Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 17 / Tuesday, January 28, 2025 / Notices 8265 

1See Certain Paper Plates from the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part, Postponement of Final 

Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 89 FR 72375 (September 5, 2024) 

(Preliminary Determination), and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value of 

Certain Paper Plates from the Socialist Republic of 

Vietnam,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

3See Memoranda, ‘‘Factors of Production 

Verification Report,’’ dated October 15, 2024; and 

‘‘Sales Verification Report,’’ dated October 25, 2024. 

4See Preliminary Determination, 89 FR at 72376. 

5See Issues and Decision Memorandum at 2–4. 

6See Preliminary Determination PDM at 11–15. 

7 Id. 

8 Id. at 9–11. 

9See Enforcement and Compliance’s Policy 

Bulletin No. 05.1, regarding, ‘‘Separate-Rates 

Practice and Application of Combination Rates in 

Antidumping Investigations involving Non-Market 

Economy Countries,’’ (April 5, 2005) (Policy 

Bulletin 05.1), available at https://access.trade.gov/ 

Resources/policy/bull05-1.pdf. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–552–839] 

Certain Paper Plates From the Socialist 

Republic of Vietnam: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Final Affirmative 

Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, in Part 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

certain paper plates (paper plates) from 

the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 

(Vietnam) are being, or are likely to be, 

sold in the United States at less than fair 

value (LTFV) for the period of 

investigation (POI) July 1, 2023, through 

December 31, 2023. 

DATES: Applicable January 28, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bryan Hansen, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3683. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 5, 2024, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register its 

preliminary affirmative determination 

in the LTFV investigation of paper 

plates from Vietnam and invited 

interested parties to comment.1 For a 

complete description of the events that 

followed the Preliminary Determination, 

see 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. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are paper plates from 

Vietnam. For a complete description of 

the scope of this investigation, see 

Appendix I. 

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 

Commerce verified sales and factors 

of production information submitted by 

Go-Pak Paper Products Vietnam Co., 

Ltd. (Go-Pak Vietnam) for use in our 

final determination, consistent with 

section 782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (the Act).3 We used 

standard verification procedures, 

including an examination of relevant 

sales and accounting records, and 

original source documents provided by 

Go-Pak Vietnam. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

The issues raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs by the parties in this 

investigation are discussed in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum. A list of 

the issues raised addressed in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum is attached 

to this notice as Appendix II. 

Final Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances, in Part 

Commerce preliminarily determined, 

in accordance with section 733(e)(1) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act), and 19 CFR 351.206(c)(1), that 

critical circumstances exist with respect 

to imports of paper plates for the 

Vietnam-wide entity but not for Go-Pak 

Vietnam.4 Further, for the final 

determination, pursuant to section 

735(a)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.206, we continue to find that 

critical circumstances exist for the 

Vietnam-wide entity and that critical 

circumstances do not exist for Go-Pak 

Vietnam.5

Changes Since the Preliminary 

Determination 

Based on our review and analysis of 

the information at verification and 

comments received from interested 

parties, we made certain changes to the 

calculation of Go-Pak Vietnam’s 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin. For a discussion of these 

changes, see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

Vietnam-Wide Entity and Use of 

Adverse Facts Available 

Consistent with the Preliminary 

Determination,6 Commerce continues to 

find, pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b) 

of the Act, that the use of facts 

otherwise available, with adverse 

inferences, is warranted in determining 

the dumping rate for the Vietnam-wide 

entity. For this final determination there 

is no new information on the record that 

would cause us to revisit our decision 

in the preliminary determination. 

Therefore, as adverse facts available 

(AFA), we have continued to assign a 

rate of 165.27 percent, which is the 

highest dumping margin alleged in the 

petition, to the Vietnam-wide entity.7

Separate Rates 

No interested party commented on 

Commerce’s preliminary separate rate 

determination 8 and we have no basis to 

reconsider this determination. 

Accordingly, we continue to find that 

Go-Pak Vietnam is the sole respondent 

eligible for a separate rate. 

Combination Rates 

Consistent with the Preliminary 

Determination, and Policy Bulletin 

05.1,9 Commerce calculated a producer/ 

exporter combination rate for Go-Pak 

Vietnam, i.e., the sole respondent 

eligible for a separate rate. 

