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13See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 

1See Ceramic Tile from India: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigation, 89 FR 42841 

(May 16, 2024) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Ceramic Tile from India: Postponement of 

Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing 

Duty Investigation, 89 FR 53958 (June 28, 2024). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings,’’ dated July 22, 2024. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Determination in the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Ceramic Tile 

from India,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

appearance to remove or otherwise 

modify their list of members and 

representatives, or to update contact 

information. Any changes or 

announcements pertaining to these 

procedures will be posted to the 

ACCESS website. 

Special Instructions for Petitioners and 

Foreign Governments 

In the Final Rule, Commerce stated 

that, ‘‘after an initial request and 

placement on the annual inquiry service 

list, both petitioners and foreign 

governments will automatically be 

placed on the annual inquiry service list 

in the years that follow.’’ 13

Accordingly, as stated above, the 

petitioner and the Government of Israel 

should submit their initial entries of 

appearance after publication of this 

notice in order to appear in the first 

annual inquiry service lists for these 

orders. Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and the 

Government of Israel will not need to 

resubmit their entries of appearance 

each year to continue to be included on 

the annual inquiry service list. 

However, the petitioner and the 

Government of Israel are responsible for 

making amendments to their entries of 

appearance during the annual update to 

the annual inquiry service list in 

accordance with the procedures 

described above. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the AD order 

with respect to brass rod from Israel and 

the CVD order with respect to brass rod 

from Israel, pursuant to sections 706(a) 

and 736(a) of the Act. Interested parties 

can find a list of AD and CVD orders 

currently in effect at https://

enforcement.trade.gov/stats/ 

iastats1.html. 

These orders are issued and published 

in accordance with sections 706(a) and 

736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: September 23, 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 

Scope of the Orders 

The products within the scope of these 

orders are brass rod and bar (brass rod), 

which is defined as leaded, low-lead, and nolead solid brass made from alloys such as, 

but not limited to the following alloys 

classified under the Unified Numbering 

System (UNS) as C27450, C27451, C27460, 

C34500, C35000, C35300, C35330, C36000, 

C36300, C37000, C37700, C48500, C67300, 

C67600, and C69300, and their international 

equivalents. 

The brass rod subject to these orders has 

an actual cross-section or outside diameter 

greater than 0.25 inches but less than or 

equal to 12 inches. Brass rod cross-sections 

may be round, hexagonal, square, or 

octagonal shapes as well as special profiles 

(e.g., angles, shapes), including hollow 

profiles. 

Standard leaded brass rod covered by the 

scope contains, by weight, 57.0–65.0 percent 

copper; 0.5–3.0 percent lead; no more than 

1.3 percent iron; and at least 15 percent zinc. 

No-lead or low-lead brass rod covered by the 

scope contains by weight 59.0–76.0 percent 

copper; 0–1.5 percent lead; no more than 

0.35 percent iron; and at least 15 percent 

zinc. Brass rod may also include other 

chemical elements (e.g., nickel, phosphorous, 

silicon, tin, etc.). 

Brass rod may be in straight lengths or 

coils. Brass rod covered by these orders may 

be finished or unfinished, and may or may 

not be heated, extruded, pickled, or colddrawn. Brass rod may be produced in 

accordance with ASTM B16, ASTM B124, 

ASTM B981, ASTM B371, ASTM B453, 

ASTM B21, ASTM B138, and ASTM B927, 

but such conformity to an ASTM standard is 

not required for the merchandise to be 

included within the scope. 

Excluded from the scope of these orders is 

brass ingot, which is a casting of unwrought 

metal unsuitable for conversion into brass 

rod without remelting, that contains, by 

weight, at least 57.0 percent copper and 15.0 

percent zinc. 

