76448 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 181 / Wednesday, September 18, 2024 / Notices 

1See Antidumping Duty Order; Barium Chloride 

from the People’s Republic of China, 49 FR 40635 

(October 17, 1984) (AD Order); and Barium Chloride 

from India: Countervailing Duty Order, 88 FR 14120 

(March 7, 2023) (CVD Order) (collectively, Orders). 

2See Honeywell’s Letters, ‘‘Barium Chloride from 

the People’s Republic of China: Changed 

Circumstances Review Request,’’ dated August 6, 

2024 (AD CCR Request); and ‘‘Barium Chloride 

from India: Changed Circumstances Review 

Request,’’ dated September 5, 2024 (CVD CCR 

Request). 

3See AD CCR Request at 2; see also CVD CCR 

request at 2. 

4See AD CCR Request at 3 and Exhibit 1; see also 

CVD CCR request at 5 and Exhibit 4. 

5The scope reflects the HTSUS subheading 

currently in effect. 

6See section 782(h) of the Act. 

a. Identify and address environmental 

justice concerns in agency programs, 

policies, procedures and activities. 

b. Incorporate environmental justice 

principles into employee training 

programs to ensure that all staff 

understand their role in promoting 

environmental justice and are equipped 

with the necessary tools and knowledge. 

c. Expand and promote departmentwide capacity for environmental justice 

through training employees, 

incorporating it into relevant work 

plans, and hiring staff with 

environmental justice expertise. 

Request for Written Comments 

This notice is intended to improve 

Commerce’s understanding of public 

views on how the Department should 

advance environmental justice. This 

notice is a general solicitation for public 

comments and further sets forth specific 

topics for discussion and comment. 

Commerce seeks broad input from all 

interested stakeholders, including 

people and communities with 

environmental justice concerns as well 

as the public. Commenters are 

encouraged to address the following and 

may comment with general views or 

provide specific information about a 

specific topic. Responses may be 

formatted as the commenter prefers. 

Comments will be reviewed by 

Commerce staff and as appropriate, 

Commerce contractors, and may be used 

to inform the agency’s work on 

advancing environmental justice. 

Topics 

To help guide input, Commerce 

would appreciate feedback on the 

following five questions: 

1. Do the draft environmental justice 

strategic goals address general interests 

and concerns about the advancement of 

environmental justice by Commerce? 

Why or why not? 

2. What actions should Commerce 

undertake to advance environmental 

justice? 

3. What performance measures or 

metrics should Commerce establish to 

monitor progress towards advancing 

environmental justice? 

4. What are examples of successful 

collaborations between Federal agencies 

and Tribal, territorial, local, and State 

governments or communities with 

environmental justice concerns? 

5. How can Commerce better engage 

and collaborate effectively with Tribes, 

both federally and non-federally 

recognized, Native Hawaiian 

organizations, and Indigenous Peoples, 

including Indigenous migrant 

communities? 

Dated: September 12, 2024. 

Sarah E. Watling, 

Resilience, Climate Adaptation, and 

Environmental Justice Program Office, 

Department of Commerce. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–007, C–533–909] 

Barium Chloride From the People’s 

Republic of China and India: Initiation 

and Preliminary Results of Changed 

Circumstances Review and Intent To 

Revoke the Antidumping Duty and 

Countervailing Duty Orders 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on a request from 

Honeywell International Inc. 

(Honeywell), the U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) is initiating and 

issuing preliminary results for changed 

circumstances reviews (CCRs) of the 

antidumping duty (AD) order on barium 

chloride from the People’s Republic of 

China (China) and the countervailing 

duty (CVD) order on barium chloride 

from India. We preliminarily determine 

that the AD order on barium chloride 

from China and the CVD order on 

barium chloride from India should be 

revoked, in their entirety. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable September 18, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sun 

