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1See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from 

Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand: Initiation of 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 82 FR 29828 

(June 30, 2017) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from 

Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand: Postponement of 

Preliminary Determinations of Less-Than-FairValue Investigations, 82 FR 50622 (November 1, 

2017). 

3See the Department’s memorandum, ‘‘Decision 

Memorandum for the Preliminary Determination in 

the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Citric 

Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Belgium,’’ 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, 82 FR at 29829. 

6See the Department’s memorandum, ‘‘Citric 

Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Belgium, 

Colombia and Thailand; and Countervailing Duty 

Investigation of Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

from Thailand: Scope Comments Decision 

Memorandum for the Preliminary Determination,’’ 

dated December 1, 2017 (Preliminary Scope 

Decision Memorandum). 

The scope does not include calcium citrate 

that satisfies the standards set forth in the 

United States Pharmacopeia and has been 

mixed with a functional excipient, such as 

dextrose or starch, where the excipient 

constitutes at least 2 percent, by weight, of 

the product. 

Citric acid and sodium citrate are 

classifiable under 2918.14.0000 and 

2918.15.1000 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), 

respectively. Potassium citrate and crude 

calcium citrate are classifiable under 

2918.15.5000 and, if included in a mixture or 

blend, 3824.99.9295 of the HTSUS. Blends 

that include citric acid, sodium citrate, and 

potassium citrate are classifiable under 

3824.99.9295 of the HTSUS. Although the 

HTSUS subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the merchandise is 

dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Postponement of Final Determination and 

Extension of Provisional Measures 

V. Scope Comments 

VI. Scope of the Investigation 

VII. Preliminary Determination of Critical 

Circumstances 

VIII. Discussion of the Methodology 

A. Determination of the Comparison 

Method 

B. Results of the Differential Pricing 

Analysis 

IX. Date of Sale 

X. Product Comparisons 

XI. Export Price and Constructed Export 

Price 

XII. Normal Value 

A. Comparison Market Viability 

B. Level of Trade 

C. Cost of Production (COP) Analysis 

1. Calculation of COP 

2. Test of Comparison Market Sales Prices 

3. Results of the COP Test 

D. Calculation of NV Based on Comparison 

Market Prices 

E. Calculation of NV Based on Constructed 

Value 

XIII. Currency Conversion 

XIV. Verification 

XV. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–423–813] 

Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

From Belgium: 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 citric acid and certain citrate salts 

(citric acid) from Belgium 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, 

2016, through March 31, 2017. 

DATES: Applicable: January 8, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Stolz, 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) 482–4474. 

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 June 30, 2017.1 On November 1, 

2017, Commerce postponed the 

preliminary determination of this 

investigation and the revised deadline is 

now December 29, 2017.2 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, and to all parties in the 

Central Records Unit, Room B8024 of 

the main Department of Commerce 

building. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

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

The signed and the electronic versions 

of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is citric acid from 

Belgium. 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 the Initiation 

Notice set aside a period of time for 

parties to raise issues regarding product 

coverage (i.e., scope).5 Certain interested 

parties commented on the scope of the 

investigation as it appeared in the 

Initiation Notice. For a summary of the 

product coverage comments and 

rebuttal responses submitted to the 

record for this preliminary 

determination, and accompanying 

discussion and analysis of all comments 

timely received, see the Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum.6

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 has 

calculated export prices in accordance 

with section 772(a) of the Act. Normal 

value (NV) is calculated in accordance 

with section 773 of the Act. 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 


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7See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

8See Citrique Belge’s letter, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

from Belgium: Respondent’s Request for 

Postponement of Final Determination,’’ dated 

November 30, 2017, as amended by Citrique Belge’s 

letter, ‘‘Antidumping Duty Investigation of Citric 

Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Belgium: 

Respondent’s Request for Postponement of Final 

Determination,’’ dated December 1, 2017. 

rate for all exporters and producers not 

individually examined. This rate shall 

be an amount equal to the weighted 

average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins established 

for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero and de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. 