The merchandise covered by these orders 

is currently classifiable under subheadings 

7407.21.9000, 7407.21.7000, and 

7407.21.1500 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 

Products subject to the scope may also enter 

under HTSUS subheadings 7403.21.0000, 

7407.21.3000, and 7407.21.5000. The HTSUS 

subheadings and UNS alloy designations are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes. The written description of the 

scope of these orders is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–929] 

Ceramic Tile From India: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, Preliminary Affirmative 

Critical Circumstances Determination, 

in Part, and Alignment of Final 

Determination With the Final 

Antidumping Duty Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable (CVD) 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of ceramic tile 

from India. The period of investigation 

(POI) is April 1, 2023, through March 

31, 2024. Interested parties are invited 

to comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable September 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jinny Ahn or Natasia Harrison, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–0339 or (202) 482–1240, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 703(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on May 16, 2024.1 On June 24, 2024, 

Commerce postponed the preliminary 

determination in this investigation until 

September 16, 2024.2 On July 22, 2024, 

Commerce tolled certain deadlines in 

this administrative proceeding by seven 

days.3 The deadline for this preliminary 

determination is now September 23, 

2024. 

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.4 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II to this notice. The Preliminary 

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 Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

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5See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 

6See Initiation Notice, 89 FR at 42842. 

7The deadline for interested parties to submit 

scope case and rebuttal briefs will be established in 

the preliminary scope decision memorandum. 

8See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

9See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Petitioner’s Request to 

Align Countervailing Duty Investigation Final 

Determination with Antidumping Duty 

Investigation Final Determination,’’ dated 

September 9, 2024. The petitioner is the Coalition 

for Fair Trade in Ceramic Tile. 

10With two respondents under examination, 

Commerce normally calculates: (A) a weightedaverage of the estimated subsidy rates calculated for 

the examined respondents; (B) a simple average of 

the estimated subsidy rates calculated for the 

examined respondents; and (C) a weighted-average 

of the estimated subsidy rates calculated for the 

examined respondents using each company’s 

publicly ranged U.S. sale values for the 

merchandise under consideration. Commerce then 

compares (B) and (C) to (A) and selects the rate 

closer to (A) as the most appropriate rate for all 

other producers and exporters. See, e.g., Ball 

Bearings and Parts Thereof from France, Germany, 

Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom: Final Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, Final 

Results of Changed-Circumstances Review, and 

Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53662 

(September 1, 2010), and accompanying Issues and 

Decision Memorandum at Comment 1. As complete 

publicly ranged sales data were available, 

Commerce based the all-others rate on the publicly 

ranged sales data of the mandatory respondents. For 

a complete analysis of the data, see the All-Others 

Rate Calculation Memorandum, dated concurrently 

with this notice. 

11As discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, Commerce preliminarily finds WinTel Ceramics Private Limited to be cross-owned 

with Theos Tiles LLP. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is ceramic tile from India. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,5 the Initiation 

Notice set aside a period of time for 

parties to raise issues regarding product 

coverage, (i.e., scope).6 We received 

several comments concerning the scope 

of this investigation, as well as in the 

companion less-than-fair value (LTFV) 

investigation of ceramic tile, as it 

appeared in the Initiation Notice. We 

are currently evaluating the scope 

comments filed by interested parties. 

We intend to issue our preliminary 

decision regarding the scope of the 

LTFV and CVD investigations on or 

before the preliminary determination of 

the companion LTFV investigation, the 

deadline for which is November 22, 

2024. We will incorporate the scope 

decisions from the LTFV investigation 

into the scope of the final CVD 

determination for this investigation after 

considering any relevant comments 

submitted in scope case and rebuttal 

briefs.7

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy 

programs found to be countervailable, 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial 

contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, 

and that the subsidy is specific.8 In 

making its determination, Commerce 

relied, in part, on adverse facts 

available. For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

preliminary conclusions, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Critical Circumstances, in Part 

In accordance with section 703(e)(1) 

of the Act, Commerce preliminarily 

determines that critical circumstances 

do not exist with respect to U.S. imports 

of subject merchandise from Antiqa 

Minerals (Antiqa) and Win-Tel Ceramics 

Private Limited (Win-Tel). However, 

Commerce preliminarily finds that 

critical circumstances exist for all other 

exporters or producers not individually 

examined. For a full description of the 

methodology and results of Commerce’s 

analysis, see the ‘‘Preliminary 

Determination of Critical 

Circumstances’’ section in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Alignment 

