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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 226 (Friday, November 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 92624-92627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27426]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-156, C-570-157, A-588-881]

Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates From Japan and the People's 
Republic of China: Antidumping Order; Aluminum Lithographic Printing 
Plates From the People's Republic of China: Countervailing Duty Order

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

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final determinations by the U.S. 
Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade 
Commission (ITC), Commerce is issuing the antidumping duty (AD) orders 
on aluminum lithographic printing plates (printing plates) from the 
People's Republic of China (China) and Japan and a countervailing duty 
(CVD) order on printing plates from China.

DATES: Applicable November 22, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benito Ballesteros (AD China), 
Caroline Carroll (AD Japan), and Ajay Menon (CVD China), 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) 482-7435; (202) 482-4948, 
and (202) 482-0208, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    In accordance with sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act), on September 27, 2024, Commerce published 
its affirmative final determinations of sales at less than fair value 
(LTFV) for printing plates from China and Japan,\1\ and its affirmative 
final determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided 
to producers and exporters of printing plates from China.\2\
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    \1\ See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from the People's 
Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less-
Than-Fair-Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, 89 FR 79256 (September 27, 2024) (China Final LTFV 
Determination); and Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from 
Japan: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less-Than-Fair-
Value, 89 FR 79250 (September 27, 2024).
    \2\ See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from the People's 
Republic of China: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 
Determination and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical 
Circumstances, 89 FR 79248 (September 27, 2024).
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    On November 12, 2024, pursuant to sections 705(d) and 735(d) of the 
Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its final affirmative determinations 
that an industry in the United States is materially injured by reason 
of dumped imports of printing plates from China and Japan, and 
subsidized imports of printing plates from China, within the meaning of 
sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.\3\ On November 
18, 2024, the ITC published its final determinations in the Federal 
Register.\4\ Further, the ITC determined that critical circumstances do 
not exist with respect to LTFV imports and subsidized imports of 
printing plates from China.\5\
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    \3\ See ITC's Letter, ``Notification of ITC Final 
Determination,'' dated November 12, 2024 (ITC Notification Letter).
    \4\ See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from China and 
Japan: Determinations 89 FR 90737 (November 18, 2024).
    \5\ Id.
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Scope of the Orders

    The products covered by these orders are printing plates from China 
and Japan. For a complete description of the scope of the orders, see 
the appendix to this notice.

AD Orders

    On November 12, 2024, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, 
the ITC notified Commerce of its final determinations that an industry 
in the United States is materially injured within the meaning of 
section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of imports of printing 
plates from China and Japan that are sold in the United States at 
LTFV.\6\ Therefore, in accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 736 of 
the Act, Commerce is issuing these AD orders. Because the ITC 
determined that imports of printing plates from China and Japan are 
materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of such 
merchandise from China and Japan, entered or withdrawn from warehouse 
for consumption, are subject to the assessment of antidumping duties.
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    \6\ See ITC Notification Letter.
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    Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, 
Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties equal 
to the amount by which the normal value of the merchandise exceeds the 
export price (or constructed export price) of the merchandise on all 
relevant entries of printing plates from China and Japan. Antidumping 
duties will be assessed on unliquidated entries of printing plates 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 
1, 2024, the date of publication of the LTFV Preliminary 
Determinations,\7\ but will not include entries occurring after the 
expiration of the provisional measures period and before publication of 
the ITC's final injury determination, as further described below.
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    \7\ See Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from the People's 
Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary Affirmative Determination of 
Critical Circumstances, and Postponement of Final Determination and 
Extension of Provisional Measures, 89 FR 35062 (May 1, 2024) (China 
LTFV Preliminary Determination); and 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) 
(collectively, LTFV Preliminary Determinations).
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Critical Circumstances--AD China

    With respect to the ITC's negative critical circumstances 
determination on imports of printing plates from China, we will 
instruct CBP to lift suspension and to refund any cash deposits made to 
secure the payment of estimated antidumping duties with respect to 
entries of the subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after February 1, 2024 (i.e., 90 
days prior to the date of the publication of the China LTFV Preliminary 
Determination), but before May 1, 2024 (i.e., the date of

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publication of the China LTFV Preliminary Determination).

Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits--AD

    Except as noted in the ``Provisional Measures--AD'' section of this 
notice, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to continue to suspend 
liquidation on all relevant entries of printing plates from China and 
Japan, in accordance with section 736 of the Act. These instructions 
suspending liquidations will remain in effect until further notice.
    Commerce also intends to instruct CBP to require cash deposits 
equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping margins indicated in 
the tables below, adjusted by the relevant export subsidy offsets. 
Accordingly, effective on the date of publication in the Federal 
Register of the notice of the ITC's final affirmative injury 
determination, CBP must require, at the same time as importers would 
normally deposit estimated customs duties on subject merchandise, a 
cash deposit equal to the rates listed in the tables below.

Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping Margins

    The estimated weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:
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    \8\ See China Final LTFV Determination, 89 FR 79257.

                                                      China
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                                                                                                  Cash deposit
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                  Exporter                               Producer              average dumping     for subsidy
                                                                              margin (percent)      offsets)
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Fujifilm Printing Plate (China) Co., Ltd....  Fujifilm Printing Plate                   115.85            115.84
                                               (China) Co., Ltd.
China-wide Entity...........................  ..............................            317.44            317.43
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                                  Japan
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                   Exporter/producer                     average dumping
                                                        margin (percent)
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Fujifilm Corporation; Fujifilm Shizuoka Co., Ltd......             91.83
Miraclon Corporation Ltd..............................            160.11
All Others............................................             91.83
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Provisional Measures--AD

    Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation 
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in 
effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a 
significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request 
that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months. 
At the request of exporters that accounted for a significant proportion 
of exports of printing plates from China and Japan, Commerce extended 
the four-month period to no more than six months.\9\ In the underlying 
investigations, Commerce published the LTFV Preliminary Determinations 
on May 1, 2024. Therefore, the six-month period beginning on the date 
of the publication of the LTFV Preliminary Determinations ended on 
October 27, 2024. Pursuant to section 737(b) of the Act, the collection 
of cash deposits at the rates listed above will begin on the date of 
publication of the ITC's final injury determination. Therefore, in 
accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act and our practice, Commerce 
will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to 
liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, unliquidated entries 
of printing plates from China and Japan entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after October 28, 2024, the first day 
provisional measures were no longer in effect, until and through the 
day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final injury 
determination in the Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation and 
the collection of cash deposits will resume on the date of publication 
of the ITC's final determination in the Federal Register.
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    \9\ See LTFV Preliminary Determinations.
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CVD Order

    As stated above, based on the above-referenced affirmative final 
determination by the ITC that an industry in the United States is 
materially injured within the meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the 
Act by reason of subsidized imports of printing plates from China,\10\ 
in accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the Act, Commerce is issuing 
this CVD order. Moreover, because the ITC determined that imports of 
printing plates from China are materially injuring a U.S. industry, 
unliquidated entries of subject merchandise from China entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, are subject to the 
assessment of countervailing duties.
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    \10\ See ITC Notification Letter.
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    Therefore, in accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce 
intends to direct CBP to assess, upon further instructions by Commerce, 
countervailing duties on all relevant entries of printing plates from 
China, which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption 
on or after March 1, 2024, the date of publication of the China CVD 
Preliminary Determination, but will not include entries occurring after 
the expiration of the provisional measures period and before the 
publication of the ITC's final injury determination under section 
705(b) of the Act, as further described in the ``Provisional Measures--
CVD'' section of this notice.\11\
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    \11\ See 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) (China 
CVD Preliminary Determination).
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Critical Circumstances--CVD

    With respect to the ITC's negative critical circumstances 
determination on imports of printing plates from China, we will 
instruct CBP to lift suspension and to refund any cash deposits made to 
secure the payment of estimated

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countervailing duties with respect to entries of the subject 
merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after December 2, 2023 (i.e., 90 days prior to the 
date of the publication of the China CVD Preliminary Determination), 
but before March 1, 2024 (i.e., the date of publication of the China 
CVD Preliminary Determination).

Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits--CVD

    In accordance with section 706 of the Act, Commerce intends to 
instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of printing 
plates from China, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's 
final affirmative injury determination in the Federal Register, and to 
assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, pursuant to section 
706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing duties on each entry of subject 
merchandise in an amount based on the net countervailable subsidy rates 
below. On or after the date of publication of the ITC's final injury 
determination in the Federal Register, CBP must require, at the same 
time as importers would normally deposit estimated customs duties on 
this merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed in the table 
below. These instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect 
until further notice. The all-others rate applies to all producers or 
exporters not specifically listed below, as appropriate.

