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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 102107-102109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29600]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-570-054]

Certain Aluminum Foil From the People's Republic of China: 
Amended Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative; 2022

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

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the 
final results of the countervailing duty administrative review of 
certain aluminum foil (aluminum foil) from the People's Republic of 
China (China) to correct a ministerial error. The period of review 
(POR) is January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022.

DATES: Applicable December 17, 2024.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Natasia Harrison or Harrison Tanchuck, 
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) 482-1240 or (202) 
482-7421, respectively.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    In accordance with sections 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5), on November 12, 2024, 
Commerce published its final results in the countervailing duty 
administrative review of aluminum foil from China.\1\ On November 13, 
2024, the Aluminum Association Trade Enforcement Working Group and its 
individual members (collectively, the petitioners) timely alleged that 
Commerce made a ministerial error in the Final Results.\2\ No party 
submitted rebuttal comments.
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    \1\ See Certain Aluminum Foil from the People's Republic of 
China: Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative; 2022, 89 
FR 88957 (November 12, 2024) (Final Results), and accompanying 
Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM).
    \2\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Ministerial Error Allegation,'' 
dated November 13, 2024.
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Scope of the Order 3
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    \3\ See Certain Aluminum Foil from the People's Republic of 
China: Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination 
and Countervailing Duty Order, 83 FR 17360 (April 19, 2018); see 
also Certain Aluminum Foil from the People's Republic of China: 
Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the Amended Final 
Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation, and Notice 
of Amended Final Determination and Amended Countervailing Duty 
Order, 85 FR 47730 (August 6, 2020) (collectively, Order).
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    The product covered by the scope of the Order is aluminum foil from 
China. A full description of the scope of the Order is contained in the 
Final Results IDM.

Ministerial Errors

    Section 751(h) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.224(f) define a 
``ministerial error'' as an error ``in addition, subtraction, or other 
arithmetic function, clerical error resulting from inaccurate copying, 
duplication, or the like, and any similar type of unintentional error 
which the Secretary considers ministerial.'' Commerce finds that the 
purported error alleged by the petitioners constitutes a ministerial 
error within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.224(f).\4\ Specifically, we 
committed a ministerial error with regard to the calculation of 
mandatory respondent Jiangsu Zhongji Lamination Materials Co., (HK) 
Limited's (Zhongji HK's) input supplier company sales denominators, and 
consequently, the subsidy rate calculations performed in connection 
with Zhongji HK's affiliated input supplier company sales denominators. 
For a complete discussion of this alleged error, see the Ministerial 
Error Analysis Memorandum.
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    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Analysis of Ministerial Error 
Allegations,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Ministerial 
Error Analysis Memorandum).
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    In accordance with section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(e), 
we are amending the Final Results.\5\ Specifically, we are amending the 
net subsidy rate for Zhongji HK. The revised net subsidy rate is 
provided in the table below. As a result of amending the net subsidy 
rate for Zhongji HK, we are also amending the rate for the non-selected 
companies, which is the average of the average of the rates calculated 
for two mandatory respondents, as provided in the table below.
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    \5\ See Final Results, 89 FR at 88958.
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Amended Final Results of Review

    As a result of correcting the ministerial errors described above, 
Commerce determines the following net countervailable subsidy rates for 
the period January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022:

