[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 149 (Friday, August 6, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43168-43171]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16843]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-967]


Aluminum Extrusions From the People's Republic of China: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and 
Rescission of Review in Part; 2019-2020

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) is conducting an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on aluminum 
extrusions from the People's Republic of China (China). The period of 
review (POR) is May 1, 2019, through April 30, 2020. Commerce 
preliminarily determines that, because Kingtom Aluminio S.R.L. 
(Kingtom) exported merchandise from the Dominican Republic that is 
Chinese in origin, Kingtom is a third-country exporter and is not 
eligible for a separate rate and that, because Kingtom did not identify 
a Chinese exporter, we are unable to use the information provided by 
Kingtom to apply our non-market economy (NME) calculation methodology. 
Additionally, we preliminarily determine that none of the companies for 
which an administrative review was requested, and the request was not 
withdrawn, have demonstrated their eligibility for a separate rate and 
are, therefore, part of the China-wide entity, unless they have 
submitted a valid statement of no shipments. Interested parties are 
invited

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to comment on these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable August 6, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Flessner, 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) 482-6312.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 15, 2020, Commerce published the notice of initiation of 
the administrative review of the AD order on aluminum extrusions from 
China \1\ for the period May 1, 2019, through April 30, 2020, covering 
98 companies.\2\ All requests for administrative review were timely 
withdrawn with regard to 11 companies (listed in Appendix II to this 
notice), leaving 87 companies subject to this administrative review.\3\ 
For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation 
of this administrative review, see the Preliminary Decision 
Memorandum.\4\
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    \1\ See Aluminum Extrusions from the People's Republic of China: 
Antidumping Duty Order, 76 FR 30650 (May 26, 2011) (Order).
    \2\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 41540, 41544-41545 (July 10, 2020) 
(Initiation Notice). Several parties, including Kingtom itself, had 
used the name ``Kingtom S.L.R.'' instead of ``Kingtom S.R.L.'' in 
their submissions, as did Commerce in the Initiation Notice. The 
Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee (the petitioner), clarified 
the name. See Petitioner's Letter, ``Aluminum Extrusions from the 
People's Republic of China: Clarification of Mandatory Respondent,'' 
dated April 30, 2021. Because ``S.R.L.'' stands for Sociedad de 
Responsibilidad Limitada and is the proper business form, we 
corrected the error in the Initiation Notice. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 86 FR 
31282 (June 11, 2021).
    \3\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Aluminum Extrusions from the 
People's Republic of China: Partial Withdrawal of Request for 
Administrative Review,'' dated September 4, 2020.
    \4\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Aluminum 
Extrusions from the People's Republic of China; 2019-2020,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum).
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    The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on 
file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's AD 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 Preliminary Decision Memorandum can 
be accessed directly on the internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 
is included as Appendix I to this notice.

Scope of the Order

    The merchandise covered by the Order is aluminum extrusions which 
are shapes and forms, produced by an extrusion process, made from 
aluminum alloys having metallic elements corresponding to the alloy 
series designations published by The Aluminum Association commencing 
with the numbers 1, 3, and 6 (or proprietary equivalents or other 
certifying body equivalents). For a full description of the scope, see 
the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). For a 
full description of the methodology underlying our preliminary results 
of review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), Commerce will rescind an 
administrative review, in whole or in part, if the party or parties 
that requested a review withdraws the request within 90 days of the 
publication date of the notice of initiation of the requested review. 
As noted above, all requests for an administrative review were timely 
withdrawn for certain companies. Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.213(d)(1), we are rescinding this administrative review with 
respect to 11 of the 98 companies named in the Initiation Notice.\5\ 
See Appendix II for a list of these companies.\6\
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    \5\ See Initiation Notice, 85 FR at 41544-41545.
    \6\ See Preliminary Decision Memorandum for further details.
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Separate Rates

