Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 20 / Friday, January 31, 2025 / Notices 8701 

1See Melamine from Germany: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 89 

FR 97584 (December 9, 2024) (Germany Final 

Determination); Melamine from Japan: Final 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances, In Part, 89 FR 97601 

(December 9, 2024) (Japan Final Determination); 

Melamine from the Netherlands: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 89 

FR 97590 (December 9, 2024) (Netherland Final 

Determination); and Melamine from Trinidad and 

Tobago: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative 

Determination of Critical Circumstances, In Part, 89 

FR 97598 (December 9, 2024) (Trinidad and Tobago 

Final Determination) (collectively, the Final 

Determinations). 

2See ITC’s Letter, Notification Letter: 

Investigation Nos. 701–TA–706, 708–709 and 731– 

TA–1667, 1669–1670, 1672 (Final), dated January 

23, 2025 (ITC Notification Letter). 

3Having made a determination that an industry 

in the United States is threatened with material 

injury by reason of imports of melamine from 

Trinidad and Tobago, the ITC did not reach the 

issue of critical circumstances regarding subject 

imports from Trinidad and Tobago. See Melamine 

from Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Qatar, and 

Trinidad and Tobago, Investigation Nos. 701–TA– 

706, 708–709 and 731–TA–1667, 1669–1670, 1672 

(Final), dated January 23, 2025 (ITC Final Report). 

4 Id. 

5 Id. 

6See Melamine from Germany: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Continued 

enforcement.trade.gov/stats/ 

iastats1.html. 

These orders are issued and published 

in accordance with section 706(a) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: January 27, 2025. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise subject to these orders is 

melamine (Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) 

registry number 108–78–01, molecular 

formula C3 H6 N6). Melamine is also known 

as 2,4,6-triamino-s-triazine; 1,3,5-Triazine2,4,6- triamine; Cyanurotriamide; 

Cyanurotriamine; Cyanuramide; and by 

various brand names. Melamine is a 

crystalline powder or granule. All melamine 

is covered by the scope of these orders 

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 these orders. 

Melamine that is otherwise subject to these 

orders is not excluded when commingled 

with melamine from sources not subject to 

these orders. Only the subject component of 

such commingled products is covered by the 

scope of these orders. 

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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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–428–852, A–588–882, A–421–817, A–274– 

810] 

Melamine From Germany, Japan, the 

Netherlands, and Trinidad and Tobago: 

Antidumping Duty Orders 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on affirmative final 

determinations by the U.S. Department 

of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC), 

Commerce is issuing the antidumping 

duty orders on melamine from 

Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and 

Trinidad and Tobago. 

DATES: Applicable January 31, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Noah Wetzel at (202) 482–7466 

(Germany); George McMahon at (202) 

482–1167 (Japan); Janae Martin at (202) 

482–0238 (the Netherlands); and 

Brittany Bauer at (202) 482–3860 

(Trinidad and Tobago), AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with sections 735(d) 

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

amended (the Act) on December 9, 2024, 

Commerce published in the Federal 

Register its affirmative final 

determinations in the less-than-fairvalue (LTFV) investigations of 

melamine from Germany, Japan, the 

Netherlands, and Trinidad and Tobago.1

On January 23, 2025, the ITC notified 

Commerce of its final affirmative 

determinations, pursuant to section 

735(d) of the Act, that an industry in the 

United States is materially injured 

within the meaning of section 

735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of 

LTFV imports of melamine from 

Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands, 

and that an industry in the United 

States is threatened with material injury 

by reason of imports of such 

merchandise from Trinidad and Tobago 

that are sold in the United States at 

LTFV.2 Further, the ITC determined that 

critical circumstances do not exist with 

respect to LTFV imports of melamine 

from Japan.3

Scope of the Orders 

The product covered by these orders 

is melamine from Germany, Japan, the 

Netherlands, and Trinidad and Tobago. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of these orders, see the appendix to this 

notice. 

