[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8162-8163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02292]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-427-830]


Strontium Chromate From France: 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 
sales of strontium chromate from France by Soci[eacute]t[eacute] 
Nouvelle des Couleurs Zinciques (SNCZ) were not made at less than 
normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) November 1, 2021, 
through October 31, 2022.

DATES: Applicable February 6, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Schueler, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-9175.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    Commerce published the Preliminary Results on November 3, 2023 and 
invited interested parties to comment.\1\ No interested party submitted 
comments. Accordingly, the final results are unchanged from the 
Preliminary Results. Commerce conducted this review in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Strontium Chromate from France: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022; 88 FR 75556 
(November 3, 2023) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
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Scope of the Order <SUP>2</SUP>
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    \2\ See Strontium Chromate from Austria and France: Antidumping 
Duty Orders, 84 FR 65349 (November 27, 2019) (Order).
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    The product covered by this Order is strontium chromate from 
France. For a full description of the scope of the Order, see the 
Preliminary Results.

Final Results of Review

    As no parties submitted comments regarding the Preliminary Results, 
Commerce made no changes to its determinations for the final results of 
this review. As a result of this review, we determine the following 
weighted-average dumping margin exists for the POR:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Exporter/producer                         dumping
                                                                margin
                                                              (percent)
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Soci[eacute]t[eacute] Nouvelle des Couleurs Zinciques......        0.00
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Disclosure

    Because Commerce received no comments on the Preliminary Results, 
we have not modified our analysis and no decision memorandum 
accompanies this Federal Register notice. We are adopting the 
Preliminary Results as the final results of this review. Consequently, 
there are no new calculations to disclose in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b) for these final results.

Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, 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.
    Where the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is either 
zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), we will instruct CBP 
to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping 
duties. Accordingly, because SNCZ's weighted-average dumping margin is 
zero percent, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries 
without regard to antidumping duties.
    Commerce's ``reseller policy'' will apply to entries of subject 
merchandise during the POR produced by SNCZ included in these final 
results of review for which the reviewed company did not know that the 
merchandise it sold to the intermediary (e.g., a reseller, trading 
company, or exporter) was destined for the United States. In such 
instance, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the 
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) 
involved in the transaction.\3\
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    \3\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    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 SNCZ will be 
equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in the final 
results of this administrative review (i.e., 0.00 percent); (2) for 
merchandise exported by a producer or exporter 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 
for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in which the 
producer or exporter participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered in this review, a prior review, or the original less-than-fair-
value (LTFV) investigation, but the producer is, the cash deposit rate 
will be the rate established for the most recently completed segment of 
the proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash 
deposit rate for all other producers and exporters will continue to be 
32.16 percent ad valorem, the all-others rate established in the LTFV 
investigation.\4\ These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall 
remain in effect until further notice.
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    \4\ See Order, 84 FR at 65350.
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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

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of antidumping 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 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

    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: January 29, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-02292 Filed 2-5-24; 8:45 am]
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