[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8411-8412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02510]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-911]


Thermal Paper From the Republic of Korea: 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 the 
sole producer/exporter subject to this administrative review made sales 
of subject merchandise at less than normal value during the period of 
review (POR), May 12, 2021, through October 31, 2022.

DATES: Applicable February 7, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lilit Astvatsatrian, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6412.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On November 29, 2023, Commerce published the Preliminary Results 
and invited comments from interested parties.\1\ No interested party 
submitted comments on the Preliminary Results. Accordingly, the final 
results remain unchanged from the Preliminary Results, and thus, there 
is no decision memorandum accompanying this notice. Commerce conducted 
this administrative review in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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    \1\ See Thermal Paper from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022, 88 FR 
83384 (November 29, 2023) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>2</SUP>
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    \2\ See Thermal Paper from Germany, Japan, the Republic of 
Korea, and Spain: Antidumping Duty Order, 86 FR 66284 (November 22, 
2021) (Order).
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    The merchandise covered by this order is thermal paper. For a 
complete description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary 
Results.\3\
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    \3\ See Preliminary Results PDM at 2-3.
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Final Results of Review

    For these final results, we determine that the following estimated 
weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period May 12, 2021, 
through October 31, 2022:

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                                                            Weighted-
                                                         average dumping
                   Producer/exporter                          margin
                                                            (percent)
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Hansol Paper Company...................................            2.09
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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, because we have made no changes from the 
Preliminary Results, there are no new calculations to disclose.

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 covered by this review. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), 
because Hansol Paper Company (Hansol) reported the entered value for 
all of its U.S. sales, we calculated importer-specific ad valorem duty 
assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of dumping 
calculated for the examined sales to the total entered value of those 
same sales.
    Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' will apply to entries of 
subject merchandise during the POR produced by Hansol for which the 
company did not know that the merchandise it sold to an intermediary 
(e.g., a reseller, trading company, or exporter) was destined for the 
United States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate 
such entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the 
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\4\
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    \4\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2023).
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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 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 Hansol will be equal to the weighted-average 
dumping margin established in these final results of this 
administrative review; (2) for previously investigated or reviewed 
companies not covered in this review, 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 company 
participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, 
or the less-than-fair-value (LTV) investigation, but the producer is, 
then the cash deposit rate will be the cash deposit rate established 
for the most recently completed segment for the producer of the subject 
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other producers and 
exporters will continue to be 6.19 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the LTFV investigation.\5\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \5\ See Order, 86 FR 66286.
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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 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

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occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties.

Administrative Protective Order

    This notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to an 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition 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 sanctionable violation.

Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: February 1, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-02510 Filed 2-6-24; 8:45 am]
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