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1For a complete description of the scope of the 

order, see DOC Memorandum re: Decision 

Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the 

2015–2016 Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or not Assembled into Modules, From the 

People’s Republic of China, issued concurrently 

with and hereby adopted by this notice 

(Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

2See Non-Market Economy Antidumping 

Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 

FR 65694, 65694–95 (October 24, 2011) and the 

‘‘Assessment Rates’’ section, below. 

3See Preliminary Decision Memorandum under 

the ‘‘Single Entity Treatment’’ section; see also DOC 

Memorandum: Affiliation and Single Entity Status 

of 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., Turpan Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd., Hubei 

Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd., and Trina Solar (Hefei) 

Science and Technology Co., Ltd., issued 

concurrently with and hereby adopted by this 

notice (Trina Collapsing Memorandum). 

weighted-average dumping margins up 

to 305.56 percent. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Order 

This notice also serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility concerning the 

return or destruction of proprietary 

information disclosed under APO in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. 

Timely notification of the return or 

destruction of APO materials or 

conversion to judicial protective order is 

hereby requested. Failure to comply 

with the regulations and terms of an 

APO is a violation which is subject to 

sanction. 

This sunset review and notice are in 

accordance with sections 751(c), 752, 

and 777(i)(1) of the Act. 

Dated: January 3, 2018. 

Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–979] 

Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, From the People’s Republic 

of China: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review and Preliminary Determination 

of No Shipments; 2015–2016 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on 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 December 1, 2015, through 

November 30, 2016. The administrative 

review covers one mandatory 

respondent: the collapsed entity 

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./Turpan Trina Solar Energy Co., 

Ltd./Hubei Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd., 

which we have preliminarily 

determined to treat as a single entity 

with Trina Solar (Hefei) Science and 

Technology Co., Ltd (Trina). Commerce 

preliminarily finds that Trina sold 

subject merchandise in the United 

States at prices below normal value 

(NV) during the POR. Interested parties 

are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable January 9, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Krisha Hill, AD/CVD Operations, Office 

IV, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4037. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by 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.1 Merchandise 

covered by this order is classifiable 

under subheadings 8501.61.0000, 

8507.20.80, 8541.40.6020, 8541.40.6030, 

and 8501.31.8000 of the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS). Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, our 

written description of the scope of the 

order is dispositive. 

Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments 

We preliminarily determine that there 

is no evidence calling into question the 

no shipment claims of the following 

companies: De-Tech Trading Limited 

HK, Dongguan Sunworth Solar Energy 

Co., Ltd., Jiawei Solarchina Co., Ltd., 

Ningbo ETDZ Holdings, Ltd., Shenzhen 

Sungold Solar Co., Ltd., Taizhou BD 

Trade Co., Ltd., Toenergy Technology 

Hangzhou Co., Ltd., and Wuxi Tianran 

Photovoltaic Co., Ltd. For additional 

information regarding this 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Consistent with an announced 

refinement to its assessment practice in 

non-market economy (NME) cases, 

Commerce is not rescinding this review 

with respect to these companies, but 

intends to complete the review of the 

companies for which it has 

preliminarily found no evidence of 

shipments and issue appropriate 

instructions to CBP based on the final 

results of the review.2

Preliminary Affiliation and Single 

Entity Determination 

We preliminarily find that 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./Turpan 

Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd./Hubei 

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

which we have preliminarily continued 

to treat as a single entity, is affiliated 

with Trina Solar (Hefei) Science and 

Technology Co., Ltd., pursuant to 

section 771(33)(F) of the Tariff Act of 

103 (the Act) and all of these companies 

should be treated as a single entity 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.401(f)(1)-(2). For 

additional information, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum and 

Trina Collapsing Memorandum.3

Use of Partial Facts Available (FA) and 

Partial Adverse Facts Available (AFA) 

Section 776(a) of the Act provides that 

Commerce shall apply FA if (1) 

necessary information is not on the 

record, or (2) an interested party or any 

other person (A) withholds information 

that has been requested, (B) fails to 

provide information within the 

deadlines established, or in the form 

and manner requested by Commerce, 

subject to subsections (c)(1) and (e) of 

section 782 of the Act, (C) significantly 

impedes a proceeding, or (D) provides 

information that cannot be verified as 

provided by section 782(i) of the Act. 

Section 776(b) of the Act further 

provides that Commerce may use an 

adverse inference in applying FA (i.e., 

AFA) when a party has failed to 

cooperate by not acting to the best of its 

ability to comply with a request for 

information. Such an adverse inference 

may include reliance on information 

derived from the petition, the final 

determination, a previous 


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4See DOC Memorandum re: Crystalline Silicon 

Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, from the People’s Republic of China: 

Unreported Factors of Production, issued 

concurrently with and hereby adopted by this 

notice. 

