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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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Duty Orders: Pure Magnesium from the People’s 

Republic of China, the Russian Federation and 

Ukraine; Notice of Amended Final Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Pure Magnesium from the Russian 

Federation, 60 FR 25691 (May 12, 1995); and 

Antidumping Duty Order: Pure Magnesium in 

Granular Form from the People’s Republic of China, 

66 FR 57936 (November 19, 2001). 

6This third exclusion for magnesium-based 

reagent mixtures is based on the exclusion for 

reagent mixtures in the 2000–2001 investigations of 

magnesium from China, Israel, and Russia. See 

Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 

Value: Pure Magnesium in Granular Form from the 

People’s Republic of China, 66 FR 49345 

(September 27, 2001); Final Determination of Sales 

at Less Than Fair Value: Pure Magnesium from 

Israel, 66 FR 49349 (September 27, 2001); Final 

Determination of Sales at Not Less Than Fair Value: 

Pure Magnesium From the Russian Federation, 66 

FR 49347 (September 27, 2001). These mixtures are 

not magnesium alloys, because they are not 

combined in liquid form and cast into the same 

ingot. 

7See letter from TMI, ‘‘Magnesium Metal from 

the People’s Republic of China; A–570–896; 

Certification of No Sales by Tianjin Magnesium 

International, Ltd.,’’ dated July 3, 2017, at 1. See 

letter from TMM, ‘‘Magnesium Metal from the 

People’s Republic of China; A–570–896; 

Certification of No Sales by Tianjin Magnesium 

Metal, Co., Ltd.,’’ dated July 5, 2017, at 1. 

8See memorandum to the File, ‘‘U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection Data,’’ dated October 12, 

2017 (CBP Memo), at Attachment 1. 

9 Id. at Attachment 2. 

10See CBP message 7237305, dated 08/25/2017, 

provided at Attachment 3 to the CBP Memo. 

11See Glycine from the People’s Republic of 

China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review 2014–2015, 81 FR 72567 

(October 20, 2016) and the ‘‘Assessment Rates’’ 

section, below. 

12See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii). 

13See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1)(2). 

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

15See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing 

requirements). 

16See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

17For a full discussion of this practice, see NonMarket Economy Antidumping Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 

(October 24, 2011). 

or molten form; and (3) mixtures 

containing 90 percent or less 

magnesium in granular or powder form 

by weight and one or more of certain 

non-magnesium granular materials to 

make magnesium-based reagent 

mixtures, including lime, calcium 

metal, calcium silicon, calcium carbide, 

calcium carbonate, carbon, slag 

coagulants, fluorspar, nephaline syenite, 

feldspar, alumina (Al203), calcium 

aluminate, soda ash, hydrocarbons, 

graphite, coke, silicon, rare earth 

metals/mischmetal, cryolite, silica/fly 

ash, magnesium oxide, periclase, 

ferroalloys, dolomite lime, and 

colemanite.6

The merchandise subject to this order 

is classifiable under items 8104.19.00, 

and 8104.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 

Although the HTSUS items are provided 

for convenience and customs purposes, 

the written description of the 

merchandise is dispositive. 

Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments 

We received timely submissions from 

TMI and TMM certifying that they did 

not have sales, shipments, or exports of 

subject merchandise to the United 

States during the POR.7 On June 29, 

2017, we requested the U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) data file of 

entries of subject merchandise imported 

into the United States during the POR, 

and exported by TMM and/or TMI.8

This query returned no entries during 

the POR.9 Additionally, in order to 

examine TMM’s and TMI’s claim, we 

sent an inquiry to CBP requesting that 

any CBP officer alert Commerce if he/ 

she had information contrary to these 

no-shipments claims.10 We received no 

notification from CBP of any entries of 

subject merchandise concerning these 

companies. 

Because we have not received 

information to the contrary from CBP, 

consistent with our practice, we 

preliminarily determine that TMI and 

TMM had no shipments and, therefore, 

no reviewable entries during the POR. 

