[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22165-22167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-09229]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-916]


Laminated Woven Sacks From the People's Republic of China: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Commerce.
SUMMARY: On January 28, 2015, the Department of Commerce (the 
``Department'') published the Preliminary Results \1\ of the 2013-2014

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administrative review of the antidumping duty order on laminated woven 
sacks (``sacks'') from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). The 
period of review (``POR'') is August 1, 2013, through July 31, 2014. We 
gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the Preliminary 
Results, but we received none. The final dumping margin for the PRC-
wide entity is listed in the ``Final Results of Review'' section below.
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    \1\ See Laminated Woven Sacks from the People's Republic of 
China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review; 2013-2014, 80 FR 4537 (January 28, 2015) (``Preliminary 
Results'') and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

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DATES: April 21, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irene Gorelik, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6905.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    We received no comments from interested parties on our Preliminary 
Results dated January 28, 2015. The Department conducted this 
administrative review in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act'').

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the Order \2\ is laminated woven sacks. 
Laminated woven sacks are bags or sacks consisting of one or more plies 
of fabric consisting of woven polypropylene strip and/or woven 
polyethylene strip, regardless of the width of the strip; with or 
without an extrusion coating of polypropylene and/or polyethylene on 
one or both sides of the fabric; laminated by any method either to an 
exterior ply of plastic film such as biaxially-oriented polypropylene 
(``BOPP'') or to an exterior ply of paper that is suitable for high 
quality print graphics; \3\ printed with three colors or more in 
register; with or without lining; whether or not closed on one end; 
whether or not in roll form (including sheets, lay-flat tubing, and 
sleeves); with or without handles; with or without special closing 
features; not exceeding one kilogram in weight. Laminated woven sacks 
are typically used for retail packaging of consumer goods such as pet 
foods and bird seed.
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    \2\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Laminated Woven Sacks 
from the People's Republic of China, 73 FR 45941 (August 7, 2008) 
(``Order'').
    \3\ ``Paper suitable for high quality print graphics,'' as used 
herein, means paper having an ISO brightness of 82 or higher and a 
Sheffield Smoothness of 250 or less. Coated free sheet is an example 
of a paper suitable for high quality print graphics.
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    Effective July 1, 2007, laminated woven sacks are classifiable 
under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS'') 
subheadings 6305.33.0050 and 6305.33.0080. Laminated woven sacks were 
previously classifiable under HTSUS subheading 6305.33.0020. If entered 
with plastic coating on both sides of the fabric consisting of woven 
polypropylene strip and/or woven polyethylene strip, laminated woven 
sacks may be classifiable under HTSUS subheadings 3923.21.0080, 
3923.21.0095, and 3923.29.0000. If entered not closed on one end or in 
roll form (including sheets, lay-flat tubing, and sleeves), laminated 
woven sacks may be classifiable under other HTSUS subheadings including 
3917.39.0050, 3921.90.1100, 3921.90.1500, and 5903.90.2500. If the 
polypropylene strips and/or polyethylene strips making up the fabric 
measure more than 5 millimeters in width, laminated woven sacks may be 
classifiable under other HTSUS subheadings including 4601.99.0500, 
4601.99.9000, and 4602.90.0000.\4\ Although HTSUS subheadings are 
provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description 
of the scope of the order is dispositive.
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    \4\ At the request of U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(``CBP''), the Department added the USHTS subheading 6305.33.0040 to 
the ACE CRF for the antidumping duty order. See ``Memorandum to the 
File, from Irene Gorelik, Analyst, re: Addition of U.S. Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule (``USHTS'') Numbers to the Automated Commercial 
Enterprise (``ACE'') Case Reference File (``CRF''),'' dated 
September 24, 2014.
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Preliminary Results

    Upon initiation \5\ of the administrative review, we provided all 
companies \6\ initiated for review the opportunity to submit either a 
``no shipment'' certification or the separate rate application or 
certification. None of the nine companies initiated for review 
submitted ``no shipment'' certifications. Furthermore, none of the nine 
companies under review submitted separate rate eligibility 
documentation. As a result, we preliminarily found that these nine 
companies are part of the PRC-wide entity.\7\ The rate previously 
established for the PRC-wide entity in this proceeding is 47.64 
percent.\8\
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    \5\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation, in Part, 79 FR 
58729 (September 30, 2014) (``Initiation Notice'').
    \6\ The nine companies are: Changle Baodu Plastic Co., Ltd., 
Shangdong Qikai Plastics Product Co., Ltd., Wenzhou Hotsun Plastics 
Co., Ltd., Zibo Aifudi Plastic Packaging Co., Ltd., Zibo Linzi 
Luitong Plastic Fabric Co., Ltd., Zibo Linzi Shuaiqiang Plastics 
Co., Ltd., Zibo Linzi Qitianli Plastic Fabric Co., Ltd., Zibo Linzi 
Worun Packing Product Co., Ltd., and Zibo Qigao Plastic Cement Co., 
Ltd.
    \7\ See Preliminary Results, 80 FR 4537-4538 and accompanying 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum. Pursuant to the Department's change 
in practice, the Department no longer considers the non-market 
economy entity as an exporter conditionally subject to 
administrative reviews. See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of 
Change in Department Practice for Respondent Selection in 
Antidumping Duty Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket 
Economy Entity in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963, 
65970 (November 4, 2013). Under this practice, the non-market 
economy entity will not be under review unless a party specifically 
requests, or the Department self-initiates, a review of the entity. 
Because no party requested a review of the entity, the entity is not 
under review and the entity's rate is not subject to change.
    \8\ See Implementation of Determinations under Section 129 of 
the Uruguay Round Agreements Act: Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road 
Tires; Circular Welded Carbon Quality Steel Pipe; Laminated Woven 
Sacks; and Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube from the People's 
Republic of China, 77 FR 52683, 52688 (August 30, 2012).
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Final Results of Review

    The Department did not receive any comments from interested parties 
after issuing the Preliminary Results. Thus, because nothing has 
changed since the Preliminary Results with respect to the above-noted 
nine companies initiated for review, we continue to find them to be 
part of the PRC-wide entity, to which we are assigning the previously 
established rate of 47.64 percent for the period August 1, 2013, 
through July 31, 2014.

Assessment

    The Department determined, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties 
on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with 
the final results of this review, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b). The 
Department intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days 
after the date of publication of these final results of review. For 
those companies subject to this review found to be part of the PRC-wide 
entity, the Department will instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties 
on entries of subject merchandise at the PRC-wide rate of 47.67 
percent.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise from the PRC entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For previously 
investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters not noted above that 
have separate rates, the cash

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deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-specific rate published 
for the most recent period; (2) for all PRC exporters of subject 
merchandise which have not been found to be entitled to a separate 
rate, the cash deposit rate will be the PRC-wide rate of 47.64 percent; 
and (3) for all non-PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not 
received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
applicable to the PRC exporters that supplied that non-PRC exporter. 
These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.

Notifications

    This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.
    This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to 
the administrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written 
notification of the destruction of APO materials or conversion to 
judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with 
the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    We are issuing and publishing these results and this notice in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: April 14, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2015-09229 Filed 4-20-15; 8:45 am]
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