79250 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 188 / Friday, September 27, 2024 / Notices 

1See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates 

from Japan: Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of 

Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 89 FR 35065 (May 1, 2024) (Preliminary 

Determination), and accompanying Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum (PDM). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings,’’ dated July 22, 2024. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Final Affirmative Determination in the LessThan-Fair-Value Investigation of Aluminum 

Lithographic Printing Plates from Japan,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

705(d) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.210(c). 

Dated: September 20, 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. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is aluminum lithographic 

printing plates. Aluminum lithographic 

printing plates consist of a flat substrate 

containing at least 90 percent aluminum. The 

aluminum-containing substrate is generally 

treated using a mechanical, electrochemical, 

or chemical graining process, which is 

followed by one or more anodizing 

treatments that form a hydrophilic layer on 

the aluminum-containing substrate. An 

image-recording, oleophilic layer that is 

sensitive to light, including but not limited 

to ultra-violet, visible, or infrared, is 

dispersed in a polymeric binder material that 

is applied on top of the hydrophilic layer, 

generally on one side of the aluminum 

lithographic printing plate. The oleophilic 

light-sensitive layer is capable of capturing 

an image that is transferred onto the plate by 

either light or heat. The image applied to an 

aluminum lithographic printing plate 

facilitates the production of newspapers, 

magazines, books, yearbooks, coupons, 

packaging, and other printed materials 

through an offset printing process, where an 

aluminum lithographic printing plate 

facilitates the transfer of an image onto the 

printed media. Aluminum lithographic 

printing plates within the scope of this 

investigation include all aluminum 

lithographic printing plates, irrespective of 

the dimensions or thickness of the 

underlying aluminum substrate, whether the 

plate requires processing after an image is 

applied to the plate, whether the plate is 

ready to be mounted to a press and used in 

printing operations immediately after an 

image is applied to the plate, or whether the 

plate has been exposed to light or heat to 

create an image on the plate or remains 

unexposed and is free of any image. 

Subject merchandise also includes 

aluminum lithographic printing plates 

produced from an aluminum sheet coil that 

has been coated with a light-sensitive imagerecording layer in a subject country and that 

is subsequently unwound and cut to the final 

dimensions to produce a finished plate in a 

third country (including the United States), 

or exposed to light or heat to create an image 

on the plate in a third country (including in 

a foreign trade zone within the United 

States). 

Excluded from the scope of this 

investigation are lithographic printing plates 

manufactured using a substrate produced 

from a material other than aluminum, such 

as rubber or plastic. 

Aluminum lithographic printing plates are 

currently classifiable under Harmonized 

Tariff of the United States (HTSUS) 

subheadings 3701.30.0000 and 3701.99.6060. 

Further, merchandise that falls within the 

scope of this investigation may also be 

entered into the United States under HTSUS 

subheadings 3701.99.3000 and 8442.50.1000. 

Although the HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

scope of this investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Final Critical Circumstances 

Determination 

V. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VI. Interest Rates and Benchmarks 

VII. Use of Facts Available and Adverse 

Inferences 

VIII. Analysis of Programs 

IX. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce Made a 

Ministerial Error in the Calculation of 

the Rate Applicable to FFPS for the 

Provision of Electricity for Less Than 

Adequate Remuneration (LTAR) 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should 

Attribute Export Subsidies Received by 

the JRT Companies to FFPS 

Comment 3: Whether Commerce Should 

Make a Negative Finding of Critical 

Circumstances for FFPS 

Comment 4: Whether Commerce’s Decision 

To Countervail the Provision of 

Aluminum Sheet and Aluminum Foil for 

LTAR Is in Accordance With Law 

Comment 5: Whether Commerce’s 

Application of Adverse Facts Available 

to the Export Buyer’s Credit Program Is 

in Accordance With Law 

Comment 6: Whether Commerce’s 

Countervailing of the Provision of 

Electricity for LTAR Is in Accordance 

With Law 

Comment 7: Whether Commerce’s 

Determinations Regarding Other 

Subsidies Exceed the Lawful Scope of 

This Investigation 

X. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–588–881] 

Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates 

From Japan: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less-ThanFair-Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

aluminum lithographic printing plates 

(printing plates) from Japan are being, or 

are likely to be, sold in the United States 

at less than fair value (LTFV). The 

period of investigation (POI) is July 1, 

2022, through June 30, 2023. 

