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1See Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from 

India: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances, 87 FR 3772 (January 25, 

2022); see also Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene 

Resin from the Russian Federation: Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 87 

FR 3774 (January 25, 2022). 

2See ITC Notification Letter, Investigation Nos. 

701–TA–663–664 and 731–TA–1555–1556 (Final) 

dated March 8, 2022 (ITC Notification Letter). 

3 Id. 

4See Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from 

India: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, Postponement of Final 

Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 86 FR 49299 (September 2, 2021) (India 

Preliminary Determination); and Granular 

Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from the Russian 

Federation: Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of 

Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 86 FR 49297 (September 2, 2021) (Russia 

Preliminary Determination) (collectively, 

Preliminary Determinations). 

components or coupler systems from the 

scope. 

The coupler systems that are the subject of 

this investigation are currently classifiable in 

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) statistical reporting 

number 8607.30.1000. Unfinished subject 

merchandise may also enter under HTSUS 

statistical reporting number 7326.90.8688. 

Subject merchandise attached to finished rail 

cars may also enter under HTSUS statistical 

reporting numbers 8606.10.0000, 

8606.30.0000, 8606.91.0000, 8606.92.0000, 

8606.99.0130, 8606.99.0160, or under 

subheading 9803.00.5000 if imported as an 

Instrument of International Traffic. These 

HTSUS subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes only; the 

written description of the scope of the 

investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II—List of Topics Discussed 

in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Scope Comments 

V. Discussion of the Methodology 

VI. Adjustment Under Section 777A(f) of the 

Act 

VII. Adjustment to Cash Deposit Rate for 

Export Subsidies 

VIII. ITC Notification 

IX. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–533–899, A–821–829] 

Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin 

From India and the Russian 

Federation: Antidumping 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 antidumping duty 

orders on granular 

polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin 

from India and the Russian Federation 

(Russia). 

DATES: Applicable March 15, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexis Cherry at (202) 482–0607 (India); 

and Jaron Moore at (202) 482–3640 

(Russia); AD/CVD Operations, Office 

VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On January 25, 2022, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register its 

affirmative final determinations in the 

less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 

investigations of granular PTFE resin 

from India and Russia.1 On March 8, 

2022, the ITC notified Commerce of its 

final determinations, pursuant to 

section 735(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (the Act), 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 

LTFV imports of granular PTFE resin 

from India and Russia, and of its 

determination that critical 

circumstances do not exist with respect 

to dumped 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. 

Antidumping Duty Orders 

On March 8, 2022, in accordance with 

section 735(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 imports of granular PTFE resin 

from India and Russia.3 Therefore, in 

accordance with section 735(c)(2) of the 

Act, Commerce is issuing these 

antidumping 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 antidumping duties. 

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, for all 

relevant 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 publication of the 

ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determinations, as further described 

below, antidumping 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 

September 2, 2021, the date of 

publication of the Preliminary 

Determinations in the Federal Register.4

Critical Circumstances 

With regard to the ITC’s negative 

critical circumstances determination on 

imports of granular PTFE resin from 

India, 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 India entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after June 4, 2021 

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

publication of the India Preliminary 

Determination), but before September 2, 

2021 (i.e., the date of publication of the 

India Preliminary Determination). 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

Except as noted in the ‘‘Provisional 

Measures’’ section of this notice, in 

accordance with section 736 of the Act, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to continue 

to suspend liquidation on all relevant 

entries of granular PTFE resin from 

India and Russia. These instructions 

suspending liquidation will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

Commerce will also instruct CBP to 

require cash deposits equal to the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins indicated in the tables below, 

adjusted by the export subsidy offset. 

Accordingly, effective on the date of 

publication in the Federal Register of 

the notice of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determinations, CBP will require, 

at the same time as importers would 

normally deposit estimated duties on 

subject merchandise, a cash deposit 


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5See India Preliminary Determination and Russia 

Preliminary Determination. 

6See, e.g., Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel 

Products from India, India, the People’s Republic of 

China, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan: 

Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping 

Determination for India and Taiwan, and 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390, 48392 

(July 25, 2016). 

7The final rate applies to subject merchandise 

produced by HaloPolymer Kirovo-Chepetsk, LLC, 

HaloPolymer Perm, OJSC, and Limited Liability 

Company First Fluoroplastic Plant and exported by 

either Limited Liability Company Trading House 

HaloPolymer or HaloPolymer OJSC. 

8See Regulations to Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

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

(Final Rule). 

9See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

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

10 Id. 

11This 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. 

12See Final Rule, 86 FR 52335. 

equal to the rates listed below. The 

relevant all-others rate applies to all 

producers or exporters not specifically 

listed. 

