms with more than one attorney 

representing interested parties in a 

proceeding designate a lead attorney to 

be included on the annual inquiry 

service list. 

Commerce may update an annual 

inquiry service list at any time as 

needed based on interested parties’ 

amendments to their entries of 

appearance to remove or otherwise 

modify their list of members and 

representatives, or to update contact 

information. Any changes or 

announcements pertaining to these 

procedures will be posted to the 

ACCESS website at https://

access.trade.gov. 

Special Instructions for Petitioners and 

Foreign Governments 

In the Final Rule, Commerce stated 

that, ‘‘after an initial request and 

placement on the annual inquiry service 

list, both petitioners and foreign 

governments will automatically be 

placed on the annual inquiry service list 

in the years that follow.’’ 14

Accordingly, as stated above and 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the 

petitioners and foreign governments 

will not need to resubmit their entries 

of appearance each year to continue to 

be included on the annual inquiry 

service list. However, the petitioners 

and foreign governments are responsible 

for making amendments to their entries 

of appearance during the annual update 

to the annual inquiry service list in 

accordance with the procedures 

described above. 

This notice is not required by statute 

but is published as a service to the 

international trading community. 

Dated: November 27, 2023. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26469 Filed 11–30–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–583–803] 

Light-Walled Welded Rectangular 

Carbon Steel Tubing From Taiwan: 

Rescission of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2022–2023 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) is rescinding the 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty (AD) order on lightwalled welded rectangular carbon steel 

tubing (LWRT) from Taiwan for the 

period of review (POR) March 1, 2022, 

through February 28, 2023. 

DATES: Applicable December 1, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Schauer, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0410. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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1See Antidumping Duty Order; Light-Walled 

Welded Rectangular Carbon Steel Tubing From 

Taiwan, 54 FR 12467 (March 27, 1989) (Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

To Request Administrative Review and Join Annual 

Inquiry Service List, 88 FR 13091 (March 2, 2023). 

3See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

29881, 29884 (May 9, 2023). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection Data Release,’’ dated May 17, 2023. 

5See Hoa Phat’s Letter, ‘‘Notice of No Sale,’’ 

dated June 8, 2023. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Intent to Rescind Review,’’ 

dated October 2, 2023. 

7See Hoa Phat’s Letter, ‘‘Comment on Intent to 

Rescind the Review,’’ dated October 10, 2023. 

8 Id. at 1–2. 

9 Id. at 2. 

10 Id. at 3–4 (citing, e.g., Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Orders on Crystalline Silicon 

Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, from the People’s Republic of China: Final 

Scope Determination and Final Affirmative 

Determinations of Circumvention With Respect to 

Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, 88 FR 

57419 (August 23, 2023), and accompanying 

Vietnam Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM) 

at Comment 19; and Certain Hardwood Plywood 

Products from the People’s Republic of China: Final 

Scope Determination and Affirmative Final 

Determination of Circumvention of the 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders, 88 

FR 46470 (July 20, 2023), and accompanying IDM 

at Comment 13, Subsection, ‘‘Reconsidering 

Certification Eligibility’’). 

11 Id. at 4. 

12See Light-Walled Welded Rectangular Carbon 

Steel Tubing from Taiwan: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Circumvention of the 

Antidumping Duty Order, 88 FR 77274 (November 

9, 2023) (LWRT Tubing Circumvention Final), and 

accompanying IDM at Comment 5 (citing LightWalled Rectangular Pipe and Tube from Mexico, 

the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic 

of Korea: Antidumping Duty Orders; Light-Walled 

Rectangular Pipe and Tube from the Republic of 

Korea: Notice of Amended Final Determination of 

Sales at Less than Fair Value, 73 FR 45403 (August 

5, 2008); and Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and 

Tube from the People’s Republic of China: Notice 

of Countervailing Duty Order, 73 FR 45405 (August 

5, 2008) (collectively, LWRPT China Orders)). 

13See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

71829, 71835, 71837 (October 18, 2023). 

14See, e.g., Dioctyl Terephthalate from the 

Republic of Korea: Rescission of Antidumping 

Administrative Review; 2021–2022, 88 FR 24758 

(April 24, 2023); see also Certain Carbon and Alloy 

Steel Cut- to Length Plate from the Federal Republic 

of Germany: Recission of Antidumping 

Administrative Review; 2020–2021, 88 FR 4157 

(January 24, 2023). 