Commerce calculated an individual 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin for S.A. Citrique Belge N.V. 

(Citrique Belge), the only individually 

examined exporter/producer in this 

investigation. Because the only 

individually calculated dumping margin 

is not zero, de minimis, or based 

entirely on facts otherwise available, the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin calculated for Citrique Belge is 

the margin assigned to all-other 

producers and exporters, pursuant to 

section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

S.A. Citrique Belge N.V .............. 24.41 

All-Others .................................... 24.41 

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 a cash deposit equal to 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin or the estimated allothers rate, as follows: (1) The cash 

deposit rate for the respondents listed 

above will be equal to the companyspecific estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins determined in this 

preliminary determination; (2) if the 

exporter is not a respondent identified 

above, but the producer is, then the cash 

deposit rate will be equal to the 

company-specific estimated weightedaverage dumping margin established for 

that producer of the subject 

merchandise; and (3) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers and 

exporters will be equal to the all-others 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose its 

calculations and analysis performed to 

interested parties in this preliminary 

determination within five days of any 

public announcement or, if there is no 

public announcement, within five days 

of the date of publication of this notice 

in 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. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than seven days 

after the date on which the last 

verification report is issued in this 

investigation. Rebuttal briefs, limited to 

issues raised in case briefs, may be 

submitted no later than five days after 

the deadline date for case briefs.7

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. Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants, whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and a 

list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230, at a time and date to be 

determined. Parties should confirm by 

telephone the date, time, and location of 

the hearing two days before the 

scheduled 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 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 of provisional 

measures from a four-month period to a 

period not more than six months in 

duration. 

On November 30, 2017, Citrique Belge 

requested that Commerce postpone the 

final determination in the event of an 

affirmative preliminary determination, 

and on December 1, 2017, Citrique Belge 

re-submitted its request to postpone the 

final determination to also request that 

provisional measures be extended from 

a four-month period to a six-month 

period, pursuant to section 733(d) of the 

Act.8 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 exporter 

accounts for a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise; and 

(3) no compelling reasons for denial 

exist, Commerce is postponing the final 

determination and extending the 

provisional measures from a four-month 

period to a six-month period. 

Accordingly, Commerce will make its 

final determination no later than 135 

days after the date of publication of this 

preliminary determination. 

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 

these imports are materially injuring, or 

threaten material injury to, the U.S. 

industry. 


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1See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

To Request Administrative Review, 82 FR 16163 

(April 3, 2017). 

2See letter from US Magnesium LLC (the 

petitioner), ‘‘Magnesium Metal from the People’s 

Republic of China: Request for Administrative 

Review,’’ dated April 28, 2017. 

3See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 82 FR 

26444 (June 7, 2017). 

4The meaning of this term is the same as that 

used by the American Society for Testing and 

Materials in its Annual Book for ASTM Standards: 

Volume 01.02 Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys. 

5The material is already covered by existing 

antidumping orders. See Notice of Antidumping 

Continued 

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: December 29, 2017. 

Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation includes all grades and 

granulation sizes of citric acid, sodium 

citrate, and potassium citrate in their 

unblended forms, whether dry or in solution, 

and regardless of packaging type. The scope 

also includes blends of citric acid, sodium 

citrate, and potassium citrate; as well as 

blends with other ingredients, such as sugar, 

where the unblended form(s) of citric acid, 

sodium citrate, and potassium citrate 

constitute 40 percent or more, by weight, of 

the blend. 

The scope also includes all forms of crude 

calcium citrate, including dicalcium citrate 

monohydrate, and tricalcium citrate 

tetrahydrate, which are intermediate 

products in the production of citric acid, 

sodium citrate, and potassium citrate. 

The scope includes the hydrous and 

anhydrous forms of citric acid, the dihydrate 

and anhydrous forms of sodium citrate, 

otherwise known as citric acid sodium salt, 

and the monohydrate and monopotassium 

forms of potassium citrate. Sodium citrate 

also includes both trisodium citrate and 

monosodium citrate which are also known as 

citric acid trisodium salt and citric acid 

monosodium salt, respectively. 

