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1See Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions from the 

Russian Federation and the Republic of Trinidad 

and Tobago: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigations, 86 FR 40008 (July 26, 2021) 

(Initiation Notice). 2See Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions from the 

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and the Russian 

Federation: Postponement of Preliminary 

Determinations in the Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigations, 86 FR 66530 November 23, 2021). 3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Urea Ammonium Nitrate 

Solutions from the Russian Federation,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 

5See Initiation Notice. 

6We used ‘‘EuroChem’’ to refer to the collapsed 

entity comprising the following companies: Azot, 

Joint Stock Company; Joint Stock Company 

‘‘Nevinnomyssky Azot’’; Mineral and Chemical 

Company EuroChem, Joint Stock Company; and 

EuroChem Trading Rus, Limited Liability Company. 

7With two respondents under examination, 

Commerce normally calculates (A) a weightedaverage of the estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins calculated for the examined respondents; 

(B) a simple average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins calculated for the 

examined respondents; and (C) a weighted-average 

of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins 

calculated for the examined respondents using each 

company’s publicly-ranged U.S. sale quantities for 

the merchandise under consideration. Commerce 

then compares (B) and (C) to (A) and selects the rate 

closest to (A) as the most appropriate rate for all 

other producers and exporters. See Ball Bearings 

and Parts Thereof from France, Germany, Italy, 

Japan, and the United Kingdom: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, Final 

Results of Changed-Circumstances Review, and 

Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663 

(September 1, 2010). As complete publicly ranged 

sales data was available, Commerce based the allothers rate on the publicly ranged sales data of the 

mandatory respondents. For a complete analysis of 

the data, please see the All-Others Rate Calculation 

Memorandum. 

8See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions 

from the Russian Federation: Preliminary 

Calculations and Analysis for PJSC Acron,’’ dated 

concurrently with this memorandum; see also 

Memorandum, ‘‘Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation 

of Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions from the 

Russian Federation: Preliminary Calculations and 

Analysis for EuroChem,’’ dated concurrently with 

this memorandum; and Memorandum, 

‘‘Preliminary Determination Calculation for the AllOthers,’’ dated concurrently with this 

memorandum. 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–821–831] 

Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions 

From the Russian Federation: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

Postponement of Final Determination, 

and Extension of Provisional Measures 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that urea ammonium nitrate solutions 

(UAN) from the Russian Federation are 

being, or are likely to be, sold in the 

United States at less than fair value 

(LTFV). The period of investigation 

(POI) is April 1, 2020, through March 

31, 2021. Interested parties are invited 

to comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable February 2, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Krisha Hill or Drew Jackson, 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) 482–4037 or (202) 482–4406, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on July 26, 2021.1 On November 23, 

2021, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination in this 

investigation until January 26, 2022.2

For a complete description of the events 

that followed the initiation of this 

investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of the 

sections in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is in Appendix II to 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 can be accessed 

directly at https://access.trade.gov/ 

public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are UAN from Russia. For 

a complete description of the scope of 

this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,4 in the 

Initiation Notice, Commerce set aside a 

period of time for parties to raise issues 

regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).5

No interested party commented on the 

scope of the investigation as it appeared 

in the Initiation Notice. Commerce is 

not preliminarily modifying the scope 

language as it appeared in the Initiation 

Notice. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Commerce calculated 

constructed export prices in accordance 

with section 772(b) of the Act. 

Commerce calculated normal value in 

accordance with section 773 of the Act. 

Furthermore, pursuant to section 776(a) 

and (b) of the Act, Commerce 

preliminarily based the dumping 

margins for PJSC Kuibyshev Azot and 

SBU Azot upon facts otherwise 

available, with adverse inferences, 

because these companies failed to 

timely respond to Commerce’s quantity 

and value questionnaire. For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying the preliminary 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 733(d)(1)(ii) and 735(c)(5)(A) 

of the Act provide that in the 

preliminary determination, Commerce 

shall determine an estimated all-others 

rate for all exporters and producers not 

individually examined. This rate shall 

be equal to the weighted average of the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins established for exporters and 

producers individually investigated, 

excluding any zero and de minimis 

dumping margins, and any dumping 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

calculated estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins for the mandatory 

respondents, Public Joint Stock 

Company Acron (Acron) and 

EuroChem,6 that are not zero, de 

minimis, or based entirely on facts 

otherwise available. Commerce 

calculated the all-others rate by weight 

averaging the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins that it 

calculated for the individually 

examined respondents. Commerce 

weight averaged these dumping margins 

by the publicly-ranged total values of 

their sales of subject merchandise to the 

United States during the POI.7

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 


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9See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