DATES: Applicable September 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Caroline Carroll, 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) 482–4948. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On May 1, 2024, Commerce published 

in the Federal Register the Preliminary 

Determination in this investigation and 

invited interested parties to comment.1

On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled 

certain deadlines in this investigation 

by seven days.2 The deadline for the 

final determination is now September 

20, 2024. For a complete description of 

the events that occurred since the 

Preliminary Determination, see the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum.3 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. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by the 

scope of this investigation is printing 

plates from Japan. For a complete 

description of the scope of this 

investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

We received no comments from 

interested parties on the scope of the 

investigation as it appeared in the 

Preliminary Determination. Therefore, 


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4See Memoranda, ‘‘Verification of the Sales 

Response of Fujifilm Corporation,’’ dated July 17, 

2024; ‘‘Verification of the U.S. Sales Response of 

Fujifilm North America Corporation,’’ dated July 

18, 2024; and ‘‘Verification of the Cost Response of 

Fujifilm Corporation,’’ dated August 7, 2024. 

5See Preliminary Determination, 89 FR at 35065. 

6See Preliminary Determination PDM at 6. 

we made no changes to the scope of the 

investigation. 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i) of the 

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

in May 2024, Commerce conducted onsite verifications of the data reported by 

Fujifilm and its U.S. affiliate, Fujifilm 

North America Corporation, using 

standard verification procedures.4

Analysis of Comments Received 

The issues raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs by the parties in this 

investigation are addressed in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum. For a list of 

the issues raised by interested parties 

and addressed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum, see Appendix 

II. 

Changes Since the Preliminary 

Determination 

Based on our review and analysis of 

the information at verification and 

comments received from interested 

parties, we made certain changes to the 

margin calculations for Fujifilm. For a 

discussion of these changes, see the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

Use of Adverse Facts Available 

As discussed in the Preliminary 

Determination, Commerce assigned to 

one of the mandatory respondents in 

this investigation, Miraclon Corporation 

Ltd. (Miraclon), an estimated weightedaverage dumping margin on the basis of 

adverse facts available (AFA), pursuant 

to sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act, 

because it failed to cooperate by not 

acting to the best of its ability to comply 

with Commerce’s requests for 

information.5 As discussed in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum, we find no 

basis to change our decision in the 

Preliminary Determination to apply 

AFA to Miraclon. As AFA, we continue 

to apply the highest transactions 

specific margin calculated for Fujifilm 

(i.e., 160.11 percent) because it is a rate 

derived from information submitted on 

the record and is sufficiently adverse to 

ensure that the uncooperative party 

does not obtain a more favorable result 

by failing to cooperate than if it had 

fully cooperated.6

All-Others Rate 

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

provides that the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin for all other 

producers and exporters not 

individually investigated shall be equal 

to the weighted average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established for individually investigated 

exporters and producers, excluding 

rates that are zero, de minimis, or 

determined entirely under section 776 

of the Act. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

assigned a rate based entirely on facts 

available to Miraclon. Therefore, the 

only rate that is not zero, de minimis, 

or based entirely on facts otherwise 

available is the rate calculated for 

Fujifilm. Consequently, the rate 

calculated for Fujifilm is also assigned 

as the rate for all other producers and/ 

or exporters. 

