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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 234 (Thursday, December 5, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 96640-96642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28415]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-911]

Thermal Paper From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 
determines that the sole producer/exporter of thermal paper from the 
Republic of Korea (Korea) subject to this administrative review did not 
make sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during 
the period of review (POR) November 1, 2022, through October 31, 2023. 
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable December 5, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Beuley, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3269.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 22, 2021, Commerce published in the Federal Register 
the antidumping duty order on thermal paper from Korea.\1\ On November 
2, 2023, Commerce published in the Federal Register a notice of 
opportunity to request an administrative review of the Order for the 
POR.\2\ On December 29, 2023, based on timely requests for review, we 
initiated an administrative review of the Order covering one company, 
Hansol Paper Company (Hansol), in accordance 751(a) of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended (the Act).\3\
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    \1\ See Thermal Paper from Germany, Japan, the Republic of 
Korea, and Spain: Antidumping Duty Orders, 86 FR 66284 (November 22, 
2021) (Order).
    \2\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation Opportunity to Request Administrative Review 
and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 88 FR 75270 (November 2, 
2023).
    \3\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 90168 (December 29, 2023).
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    On July 3, 2024, we extended the preliminary results of this review 
to no later than November 22, 2024.\4\ On July 22, 2024, Commerce 
tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven 
days.\5\ The deadline for the preliminary results is now November 29, 
2024.
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    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for the Preliminary 
Results of the 2022-2023 Antidumping Administrative Review,'' dated 
July 3, 2024.
    \5\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated July 22, 2024.

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    For a complete description of the events that followed the 
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\6\ 
A list of the topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 
attached 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. In addition, a complete 
version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly 
at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
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    \6\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of 2022-2023 Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 
Order on Thermal Paper from the Republic of Korea,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The merchandise subject to the Order is thermal paper from Korea. 
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) of the Act. We calculated constructed export price in accordance 
with section 772 of the Act. We calculated NV in accordance with 
section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology 
underlying these preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.

Preliminary Results of Review

    We preliminarily determine the following estimated weighted-average 
dumping margin exists for the period November 1, 2022, through October 
31, 2023:

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                                                               Weighted-
                                                                average
                    Producer or exporter                        dumping
                                                                margin
                                                               (percent)
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Hansol Paper Company........................................        0.00
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Disclosure and Public Comment

    Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis 
performed to interested parties for these preliminary results 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).
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may submit case 
briefs to Commerce no later than 30 days after the date of publication 
of this notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case 
briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date for filing 
case briefs.\7\ Interested parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal 
briefs in this administrative review must submit: (1) a table of 
contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities.\8\
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    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative Protective 
Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 
2023).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior 
proceedings, we have encouraged interested parties to provide an 
executive summary of their brief that should be limited to five pages 
total, including footnotes. In this review, we instead request that 
interested parties provide, at the beginning of their briefs, a public 
executive summary for each issue raised in their briefs.\9\ Further, we 
request that interested parties limit their public executive summary of 
each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We 
intend to use the public executive summaries as the basis of the 
comment summaries included in the issues and decision memorandum that 
will accompany the final results in this administrative review. We 
request that interested parties include footnotes for relevant 
citations in the public executive summary of each issue. Note that 
Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the 
service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\10\
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    \9\ We use the term ``issue'' here to describe an argument that 
Commerce would normally address in a comment of the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum.
    \10\ See APO and Service Final Rule, 88 FR at 67077.
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    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, filed electronically via 
ACCESS within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. 
Requests should contain: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone 
number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of issues to be 
discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised 
in the respective case briefs. Oral presentations at the hearing will 
be limited to issues raised in the briefs. If a request for a hearing 
is made, parties will be notified of the time and date for the 
hearing.\11\
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    \11\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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    All submissions, including case and rebuttal briefs, as well as 
hearing requests, should be filed via ACCESS.\12\ An electronically 
filed document must be received successfully in its entirety by ACCESS 
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established deadline.
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    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.303.
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Assessment Rates

    Upon completion of this administrative review, Commerce shall 
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review. 
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), because Hansol reported the entered 
value for all of its U.S. sales, we calculated importer-specific ad 
valorem duty assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of 
dumping calculated for the examined sales to the total entered value of 
the sales for which entered value was reported. Where either Hansol's 
weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis within the 
meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an importer-specific rate is zero 
or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate 
entries without regard to antidumping duties.
    Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' practice will apply to entries 
of subject merchandise during the POR produced by Hansol for which it 
did not know that the merchandise it sold to an intermediary (e.g., a 
reseller, trading company, or exporter) was destined for the United 
States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those 
entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in the transaction.\13\
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    \13\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, the final 
results of this review shall be the basis for the assessment of 
antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by the final 
results of this review and for future deposits of estimated duties, 
where applicable.
    Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier 
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this 
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the 
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will 
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties 
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within 
90 days of publication).

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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following deposit requirements will be effective 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 this administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for the company 
listed above will be that established in the final results of this 
review, except if the rate is less than 0.50 percent and, therefore, de 
minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in which case the 
cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously investigated or 
reviewed companies not covered in this review, the cash deposit rate 
will continue to be the company-specific cash deposit rate published 
for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in which the 
company participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this 
review, or the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation, but the 
manufacturer is, then the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
established for the most recent segment for the manufacturer of the 
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers 
or exporters will continue to be 6.19 percent, the all-others rate 
established in the LTFV investigation.\14\ These cash deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further 
notice.
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    \14\ See Order, 86 FR 66286.
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Final Results of Review

    Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, including the results of its 
analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, no later than 120 
days after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.213(h)(1).

Notification to Importers

    This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of 
their responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping 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 occurred and the subsequent assessment of double 
antidumping 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: November 27, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Duty Absorption
V. Discussion of the Methodology
VI. Recommendation

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