85230 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 234 / Thursday, December 7, 2023 / Notices 

1See Refillable Stainless Steel Kegs from the 

Federal Republic of Germany and the People’s 

Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders, 84 

FR 68405 (December 16, 2019) (Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

to Request Administrative Review and Join Annual 

Inquiry Service List, 87 FR 73752 (December 1, 

2022). 3See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

7060 (February 2, 2023) (Initiation Notice). 4See Ulix’s Letter, ‘‘Separate Rate Certification,’’ 

dated March 6, 2023; see also Jingye’s Letter, ‘‘No 

Sales & Separate Rate Certification,’’ dated March 

6, 2023. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Respondent Selection,’’ 

dated September 14, 2022. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review of Refillable Stainless Steel 

Kegs from the People’s Republic of China; 2021– 

2022,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

7See Appendix II. 8See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement 

of Change in Department Practice for Respondent 

Selection in Antidumping Duty Proceedings and 

Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy 

Entity in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 

FR 65963 (November 4, 2013). 

9See Order. 

10See Initiation Notice (‘‘All firms listed below 

that wish to qualify for separate rate status in the 

administrative reviews involving NME countries 

must complete, as appropriate, either a separate rate 

application or certification, as described below.’’); 

see also Appendix II for the list of companies that 

are subject to this administrative review that are 

considered to be part of the China-wide entity. 

Dated: November 30, 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. Period of Review 

IV. Scope of the Order 

V. Subsidies Valuation 

VI. Benchmarks and Interest Rates 

VII. Analysis of Programs 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–093] 

Refillable Stainless Steel Kegs From 

the People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Results of the 

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 and/ 

or exporters made sales of refillable 

stainless steel kegs (kegs) at less than 

normal value during the period of 

review (POR) April 1, 2021, through 

March 31, 2022. Interested parties are 

invited to comment on the preliminary 

results of this review. 

DATES: Applicable December 7, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Aleksandras Nakutis and Jacob Keller, 

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) 482–3147 

and (202) 482–4849, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 16, 2019, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

AD order on kegs from China.1 On 

December 1, 2022, Commerce published 

a notice of opportunity to request an 

administrative review of the Order, 

covering the POR, pursuant to section 

751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act).2 On February 2, 

2023, based on timely requests for 

review, Commerce initiated an 

administrative review of the Order 

covering the POR.3 On March 6, 2023, 

Guangzhou Ulix Industrial & Trading 

Co., Ltd., (Ulix) and Guangzhou Jingye 

Machinery Co., Ltd., (Jingye) each 

timely filed a no-shipment certification 

(NSC) and a separate rate certification.4

This administrative review covers 41 

companies.5

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by this 

Order are kegs, vessels, or containers 

with bodies that are approximately 

cylindrical in shape, made from 

stainless steel (i.e., steel containing at 

least 10.5 percent chromium by weight 

and less than 1.2 percent carbon by 

weight, with or without other elements), 

and that are compatible with a ‘‘D 

Sankey’’ extractor (refillable stainless 

steel kegs) with a nominal liquid 

volume capacity of 10 liters or more, 

regardless of the type of finish, gauge, 

thickness, or grade of stainless steel, and 

whether or not covered by or encased in 

other materials. The merchandise 

covered by the orders are currently 

classified in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

under subheadings 7310.10.0010, 

7310.10.0050, 7310.29.0025, and 

7310.29.0050. These HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes; the 

written description of the scope of the 

orders is dispositive. A full description 

of the scope of the Order is provided in 

the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.6

Preliminary Results and Referral to 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

Based on record information, 

Commerce preliminarily determine that 

all 41 companies subject to this 

administrative review are a part of the 

China-wide entity.7 Regarding Jingye 

and Ulix’s NSCs, we preliminarily 

determine these responses to be 

unreliable and that use of facts 

otherwise available with an adverse 

inference is warranted, pursuant to 

sections 776(a)–(b) of the Act, to 

determine that Jingye and Ulix have not 

substantiated their NSCs. Moreover, for 

reasons discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum, Commerce is 

preliminarily treating Jingye and Ulix as 

part of the China-wide entity and 

Commerce is referring its preliminary 

findings to U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to investigate evasion 

of the Order. 