Cho, AD/CVD Operations, Office V 

(China), and Harrison Tanchuck, Office 

VI, Enforcement and Compliance 

(India), International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–6458 and (202) 482–7421, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 17, 1984, Commerce 

issued the AD order on barium chloride 

from China, and on March 7, 2023, 

issued the CVD order on barium 

chloride from India.1 On August 6 and 

September 5, 2024, Honeywell, an 

importer of barium chloride from China 

and India, requested that Commerce 

conduct expedited CCRs of the AD 

Order and the CVD Order, respectively, 

pursuant to section 751(b)(1)(A) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 

and 19 CFR 351.216(b).2 Honeywell 

stated that it qualifies as an interested 

party pursuant to section 771(9)(A) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.102(b)(29)(ii) as 

a U.S. importer of barium chloride.3

Honeywell submitted a letter from 

Chemical Products Corporation (CPC), 

the only domestic producer of the 

subject merchandise and the petitioner 

of the underlying Orders, stating that it 

is ceasing production of the subject 

merchandise in the United States and 

has ‘‘no objection to Honeywell’s 

changed circumstances review 

request.’’ 4 In its requests, Honeywell 

addressed the conditions under which 

Commerce may revoke an order in 

whole or in part pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.222(g). 

Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise covered by the 

Orders is barium chloride, a chemical 

compound having the formulas BaC12 

or BaC12–2H20, currently classifiable 

under subheading 2827.39.4500 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS).5 Although the 

HTSUS subheading is provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope of these 

Orders is dispositive. 

Initiation of CCRs 

Section 751(b)(1) of the Act states that 

Commerce shall conduct a CCR upon 

receipt of a request from an interested 

party that shows changed circumstances 

sufficient to warrant a review of the 

order. Section 751(d)(1) of the Act and 

19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i) provide that 

Commerce may revoke an order (in 

whole or in part) if it determines that 

producers accounting for substantially 

all of the production of the domestic 

like product have expressed a lack of 

interest in the order, in whole or in 

part.6 Further, 19 CFR 351.222(g)(2) 

provides that Commerce will conduct a 

CCR under 19 CFR 351.216, and may 

revoke an order, in whole or in part, if 


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7 Id.; see also 19 CFR 351.222(g). 

8See, e.g., Certain Cased Pencils from the 

People’s Republic of China: Initiation and 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed 

Circumstances Review, and Intent to Revoke Order 

in Part, 77 FR 42276 (July 18, 2012), unchanged in 

Certain Cased Pencils from the People’s Republic of 

China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed 

Circumstances Review, and Determination To 

Revoke Order, in Part, 77 FR 53176 (August 31, 

2012). 

9See AD CCR Request at 2; see also CVD CCR 

Request at 2–3. 

10See Barium Chloride from India: Final 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, 88 

FR 1044 (January 6, 2023). 

11See 19 CFR 351.216(d); see also Carbon and 

Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Canada: 

Initiation of Countervailing Duty Changed 

Circumstances Review, 68 FR 62282, 62283–84 

(November 3. 2003) (that ‘‘no further interest . . . 

in continuing the order . . . serves as good cause’’ 

sufficient to review a determination made less than 

24 months after the date of publication an order). 

12See 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3)(ii). 

13See, e.g., Multilayered Wood Flooring from the 

People’s Republic of China: Initiation and 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Changed Circumstances 

Reviews, 82 FR 9561 (February 7, 2017), unchanged 

in Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Results of Changed 

Circumstances Reviews, 82 FR 14691 (March 22, 

2017). 

14See CCR Request at 4. 

15Commerce is exercising its discretion under 19 

CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii) to alter the time limit for the 

filing of case briefs. 

16 Id. 

17See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

18We use the term ‘‘issue’’ here to describe an 

argument that Commerce would normally address 

in a comment of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

19See Administrative Protective Order, Service, 

and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 

67077 (September 29, 2023). 

20Commerce is exercising its discretion under 19 

CFR 351.310(c) to alter the time limit for requesting 

a hearing. 

21See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

it determines that revocation is 

warranted. 

In the event that Commerce 

determines that ‘‘substantially all’’ 

domestic producers have expressed a 

lack of interest in an order, both the Act 

and Commerce’s regulations grant 

Commerce the authority to revoke the 

order.7 Commerce has interpreted 

‘‘substantially all’’ to represent 

producers accounting for at least 85 

percent of U.S. production of the 

domestic like product.8 Honeywell’s 

requests indicated that CPC is the sole 

producer of the domestic like product 

and, therefore, accounts for at least 85 

percent of domestic production.9 In 

accordance with section 751(b)(1) of the 

Act, 19 CFR 351.216(d), 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(3), and 19 CFR 351.222(g), 

we are initiating these CCRs. 