Estimated Countervailing Duty Subsidy Rates

    The estimated countervailing duty subsidy rates are as follows:

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                        Company                            (percent ad
                                                            valorem)
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Fujifilm Printing Plate (China) Co., Ltd.\12\.........             35.66
Shanghai National Ink Co. Ltd.........................            229.54
All Others............................................             35.66
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Provisional Measures--CVD
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    \12\ Commerce has found the following company to be cross-owned 
with Fujifilm Printing Plate (China) Co., Ltd.: Fujifilm (China) 
Investment Co., Ltd.
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    Section 703(d) of the Act states that the suspension of liquidation 
pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in 
effect for more than four months. Commerce published the China CVD 
Preliminary Determination on March 1, 2024.\13\ As such, the four-month 
period beginning on the date of the publication of the China CVD 
Preliminary Determination ended on June 28, 2024.
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    \13\ See China CVD Preliminary Determination.
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    Therefore, in accordance with section 703(d) of the Act, we 
instructed CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to 
liquidate, without regard to countervailing duties, unliquidated 
entries of printing plates from China or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption, on or after June 29, 2024, the date on which the 
provisional measures expired, until and through the day preceding the 
date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the 
Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash 
deposits will resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final 
determination in the Federal Register.

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry Service Lists

    On September 20, 2021, Commerce published the Final Rule in the 
Federal Register.\14\ On September 27, 2021, Commerce also published 
the Procedural Guidance in the Federal Register.\15\ The Final Rule and 
Procedural Guidance provide that Commerce will maintain an annual 
inquiry service list for each order or suspended investigation, and any 
interested party submitting a scope ruling application or request for 
circumvention inquiry shall serve a copy of the application or request 
on the persons on the annual inquiry service list for that order, as 
well as any companion order covering the same merchandise from the same 
country of origin.
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    \14\ See Regulations to Improve Administration and Enforcement 
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 
20, 2021) (Final Rule).
    \15\ See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry Service List; 
and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 53205 (September 27, 2021) 
(Procedural Guidance).
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    In accordance with the Procedural Guidance, for orders published in 
the Federal Register after November 4, 2021, Commerce will create an 
annual inquiry service list segment in Commerce's online e-filing and 
document management system, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Electronic Service System (ACCESS), available at https://access.trade.gov, within five business days of publication of the 
notice of the order. Each annual inquiry service list will be saved in 
ACCESS, under each case number, and under a specific segment type 
called ``AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.'' \16\
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    \16\ This segment will be combined with the ACCESS Segment 
Specific Information (SSI) field which will display the month in 
which the notice of the order or suspended investigation was 
published in the Federal Register, also known as the anniversary 
month. For example, for an order under case number A-000-000 that 
was published in the Federal Register in January, the relevant 
segment and SSI combination will appear in ACCESS as ``AISL-January 
Anniversary.'' Note that there will be only one annual inquiry 
service list segment per case number, and the anniversary month will 
be pre-populated in ACCESS.
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    Interested parties who wish to be added to the annual inquiry 
service list for an order must submit an entry of appearance to the 
annual inquiry service list segment for the order in ACCESS within 30 
days after the date of publication of the order. For ease of 
administration, Commerce requests that law firms with more than one 
attorney representing interested parties in an order designate a lead 
attorney to be included on the annual inquiry service list. Commerce 
will finalize the annual inquiry service list within five business days 
thereafter. As mentioned in the Procedural Guidance,\17\ the new annual 
inquiry service list will be in place until the following year, when 
the Opportunity Notice for the anniversary month of the order is 
published.
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    \17\ See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR 53206.
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    Commerce may update an annual inquiry service list at any time as 
needed based on interested parties' amendments to their entries of 
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 at https://access.trade.gov.

Special Instructions for Petitioner 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 
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in the years that follow.'' \18\ Accordingly, as stated above, the 
petitioner and the Governments of China and Japan 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 Governments of 
China and Japan 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 Governments of China and Japan 
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.
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    \18\ See Final Rule, 86 FR 52335.
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Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice constitutes the AD orders with respect to printing 
plates from China and Japan and the CVD order with respect to printing 
plates from China, 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://www.trade.gov/datavisualization/adcvd-proceedings.
    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: November 18, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

Scope of the Orders

    The merchandise covered by these orders are 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 these 
orders 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 image-recording 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 these orders 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 Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 
subheadings 3701.30.0000 and 3701.99.6060. Further, merchandise that 
falls within the scope of these orders 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 these 
orders is dispositive.

[FR Doc. 2024-27426 Filed 11-21-24; 8:45 am]
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