Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 208 / Monday, October 28, 2024 / Notices 85505 

1See Quarterly Update to Annual Listing of 

Foreign Government Subsidies on Articles of Cheese 

Subject to an In-Quota Rate of Duty, 89 FR 63405 

(August 5, 2024) (First Quarter 2024 Update). 

2 Id. 

3 Defined in 19 U.S.C. 1677(5). 

4 Defined in 19 U.S.C. 1677(6). 

5The 27 member states of the European Union 

are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, 

Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, 

Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, 

Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, 

Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, 

Spain, and Sweden. 

content of the end product constituting 

between four and 10 percent of the product’s 

total weight after being dusted, but prior to 

being frozen; and (5) that is subjected to IQF 

freezing immediately after application of the 

dusting layer. Battered shrimp is a shrimpbased product that, when dusted in 

accordance with the definition of dusting 

above, is coated with a wet viscous layer 

containing egg and/or milk, and par-fried. 

The products covered by the scope are 

currently classified under the following 

HTSUS subheadings: 0306.17.0004, 

0306.17.0005, 0306.17.0007, 0306.17.0008, 

0306.17.0010, 0306.17.0011, 0306.17.0013, 

0306.17.0014, 0306.17.0016, 0306.17.0017, 

0306.17.0019, 0306.17.0020, 0306.17.0022, 

0306.17.0023, 0306.17.0025, 0306.17.0026, 

0306.17.0028, 0306.17.0029, 0306.17.0041, 

0306.17.0042, 1605.21.1030, and 

1605.29.1010. These HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and for customs 

purposes only and are not dispositive, but 

rather the written description of the scope is 

dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Use of Facts Available 

IV. Subsidies Valuation 

V. Analysis of Cross-Ownership 

VI. Changes Since the Preliminary 

Determination 

VII. Analysis of Programs 

VIII. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce Erred in 

Its Export Promotion of Capital Goods 

Scheme (EPCGS) Calculation for 

Sandhya 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Erred in 

its Productivity-Linked Incentive (PLI) 

Calculation 

Comment 3: Whether Commerce Erred in 

its Calculation of The Andhra Pradesh 

Power Subsidy for Aquaculture Farmers 

(PSA) 

Comment 4: Whether Commerce Erred in 

Calculating the Grants for Food 

Processing 

Comment 5: Whether Commerce Erred in 

Calculating the Pre-Shipment and PostShipment Export Financing Programs 

(EFPPS, EF2, and EF3) 

Comment 6: Whether the EFPPS Program 

is Countervailable 

Comment 7: Whether Section 771b of the 

Act is Applicable to this Investigation 

Comment 8: Whether the Duty Drawback 

Program (DDB) is Countervailable 

Comment 9: Whether the Remission of 

Duties and Taxes on Export Products 

(RoDTEP) is Countervailable 

Comment 10: Whether Neeli Sea Foods 

Private Limited (Neeli) Received Any 

Export Financing (EFPPS, EF2, or EF3) 

Benefit During the POI 

IX. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Quarterly Update to Annual Listing of 

Foreign Government Subsidies on 

Articles of Cheese Subject to an InQuota Rate of Duty 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

December 31, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Commerce encourages any 

person having information on foreign 

government subsidy programs which 

benefit articles of cheese subject to an 

in-quota rate of duty to submit such 

information in writing. All comments 

must be submitted through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov, Docket No. ITA– 

2020–0005. The materials in the docket 

will not be edited to remove identifying 

or contact information, and Commerce 

cautions against including any 

information in an electronic submission 

that the submitter does not want 

publicly disclosed. Attachments to 

electronic comments will be accepted in 

Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF 

formats only. 

All comments should be addressed to 

Ryan Majerus, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions 

and duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, at the 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Samuel Brummitt, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20230, telephone: (202) 482–7851. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

5, 2024 the U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce), pursuant to 

section 702(h) of the Trade Agreements 

Act of 1979 (as amended) (the Act), 

published the quarterly update to the 

annual listing of foreign government 

subsidies on articles of cheese subject to 

an in-quota rate of duty covering the 

period January 1, 2024, through March 

31, 2024.1 In the First Quarter 2024 

Update, we requested that any party 

that had information on foreign 

government subsidy programs that 

benefited articles of cheese subject to an 

in-quota rate of duty submit such 

information to Commerce.2 We received 

no comments, information, or requests 

for consultation from any party. 

Pursuant to section 702(h) of the Act, 

we hereby provide Commerce’s update 

of subsidies on articles of cheese that 

were imported during the period April 

1, 2024, through June 30, 2024. The 

appendix to this notice lists the country, 

the subsidy program or programs, and 

the gross and net amounts of each 

subsidy for which information is 

currently available. Commerce will 

incorporate additional programs which 

are found to constitute subsidies, and 

additional information on the subsidy 

programs listed, as the information is 

developed. 