15See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

16See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). 

Background 

On March 27, 1989, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register an AD 

order on LWRT from Taiwan.1 On 

March 2, 2023, we published in the 

Federal Register a notice of opportunity 

to request an administrative review of 

the Order.2 On May 9, 2023, based on 

a timely request for an administrative 

review, Commerce initiated this 

administrative review with respect to 

one company, Hoa Phat Steel Pipe 

Company Limited (Hoa Phat).3

On May 17, 2023, we placed on the 

record U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) data for entries of 

LWRT from Taiwan during the POR, 

showing no suspended entries, and 

invited interested parties to comment on 

the CBP data.4 No interested party 

submitted comments to Commerce. On 

June 8, 2023, Hoa Phat submitted a 

certification that it had no exports, 

sales, or entries during the POR.5

On October 2, 2023, Commerce 

notified all interested parties of its 

intent to rescind the review in full 

because there were no suspended 

entries by any of the companies subject 

to this review during the POR and 

invited interested parties to comment on 

Commerce’s intent to rescind.6 On 

October 10, 2023, Hoa Phat submitted 

comments regarding Commerce’s intent 

to rescind the review.7 No other 

interested parties commented on the 

Intend to Rescind Memorandum. 

Interested-Party Comment 

Hoa Phat argues that Commerce 

should grant Hoa Phat the right to 

properly certify the origin of the hotrolled steel used to produce the LWRT 

exported to the United States during the 

POR for both past and future entries.8

Hoa Phat contends that it requested an 

administrative review here so that 

Commerce could determine whether 

any of Hoa Phat’s exports were, in fact, 

subject to the Order, and to reconsider 

Hoa Phat’s eligibility for the hot-rolled 

steel certification process.9 According to 

Hoa Phat, Commerce has previously 

explained that an administrative review 

is its preferred mechanism for 

reconsidering certification eligibility.10

Hoa Phat asserts that, for Commerce to 

have expressed a preferred path for 

reconsideration of certification 

eligibility but then to deny that 

mechanism for reconsideration to Hoa 

Phat would be inconsistent with its 

stated practice and an abuse of 

discretion.11

We disagree with Hoa Phat. In LWRT 

Tubing Circumvention Final, we stated 

that, ‘‘{b}ecause entries of LWR tubing 

produced or exported by Hoa Phat 

currently must be entered as subject to 

the cash deposit rates established under 

the LWRPT China Orders pursuant to 

Commerce’s {preliminary 

determination}, Hoa Phat, or any other 

interested party with standing to request 

a review of Hoa Phat’s entries may 

request an administrative review of its 

entries under the LWRPT China 

Orders.’’ 12 Thus, the proper venue for 

Commerce to reconsider Hoa Phat’s 

certification eligibility is in the context 

of administrative reviews of the LWRPT 

China Orders. In fact, Commerce 

initiated an administrative review of 

Hoa Phat on each of the LWRPT China 

Orders.13

Accordingly, we are rescinding this 

review because there are no suspended 

entries during the POR for any of the 

companies for which this review has 

been initiated. Further, Hoa Phat’s 

opportunity to request that Commerce 

reconsider its eligibility to certify the 

origin of the hot-rolled steel which it 

used to produce LWRPT, as provided 

for in the LWRT Tubing Circumvention 

Final, has not been abrogated, and Hoa 

Phat’s eligibility to certify will be 

determined in the context of the LWRPT 

China Orders administrative reviews. 

Rescission of Review 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is 

Commerce’s practice to rescind an 

administrative review of an AD order 

when there are no suspended entries 

during the POR for the companies for 

which the review was initiated.14

Normally, upon completion of an 

administrative review, the suspended 

entries are liquidated at the AD 

assessment rate calculated for the 

review period.15 Therefore, for an 

administrative review to be conducted, 

there must be at least one suspended 

entry for which Commerce can instruct 

CBP to liquidate at the AD assessment 

rate calculated for the review period.16

As noted above, there were no 

suspended entries for any of the 

companies subject to this review during 

the POR. Accordingly, in the absence of 

suspended entries during the POR, we 

are hereby rescinding this 

administrative review, in its entirety, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). 

