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6See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

7See 19 CFR 352.106(c)(2); see also Antidumping 

Proceeding: Calculation of the Weighted-Average 

Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain 

Antidumping Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 

FR 8101, 8103 (February 14, 2012). 

8For a full discussion of this practice, see 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 

(May 6, 2003). 

9See Order. 

Exporter/producer 

Weightaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Shanti Worldwide ........................ 18.80 

Disclosure 

Because Commerce received no 

comments on the Preliminary Results, 

we have not modified our analysis. 

Consequently, there are no calculations 

to disclose in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.224(b) for these final results. 

Assessment Rates 

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

Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), 

Commerce will determine, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries of subject 

merchandise in accordance with the 

final results of this review. If the 

weighted-average dumping margin is 

not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 

0.50 percent), upon completion of the 

final results, Commerce intends to 

calculate importer-specific assessment 

rates on the basis of the ratio of the total 

amount of dumping calculated for each 

importer’s examined sales to the total 

entered value of those sales. Where we 

do not have entered values for all U.S. 

sales to a particular importer, we will 

calculate an importer-specific, per-unit 

assessment rate on the basis of the ratio 

of the total amount of dumping 

calculated for the importer’s examined 

sales to the total quantity of those sales.6

To determine whether an importerspecific, per-unit assessment rate is de 

minimis, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.106(c)(2), we also will calculate an 

importer-specific ad valorem ratio based 

on estimated entered values. Where the 

weighted-average dumping margin is 

zero or de minimis, or an importerspecific ad valorem assessment rate is 

zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP 

to liquidate appropriate entries without 

regard to antidumping duties.7

For entries of subject merchandise 

during the POR produced by Shanti for 

which it did not know that the 

merchandise it sold to the intermediary 

(e.g., reseller, trading company, or 

exporter) was destined for the United 

States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate 

such entries at the all-others rate if there 

is no rate for the intermediate 

company(ies) involved in the 

transaction.8

For the company for which we are 

rescinding this review, we will instruct 

CBP to assess antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries at a rate equal to the 

cash deposit of estimated antidumping 

duties required at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(l)(i). 

Commerce intends to issue these 

rescission instructions to CBP no earlier 

than 35 days after the publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register. 

Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after the date of 

publication of these final results 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). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective for all 

shipments of subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review, as provided for 

by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the 

cash deposit rate for the companies 

under review will equal to the dumping 

margin established in the final results of 

this review for each respondent (except, 

if that rate is de minimis, then the cash 

deposit rate will be zero); (2) for 

producers or exporters not covered in 

this review but covered in a prior 

segment of the proceeding, the cash 

deposit rate will continue to be the 

company-specific rate published for the 

most recently-completed segment of this 

proceeding in which they were 

reviewed; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 

covered in this review or a prior 

segment of the proceeding but the 

producer is, then the cash deposit rate 

will be the rate established for the most 

recently completed segment of this 

proceeding for the producer of the 

merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers or exporters 

will continue to be 3.07 percent, the allothers rate established in the less-thanfair-value investigation.9 These cash 

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 and/or countervailing 

duties prior to liquidation of the 

relevant entries during this review 

period. Failure to comply with this 

requirement could result in Commerce’s 

presumption that reimbursement of 

antidumping and/or countervailing 

duties 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. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to an administrative 

protective order (APO) of their 

responsibility concerning the return or 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under the APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 

continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. Timely written 

notification of the return/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. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Commerce is issuing and publishing 

the final results of this review in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: December 2, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–421–817] 

Melamine From the Netherlands: Final 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

melamine from the Netherlands is 


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1See Melamine from the Netherlands: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, 89 FR 77829 (September 24, 

2024) (Preliminary Determination), and 

accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

(PDM). 

2 Id., 89 FR 77830. 

3 Id. 

being, or is likely to be, sold in the 

United States at less than fair value 

(LTFV). The period of investigation 

(POI) is January 1, 2023, through 

December 31, 2023. 

DATES: Applicable December 9, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred 

Baker, AD/CVD Operations, Office VI, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2924. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 24, 2024, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register its 

preliminary determination in the LTFV 

investigation of melamine from the 

Netherlands and invited interested 

parties to comment.1 No interested party 

submitted comments. Accordingly, the 

final determination remains unchanged 

from the Preliminary Determination and 

no decision memoranda accompany this 

notice. The Preliminary Determination 

is hereby adopted in this final 

determination. Commerce conducted 

this LTFV investigation in accordance 

with section 735 of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is melamine from the 

Netherlands. For a complete description 

of the scope of this investigation, see the 

appendix to this notice. 

