302 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 2 / Friday, January 3, 2025 / Notices 

1See Administrative Protective Order, Service, 

and Other Procedures in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 

67069 (September 29, 2023). 

1See Certain Superabsorbent Polymers From the 

Republic of Korea: Final Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value, 87 FR 65035 (October 27, 

2022) (Final Determination), and accompanying 

Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM). 

2See Final Determination IDM at 3–14. 

3See Certain Superabsorbent Polymers from the 

Republic of Korea: Antidumping Duty Order, 87 FR 

77794 (December 20, 2022). 

4See Ad Hoc Coalition of American SAP 

Producers v. United States, Court No. 23–00010, 

Slip Op. 24–26 (CIT March 1, 2024). 

5See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant 

to Court Remand, The Ad Hoc Coalition of 

American SAP Producers v. United States, Court 

No. 23–00010, Slip Op. 24–00026 (CIT March 1, 

2024), dated June 14, 2024. 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings 

No sunset review of countervailing 

duty orders is scheduled for initiation in 

February 2025. 

Suspended Investigations 

No sunset review of suspended 

investigations is scheduled for initiation 

in February 2025. 

Commerce’s procedures for the 

conduct of sunset review are set forth in 

19 CFR 351.218. The Notice of Initiation 

of Five-Year (Sunset) Review provides 

further information regarding what is 

required of all parties to participate in 

sunset review. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.103(c), 

Commerce will maintain and make 

available a service list for these 

proceedings. To facilitate the timely 

preparation of the service list(s), it is 

requested that those seeking recognition 

as interested parties to a proceeding 

contact Commerce in writing within 10 

days of the publication of the Notice of 

Initiation. 

Please note that if Commerce receives 

a Notice of Intent to Participate from a 

member of the domestic industry within 

15 days of the date of initiation, the 

review will continue. 

Thereafter, any interested party 

wishing to participate in the sunset 

review must provide substantive 

comments in response to the notice of 

initiation no later than 30 days after the 

date of initiation. Note that Commerce 

has amended certain of its requirements 

pertaining to the service of documents 

in 19 CFR 351.303(f).1 An electronically 

filed document must be received 

successfully in its entirety by ACCESS 

by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the day on 

which it is due. 

In prior proceedings we have 

encouraged interested parties to provide 

an executive summary of their 

comments, including footnotes. In these 

sunset reviews, we request that 

interested parties provide at the 

beginning of their comments, an 

executive summary for each issue raised 

in their comments. 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 

decision memorandum that will 

accompany the notice to be published in 

the Federal Register. Finally, we request 

that interested parties include footnotes 

for relevant citations in the public 

executive summary of each issue. 

This notice is not required by statute 

but is published as a service to the 

international trading community. 

Dated: December 30, 2024. 

Scot Fullerton, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–580–914] 

Certain Superabsorbent Polymers 

From the Republic of Korea: Notice of 

Court Decision Not in Harmony With 

the Final Determination of 

Antidumping Duty Investigation; 

Notice of Amended Final 

Determination; Notice of Amended 

Antidumping Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On December 17, 2024, the 

U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) 

issued its final judgment in Ad Hoc 

Coalition of American SAP Producers v. 

United States, Court No. 23–00010, 

sustaining the U.S. Department of 

Commerce’s (Commerce) final remand 

redetermination pertaining to the lessthan-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of 

certain superabsorbent polymers (SAP) 

from the Republic of Korea (Korea) 

covering the period of investigation 

October 1, 2020, through September 30, 

2021. Commerce is notifying the public 

that the CIT’s final judgment is not in 

harmony with Commerce’s final 

determination in that investigation, and 

that Commerce is amending the final 

determination and the resulting 

antidumping duty (AD) order with 

respect to the dumping margins 

assigned to LG Chem, Ltd. (LGC) and all 

other producers and exporters of subject 

merchandise. 

DATES: Applicable December 27, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Charles DeFilippo, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–3797. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 27, 2022, Commerce 

published its Final Determination in the 

LTFV investigation of SAP from Korea.1

In its Final Determination, Commerce 

revised the model match hierarchy of 

the physical characteristics of the 

subject merchandise to use LGC’s 

proposed centrifugal retention capacity 

(CRC) characteristic reporting of 4 g/g 

increments, and to include LGC’s 

proposed two additional characteristics 

(absorbency under pressure (AUP) and 

permeability (PERM)) based on its 

finding that the alternative CRC 

increments and inclusion of AUP and 

PERM were commercially significant.2

Commerce subsequently published the 

AD order on SAP from Korea.3

The Ad Hoc Coalition of American 

SAP Producers (Coalition) appealed 

Commerce’s Final Determination. On 

March 1, 2024, the CIT remanded the 

Final Determination to Commerce to: (1) 

reconsider or further explain the 

commercial significance of the 

characteristics adopted into Commerce’s 

model match hierarchy when compared 

to those adopted in the preliminary 

determination, in particular narrower 4 

g/g ranges for CRC, as well as AUP and 

PERM, which the CIT held to be 

unsupported by substantial evidence in 

the final determination; (2) further 

explain whether and to what extent 

Commerce verified the alternative sales 

and cost information upon which it 

relied in the final determination; and (3) 

address the Coalition’s concern that 

LGC’s defined characteristics created a 

possibility of manipulation, which 

could result in a distorted dumping 

margin.4

In its final remand redetermination, 

issued in June 2024, Commerce 

determined that there is no additional 

information on the record that would 

support the finding that narrower 4 g/ 

g ranges for CRC and the inclusion of 

AUP and PERM are commercially 

significant and should be included in 

the model match hierarchy.5 As a result, 

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6 Id. 