Section 751(b)(4)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.216(c) state that, ‘‘in the 

absence of good cause shown,’’ 

Commerce may not review a final 

determination less than 24 months after 

the date of publication of the notice of 

final determination or notice of 

suspension of an investigation. The final 

determination in the CVD investigation 

of barium chloride from India was 

published on January 6, 2023.10 CPC has 

ceased production of the subject 

merchandise in the United States and 

has indicated that it has no interest in 

the Orders; we find that these facts 

constitute ‘‘good cause’’ for the conduct 

of the CCR with respect to the CVD 

Order.11

Preliminary Results of CCRs 

If Commerce concludes that expedited 

action is warranted, it may concurrently 

publish the notice of initiation and 

preliminary results of a CCR.12

Commerce has combined the notice of 

initiation and preliminary results in 

CCRs when sufficient documentation 

has been provided supporting the 

request to make a preliminary 

determination.13

In this instance, we determine that 

there is sufficient information on the 

record to support preliminary findings 

of changed circumstances.14

Accordingly, we find that expedited 

action is warranted, and we are 

combining the notice of initiation and 

the notice of preliminary results, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(3)(ii). 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.222(g), Commerce preliminarily 

determines that there is a reasonable 

basis to believe that changed 

circumstances exist sufficient to warrant 

revocation of the Orders. Therefore, 

Commerce is notifying the public of its 

preliminary intent to revoke the Orders 

in whole. 

Public Comment 

Interested parties may submit case 

briefs not later than 14 days after the 

date of publication of this notice.15

Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 

in the case briefs, may be filed no later 

than three days after the due date for 

case briefs.16 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.17 Furthermore, any 

comments submitted by parties must be 

submitted to the records of both the AD 

and the CVD CCRs. 

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 briefs that 

should be limited to five pages total, 

including footnotes. In these CCRs, we 

instead request that interested parties 

provide at the beginning of their briefs 

a public, executive summary for each 

issue raised in their briefs.18 Further, we 

request that interested parties limit their 

public 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 of these 

CCRs. We request that interested parties 

include footnotes for relevant citations 

in the public 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).19

All submissions, with limited 

exceptions, must be filed electronically 

using Enforcement and Compliance’s 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at https://access.

trade.gov. An electronically filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on the day on which it is 

due. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), any 

interested party may request a hearing 

within 14 days of publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register.20 Hearing 

requests should contain the following 

information: (1) the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number; (2) the 

number of participants; and (3) a list of 

the issues to be discussed. Oral 

presentations at the hearing will be 

limited to issues raised in the briefs.21

If a request for a hearing is made, 

Commerce intends to hold the hearing 

at a time and date to be determined. 

Parties should confirm the date and the 

time of the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. 

Final Results of CCRs 

Unless extended, consistent with 19 

CFR 351.216(e), Commerce intends to 

issue the final results of these CCRs no 

later than 270 days after the date on 

which this review was initiated, or 

within 45 days of publication of these 

preliminary results if all parties agree to 

the preliminary findings. 

If we make a final determination to 

revoke the Orders, we will instruct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

discontinue the suspension of 

liquidation and the collection of cash 

deposits of estimated antidumping 

duties on entries of barium chloride 

from China and estimated 

countervailing duties on entries of 


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1See Ferrosilicon from the Russian Federation: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, 89 FR 53953 (June 28, 2024) 

(Preliminary Determination). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings,’’ dated July 22, 2024. 

3See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Petitioners’ Comments 

in Lieu of Case Brief,’’ dated July 29, 2024; see also 

Preliminary Determination and Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

4See Ferrosilicon from the Russian Federation: 

Preliminary Affirmative Critical Circumstances 

Determinations, 89 FR 68860 (August 28, 2024) 

(Preliminary Critical Circumstances Determination). 

5See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Clarification of Scope 

Language,’’ dated August 28, 2024; see also 

Ferrosilicon from Brazil, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, and 

the Russian Federation: Initiation of Less-ThanFair-Value Investigations, 89 FR 31137 (April 24, 

2024) (Initiation Notice). 

6See Preliminary Determination. 

7See Preliminary Critical Circumstances 

Determination. 