As noted in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, in accordance with 

section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(b)(4), Commerce is aligning the 

final CVD determination in this 

investigation with the final 

determination in the companion 

antidumping duty (AD) investigation of 

ceramic tile from India based on a 

request made by the petitioner.9

Consequently, the final CVD 

determination will be issued on the 

same date as the final AD 

determination, which is currently 

scheduled to be issued no later than 

February 5, 2025, unless postponed. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 703(d) and 705(c)(5)(A) of 

the Act provide that in the preliminary 

determination, Commerce shall 

determine an estimated all-others rate 

for companies not individually 

examined. This rate shall be an amount 

equal to the weighted average of the 

estimated subsidy rates established for 

those companies individually 

examined, excluding any zero and de 

minimis rates and any rates determined 

entirely under section 776 of the Act. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

calculated individual estimated 

countervailable subsidy rates for Antiqa 

and Win-Tel that are not zero, de 

minimis, or based entirely on facts 

otherwise available. Commerce 

calculated the all-others rate using a 

weighted average of the individual 

estimated subsidy rates calculated for 

the examined respondents using each 

company’s publicly ranged values for 

the merchandise under consideration.10

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated 

countervailable subsidy rates exist: 

Company 

Subsidy rate 

(percent ad 

valorem) 

Antiqa Minerals ..................... 3.15 

Win-Tel Ceramics Private 

Limited 11 ........................... 3.05 

All Others .............................. 3.08 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

703(d)(1)(B) and (d)(2) of the Act, 

Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 

liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise as described in Appendix 

I to this notice entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date of publication of this 

notice in Federal Register. Further, 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(d), 

Commerce will instruct CBP to require 

a cash deposit equal to the rate 

indicated in the table above. 

Section 703(e)(2) of the Act provides 

that, given an affirmative determination 

of critical circumstances, any 

suspension of liquidation shall apply to 

unliquidated entries of subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the later of: (a) the date which is 

90 days before the date on which the 

suspension of liquidation was first 

ordered; or (b) the date on which notice 

of initiation of the investigation was 

published in the Federal Register. As 

noted above, Commerce preliminarily 

finds that critical circumstances do not 

exist for imports of subject merchandise 

produced and/or exported by Antiqa 

and Win-Tel, and that critical 

circumstances do exist for all other 

producers and/or exporters not 

individually examined. In accordance 

with section 703(e)(2)(A) of the Act, 

suspension of liquidation shall apply to 

unliquidated entries of subject 


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12See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(i); see also 19 CFR 

351.303 (for general filing requirements). 

13See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative 

Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 

88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023) (APO and 

Service Final Rule). 

14See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

15We use the term ‘‘issue’’ here to describe an 

argument that Commerce would normally address 

in a comment of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

16See APO and Service Final Rule. 

merchandise from the exporters/ 

producers identified in this paragraph 

that were entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date which is 90 days before the 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations and analysis performed in 

this preliminary determination to 

parties to the proceeding within five 

days of public announcement of the 

determination, or if there is no public 

announcement, within five days of the 

date of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.244(b). 

Consistent with 19 CFR 351.224(e), 

Commerce will analyze and, if 

appropriate, correct any timely 

allegations of significant ministerial 

errors by amending the preliminary 

determination. However, consistent 

with 19 CFR 351.224(d), Commerce will 

not consider incomplete allegations that 

do not address the significance standard 

under 19 CFR 351.224(g) following the 

preliminary determination. Instead, 

Commerce will address such allegations 

in the final determination together with 

issues raised in the case briefs or other 

written comments. 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to verify the 

information relied upon in making its 

final determination. 

