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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 

1See Notice of Amended Final Determination and 

Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Low Enriched 

Uranium From France, 67 FR 6680 (February 13, 

2002). 

2See id. 

3See Letter from AREVA, ‘‘Low Enriched 

Uranium from France,’’ dated December 5, 2011. 

4See Low Enriched Uranium from France: Final 

Results of Antidumping Duty Changed 

Circumstances Review, 77 FR 19642 (April 2, 2012) 

(Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review). 

5See Letter from AREVA, ‘‘Request for Changed 

Circumstances Review,’’ dated July 8, 2013. 

6See Low Enriched Uranium from France: Final 

Results of Antidumping Duty Changed 

Circumstances Review, 78 FR 66898 (November 7, 

2013) (Final Results of Second Changed 

Circumstances Review). 

7See id. 

8See Letter from Stuart Rosen Esq., ‘‘Request for 

Changed Circumstances Review,’’ dated November 

10, 2014 (Third CCR Request). 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–427–818] 

Low Enriched Uranium from France: 

Initiation of Expedited Changed 

Circumstances Review, and 

Preliminary Results of Changed 

Circumstances Review 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 751(b) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act), and 19 CFR 351.216 and 

351.221(c)(3), the Department of 

Commerce (the Department) is initiating 

a changed circumstances review (CCR) 

of the antidumping duty order on lowenriched uranium (LEU) from France 

with respect to Eurodif SA and AREVA 

Inc. (collectively, AREVA). Moreover, 

the Department has determined that it is 

appropriate to conduct this CCR on an 

expedited basis. We invite interested 

parties to comment on these preliminary 

results. 

DATES: Effective Date: February 17, 

2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Huston, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–4261. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On February 13, 2002, the Department 

published an order on LEU from 

France.1 The order expressly excludes 

from the scope LEU that meets the 

requirements for re-exportation, 

including re-exportation within 18 

months of entry.2

On December 5, 2011, AREVA 

requested that the Department initiate 

and conduct an expedited CCR to 

amend the scope of the order to extend 

by 18 months the deadline for reexporting an entry of LEU for which 

AREVA reported it would not be able to 

meet the deadline for re-exportation.3 At 

the time of entry, the LEU at issue met 

the requirements for exclusion from the 

scope outlined above. On April 2, 2012, 

the Department published the final 

results of the CCR, extending the 

deadline for re-exportation of this sole 

entry by 18 months, to no later than 

November 1, 2013.4

On July 8, 2013, AREVA requested 

that the Department initiate a CCR in 

order to further extend the period for 

the re-exportation this sole entry of LEU 

from November 1, 2013, until November 

1, 2015.5 AREVA also requested that the 

Department conduct the review on an 

expedited basis. On November 7, 2013 

the Department published the final 

results of the CCR, extending the 

deadline for re-exportation of this sole 

entry until November 1, 2015.6 The 

Department further determined that this 

would be the final extension for reexportation of this specified entry.7

On November 10, 2014, AREVA 

submitted its third request for a CCR, 

seeking an extension for an indefinite 

period of time for the re-exportation of 

the specified entry of LEU covered in 

two previous CCRs, and AREVA 

requested that the Department conduct 

this CCR on an expedited basis.8

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by the order is 

all LEU. LEU is enriched uranium 

hexafluoride (UF6) with a U235 product 

assay of less than 20 percent that has 

not been converted into another 

chemical form, such as UO2, or 

fabricated into nuclear fuel assemblies, 

regardless of the means by which the 

LEU is produced (including LEU 

produced through the down-blending of 

highly enriched uranium). 

Certain merchandise is outside the 

scope of the order. Specifically, the 

order does not cover enriched uranium 

hexafluoride with a U235 assay of 20 

percent or greater, also known as highlyenriched uranium. In addition, 

fabricated LEU is not covered by the 

scope of the order. For purposes of the 

order, fabricated uranium is defined as 

enriched uranium dioxide (UO2), 

whether or not contained in nuclear fuel 

rods or assemblies. Natural uranium 

concentrates (U3O8) with a U235

concentration of no greater than 0.711 

percent and natural uranium 

concentrates converted into uranium 

hexafluoride with a U235 concentration 

of no greater than 0.711 percent are not 

covered by the scope of the order. 

Also excluded from the order is LEU 

owned by a foreign utility end-user and 

imported into the United States by or for 

such end-user solely for purposes of 

conversion by a U.S. fabricator into 

uranium dioxide (UO2) and/or 

fabrication into fuel assemblies so long 

as the uranium dioxide and/or fuel 

assemblies deemed to incorporate such 

imported LEU (i) remain in the 

possession and control of the U.S. 

fabricator, the foreign end-user, or their 

designed transporter(s) while in U.S. 

customs territory, and (ii) are reexported within eighteen (18) months of 

entry of the LEU for consumption by the 

end-user in a nuclear reactor outside the 

United States. Such entries must be 

accompanied by the certifications of the 

importer and end user. 

The merchandise subject to this order 

is classified in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

at subheading 2844.20.0020. Subject 

merchandise may also enter under 

2844.20.0030, 2844.20.0050, and 

2844.40.00. Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the merchandise 

subject to this proceeding is dispositive. 

Initiation of Changed Circumstances 

Review 

Pursuant to section 751(b) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.216 and 351.221(c)(3), 


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9See id. at 3–4. 

