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Preliminary Determination), and accompanying 

Issues and Decision Memorandum at 5–6; see also 

Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping and Countervailing 

Duty Investigations of Pentafluoroethane (R–125) 

from the People’s Republic of China: Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum,’’ dated August 10, 

2021, which was placed on the records of the AD 

and CVD investigations. 

3See AD Preliminary Determination, 86 FR at 

45962. 

4 Id. 

5See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 

Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension of 

Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 10, 2020). 

Amended Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is R–125 from China. We 

are amending the scope of the CVD 

investigation to conform with the scope 

of the companion AD investigation, as 

indicated below. Specifically, we are 

preliminarily: 

• Excluding R–125 contained in 

blends that conform to American 

National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ 

American Society of Heating, 

Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning 

Engineers (ASHRAE) Standard 34. 

• only covering R–125 contained in 

blends not conforming to ANSI/ 

ASHRAE Standard 34 (i.e., unfinished 

blends) when such blends contain 

greater than 85 percent by volume on an 

actual percentage basis of R–125. 

• removing the word ‘‘current’’ from 

the exclusion of merchandise subject to 

the order on Hydrofluorocarbon Blends 

from the People’s Republic of China. 

• clarifying that the scope includes 

purified and unpurified R–125 that is 

processed in a third country as long as 

such processing would not otherwise 

remove the R–125 from the scope of the 

investigation if performed in China. 

• updating the applicable list of 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) codes for the 

merchandise subject to the investigation 

due to an update to the HTSUS that 

occurred on July 1, 2021. 

These preliminary scope 

modifications were first enumerated in 

the AD Preliminary Determination.3 For 

a complete description of the amended 

scope of this investigation, see the 

appendix to this notice. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

We have not revised the estimated 

cash deposit rates published in the CVD 

Preliminary Determination. In 

accordance with section 703(d)(1)(B) 

and (d)(2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act), we will direct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

continue to suspend liquidation of 

entries of subject merchandise as 

described in the amended scope of the 

investigation, entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date of publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register, and to 

continue to require a cash deposit, 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(d). 

Additionally, because certain products 

are now excluded from the scope of the 

investigation, Commerce will instruct 

CBP to terminate suspension of 

liquidation of those excluded products, 

and to refund any cash deposits 

previously posted with respect to them. 

Public Comment 

Commerce has set a separate deadline 

for scope comments in the AD and CVD 

R–125 investigation proceedings.4 The 

current deadline for case briefs 

regarding scope issues is 21 days after 

the publication of the AD Preliminary 

Determination, which is September 7, 

2021, and the deadline for rebuttal 

briefs regarding scope issues is seven 

days after scope case briefs are due, 

which is September 14, 2021.5 Pursuant 

to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), 

parties who submit scope case briefs or 

scope rebuttal briefs in this 

investigation are encouraged to submit 

with each argument: (1) A statement of 

the issue; (2) a brief summary of the 

argument; and (3) a table of authorities. 

For all scope issues, parties must file 

separate and identical documents on the 

records of both the AD and CVD 

investigations. No new factual 

information or proprietary information 

should be included in the scope case 

briefs and scope rebuttal briefs. 

Notifications 

In accordance with section 703(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the 

International Trade Commission of its 

amended determination. This 

determination is issued and published 

pursuant to sections 703(f) and 777(i) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: August 24, 2021. 

Christian Marsh, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix—Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is pentafluoroethane (R–125), or 

its chemical equivalent, regardless of form, 

type or purity level. R–125 has the Chemical 

Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number of 

354–33–6 and the chemical formula C2HF5. 

R–125 is also referred to as 

Pentafluoroethane, Genetron HFC 125, 

Khladon 125, Suva 125, Freon 125, and Fc– 

125. 

R–125 that has been blended with other 

products is included within the scope if such 

blends contain 85% or more by volume R– 

125, on an actual percentage basis. However, 

R–125 incorporated into a blend that 

conforms to ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 34 is 

excluded from the scope of this investigation. 

When R–125 is blended with other products 

and otherwise falls under the scope of this 

investigation, only the R–125 component of 

the mixture is covered by the scope of this 

investigation. 