China-Wide Entity 

Under Commerce’s policy regarding 

the conditional review of the Chinawide entity,8 the China-wide entity will 

not be under review unless a party 

specifically requests, or Commerce selfinitiates, a review of the entity. Because 

no party requested a review of the 

China-wide entity in this review, the 

entity is not under review, and the 

entity’s rate (i.e., 77.13 percent) is not 

subject to change.9 Commerce considers 

the 41 companies for which a review 

was requested (which did not file a 

separate rate application or did not 

demonstrate separate rate eligibility) 

listed in Appendix II to this notice, to 

be part of the China-wide entity.10

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) 

of the Act. For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. A list of topics 

discussed 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. In addition, a complete 


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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) (APO and 

Service Final Rule). 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 APO and Service Final Rule. 15See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be found at https://

access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Public Comment 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), 

interested parties may submit case briefs 

no later than 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice. Rebuttal 

briefs, limited to issues raised in the 

case briefs, may be filed not later than 

five days after the date for 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 brief 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 determination in 

this 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, 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 

publication of this notice. Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, 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 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. 

Unless the deadline is extended, 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this review, including the 

results of its analysis of the issues raised 

in any written briefs, no later than 120 

days after the date of publication of this 

notice, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h). 

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuing the final results, 

Commerce will determine, and CBP 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review.15 If the preliminary results are 

unchanged for the final results, we will 

instruct CBP to apply an ad valorem 

assessment rate of 77.13 percent to all 

entries of subject merchandise during 

the POR which were exported by the 

companies considered to be a part of the 

China-wide entity listed in Appendix II 

of this notice. 

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 cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

publication of the final results of this 

review for shipments of the subject 

merchandise from China entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the publication 

date, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) 

of the Act: (1) for all Chinese exporters 

of subject merchandise that have not 

been found to be entitled to a separate 

rate, the cash deposit rate will be that 

for the China-wide entity; and (2) for all 

non-Chinese exporters of subject 

merchandise which have not received 

their own rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be the rate applicable to the Chinese 

exporter that supplied that non-Chinese 

exporter. These deposit requirements, 

when imposed, shall remain in effect 

until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a preliminary 

reminder to importers of their 

responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping and/or countervailing 

duties prior to liquidation of the 

relevant entries during the POR. Failure 

to comply with this requirement could 

result in Commerce’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping and/or 

countervailing duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of double 

antidumping duties, and/or an increase 

in the amount of antidumping duties by 

the amount of the countervailing duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Commerce is issuing and publishing 

the preliminary results of this review in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B), 

751(a)(3) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.213(d)(4) and 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: November 30, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. No-Shipment Certifications and Referral 

to CBP of Evasion 

V. Discussion of the Methodology 

VI. Recommendation 

Appendix II 

Companies Considered To Be Part of the 

China-Wide Entity 

1. Dalian Yonghseng Metal Structure Co., 

Ltd. d/b/a DYM Brewing Solutions 

2. Equipmentimes (Dalian) E-Commerce Co., 

Ltd. 

3. Guangzhou Jingye Machinery Co., Ltd. 

4. Guangzhou Ulix Industrial & Trading Co., 

Ltd. 

5. Jinan Chenji International Trade Co., Ltd. 

6. Jinan Chenji Machinery Equipment Co., 

Ltd. 

7. Jinan HaoLu Machinery Equipment Co., 

Ltd. 

8. Jinjiang Jiaxing Import and Export Co., Ltd. 

9. NDL Keg Qingdao Inc. 

10. Ningbo All In Brew Technology Co. 

11. Ningbo BestFriends Beverage Containers 

Industry Co., Ltd. 

12. Ningbo Chance International Trade Co., 

Ltd. 

13. Ningbo Direct Import & Export Co., Ltd. 

14. Ningbo Haishu Direct Import and Export 

Trade Co., Ltd. 

15. Ningbo Haishu Xiangsheng Metal Factory 

16. Ningbo Hefeng Container Manufacturer 

Co., Ltd. 