In addition, we find it is not appropriate 

to rescind the review with respect to 

these companies but, rather, to complete 

the review with respect to TMI and 

TMM and issue appropriate instructions 

to CBP based on the final results of the 

review, consistent with our practice in 

non-market economy (NME) cases.11

Public Comment 

Interested parties may submit case 

briefs no later than 30 days after the 

date of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register.12 Rebuttals to case 

briefs, which must be limited to issues 

raised in the case briefs, must be filed 

within five days after the date for filing 

case briefs.13 Parties who submit 

arguments are requested to submit with 

each argument (a) a statement of the 

issue, (b) a brief summary of the 

argument, and (c) a table of 

authorities.14 Parties submitting briefs 

should do so pursuant to Commerce’s 

electronic filing system: Enforcement 

and Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS).15

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. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing must submit a written request to 

the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce within 30 days of the date of 

publication of this notice. Hearing 

requests should contain the following 

information: (1) The party’s name, 

address, and telephone number; (2) the 

number of participants; and (3) a list of 

the issues parties intend to discuss. 

Issues raised in the hearing will be 

limited to those raised in the respective 

case and rebuttal briefs. If a request for 

a hearing is made, parties will be 

notified of the time and date of the 

hearing which will be held at the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230. 

Unless extended, we intend to issue 

the final results of this administrative 

review, including our analysis of all 

issues raised in any written brief, within 

120 days of publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuance of the final results, 

Commerce will determine, and CBP 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review.16 We intend to issue assessment 

instructions to CBP 15 days after the 

publication date of the final results of 

this review. Pursuant to Commerce’s 

practice in NME cases, if we continue to 

determine in the final results that TMI 

and TMM had no shipments of subject 

merchandise, any suspended entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR 

from these companies will be liquidated 

at China-wide rate.17

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review for all shipments 

of the subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the publication 

date of the final results of review, as 

provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of 

the Act: (1) For TMI, which claimed no 

shipments, the cash deposit rate will 

remain unchanged from the rate 

assigned to TMI in the most recently 

completed review of the company; (2) 

for previously investigated or reviewed 

Chinese and non-Chinese exporters who 

are not under review in this segment of 

the proceeding but who have separate 

rates, the cash deposit rate will continue 

to be the exporter-specific rate 

published for the most recent period; (3) 

for all Chinese exporters of subject 

merchandise that have not been found 

to be entitled to a separate rate 

(including TMM, which claimed no 

shipments, but has not been found to be 


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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) and 

accompanying Initiation Checklist. 

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) (Preliminary Postponement Notice). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Affirmative Antidumping Duty 

Determination, Preliminary Affirmative Critical 

Circumstances Determination, and Postponement of 

Final Determination and Extension of Provisional 

Measures in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation 

of Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from 

Colombia’’ 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 from Erin Begnal, Director, 

Office III, to Gary Taverman, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations performing the non-exclusive functions 

and duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, titled ‘‘Scope 

Comments Decision Memorandum for the 

Preliminary Determinations,’’ dated December 1, 

2017 (Preliminary Scope Comments Decision 

Memorandum). 

separate from China-wide entity), the 

cash deposit rate will be China-wide 

rate of 141.49 percent; and (4) for all 

non-Chinese exporters of subject 

merchandise which have not received 

their own rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be the rate applicable to Chinese 

exporter(s) that supplied that nonChinese exporter. These deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a 

preliminary reminder to importers of 

their responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping duties prior to liquidation 

of the relevant entries during this 

period. Failure to comply with this 

requirement may result in the 

Secretary’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

This notice is issued in accordance 

with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of 

the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: December 27, 2017. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–301–803] 

Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

From Colombia: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, Preliminary 

Negative Critical Circumstances 

Determination 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 Colombia 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: 

Stephanie Moore, 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) 482–3692. 

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 until 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 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 products covered by this 

investigation are citric acid and certain 

citrate salts (citric acid) from Colombia. 

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 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 did not preliminarily modify 

the scope language as it appeared in the 

Initiation Notice. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Export prices are 

calculated 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. 

Preliminary Negative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances 

In accordance with section 733(e) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.206, Commerce 

preliminary determines that critical 

circumstances do not exist for the 

mandatory respondent, Sucroal S.A. 

(Sucroal), or for exporters and producers 

not individually examined (i.e., ‘‘allothers’’). 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 

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