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Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act 

of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005). 

1See Pentafluoroethane (R–125) from the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination 

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final 

Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part, 87 FR 1117 (January 10, 

2022) (LTFV Final Determination). 

2See Pentafluoroethane (R–125) from the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Affirmative Countervailing 

Duty Determination, 87 FR 1110 (January 10, 2022) 

(CVD Final Determination). 

3See ITC’s Letter, Notification of ITC Final 

Determinations, dated February 23, 2022 (ITC 

Notification). 

4 Id. 

5See Pentafluoroethane (R–125) from the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part, Postponement of Final 

Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 86 FR 45959 (August 17, 2021) (LTFV 

Preliminary Determination). 

6See section 736(a)(3) of the Act. 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the 

deadline for the final determinations of 

these investigations will continue to be 

75 days after the date of the preliminary 

determinations. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published 

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

and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1). 

Dated: February 25, 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 

[A–570–137; C–570–138] 

Pentafluoroethane (R–125) From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Orders 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the U.S. Department 

of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

Commerce is issuing antidumping duty 

(AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) 

orders on pentafluoroethane (R–125) 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(China). 

DATES: Applicable March 3, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex 

Wood (AD) or Adam Simons (CVD), AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1959 or (202) 482–6172, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with sections 705(d) 

and 735(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act), on January 10, 2022, 

Commerce published its affirmative 

final determination of sales at less than 

fair value (LTFV) 1 and its affirmative 

final determination that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of R–125 from 

China.2 On February 23, 2022, the ITC 

notified Commerce of its final 

affirmative determinations that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of LTFV 

imports and subsidized imports of R– 

125 from China, within the meaning of 

sections 705(b)(1)(A)(i) and 

735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act.3

Scope of the Orders 

The products covered by these orders 

are R–125 from China. For a complete 

description of the scope of the orders, 

see Appendix I to this notice. 

Antidumping Duty Order 

On February 23, 2022, in accordance 

with section 735(d) of the Act, the ITC 

notified Commerce of its final 

determination 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 

imports of R–125 from China.4

Therefore, Commerce is issuing this AD 

order in accordance with sections 

735(c)(2) and 736 of the Act. Because 

the ITC determined that imports of R– 

125 from China are materially injuring 

a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of 

such merchandise from China 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 R–125 from China. 

Antidumping duties will be assessed on 

unliquidated entries of R–125 from 

China entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

August 17, 2021, the date of publication 

of the LTFV Preliminary Determination, 

but will not be assessed on entries 

occurring after the expiration of the 

provisional measures period and before 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determination, as further 

described below.5

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation—AD 

In accordance with section 736 of the 

Act, we will instruct CBP to continue to 

suspend liquidation on all relevant 

entries of R–125 from China entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determinations in the Federal 

Register. These instructions suspending 

liquidation will remain in effect until 

further notice. For each producer and 

exporter combination, Commerce will 

also instruct CBP to require cash 

deposits for estimated antidumping 

duties equal to the cash deposit rates 

listed below. 

Accordingly, effective on the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determination, CBP will require, 

at the same time as an importer of 

record would normally deposit 

estimated duties on the subject 

merchandise, a cash deposit for each 

entry of subject merchandise equal to 

the cash deposit rates listed below.6 As 

stated in the LTFV Final Determination, 

Commerce made certain adjustments for 

export subsidies from the CVD Final 

Determination to the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins to 

determine each of the cash deposit rates. 

Producer Exporter 

Estimated 

weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit rate 

(adjusted for 

subsidy offsets) 

(percent) 

Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd ................ Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd ............... 277.95 267.41 

Fujian Qingliu Dongying Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd .... Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd ............... 277.95 267.41 


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7The China-wide entity also includes Zhejiang 

Quzhou Juxin Fluorine Chemical Co., Ltd. 

8See LTFV Preliminary Determination. 

9See ITC Notification. 

10See Pentafluoroethane (R–125) from the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment 

of Final Determination With Final Antidumping 

Duty Determination, 86 FR 33648 (June 25, 2021) 

(CVD Preliminary Determination). 

