[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 197 (Thursday, October 10, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82207-82210]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-23443]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-844]


Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven Selvedge From Taiwan: Preliminary 
Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2022-2023

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds 
that narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge (ribbons) from Taiwan 
were sold in the United States at less than normal value (NV) during 
the

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period of review (POR), September 1, 2022, through August 31, 2023. 
Additionally, Commerce is rescinding this administrative review, in 
part, with respect to certain companies for which requests for review 
were timely withdrawn. We invite interested parties to comment on these 
preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable October 10, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Senoyuit, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6106.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 1, 2010, Commerce published in the Federal Register 
the antidumping duty order on ribbons from Taiwan.\1\ On September 6, 
2023, Commerce published in the Federal Register a notice of 
opportunity to request an administrative review of the Order for the 
POR.\2\ On November 15, 2023, based on timely requests for review by 
Berwick Offray LLC and its wholly-owned subsidiary Lion Ribbon Company, 
LLC (the petitioners), and in accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), 
we initiated an administrative review of the Order covering 59 
exporters and/or producers.\3\ On January 26, 2024, the petitioners 
withdrew their request for an administrative review with respect to all 
companies for which Commerce initiated a review other than Hao Shyang 
Ind. Co. Ltd. (Hao Shyang) and Lung Che Ribbons Enterprises Co. Ltd. 
(Lung Che).\4\ On May 10, 2024, Commerce extended the time period for 
issuing the preliminary results of this review until September 27, 
2024.\5\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this 
administrative proceeding by seven days.\6\ The deadline for the 
preliminary results is now October 4, 2024. For a complete description 
of the events that followed the initiation of this review, see the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\7\
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    \1\ See Narrow Woven Ribbons with Woven Selvedge from Taiwan and 
the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders, 75 FR 53632 
(September 1, 2010); see also Narrow Woven Ribbons with Woven 
Selvedge from Taiwan and the People's Republic of China: Amended 
Antidumping Duty Orders, 75 FR 56982, 56985 (September 17, 2010) 
(collectively, Order).
    \2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative 
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 88 FR 60923 (September 
6, 2023).
    \3\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Request for Administrative 
Review,'' dated September 28, 2023; see also Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 
78298 (November 15, 2023) (Initiation Notice).
    \4\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Withdrawal of Administrative 
Review Request as to Certain Companies,'' dated January 26, 2024 
(Withdrawal of Review Request) at 1 and Appendix 1.
    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated May 10, 
2024.
    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.
    \7\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on 
Narrow Woven Ribbons with Woven Selvedge from Taiwan; 2022-2023,'' 
dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The products subject to the Order are narrow woven ribbons with 
woven selvedge from Taiwan. For a complete description of the scope of 
the Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\8\
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    \8\ Id.
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Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 
751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 
Pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce preliminarily 
relied entirely upon facts otherwise available with adverse inferences 
for Hao Shyang and Lung Che. For a complete description of the 
methodology underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum. A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum is attached in Appendix I of 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 is available at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.

Rescission of Review, in Part

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review, in whole or in part, if a party who requested 
the review withdraws the request within 90 days of the date of 
publication of the notice of initiation of the requested review. On 
January 26, 2024, the petitioners timely withdrew their request for an 
administrative review with respect to all companies for which a review 
was requested other than Hao Shyang and Lung Che.\9\ Accordingly, 
because no other parties requested a review of these companies, we are 
rescinding this administrative review, in part, with respect to the 57 
companies listed in Appendix II. The administrative review remains 
active with respect to the mandatory respondents, Hao Shyang and Lung 
Che.
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    \9\ See Withdrawal of Review Request.
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Preliminary Results of Review

    Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated 
weighted-average dumping margin exists for the period September 1, 
2022, through August 31, 2023:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                    Producer or exporter                        dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Hao Shyang Ind. Co. Ltd.....................................      137.20
Lung Che Ribbons Enterprises Co. Ltd........................      137.20
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations 
performed in connection with a preliminary results finding 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 
preliminary results in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b). However, because Commerce preliminarily applied total 
adverse facts available (AFA) to the two individually examined 
companies subject to this this review, in accordance with section 776 
of the Act, there are no calculations to disclose.

Public Comment

    Interested parties may submit case briefs to Commerce no later than 
30 days after the date of publication of this notice.\10\ Rebuttal 
briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed no 
later than five days after the date for filing case briefs.\11\ 
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.\12\
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    \10\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for 
general filing requirements).
    \11\ See 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).
    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior

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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.\13\ 
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 of 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).\14\
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    \13\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
    \14\ See APO and Service Final Rule.
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    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, within 30 days after the date of 
publication of this notice. Requests should contain the party's name, 
address, and telephone number, the number of participants, whether any 
participant is a foreign national, and a list of issues to be 
discussed. If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce intends to hold 
a hearing at a time and date to be determined.\15\ Parties should 
confirm by telephone the date, time, and location of the hearing two 
days before the scheduled date. All submissions, including case and 
rebuttal briefs, as well as hearing requests, should be filed using 
ACCESS.\16\ An electronically-filed document must be received 
successfully in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the 
established deadline.
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    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
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Assessment Rates