Scope Comments 

We received no comments from 

interested parties on the scope of the 

investigation as it appeared in the 

Preliminary Determination. Therefore, 

we made no changes to the scope of the 

investigation. 

Verification 

As stated in the Preliminary 

Determination, after being selected as 

the sole mandatory respondent, OCI 

Nitrogen B.V. (OCI Nitrogen), 

discontinued its participation in this 

investigation. Accordingly, Commerce 

based the Preliminary Determination 

entirely on the application of facts 

available with adverse inferences (AFA), 

and did not conduct verification under 

section 782(i) of the Act. 

Use of Adverse Facts Available 

As discussed in the Preliminary 

Determination, we assigned OCI 

Nitrogen an estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin based entirely on AFA, 

pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b) of 

Act.2 There is no new information on 

the record that would cause us to revisit 

our decision in the Preliminary 

Determination. Accordingly, for this 

final determination, we continue to find 

that the application of AFA pursuant to 

sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act is 

warranted with respect to OCI Nitrogen. 

All-Others Rate 

Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act 

provides that the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin for all other 

producers and exporters not 

individually investigated shall be equal 

to the weighted average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established for exporters and producers 

individually investigated excluding 

rates that are zero, de minimis, or 

determined entirely under section 776 

of the Act. 

In the Preliminary Determination, we 

assigned an estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin of 53.50 percent as the 

all-others rate based on a simple average 

of the dumping margins alleged in the 

petition, pursuant to section 735(c)(5)(B) 

of the Act.3 As noted above, we received 

no comments on our Preliminary 

Determination; thus, we continue to 

assign an estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin of 53.50 percent to all 

other producers and exporters for this 

final determination. 

Final Determination 

The final estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 

Exporter or producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

OCI Nitrogen B.V ........................ * 72.16 

All Others .................................... 53.50 

* Rate based on facts available with adverse 

inferences. 

Disclosure 

Normally, Commerce will disclose to 

the parties in a proceeding the 

calculations performed in connection 

with a final determination within five 

days of any public announcement or, if 

there is no public announcement, 

within five days of the date of 

publication of the notice of final 

determination in the Federal Register, 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

However, because Commerce received 

no comments on the Preliminary 

Determination, it is adopting the 

Preliminary Determination as the final 

determination in this investigation. 

Consequently, there are no new 

calculations to disclose. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 735(c)(4) 

of the Act, we will instruct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

continue to suspend liquidation of 

subject merchandise, as described in the 

appendix to this notice, entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption, on or after September 24, 

2024, which is the date of publication 

of the affirmative Preliminary 

Determination in the Federal Register. 

Pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(d), where 

appropriate, 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 merchandise produced 

or exported by OCI Nitrogen will be 

equal to OCI Nitrogen’s companyspecific estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin determined in this 

final determination; (2) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers and 

exporters will be equal to the all-others 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin as determined in the final 

determination. These suspension of 

liquidation instructions and cash 

deposit requirements will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

(ITC) Notification 

In accordance with section 735(d) of 

the Act, we will notify the ITC of the 

final affirmative determination of sales 

at LTFV. Because Commerce’s final 

determination is affirmative, in 

accordance with section 735(b)(2) of the 

Act, the ITC will make its final 

determination as to whether the 

domestic industry in the United States 

is materially injured, or threatened with 

material injury, by reason of imports or 

sales (or the likelihood of sales) for 

importation of melamine from the 

Netherlands no later than 45 days after 

this final determination. If the ITC 

determines that such injury does not 

exist, this proceeding will be 

terminated, and all cash deposits will be 

refunded, and suspension of liquidation 

will be lifted. If the ITC determines that 

material injury, or the threat of material 

injury, exists, Commerce will issue an 

antidumping order directing CBP to 

assess, upon further instruction by 


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97592 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 236 / Monday, December 9, 2024 / Notices 

1See Melamine from Qatar: Preliminary Negative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 89 

FR 77824 (September 24, 2024) (Preliminary 

Determination), and accompanying Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Negative Determination 

in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of 

Melamine from Qatar,’’ dated concurrently with, 

and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and 

Decision Memorandum). 

