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in the calculation for Tianjin Hweschun, 

we revised the non-selected rate 

accordingly. Consequently, for the four 

companies not selected for individual 

examination and for which the review 

was not rescinded, we are applying an 

ad valorem subsidy rate of 50.58 

percent. 

Final Results of Review 

We find the net countervailable 

subsidy rates for the mandatory and 

non-selected respondents under review 

for the period of January 1, 2021, 

through December 31, 2021, to be as 

follows: 

Producer/exporter Subsidy rate 

(percent ad valorem) 

Tianjin Hweschun Fasteners Manufacturing Co., Ltd ......................................................................................................... 50.58 

Review-Specific Rate Applicable to Non-Selected Companies 

Ningbo Pacrim Manufacturing Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................... 50.58 

Shanghai Jade Shuttle Hardware ........................................................................................................................................ 50.58 

Shaoxing Bohui Import Export Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................... 50.58 

Youngwoo (Cangzhou) Fasteners Co., Ltd ......................................................................................................................... 50.58 

Disclosure 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

and analysis performed in connection 

with the final results of review to parties 

to the proceeding within five days of the 

date of publication of this notice in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Assessment Rates 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b), Commerce 

has determined, and U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 

countervailing duties on all appropriate 

entries of subject merchandise in 

accordance with the final results of this 

review for the above-listed companies at 

the applicable ad valorem assessment 

rates listed. 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 

In accordance with section 751(a)(1) 

of the Act, Commerce intends to instruct 

CBP to collect cash deposits of 

estimated countervailing duties in the 

amounts shown for each of the 

respective companies listed above on 

shipments of subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review. For all nonreviewed firms subject to the Order, we 

will instruct CBP to continue to collect 

cash deposits of estimated 

countervailing duties at the most recent 

company-specific or all-others rate 

applicable to the company, as 

appropriate. These cash deposit 

requirements, effective upon 

publication of the final results of 

review, shall remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Administrative Protective Order (APO) 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to an APO of their 

responsibility concerning the return or 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 

continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. 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 which is subject to sanction. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

final results of administrative review 

and notice in accordance with sections 

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

CFR 351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: December 15, 2023. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Diversification of China’s Economy 

V. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Application of Adverse Inferences 

VI. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VII. Benchmarks 

VIII. Analysis of Programs 

IX. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce Should 

Apply Adverse Facts Available (AFA) to 

the Provision of Wire Rod and 

Galvanized Steel Wire for Less Than 

Adequate Remuneration (LTAR) 

Programs 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should 

Apply AFA to the Provision of 

Electricity for LTAR Program 

Comment 3: Whether Commerce Should 

Apply AFA to the Export Buyer’s Credit 

(EBC) Program 

Comment 4: Whether Commerce Should 

Apply AFA to the Provision of Land-Use 

Rights to Favored Industries for LTAR 

Program for Financial Contribution and 

Specificity 

Comment 5: Whether Commerce Should 

Apply AFA to ‘‘Other Subsidies’’ 

Comment 6: Whether Commerce Should 

Remove Inland Freight and Value-Added 

Taxes (VAT) from the Wire Rod and 

Galvanized Steel Wire Benchmarks 

Comment 7: Whether Tianjin Hweschun 

Received a Benefit Under the Provision 

of Land-Use Rights to Favored Industries 

for LTAR Program 

X. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–533–871] 

Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From 

India: Final 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) determines that 

Norma (India) Limited, USK Exports 

Private Limited, Uma Shanker 

Khandelwal & Co., and Bansidhar 

Chiranjilal (collectively, the Norma 

Group), and R.N. Gupta & Co. Ltd. 

(RNG), and made sales of subject 

merchandise below normal value. The 

period of review (POR) is August 1, 

2021, through July 31, 2022. 


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1See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India 

and Italy: Antidumping Duty Orders, 82 FR 40136 

(August 24, 2017) (Order). 