11See section 706(a)(3) of the Act. 12Commerce has found the following companies 

to be cross-owned with Zhejiang Quzhou Juxin 

Fluorine Chemical Co., Ltd.: Juhua Group 

Corporation; Zhejiang Juhua Co., Ltd.; Ningbo Juhua 

Chemical & Science Co., Ltd.; Zhejiang Quzhou 

Fluoxin Chemicals Co., Ltd.; and Zhejiang Juhua 

Chemical Mining Co., Ltd. 

13Commerce has found the following company to 

be cross-owned with Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical 

Ind. Co., Ltd.: Fujian Qingliu Dongying Chemical 

Ind. Co. Ltd. 

Producer Exporter 

Estimated 

weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit rate 

(adjusted for 

subsidy offsets) 

(percent) 

Producers Supplying the Non-Individually-Examined Exporters Receiving Separate Rates (see 

Appendix II).

Non-Individually-Examined Exporters Receiving 

Separate Rates (see Appendix II).

277.95 267.41 

China-Wide Entity 7 ................................................. ................................................................................. 278.05 267.51 

Provisional Measures—AD 

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 that Commerce may 

extend the four-month period to no 

more than six months at the request of 

exporters representing a significant 

proportion of exports of the subject 

merchandise. Commerce published its 

LTFV Preliminary Determination on 

August 17, 2021.8 Therefore, the sixmonth period beginning on the date of 

publication of the LTFV Preliminary 

Determination ended on February 12, 

2022. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

733(d) of the Act, Commerce will 

instruct CBP to terminate the 

suspension of liquidation and to 

liquidate, without regard to 

antidumping duties, unliquidated 

entries of R–125 from China entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption after February 12, 2022, 

the date on which the provisional 

measures expired, through the day 

preceding the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Suspension of liquidation will resume 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final affirmative injury determination in 

the Federal Register. 

Critical Circumstances—AD 

With regard to the ITC’s negative 

critical circumstances determination on 

R–125 from China, we will instruct CBP 

to lift suspension and to refund all cash 

deposits made to secure the payment of 

estimated antidumping duties with 

respect to entries of R–125 from China 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after May 19, 

2021 (i.e., 90 days prior to the date of 

publication of the LTFV Preliminary 

Determination), but before August 17, 

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

LTFV Preliminary Determination). 

Countervailing Duty Order 

On February 23, 2022, in accordance 

with section 705(d) of the Act, the ITC 

notified Commerce of its final 

determination that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured 

within the meaning of section 

705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of 

imports of R–125 from China.9

Therefore, Commerce is issuing this 

CVD order in accordance with sections 

705(c)(2) and 706 of the Act. Because 

the ITC determined that imports of R– 

125 from China are materially injuring 

a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of 

such merchandise from China entered, 

or withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption are subject to the 

assessment of countervailing duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

706(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce will 

direct CBP to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, 

countervailing duties on all relevant 

entries of R–125 from China. 

Countervailing duties will be assessed 

on unliquidated entries of R–125 from 

China which are entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after June 25, 2021, the date of 

publication of the CVD Preliminary 

Determination,10 but will not be 

assessed on entries occurring after the 

expiration of the provisional measures 

period and before publication of the 

ITC’s final affirmative injury 

determination, as further described 

below. 

Suspension of Liquidation—CVD 

In accordance with section 706 of the 

Act, we will instruct CBP to reinstitute 

suspension of liquidation on all relevant 

entries of R–125 from China, effective 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final affirmative injury determination 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 rate for the subject 

merchandise. These instructions 

suspending liquidation will remain in 

effect until further notice. Commerce 

will also instruct CBP to require cash 

deposits equal to the amounts as 

indicated below. Accordingly, effective 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final affirmative injury determination, 

CBP will require, at the same time as 

importers would normally deposit 

estimated duties on the subject 

merchandise, a cash deposit for each 

entry of subject merchandise equal to 

the subsidy rates listed below.11 The allothers rate applies to all producers or 

exporters not specifically listed below, 

as appropriate. 