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                                                           Subsidy rate
                         Company                            (percent ad
                                                             valorem)
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Hangzhou Five Star Aluminium Co., Ltd.\6\...............       \7\ 29.90
Jiangsu Zhongji Lamination Materials Co., (HK) Limited         \9\ 25.24
 \8\....................................................
Non-Selected Companies Under Review \10\................      \11\ 29.13
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Disclosure
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    \6\ Commerce finds the following companies to be to be cross-
owned with Five Star: Jiangsu Dingsheng New Materials Joint-Stock 
Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Dingsheng), Dingsheng Aluminum Industries (Hong 
Kong) Trading Co., Ltd. (Dingsheng HK), Hangzhou Dingsheng Import & 
Export Co., Ltd. (Dingsheng IE), Hangzhou Teemful Aluminium Co., 
Ltd. (Teemful), Inner Mongolia Liansheng New Energy Material Co., 
Ltd. or Inner Mongolia Liansheng New Energy Material Joint-Stock 
Co., Ltd. (Liansheng), Inner Mongolia Xinxing New Energy Material 
Co., Ltd. or Inner Mongolia Xinxing New Material Co., Ltd. 
(Xinxing), Hangzhou Dingsheng Industrial Group Co., Ltd. (Dingsheng 
Group), Hangzhou Dingcheng Aluminium Co., Ltd. (Dingcheng); Luoyang 
Longding Aluminum Co., Ltd. (Longding); Walson (HK) Trading Co., 
Limited (Walson HK); Dingheng New Materials Co., Ltd. (Dingheng) and 
Thai Ding Li New Materials Co., Ltd. (Ding Li), (collectively, 
Dingsheng Respondents). Walson HK, Dingheng and Ding Li were listed 
separately in Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 38021 (June 12, 2023) (Initiation 
Notice). See Dingsheng Respondents' Letter, ``Hangzhou Five Star 
Affiliation Response,'' dated August 25, 2023 (Dingsheng Respondents 
AQR) at Exhibit A.1.
    \7\ Unchanged from Final Results.
    \8\ As discussed in the Preliminary Results, Commerce finds the 
following companies to be to be cross-owned with Zhongji HK: Jiangsu 
Zhongji Lamination Materials Co., Ltd. (Zhongji) (FKA Jiangsu 
Zhongji Lamination Materials Stock Co., Ltd.); Jiangsu Huafeng 
Aluminium Industry Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Huafeng); Shantou Wanshun New 
Material Group Co., Ltd. (Shantou Wanshun) (FKA Shantou Wanshun 
Package Material Stock Co., Ltd.); Anhui Zhongji Battery Foil 
Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Anhui Zhongji) (FKA Anhui Maximum 
Aluminium Industries Company Limited); and Sichuan Wanshun Zhongji 
Aluminium Industry Co., Ltd. (Sichuan Wanshun). Anhui Zhongji, Anhui 
Maximum Aluminium Industries Company Limited, Jiangsu Huafeng, 
Zhongji, and Shantou Wanshun Package Material Stock Co., Ltd. were 
listed separately in the Initiation Notice.
    \9\ This net countervailable ad valorem subsidy rate reflects an 
entered value adjustment (EVA). See Final Results IDM at Comment 3.
    \10\ See Appendix for a list of the non-selected companies under 
review.
    \11\ The non-selected company rate reflects Five Star's ad 
valorem net countervailable subsidy rate and Zhongji HK's amended ad 
valorem net countervailable subsidy rate without the EVA, which is 
28.35 percent. See Final Results IDM at Comment 3; see also 
Memorandum, ``Amended Final Results Calculation of Subsidy Rate for 
Non-Selected Companies Under Review,'' dated concurrently with this 
notice.
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    Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed for these 
amended final results within five days after the date of publication of 
this notice in the Federal Register in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.224(b).

Assessment Rates

    In accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(2), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protections (CBP) shall assess, countervailing duties on all 
appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the 
amended final results of this review. Commerce intends to issue 
assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date 
of publication of these amended 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).

Cash Deposit Requirements

    In accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce also 
intends to instruct CBP to collect cash deposits of estimated 
countervailing duties in the amounts shown for the companies subject to 
this review, effective November 12, 2024, the date of publication of 
the Final Results in the Federal Register. For all non-selected 
companies, CBP will 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 deposits, 
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.

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Administrative Protective Order

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to 
an administrative protective order (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

    We are issuing and publishing these amended final results of the 
review in accordance with sections 751(h) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 
19 CFR 351.224(e).

    Dated: December 10, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

Non-Selected Companies Under Review

1. Alcha International Holdings Limited
2. Baotou Alcha Aluminum Co., Ltd.
3. Gr[auml]nges Aluminum (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
4. Guangxi Baise Xinghe Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.
5. Hunan Suntown Marketing Limited
6. Jiangyin Dolphin Pack Ltd. Co.
7. Luoyang Longding Aluminium Industries Co., Ltd.
8. Shandong Yuanrui Metal Material Co., Ltd.
9. Shanghai Huafon Aluminium Corporation
10. Shanghai Shenhuo Aluminium Foil Co., Ltd.
11. Shanghai Shenyan Packaging Materials Co., Ltd.
12. SNTO International Trade Limited
13. Suntown Technology Group Corporation Limited
14. Xiamen Xiashun Aluminium Foil Co. Ltd.
15. Yangtai Jintai International Trade Co., Ltd.
16. Yantai Donghai Aluminum Co., Ltd.
17. Yinbang Clad Material Co., Ltd.
18. Zhejiang Zhongjin Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.

[FR Doc. 2024-29600 Filed 12-16-24; 8:45 am]
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