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1See Barium Chloride from India: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigation, 87 FR 7094 

(February 8, 2022). 

2The petitioner is Chemical Products 

Corporation. 

3See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Countervailing Duty 

Investigation of Barium Chloride from India: 

Petitioner’s Request for Extension of Time for 

Preliminary Determination,’’ dated March 8, 2022. 

4 Id. 

5Postponing the preliminary determination to 

130 days after initiation would place the deadline 

on Saturday, June 11, 2022. Commerce’s practice 

dictates that where a deadline falls on a weekend 

or federal holiday, the appropriate deadline is the 

next business day. See Notice of Clarification: 

Application of ‘‘Next Business Day’’ Rule for 

Administrative Determination Deadlines Pursuant 

to the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 

(May 10, 2005). 

1See Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from 

India: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination and Final Affirmative Critical 

Circumstances Determination, 87 FR 3765 (January 

25, 2022) (India Final Determination); see also 

Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from the 

Russian Federation: Final Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination, 87 FR 3764 

(January 25, 2022) (Russia Final Determination). 

2See ITC Notification Letter, Investigation Nos. 

701–TA–663–664 and 731–TA–1555–1556 (March 

8, 2022) (ITC Notification). 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1221 and (202) 482–7421, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On February 1, 2022, the Department 

of Commerce (Commerce) initiated a 

countervailing duty (CVD) investigation 

of imports of barium chloride from 

India.1 Currently, the preliminary 

determination is due no later than April 

7, 2022. 

Postponement of Preliminary 

Determination 

Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), requires 

Commerce to issue the preliminary 

determination in a countervailing duty 

investigation within 65 days after the 

date on which Commerce initiated the 

investigation. However, section 

703(c)(1) of the Act permits Commerce 

to postpone the preliminary 

determination until no later than 130 

days after the date on which Commerce 

initiated the investigation if: (A) The 

petitioner 2 makes a timely request for a 

postponement; or (B) Commerce 

concludes that the parties concerned are 

cooperating, that the investigation is 

extraordinarily complicated, and that 

additional time is necessary to make a 

preliminary determination. Under 19 

CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must 

submit a request for postponement 25 

days or more before the scheduled date 

of the preliminary determination and 

must state the reasons for the request. 

Commerce will grant the request unless 

it finds compelling reasons to deny the 

request. 

On March 8, 2022, the petitioner 

submitted a timely request that 

Commerce postpone the preliminary 

CVD determination.3 The petitioner 

stated that it requests postponement 

‘‘. . . so that Petitioner’s counsel can 

analyze and comment upon the 

responses of the respondent company 

and the Government of India to 

Commerce’s Countervailing Duty 

Questionnaire.’’ 4 In accordance with 19 

CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner has stated 

the reasons for requesting a 

postponement of the preliminary 

determination, and Commerce finds no 

compelling reason to deny the request. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, Commerce is 

postponing the deadline for the 

preliminary determination to no later 

than 130 days after the date on which 

this investigation was initiated, i.e., 

June 13, 2022.5 Pursuant to section 

705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(b)(1), the deadline for the final 

determination of this investigation will 

continue to be 75 days after the date of 

the preliminary determination. 

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to section 703(c)(2) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1). 

Dated: March 9, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–900, C–821–830] 

Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin 

From India and the Russian 

Federation: Countervailing Duty 

Orders 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) and the 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

Commerce is issuing countervailing 

duty orders on granular 

polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin 

from India and the Russian Federation 

(Russia). 

DATES: Applicable March 15, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joshua Simonidis (India) or George 

Ayache (Russia), AD/CVD Operations, 

Office VIII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone 

(202) 482–0608 or (202) 482–2623, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On January 25, 2022, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register its 

affirmative final determinations in the 

countervailing duty investigations of 

granular PTFE resin from India and 

Russia.1 On March 8, 2022, the ITC 

notified Commerce of its final 

affirmative determinations, pursuant to 

sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the 

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

that an industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of 

subsidized imports of granular PTFE 

resin from India and Russia, and of its 

determination that critical 

circumstances do not exist with respect 

to imports of granular PTFE resin from 

India.2

Scope of the Orders 

The product covered by these orders 

is granular PTFE resin from India and 

Russia. For a complete description of 

the scope of these orders, see the 

Appendix to this notice. 