Provisional Measures 

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 fourmonth period to no more than six 

months. At the request of exporters that 

account for a significant proportion of 

exports of granular PTFE resin from 

India and Russia, Commerce extended 

the four-month period to six months in 

these investigations. Commerce 

published the Preliminary 

Determinations on September 2, 2021.5

The extended provisional measures 

period, beginning on the date of 

publication of the Preliminary 

Determinations, ended on February 28, 

2022. Therefore, in accordance with 

section 733(d) of the Act and our 

practice,6 Commerce will instruct CBP 

to terminate the suspension of 

liquidation and to liquidate, without 

regard to antidumping duties, 

unliquidated entries of granular PTFE 

resin from India and Russia entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption after February 28, 2022, 

the final day on which the provisional 

measures were in effect, until and 

through the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determinations 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 determinations in the 

Federal Register. 

Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping 

Margins 

The estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 

India 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Cash 

deposit 

rate 

(adjusted 

for subsidy 

offsets) 

(percent) 

Gujarat 

Fluorochemicals 

Limited ............... 13.09 10.01 

All Others .............. 13.09 10.01 

Russia 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Cash 

deposit 

rate 

(adjusted 

for subsidy 

offsets) 

(percent) 

HaloPolymer 

OJSC 7 .............. 17.99 17.36 

All Others .............. 17.99 17.36 

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.8 On September 27, 

2021, Commerce also published the 

notice titled ‘‘Scope Ruling Application; 

Annual Inquiry Service List; and 

Informational Sessions’’ in the Federal 

Register.9 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.10

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.’’ 11

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. 

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.’’ 12

Accordingly, as stated above, the 

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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. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the 

antidumping duty orders with respect to 

granular PTFE resin from India and 

Russia pursuant to section 736(a) of the 

Act. Interested parties can find a list of 

antidumping duty orders currently in 

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

stats/iastats1.html. 

These antidumping duty orders are 

published in accordance with section 

736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: March 9, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant 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 

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 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Generic Clearance for 

Community Resilience Data 

Collections 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed, and continuing information 

collections, which helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before May 16, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Nina Argent, NIST, Management 

Analyst, at PRAcomments@doc.gov. Do 

not submit Confidential Business 

Information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Jennifer Helgeson, 

Economist, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, MS 

8603, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–1710, 

telephone 240–672–2575, or via email to 

jennifer.helgeson@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Through acts such as the National 

Construction Safety Team Act (NCSTA), 

the National Windstorm Impact 

Reduction Act (NWIRA) and the NIST 

Organic Act, among others, as well as 

the President’s Climate Action Plan 

(2013), NIST conducts research and 

develops guidance and other related 

tools to promote and enhance the safety 

and well-being of people in the face of 

a hazard event. With this in mind, NIST 

proposes to conduct a number of data 

collection efforts within the topic areas 

of disaster and failure studies and 

community resilience and 

sustainability, including studies of 

specific disaster events (e.g., wildfire, 

urban fire, structure collapse, hurricane, 

earthquake, tornado, and flood events), 

assessments of community resilience 

and sustainability, and evaluations of 

the usability and utility of NIST 

resilience guidance or other products. 

These data collection efforts may be 

either qualitative or quantitative in 

nature or may consist of mixed 

methods. Additionally, data may be 

collected via a variety of means, 

including but not limited to electronic 

or social media, direct or indirect 

observation (i.e., in person, video and 

audio collections), interviews, 

questionnaires, and focus groups. NIST 

will limit its inquiries to data 

collections that solicit strictly voluntary 

opinions or responses. The results of the 

data collected will be used to decrease 

negative impacts of disasters on society, 

and, in turn, increase community 

resilience within the U.S. communities. 

Steps will be taken to protect 

confidentiality of respondents in each 

activity covered by this request. 

This notice pertains to both a revision 

and an extension of a previously 

approved submission. The NIST 

Engineering Laboratory utilizes this 

clearance to conduct research in support 

of topic areas of disaster and failure 

studies and community resilience 

(including studies of specific disaster 

events such as wildfire, urban fire, 

structure collapse, hurricane, 

earthquake, tornado, and flood events). 

This type of research is directly 

related to a range of disasters which are 

unpredictable in their number during a 

given year. Additionally, some disasters 

may require multiple studies resulting 

in multiple collections. Therefore, in 

light of the recent increases in the 

number of severe disaster events and the 

growing trend of disasters occuring 

outside of their typical season, NIST is 

requesting to increase the ICR Annual 

Response allotment from 20,000 to 

25,000 Responses; and the ICR Annual 

Hours allotment from 15,000 to 18,000. 

NIST assures that no changes will be 

made to any of the individual 

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