Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 25 / Tuesday, February 6, 2024 / Notices 8165 

1See Xanthan Gum from the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review, Partial Rescission of 

the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and 

Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 2021– 

2022, 88 FR 51286 (August 3, 2023) (Preliminary 

Results), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum (PDM). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review,’’ dated November 3, 2023. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the 2021– 

2022 Administrative Review of the Antidumping 

Duty Order on Xanthan Gum from the People’s 

Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

4See Xanthan Gum from the People’s Republic of 

China: Amended Final Determination of Sales at 

less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order, 

78 FR 43143 (July 19, 2013) (Order). 

5See Preliminary Results, 88 FR at 51286. 

Dated: January 30, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

V. Discussion of the Issues 

A. Region-Specific Issues 

Comment 1: Application of Adverse Facts 

Available (AFA) to Region With Respect 

to Cost of Production 

Comment 2: Application of AFA to Region 

With Respect to Appendix V of the 

Questionnaire 

Comment 3: Capping Region’s Freight 

Revenue 

B. Inmax-Specific Issues 

Comment 4: Application of AFA With 

Respect to Inmax’s Cost Information 

Comment 5: Denial of Inamx’s Scrap Offset 

Comment 6: Calculation of WeightedAverage Costs of Production for Inmax 

VI. Recommendation 

Appendix II 

List of Non-Selected Respondents 

Alsons Manufacturing India, LLP. 

Atlantic Marine Group Ltd. 

Chia Pao Metal Co., Ltd. 

Chin Lai Hardware Sdn., Bhd. 

Chuan Heng Hardware Paints and Building 

Materials Sdn. Bhd. 

Come Best (Thailand) Co., Ltd. 

Gbo Fastening Systems AB. 

Impress Steel Wire Industries Sdn., Bhd. 

Kerry-Apex (Thailand) Co., Ltd. 

Kimmu Trading Sdn., Bhd. 

Madura Fasteners Sdn., Bhd. 

Oman Fasteners LLC. 

Soon Shing Building Materials Sdn., Bhd. 

Storeit Services LLP. 

Sunmat Industries Sdn., Bhd. 

Tag Fasteners Sdn., Bhd. 

Tag Staples Sdn., Bhd. 

Tampin Sin Yong Wai Industry Sdn., Bhd. 

Top Remac Industries. 

UD Industries Sdn., Bhd. 

Vien Group Sdn., Bhd. 

Watasan Industries Sdn., Bhd. 

WWL India Private Ltd. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–985] 

Xanthan Gum From the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review, Partial Rescission of the 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review, and Final Determination of No 

Shipments; 2021–2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. (aka 

Inner Mongolia Fufeng Biotechnologies 

Co., Ltd.), Shandong Fufeng 

Fermentation Co., Ltd., and Xinjiang 

Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. 

(collectively, Fufeng) and Meihua Group 

International Trading (Hong Kong) 

Limited, Langfang Meihua 

Biotechnology Co., Ltd., and Xinjiang 

Meihua Amino Acid Co., Ltd. 

(collectively, Meihua) sold xanthan gum 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(China) at less than normal value during 

the period of review (POR), July 1, 2021, 

through June 30, 2022. Additionally, we 

find that Jianlong Biotechnology Co., 

Ltd. (formerly, Inner Mongolia Jianlong 

Biochemical Co., Ltd) (Jianlong), Deosen 

Biochemical (Ordos) Ltd./Deosen 

Biochemical Ltd. (collectively, Deosen), 

and CP Kelco (Shandong) Biological 

Company Limited (CP Kelco 

(Shandong)) have each demonstrated 

that they are eligible for a separate rate. 

Further, Commerce is rescinding this 

review with respect to Deosen USA, Inc. 

Commerce also determines that three 

companies for which we initiated 

reviews had no shipments during the 

POR. 

DATES: Applicable February 6, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Reginald Anadio, 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) 482–3166. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On August 3, 2023, Commerce 

published the Preliminary Results and 

invited interested parties to comment.1

Commerce extended the deadline for 

these final results by 60 days until 

January 30, 2024.2 For details regarding 

the events that occurred subsequent to 

the Preliminary Results, see the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum.3 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 4

The product covered by the Order 

includes dry xanthan gum, whether or 

not coated or blended with other 

products. For a full description of the 

scope of the Order, see the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs are addressed in the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum. A 

list of the issues parties raised and to 

which we responded in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum is provided in 

the 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). ACCESS 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/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Final Determination of No Shipments 

In the Preliminary Results, Commerce 

determined that Beijing Rodia Auto 

Sport Ltd. (Beijing Rodia), Zamp Inc. 

dba Z Sports (Z Sports), and Shanghai 

Smart Chemicals Co. Ltd. (Shanghai 

Smart) did not have shipments of 

subject merchandise during the POR.5

As we received no information to 

contradict our preliminary 

determination with respect to Beijing 

Rodia, Z Sports, and Shanghai Smart, 

we continue to find that they made no 


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6See Xanthan Gum from the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review, and Preliminary 

Determination of No Shipments; 2017–2018, 84 FR 

26813 (June 10, 2019), and accompanying PDM at 

6 (citing Memorandum, ‘‘Deosen Biochemical Ltd. 

and Deosen Biochemical (Ordos) Ltd. Affiliation 

and Single Entity Status,’’ dated June 4, 2019, 

unchanged in Xanthan Gum from the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review and Final 

Determination of No Shipments; 2017–2018, 84 FR 

64831 (November 25, 2019)). 