Assessment 

Commerce will instruct CBP to assess 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries. Antidumping duties shall be 

assessed at rates equal to the cash 

deposit rate of estimated antidumping 

duties required at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends 

to issue assessment instructions to CBP 

no earlier than 35 days after the date of 

publication of this rescission notice in 

the Federal Register. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Order 

This notice serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility concerning the 

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1Administrative Protective Order, Service, and 

Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 

67069 (September 29, 2023). 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 

written notification of the return or 

destruction of APO materials or 

conversion to judicial protective order is 

hereby requested. Failure to comply 

with the regulations and terms of an 

APO is a violation subject to sanction. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(4). 

Dated: November 28, 2023. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26471 Filed 11–30–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 

Order, Finding, or Suspended 

Investigation; Advance Notification of 

Sunset Review 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

Background 

Every five years, pursuant to the Tariff 

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

U.S. Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) and the U.S. International 

Trade Commission automatically 

initiate and conduct reviews to 

determine whether revocation of a 

countervailing or antidumping duty 

order or termination of an investigation 

suspended under sections 704 or 734 of 

the Act would be likely to lead to 

continuation or recurrence of dumping 

or a countervailable subsidy (as the case 

may be) and of material injury. 

Upcoming Sunset Reviews for January 

2024 

Pursuant to section 751(c) of the Act, 

the following Sunset Reviews are 

scheduled for initiation in January 2024 

and will appear in that month’s Notice 

of Initiation of Five-Year Sunset Reviews 

(Sunset Review). 

Department contact 

Antidumping duty proceedings 

Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet from China, A–570–073 (1st Review) .......................................................... Jacky Arrowsmith, (202) 482–5255. 

Rubber Bands from China, A–570–069 (1st Review) ...................................................................................... Mary Kolberg, (202) 482–1785. 

Rubber Bands from Thailand, A–549–835 (1st Review) .................................................................................. Mary Kolberg, (202) 482–1785. 

Truck and Bus Tires from China, A–570–040 (1st Review) ............................................................................. Mary Kolberg, (202) 482–1785. 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings 

Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet from China, C–570–074 (1st Review) .......................................................... Jacky Arrowsmith, (202) 482–5255. 

Truck and Bus Tires from China, C–570–041 (1st Review) ............................................................................. Mary Kolberg, (202) 482–1785. 

Rubber Bands from China, C–570–070 (1st Review) ...................................................................................... Mary Kolberg, (202) 482–1785. 

Suspended Investigations 

No Sunset Review of suspended investigations is scheduled for initiation in January 2024.

Commerce’s procedures for the 

conduct of Sunset Review are set forth 

in 19 CFR 351.218. The Notice of 

Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Review 

provides further information regarding 

what is required of all parties to 

participate in Sunset Review. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.103(c), 

Commerce will maintain and make 

available a service list for these 

proceedings. To facilitate the timely 

preparation of the service list(s), it is 

requested that those seeking recognition 

as interested parties to a proceeding 

contact Commerce in writing within 10 

days of the publication of the Notice of 

Initiation. 

Please note that if Commerce receives 

a Notice of Intent to Participate from a 

member of the domestic industry within 

15 days of the date of initiation, the 

review will continue. 

Thereafter, any interested party 

wishing to participate in the Sunset 

Review must provide substantive 

comments in response to the notice of 

initiation no later than 30 days after the 

date of initiation. Note that Commerce 

has amended certain of its requirements 

pertaining to the service of documents 

in 19 CFR 351.303(f).1

This notice is not required by statute 

but is published as a service to the 

international trading community. 

Dated: November 21, 2023. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26468 Filed 11–30–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XD555] 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

scheduling a public hybrid meeting of 

its On-Demand Gear Conflict Working 

Group to consider actions affecting New 

England fisheries in the exclusive 

economic zone (EEZ). 

Recommendations from this group will 

be brought to the full Council for formal 

consideration and action, if appropriate. 

DATES: This hybrid meeting will be held 

on Monday, December 18, 2023, at 9 

a.m. 

ADDRESSES: 

Meeting address: This meeting will be 

held at the Hilton Garden Inn, 100 

Boardman Street, Boston, MA 02128; 

telephone: (617) 567–6789. 

Webinar registration URL 

information: https://attendee.goto

webinar.com/register/ 

2711271864054869079. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cate 

O’Keefe, Executive Director, New 

England Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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