Countervailing Duty Orders 

On March 8, 2022, in accordance with 

sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 705(d) of the 

Act, the ITC notified Commerce of its 

final determinations in these 

investigations, in which it found that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of 

subsidized imports of granular PTFE 

resin from India and Russia. Therefore, 

in accordance with section 705(c)(2) of 

the Act, Commerce is issuing these 

countervailing duty orders. Because the 

ITC determined that imports of granular 

PTFE resin from India and Russia are 

materially injuring a U.S. industry, 

unliquidated entries of such 

merchandise from India and Russia, 

entered or withdrawn from warehouse 

for consumption, are subject to the 

assessment of countervailing duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

706(a) of the Act, Commerce will direct 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(CBP) to assess, upon further instruction 

by Commerce, countervailing duties on 

unliquidated entries of granular PTFE 

resin from India and Russia. With the 

exception of entries occurring after the 

expiration of the provisional measures 

period and before the publication of the 


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3See Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from 

India: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination, Preliminary Affirmative Critical 

Circumstances Determination, and Alignment of 

Final Determination with Final Antidumping Duty 

Determination, 86 FR 35479 (July 6, 2021); see also 

Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from the 

Russian Federation: Preliminary Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment 

of Final Determination with Final Antidumping 

Duty Determination, 86 FR 35476 (July 6, 2021) 

(collectively, Preliminary Determinations). 

4Commerce found the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited: 

Inox Leasing Finance Limited and Inox Wind 

Limited. See India Final Determination. 

5Commerce found the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Joint Stock Company 

‘‘HaloPolymer’’: Limited Liability Company 

‘‘HaloPolymer Kirovo-Chepetsk,’’ Joint Stock 

Company ‘‘HaloPolymer Perm,’’ and URALCHEM 

JSC. See Russia Final Determination. 

6See Preliminary Determinations. 

7See Regulations to Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021) 

(Final Rule). 

8See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

53205 (September 27, 2021) (Procedural Guidance). 

9 Id. 

10This 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. 

ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determinations, as further described 

below, countervailing duties will be 

assessed on unliquidated entries of 

granular PTFE resin from India and 

Russia entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

July 6, 2021, the date of publication of 

the Preliminary Determinations in the 

Federal Register.3

Critical Circumstances 

With regards to the ITC’s negative 

critical circumstances determination on 

imports of granular PTFE resin from 

India discussed above, we will instruct 

CBP to lift suspension and to refund any 

cash deposits made to secure the 

payment of estimated countervailing 

duties with respect to entries of granular 

PTFE resin from India, entered or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after April 7, 2021 

(i.e., 90 days prior to the date of 

publication of the preliminary 

determination), but before July 6, 2021 

(i.e., the date of the publication of the 

preliminary determination for this 

investigation). 

Suspension of Liquidation and Cash 

Deposits 

In accordance with section 706 of the 

Act, Commerce will direct CBP to 

reinstitute the suspension of liquidation 

of granular PTFE resin from India and 

Russia, effective the date of publication 

of the ITC’s notice of final 

determinations in the Federal Register, 

and to assess, upon further instruction 

by Commerce pursuant to section 

706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing 

duties for each entry of the subject 

merchandise in an amount based on the 

net countervailable subsidy rates for the 

subject merchandise. On or after the 

date of publication of the ITC’s final 

injury determinations in the Federal 

Register, CBP must require, at the same 

time as importers would normally 

deposit estimated duties on this 

merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the 

rates noted 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. 

Country Company 

Subsidy 

rate 

(percent) 

India ..... Gujarat 

Fluorochemicals 

Limited 4.

31.89 

All Others ................. 31.89 

Russia .. Joint Stock Company 

‘‘HaloPolymer’’ 5.

2.53 

All Others ................. 2.53 

Provisional Measures 

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. In the 

underlying investigations, Commerce 

published the Preliminary 

Determinations on July 6, 2021.6

Therefore, entries of granular PTFE 

resin from India and Russia made on or 

after November 3, 2021, and prior to the 

date of publication of the ITC’s final 

determination in the Federal Register, 

are not subject to the assessment of 

countervailing duties due to 

Commerce’s discontinuation of the 

suspension of liquidation. 

In accordance with section 703(d) of 

the Act, Commerce instructed CBP to 

terminate the suspension of liquidation 

and to liquidate, without regard to 

countervailing duties, unliquidated 

entries of granular PTFE resin from 

India and Russia entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after November 3, 2021, the date on 

which the provisional countervailing 

duty measures expired, through the day 

preceding the date of publication of the 

ITC final injury determinations in the 

Federal Register. Suspension of 

liquidation will resume on the date of 

publication of the ITC final injury 

determinations in the Federal Register. 