    In the Initiation Notice, we informed parties of the opportunity to 
request a separate rate.\7\ In proceedings involving NME countries, 
Commerce begins with a rebuttable presumption that all companies within 
the NME country are subject to government control, and thus should be 
assigned a single weighted-average dumping margin. It is Commerce's 
policy to assign all exporters of merchandise subject to an 
administrative review involving an NME country this single rate unless 
an exporter can demonstrate that it is sufficiently independent so as 
to be entitled to a separate rate. Companies that wanted to qualify for 
separate rate status in this administrative review were required to 
timely file, as appropriate, a separate rate application (SRA) or a 
separate rate certification (SRC) to demonstrate their eligibility for 
a separate rate. SRAs and SRCs were due to Commerce within 30 calendar 
days of the publication of the Initiation Notice.\8\
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    \7\ See Initiation Notice, 85 FR at 41542.
    \8\ Id.
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    Of the companies for which an administrative review was requested, 
and not withdrawn, only Kingtom submitted an SRA or SRC. Additionally, 
Anderson International, Kingtom, and Sunvast Trade Shanghai submitted 
certifications of no shipments. On November 2, 2020, U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) issued a Notice of Determination as to Evasion, 
in which CBP concluded that ``substantial evidence'' demonstrated that 
the aluminum extrusions imported from ``the claimed manufacturer, 
Kingtom Aluminio SRL (Kingtom)'' were of Chinese-origin and ``were 
transshipped'' with the ``country of origin claimed as the Dominican 
Republic.'' \9\ CBP ``further'' determined that ``substantial evidence 
indicates that the Importers imports were entered through evasion, 
resulting in the avoidance of applicable AD/CVD deposits or other 
security.'' \10\ Accordingly, CBP determined that it would ``rate 
adjust and change'' type 01 entries of the merchandise at issue to 
``type 03 and continue suspension until instructed to liquidate these 
entries.'' \11\
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    \9\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Aluminum Extrusions from the 
People's Republic of China: Comments on Kingtom's Section A 
Questionnaire Response,'' dated January 7, 2021, at Attachment 1, 
page 1.
    \10\ Id. at Attachment 1, pages 2 and 5.
    \11\ Id. at Attachment 1, page 18.
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    Kingtom was therefore a third-country exporter of Chinese-origin 
merchandise from the Dominican Republic during the POR, and as a third-
country exporter, Kingtom was not eligible for a separate rate. 
Furthermore, Kingtom reported no exporter of the subject merchandise 
from China on the record; therefore, Commerce was unable to apply its 
separate rate analysis to any exporter of the merchandise re-exported 
by Kingtom to the United States in this review.
    For a full description of the methodology underlying our 
preliminary denial of a separate rate to Kingtom and our rejection of 
its no shipments claim, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. We 
therefore preliminarily determine that the 85 companies listed in 
Appendix III to this notice are not eligible for a separate rate in 
this administrative review.\12\
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    \12\ See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 13-16.

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China-Wide Entity

    We preliminarily find that the 85 companies subject to this review 
and identified in Appendix III to this notice are part of the China-
wide entity in this administrative review because they failed to submit 
an SRA, SRC, or certification of no shipments.
    Commerce's policy regarding conditional review of the China-wide 
entity applies to this administrative review.\13\ Under this policy, 
the China-wide entity will not be under review unless a party 
specifically requests, or Commerce self-initiates, a review of the 
entity. Because no party requested a review of the China-wide entity in 
the instant review, and because Commerce did not self-initiate such a 
review, the entity is not under review, and the entity's current rate 
(i.e., 86.01 percent) \14\ is not subject to change.
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    \13\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in 
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty 
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity 
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963, 65970 (November 4, 
2013).
    \14\ See Aluminum Extrusions from the People's Republic of 
China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 
2018-2019, 85 FR 19726, 19728 (April 8, 2020).
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Adjustments for Countervailable Subsidies

    Because no company established eligibility for an adjustment under 
section 777A(f) of the Act for countervailable domestic subsidies, for 
these preliminary results, Commerce did not make an adjustment pursuant 
to section 777A(f) of the Act for countervailable domestic subsidies 
for any companies under review. Furthermore, because the China-wide 
entity is not under review, we made no adjustment for countervailable 
export subsidies for the China-wide entity pursuant to section 
772(c)(1)(C) of the Act.