Subject merchandise also includes purified 

and unpurified R–125 that is processed in a 

third country or otherwise outside the 

customs territory of the United States, 

including, but not limited to, purifying, 

blending, or any other processing that would 

not otherwise remove the merchandise from 

the scope of this investigation if performed 

in the country of manufacture of the in-scope 

R–125. The scope also includes R–125 that is 

commingled with R–125 from sources not 

subject to this investigation. Only the subject 

component of such commingled products is 

covered by the scope of this investigation. 

Excluded from the scope is merchandise 

covered by the scope of the antidumping 

order on Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the 

People’s Republic of China, including 

merchandise subject to the affirmative anticircumvention determination in 

Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the People’s 

Republic of China: Affirmative Final 

Determination of Circumvention of the 

Antidumping Duty Order; Unfinished R–32/ 

R–125 Blends, 85 FR 15428 (March 18, 2020). 

See Hydrofluorocarbon Blends from the 

People’s Republic of China: Antidumping 

Duty Order, 81 FR 55436 (August 19, 2016) 

(the Blends Order). 

R–125 is classified under Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

subheading 2903.39.2035 and 2903.39.2938. 

Merchandise subject to the scope may also be 

entered under HTSUS subheadings 

2903.39.2045, 3824.78.0020, and 

3824.78.0050. The HTSUS subheadings and 

CAS registry number are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes. The 

written description of the scope of the 

investigation is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Request for Comments on U.S. Clean 

Technologies Export Competitiveness 

Strategy 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: Recognizing the vital 

importance of clean technologies in 

tackling the global climate crisis and 

spurring U.S. innovation and creating 

well-paying jobs, the Department of 

Commerce (DOC), in partnership with 

the Office of the Special Presidential 

Envoy for Climate (SPEC), has made it 

a top priority to encourage growth and 

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sectors. To that end, via this general 

solicitation, the International Trade 

Administration (ITA) is requesting 

public comments on clean technologies 

export competitiveness. This 

stakeholder input will inform the 

Department’s effort to develop a ‘‘U.S. 

Clean Technologies Export 

Competitiveness Strategy’’, which 

intends to identify key issues 

influencing the deployment of these 

goods and services, highlight potential 

opportunities and challenges, and 

identify possible actions for the DOC 

and federal government to take in order 

to foster U.S. export competitiveness in 

clean technologies sectors. 

DATES: Comments will be considered on 

a rolling basis but are due no later than 

5 p.m. Eastern Time on October 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by ITA–2021–0005, by either 

of the following methods: 

• Online Submission (Strongly 

Preferred): Submit all electronic public 

comments via the Federal e-Rulemaking 

Portal. Go to https://

www.regulations.gov and enter ITA– 

2021–0005 in the Search box. Click on 

the ‘‘Comment’’ icon, complete the 

required fields, and enter or attach your 

comments. 

• Email: cleantech@trade.gov. 

Comments submitted by email should 

be machine-readable and should not be 

copy-protected. 

Due to COVID–19 building closures, 

we are currently temporarily not 

accepting comments by mail. However, 

if you are unable to comment via 

regulations.gov, you may contact 

cleantech@trade.gov for instructions on 

submitting your comment. 

Instructions: Comments sent by any 

other method, to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered by ITA. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 

and will generally be posted for public 

viewing on www.regulations.gov 

without change. 

Commenters should include the name 

of the person or organization filing the 

comment. All personal identifying 

information (for example, name, 

address) voluntarily submitted by the 

commenter may be publicly accessible. 

ITA will not accept anonymous 

comments. 

