784 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 5 / Monday, January 8, 2018 / Notices 

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) and 

accompanying Initiation Checklist. 

2See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from 

Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand: Postponement of 

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

2017) (Preliminary Postponement Notice). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Antidumping Duty 

Determination, Preliminary Affirmative Critical 

Circumstances Determination, in Part, and 

Postponement of Final Determination and 

Extension of Provisional Measures in the LessDEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Economic Development Administration 

Notice of National Advisory Council on 

Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Economic Development 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Advisory 

Council on Innovation and 

Entrepreneurship (NACIE) will hold a 

public meeting on Thursday, February 

1, 2018, from 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time (ET) and Friday, February 

2, 2018, from 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. ET. 

During this time, members will hear 

from Federal innovation and 

entrepreneurship policymakers and 

program executives and discuss 

potential policies that would foster 

innovation, increase the rate of 

technology commercialization, and 

catalyze the creation of jobs in the 

United States. Topics to be covered 

include increasing early-stage highgrowth company exports, increased 

economic dynamism through 

innovation and entrepreneurship, 

apprenticeships in entrepreneurship 

and high-growth technology sectors, and 

alignment of federal innovation and 

entrepreneurship policies and programs. 

DATES: 

Thursday, February 1, 2018 

Time: 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. ET 

Friday, February 2, 2018 

Time: 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. ET 

ADDRESSES: Herbert Clark Hoover 

Building (HCHB), 1401 Constitution 

Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20230, Room 

72015. The entrance to HCHB is located 

on the west side of 14th St. NW between 

D St. NW and Constitution Ave. NW, 

and a valid government-issued ID is 

required to enter the building. Please 

note that pre-clearance is required in 

order to both attend the meeting in 

person and make a statement during the 

public comment portion of the meeting. 

Please limit comments to five minutes 

or less and submit a brief statement 

summarizing your comments to Craig 

Buerstatte (see contact information 

below) no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on 

Friday, January 26, 2018. 

Teleconference 

Teleconference and/or web 

conference connection information will 

be published prior to the meeting along 

with the agenda on the NACIE website 

at https://www.eda.gov/oie/nacie/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NACIE, 

established by Section 25(c) of the 

Stevenson-Wydler Technology 

Innovation Act of 1980, as amended (15 

U.S.C. 3720(c)), and managed by EDA’s 

Office of Innovation and 

Entrepreneurship (OIE), is a Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) 

committee that provides advice directly 

to the Secretary of Commerce. NACIE’s 

advice focuses on transformational 

policies and programs that aim to 

accelerate innovation and increase the 

rate at which research is translated into 

companies and jobs, including through 

entrepreneurship and the development 

of an increasingly skilled, globally 

competitive workforce. Comprised of 

successful entrepreneurs, innovators, 

angel investors, venture capitalists, and 

leaders from the nonprofit and academic 

sectors, NACIE has presented to the 

Secretary recommendations from 

throughout the research-to-jobs 

continuum regarding topics including 

improving access to capital, growing 

and connecting entrepreneurial 

ecosystems, increasing small businessdriven research and development, and 

understanding the workforce of the 

future. In its advisory capacity, NACIE 

also serves as a vehicle for ongoing 

dialogue with the innovation, 

entrepreneurship, and workforce 

development communities. 

The final agenda for the meeting will 

be posted on the NACIE website at 

http://www.eda.gov/oie/nacie/ prior to 

the meeting. Any member of the public 

may submit pertinent questions and 

comments concerning the NACIE’s 

affairs at any time before or after the 

meeting. Comments may be submitted 

to Craig Buerstatte (see contact 

information below). Those unable to 

attend the meetings in person but 

wishing to listen to the proceedings can 

do so via teleconference (see above). 

Copies of the meeting minutes will be 

available by request within 90 days of 

the meeting date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Craig Buerstatte, Office of Innovation 

and Entrepreneurship, Room 78018, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230; email: nacie@

doc.gov; telephone: +1 202 482 8001; 

fax: +1 202 273 4781. Please reference 

‘‘NACIE February 2018 Meeting’’ in the 

subject line of your correspondence. 

Dated: December 28, 2017. 

Craig Buerstatte, 

Acting Director, Office of Innovation and 

Entrepreneurship. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00139 Filed 1–5–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–WH–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–549–833] 

Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

From Thailand: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value, Preliminary Affirmative 

Critical Circumstances Determination, 

in Part, and 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 Thailand 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: Joy 

Zhang (COFCO), George McMahon 

(Niran), or Cindy Robinson (Sunshine), 

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) 482–1168, 

(202) 482–1167, or (202) 482–3797, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on 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 


sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 5 / Monday, January 8, 2018 / Notices 785 

Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Citric Acid and 

Certain Citrate Salts from Thailand’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

4See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997) (Preamble). 

5See Initiation Notice, 82 FR at 29836. 

6See Memorandum titled ‘‘Scope Comments 

Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 

Determinations,’’ dated December 1, 2017 

(Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum). 