Company Subsidy rate 

(percent) 

Arkema Daikin Advanced 

Fluorochemicals 

(Changsu) Co., Ltd ........... 291.26 

Daikin Fluorochemicals 

(China) Co., Ltd ................ 291.26 

Hongkong Richmax Ltd ........ 291.26 

Weitron International Refrigeration Equipment 

(Kunshan) Co., Ltd ............ 291.26 

Zhejiang Quzhou Juxin Fluorine Chemical Co., Ltd.12 .. 3.23 

Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical 

Ind. Co., Ltd.13 .................. 2.31 

All Others .............................. 3.12 

Provisional Measures—CVD 

Section 703(d) of the Act states that 

suspension of liquidation instructions 

issued pursuant to an affirmative 

preliminary determination may not 

remain in effect for more than four 

months. Commerce published its CVD 

Preliminary Determination on June 25, 

2021. Therefore, the provisional 

measures period, beginning on the date 

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14See Regulations to Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

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

(Final Rule). 

15See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

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

16 Id. 

17This 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. 

18See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 

19 ‘‘Largest relative component by volume, on an 

actual percentage basis’’ means that the percentage 

of R–125 contained in a blend is larger than the 

individual percentages of all the other components. 

For example, R–125 contained in a blend that does 

not conform to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34 and 

which contains 35% R–125 by volume is covered 

by the scope of the orders if no other component 

Continued 

Determination, ended on October 22, 

2021. Pursuant to section 707(b) of the 

Act, the collection of cash deposits at 

the rate listed above will begin on the 

date of publication of the ITC’s final 

affirmative injury determinations. 

Therefore, 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 R–125 from 

China entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption after 

October 22, 2021, the date on which the 

provisional measures expired, through 

the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination in the Federal Register. 

Suspension of liquidation will resume 

on the date of publication of the ITC’s 

final affirmative injury determination in 

the Federal Register. 

Critical Circumstances—CVD 

With regard to the ITC’s negative 

critical circumstances determination on 

imports of R–125 from China, we intend 

to 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 the 

subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after March 27, 2021 

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

publication of the CVD Preliminary 

Determination), but before June 25, 2021 

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

Preliminary Determination). 

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry 

Service List 

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.14 On September 27, 

2021, Commerce also published the 

notice titled ‘‘Scope Ruling Application; 

Annual Inquiry Service List; and 

Informational Sessions’’ in the Federal 

Register.15 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.16

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.’’ 17

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.’’ 18

Accordingly, as stated above, the 

petitioner and the Government of China 

should submit their initial entry of 

appearance after publication of this 

notice in order to appear in the first 

annual inquiry service list. Pursuant to 

19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and 

the Government of China will not need 

to resubmit their entries of appearance 

each year to continue to be included on 

the annual inquiry service list. 

However, the petitioner and the 

Government of China 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 AD and 

CVD orders with respect to R–125 from 

China pursuant to sections 706(a) and 

736(a) of the Act. Interested parties can 

find a list of duty orders currently in 

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

stats/iastats1.html. 

These orders are published in 

accordance with sections 706(a) and 

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

Dated: February 25, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I—Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise covered by these orders 

is pentafluoroethane (R–125), or its chemical 

equivalent, regardless of form, type or purity 

level. R–125 has the Chemical Abstracts 

Service (CAS) registry number of 354–33–6 

and the chemical formula C2HF5. R–125 is 

also referred to as Pentafluoroethane, 

Genetron HFC 125, Khladon 125, Suva 125, 

Freon 125, and Fc–125. 

R–125 contained in blends that do not 

conform to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34 is 

included in the scope of these orders when 

R–125 constitutes the largest relative 

component by volume, on an actual 

percentage basis, of the blend.19 However, R– 


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part of the blend equals or exceeds 35% of the 

volume of the blend. 

20Commerce determined that T.T. International 

Co., Ltd. and T.T. International Co., Limited are a 

single entity (collectively, TTI). 