Final Determination 

The final estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are listed below: 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Fujifilm Corporation; Fujifilm 

Shizuoka Co., Ltd ............. 91.83 

Miraclon Corporation Ltd ...... * 160.11 

All Others .............................. 91.83 

* Rate is based on AFA. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose the 

calculations performed in connection 

with this final determination to 

interested parties within five days of 

any public announcement or, if there is 

no public announcement, within five 

days of the date of publication of this 

final determination in the Federal 

Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.224(b). 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, Commerce will 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to continue to suspend 

liquidation of all entries of aluminum 

lithographic printing plates, as 

described in Appendix I of this notice, 

which were entered or withdrawn from 

warehouse for consumption on or after 

May 1, 2024, the date of publication of 

the Preliminary Determination of this 

investigation in the Federal Register. 

Pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(d), upon 

the publication of this notice, we will 

instruct CBP to require a cash deposit 

for estimated antidumping duties for 

such entries as follows: (1) the cash 

deposit rate for the respondents listed in 

the table above will be equal to the 

company-specific estimated weightedaverage dumping margin determined in 

this final determination; (2) if the 

exporter is not the respondent listed in 

the table above, but the producer is, 

then the cash deposit rate will be equal 

to the company-specific estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin 

listed for the producer of the subject 

merchandise; and (3) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers and 

exporters will be equal to the all-others 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin listed in the table above. These 

suspension of liquidation instructions 

will remain in effect until further notice. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 735(d) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its final affirmative determination of 

sales at LTFV. Because the final 

determination in this investigation is 

affirmative, in accordance with section 

735(b)(2) of the Act, the ITC will make 

its final determination as to whether the 

domestic industry in the United States 

is materially injured or threatened with 

material injury by reason of imports of 

printing plates from Japan no later than 

45 days after our final determination. If 

the ITC determines that such injury 

does not exist, this proceeding will be 

terminated, all cash deposits posted will 

be refunded, and suspension of 

liquidation will be lifted. If the ITC 

determines that such injury does exist, 

Commerce will issue an antidumping 

duty order directing CBP to assess, upon 

further instruction by Commerce, 

antidumping duties on all imports of the 

subject merchandise entered or 

withdrawn from warehouse for 

consumption on or after the effective 

date of the suspension of liquidation, as 

discussed in the ‘‘Continuation of 

Suspension of Liquidation’’ section. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to an administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

responsibility concerning the return or 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under 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 which is subject to 

sanction. 


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1See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: 

Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from 

Mexico, 69 FR 4112 (January 28, 2004) (Order). 

2See Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand from 

Mexico: Initiation of Circumvention Inquiry on the 

Antidumping Duty Order, 88 FR 49438 (July 31, 

2023) (Initiation Notice). We note that in the 

Initiation Notice, we stated that we are initiating 

this circumvention inquiry pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.226(d)(1)(ii). However, this section was 

amended after the Initiation Notice was published, 

therefore we reference the latest version of the 

regulation. See Administrative Protective Order, 

Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 

67078 (September 29, 2023). 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(c). 

Dated: September 20, 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. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is aluminum lithographic 

printing plates. Aluminum lithographic 

printing plates consist of a flat substrate 

containing at least 90 percent aluminum. The 

aluminum-containing substrate is generally 

treated using a mechanical, electrochemical, 

or chemical graining process, which is 

followed by one or more anodizing 

treatments that form a hydrophilic layer on 

the aluminum-containing substrate. An 

image-recording, oleophilic layer that is 

sensitive to light, including but not limited 

to ultra-violet, visible, or infrared, is 

dispersed in a polymeric binder material that 

is applied on top of the hydrophilic layer, 

generally on one side of the aluminum 

lithographic printing plate. The oleophilic 

light-sensitive layer is capable of capturing 

an image that is transferred onto the plate by 

either light or heat. The image applied to an 

aluminum lithographic printing plate 

facilitates the production of newspapers, 

magazines, books, yearbooks, coupons, 

packaging, and other printed materials 

through an offset printing process, where an 

aluminum lithographic printing plate 

facilitates the transfer of an image onto the 

printed media. Aluminum lithographic 

printing plates within the scope of this 

investigation include all aluminum 

lithographic printing plates, irrespective of 

the dimensions or thickness of the 

underlying aluminum substrate, whether the 

plate requires processing after an image is 

applied to the plate, whether the plate is 

ready to be mounted to a press and used in 

printing operations immediately after an 

image is applied to the plate, or whether the 

plate has been exposed to light or heat to 

create an image on the plate or remains 

unexposed and is free of any image. 