2See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India: 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2021–2022, 88 FR 61520 

(September 7, 2023) (Preliminary Results), and 

accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty Order 

on Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India; 

Administrative Review; 2021–2022: Preliminary 

Results Calculation of Margin for Respondents Not 

Selected for Individual Examination,’’ dated August 

31, 2023. 

4For a full discussion of this practice, see 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 

(May 6, 2003). 

DATES: Applicable December 22, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Baker, Preston Cox, or Theodora Mattei, 

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) 482–2924, 

(202) 482–5041, or (202) 482–4834, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On August 24, 2017, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

antidumping duty (AD) order on 

finished carbon steel flanges from 

India.1 On September 7, 2023, 

Commerce published in the Federal 

Register the preliminary results of the 

2021–2022 administrative review of the 

Order.2 We invited interested parties to 

comment on the Preliminary Results; 

however, no interested party submitted 

comments. Accordingly, the final results 

remain unchanged from the Preliminary 

Results, and there is no decision 

memorandum accompanying this 

notice. Commerce conducted this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is finished carbon steel flanges. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of the Order, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Rate for Non-Selected Respondents 

The Act and Commerce’s regulations 

do not address the establishment of a 

rate to be applied to companies not 

selected for individual examination 

when Commerce limits its examination 

in an administrative review pursuant to 

section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, 

Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of 

the Act, which provides instructions for 

calculating the all-others rate in a 

market economy investigation, for 

guidance when calculating the rate for 

companies which were not selected for 

individual examination in an 

administrative review. Under section 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others 

rate is normally ‘‘an amount equal to the 

weighted average of the estimated 

weighted average dumping margins 

established for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero or de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely {on the 

basis of facts available}.’’ 

In this administrative review, we 

preliminarily calculated weightedaverage dumping margins for Norma 

group and RNG that are not zero, de 

minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), or 

determined entirely on the basis of facts 

available. For these final results, we 

continue to calculate weighted-average 

dumping margins for Norma group and 

RNG that are not zero, de minimis, or 

determined entirely on the basis of facts 

available. Accordingly, Commerce is 

assigning to the companies not 

individually examined, listed in the 

appendix to this notice, a margin of 1.00 

percent, which is the weighted average 

of Norma group’s and RNG’s margins 

based on publicly ranged data.3

Final Results of Review 

As noted above, the final results of 

this administrative review remain 

unchanged from the Preliminary 

Results. Thus, Commerce determines 

that the following weighted-average 

dumping margins exist for the period 

August 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022: 

Producer/exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Norma (India) Limited/USK Exports Private Limited/Uma 

Shanker Khandelwal & Co./ 

Bansidhar Chiranjilal ............... 0.70 

R.N. Gupta & Co. Ltd ................. 1.15 

Non-Selected Companies ........... 1.00 

Disclosure 

Normally, Commerce will disclose to 

the parties in a proceeding the 

calculations performed in connection 

with the final results of review within 

five days of any public announcement 

or, if there is no public announcement, 

within five days of the date of 

publication of the notice of final results 

in the Federal Register, in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.224(b). However, 

Commerce received no comments on the 

Preliminary Results, and we have made 

no adjustments to the margin 

calculation methodology used in the 

Preliminary Results. Consequently, 

there are no calculations to disclose for 

these final results of the administrative 

review. 

Assessment 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), 

Commerce shall determine, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries of subject 

merchandise in accordance with the 

final results of this review. For Norma 

group and RNG, we calculated importerspecific assessment rates on the basis of 

the ratio of the total amount of dumping 

calculated for each importer’s examined 

sales and the total entered value of those 

sales in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.212(b)(1). Where an importerspecific assessment rate is zero or de 

minimis, the entries by that importer 

will be liquidated without regard to 

antidumping duties. For entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR 

produced by Norma group and RNG for 

which the producer did not know its 

merchandise was destined for the 

United States, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate unreviewed entries at the allothers rate in the less-than-fair-value 

investigation if there is no rate for the 

intermediate company(ies) involved in 

the transaction.4 For the companies 

identified in the appendix to this notice 

that were not selected for individual 

examination, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate entries at the rates established 

in these final results of the review. 

