Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 23 / Friday, February 2, 2024 / Notices 7373 

1See, e.g., Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

Postponement of Final Determination and 

Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part, 77 FR 31309, 31323–24 

(May 25, 2012), unchanged in Crystalline Silicon 

Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled into 

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

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

and Affirmative Final Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part, 77 FR 63791 (October 17, 

2012), and accompanying Issues and Decision 

Memorandum at note 33; Certain Cold-Rolled Steel 

Flat Products from the People’s Republic of China: 

Affirmative Final Determination of Circumvention 

of the Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty 

Orders, 83 FR 23891, 23892 (May 23, 2018), and 

accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at 

Comment 4. 

2See Regulations To Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

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

1See Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks from India: 

Countervailing Duty Order, 86 FR 7535 (January 29, 

2021) (Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

to Request Administrative Review and Join Annual 

Inquiry Service List, 88 FR 45 (January 3, 2023). 

3See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

15642 (March 14, 2023). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Respondent Selection 

Memorandum,’’ dated May 5, 2023. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results,’’ dated September 19, 2023. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review and Rescission of Review in 

Part: Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks from India; 

2022,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

specific AD/CVD certifications. For 

years, Commerce has used certification 

requirements as a way for parties to 

support claims concerning the 

applicability of an AD/CVD order to 

merchandise that they are producing, 

exporting and/or importing.1 More 

recently, on September 20, 2021, 

Commerce published amendments to its 

existing regulations at 19 CFR part 351 

to strengthen and improve the 

administration and enforcement of the 

AD/CVD laws.2 Included in this final 

rule is the new regulation at 19 CFR 

351.228, which became applicable on 

October 20, 2021, that codifies and 

enhances Commerce’s existing authority 

and practice to require certifications by 

importers and other interested parties as 

to whether merchandise is subject to an 

AD/CVD order. Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.228(a)(1)(i)–(iii), the Secretary of 

Commerce may determine in the context 

of an AD/CVD proceeding that an 

importer or other interested party shall 

‘‘maintain a certification for entries of 

merchandise into the customs territory 

of the United States,’’ ‘‘provide a 

certification by electronic means at the 

time of entry or entry summary,’’ or 

‘‘otherwise demonstrate compliance 

with a certification requirement as 

determined by the Secretary, in 

consultation with the Customs Service.’’ 

Since the time we published this 

regulation, there is a new reporting 

functionality in ACE that will allow the 

importer to enter a specific importer’s 

additional declaration type code, which 

will be transmitted through the 

Automated Broker Interface, and 

indicate that merchandise is being 

entered into the customs territory of the 

United States subject to an 

accompanying AD/CVD certification. 

ACE will then reflect the indication 

under the new Importer’s Additional 

Declaration. In light of this new 

functionality, when the Secretary 

determines in the context of an AD/CVD 

proceeding that a certification is 

required, the Secretary may determine, 

alone or in conjunction with other 

requirements, that the importer shall 

declare that its merchandise is being 

entered subject to a certification 

requirement using an additional 

declaration type code in ACE at the time 

of entry summary. This code will 

represent a claim that, for example, the 

entered merchandise is entitled to a 

specific company AD and/or CVD rate 

or, alternatively, a claim that the entered 

merchandise is not subject to AD and/ 

or CVD order. Use of this increased 

visibility in ACE will strengthen 

Commerce’s and CBP’s enforcement of 

AD/CVD orders, enabling them to more 

easily identify merchandise that is being 

entered subject to an AD/CVD 

certification. Accordingly, as of the 

effective date identified above and as 

determined by the Secretary in a given 

AD/CVD proceeding, Commerce and 

CBP may require that importers entering 

merchandise into customs territory of 

the United States that is the subject of 

an AD/CVD certification identify their 

merchandise as such with the new 

importer’s additional declaration type 

code submitted at the time of entry 

summary. The Cargo Systems Messaging 

Service (CSMS) message announcing 

this new functionality will provide 

additional instructions regarding the 

importer’s additional declaration type 

code. 