5See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the 

People’s Republic of China: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and 

Final Determination of No Shipments; 2014–2015, 

82 FR 29033 (June 27, 2017) (AR3 Final), 

unchanged in Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the 

People’s Republic of China: Amended Final Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2014– 

2015, 82 FR 40560 (August 25, 2017) (Amended 

AR3 Final). 

administrative review, or other 

information placed on the record. 

Trina failed to provide factors of 

production (FOP) data from certain 

unaffiliated tollers of inputs used to 

produce subject merchandise, as well as 

from certain unaffiliated suppliers of 

solar cells. We preliminarily determine 

that it is appropriate to apply AFA, 

pursuant to section 776(b) of the Act, 

with respect to the unreported FOPs for 

purchased solar cells. These unreported 

FOPs for solar cells represent a material 

amount of necessary FOP information. 

However, in accordance with section 

776(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce is 

applying FA with respect to the 

unreported FOPs from the unaffiliated 

tollers. The record indicates that the 

tolled portions either represent 

relatively small percentages of the 

inputs consumed, the tollers only 

performed a relatively small portion of 

the total processing involved in 

producing the input, or the input 

accounts for a relatively small share of 

the overall costs of a solar panel. For 

details regarding these determinations, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum and the Trina Unreported 

FOP Memorandum.4

Separate Rates 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the information placed on the 

record by Trina, as well as by the other 

companies listed in the rate table in the 

‘‘Preliminary Results of Review’’ section 

below, demonstrates that these 

companies are entitled to separate rate 

status. Commerce calculated a rate for 

the sole mandatory respondent, Trina 

that is not zero, de minimis, or based 

entirely on facts available. Accordingly, 

we assigned the weighted-average 

dumping margin for Trina to the nonindividually examined companies to 

which we granted separate rates status. 

Conversely, Commerce preliminarily 

determines that the following 

companies have not demonstrated their 

entitlement to separate rates status 

because they did not file a separate rate 

application or certification with 

Commerce: 

1. Eoplly New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. 

2. ERA Solar Co., Ltd. 

3. ET Solar Industry Limited 

4. Hangzhou Zhejiang University Sunny 

Energy Science and Technology Co., Ltd. 

5. Jiangsu High Hope Int’l Group 

6. Jiangsu Sunlink PV Technology Co., Ltd. 

7. Systemes Versilis, Inc. 

8. Zhongli Talesun Solar Co. Ltd. 

Commerce treated these companies as 

part of the China-wide entity. Because 

no party requested a review of the 

China-wide entity, the entity is not 

under review and the entity’s rate (i.e., 

238.95 percent) is not subject to 

change.5 For additional information 

regarding Commerce’s separate rates 

determinations, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Act. 

Commerce calculated constructed 

export prices in accordance with section 

772 of the Act. Given that China is a 

NME country, within the meaning of 

section 771(18) of the Act, Commerce 

calculated NV in accordance with 

section 773(c) of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying the 

preliminary results of this review, see 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

The Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

is a public document and is made 

available to the public 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 found at https://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed 

and the electronic versions of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 

identical in content. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following weighted-average 

dumping margins exist for the POR: 

Exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

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/Turpan Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd/Hubei Trina 

Solar Energy Co., Ltd/Trina Solar (Hefei) Science and Technology Co., Ltd ................................................................................. 61.61 

Anji DaSol Solar Energy Science & Technology Co., Ltd .................................................................................................................. 61.61 

Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................................ 61.61 

ET Solar Energy Limited ..................................................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

Hangzhou Sunny Energy Science and Technology Co., Ltd .............................................................................................................. 61.61 

Hengdian Group DMEGC Magnetics Co. Ltd ..................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

JA Solar Technology Yangzhou Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................ 61.61 

Jiawei Solarchina (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

JingAo Solar Co., Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

LERRI Solar Technology Co., Ltd ....................................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

Lightway Green New Energy Co., Ltd ................................................................................................................................................. 61.61 

Ningbo Qixin Solar Electrical Appliance Co., Ltd ................................................................................................................................ 61.61 

Risen Energy Co., Ltd ......................................................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

Shanghai JA Solar Technology Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................. 61.61 

Shenzhen Topray Solar Co., Ltd ......................................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

Sumec Hardware & Tools Co., Ltd ..................................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

Sunpreme Jiaxing Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

tenKsolar (Shanghai) Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................................. 61.61 


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6See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(ii). 

7See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

8See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2), (d)(2). 

9See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

10See 19 CFR 351.310(d). 

11See generally 19 CFR 351.303. 

12See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing 

requirements); Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures; 

Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR 

39263 (July 6, 2011). 

13See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

14See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of 

the Weighted Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 

Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 

(February 14, 2012) (Final Modification). 

15See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

16 Id. 

17See Final Modification, 77 FR at 8103. 