Antidumping Duty Orders 

Based on the above-referenced 

affirmative final determinations by the 

ITC that an industry in the United States 

is materially injured by reason of LTFV 

imports of melamine from Germany, 

Japan, and the Netherlands, and that an 

industry in the United States is 

threatened with material injury by 

reason of imports of such merchandise 

from Trinidad and Tobago,4 and, in 

accordance with sections 735(c)(2) and 

736 of the Act, Commerce is issuing 

these antidumping duty orders. Because 

the ITC determined that an industry in 

the United States is materially injured 

by reason of imports of melamine from 

Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and 

Trinidad and Tobago are materially 

injuring, or threatening to material 

injury a U.S. industry,5 unliquidated 

entries of such merchandise from 

Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and 

Trinidad and Tobago, entered or 

withdrawn from warehouse for 

consumption, are subject to the 

assessment of antidumping duties. 

Therefore, in accordance with section 

736(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce will 

direct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to assess, upon further 

instruction by Commerce, antidumping 

duties equal to the amount by which the 

normal value of the merchandise 

exceeds the export price (or constructed 

export price) of the merchandise, for all 

relevant entries of melamine from 

Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and 

Trinidad and Tobago. For all relevant 

entries of melamine from Germany, 

Japan, and the Netherlands, 

antidumping duties will be assessed on 

unliquidated entries of melamine 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after June 26, 

2024, the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determinations in the 

Federal Register, but will not include 

entries occurring after the expiration of 

the provisional measures period and 

before publication of the ITC’s final 

injury determination, as further 

described below.6


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Fair Value, 89 FR 77822 (September 24, 2024) 

(Germany Preliminary Determination) and 

accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

(PDM); see also Melamine from Japan: Preliminary 

Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances, In Part, 89 FR 77819 

(September 24, 2024) (Japan Preliminary 

Determination) and accompanying PDM; Melamine 

from the Netherlands: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 89 

FR 77829 (September 24, 2024) (Netherlands 

Preliminary Determination) and accompanying 

PDM; and Melamine from Trinidad and Tobago: 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value and Affirmative 

Determination of Critical Circumstances, In Part, 89 

FR 77814 (September 24, 2024) (Trinidad and 

Tobago Preliminary Determination) and 

accompanying PDM (collectively, the Preliminary 

Determinations). 

7See ITC Final Report at 1, footnote 4. 

8See Preliminary Determinations. 

9See, e.g., Certain Corrosion-Resistant Steel 

Products from India, Italy, the People’s Republic of 

China, the Republic of Korea, and Taiwan: 

Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping 

Determination for India and Taiwan, and 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 48390, 48392 

(July 25, 2016). 

Pursuant to section 736(b)(2) of the 

Act, duties shall be assessed on subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date of publication of the ITC’s 

notice of final determination if that 

determination is based on the threat of 

material injury and is not accompanied 

by a finding that injury would have 

resulted without the imposition of 

suspension of liquidation of entries 

since Commerce’s preliminary 

determination. 

Additionally, section 736(b)(2) of the 

Act requires CBP to refund any cash 

deposits or bonds of estimated 

antidumping duties posted since the 

preliminary antidumping determination 

if the ITC’s final determination is threatbased. 

Because the ITC’s final determination 

for Trinidad and Tobago is based on the 

threat of material injury and is not 

accompanied by a finding that injury 

would have resulted but for the 

imposition of suspension of liquidation 

of entries since the Trinidad and 

Tobago Preliminary Determination, 

section 736(b)(2) of the Act is 

applicable.7 Therefore, Commerce will 

instruct CBP to assess duties on entries 

of melamine from Trinidad and Tobago 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the ITC’s notice of final 

determination of threat of material 

injury in the Federal Register, in 

accordance with the dumping margins 

listed in the rate chart below for 

Trinidad and Tobago. 