Final Determination 

Commerce determines that the 

following estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins exist: 


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Exporter Producer 

Weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit rate 

(adjusted for export 

subsidy offset) 

(percent) 

Go-Pak Paper Products Vietnam Co., Ltd .......... Go-Pak Paper Products Vietnam Co., Ltd .......... 30.42 24.89 

Vietnam-Wide Entity .............................................................................................................................. * 165.27 159.74 

* Rate based on AFA. 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose the 

calculations performed in this final 

determination to interested parties 

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 the 

Federal Register in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.224(b). 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

735(c)(1)(B) and (C) of the Act, we will 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to suspend liquidation 

of all appropriate entries of subject 

merchandise, as described in Appendix 

I of this notice, which were entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register for Go-Pak Vietnam. 

Section 733(e)(2) of the Act provides 

that, given an affirmative determination 

of critical circumstances, any 

suspension of liquidation shall apply to 

unliquidated entries of subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the later of: (a) the date which is 

90 days before the date on which the 

suspension of liquidation was first 

ordered; or (b) the date on which notice 

of initiation of the investigation was 

published. Commerce finds that critical 

circumstances exist for imports of 

subject merchandise produced or 

exported by the Vietnam-wide entity. In 

accordance with section 733(e)(2)(A) of 

the Act, the suspension of liquidation 

shall apply to unliquidated entries of 

shipments of subject merchandise from 

the producer(s) or exporter(s) identified 

in this paragraph that were entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after June 7, 2024, 

which is 90 days before the publication 

of the Preliminary Determination. These 

suspension of liquidation instructions 

will remain in effect until further notice. 

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

the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(d), upon 

the publication of this notice, 

Commerce will instruct CBP to require 

a cash deposit for estimated 

antidumping duties for appropriate 

entries. 

Commerce will instruct CBP to 

require the following cash deposits of 

estimated antidumping duties for all 

appropriate entries: (1) for the producer/ 

exporter combinations listed in the table 

above, the applicable cash deposit rate 

is listed in the table for that 

combination; (2) for all combinations of 

Vietnamese producers/exporters of the 

merchandise under consideration that 

have not established eligibility for a 

separate rates, the cash deposit rate will 

be equal to the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin established for 

the Vietnam-wide entity; and (3) for all 

third-country exporters of the 

merchandise under consideration not 

listed in the table above, the cash 

deposit rate is the cash deposit rate 

applicable to the Vietnamese producer/ 

exporter combination that supplied that 

third-country exporter or, if the 

exporter/producer combination does not 

have its own rate, the cash deposit rate 

will be the Vietnam-wide rate. These 

suspension of liquidation instructions 

will remain in effect until further notice. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

(ITC) 

In accordance with section 735(d) of 

the Act, we will notify the ITC of this 

final affirmative determination of sales 

at LTFV. Because Commerce’s final 

determination in this investigation 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 of 

paper plates no later than 45 days after 

this final determination. If the ITC 

determines that material injury or threat 

of material injury does not exist, the 

proceeding will be terminated and all 

cash deposits will be refunded or 

canceled, and suspension of liquidation 

will be lifted. If the ITC determines that 

such injury does exist, Commerce will 

issue an antidumping duty order 

directing CBP to assess, upon further 

instructions by Commerce, antidumping 

duties on all imports of the subject 

merchandise that are entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the effective 

date of the suspension of liquidation, as 

discussed above in the ‘‘Continuation of 

Suspension of Liquidation’’ section. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice serves as the only 

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 

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: January 21, 2025. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise subject to this 

investigation is certain paper plates. Paper 

plates subject to this investigation may be cut 

from rolls, sheets, or other pieces of paper 

and/or paper board. Paper plates subject to 

this investigation have a depth up to and 

including two (2.0) inches, as measured 

vertically from the base to the top of the lip, 

or the edge if the plate has no lip. Paper 

plates subject to this investigation may be 

uncolored, white, colored, or printed. Printed 

paper plates subject to this investigation may 

have any type of surface finish, and may be 

printed by any means with images, text and/ 

or colors on one or both surfaces. Colored 

paper plates subject to this investigation may 

be colored by any method, including but not 

limited to printing, beater-dyeing, and dipdyeing. Paper plates subject to this 

investigation may be produced from paper of 

any type (including, but not limited to, 

bamboo, straws, bagasse, hemp, kenaf, jute, 

sisal, abaca, cotton inters and reeds, or from 

non-plant sources, such as synthetic resin 

(petroleum)-based resins), may have any 

caliper or basis weight, may have any shape 

or size, may have one or more than one 

section, may be embossed, may have foil or 

other substances adhered to their surface, 


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1See Vanillin from the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination and Alignment of Final 

Determination with Final Antidumping Duty 

Determination, 89 FR 90671 (November 18, 2024). 

1See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Petition for the 

Imposition of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duties,’’ dated December 31, 2024 (Petition). 

2 Id. 

and/or may be uncoated or coated with any 

type of coating. 

The paper plates subject to this 

investigation remain covered by the scope of 

this investigation whether imported alone, or 

in any combination of subject and nonsubject merchandise. When paper plates 

subject to this investigation are imported in 

combination with non-subject merchandise, 

only the paper plates subject to this 

investigation are subject merchandise. 

The paper plates subject to this 

investigation include paper plates matching 

the above description that have been 

finished, packaged, or otherwise processed in 

a third country by performing finishing, 

packaging, or processing that would not 

otherwise remove the merchandise from the 

scope of the investigation if performed in the 

country of manufacture of the paper plates. 

Examples of finishing, packaging, or other 

processing in a third country that would not 

otherwise remove the merchandise from the 

scope of the investigation if performed in the 

country of manufacture of the paper plates 

include, but are not limited to, printing, 

application of other surface treatments such 

as coatings, repackaging, embossing, and 

application of foil surface treatments. 

Excluded from the scope of this 

investigation are paper plates molded or 

pressed directly from paper pulp (including 

but not limited to unfelted pulp), which are 

currently classifiable under subheading 

4823.70.0020 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). 

Also excluded from the scope of this 

investigation are articles that otherwise 

would be covered but which exhibit the 

following two physical characteristics: (a) 

depth (measured vertically from the base to 

the top of the lip, or edge if no lip) equal to 

or greater than 1.25 inches but less than two 

(2.0) inches, and (b) a base not exceeding five 

(5.0) inches in diameter if round, or not 

exceeding 20 square inches in area if any 

other shape. 

Also excluded from the scope of this 

investigation are paper bowls, paper buckets, 

and paper food containers with closeable 

lids. 

Paper plates subject to this investigation 

are currently classifiable under HTSUS 

subheading 4823.69.0040. Paper plates 

subject to this investigation also may be 

classified under HTSUS subheading 

4823.61.0040. If packaged with other articles, 

the paper plates subject to this investigation 

also may be classified under HTSUS 

subheadings 9505.90.4000 and 9505.90.6000. 

While the HTSUS subheading(s) are provided 

for convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the subject 

merchandise is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Final Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances, in Part 

IV. Adjustment to Cash Deposit Rate for 

Export Subsidies 

V. Changes Since the Preliminary 

Determination 

VI. Application of Facts Available and Use of 

Adverse Inference 

VII. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Selection of Surrogate Value 

for Paper Input 

Comment 2: Selection of Surrogate 

Financial Statements 

Comment 3: Separate Valuation of 

Domestic Inland Freight Insurance 

Comment 4: Calculation of Scrap Offset 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–173] 

Vanillin From the People’s Republic of 

China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination and 

Alignment of Final Determination With 

Final Antidumping Duty Determination; 

Correction 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) published a 

notice in the Federal Register on 

November 18, 2024, in which it 

announced the preliminary 

determination in the countervailing 

duty (CVD) investigation of vanillin 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(China). In this notice, Commerce 

incorrectly identified the mandatory 

respondent in the investigation as 

Jiaxing Guihua Chemical Import and 

Export Co., Ltd. The correct name of the 

mandatory respondent is Jiaxing Guihua 

Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Pedersen, AD/CVD Operations, Office 

IV, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2769. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 18, 2024, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register notice 

of the preliminary determination in the 

CVD investigation of vanillin from 

China.1 In that notice, Commerce 

incorrectly identified the name of the 

mandatory respondent in the 

investigation as Jiaxing Guihua 

Chemical Import and Export Co., Ltd. 

The correct name of the mandatory 

respondent is Jiaxing Guihua Imp. & 

Exp. Co., Ltd. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of November 

18, 2024, in FR Doc 2024–26770, at 89 

FR 90672, correct the text and the table 

in the second column of the page, by 

replacing ‘‘Jiaxing Guihua Chemical 

Import and Export Co., Ltd.’’ with 

‘‘Jiaxing Guihua Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.’’ 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 703(f) and 

777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended, and 19 CFR 351.224(e). 

Dated: January 22, 2025. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–197] 

Slag Pots From the People’s Republic 

of China: Initiation of Countervailing 

Duty Investigation 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

DATES: Applicable January 21, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Samuel Brummitt, Office III, AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–7851. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The Petition 

On December 31, 2024, the U.S. 

Department of Commerce (Commerce) 

received a countervailing duty (CVD) 

petition concerning imports of slag pots 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(China) filed in proper form on behalf of 

WHEMCO-Steel Castings, Inc. (the 

petitioner), a U.S. producer of slag 

pots.1 The CVD Petition was 

accompanied by an antidumping duty 

(AD) petition concerning imports of slag 

pots from China.2


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