For those seeking to submit 

confidential business information (CBI) 

for Government use only, please clearly 

mark such submissions as CBI and 

submit an accompanying redacted 

version to be made public. CBI 

comments can be submitted either 

through www.regulations.gov (strongly 

preferred) or by email. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Devin Horne, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Room 28018, Washington, DC 

20230; telephone (202) 482–0775; email 

cleantech@trade.gov. Please direct 

media inquiries to ITA’s Office of Public 

Affairs (202) 482–3809 or publicaffairs@

trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: On January 27, 2021, 

President Biden issued Executive Order 

14008, ‘‘Tackling the Climate Crisis at 

Home and Abroad’’ (FRN Doc. 2021– 

02177) (E.O. 14008). E.O. 14008 puts 

climate considerations at the forefront of 

United States foreign policy and 

national security. The E.O. also directs 

agencies that engage in extensive 

international work to develop strategies 

and implementation plans for 

integrating climate considerations into 

their international work. ITA intends to 

integrate such considerations into its 

export promotion work. President 

Biden’s Build Back Better economic 

recovery plan seeks to mobilize 

American manufacturing and 

innovation to ensure that the future is 

made in all of America by all of 

America’s workers. By mobilizing 

American ingenuity to innovate and 

develop clean technologies products 

and services that can be deployed at 

home and exported abroad, we can 

ensure a just transition while mobilizing 

a 21st century education workforce and 

advancing racial equity and inclusion in 

America. 

Scope: Clean technologies is a broad 

term that can encompass a range of 

technologies used to address a variety of 

environmental issues. For the purpose 

of this request for public comment, ITA 

is focused on both established and 

emerging technologies, and their 

associated goods and services, that can 

contribute to a transition to net-zero 

emissions by significantly removing or 

reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) 

emissions in a specific application 

compared to existing, carbon-intensive 

technology in the same application. 

This notice serves as a general 

solicitation for public comment and as 

an initial step in improving ITA’s 

understanding of the current 

technological and policy landscape. 

These technologies can be organized 

by their ability to reduce GHG emissions 

in broad economic sectors identified by 

the United Nations Intergovernmental 

Panel on Climate Change as major 

contributors to global GHG emissions, 

including: 

(1) Electricity and heat production (25 

percent of global direct GHG 

emissions) 

(2) Agriculture, forestry, and other land 

use (24 percent of global direct GHG 

emissions) 

(3) Industry (21 percent of global direct 

GHG emissions) 

(4) Transportation (14 percent of global 

direct GHG emissions) 

(5) Other energy emissions not directly 

associated with electricity or heat 

production, such as fuel extraction, 

refining, processing, and 

transportation (9.6 percent of global 

direct GHG emissions) 

(6) Buildings (6.4 percent of global 

direct GHG emissions) 

Illustrative examples of clean 

technologies include but are not limited 

to: Power generation from civil nuclear 

renewable energy sources; electric 

vehicles and renewable fuels for road, 

aviation, rail, maritime shipping, or 

other transportation; agribusiness, 

including anaerobic digesters and zeroemission agricultural equipment; smart 

grid solutions; energy storage; hydrogen 

fuel cells; carbon capture, utilization, 

and sequestration; decarbonization 

technologies for energy production; lowcarbon solutions for heavy industry, 

such as cement and steel production; 

energy efficient advanced 

manufacturing techniques; and lowcarbon and energy efficient building 

materials. 

For the purpose of this request for 

public comment, competitiveness 

entails the capacity to produce and 

deploy affordable, reliable, and 

accessible clean technologies and 

compete in global markets, with the 

overall aim of accelerating global private 

sector capabilities to fight the effects of 

climate change while also bringing 

benefits to the U.S. economy and 

people. 

Request for Written Comments 

Instructions: This notice serves as an 

initial step in improving ITA’s 

understanding of private sector 

interests, concerns, and policy needs 

with respect to the potential for exports 

of clean technologies. This notice is a 

general solicitation for public comments 

and further sets forth topics for 

discussion and comment. ITA seeks 

broad input from all interested 

stakeholders—including U.S. industry, 

researchers, academia, and civil 

society—on the potential opportunities 

for and challenges to increasing U.S. 

clean technologies export 

competitiveness across multiple 

industry sectors. Commenters are 

encouraged to address any or all of the 

following questions and may respond in 


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1See Forged Steel Fittings from Taiwan: 

Antidumping Duty Order, 83 FR 48280 (September 

24, 2018) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 

68840 (October 30, 2020). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review,’’ dated April 22, 2021. 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review: Forged Steel Fittings from 

Taiwan; 2019–2020,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

terms of clean technologies broadly, or 

in terms of specific technologies therein. 

To the extent commenters choose to 

respond to the specific questions asked, 

responses may be formatted as the 

commenter prefers. 