7See Deosen Biochemical Ltd.’s Letter, ‘‘Separate 

Rate Application,’’ dated October 7, 2022. 

8See Preliminary Results PDM at 13. 

9See the Issues and Decision Memorandum at 

Comment 10 and Memorandum, ‘‘Final Calculation 

of the Dumping Margin for Respondents Not 

Selected for Individual Examination,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice for the discussion of this issue. 

shipments of subject merchandise to the 

United States during the POR. 

We received no comments regarding 

our preliminary finding that Deosen 

Biochemical Ltd. had reviewable 

transactions during the POR.6

Accordingly, we continue to find that 

Deosen Biochemical Ltd. had 

reviewable transactions and is subject to 

this administrative review.7

Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

Based on a review of the record and 

comments received from interested 

parties regarding our Preliminary 

Results, we made certain changes to the 

preliminary weighted-average dumping 

margin calculation for Fufeng, Meihua, 

and three other companies/company 

groups listed in the ‘‘Final Results of 

Review’’ section, below. For further 

discussion of these changes, see the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

Partial Rescission of Administrative 

Review 

Consistent with 19 CFR 351.213(d), 

Commerce is rescinding this review, in 

part, with respect to Deosen USA, Inc. 

Separate Rates 

No parties commented on our 

preliminary separate rate determination. 

Therefore, we have continued to grant 

separate rate status to Fufeng, Meihua, 

and three other companies/company 

groups listed in the ‘‘Final Results of 

Review’’ section, below. Additionally, 

consistent with the Preliminary Results, 

we have continued to deny separate rate 

status to the following companies: 

A.H.A. International Co., Ltd.; East 

Chemsources Ltd.; Foodchem Biotech 

Co., Ltd.; Greenhealth International Co., 

Ltd. (Hong Kong); Guangzhou Zio 

Chemical Co., Ltd.; Hangzhou Yuanjia 

Chemical Co., Ltd.; Hebei Xinhe 

Biochemical Co., Ltd.; H&H 

International Forwarders Co.; Nanotech 

Solutions SDN BHD; Powertrans Freight 

Systems, Inc.; Qingdao Yalai Chemical 

Co., Ltd.; Shanghai Tianjia Biochemical 

Co., Ltd.; Shanxi Reliance Chemicals 

Co., Ltd.; The TNN Development Ltd.; 

The TNN Development USA Inc.; 

Unionchem Corp. Ltd.; Wanping Bio 

Chem Co., Ltd.; and Weifang Hongyuan 

Chemical Co., Ltd.8

Rate for Non-Examined Separate Rate 

Respondents 

The statue and Commerce’s 

regulations do not address what rate to 

apply to respondents 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 an 

investigation, for guidance when 

calculating the rate for non-selected 

respondents that are not examined 

individually in an administrative 

review. Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act 

states that the all-others rate should be 

calculated by averaging the weightedaverage dumping margins for 

individually-examined respondents, 

excluding rates that are zero, de 

minimis, or based entirely on facts 

available. When the rates for 

individually examined companies are 

all zero, de minimis, or based entirely 

on facts available, section 735(c)(5)(B) of 

the Act provides that Commerce may 

use ‘‘any reasonable method’’ to 

establish the all-others rate. 

We calculated a 2.90 percent dumping 

margin for one of the mandatory 

respondents in this review, Fufeng, and 

a 20.63 percent dumping margin for the 

other mandatory respondent, Meihua. 

Therefore, we assigned the separate rate 

respondents, Jianlong, Deosen, and CP 

Kelco (Shandong), a dumping margin 

equal to the weighted average of the 

dumping margins for Fufeng and 

Meihua, consistent with the guidance in 

section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act.9

Final Results of Review 

We determine that the following 

dumping margins exist for the period 

July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022: 

Exporter 

Weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Neimenggu Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. (aka Inner Mongolia Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd.)/Shandong Fufeng Fermentation Co., Ltd./Xinjiang Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd ................................................................................................ 2.90 

Meihua Group International Trading (Hong Kong) Limited/Langfang Meihua Biotechnology Co., Ltd./Xinjiang Meihua Amino 

Acid Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................................................ 20.63 

Jianlong Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (formerly, Inner Mongolia Jianlong Biochemical Co., Ltd) ..................................................... 3.87 

Deosen Biochemical (Ordos) Ltd./Deosen Biochemical Ltd ....................................................................................................... 3.87 

CP Kelco (Shandong) Biological Company Limited .................................................................................................................... 3.87 

Disclosure 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(b), we 

will disclose the calculations we 

performed for these final results to the 

parties to this proceeding within five 

days of the publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. 