18See Non-Market Economy Antidumping 

Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 

FR 65694 (October 24, 2011), for a full discussion 

of this practice. 

19See AR3 Final, 82 FR at 29035, unchanged in 

Amended AR3 Final. 

Exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Wuxi Suntech Power Co., LtdLuoyang Suntech Power Co., Ltd ........................................................................................................ 61.61 

Yingli Energy (China) Company Limited/Baoding Tianwei Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd/Tianjin Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd/Hengshui Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd/Lixian Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd/Baoding 

Jiasheng Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd/Beijing Tianneng Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd/Hainan Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd .................................................................................................................................................................. 61.61 

Zhejiang ERA Solar Technology Co., Ltd ........................................................................................................................................... 61.61 

Zhejiang Sunflower Light Energy Science & Technology Limited Liability Company ........................................................................ 61.61 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce intends to disclose to 

parties the calculations performed for 

these preliminary results of review 

within five days of the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.224(b). Interested parties may 

submit case briefs no later than 30 days 

after the date of publication of these 

preliminary results of review.6 Rebuttal 

briefs may be filed no later than five 

days after case briefs are due and may 

respond only to arguments raised in the 

case briefs.7 A table of contents, list of 

authorities used, and an executive 

summary of issues should accompany 

any briefs submitted to Commerce. The 

summary should be limited to five pages 

total, including footnotes.8

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 after the date of publication of this 

notice.9 Requests should contain the 

party’s name, address, and telephone 

number, the number of participants in, 

and a list of the issues to be discussed 

at, the hearing. Oral arguments at the 

hearing will be limited to issues raised 

in the briefs. 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 date 

and time to be determined.10 Parties 

should confirm by telephone the date, 

time, and location of the hearing two 

days before the scheduled date of the 

hearing. 

All submissions, with limited 

exceptions, must be filed electronically 

using ACCESS.11 An electronically filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by Commerce’s electronic 

records system, ACCESS, by 5 p.m. 

Eastern Time (ET) on the due date. 

Documents excepted from the electronic 

submission requirements must be filed 

manually (i.e., in paper form) with the 

APO/Dockets Unit in Room 18022 and 

stamped with the date and time of 

receipt by 5 p.m. ET on the due date.12

Unless otherwise extended, 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

which will include the results of its 

analysis of issues raised in any briefs, 

within 120 days of publication of these 

preliminary results of review, pursuant 

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

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuance of the final results of 

this review, Commerce will determine, 

and U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(‘‘CBP’’) shall assess, antidumping 

duties on all appropriate entries covered 

by this review.13 Commerce intends to 

issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 

days after the publication date of the 

final results of this review. For each 

individually examined respondent in 

this review whose weighted-average 

dumping margin in the final results of 

review is not zero or de minimis (i.e., 

less than 0.5 percent), Commerce 

intends to calculate importer-specific 

assessment rates, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.212(b)(1).14 Where the 

respondent reported reliable entered 

values, Commerce intends to calculate 

importer-specific ad valorem 

assessment rates by aggregating the 

amount of dumping calculated for all 

U.S. sales to the importer and dividing 

this amount by the total entered value 

of the sales to the importer.15 Where the 

respondent did not report entered 

values, Commerce will calculate 

importer-specific assessment rates by 

dividing the amount of dumping for 

reviewed sales to the importer by the 

total sales quantity associated with 

those transactions. Commerce will 

calculate an estimated ad valorem 

importer-specific assessment rate to 

determine whether the per-unit rate is 

de minimis, however, Commerce will 

direct CBP to assess importer-specific 

assessment rates where the entered 

value was not reported based on the 

resulting per-unit rates.16 Where an 

importer-specific ad valorem 

assessment rate is not zero or de 

minimis, Commerce will instruct CBP to 

collect the appropriate duties at the time 

of liquidation. Where either the 

respondent’s weighted average dumping 

margin is zero or de minimis, or an 

importer-specific ad valorem 

assessment rate is zero or de minimis, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate 

appropriate entries without regard to 

antidumping duties.17

Pursuant to Commerce’s refinement to 

its practice, for sales that were not 

reported in the U.S. sales database 

submitted by an exporter individually 

examined during this review, Commerce 

will instruct CBP to liquidate such 

merchandise at the rate for the Chinawide entity.18 Additionally, where 

Commerce determines that an exporter 

under review had no shipments of the 

subject merchandise, any suspended 

entries that entered under that 

exporter’s CBP case number will be 

liquidated at the rate for the China-wide 

entity. Because no party requested a 

review of the China-wide entity, the 

entity is not under review and the 

entity’s rate (i.e., 238.95 percent) is not 

subject to change.19

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, the final results 

of this review shall be the basis for the 


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20See AR3 Final, 82 FR at 29035, unchanged in 

Amended AR3 Final. 