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry 

Service Lists 

On September 20, 2021, Commerce 

published the final rule titled 

‘‘Regulations to Improve Administration 

and Enforcement of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Laws’’ in the 

Federal Register.7 On September 27, 

2021, Commerce also published the 

notice titled ‘‘Scope Ruling Application; 

Annual Inquiry Service List; and 

Informational Sessions’’ in the Federal 

Register.8 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.9

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.’’ 10

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, 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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11See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 

1See Freight Rail Coupler Systems and Certain 

Components Thereof from the People’s Republic of 

China: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigation, 86 FR 58864 (October 25, 2021) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Freight Rail Coupler 

Systems and Certain Components Thereof from the 

People’s Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently 

with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 

(Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

3See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

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

(Preamble). 

4See Initiation Notice, 86 FR 58865. 

5See Strato Inc. (Strato)’s Letter, ‘‘Strato Scope 

Comments: Antidumping & Countervailing Duty 

Investigation of Freight Rail Coupler Systems and 

Components Thereof from the People’s Republic of 

China,’’ dated November 8, 2021; see also Wabtec 

Corporation’s (Wabtec’s) Letter, ‘‘Certain Freight 

Rail Coupler Systems and Components Thereof 

from the People’s Republic of China: Comment on 

Continued 

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 Petitioners 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 service list 

in the years that follow.’’ 11

Accordingly, as stated above, the 

petitioners and foreign governments 

should submit their initial entry of 

appearance after publication of this 

notice in order to appear in the first 

annual inquiry service list for those 

orders for which they qualify as an 

interested party. Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.225(n)(3), the petitioners and 

foreign governments will not need to 

resubmit their entries of appearance 

each year to continue to be included on 

the annual inquiry service list. 

However, the petitioners and foreign 

governments 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. 

Notifications to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the 

countervailing duty orders with respect 

to granular PTFE resin from India and 

Russia pursuant to section 706(a) of the 

Act. Interested parties can find a list of 

countervailing duty orders currently in 

effect at http://enforcement.trade.gov/ 

stats/iastats1.html. 

These orders are issued and published 

in accordance with section 706(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: March 9, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistance Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix—Scope of the Orders 

The product covered by these orders is 

granular polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) 

resin. Granular PTFE resin is covered by the 

scope of these orders whether filled or 

unfilled, whether or not modified, and 

whether or not containing co-polymer, 

additives, pigments, or other materials. Also 

included is PTFE wet raw polymer. The 

chemical formula for granular PTFE resin is 

C2F4, and the Chemical Abstracts Service 

(CAS) Registry number is 9002–84–0. 

Subject merchandise includes material 

matching the above description that has been 

finished, packaged, or otherwise processed in 

a third country, including by filling, 

modifying, compounding, packaging with 

another product, or performing any other 

finishing, packaging, or processing that 

would not otherwise remove the 

merchandise from the scope of the orders if 

performed in the country of manufacture of 

the granular PTFE resin. 

The product covered by these orders does 

not include dispersion or coagulated 

dispersion (also known as fine powder) 

PTFE. 

PTFE further processed into micropowder, 

having particle size typically ranging from 1 

to 25 microns, and a melt-flow rate no less 

than 0.1 gram/10 minutes, is excluded from 

the scope of these orders. 

Granular PTFE resin is classified in the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS) under subheading 

3904.61.0010. Subject merchandise may also 

be classified under HTSUS subheading 

3904.69.5000. Although the HTSUS 

subheadings and CAS Number are provided 

for convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope is 

dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–143] 

Freight Rail Coupler Systems and 

Certain Components Thereof From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Sales at Less-Than-Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that freight rail coupler systems and 

certain components thereof (freight rail 

couplers) from the People’s Republic of 

China (China) are being, or are likely to 

be, sold in the United States at lessthan-fair value (LTFV). The period of 

investigation is January 1, 2021, through 

June 30, 2021. Interested parties are 

invited to comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable March 15, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kabir Archuletta, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2593. 

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 October 25, 2021.1 For a complete 

description of the events that followed 

the initiation of this investigation, see 

the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.2 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. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are freight rail coupler 

systems and certain components thereof 

from China. For a complete description 

of the scope of this investigation, see 

Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the Preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,3 the Initiation 

Notice set aside a period of time for 

parties to raise issues regarding product 

coverage (i.e., scope).4 In November 

2021, we received timely scope 

comments from two interested parties,5


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