Dated: January 29, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02114 Filed 2–1–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–894] 

Forged Steel Fluid End Blocks From 

India: Preliminary Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review and Rescission of 

Administrative Review, in Part; 2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies were provided to Bharat Forge 

Limited, the sole producer and exporter 

of forged steel fluid end blocks (fluid 

end blocks) from India subject to this 

administrative review, during the period 

of review (POR) January 1, 2022, 

through December 31, 2022. We invite 

interested parties to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable February 2, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suresh Maniam, 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) 482–1603. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On January 29, 2021, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

countervailing duty order on fluid end 

blocks from India.1 On January 3, 2023, 

we published in the Federal Register a 

notice of opportunity to request an 

administrative review of the Order.2 On 

March 14, 2023, based on timely 

requests for an administrative review, 

Commerce published in the Federal 

Register the notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the Order.3 On 

May 5, 2023, Commerce selected Bharat 

Forge, Limited as the sole mandatory 

respondent in this review.4 On 

September 19, 2023, Commerce 

extended the deadline for the 

preliminary results of this review until 

January 31, 2024.5

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.6 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included in the 

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:// 

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7See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

8See Memorandum, ‘‘Intent to Rescind Review, 

in Part,’’ dated June 29, 2023 (Intent to Rescind 

Memo). 

9Commerce preliminarily finds the following 

companies to be cross-owned with Bharat Forge, 

Limited: Bharat Forge Utilities Limited and 

Saarloha Advanced Materials Private Limited. 

10See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

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 

Final Service 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 Final Service Rule. 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

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

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by the Order is 

fluid end blocks from India. For a 

complete description of the scope of the 

Order, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

countervailing duty administrative 

review in accordance with section 

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

amended (the Act). For each subsidy 

program found countervailable, 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial 

contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.7 For a 

full description of the methodology 

underlying our conclusions, including 

our reliance, in part, on facts otherwise 

available pursuant to sections 776(a) 

and (b) of the Act, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Rescission of Administrative Review, in 

Part 

Based on our analysis of U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) data, we 

determine that the following companies 

had no entries of subject merchandise 

during the POR: (1) Bharat Forge 

Limited, India; (2) Echjay Industries Pvt. 

Ltd.; (3) Jaypee Forge Pvt. Ltd.; (4) MM 

Forgings Ltd. (a.k.a., M M Forgings 

Ltd.); (5) Mars Forge Pvt. Ltd.; (6) 

Pradeep Metals Ltd.; (7) Ramkrishna 

Forgings Ltd.; (8) Rolex Rings Ltd.; (9) 

Sunrise Exports International; (10) 

Western Heat and Forge Pvt. Ltd.; and 

(11) Western India Forgings Pvt. Ltd. On 

June 29, 2023, we notified parties of our 

intent to rescind the administrative 

review with respect to these 11 

companies because there are no 

reviewable suspended entries.8 No 

parties commented on the notification 

of intent to rescind the review, in part. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), we 

are rescinding the administrative review 

of these 11 companies. For additional 

information regarding this 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

We preliminary find that the net 

countervailable subsidy rate exists for 

the period January 1, 2022, through 

December 31, 2022: 

Company 

Subsidy rate 

(percent 

ad valorem) 

Bharat Forge Limited 9 .......... 3.76 

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 30 days after 

the date of publication of these 

preliminary results of review.13 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 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. 

Unless extended, we intend to issue 

the final results of this administrative 

review, which will include the results of 

our analysis of the issues raised in the 

case briefs, within 120 days of 

publication of these preliminary results 

in the Federal Register, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.213(h)(1). 

Assessment Rates 

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4)(i), we preliminarily 

determined subsidy rates in the 

amounts shown above for the producer/ 

exporters shown above. Upon issuance 

of the final results of the administrative 

review, consistent with section 751(a)(1) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2), 

Commerce shall determine, and CBP 

shall assess, countervailing duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review. 

For the companies for which this 

review is rescinded with these 

preliminary results, we will instruct 

CBP to assess countervailing duties on 

all appropriate entries at a rate equal to 

the cash deposit of estimated 

countervailing duties required at the 

time of entry, or withdrawal from 

warehouse, for consumption, during the 

period January 1, 2022, through 

December 31, 2022, in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.212(c)(l)(i). For the 

companies remaining in the review, we 

intend 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 

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1See Sodium Gluconate, Gluconic Acid and 

Derivative Products from the People’s Republic of 

China: Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Orders, 83 FR 56299 (November 13, 2018) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 88 

FR 67729 (October 2, 2023). 