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, upon completion of the 
final results of administrative review, Commerce shall determine, and 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review.\17\
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    \17\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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    For the companies for which this review is being rescinded, in 
part, Commerce will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries. Antidumping duties shall be assessed at rates 
equal to the cash deposit rate for estimated antidumping duties 
required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for 
consumption, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). With respect 
to the recission of this review, in part, Commerce intends to issue 
assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date 
of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
    For companies subject to this review, 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 the notice of final results of 
administrative review for all shipments of ribbons from Taiwan entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of 
publication as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the 
cash deposit rate for Hao Shyang and Lung Che will be equal to the 
weighted-average dumping margin established in the final results of 
this review; (2) for merchandise exported by a company not covered in 
this review but covered in a prior completed segment of the proceeding, 
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate 
published in the completed segment for the most recent period; (3) if 
the exporter is not a firm covered in this review or another completed 
segment of this proceeding, but the producer is, then the cash deposit 
rate will be the company-specific rate established for the completed 
segment for the most recent period for the producer of the merchandise; 
and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters 
will continue to be 4.37 percent, the all-others rate determined in the 
less-than-fair-value investigation.\18\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \18\ See Order.
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Final Results of Review

    Unless the deadline is otherwise extended, Commerce intends to 
issue the final results of this administrative review, including the 
results of its analysis of the issues raised by interested parties in 
written briefs, within 120 days after the date of publication of this 
notice in the Federal Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).

Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping and/or countervailing 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 and/or countervailing 
duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping 
duties, and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the 
amount of countervailing duties.\19\
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    \19\ See 19 CFR 351.402(f)(3).
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Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.213(h) and 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: October 3, 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

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Rescission of Review, in Part
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Recommendation

Appendix II

Companies Rescinded From Review

1. A-MADEUS TEXTILE LTD.
2. A-MEN Ribbons Co., Ltd.
3. Antonio Proietti Int. Inc.
4. Apex Trimmings
5. Banduoo Ltd.
6. Bon-Mar Textiles
7. Chang Store Co. Ltd
8. Cheng Hsing Ribbon Factory

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9. Cheng Mei Label Mfg. Corp.
10. Christmas Castle International Ltd.
11. Dear Year Brothers Mfg. Co., Ltd
12. Dearcobber International Co Ltd
13. Ethel Enterprise Co., Ltd.; Glory Young Enterprise Co., Ltd.; 
King Young Enterprises Co., Ltd.
14. Everwin Textile Corp.
15. Fist Labeling Corp.
16. Friend Chiu Co., Ltd.
17. Fujian Rongshu Industry Co., Ltd.
18. Golden State Industrial Co. Ltd.
19. Great Texture Int'l Co., Ltd.
20. Guangzhou Complacent Weaving Co., Ltd.
21. Gyrostate Corp.
22. Hen Hao Trading Co. Ltd; Taiwan Tulip Ribbons and Braids Co. 
Ltd.
23. Hsien Chan Enterprise Co., Ltd.; Novelty Handicrafts Co., Ltd.; 
Shienq Huong Enterprise Co., Ltd.
24. Hubscher Ribbon Corp., Ltd.; Hubschercorp
25. Imprimerie Mikan Inc.
26. J.S. (Just Splendid) Co., Ltd.
27. JCben Enterprises Co. Ltd.
28. Junmay Label Mfg Corp.
29. L'Emballage Tout
30. Lace Fashions Industrial Co. Ltd.
31. Linset Enterprises Co., Ltd.
32. Maple Ribbon Co., Ltd.
33. Maxtend Industry Corporation
34. May Favor Enterprise Co., Ltd
35. Ming Wei Co., Ltd.
36. Multicolor
37. N.K. Galleria Inc.
38. Nien Chow Industrial Co.
39. Pansy Weaving Co/Ltd
40. Papillon Ribbon & Bow (Canada)
41. Papillon Ribbon & Bow (H.K.) Ltd.
42. Papillon Ribbon & Bow (Shanghai) Ltd.
43. Pearl Ribbons and Trims, Inc.
44. Ren Her Industry Co. Ltd.
45. Ribbon City Company
46. Roung Shu Industry Corporation
47. Rubans G A R Inc. (Les)
48. Trio Co., Ltd
49. Trydent Co. Ltd.
50. Tse Tien Shin Enterprise Co Ltd
51. Tsong Jiaw Enterprise Co., Ltd.
52. Wing Hung (Tw) Co Ltd
53. Xiamen Especial Industrial Co., Ltd.
54. Xiamen Yi-He Textile Co., Ltd.
55. Yanzhou Bespak Gifts & Crafts Co.
56. Yih Jenq Textile Co. Ltd.
57. Yu Shin Development Co. Ltd.

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