This determination and notice are in 

accordance with section 702(a) of the 

Act. 

Dated: October 22, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

SUBSIDY PROGRAMS ON CHEESE SUBJECT TO AN IN-QUOTA RATE OF DUTY

Country Program(s) Gross 3 subsidy 

($/lb) 

Net 4 Subsidy 

($/lb) 

27 European Union Member 

States.5

European Union Restitution Payments ............................................. $0.00 $0.00 

Canada ........................................ Export Assistance on Certain Types of Cheese ............................... 0.47 0.47 


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85506 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 208 / Monday, October 28, 2024 / Notices 

1See Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador: 

Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, and Alignment of Final 

Determination with the Final Antidumping Duty 

Determination, 89 FR 22379 (April 1, 2024) 

(Preliminary Determination), amended in Frozen 

Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador: Amended 

Preliminary Determination of Countervailing Duty 

Investigation, 89 FR 31722 (April 25, 2024) 

(Amended Preliminary Determination). 

2 Id., 89 FR at 22380. 

3See Memoranda, ‘‘Countervailing Duty 

Investigation of Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from 

Ecuador: Post-Preliminary Analysis,’’ dated July 12, 

2024 (First Post-Preliminary Determination); and 

‘‘Countervailing Duty Investigation of Frozen 

Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador: Second PostPreliminary Determination Calculations for 

Sociedad Nacional de Galapagos C.A.,’’ dated 

September 26, 2024 (Second Post-Preliminary 

Determination). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Tolling of Deadlines for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings,’’ dated July 22, 2024. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Affirmative 

Determination of the Countervailing Duty 

Investigation of Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from 

Ecuador,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

6See Memoranda, ‘‘Countervailing Duty 

Investigation of Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from 

Ecuador: Verification of the Questionnaire 

Responses of Sociedad Nacional de Gala ́pagos 

C.A.,’’ dated August 13, 2024; ‘‘Countervailing Duty 

Investigation of Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from 

Ecuador: Verification of the Questionnaire 

Responses of Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila 

S.A.,’’ dated August 22, 2024; and ‘‘Countervailing 

Duty Investigation of Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 

from Ecuador: Verification of the Questionnaire 

Responses of the Government of Ecuador,’’ dated 

September 3, 2024. 

7See 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. 

SUBSIDY PROGRAMS ON CHEESE SUBJECT TO AN IN-QUOTA RATE OF DUTY—Continued 

Country Program(s) Gross 3 subsidy 

($/lb) 

Net 4 Subsidy 

($/lb) 

Norway ......................................... Indirect (Milk) Subsidy .......................................................................

Consumer Subsidy ............................................................................

Total ..................................................................................................

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

Switzerland .................................. Deficiency Payments ......................................................................... 0.00 0.00 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–331–806] 

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From 

Ecuador: Final Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination 

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 

frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) from 

Ecuador. The period of investigation 

(POI) is January 1, 2022, through 

December 31, 2022. 

DATES: Applicable October 28, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Reginald Anadio or Zachary Shaykin, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office IV, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3166 or 

(202) 482-5377, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 1, 2024, Commerce 

published its Preliminary Determination 

in the Federal Register and invited 

interested parties to comment.1 In the 

Preliminary Determination, and in 

accordance with section 705(a)(1) of the 

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

and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(4), Commerce 

aligned this final countervailing duty 

(CVD) determination with the final 

antidumping duty (AD) determination 

of frozen warmwater shrimp from 

Ecuador.2 On July 12 and September 26, 

2024, Commerce issued its postpreliminary determinations.3 On July 

22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain 

deadlines in this administrative 

proceeding by seven days.4 The 

deadline for the final determination is 

now October 21, 2024. 

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the Preliminary 

Determination, see the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum.5 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 http://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 product covered by this 

investigation is frozen freshwater 

shrimp from Ecuador. For a complete 

description 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)(1) of the 

Act, in July 2024, Commerce conducted 

verification of the subsidy information 

reported by Industrial Pesquera Santa 

Priscila S.A. (Santa Priscila), Sociedad 

Nacional de Gala ́pagos C.A. (SONGA), 

and the Government of Ecuador (GOE) 

for use in our final determination. We 

used standard verification procedures, 

including an examination of relevant 

accounting records and original source 

documents provided by Santa Priscila, 

SONGA, and the GOE.6

Analysis of Subsidy Programs and 

Comments Received 

The subsidy programs under 

investigation, and the issues raised in 

the case and rebuttal briefs that were 

submitted by interested 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.7 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 


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