Questions 

Scope 

1. Is there an established methodology 

for designating particular technologies 

as clean technologies or additional 

factors that the Government should 

consider for purposes of scoping this 

strategy? 

2. What clean technologies offer the 

most significant immediate 

opportunities for U.S. exports of 

associated goods and services? 

3. What clean technologies do not 

currently offer significant immediate 

opportunities for U.S. exports of 

associated goods and services but may 

offer such opportunities within the next 

five to ten years? 

4. What types of services offer the 

most significant immediate or future 

opportunities for U.S. clean 

technologies exports? How do the needs 

of clean technologies services exporters 

differ from exporters of manufactured 

products? 

Challenges 

5. For sectors or technologies in 

which the United States currently has a 

competitive domestic industry, what are 

the main factors (i.e., economic, 

technical, regulatory, etc.) that could 

pose a significant risk to the U.S. 

industry’s competitive position? 

6. For sectors or technologies in 

which the United States does not 

currently have a competitive domestic 

industry, what are the main factors (i.e., 

economic, technical, regulatory, etc.) 

inhibiting U.S. industry 

competitiveness? 

7. What issues related to intellectual 

property, standards, or measurement 

science pose a challenge to U.S. clean 

technologies export competitiveness? 

8. When pursuing opportunities in 

foreign markets, what are the main risks 

or barriers (i.e., economic, financial, 

regulatory, technical, trade policy, etc.) 

facing U.S. businesses seeking to export 

clean technologies goods and services, 

whether generally or in specific foreign 

markets? 

Solutions 

9. What are the most impactful 

existing tools or resources offered by the 

Government to reduce or remove 

challenges, risks, and barriers in order 

to help position U.S. clean technologies 

industries for competitiveness in the 

global market? 

10. How can existing tools or 

resources offered by the Government to 

reduce or remove challenges, risks, and 

barriers be improved to increase their 

effectiveness or make them more 

accessible to U.S. clean technologies 

companies? 

11. What are the most impactful new 

actions the Government could take 

domestically to reduce or remove 

challenges, risks, and barriers in order 

to help position U.S. clean technologies 

industries for competitiveness in the 

global market? 

12. What are the most impactful new 

actions the Government could take 

through engagement with foreign 

countries to reduce or remove 

challenges, risks, and barriers in order 

to help position U.S. clean technologies 

industries for competitiveness in the 

global market? 

13. Which foreign countries or regions 

present the greatest market 

opportunities for U.S. exports of clean 

technologies and/or should be 

prioritized for engagement by the 

Government? 

14. What objectives should the 

Government set for a U.S. Clean 

Technologies Export Competitiveness 

Strategy in the first 6-months, 12- 

months, 2-years, and 5-years, and what 

metrics should the Government use to 

measure these objectives? 

Trade Policy 

15. How do U.S. trade policies impact 

the development and deployment of 

clean technologies in the United States 

and abroad? 

Other 

16. Are there additional relevant 

issues impacting U.S. clean technologies 

export competitiveness not addressed 

by these questions, and what are the 

most impactful actions the Government 

could take to address these issues? 

Dated: August 25, 2021. 

Man Cho, 

Deputy Director, Office of Energy and 

Environmental Industries. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–583–863] 

Forged Steel Fittings From Taiwan: 

Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review; 2019– 

2020 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that sales of forged steel fittings from 

Taiwan were made at less than normal 

value (NV) during the period of review 

(POR), September 1, 2019, through 

August 31, 2020. Interested parties are 

invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable August 30, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George Ayache or Samuel Glickstein, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2623 or 

(202) 482–5307, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 24, 2018, Commerce 

published the antidumping duty order 

on forged steel fittings from Taiwan.1

On October 30, 2020, in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce 

initiated an administrative review of the 

Order.2 This review covers one 

producer/exporter of the subject 

merchandise, Both-Well Steel Fittings 

Co., Ltd (Bothwell). On April 22, 2021, 

Commerce extended the deadline for the 

preliminary results of this review by 86 

days, until August 27, 2021, in 

accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act).3 For a detailed description of the 

events that followed the initiation of 

this review, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.4


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