Disclosure and Public Comment

    Normally, Commerce discloses to interested parties the calculations 
performed in connection with the preliminary results within five days 
of the public announcement, or if there is no public announcement, 
within five days of the date of publication of this notice in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). However, because Commerce did not 
calculate weighted-average dumping margins for any companies in this 
review, nor for the China-wide entity, there is nothing further to 
disclose. This satisfies our regulatory obligation.
    Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than 30 days 
after the date of publication of this notice.\15\ Rebuttal briefs, 
limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed no later than 
seven days after the case briefs are filed.\16\ Parties who submit case 
or rebuttal briefs in this review are requested to submit with each 
argument: (1) A statement of the issue, (2) a brief summary of the 
argument, and (3) a table of authorities.\17\
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    \15\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii).
    \16\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Temporary Rule Modifying 
AD/CVD Service Requirements Due to COVID-19; Extension of Effective 
Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 10, 2020) (Temporary Rule).
    \17\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    Any interested party may request a hearing within 30 days of 
publication of this notice.\18\ Hearing requests should contain the 
following information: (1) The party's name, address, and telephone 
number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of the issues to 
be discussed. Oral presentations at the hearing will be limited to 
issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. If a request for a 
hearing is made, parties will be notified of the time and date for the 
hearing to be held.\19\
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    \18\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \19\ See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
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    An electronically-filed document must be received successfully in 
its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the established 
deadline. Note that Commerce has temporarily modified certain of its 
requirements for serving documents containing business proprietary 
information.\20\
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    \20\ See Temporary Rule.
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    Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final 
results of this administrative review, which will include the results 
of our analysis of all issues raised in any briefs received, within 120 
days of publication of these preliminary results in the Federal 
Register, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

Assessment Rates

    Upon issuing the final results, Commerce will determine, and CBP 
shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by 
this review.\21\ If a respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is 
not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent) in the final 
results of this review, we intend 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 and the total 
entered value of the importer's sales in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.212(b)(1). If the respondent's weighted-average dumping margin is 
zero or de minimis in the final results, or if an importer-specific 
assessment rate is zero or de minimis, then we will instruct CBP to 
liquidate the appropriate entries without regards to antidumping 
duties.
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    \21\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
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    Consistent with its recent notice,\22\ Commerce intends to issue 
assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date 
of publication of the 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). The final results of this administrative review shall be 
the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of 
merchandise under review and for future deposits of estimated duties, 
where applicable.
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    \22\ See Notice of Discontinuation of Policy to Issue 
Liquidation Instructions After 15 Days in Applicable Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Proceedings, 86 FR 3995 (January 
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    We intend to instruct CBP to liquidate entries containing subject 
merchandise exported by the China-wide entity at the China-wide rate. 
Additionally, if Commerce determines that an exporter under review had 
no shipments of the subject merchandise, any suspended entries that 
entered under that exporter's case number will be liquidated at the 
China-wide rate.\23\
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    \23\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment 
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
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    For the companies for which this review is rescinded, antidumping 
duties shall be assessed at rates equal to the cash deposit of 
estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry, or 
withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to 
CBP for those companies 35 days after publication of this notice.

Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements for estimated antidumping 
duties, when imposed, will apply to all shipments of subject 
merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the publication of the final results of this 
administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: 
(1) If the companies preliminarily determined to be eligible for a 
separate rate receive a separate rate in the final results of this 
administrative review, their cash deposit rate will be equal to the

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weighted-average dumping margin established in the final results of 
this review, as adjusted for domestic and export subsidies (except that 
if that rate is de minimis, then the cash deposit rate will be zero); 
(2) for any previously investigated or reviewed Chinese and non-Chinese 
exporters that are not under review in this segment of the proceeding 
but that received a separate rate in the most recently completed 
segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be 
the exporter-specific rate published for the most recently completed 
segment of this proceeding; (3) for all Chinese exporters of subject 
merchandise that have not been found to be entitled to a separate rate, 
the cash deposit rate will be that of the China-wide entity; (4) for 
the China-wide entity, the cash deposit rate will be 86.01 percent; and 
(5) for all non-Chinese exporters of subject merchandise which have not 
received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
applicable to the Chinese exporter that supplied that non-Chinese 
exporter (or, if unidentified, that of the China-wide entity).
    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 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 duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    We are issuing and publishing notice of these preliminary results 
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 
CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: July 30, 2021.
Christian Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix I

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Respondent Selection
V. Statements of No Shipments
VI. Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part
VII. Non-Market Economy Country
VIII. Separate Rates
IX. The China-Wide Entity
X. Adjustments for Countervailable Subsidies
XI. Cash Deposit Rate Applicable to Kingtom
XII. Assessment Rate Applicable to Kingtom
XIII. Section 232 Duties
XIV. Kingtom Scope Inquiry
XV. Recommendation

Appendix II

Companies for Which This Administrative Review Is Being Rescinded

1. Asia-Pacific Light Alloy (Nantong) Technology Co., Ltd.
2. Jiangsu Asia-Pacific Light Alloy Technology Co Ltd.
3. Modular Assembly Technology
4. Ningbo Xiangshan Import & Export Corporation
5. Rollease Acmeda Pty
6. Suzhou Mingde Aluminum
7. Tai-Ao Aluminum (Taishan) Co., Ltd.
8. Taizhou Puan Lighting Technology
9. Uniton Investment Ltd.
10. Wellste Material
11. Zhejiang Shiner Import and Export