3See Domestic Interested Parties’ Letter, ‘‘Sodium 

Gluconate, Gluconic Acid, and Derivative Products 

from the People’s Republic of China—Domestic 

Interested Parties’ Notice of Intent to Participate,’’ 

dated October 12, 2023. 

4See Domestic Interested Parties’ Letter, ‘‘Sodium 

Gluconate, Gluconic Acid, and Derivative Products 

from the People’s Republic of China—Domestic 

Interested Parties’ Substantive Response,’’ dated 

November 1, 2023. 

5See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Sunset Reviews 

Initiated on October 2, 2023,’’ dated November 17, 

2023. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Final Results of the First Expedited Sunset 

Review of the Antidumping Duty Orders on Sodium 

Gluconate, Gluconic Acid and Derivative Products 

from the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, Commerce also 

intends upon publication of the final 

results, to instruct CBP to collect cash 

deposits of the estimated countervailing 

duties in the amounts calculated in the 

final results of this review for the 

respective companies listed above with 

regard to shipments of subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date of publication of the final 

results of this review. If the rate 

calculated in the final results is zero or 

de minimis, no cash deposit will be 

required on shipments of the subject 

merchandise entered or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of the final 

results of this review. 

For all non-reviewed firms, CBP will 

continue to collect cash deposits of 

estimated countervailing duties at the 

all-others rate or the most recent 

company-specific rate applicable to the 

company, as appropriate. These cash 

deposit requirements, when imposed, 

shall remain in effect until further 

notice. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

These preliminary results of review 

are issued and published 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: January 26, 2024. 

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. Rescission of Administrative Review, in 

Part 

V. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Application of Adverse Inferences 

VI. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VII. Analysis of Programs 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–072] 

Sodium Gluconate, Gluconic Acid, and 

Derivative Products From the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Results of the 

Expedited First Sunset Review of the 

Countervailing Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) finds that 

revocation of the countervailing duty 

(CVD) order on sodium gluconate, 

gluconic acid, and derivative products 

(sodium gluconate) from the People’s 

Republic of China (China) would be 

likely to lead to continuation or 

recurrence of countervailable subsidies 

at the levels indicated in the ‘‘Final 

Results of Sunset Review’’ section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Applicable February 2, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie Trejo, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4390. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 13, 2018, Commerce 

published the CVD order on sodium 

gluconate from China.1 On October 2, 

2023, Commerce published the notice of 

initiation of the first sunset review of 

the Order, pursuant to section 751(c) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act).2 On October 12, 2023, Commerce 

received a timely notice of intent to 

participate from PMP Fermentation 

Products Inc. (the domestic interested 

party) within the 15-day deadline 

specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(i).3

The domestic interested party claimed 

interested party status under section 

771(9)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.102(b)(29)(v) as producers of the 

domestic like product. 

On November 1, 2023, Commerce 

received an adequate substantive 

response to the Initiation Notice from 

the domestic interested party within the 

30-day deadline specified in 19 CFR 

351.218(d)(3)(i).4 We received no 

substantive responses from any other 

interested parties, and no interested 

party requested a hearing. On November 

17, 2023, Commerce notified the U.S. 

International Trade Commission that it 

did not receive an adequate substantive 

response from respondent interested 

parties, and that Commerce would 

conduct an expedited (120-day) sunset 

review of the Order,5 pursuant to 

section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(B)–(C). 

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by the Order is 

sodium gluconate from China. For a 

complete description of the scope of the 

Order, see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum.6

Analysis of Comments Received 

A complete discussion of all issues 

raised in this sunset review, including 

the likelihood of the continuation or 

recurrence of subsidization in the event 

of revocation of the Order and the 

countervailable subsidy rates likely to 

prevail if the Order were to be revoked, 

is provided in the accompanying Issues 

and Decision Memorandum. A list of 

the topics discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum is attached as an 

appendix to this notice. The Issues and 

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), which is available to 

registered users at https://access.trade.

gov. In addition, a complete version of 

the Issues and Decision Memorandum 

can be accessed directly at https://

access.trade.gov/public/FRNotices/ 

ListLayout.aspx. 

Final Results of Sunset Review 

Pursuant to sections 751(c)(1) and 

752(b) of the Act, we determine that 

revocation of the Order would be likely 

to lead to continuation or recurrence of 

countervailable subsidies at the 


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