10See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD 

Service Requirements Due to COVID–19, 85 FR 

17006 (March 26, 2020) (Temporary Rule); and 

Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 

Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension of 

Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 10, 2020). 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit rate 

(adjusted for 

subsidy offset(s)) 

(percent) 8

Public Joint Stock Company Acron ............................................................................................................. 9.15 9.01 

Azot, Joint Stock Company/Joint Stock Company ‘‘Nevinnomyssky Azot’’/Mineral and Chemical Company EuroChem, Joint Stock Company/EuroChem Trading Rus, Limited Liability Company ................ 23.98 23.98 

PJSC Kuibyshev Azot * ................................................................................................................................ 127.19 127.10 

SBU Azot * ................................................................................................................................................... 127.19 127.10 

All Others ..................................................................................................................................................... 15.48 15.39 

* Rate is based on facts otherwise available with an adverse inference. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

suspend liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise, as described in Appendix 

I, entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. Further, pursuant 

to section 733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(d), Commerce will instruct 

CBP to require the following cash 

deposits for such entries: (1) The cash 

deposit rate for each of the respondents 

listed in the table above is the companyspecific cash deposit rate listed for the 

respondent in the table; (2) if the 

exporter is not a respondent listed in the 

table above, but the producer is, then 

the cash deposit rate is the companyspecific cash deposit rate listed for the 

producer of the subject merchandise in 

the table above; and (3) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers and 

exporters is the ‘‘All Others’’ cash 

deposit rate listed in the table above. 

Commerce normally adjusts cash 

deposits for estimated antidumping 

duties by the amount of export subsidies 

countervailed in a companion 

countervailing duty (CVD) investigation 

when CVD provisional measures are in 

effect. Accordingly, where Commerce 

made a preliminary affirmative 

determination of countervailable export 

subsidies in the companion CVD 

investigation, we offset the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

listed in the table above by the 

appropriate CVD rates to determine the 

cash deposit rates. Any such adjusted 

cash deposit rate may be found in the 

table in the ‘‘Preliminary 

Determination’’ section above. 

Should provisional measures in the 

companion CVD investigation expire 

prior to the expiration of provisional 

measures in this LTFV investigation, 

Commerce will direct CBP to begin 

collecting estimated antidumping duty 

cash deposits unadjusted for 

countervailed export subsidies at the 

time that the provisional CVD measures 

expired. These suspension of 

liquidation instructions will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

preliminary calculations and related 

analysis to interested parties within five 

days of any public announcement of the 

preliminary determination or, if there is 

no public announcement, within five 

days of the date of publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to verify the 

information relied upon in making its 

final determination. Normally, 

Commerce verifies information using 

standard procedures, including an onsite examination of original accounting, 

financial, and sales documentation. 

However, due to current travel 

restrictions in response to the global 

COVID–19 pandemic, Commerce is 

unable to conduct on-site verification in 

this investigation. Accordingly, we 

intend to verify the information relied 

upon in making the final determination 

through alternative means in lieu of an 

on-site verification. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. A timeline for the 

submission of case briefs and written 

comments will be provided to interested 

parties at a later date. Rebuttal briefs, 

limited to issues raised in case briefs, 

may be submitted no later than seven 

days after the deadline date for case 

briefs.9 Note that Commerce has 

temporarily modified certain of its 

requirements for serving documents 

containing business proprietary 

information, until further notice.10

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 

(d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or 

rebuttal briefs in this investigation are 

encouraged to submit with each 

argument: (1) A statement of the issue; 

(2) a brief summary of the argument; 

and (3) a table of authorities. 

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, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register. Requests for a hearing 

should contain: (1) The requesting 

party’s name, address, and telephone 

number; (2) the number of individuals 

from the requesting party that will 

attend the hearing, including, whether 

any individuals are foreign nationals; 

and (3) a list of the issues the party 

intends to discuss at the hearing. If a 

request for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at a time and 

date to be determined. Parties should 

confirm by telephone the date and time 

of the hearing two days before the 

scheduled hearing date. 