Assessment Rates 

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

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

Commerce will determine, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries of subject 

merchandise covered by the final results 

of this review. Commerce intends to 

issue assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after the publication 

date of these final results 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). 

For Fufeng and Meihua, Commerce 

will calculate importer-specific 

assessment rates for antidumping 

duties, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.212(b)(1). Where the respondent 

reported reliable entered values, 

Commerce intends to calculate 

importer-specific ad valorem 

assessment rates by aggregating the 


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10See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

11 Id. 

12See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

13See Order, 78 FR at 43144. 

amount of dumping calculated for all 

U.S. sales to the importer and dividing 

this amount by the total entered value 

of the merchandise sold to the 

importer.10 Where the respondent did 

not report entered values, Commerce 

will calculate importer-specific 

assessment rates by dividing the amount 

of dumping for reviewed sales to the 

importer by the total quantity of those 

sales. Commerce will calculate an 

estimated ad valorem importer-specific 

assessment rate to determine whether 

the per-unit assessment rate is de 

minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent or below); 

however, Commerce will use the perunit assessment rate where entered 

values were not reported.11 Where an 

importer-specific ad valorem 

assessment rate is not zero or de 

minimis, Commerce will instruct CBP to 

collect the appropriate duties at the time 

of liquidation. Where either the 

respondent’s weighted average dumping 

margin is zero or de minimis, or an 

importer-specific ad valorem 

assessment rate is zero or de minimis, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate 

appropriate entries without regard to 

antidumping duties.12

For entries submitted by an exporter 

individually examined during this 

review that were not reported in the 

U.S. sales database, but that entered 

under the case number of that exporter 

(i.e., at the individually-examined 

exporter’s cash deposit rate), Commerce 

will instruct CBP to liquidate such 

entries at the China-wide entity rate 

(i.e., 154.07 percent).13

For respondents not individually 

examined in this administrative review 

that qualified for a separate rate (i.e., 

Jianlong, Deosen, and CP Kelco 

(Shandong)), the assessment rate will be 

the weighted average of the dumping 

margin assigned to the mandatory 

respondents (i.e., Fufeng and Meihua) in 

these final results of this review. 

For the respondents not eligible for a 

separate rate that are part of the Chinawide entity, we intend to instruct CBP 

to apply an ad valorem assessment rate 

of 154.07 percent (i.e., the China-wide 

entity rate) to all entries of subject 

merchandise exported by these 

companies during the POR. 

Additionally, if Commerce determines 

that an exporter under review had no 

shipments of the subject merchandise, 

any suspended entries that entered 

under that exporter’s case number will 

be liquidated at the China-wide entity 

rate. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

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

Act, the cash deposit requirements 

effective for shipments of the subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the publication date of the final 

results of review will be as follows: (1) 

for the exporters listed in the table 

above, the cash deposit rate will be the 

rate indicated; (2) for previously 

investigated or reviewed exporters of 

subject merchandise not listed in the 

table above that have separate rates, the 

cash deposit rate will continue to be the 

most recently published exporterspecific rate; (3) for all China exporters 

of subject merchandise that have not 

been found to be entitled to a separate 

rate, the cash deposit rate will be the 

rate previously established for the 

China-wide entity (154.07 percent); and 

(4) for all non-China exporters of subject 

merchandise which have not received 

their own rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be the rate applicable to the China 

exporter that supplied that non-China 

exporter. The cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Notification of 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 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 final 

reminder to parties subject to an 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility to return or destroy 

proprietary information disclosed under 

an 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 

Commerce is issuing and publishing 

the final results of this review in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

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

351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: January 30, 2024. 

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. Changes to the Preliminary Results 

V. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce Selected 

an Incorrect Surrogate Value (SV) for 

Valuing Bean Pulp 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Double 

Counted Energy 

Comment 3: Whether Commerce Should 

Have Selected Other Financial 

Statements and Averaged Their Ratios 

Comment 4: The Cohen’s d Test 

Comment 5: Whether Commerce Should 

Have Selected a Different Source for 

Water SVs 

Comment 6: Whether SAM HPRP 

Chemicals, Inc. d/b/a SAM Nutrition 

(SAM) Provided Sufficient Record 

Evidence to Support Commerce’s 

Finding that SAM Was a Wholesaler of 

Domestic Like Product during the POR 

Comment 7: Whether SAM Acted to the 

Best of Its Ability to Respond to 

Commerce’s Questionnaires 

Comment 8: Whether Commerce Should 

Exclude Deosen USA, Inc. from the 

Review 

Comment 9: Whether Commerce Should 

Rescind the Review with Respect to 

Deosen Biochemical Ltd. 

Comment 10: Whether Commerce Correctly 

Calculated the Separate Rate 

VI. Recommendation 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–067; A–475–839; A–583–863; C– 

570–068] 

Forged Steel Fittings From the 

People’s Republic of China, Italy, and 

Taiwan: Continuation of Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Orders 

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 forged steel fittings (FSF) 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(China), Italy, and Taiwan and the 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on FSF 

from China would likely lead to the 

continuation or recurrence of dumping 


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