17. Ningbo Hefeng Kitchen Utensils 

Manufacture Co., Ltd. 

18. Ningbo HGM Food Machinery Co., Ltd. 

19. Ningbo Jiangbei Bei Fu Industry and 

Trade Co., Ltd. 

20. Ningbo Kegco International Trade Co., 

Ltd. 


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1See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: 

Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from United 

Kingdom, Taiwan, and South Korea, 64 FR 40555 

(July 27, 1999); Notice of Amended Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Sheet and 

Strip in Coils from Japan, 64 FR 40565 (July 27, 

1999; and Amended Final Determination: Stainless 

Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from the Republic of 

Korea; and Notice of Countervailing Duty Orders: 

Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from France, 

Italy, and the Republic of Korea, 64 FR 42923 

(August 6, 1999) (collectively, Orders). 

2See Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip from Japan, 

Korea, and Taiwan; Institution of Five-Year Review, 

87 FR 53780 (September 1, 2022). 

3See Initiation of Five-Year (‘‘Sunset’’) Review, 87 

FR 53727 (September 1, 2022). 

4See Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils from 

Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan: Final 

Results of the Expedited Fourth Sunset Review of 

the Antidumping Duty Orders, 87 FR 74133 

(December 2, 2022), and accompanying Issues and 

Decision Memorandum (IDM); and Stainless Steel 

Sheet and Strip in Coils from the Republic of Korea: 

Final Results of Expedited Sunset Review of the 

Countervailing Duty Order, 87 FR 74130 (December 

2, 2022), and accompanying IDM. 

5See Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip from Japan, 

South Korea, and Taiwan Determinations, 88 FR 

73043 (October 24, 2023) (ITC Final Determination). 

21. Ningbo Kegstorm Stainless Steel Co., Ltd. 

22. Ningbo Minke Import & Export Co., Ltd. 

23. Ningbo Sanfino Import & Export Co., Ltd. 

24. Ningbo Shimaotong International Co., 

Ltd. 

25. Ningbo Sunburst International Trading 

Co., Ltd. 

26. Orient Equipment (Taizhou) Co., Ltd. 

27. Penglai Jinfu Stainless Steel Products. 

28. Pera Industry Shanghai Co., Ltd. 

29. Qingdao Henka Precision Technology 

Co., Ltd. 

30. Qingdao Xinhe Precision Manufacturing 

Co., Ltd. 

31. Rain Star International Trading Dalian 

Co., Ltd. 

32. Shandong Meto Beer Equipment Co., Ltd. 

33. Shandong Tiantai Beer Equipment Co., 

Ltd. 

34. Shandong Tonsen Equipment Co., Ltd. 

35. Shandong Yuesheng Beer Equipment Co., 

Ltd. 

36. Shenzhen Wellbom Technology Co., Ltd. 

37. Sino Dragon Group, Ltd. 

38. Wenzhou Deli Machinery Equipment Co. 

39. Wuxi Taihu Lamps and Lanterns Co., Ltd. 

40. Yantai Toptech Ltd. 

41. Yantai Trano New Material Co., Ltd., d/ 

b/a Trano Keg, d/b/a SS Keg. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–588–845, A–580–834, A–583–831, C–580– 

835] 

Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils 

From Japan, the Republic of Korea, 

and Taiwan: Continuation of 

Antidumping Duty Orders and 

Countervailing Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: As a result of the 

determinations by the U.S. Department 

of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) 

that revocation of the antidumping duty 

(AD) orders on stainless steel sheet and 

strip in coils (SSSSC) from Japan, the 

Republic of Korea (Korea), and Taiwan 

and the countervailing duty (CVD) order 

on SSSSC from Korea would likely lead 

to the continuation or recurrence of 

dumping, countervailable subsidies, and 

material injury to an industry in the 

United States, Commerce is publishing 

a notice of continuation of these AD and 

CVD orders. 

