[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 177 (Thursday, September 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74206-74207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-20671]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-883, A-549-837, A-588-878]


Glycine From India, Japan, and Thailand: Final Results of the 
Expedited First Sunset Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Orders

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: As a result of these expedited sunset reviews, the U.S. 
Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of the 
antidumping duty (AD) orders on glycine from India, Japan, and Thailand 
would be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping at 
the levels indicated in the ``Final Results of Sunset Reviews'' section 
of this notice.

DATES: Applicable September 12, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Smith, 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) 482-1766.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 21, 2019, Commerce published in the Federal Register the AD 
orders on glycine from India and Japan and subsequently published the 
AD order for the same product from Thailand on October 18, 2019.\1\ On 
May

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1, 2024, Commerce published the notice of initiation of the first 
sunset reviews of the Orders, pursuant to section 751(c)(2) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).\2\
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    \1\ See Glycine from India and Japan: Amended Final Affirmative 
Antidumping Duty Determination and Antidumping Duty Orders, 84 FR 
29170 (June 21, 2019); and Glycine from Thailand: Antidumping Duty 
Order, 84 FR 55912 (October 18, 2019) (collectively, Orders).
    \2\ See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 88 FR 50110 
(May 1, 2024).
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    On May 13, 2024, Commerce received notices of intent to participate 
in these reviews from Deer Park Glycine, LLC of Deer Park, Texas, which 
is a subsidiary of GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc., and Chattem 
Chemicals, Inc. of Chattanooga, Tennessee (collectively, the domestic 
interested parties), within the deadline specified in 19 CFR 
351.218(d)(1)).\3\ The domestic interested parties claimed interested 
party status under section 771(9)(C) of the Act as producers of the 
domestic like product in the United States.\4\ In May, 2024, Commerce 
received adequate substantive responses from the domestic industry 
parties within the 30-day deadline specified in 19 CFR 
351.218(d)(3)(i).\5\ We received no substantive responses from 
respondent interested parties.
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    \3\ See Domestic Interested Parties' Letter, ``Domestic 
Interested Parties' Notification of Intent to Participate,'' dated 
May 13, 2024.
    \4\ Id.
    \5\ See Domestic Interested Parties' Letters, ``Sunset Review 
(1st Review) of the Antidumping Duty Order on Glycine from India: 
Domestic Interested Parties' Substantive Response to the Notice of 
Initiation, dated May 20, 2024; ``Domestic Interested Parties' 
Substantive Response to the Notice of Initiation,'' dated May 20, 
2024; ``Sunset Review (1st Review) of the Antidumping Duty Order on 
Glycine from Thailand: Domestic Interested Parties' Substantive 
Response to the Notice of Initiation,'' dated May 21, 2024; and 
``Sunset Review (1st Review) of the Antidumping Duty Order on 
Glycine from Japan: Domestic Interested Parties' Substantive 
Response to the Notice of Initiation,'' dated May 21, 2024.
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    On June 21, 2024, Commerce notified the U.S. International Trade 
Commission that it did not receive substantive responses from any 
respondent interested parties.\6\ As a result, pursuant to section 
751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2), Commerce 
conducted expedited (120-day) sunset reviews of the Orders.
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    \6\ See Commerce's Letter, ``Sunset Reviews Initiated on May 1, 
2024,'' dated June 21, 2024.
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    On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in these 
administrative proceedings by seven days.\7\ The deadline for these 
final results of sunset reviews is September 5, 2024.
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    \7\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
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Scope of the Orders

    The products covered by these Orders are glycine from India, Japan, 
and Thailand. For a full description of the scope of the Orders, see 
the Issues and Decision.\8\
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    \8\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the 
Final Results of the Expedited First Sunset Reviews of the 
Antidumping Duty Orders on Glycine from India, Japan, and 
Thailand,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 
notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Analysis of Comments Received

    A complete discussion of all issues raised in these sunset reviews 
is contained in the accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum.\9\ A 
list of topics discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is 
included 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). ACCESS is available to 
registered users at https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 
version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be directly accessed 
at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
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    \9\ Id.
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Final Results of Sunset Reviews

    Pursuant to sections 751(c)(1) and 752(c)(1) and (3) of the Act, 
Commerce determines that revocation of the Orders would likely lead to 
the continuation or recurrence of dumping and that the magnitude of the 
dumping margins likely to prevail would be weighed-average dumping 
margins up to 13.61 percent for India, 86.22 percent for Japan, and 
227.17 percent for Thailand.\10\
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    \10\ See Orders.
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Administrative Protective Order

    This notice serves as the only reminder to interested parties 
subject to an administrative protective order (APO) of their 
responsibility concerning the return/destruction or conversion to 
judicial protective order of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a). Timely 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 in accordance 
with sections 751(c), 752(c), and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: September 5, 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 Orders
IV. History of the Orders
V. Legal Framework
VI. Discussion of the Issues
    1. Likelihood of Continuation or Recurrence of Dumping
    2. Magnitude of the Margins of Dumping Likely to Prevail
VII. Final Results of Sunset Reviews
VIII. Recommendation

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