Public Comment 

All interested parties will have the 

opportunity to submit scope case and 

rebuttal briefs on the preliminary 

decision regarding the scope of the 

LTFV and CVD investigations. The 

deadlines to submit scope case and 

rebuttal briefs will be provided in the 

preliminary scope decision 

memorandum. For all scope case and 

rebuttal briefs, parties must file 

identical documents simultaneously on 

the records of the ongoing LTFV and 

CVD ceramic tile investigations. No new 

factual information or business 

proprietary information may be 

included in either scope case or rebuttal 

briefs. 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than seven days 

after the date on which the last 

verification report is issued in this 

investigation.12 Rebuttal briefs, limited 

to issues raised in case briefs, may be 

filed not later than five days after the 

date for filing case briefs.13 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.14

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 brief that 

should be limited to five pages total, 

including footnotes. In this 

investigation, we instead request that 

interested parties provide, at the 

beginning of their briefs, a public 

executive summary for each issue raised 

in their briefs.15 Further, we request that 

interested parties limit their executive 

summary of each issue to no more than 

450 words, not including citations. We 

intend to use the executive summaries 

as the basis for the comment summaries 

included in the issues and decision 

memorandum that will accompany the 

final determination in this investigation. 

We request that interested parties 

include footnotes for relevant citations 

in the 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).16

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register. Requests should 

contain the party’s name, address, and 

telephone number, the number of 

participants from the party, whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and a 

list of the issues to be discussed. Oral 

presentations at the hearing will be 

limited to issues raised in the briefs. 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 by telephone the 

date, time, and location of the hearing 

two days before the scheduled hearing 

date. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 703(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. If the 

final determination is affirmative, the 

ITC will determine, before the later of 

120 days after the date of this 

preliminary determination or 45 days 

after the final determination, whether 

imports of ceramic tile from India are 

materially injuring, or threaten material 

injury to, the U.S. industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 703(f) 

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

351.205(c). 

Dated: September 23, 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 ceramic flooring tile, wall 

tile, paving tile, hearth tile, porcelain tile, 

mosaic tile, flags, decorative tile, finishing 

tile, and the like (hereinafter ceramic tile). 

Ceramic tiles are articles containing a 

mixture of minerals including clay (generally 

hydrous silicates of alumina or magnesium) 

that are fired so the raw materials are fused 

to produce a tile that is less than 3.2 cm in 

thickness, exclusive of decorative features. 

All ceramic tile is subject to the scope 

regardless of end use, surface area, and 

weight, regardless of whether the tile is 

glazed or unglazed, regardless of the water 

absorption coefficient by weight, regardless 

of the extent of vitrification, and regardless 

of whether or not the tile is on a backing. 

Subject merchandise includes ceramic tile 

‘‘slabs’’ or ‘‘panels’’ (tiles that are larger than 

1 meter2 (11 ft2)). 

Subject merchandise includes ceramic tile 

that undergoes minor processing in a third 

country prior to importation into the United 

States. Similarly, subject merchandise 

includes ceramic tile produced that 

undergoes minor processing after importation 

into the United States. Such minor 

processing includes, but is not limited to, one 

or more of the following: beveling, cutting, 

trimming, staining, painting, polishing, 

finishing, additional firing, affixing a 

decorative surface to the tile, or any other 

processing that would otherwise not remove 

the merchandise from the scope of the 

investigation if performed in the country of 

manufacture of the in-scope product. 

Subject merchandise is currently classified 

in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) under the following 


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1See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates 

from the People’s Republic of China: Preliminary 

Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and 

Alignment of Final Determination With Final 

Antidumping Duty Determination, 89 FR 15134 

(March 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 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Aluminum 

Lithographic Printing Plates from the People’s 

Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Verification of the 

Questionnaire Responses of Fujifilm Printing Plate 

(China) Co., Ltd. and Fujifilm (China) Investment 

Co., Ltd.,’’ June 10, 2024. 

5See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; see also section 

771(5)(E) of the Act regarding benefit; and section 

771(5A) of the Act regarding specificity. 