10See Final Results of Second Changed 

Circumstances Review, 78 FR at 66899. 

11See id. 

12See Memorandum to Paul Piquado, ‘‘Decision 

Memorandum for Final Results of Changed 

Circumstances Review of Low Enriched Uranium 

from France,’’ October 31, 2013. 

13See 19 CFR 351.303(f). 

14See 19 CFR 351.303(b). 

1See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value: Barium Carbonate From the 

People’s Republic of China, 68 FR 46577 (August 

6, 2003) (‘‘Final Determination’’). 

the Department is initiating a CCR of the 

antidumping duty order on LEU from 

France with respect to AREVA. Based 

on the information and documentation 

AREVA submitted in its November 10, 

2014 letter, we find that we have 

received sufficient information to 

warrant initiation of a review to 

determine if changed circumstances 

exist to support the extension of time to 

re-export the specified entry of LEU. 

Section 351.221 (c)(3)(ii) of the 

Department’s regulations permits the 

Department to combine the notice of 

initiation of a changed circumstances 

review and the notice of preliminary 

results if the Department concludes that 

expedited action is warranted. In this 

instance, because we have on the record 

the information necessary to make a 

preliminary finding, we find that 

expedited action is warranted, and have 

combined the notice of initiation and 

the notice of preliminary results. 

Preliminary Results of Expedited 

Changed Circumstances Review 

Based on the Department’s analysis of 

the information provided by AREVA in 

its request for a CCR, in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.216, we preliminarily 

determine that changed circumstances 

to extend the time period for reexportation a third time do not exist, 

and that AREVA should not be granted 

an additional extension of time to reexport this one entry of subject 

merchandise. 

In its Third CCR Request, AREVA 

explained that the Japanese end-user 

remained unable to take delivery of the 

subject LEU due to conditions caused by 

the March 11, 2011 earthquake and 

tsunami in Japan, that the Japanese enduser was working to comply with 

‘‘detailed and lengthy’’ regulatory 

requirements of Japan’s Nuclear 

Regulatory Authority, and that AREVA 

and the Japanese end-user were unable 

to confirm when re-export of the subject 

entry of LEU would be possible.9

In the Final Results of Second 

Changed Circumstances Review, the 

Department stated that ‘‘. . . if the 

Japanese end-user is unable to take 

delivery by the November 1, 2015 

deadline, AREVA, the U.S. importer as 

well as the French exporter, will be 

required to re-export this sole entry to 

France or pay antidumping duties on 

the entry at the applicable rate.’’ 10

Given that the situation where the 

Japanese end-user would be unable to 

take delivery was anticipated in the 

previous CCR, we do not consider this 

situation to be ‘‘changed 

circumstances.’’ 

The Department stated in the Final 

Results of Second Changed 

Circumstances Review,11 that this 

would be the final extension, and 

further stated in the accompanying 

decision memorandum that to allow the 

re-export deadline to be extended 

indefinitely would mean ‘‘ignoring this 

aspect of the scope.’’12

The Department preliminarily 

determines that changed circumstances 

do not exist beyond the changed 

circumstances already recognized in the 

two previous changed circumstances 

reviews, and that AREVA will not be 

granted a further extension to re-export 

the specified entry of LEU. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs from interested parties 

may be submitted not later than 30 days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to the 

issues raised in the case briefs, may be 

filed no later than 5 days after the 

submission of case briefs. All written 

comments shall be submitted in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.303. All 

submissions are to be filed 

electronically using Enforcement and 

Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS), 

and must also be served on interested 

parties.13 ACCESS is available to 

registered users at http://

access.trade.gov, and it is available to 

all parties in the Central Records Unit, 

Room 7046 of the main Department of 

Commerce building. An electronically 

filed document must be received 

successfully in its entirety by the 

Department’s electronic records system, 

ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on the 

deadline.14

Any interested party may request a 

hearing within 30 days of publication of 

this notice. Any hearing, if requested, 

will be held no later than 37 days after 

the date of publication of this notice, or 

the first business day thereafter. Persons 

interested in attending the hearing, if 

one is requested, should contact the 

Department for the date and time of the 

hearing. 

Notifications to Interested Parties 

Consistent with 19 CFR 351.216(e), 

we will issue the final results of this 

changed circumstances review no later 

than 270 days after the date on which 

this review is initiated, or within 45 

days after the date on which this review 

is initiated if all parties agree to our 

preliminary finding. The final results 

will include the Department’s analysis 

of issues raised in any written 

comments. 

We are issuing and publishing these 

preliminary results and notice in 

accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 

777(i)(1) and (2) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.216. 

Dated: February 9, 2015. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–880] 

Barium Carbonate From the People’s 

Republic of China: Continuation of 

Antidumping Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: As a result of the 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (the ‘‘Department’’) and the 

International Trade Commission (the 

‘‘ITC’’) that revocation of the 

antidumping duty (‘‘AD’’) order on 

barium carbonate from the People’s 

Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) would likely 

lead to a continuation or recurrence of 

dumping and material injury to an 

industry in the United States, the 

Department is publishing a notice of 

continuation of the antidumping duty 

order. 

DATES: Effective Date: February 17, 

2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Irene Gorelik, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–6905. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On August 6, 2003, the Department 

published the final determination in the 

AD investigation of barium carbonate 

from the PRC.1 On October 1, 2003, the 


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