Critical Circumstances 

With respect to the ITC’s negative 

critical circumstances determination on 

imports of melamine from Japan, we 

will instruct CBP to lift the suspension 

of liquidation and to refund all cash 

deposits for estimated antidumping 

duties with respect to entries of the 

subject merchandise entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after June 26, 2024, 

i.e., 90 days prior to the date of the 

publication of the Japan Preliminary 

Determination, but before September 24, 

2024, the date of publication of the 

Japan Preliminary Determination. 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

Except as noted in the ‘‘Provisional 

Measures’’ section of this notice below, 

in accordance with section 736 of the 

Act, Commerce intends to instruct CBP 

to continue to suspend liquidation of all 

relevant entries of melamine from 

Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and 

Trinidad and Tobago. These 

instructions suspending liquidation will 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Commerce also intends to instruct 

CBP to require cash deposits at a rate 

equal to the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins indicated in the table 

below. Accordingly, effective on the 

date of publication in the Federal 

Register of the notice of the ITC’s final 

affirmative injury determinations, CBP 

will require, at the same time that 

importers would normally deposit 

estimated duties on the merchandise, a 

cash deposit equal to the rates listed 

below. The relevant all-others rates 

apply to all producers or exporters not 

specifically listed. 

Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping 

Margins 

Pursuant to section 735 of the Act, the 

final estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins are as follows: 

Country Exporter/producer 

Weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Germany ................................................. LAT Nitrogen Piesteritz GmbH ............................................................................... 218.73 

All Others ................................................................................................................ 179.24 

Japan ...................................................... Mitsui Chemicals, Inc .............................................................................................. 127.69 

All Others ................................................................................................................ 115.11 

Netherlands ............................................ OCI Nitrogen B.V .................................................................................................... 72.16 

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

Trinidad and Tobago .............................. Methanol Holdings (Trinidad) Limited ..................................................................... 146.85 

All Others ................................................................................................................ 98.32

Provisional Measures 

Section 733(d) of the Act states that 

suspension of liquidation pursuant to an 

affirmative preliminary determination, 

may not remain in effect for more than 

four months, except that Commerce may 

extend the four-month period to no 

more than six months. 

Commerce published the Preliminary 

Determinations in these investigations 

in the Federal Register on September 

24, 2024.8 Commerce did not extend the 

deadline for issuing its final 

determinations in these investigations, 

which it published in the in the Federal 

Register on December 9, 2024. 

Therefore, the four-month period 

beginning on the date of publication of 

the Preliminary Determination ended on 

January 21, 2025. 

Consequently, in accordance with 

section 733(d) of the Act and its 

practice,9 Commerce will instruct CBP 

to terminate the suspension of 

liquidation and to liquidate, without 

regard to antidumping duties, 

unliquidated entries of melamine from 

Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and 

Trinidad and Tobago entered or 

withdrawn from warehouse for 

consumption, after January 21, 2025, the 

final day on which the provisional 

measures were in effect, until and 

through the day preceding the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final affirmative 

injury determinations in the Federal 

Register. Suspension of liquidation and 

the collection of cash deposits will 

resume on the date of publication of the 

ITC’s final determinations in the 

Federal Register. 


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10See Regulations to Improve Administration and 

Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Laws, 86 FR 52300 (September 20, 2021) 

(Final Rule). 

11See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

53205 (September 27, 2021) (Procedural Guidance). 

12 Id. 

13This segment will be combined with the 

ACCESS Segment Specific Information (SSI) field 

which will display the month in which the notice 

of the order or suspended investigation was 

published in the Federal Register, also known as 

the anniversary month. For example, for an order 

under case number A–000–000 that was published 

in the Federal Register in January, the relevant 

segment and SSI combination will appear in 

ACCESS as ‘‘AISL—January Anniversary.’’ Note 

that there will be only one annual inquiry service 

list segment per case number, and the anniversary 

month will be pre-populated in ACCESS. 

14See Procedural Guidance, 86 FR at 53206. 

15See Final Rule, 86 FR at 52335. 

16The petitioner is Cornerstone Chemical 

Company. 