8See Preliminary Determination, 89 FR at 53953; 

see also Enforcement and Compliance’s Policy 

Bulletin No. 05.1, regarding, ‘‘Separate-Rates 

Practice and Application of Combination Rates in 

Antidumping Investigations involving Non-Market 

Economy Countries,’’ (April 5, 2005) (Policy 

Bulletin 05.1), available on Commerce’s website at 

https://enforcement.trade.gov/policy/bull05-1.pdf. 

barium chloride from India, to liquidate 

all unliquidated entries that were 

entered on or after the day following the 

last day of the period covered by the 

most recently completed administrative 

review of the Orders, and are not 

already subject to automatic liquidation 

instructions, without regard to 

antidumping duties or countervailing 

duties, as appropriate, and to refund all 

antidumping duty and countervailing 

duty cash deposits on all such 

merchandise, with applicable interest. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing this 

initiation and preliminary results notice 

in accordance with section 751(b)(1) of 

the Act, 19 CFR 351.216, 19 CFR 

351.221(b) and (c)(3), and 19 CFR 

351.222(f)(2)(iv). 

Dated: September 11, 2024. 

Ryan Majerus, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Negotiations, performing the non-exclusive 

functions and duties of the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–821–838] 

Ferrosilicon From the Russian 

Federation: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Final Affirmative 

Determination of Critical 

Circumstances 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

ferrosilicon from the Russian Federation 

(Russia) is being, or is likely to be, sold 

in the United States at less than fair 

value (LTFV) during the period of 

investigation (POI) July 1, 2023, through 

December 31, 2023. 

DATES: Applicable September 18, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jacob Saude, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–0981. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On June 28, 2024, Commerce 

published the Preliminary 

Determination in this LTFV 

investigation in the Federal Register.1

On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled 

certain deadlines in these 

administrative proceedings by seven 

days.2 The deadline for the final 

determination is now September 11, 

2024. We only received comment on the 

Preliminary Determination from CC 

Metals and Alloys, LLC and Ferroglobe 

USA, Inc. (collectively, the petitioners), 

in which the petitioners argued that lack 

of participation in this investigation 

should lead Commerce to reach the 

same conclusion for the final 

determination as it did in the 

Preliminary Determination.3

Subsequently, on August 28, 2024, 

Commerce published its Preliminary 

Critical Circumstances Determination in 

the Federal Register and invited 

interested parties to comment.4 No 

interested party submitted comments on 

the Preliminary Critical Circumstances 

Determination. Accordingly, we did not 

make any changes to our Preliminary 

Determination and there is no decision 

memorandum accompanying this 

Federal Register notice. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is ferrosilicon from Russia. 

For a full description of the scope of this 

investigation, see the appendix to this 

notice. 

Scope Comments 

On August 28, 2024, CC Metals and 

Alloys, LLC and Ferroglobe USA, INC. 

(collectively, the petitioners) filed a 

clarification of the scope language in 

which the petitioner noted that there 

was a word missing in the scope 

language (i.e., in the Petition and the 

Initiation Notice, the first paragraph of 

the scope stated: ‘‘10 percent or less any 

other element’’ and should read ‘‘10 

percent or less of any other element’’).5

Use of Adverse Facts Available (AFA) 

Pursuant to section 776(a) and (b) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act), we have continued to base the 

dumping margin for the Russia-wide 

entity, upon facts otherwise available, 

with adverse inferences, because 

Russian producers/exporters of subject 

merchandise during the POI, now part 

of the Russia-wide entity, failed to 

respond to Commerce’s requests for 

information.6

Final Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances 

In the Preliminary Critical 

Circumstances Determination, 

Commerce preliminary determined, in 

accordance with sections 733(e) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.206, that critical 

circumstances exist with respect to all 

imports of subject merchandise from 

Russia produced or exported by the 

Russia-wide entity.7 For this final 

determination, in accordance with 

section 735(a)(3) of the Act, Commerce 

continues to find that critical 

circumstances exist with respect to all 

imports of subject merchandise from 

Russia produced or exported by the 

Russia-wide entity. 

Combination Rates 

In the Preliminary Determination, we 

stated that because no respondent 

applied for a separate rate, we did not 

calculate producer/exporter 

combination rates in accordance with 

our practice.8 This remains unchanged 

for the final determination. 

Final Determination 

Commerce determines that the 

following estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins exist: 


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