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 in the Federal Register of 

these final results of administrative 

review for all shipments of the subject 

merchandise 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) the 

cash deposit rate for companies subject 

to this review will be equal to the zero 

margin established in the final results of 

this administrative review; (2) for 


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5See Order, 81 FR at 64434. 

merchandise exported by a company not 

covered in this review but covered in a 

prior segment of the proceeding, the 

cash deposit rate will continue to be the 

company-specific rate published in the 

completed segment for the most recent 

period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 

covered in this review, a prior review, 

or the less-than-fair-value investigation, 

but the producer is, then the cash 

deposit rate will be the rate established 

in the most recently completed segment 

of the proceeding for the producer of the 

merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers or exporters 

will continue to be 20.33 percent, the 

all-others rate established in the lessthan-fair-value investigation.5 These 

cash deposit requirements, when 

imposed, shall remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a final reminder 

to importers of their responsibility 

under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) 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 Commerce’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to an administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

responsibility concerning the return or 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 

continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. 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 the terms of an APO is 

a sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

The final results of this review are 

issued and published in accordance 

with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of 

the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: December 18, 2023. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

Appendix 

Non-Selected Respondent Companies 

1. Adinath International 

2. Allena Group. 

3. Alloyed Steel. 

4. Balkrishna Steel Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

5. Bansidhar Chiranjilal. 

6. Bebitz Flanges Works Private Limited. 

7. BFN Forgings Private Limited. 

8. C.D. Industries. 

9. Cetus Engineering Private Limited. 

10. CHW Forge. 

11. CHW Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

12. Citizen Metal Depot. 

13. Corum Flange. 

14. DN Forge Industries. 

15. Echjay Forgings Limited. 

16. Falcon Valves and Flanges Private 

Limited. 

17. Heubach International. 

18. Hindon Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

19. Jai Auto Private Limited. 

20. Kinnari Steel Corporation. 

21. M F Rings and Bearing Races Ltd. 

22. Mascot Metal Manufactures 

23. Munish Forge Private Limited. 

24. Norma (India) Limited. 

25. OM Exports. 

26. Punjab Steel Works (PSW). 

27. R. D. Forge. 

28. R. N. Gupta & Company Limited. 

29. Raaj Sagar Steel. 

30. Ravi Ratan Metal Industries. 

31. Rolex Fittings India Pvt. Ltd. 

32. Rollwell Forge Engineering Components 

and Flanges. 

33. Rollwell Forge Pvt. Ltd. 

34. SHM (ShinHeung Machinery). 

35. Siddhagiri Metal & Tubes. 

36. Sizer India. 

37. Steel Shape India. 

38. Sudhir Forgings Pvt. Ltd. 

39. Tirupati Forge 

40. Uma Shanker Khandelwal & Co. 

41. Umashanker Khandelwal Forging 

Limited. 

42. USK Exports Private Limited. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Organization of Scientific 

Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic 

Science Membership Application 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology (NIST), Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed, and continuing information 

collections, which helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before February 20, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments by 

mail to Maureen O’Reilly, Management 

Analyst, NIST, at PRAcomments@

doc.gov. Please reference OMB Control 

Number 0693–0070 in the subject line of 

your comments. Do not submit 

Confidential Business Information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to John 

Paul Jones II, Program Manager, Special 

Programs Office, NIST, 301–975–2782; 

john.jones@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

NIST established the Organization of 

Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for 

Forensic Science to enable a 

coordinated U.S. approach to standards 

for the forensic science disciplines. 

NIST seeks broad participation from 

forensic science practitioners, 

researchers, metrologists, statisticians, 

accreditation bodes, defense, and 

prosecution. NIST solicits selfnominations from these communities, 

using the OSAC Membership 

Application, to identify individuals 

interested and qualified to contribute. 

II. Method of Collection 

The OSAC Membership Application 

may be completed and submitted only 

via web-based application. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0693–0070. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission, 

extension of a current information 

collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

500. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 42. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 


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