1See Initiation and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews, 86 FR 17124 (April 1, 

2021); see also Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical 

Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from the People’s 

Republic of China and India: Countervailing Duty 

Orders, 83 FR 4637 (February 1, 2018) (Order). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Certain Cold-Drawn 

Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from 

India: Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results 

of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review, 

2020,’’ dated October 5, 2021. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review: Certain Cold-Drawn 

Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel from 

India; 2020,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

4See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

125 incorporated into a blend that conforms 

to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34 is excluded 

from the scope of these orders. When R–125 

is blended with other products and otherwise 

falls under the scope of these orders, only the 

R–125 component of the mixture is covered 

by the scope of these orders. 

Subject merchandise also includes purified 

and unpurified R–125 that is processed in a 

third country or otherwise outside the 

customs territory of the United States, 

including, but not limited to, purifying, 

blending, or any other processing that would 

not otherwise remove the merchandise from 

the scope of the orders if performed in the 

country of manufacture of the in-scope R– 

125. The scope also includes R–125 that is 

commingled with R–125 from sources not 

subject to these orders. Only the subject 

component of such commingled products is 

covered by the scope of these orders. 

Excluded from the scope is merchandise 

covered by the scope of the antidumping 

order on Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the 

People’s Republic of China, including 

merchandise subject to the affirmative anticircumvention determination in 

Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the People’s 

Republic of China: Affirmative Final 

Determination of Circumvention of the 

Antidumping Duty Order; Unfinished R–32/ 

R–125 Blends, 85 FR 15428 (March 18, 2020). 

See Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the 

People’s Republic of China: Antidumping 

Duty Order, 81 FR 55436 (August 19, 2016) 

(the Blends Order). 

R–125 is classified under Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

subheading 2903.49.1010. Merchandise 

subject to the scope may also be entered 

under HTSUS subheadings 2903.49.0000 and 

3827.11.0000, or 3827.39.0000. The HTSUS 

subheadings and CAS registry number are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes. The written description of the 

scope of the orders is dispositive. 

Appendix II—Separate Rate Companies 

Exporter Producer 

Non-individually-examined exporters receiving separate rates Producers supplying the non-individually-examined exporters receiving 

separate rates 

Huantai Dongyue International Trade Co. Ltd ......................................... Jinhua Binglong Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. 

Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co., Ltd .................................................... Shandong Dongyue Chemical Co., Ltd. 

Shandong Huaan New Material Co., Ltd ................................................. Shandong Huaan New Material Co., Ltd. 

T.T. International Co., Ltd./T.T. International Co., Limited 20 ................... Sinochem Environmental Protection Chemicals (Taicang) Co., Ltd. 

T.T. International Co., Ltd./T.T. International Co., Limited ...................... Zhejiang Quhua Fluor-Chemistry Co., Ltd. 

T.T. International Co., Ltd./T.T. International Co., Limited ...................... Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Industry. Co., Ltd. 

Zhejiang Yonghe Refrigerant Co., Ltd ..................................................... Jinhua Yonghe Fluorochemical Co., Ltd.

Zibo Feiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd ............................................................... Zibo Feiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–874] 

Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing 

of Carbon and Alloy Steel From India: 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing 

Duty Administrative Review; 2020 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to producers and exporters of 

certain cold-drawn mechanical tubing of 

carbon and alloy steel (cold-drawn 

mechanical tubing) from India during 

the period of review, January 1, 2020, 

through December 31, 2020. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable March 3, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eliza Siordia or Eric Hawkins, 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) 482–3878 or (202) 482–1988, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On April 1, 2021, Commerce 

published a notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty order on colddrawn mechanical tubing from India.1

On October 5, 2021, Commerce 

extended the time period for issuing 

these preliminary results by 117 days, in 

accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act).2 The revised deadline for these 

preliminary results is now February 25, 

2022. 

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included at the 

appendix 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 http://

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 Order 

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is cold-drawn mechanical tubing 

from India. For a complete description 

of the scope of the Order, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this review 

in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(A) 

of the Act. For each of the subsidy 

programs found countervailable, we 

preliminarily find that there is a 

subsidy, i.e., a financial contribution 

that gives rise to a benefit to the 

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