6See Preliminary Determination PDM at 4–42. 

subheadings of heading 6907: 6907.21.1005, 

6907.21.1011, 6907.21.1051, 6907.21.2000, 

6907.21.3000, 6907.21.4000, 6907.21.9011, 

6907.21.9051, 6907.22.1005, 6907.22.1011, 

6907.22.1051, 6907.22.2000, 6907.22.3000, 

6907.22.4000, 6907.22.9011, 6907.22.9051, 

6907.23.1005, 6907.23.1011, 6907.23.1051, 

6907.23.2000, 6907.23.3000, 6907.23.4000, 

6907.23.9011, 6907.23.9051, 6907.30.1005, 

6907.30.1011, 6907.30.1051, 6907.30.2000, 

6907.30.3000, 6907.30.4000, 6907.30.9011, 

6907.30.9051, 6907.40.1005, 6907.40.1011, 

6907.40.1051, 6907.40.2000, 6907.40.3000, 

6907.40.4000, 6907.40.9011, and 

6907.40.9051. Subject merchandise may also 

enter under subheadings of headings 6913, 

6914, and 6905: 6913.90.2000, 6914.10.8000, 

6914.90.8000, 6905.10.0000, and 

6905.90.0050. The HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes only. The written description of the 

scope of the investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope Comments 

IV. Injury Test 

V. Preliminary Determination of Critical 

Circumstances 

VI. Use of Adverse Facts Available and 

Application of Adverse Inferences 

VII. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VIII. Interest Rate Benchmarks and 

Benchmarks for Measuring the Adequacy 

of Remuneration 

IX. Diversification of India’s Economy 

X. Analysis of Programs 

XI. Calculation of the All-Others Rate 

XII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–157] 

Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates 

From the People’s Republic of China: 

Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination 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 

countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to producers and exporters of 

aluminum lithographic printing plates 

(printing plates) from the People’s 

Republic of China (China). The period 

of investigation (POI) is January 1, 2022, 

through December 31, 2022. 

DATES: Applicable September 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ajay 

Menon, 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) 482–0208. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On March 1, 2024, Commerce 

published its Preliminary Determination 

in the Federal Register and invited 

interested parties to comment.1 On July 

22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain 

deadlines in this administrative 

proceeding by seven days.2 The 

deadline for the final determination is 

now September 20, 2024. For a 

complete discussion of the events that 

followed the Preliminary Determination, 

see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum.3

The Issues and Decision 

Memorandum is a public document and 

is made available to the public 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 are printing 

plates from China. 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, 

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 March 2024, Commerce conducted 

verification of the subsidy information 

reported by Fujifilm Printing Plate 

(China) Co., Ltd. (FFPS) and its crossowned affiliate Fujifilm (China) 

Investment Co., Ltd.4

Analysis of Subsidy Programs and 

Comments Received 

The subsidy programs under 

investigation and the issues raised in 

the case and rebuttal briefs by the 

parties in this investigation are 

discussed 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. 

Methodology 

Commerce conducted this 

investigation in accordance with section 

701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy 

programs found to be countervailable, 

Commerce determines that there is a 

subsidy, i.e., a financial contribution by 

an ‘‘authority’’ that gives rise to a 

benefit to the recipient, and that the 

subsidy is specific.5 For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying our final determination, see 

the Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

In making this final determination, 

Commerce relied, in part, on facts 

otherwise available, including with an 

adverse inference, pursuant to sections 

776(a) and (b) of the Act. For a full 

discussion of our application of adverse 

facts available (AFA), see the 

Preliminary Determination 6 and the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum at the 

section entitled ‘‘Uses of Facts Available 

and Application of Adverse Inferences.’’ 

Changes Since the Preliminary 

Determination 

Based on our review and analysis of 

the information at verification and 

comments received from interested 

parties, we made changes to the subsidy 

rate calculations for FFPS. For a 

discussion of these changes, see the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum. 


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