DATES: Applicable October 24, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Hart, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1058. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On July 27, 1999, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

AD orders on SSSSC from Japan, Korea, 

and Taiwan, and, on August 6, 1999, 

Commerce published the CVD order on 

SSSSC from Korea.1 On September 1, 

2022, the ITC instituted,2 and 

Commerce initiated,3 the fourth sunset 

review of the Orders, pursuant to 

section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (the Act). As a result of its 

reviews, Commerce determined that 

revocation of the Orders would likely 

lead to the continuation or recurrence of 

dumping and countervailable subsidies 

and, therefore, notified the ITC of the 

magnitude of the margins of dumping 

and subsidy rates likely to prevail 

should the Orders be revoked.4

On October 24, 2023, the ITC 

published its determination, pursuant to 

sections 751(c) and 752(a) of the Act, 

that revocation of the Orders would 

likely lead to continuation or recurrence 

of material injury to an industry in the 

United States within a reasonably 

foreseeable time.5

Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise under review is 

certain stainless steel sheet and strip in 

coils. Stainless steel is an alloy steel 

containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or 

less of carbon and 10.5 percent or more 

of chromium, with or without other 

elements. The subject sheet and strip is 

a flat-rolled product in coils that is 

greater than 9.5 mm in width and less 

than 4.75 mm in thickness, and that is 

annealed or otherwise heat treated and 

pickled or otherwise descaled. The 

subject sheet and strip may also be 

further processed (e.g., cold-rolled, 

polished, aluminized, coated, etc.) 

provided that it maintains the specific 

dimensions of sheet and strip following 

such processing. 

The merchandise subject to this 

review is classified in the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS) at subheadings: 7219.13.00.31, 

7219.13.00.51, 7219.13.00.71, 

7219.13.00.81, 7219.14.00.30, 

7219.14.00.65, 7219.14.00.90, 

7219.32.00.05, 7219.32.00.20, 

7219.32.00.25, 7219.32.00.35, 

7219.32.00.36, 7219.32.00.38, 

7219.32.00.42, 7219.32.00.44, 

7219.33.00.05, 7219.33.00.20, 

7219.33.00.25, 7219.33.00.35, 

7219.33.00.36, 7219.33.00.38, 

7219.33.00.42, 7219.33.00.44, 

7219.34.00.05, 7219.34.00.20, 

7219.34.00.25, 7219.34.00.30, 

7219.34.00.35, 7219.35.00.05, 

7219.35.00.15, 7219.35.00.30, 

7219.35.00.35, 7219.90.00.10, 

7219.90.00.20, 7219.90.00.25, 

7219.90.00.60, 7219.90.00.80, 

7220.12.10.00, 7220.12.50.00, 

7220.20.10.10, 7220.20.10.15, 

7220.20.10.60, 7220.20.10.80, 

7220.20.60.05, 7220.20.60.10, 

7220.20.60.15, 7220.20.60.60, 

7220.20.60.80, 7220.20.70.05, 

7220.20.70.10, 7220.20.70.15, 

7220.20.70.60, 7220.20.70.80, 

7220.20.80.00, 7220.20.90.30, 

7220.20.90.60, 7220.90.00.10, 

7220.90.00.15, 7220.90.00.60, and 

7220.90.00.80. Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and Customs purposes, 

Commerce’s written description of the 

merchandise under review is 

dispositive. 

Excluded from the scope of this 

review are the following: (1) sheet and 

strip that is not annealed or otherwise 

heat treated and pickled or otherwise 

descaled, (2) sheet and strip that is cut 

to length, (3) plate (i.e., flat-rolled 

stainless steel products of a thickness of 

4.75 mm or more), (4) flat wire (i.e., 

cold-rolled sections, with a prepared 

edge, rectangular in shape, of a width of 

not more than 9.5 mm), and (5) razor 

blade steel. Razor blade steel is a flatrolled product of stainless steel, not 

further worked than cold-rolled (coldreduced), in coils, of a width of not 

more than 23 mm and a thickness of 

0.266 mm or less, containing, by weight, 

12.5 to 14.5 percent chromium, and 

certified at the time of entry to be used 

in the manufacture of razor blades. See 

Chapter 72 of the HTSUS, ‘‘Additional 

U.S. Note’’ 1(d). 


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