Postponement of Final Determination 

and Extension of Provisional Measures 

Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides 

that a final determination may be 

postponed until not later than 135 days 

after the date of the publication of the 

preliminary determination in the 

Federal Register if, in the event of an 

affirmative preliminary determination, a 

request for such postponement is made 

by exporters who account for a 

significant proportion of exports of the 

subject merchandise, or in the event of 

a negative preliminary determination, a 

request for such postponement is made 

by the petitioner. Section 351.210(e)(2) 

of Commerce’s regulations requires that 

a request by exporters for postponement 

of the final determination be 

accompanied by a request for extension 

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11See Acron’s Letter, ‘‘Urea Ammonium Nitrate 

Solutions from the Russian Federation: Request for 

Extension of Final Determination an Provisional 

Measures,’’ dated January 14, 2022; see also 

EuroChem’s Letter, ‘‘Urea Ammonium Nitrate 

Solutions from the Russian Federation,’’ dated 

January 21, 2022. 

12See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Urea Ammonium 

Nitrate Solutions from the Russian Federation (A– 

821–831): Petitioner’s Request for Postponement of 

Final Antidumping Determination,’’ dated January 

21, 2022. 

1See Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber from 

France, the Republic of Korea, and Mexcio: 

Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 86 

FR 40192 (July 27, 2021) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber from 

France, the Republic of Korea, and Mexico: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 

Less-Than-Fair Value Investigations, 86 FR 64185 

(November 17, 2021). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene 

Rubber from France,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

month period to a period not more than 

six months in duration. 

On January 14, 2022, and January 20, 

2022, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.210(e), 

Acron and EuroChem, respectively, 

requested that Commerce postpone the 

final determination in this investigation 

up to 135 days after publication of this 

notice and that provisional measures be 

extended to a period not to exceed six 

months.11 Additionally, on January 21, 

2022, the petitioner requested that 

Commerce postpone the final 

determination in this investigation in 

the event of a negative preliminary 

determination.12 In accordance with 

section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(b)(2)(ii), because: (1) The 

preliminary determination is 

affirmative; (2) the requesting exporters 

account for a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise; and 

(3) no compelling reasons for denial 

exist, Commerce is postponing the final 

determination in this investigation and 

extending the provisional measures 

from a four-month period to a period 

not greater than six months. 

Accordingly, Commerce will make its 

final determination in this investigation 

no later than 135 days after the date of 

publication of this preliminary 

determination in the Federal Register. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. If the 

final determination is affirmative, the 

ITC will determine before the later of 

120 days after the date of this 

preliminary determination, or 45 days 

after the final determination, whether 

U.S. imports of UAN are materially 

injuring, or threaten material injury to, 

the U.S. industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: January 26, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I—Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is all mixtures of urea and 

ammonium nitrate in aqueous or ammonia 

solution, regardless of nitrogen concentration 

by weight, and regardless of the presence of 

additives, such as corrosion inhibiters and 

soluble micro or macronutrients (UAN). 

Subject merchandise includes merchandise 

matching the above description that has been 

processed in a third country, including by 

commingling, diluting, adding or removing 

additives, or performing any other processing 

that would not otherwise remove the 

merchandise from the scope of the 

investigations if performed in the subject 

country. 

The scope also includes UAN that is 

commingled with UAN from sources not 

subject to this investigation. Only the subject 

component of such commingled products is 

covered by the scope of this investigation. 

The covered merchandise is currently 

classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 

of the United States (HTSUS) at subheading 

3102.80.0000. Although the HTSUS 

subheading is provided for convenience and 

customs purposes, the written description of 

the scope is dispositive. 

Appendix II—List of Sections in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Scope of the Investigation 

V. Application of Facts Available and Use of 

Adverse Inferences 

VI. Affiliation/Single Entity 

VII. Discussion of the Methodology 

VIII. Currency Conversion 

IX. Adjustments to Cash Deposit Rates for 

Export Subsidies in Companion CVD 

Investigation 

X. Recommendation 

[FR Doc. 2022–02061 Filed 2–1–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–427–832] 

Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber From 

France: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Partial Affirmative 

Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, Postponement of Final 

Determination, and Extension of 

Provisional Measures 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (AB 

rubber) from France is being, or is likely 

to be, sold in the United States at less 

than fair value (LTFV). Commerce also 

preliminarily determines that critical 

circumstances exist with respect to 

certain imports of subject merchandise. 

The period of investigation is April 1, 

2020, through March 31, 2021. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable February 2, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patrick Barton, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0012. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on July 27, 2021.1 On November 17, 

2021, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination in this 

investigation from December 7, 2021, to 

January 26, 2022.2

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this investigation, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics 

included in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II to 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 can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 


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