The scope does not include calcium citrate 

that satisfies the standards set forth in the 

United States Pharmacopeia and has been 

mixed with a functional excipient, such as 

dextrose or starch, where the excipient 

constitutes at least 2 percent, by weight, of 

the product. 

Citric acid and sodium citrate are 

classifiable under 2918.14.0000 and 

2918.15.1000 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), 

respectively. Potassium citrate and crude 

calcium citrate are classifiable under 

2918.15.5000 and, if included in a mixture or 

blend, 3824.99.9295 of the HTSUS. Blends 

that include citric acid, sodium citrate, and 

potassium citrate are classifiable under 

3824.99.9295 of the HTSUS. Although the 

HTSUS subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the merchandise is 

dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Postponement of Final Determination and 

Extension of Provisional Measures 

V. Scope Comments 

VI. Scope of the Investigation 

VII. Discussion of the Methodology 

A. Determination of Comparison Method 

B. Results of the Differential Pricing 

Analysis 

VIII. Date of Sale 

IX. Product Comparisons 

X. Export Price And Constructed Export Price 

A. Export Price 

XI. Normal Value 

A. Home Market Viability 

B. Level of Trade 

C. Cost of Production Analysis 

D. Calculation of NV Based On 

Comparison-Market Prices 

XII. Currency Conversion 

XIII. Verification 

XIV. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–896] 

Magnesium Metal from the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2016–2017 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is conducting the 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on magnesium 

metal from the People’s Republic of 

China (China), covering the period April 

1, 2016, through March 31, 2017. 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that Tianjin Magnesium International, 

Co., Ltd. (TMI) and Tianjin Magnesium 

Metal, Co., Ltd. (TMM) did not have 

reviewable entries during the period of 

review (POR). We invite interested 

parties to comment on these preliminary 

results. 

DATES: Applicable January 8, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Terpstra, 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) 482–3965. 

Background 

On April 3, 2017, Commerce 

published a notice of opportunity to 

request an administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on magnesium 

metal from China for the POR.1 On June 

7, 2017, in response to a timely request 

from the petitioner,2 and in accordance 

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on magnesium 

metal from China with respect to TMI 

and TMM.3

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by this 

antidumping duty order is magnesium 

metal from China, which includes 

primary and secondary alloy 

magnesium metal, regardless of 

chemistry, raw material source, form, 

shape, or size. Magnesium is a metal or 

alloy containing by weight primarily the 

element magnesium. Primary 

magnesium is produced by 

decomposing raw materials into 

magnesium metal. Secondary 

magnesium is produced by recycling 

magnesium-based scrap into magnesium 

metal. The magnesium covered by this 

order includes blends of primary and 

secondary magnesium. 

The subject merchandise includes the 

following alloy magnesium metal 

products made from primary and/or 

secondary magnesium including, 

without limitation, magnesium cast into 

ingots, slabs, rounds, billets, and other 

shapes; magnesium ground, chipped, 

crushed, or machined into rasping, 

granules, turnings, chips, powder, 

briquettes, and other shapes; and 

products that contain 50 percent or 

greater, but less than 99.8 percent, 

magnesium, by weight, and that have 

been entered into the United States as 

conforming to an ‘‘ASTM Specification 

for Magnesium Alloy’’ 4 and are thus 

outside the scope of the existing 

antidumping orders on magnesium from 

China (generally referred to as ‘‘alloy’’ 

magnesium). 

The scope of this order excludes: (1) 

All forms of pure magnesium, including 

chemical combinations of magnesium 

and other material(s) in which the pure 

magnesium content is 50 percent or 

greater, but less than 99.8 percent, by 

weight, that do not conform to an 

‘‘ASTM Specification for Magnesium 

Alloy’’ 5; (2) magnesium that is in liquid 


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