7For a complete analysis of the data, please see 

the All-Others Rate Calculation Memorandum dated 

concurrently with this notice. 

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 is available 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 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 

Thailand. For a complete discussion 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 for parties to 

raise issues regarding product coverage 

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

commented on the scope of this 

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 also 

calculated export and constructed 

export prices in accordance with section 

772 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. 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination 

of Critical Circumstances, in Part 

In accordance with section 733(e) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.206, Commerce 

preliminarily finds that critical 

circumstances exist for one of the 

mandatory respondents, Niran, but do 

not exist for COFCO, Sunshine and allother producers and/or exporters. For a 

full description of the methodology and 

results of Commerce’s critical 

circumstances analysis, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

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

of the Act provide that in the 

preliminary determination Commerce 

shall determine an estimated all-others 

rate for all exporters and producers not 

individually examined. This rate shall 

be 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. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

calculated the all-others rate based on a 

weighted average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

calculated for the three mandatory 

respondents: COFCO, Niran, and 

Sunshine, none of which are zero, de 

minimis, or based entirely on facts 

otherwise available. Commerce 

calculated the all-others’ rate using a 

weighted-average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

calculated for the examined respondents 

using each company’s business 

proprietary data for the merchandise 

under consideration.7

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

COFCO Biochemical (Thailand) 

Co., Ltd. (COFCO) .................. 15.73 

Niran (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Niran) 12.95 

Sunshine Biotech International 

Co., Ltd. (Sunshine) ................ 4.77 

All-Others .................................... 10.55 

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. 

Section 733(e)(2) of the Act provides 

that, given an affirmative determination 

of critical circumstances, any 

suspension of liquidation shall apply to 

unliquidated entries of subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the later of (a) the date which is 90 

days before the date on which the 

suspension of liquidation was first 

ordered, or (b) the date on which notice 

of initiation of the investigation was 

published. Commerce preliminarily 

finds that critical circumstances exist 

for imports of subject merchandise 

produced or exported by Niran. In 

accordance with section 733(e)(2)(A) of 

the Act, the suspension of liquidation 

shall apply to unliquidated entries of 

shipments of subject merchandise from 

Niran that were entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date which is 90 days before 

the publication of this notice. 

Commerce normally adjusts cash 

deposits for estimated antidumping 

duties by the amount of export subsidies 

countervailed in a companion 

countervailing duty (CVD) proceeding, 

when CVD provisional measures are in 

effect. Accordingly, where Commerce 

preliminarily made an affirmative 

determination for countervailable export 

subsidies, Commerce has offset the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin by the appropriate CVD rate. 


sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES
786 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 5 / Monday, January 8, 2018 / Notices 

8See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

9See Letter from the petitioners titled, 

‘‘Antidumping Duty Investigation of Citric Acid and 

Certain Citrate Salts from Thailand: Petitioners’ 

Request for Postponement of Final Determination,’’ 

dated November 29, 2017. 

10See Letter from COFCO and Niran titled, 

‘‘Conditional Request for Extension of Final 

Determination,’’ dated December 1, 2017; see also 

Letter from Sunshine titled, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

from Thailand: Request for Postponement of Final 

Determination and Provisional Measures Period,’’ 

dated December 4, 2017. 11See section 735(b)(2) of the Act. 

However, in the companion CVD 

preliminary determination, Commerce 

has preliminarily determined that no 

countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to the production or 

exportation of subject merchandise and 

therefore, Commerce did not direct CBP 

to suspend liquidation of any such 

entries. Accordingly, we made no 

adjustment for the export subsidy offset 

to the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin. These suspension of 

liquidation instructions will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

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.8

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 29, 2017, pursuant to 

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

351.210(e)(1), the petitioners requested 

that, if the preliminary determination in 

the above-referenced investigation is 

negative, Commerce postpone the final 

determination in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.210(b)(2)(i).9 On December 1, 

2017, COFCO and Niran, and on 

December 4, 2017, Sunshine requested 

that, in the event of an affirmative 

preliminary determination, Commerce 

postpone the final determination, and 

that provisional measures be extended 

by the corresponding period of 

extension (e.g., by an additional 60 

days), which represents a period not to 

exceed six months.10

In accordance with section 

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

351.210(b)(2)(ii) and (e)(2), because (1) 

our preliminary determination is 

affirmative, (2) the requesting exporters 

account for a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise, and 

(3) no compelling reasons for denial 

exist, we are granting the respondents’ 

request and are postponing the final 

determination until no later than 135 

days after the publication of the 

preliminary determination notice in the 

Federal Register, and we are extending 

provisional measures from four months 

to a period not to exceed six months. 

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 affirmative 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 Commerce’s final 

determination whether these imports 

are materially injuring, or threaten 

material injury to, the U.S. industry.11

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. 


sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 5 / Monday, January 8, 2018 / Notices 787 

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 

[FR Doc. 2018–00132 Filed 1–5–18; 8:45 am] 

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 


sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES