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1See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the 

People’s Republic of China: Countervailing Duty 

Order, 77 FR 73017 (December 7, 2012) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 82 FR 

10457 (February 13, 2017) (Initiation Notice). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

Preliminary Results of the Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review of Crystalline Silicon 

Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, from the People’s Republic of China; 

2015,’’ (Preliminary Decision Memorandum), dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice. 

4See Letter from the petitioner, ‘‘Certain Silicon 

Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled into 

Modules, from the People’s Republic of China: 

Partial Withdrawal Request for Administrative 

Review,’’ dated January 30, 2017; and Letter from 

Yingli, ‘‘Countervailing Duty Order on Crystalline 

Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not 

Assembled into Modules: Yingli’s Withdrawal of 

Request for Administrative Review,’’ dated May 15, 

2017. 

5See Letter from the petitioner, ‘‘Crystalline 

Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not 

Assembled into Modules, from the People’s 

Republic of China: Withdrawal of Administrative 

Review Request,’’ dated (May 15, 2017), and Letter 

from Shanghai BYD, ‘‘Crystalline Silicon 

Photovoltaic Cells, Whether Or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, from the People’s Republic of China: 

Withdrawal Notice of Shanghai BYD and Shangluo 

BYD,’’ dated May 15, 2017. 

6See 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. 

7See section 776(a) of the Act. 

8Cross-owned affiliates are: Canadian Solar Inc.; 

Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Luoyang) Inc.; 

Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Changshu) Inc.; CSI 

Cells Co., Ltd.; CSI Solar Power (China) Inc.; CSI 

Solartronics (Changshu) Co., Ltd.; CSI Solar 

Technologies Inc.; CSI Solar Manufacture Inc. 

(name was changed to CSI New Energy Holding Co., 

Ltd. in July 2015); CSI–GCL Solar Manufacturing 

(Yancheng) Co., Ltd.; Changshu Tegu New Materials 

Technology Co., Ltd.; Changshu Tlian Co., Ltd.; and 

Suzhou Sanysolar Materials Technology Co., Ltd. 

See Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

9Cross-owned affiliates are: Changzhou Trina 

Solar Energy Co., Ltd.; Trina Solar (Changzhou) 

Science and Technology Co., Ltd.; Yancheng Trina 

Solar Energy Technology Co., Ltd.; Changzhou 

Trina Solar Yabang Energy Co., Ltd.; Hubei Trina 

Solar Energy Co., Ltd.; Turpan Trina Solar Energy 

Co., Ltd.; and Changzhou Trina PV Ribbon 

Materials Co., Ltd. See Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

Continued 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–980] 

Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, From the People’s Republic 

of China: Preliminary Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review, and Rescission of Review, in 

Part; 2015 

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 

crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, 

whether or not assembled into modules 

(solar cells) from the People’s Republic 

of China (China). The period of review 

(POR) is January 1, 2015, through 

December 31, 2015. 

DATES: Applicable January 10, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gene H. Calvert, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–3586. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 7, 2012, Commerce 

issued a countervailing duty (CVD) 

order on solar cells from China.1 Several 

interested parties requested that 

Commerce conduct an administrative 

review of the CVD order, and on 

February 13, 2017, Commerce published 

in the Federal Register a notice of 

initiation of an administrative review of 

the Order for 54 producers/exporters for 

the POR.2

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise subject to the Order 

is crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, 

and modules, laminates, and panels, 

consisting of crystalline silicon 

photovoltaic cells, whether or not 

partially or fully assembled into other 

products, including, but not limited to, 

modules, laminates, panels, and 

building integrated materials. For a 

complete description of the scope of this 

administrative review, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum.3

Rescission of Administrative Review, in 

Part 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the 

Secretary will rescind an administrative 

review, in whole or in part, if the parties 

that requested a review withdraw the 

request within 90 days of the date of 

publication of the notice of initiation of 

the requested review. This review was 

initiated on February 13, 2017. Between 

January 30, 2017, and May 15, 2017, we 

received timely withdrawals of the 

requests for review, for which no other 

parties requested a review, for the 

following companies: Yingli Green 

Energy Holding Company Limited; 4

BYD (Shangluo) Industrial Co., Ltd., and 

Shanghai BYD Co., Ltd.5 Therefore, 

because there are no remaining requests 

to review these three companies, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), 

and consistent with our practice, we are 

rescinding this review with respect to 

the three aforementioned companies. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751(a)(1)(A) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). For 

each of the subsidy programs found 

countervailable, we preliminarily find 

that there is a subsidy, (i.e., a financial 

contribution from an authority that 

gives rise to a benefit to the recipient) 

and that the subsidy is specific.6 In 

making this preliminary determination, 

Commerce relied, in part, on facts 

otherwise available, with the 

application of adverse inferences.7 For 

further information, see ‘‘Use of Facts 

Otherwise Available and Application of 

Adverse Inferences’’ in the 

accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. A list of topics discussed 

in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is provided at Appendix 

I 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, 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 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum and 

the electronic version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum are identical in 

content. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, we 

preliminarily determine the 

countervailable subsidy rates to be: 

Company 

Subsidy 

rate 

(percent) 

Canadian Solar Inc. and its 

Cross-Owned Affiliates 8 ........... 13.72 

Changzhou Trina Solar Energy 

Co., Ltd. and its Cross-Owned 

Affiliates 9 10 ............................... 10.93 

Non-Selected Companies Under 

Review ...................................... 12.64 

Preliminary Rate for Non-Selected 

Companies Under Review 

The statute and Commerce’s 

regulations do not directly address the 


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10See Appendix II of this notice for a list of all 

companies that remain under review but were not 

selected for individual examination, and to whom 

we have preliminarily assigned the non-selected 

company rate. 

11See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

12See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(l)(ii) and 351.309(d)(l). 

Interested parties will be notified through ACCESS 

regarding the deadline for submitting case briefs. 

13See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(2). 

14See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

15See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

16See 19 CFR 351.310. 

17See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

establishment of rates to be applied to 

companies not selected for individual 

examination where Commerce limits its 

examination in an administrative review 

pursuant to section 777A(e)(2) of the 

Act. However, Commerce normally 

determines the rates for non-selected 

companies in reviews in a manner that 

is consistent with section 705(c)(5) of 

the Act, which provides instructions for 

calculating the all-others rate in an 

investigation. Section 705(c)(5)(A)(i) of 

the Act instructs Commerce, as a general 

rule, to calculate an all others rate using 

the weighted average of the subsidy 

weights established for the producers/ 

exporters individually examined, 

excluding any zero, de minimis, or rates 

based entirely on facts available. For the 

companies for which a review was 

requested that were not selected as 

mandatory company respondents, and 

for which we did not receive a timely 

request for withdrawal of review, and 

for which we are not finding to be crossowned with the mandatory company 

respondents, we based the subsidy rate 

on a weighted-average of the subsidy 

rates calculated for the two mandatory 

respondents, Canadian Solar Inc. and 

Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd, 

using their publicly-ranged sales data 

for exports of subject merchandise to the 

United States during the POR. A list of 

these non-selected companies can be 

found in Appendix II of notice. 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce will disclose to parties to 

this proceeding the calculations 

performed in reaching the preliminary 

results within five days of the date of 

publication of these preliminary 

results.11 Interested parties may submit 

written comments (case briefs) at a date 

to be determined by Commerce and 

rebuttal comments (rebuttal briefs) 

within five days after the time limit for 

filing case briefs.12 Rebuttal briefs must 

be limited to issues raised in the case 

briefs.13 Commerce will notify 

interested parties when it has 

determined a deadline for case briefs. 

Parties who submit case or rebuttal 

briefs are requested to submit with the 

argument: (1) A statement of the issue; 

(2) a brief summary of the argument; 

and (3) a table of authorities.14

Interested parties who wish to request 

a hearing must do so within 30 days of 

publication of these preliminary results 

by submitting a written request to the 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, using Enforcement and 

Compliance’s ACCESS system.15

Hearing requests should contain the 

party’s name, address, and telephone 

number, the number of participants, and 

a list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, we will 

inform parties of the scheduled date for 

the hearing, which will be held at the 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230, at a time and 

location to be determined.16 Parties 

should confirm by telephone the date, 

time, and location of the hearing. Issues 

addressed at the hearing will be limited 

to those raised in the briefs.17 All briefs 

and hearing requests must be filed 

electronically and received successfully 

in their entirety through ACCESS by 

5:00 p.m. Eastern Time by their 

respective deadlines. 

Unless the deadline is extended 

pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of our analysis of 

the issues raised by the parties in their 

comments, within 120 days after 

publication of these preliminary results. 

Assessment Rates and Cash Deposit 

Requirement 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4)(i), we assigned a subsidy 

rate for each producer/exporter subject 

to this administrative review. Upon 

issuance of the final results, Commerce 

shall determine, and U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 

countervailing duties on all appropriate 

entries covered by this review. We 

intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 

days after publication of the final results 

of review. For companies for which this 

review is rescinded, Commerce will 

instruct CBP to assess countervailing 

duties on all appropriate entries at a rate 

equal to the cash deposit of estimated 

countervailing duties required at the 

time of entry, or withdrawal from 

warehouse, for consumption, during the 

period January 1, 2015, through 

December 31, 2015, in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce 

intends to issue appropriate assessment 

instructions directly to CBP 15 days 

after publication of this notice. 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 

Act, Commerce also intends to instruct 

CBP to collect cash deposits of 

estimated countervailing duties, in the 

amounts shown above for each of the 

respective companies shown above, on 

shipments of subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review. For all non-reviewed firms, we 

will instruct CBP to continue to collect 

cash deposits at the most-recent 

company-specific or all-others rate 

applicable to the company, as 

appropriate. These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

These preliminary results of review 

are issued and published in accordance 

with sections 751(a)(l) and 777(i)(l) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.213 and 

351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: January 2, 2018. 

P. Lee Smith, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Negotiations. 

Appendix I—List of Topics Discussed in 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Partial Rescission of Administrative 

Review 

IV. Non-Selected Companies Under Review 

V. Scope of the Order 

VI. Application of the Countervailing Duty 

Law to Imports From China 

VII. Diversification of China’s Economy 

VIII. Subsidies Valuation 

IX. Interest Rate Benchmarks, Discount Rates, 

Inputs, Electricity, and Land 

Benchmarks 

X. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Application of Adverse Inferences 

XI. Analysis of Programs 

XII. Verification 

XIII. Disclosure and Public Comment 

XIV. Conclusion 

Appendix II—Non-Selected Companies 

Under Review 

1. Baoding Jiasheng Photovoltaic Technology 

Co., Ltd. 

2. Baoding Tianwei Yingli New Energy 

Resources Co., Ltd. 

3. Beijing Tianneng Yingli New Energy 

Resources Co., Ltd. 

4. Canadian Solar International, Ltd. 

5. Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. 

6. Dongguan Sunworth Solar Energy Co., Ltd. 

7. ERA Solar Co., Ltd. 

8. ET Solar Energy Limited 

9. ET Solar Industry Limited 

10. Hainan Yingli New Energy Resources Co., 

Ltd. 

11. Hangzhou Sunny Energy Science and 

Technology Co., Ltd. 

12. Hangzhou Zhejiang University Sunny 

Energy Science and Technology Co., Ltd. 

13. Hengdian Group DMEGC Magnetics Co., 

Ltd. 


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1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 82 FR 

10457 (February 13, 2017). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Welded Line Pipe from the 

Republic of Turkey: Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review,’’ dated August 22, 2017. 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review: Welded Line Pipe from 

Turkey; 2015,’’ 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. 

5For the Borusan Companies, we initiated on the 

following: Borusan Istikbal Ticaret (Istikbal) and 

Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. 