Subject merchandise also includes 

aluminum lithographic printing plates 

produced from an aluminum sheet coil that 

has been coated with a light-sensitive imagerecording layer in a subject country and that 

is subsequently unwound and cut to the final 

dimensions to produce a finished plate in a 

third country (including the United States), 

or exposed to light or heat to create an image 

on the plate in a third country (including in 

a foreign trade zone within the United 

States). 

Excluded from the scope of this 

investigation are lithographic printing plates 

manufactured using a substrate produced 

from a material other than aluminum, such 

as rubber or plastic. 

Aluminum lithographic printing plates are 

currently classifiable under Harmonized 

Tariff of the United States (HTSUS) 

subheadings 3701.30.0000 and 3701.99.6060. 

Further, merchandise that falls within the 

scope of this investigation may also be 

entered into the United States under HTSUS 

subheadings 3701.99.3000 and 8442.50.1000. 

Although the HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

scope of this investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Changes Since the Preliminary 

Determination 

IV. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Miraclon Corporation 

Ltd. (Miraclon) Made Sales of Subject 

Merchandise During the POI 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should 

Offset Fujifilm’s Reported U.S. Freight 

Expenses by its Reported Freight 

Revenue 

Comment 3: Whether the Price Used to 

Calculate Fujifilm’s U.S. Credit Expenses 

should Exclude Price Adjustments 

Comment 4: Whether the Price Used to 

Calculate Fujifilm’s U.S. Indirect Selling 

Expenses (INDIRS1U, INDIRS2U, 

INDIRS3U) Should Exclude Price 

Adjustments 

Comment 5: Whether Fujifilm’s Revenues 

from the Sale of Aluminum Scrap 

Should Offset Repacking and Resizing 

Costs 

Comment 6: Whether Commerce Should 

Grant Fujifilm a Constructed Export 

Price (CEP) Offset 

Comment 7: Whether Commerce Should 

Apply Adverse Facts Available (AFA) for 

Fujifilm’s Failure to Submit Downstream 

Home Market Sales for One Home 

Market Affiliate 

Comment 8: Whether Fujifilm’s Allocation 

of Warehouse and Other U.S. 

Transportation Expenses is Distortive 

Comment 9: Whether to Include Fujifilm’s 

Home Market Quantity Discount 

Program Discovered at Verification 

Comment 10: Whether Commerce Should 

Include the Net Hedging Expenses 

Recorded in Fujifilm’s Audited Financial 

Statements as Part of Fujifilm’s Interest 

Expenses 

Comment 11: Whether Commerce Should 

Revise the General and Administrative 

(G&A) Expense Ratio to Incorporate 

Missing Expenses 

V. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–201–831] 

Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire 

Strand From Mexico: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Circumvention of the 

Antidumping Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

imports of certain high carbon steel 

(HCS) wire that are produced in Mexico 

and assembled or completed into 

prestressed concrete steel wire strand 

(PC strand) in the United States are 

circumventing the antidumping duty 

(AD) order on PC strand from Mexico. 

DATES: Applicable September 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonathan Schueler, 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) 482–9175. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On January 28, 2004, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

AD order on PC strand from Mexico.1

On July 31, 2023, pursuant to section 

781(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.226(d)(1), Commerce initiated a 

country-wide circumvention inquiry to 

determine whether imports of HCS wire 

from Mexico that is assembled or 

completed into PC strand in the United 

States is circumventing the Order and, 

accordingly, should be covered by the 

scope of the Order.2 On April 2, 2024, 

Commerce published the Preliminary 

Determination that imports of HCS wire 

that is produced in Mexico and 

assembled or completed into PC strand 

in the United States is circumventing 

the Order on a country-wide basis, 


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