Establishment of the Annual Inquiry 

Service Lists 

On September 20, 2021, Commerce 

published the final rule titled 

‘‘Regulations to Improve Administration 

and Enforcement of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Laws’’ in the 

Federal Register.10 On September 27, 

2021, Commerce also published the 

notice titled ‘‘Scope Ruling Application; 

Annual Inquiry Service List; and 

Informational Sessions’’ in the Federal 

Register.11 The Final Rule and 

Procedural Guidance provide that 

Commerce will maintain an annual 

inquiry service list for each order or 

suspended investigation, and any 

interested party submitting a scope 

ruling application or request for 

circumvention inquiry shall serve a 

copy of the application or request on the 

persons on the annual inquiry service 

list for that order, as well as any 

companion order covering the same 

merchandise from the same country of 

origin.12

In accordance with the Procedural 

Guidance, for orders published in the 

Federal Register after November 4, 

2021, Commerce will create an annual 

inquiry service list segment in 

Commerce’s online e-filing and 

document management system, 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS), 

available at https://access.trade.gov, 

within five business days of publication 

of the notice of the order. Each annual 

inquiry service list will be saved in 

ACCESS, under each case number, and 

under a specific segment type called 

‘‘AISL-Annual Inquiry Service List.’’ 13

Interested parties who wish to be 

added to the annual inquiry service list 

for an order must submit an entry of 

appearance to the annual inquiry 

service list segment for the order in 

ACCESS within 30 days after the date of 

publication of the order. For ease of 

administration, Commerce requests that 

law firms with more than one attorney 

representing interested parties in an 

order designate a lead attorney to be 

included on the annual inquiry service 

list. Commerce will finalize the annual 

inquiry service list within five business 

days thereafter. As mentioned in the 

Procedural Guidance,14 the new annual 

inquiry service list will be in place until 

the following year, when the 

Opportunity Notice for the anniversary 

month of the order is published. 

Commerce may update an annual 

inquiry service list at any time as 

needed based on interested parties’ 

amendments to their entries of 

appearance to remove or otherwise 

modify their list of members and 

representatives, or to update contact 

information. Changes or announcements 

pertaining to these procedures will be 

posted to the ACCESS website at 

https://access.trade.gov. 

Special Instructions for Petitioner and 

Foreign Governments 

In the Final Rule, Commerce stated 

that, ‘‘after an initial request and 

placement on the annual inquiry service 

list, both petitioners and foreign 

governments will automatically be 

placed on the annual inquiry service list 

in the years that follow.’’ 15

Accordingly, as stated above, the 

petitioner 16 and Governments of 

Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and 

Trinidad and Tobago should submit 

their initial entries of appearance after 

publication of this notice in order to 

appear in the first annual inquiry 

service lists for these orders. Pursuant to 

19 CFR 351.225(n)(3), the petitioner and 

the Governments of Germany, Japan, the 

Netherlands, and Trinidad and Tobago 

will not need to resubmit their entries 

of appearance each year to continue to 

be included on the annual inquiry 

service list. However, the petitioner and 

the Governments of Germany, Japan, the 

Netherlands, and Trinidad and Tobago 

are responsible for making amendments 

to their entries of appearance during the 

annual update to the annual inquiry 

service list in accordance with the 

procedures described above. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice constitutes the AD Orders 

with respect to melamine from 

Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and 

Trinidad and Tobago, pursuant to 

section 736(a) of the Act. Interested 

parties can find a list of AD orders 

currently in effect at https://

enforcement.trade.gov/stats/ 

iastats1.html. 

These orders are published in 

accordance with sections 736(a) of the 

Act, and 19 CFR 351.211(b). 

Dated: January 27, 2025. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix—Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise subject to these orders is 

melamine (Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) 

registry number 108–78–01, molecular 

formula C3 H6 N6). Melamine is also known 

as 2,4,6-triamino-striazine; 1,3,5-Triazine2,4,6-triamine; Cyanurotriamide; 

Cyanurotriamine; Cyanuramide; and by 

various brand names. Melamine is a 

crystalline powder or granule. All melamine 

is covered by the scope of these orders 

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 these orders. 

Melamine that is otherwise subject to these 

orders is not excluded when commingled 

with melamine from sources not subject to 

these orders. Only the subject component of 

such commingled products is covered by the 

scope of these orders. 

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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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE631] 

Public Meeting; Center of Independent 

Experts Review of the Machine 

Learning Coupled With Fourier 

Transform Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 

of Otoliths to Age Fish 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of hybrid meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Center of Independent 

Experts (CIE) review of the Machine 

Learning Coupled with Fourier 

Transform Near-infrared Spectroscopy 

of Otoliths to Age Fish will be held 


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