(BMB). As explained in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum, we found Istikbal and BMB to be 

cross-owned under Borusan Holding, A.S. For these 

preliminary results, we find all three companies to 

be cross-owned, though only BMB received 

countervailable subsidies in this review period. 

14. Hengshui Yingli New Energy Resources 

Co., Ltd. 

15. Shanghai JA Solar Technology Co., Ltd. 

16. JA Solar Technology Yangzhou Co., Ltd. 

17. Jiangsu High Hope Int’l Group 

18. Jiawei Solarchina Co., Ltd. 

19. Jiawei Solarchina (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. 

20. JingAo Solar Co., Ltd. 

21. Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. 

22. Jinko Solar Import and Export Co., Ltd. 

23. Jinko Solar International Limited 

24. Jinko Solar (U.S.) Inc. 

25. Lightway Green New Energy Co., Ltd. 

26. Lixian Yingli New Energy Resources Co., 

Ltd. 

27. Luoyang Suntech Power Co., Ltd. 

28. Ningbo Qixin Solar Electrical Appliance 

Co., Ltd. 

29. Risen Energy Co., Ltd. 

30. Shanghai JA Solar Technology Co., Ltd. 

31. Shenzhen Glory Industries Co., Ltd. 

32. Shenzhen Topray Solar Co., Ltd. 

33. Sumec Hardware & Tools Co. Ltd. 

34. Systemes Versilis, Inc. 

35. Taizhou BD Trade Co., Ltd. 

36. tenKsolar (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 

37. Tianjin Yingli New Energy Resources Co., 

Ltd. 

38. Toenergy Technology Hangzhou Co., Ltd. 

39. Wuxi Suntech Power Co., Ltd. 

40. Yingli Energy (China) Co., Ltd. 

41. Yingli Green Energy Holding Company 

Limited 

42. Zhejiang Era Solar Technology Co., Ltd. 

43. Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. 

44. Zhejiang Sunflower Light Energy Science 

& Technology Limited Liability 

Company 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–489–823] 

Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of 

Turkey: Preliminary Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2015 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on 

welded line pipe from the Republic of 

Turkey (Turkey) for the period of review 

March 20, 2015, through December 31, 

2015. Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable January 10, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E. 

Whitley Herndon, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: 202–482–6274. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On February 13, 2017, Commerce 

published a notice of initiation of an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty order on pipe and 

tube from Turkey.1 On August 22, 2017, 

Commerce extended the deadline for the 

preliminary results to January 2, 2018.2

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 as an 

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, 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 Order 

The merchandise covered by the order 

is welded line pipe, which is carbon 

and alloy steel pipe of a kind used for 

oil or gas pipelines, not more than 24 

inches in nominal outside diameter. 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 Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). For each of the subsidy 

programs found countervailable, we 

preliminarily determine that there is a 

subsidy, i.e., a government financial 

contribution that gives rise to a benefit 

to the recipient, and that the subsidy is 

specific.4 For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

Commerce determines that the 

following preliminary net subsidy rates 

exist for the period March 20, 2015, 

through December 31, 2015: 

Company Net subsidy rate 

(percent) 

Borusan Istikbal Ticaret and 

Borusan Mannesmann 

Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret 

A.S.5

0.78 ad valorem. 

Assessment Rates 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4)(i), we assigned a subsidy 

rate for each producer/exporter subject 

to this administrative review. Upon 

issuance of the final results, Commerce 

shall determine, and U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 

countervailing duties on all appropriate 

entries covered by this review. We 

intend to issue instructions to CBP 15 

days after publication of the final results 

of this review. 

Cash Deposit Rates 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 

Act, Commerce also intends to instruct 

CBP to collect cash deposits of 

estimated countervailing duties in the 

amounts indicated for the company 

listed above with regard to shipments of 

subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review. For all non-reviewed firms, we 

will instruct CBP to continue to collect 

cash deposits of estimated 

countervailing duties at the most recent 

company-specific or all-others rate 

applicable to the company, as 

appropriate. These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce will disclose to parties to 

this proceeding the calculations 

performed in reaching the preliminary 

results within five days of the date of 


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