Appendix III

Companies Preliminarily Not Entitled to a Separate Rate

1. Allpower Display Co., Ltd
2. Amidi Zhuhai
3. Beauty Sky Technology Co. Ltd
4. Changshu Changsheng Aluminum Products Co., Ltd
5. Chenming Industry and Commerce Shouguang Co., Ltd.
6. China International Freight Co. Ltd
7. China State Decoration Group Co., Ltd.
8. CRRC Changzhou Auto Parts Co. Ltd*
9. Custom Accessories Asia Ltd.
10. Everfoison Industry Ltd.
11. Foshan City Fangyuan Ceramic
12. Foshan City Nanhai Yongfeng Aluminum
13. Foshan City Top Deal Import and Export Co., Ltd.
14. Foshan Gold Bridge Import and Export Co. Ltd.
15. Foshan Golden Promise Import and Export Co., Ltd.
16. Foshan Guangshou Import and Export Co., Ltd.
17. Foshan Xingtao Aluminum Profile Co., Ltd.
18. Fujian Minfa Aluminum Inc.
19. Fujian Minfa Aluminum Co., Ltd.
20. Fuzhou Ruifuchang Trading Co., Ltd.
21. Fuzhou Sunmodo New Energy Equipment Co., Ltd.
22. Gebruder Weiss
23. Gold Bridge International
24. Grupo Emb
25. Grupo Europeo La Optica
26. Grupo Pe No Mato In
27. Guangdong Gaoming Guangtai Shicai
28. Guangdong Gaoxin Communication Equipment Industrial Co., Ltd.
29. Guangdong Golden China Economy
30. Guangdong Maoming Foreign Trade Enterprise Development Co.
31. Guangdong Taiming Metal Products Co., LTD.
32. Guangdong Victor Aluminum Co., Ltd.
33. Guangzhou Jintao Trade Company
34. Hangzhou Evernew Machinery & Equipment Co., Ltd.
35. Hangzhou Tonny Electric and Tools Co., Ltd.
36. Hefei Sylux Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd.
37. Hong Kong Dayo Company, Ltd.
38. Huazhijie Plastic Products
39. Huiqiao International Shanghai
40. Ilshim Almax
41. Jer Education Technology
42. Jiangsu Weatherford Hongda Petroleum Equipment Co., Ltd.
43. Jiangsu Yizheng Haitian Aluminum Industrial
44. Jiang Yin Ming Ding Aluminum & Plastic Products Co., Ltd
45. Jilin Qixing Aluminum Industries Co., Ltd.
46. Jin Lingfeng Plastic Electrical Appliance
47. Kanal Precision Aluminum Product Co. Ltd.
48. Kingtom Aluminio SRL
49. Larkcop International Co Ltd
50. Ledluz Co Ltd
51. Liansu Group Co. Ltd
52. Links Relocations Beijing
53. Marshell International
54. Ningbo Deye Inverter Technology
55. Ningbo Hightech Development
56. Ningbo Winjoy International Trading
57. Orient Express Container
58. Ou Chuang Plastic Building Material (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd.
59. Pentagon Freight Service
60. Pro Fixture Hong Kong
61. Qingdao Sea Nova Building
62. Qingdao Yahe Imports and Exports
63. Sewon
64. Shandong Huajian Aluminum Industry
65. Shanghai EverSkill M&E Co., Ltd.
66. Shanghai Jingxin Logistics
67. Shanghai Ouma Crafts Co, Ltd.
68. Shanghai Phidix Trading
69. Sinogar Aluminum
70. Transwell Logistics Co., Ltd.
71. United Aluminum
72. Wanhui Industrial China
73. Wenzhou Yongtai Electric Co., Ltd.
74. Winstar Power Technology Limited
75. Wisechain Trading Ltd.
76. Wuxi Lotus Essence
77. Wuxi Rapid Scaffolding Engineering
78. Wuxi Zontai Int'l Corporation Ltd.
79. Xuancheng Huilv Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.
80. Yekalon Industry Inc
81. Yonn Yuu Enterprise Co., Ltd.
82. Yuyao Royal Industrial
83. Zhejiang Guoyao Aluminum Co., Ltd.
84. Zhongshan Broad Windows and Doors and Curtain
85. ZL Trade Shanghai

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