1See Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of 

Carbon and Alloy Steel from India: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value, in Part, Postponement of Final 

Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 82 FR 55567 (November 22, 2017) and 

accompanying PDM (Preliminary Determination). 

2See the petitioners’ November 22, 2107 

submission (the Petitioners’ Ministerial Error 

Comments). 

3See Goodluck’s November 27, 2017 submission 

(Goodluck’s Ministerial Error Comments). 

4See section 735(e) of the Act. 

assessment of antidumping duties on 

entries of merchandise covered by the 

final results of this review and for future 

deposits of estimated antidumping 

duties, where applicable. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

Commerce will instruct CBP to 

require a cash deposit for antidumping 

duties equal to the weighted-average 

amount by which the NV exceeds U.S. 

price. The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective for 

shipments of the subject merchandise 

from China entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the publication date of this notice, as 

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

Act: (1) For the exporters listed above, 

the cash deposit rate will be equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margin 

established in the final results of this 

review (except, if the rate is de minimis 

(i.e., less than 0.5 percent), then the cash 

deposit rate will be zero for that 

exporter); (2) for previously investigated 

or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters 

not listed above that have separate rates, 

the cash deposit rate will continue to be 

the exporter-specific rate published for 

the most recently completed segment of 

this proceeding; (3) for all PRC exporters 

of subject merchandise which have not 

been found to be entitled to a separate 

rate, the cash deposit rate will be the 

rate for the China-wide entity (i.e., 

238.95 percent 20) and (4) for all nonPRC exporters of subject merchandise 

that have not received their own rate, 

the cash deposit rate will be the rate 

applicable to China exporter that 

supplied that non-PRC 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 and/or 

countervailing duties prior to 

liquidation of the relevant entries 

during this POR. Failure to comply with 

this requirement could result in 

Commerce’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

and/or countervailing duties has 

occurred, and the subsequent 

assessment of double antidumping 

duties and/or an increase in the amount 

of antidumping duties by the amount of 

the countervailing duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) 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 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

1. Summary 

2. Background 

3. Scope of the Order 

4. Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments 

5. Selection of Respondents 

6. Single Entity Treatment 

7. Discussion of the Methodology 

a. Non-Market Economy Country 

b. Separate Rates 

c. Application of Partial Facts Available 

(FA) and Adverse Facts Available (AFA) 

d. Surrogate Country Selection 

e. Date of Sale 

f. Fair Value Comparisons 

g. U.S. Price 

h. Normal Value 

i. Adjustments for Countervailable 

Subsidies 

j. Export Subsidy Adjustment 

k. Currency Conversion 

8. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Adminstration 

[A–533–873] 

Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing 

of Carbon and Alloy Steel From India: 

Amended Preliminary Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is amending its Preliminary 

Determination of the antidumping duty 

investigation of certain cold-drawn 

mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy 

steel (mechanical tubing) from India. 

We are correcting a ministerial error 

with respect to certain steel grades 

reported by one of the mandatory 

respondents, Goodluck India Limited. 

The period of investigation (POI) is 

April 1, 2016, through March 31, 2017. 

DATES: Applicable January 9, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Pulongbarit and Omar Qureshi, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office V, 

Enforcement & Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC, 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–2593, or (202) 482–0987, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: On 

November 22, 2017, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

Preliminary Determination that 

mechanical tubing from India is being, 

or is likely to be, sold in the United 

States at less than fair value (LTFV), as 

provided in section 733 of the Tariff Act 

of 1930, as amended (the Act).1 On 

November 22, 2017, ArcelorMittal 

Tubular Products, Michigan Seamless 

Tube LLC, Plymouth Tube Co., USA, 

PTC Alliance Corp., Webco Industries, 

Inc. and Zekelman Industries, Inc. 

(collectively, the petitioners) filed 

timely allegations of ministerial errors 

contained in Commerce’s Preliminary 

Determination.2 On November 27, 2017, 

Goodluck filed timely allegations of 

ministerial errors contained in 

Commerce’s Preliminary 

Determination.3

Scope of Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is mechanical tubing from 

India. For a full description of the scope 

of this investigation, see the ‘‘Scope of 

the Investigation,’’ in the Appendix to 

this notice. 

Significant Ministerial Error 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e) and 

(g)(1), Commerce is amending the 

Preliminary Determination to reflect the 

correction of a significant ministerial 

error it made in the margin assigned to 

Goodluck, a mandatory respondent. A 

ministerial error is defined as an error 

in addition, subtraction, or other 

arithmetic function, clerical error 

resulting from inaccurate copying, 

duplication, or the like, and any other 

similar type of unintentional error 

which the Secretary considers 

ministerial.4 A significant ministerial 

error is defined as a ministerial error, 

the correction of which, singly or in 

combination with other errors, would 

result in (1) a change of at least five 

absolute percentage points in, but not 


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