7See Ad Hoc Coalition of American SAP 

Producers v. United States, Court No. 23–00010, 

Slip Op. 24–141 (CIT December 17, 2024). 

8See Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 

(Fed. Cir. 1990) (Timken). 

9See Diamond Sawblades Manufacturers 

Coalition v. United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 

2010) (Diamond Sawblades). 

1See Antidumping Duty Order: Welded Large 

Diameter Line Pipe from Japan, 66 FR 63368 

(December 6, 2001) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 89 

FR 71252 (September 3, 2024). 

3See Domestic Interested Parties’ Letter, ‘‘Notice 

of Intent to Participate,’’ dated September 18, 2024. 

4 Id. 

5See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Sunset Reviews 

Initiated on September 3, 2024,’’ dated September 

25, 2024. 

6See Domestic Interested Parties’ Letter, 

‘‘Substantive Response to the Notice of Initiation of 

Sunset Review,’’ dated October 3, 2024. 

7See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Sunset Reviews 

Initiated on September 3, 2024,’’ dated October 31, 

2024. 

8See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Expedited Fourth Sunset 

Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Welded 

Large Diameter Line Pipe from Japan,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). 

hierarchy to only include CRC in 6 g/ 

g increments. Further, because 

Commerce revised the model match 

hierarchy, it did not address the CIT’s 

concerns regarding whether Commerce 

sufficiently verified the alternative cost 

and sales data upon which it relied in 

its final determination or further 

consider the issue of potential 

manipulation using the model match 

hierarchy put forth by LGC (i.e., 

including AUP, PERM, and CRC at 4 g/ 

g increments).6 The CIT sustained 

Commerce’s final redetermination.7

Timken Notice 

In its decision in Timken,8 as clarified 

by Diamond Sawblades,9 the U.S. Court 

of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held 

that, pursuant to sections 516A(c) and 

(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act), Commerce must publish a 

notice of court decision that is not ‘‘in 

harmony’’ with a Commerce 

determination and must suspend 

liquidation of entries pending a 

‘‘conclusive’’ court decision. The CIT’s 

December 17, 2024, judgment 

constitutes a final decision of the CIT 

that is not in harmony with Commerce’s 

Final Determination. Thus, this notice is 

published in fulfillment of the 

publication requirements of Timken. 

Amended Final Determination 

Because there is now a final court 

judgment, Commerce is amending its 

Final Determination with respect to LGC 

and all other producers and exporters as 

follows: 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

LG Chem, Ltd .................................. 26.05 

All Others ........................................ 26.05 

Amended AD Order 

Pursuant to section 735(c)(2) of the 

Act, Commerce shall ‘‘issue an 

antidumping duty order under section 

736’’ of the Act when the final 

determination is affirmative. As a result 

of this amended final determination, 

Commerce is hereby amending the 

Order to revise the weighted-average 

dumping margins assigned to LGC and 

all-other producers and exporters of 

subject merchandise, as noted above. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

Because LGC does not have a 

superseding cash deposit rate, i.e., there 

have been no final results published in 

a subsequent administrative review, and 

because of the change to the rate 

assigned to all other producers and 

exporters of subject merchandise, 

Commerce will issue revised cash 

deposit instructions to U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 516A(c) and 

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

Dated: December 27, 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–588–857] 

Welded Large Diameter Line Pipe From 

Japan: Final Results of the Expedited 

Fourth Sunset Review of the 

Antidumping Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) finds that 

revocation of the antidumping duty 

(AD) order on welded large diameter 

line pipe (line pipe) from Japan would 

be likely to lead to continuation or 

recurrence of dumping at the levels 

indicated in the ‘‘Final Results of Sunset 

Review’’ section of this notice. 

DATES: Applicable January 3, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Janae ́ Martin, 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) 482–0238. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 6, 2001, Commerce 

published the AD order on line pipe 

from Japan.1 On September 3, 2024, 

Commerce published the notice of 

initiation of the fourth sunset review of 

the Order, pursuant to section 751(c)(2) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act).2 On September 18, 2024, 

Commerce received a notice of intent to 

participate in this review from 

American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Berg 

Pipe Panama City Corp./Berg Pipe 

Mobile Corp., Dura-Bond Industries, 

Stupp Corporation, and Welspun 

Tubular LLC, individually and as 

members of the American Line Pipe 

Producers Association (ALPPA) 

(collectively, domestic interested 

parties) within the deadline specified in 

19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(i).3 The domestic 

interested parties claimed interested 

party status under sections 771(9)(C) 

and (F) of the Act, as manufacturers of 

a domestic like product in the United 

States, and as an association of such 

manufacturers.4 On September 25, 2024, 

Commerce notified the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) 

that it received a notice of intent to 

participate from the domestic interested 

parties, and that the sunset review 

would continue.5

On October 3, 2024, we received a 

complete substantive response for this 

review from the domestic interested 

parties within the 30-day deadline 

specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3)(i).6

We received no substantive responses 

from any other interested parties, nor 

was a hearing requested. On October 31, 

2024, Commerce notified the ITC that it 

did not receive an adequate substantive 

response from any respondent 

interested parties.7 As a result 

Commerce conducted an expedited 

(120-day) sunset review of the Order, 

pursuant to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)((C)(2). 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by this 

Order is line pipe. For a complete 

description of the scope of the Order, 

see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum.8


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