3As discussed in the Preliminary Determination, 

Commerce preliminarily collapsed the following 

companies and treated them as a single entity: Qatar 

Melamine Company (QMC); Qatar Chemical and 

Petrochemical marketing and Distribution Company 

(Muntajat) Q.P.J.S.C. (Muntajat) (collectively QMC/ 

Muntajat); and Qatar Fertiliser Company P.S.C. 

(QAFCO). Commerce continues to collapse these 

companies and treat them as a single entity for the 

final determination. 

4See Memoranda, ‘‘Verification of the Sales 

Response of Qatar Melamine Company and Qatar 

Chemical and Petrochemical Marketing and 

Distribution Company Q.P.J.S.C. in the 

Antidumping Duty Investigation of Melamine from 

Qatar,’’ dated October 17, 2024 (Sales Verification 

Report); and ‘‘Verification of the Cost Responses of 

Qatar Melamine Company in the Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Melamine from Qatar,’’ dated 

November 1, 2024 (Cost Verification Report). 

Commerce, antidumping duties on all 

imports of the subject merchandise, 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the effective 

date of the suspension of liquidation, as 

discussed above in the ‘‘Suspension of 

Liquidation’’ section. 

Administrative Protective Order (APO) 

This notice serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to an APO of 

their responsibility concerning the 

disposition of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 

written 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 sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination and this notice are 

issued and published pursuant to 

sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, 

and 19 CFR 351.210(c). 

Dated: December 2, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise subject to this 

investigation is melamine (Chemical 

Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number 108– 

78–01, molecular formula C3 H6 N6). 

Melamine is also known as 2,4,6-triaminostriazine; 1,3,5-Triazine-2,4,6- triamine; 

Cyanurotriamide; Cyanurotriamine; 

Cyanuramide; and by various brand names. 

Melamine is a crystalline powder or granule. 

All melamine is covered by the scope of this 

investigation irrespective of purity, particle 

size, or physical form. Melamine that has 

been blended with other products is included 

within this scope when such blends include 

constituent parts that have been 

intermingled, but that have not been 

chemically reacted with each other to 

produce a different product. For such blends, 

only the melamine component of the mixture 

is covered by the scope of this investigation. 

Melamine that is otherwise subject to this 

investigation is not excluded when 

commingled with melamine from sources not 

subject to this investigation. Only the subject 

component of such commingled products is 

covered by the scope of this investigation. 

The subject merchandise is provided for in 

subheading 2933.61.0000 of the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS). Although the HTSUS subheading 

and CAS registry number are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope is 

dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–518–001] 

Melamine From Qatar: Final Negative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Final Negative 

Determination of Critical 

Circumstances 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

melamine from Qatar is not being, or is 

not likely to be, sold in the United 

States at less than fair value (LTFV). The 

period of investigation (POI) is January 

1, 2023, through December 31, 2023. 

DATES: Applicable December 9, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Hart, 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) 482–1058. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 24, 2024, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register its 

preliminary negative determination in 

the LTFV investigation of melamine 

from Qatar and invited interested 

parties to comment on the Preliminary 

Determination.1

A summary of the events that 

occurred since Commerce published its 

Preliminary Determination, as well as a 

full discussion of the issues raised by 

parties for this final determination, may 

be found in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum.2 The Issues and 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. In addition, a 

complete version of the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly at https://access.trade.gov/ 

public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Final Negative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances 

We continue to find that critical 

circumstances do not exist for imports 

of melamine from Qatar for all 

producers and exporters pursuant to 

section 733(e)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act) and 19 CFR 

351.206. For a discussion and analysis 

of comments regarding Commerce’s 

critical circumstances analysis, see the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is melamine from Qatar. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of this investigation, see Appendix I to 

this notice. 

Scope Comments 

We received no comments from 

interested parties on the scope of the 

investigation as it appeared in the 

Preliminary Determination. Therefore, 

we made no changes to the scope of the 

investigation. 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, in October 2024, we verified the 

sales and cost information submitted by 

QMC/Muntajat 3 for use in our final 

determination. We used standard 

verification procedures, including an 

examination of relevant sales and 

accounting records, and original source 

documents provided by QMC/ 

Muntajat.4

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs submitted by interested 

parties in this investigation are 

addressed in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. A list of the issues 

addressed in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum is attached as Appendix 

II to this notice. 


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