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18Commerce finds the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Les Produits Forestiers D&G Lte ́e: 

Le Groupe Gesco-Star Ltee, Les Produits Forestiers 

Portbec Ltee, and Les Produits Forestiers Startrees 

Ltee. The subsidy rate assigned to these companies 

is the all-others rate from the investigation. See 

CVD Order. 

19Commerce finds the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Marcel Lauzon Inc.: Placements 

Marcel Lauzon Ltee and Investissements LRC Inc. 

The subsidy rate assigned to these companies is the 

all-others rate from the investigation. See CVD 

Order. 

20Commerce finds the following companies to be 

cross-owned with North American Forest Products 

Ltd.: Parent-Violette Gestion Ltee and Le Groupe 

Parent Ltee. The subsidy rate assigned to these 

companies is the all-others rate from the 

investigation. See CVD Order. 

21Commerce finds the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Roland Boulanger & Cie Ltee: 

Industries Daveluyville Inc. and Les Manufacturiers 

Warwick Ltee. The subsidy rate assigned to these 

companies is the all-others rate from the 

investigation. See CVD Order. 

22Commerce finds the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Scierie Alexandre Lemay & Fils 

Inc.: Bois Lemay Inc. and Industrie Lemay Inc. The 

subsidy rate assigned to these companies is the allothers rate from the investigation. See CVD Order. 

23Commerce finds the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Fontaine Inc.: Gestion Natanis 

Inc., Les Placements Jean-Paul Fontaine Ltee, and 

Placements Nicolas Fontaine Inc. The subsidy rate 

assigned to these companies is the all-others rate 

from the investigation. See CVD Order. 

24Commerce finds the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Mobilier Rustique (Beauce) Inc.: 

J.F.S.R. Inc., Gestion C.A. Rancourt Inc., Gestion J.F. 

Rancourt Inc., Gestion Suzie Rancourt Inc., Gestion 

P.H.Q. Inc., 9331–3419 Quebec Inc., 9331–3468 

Quebec Inc., and SPQ Inc. The subsidy rate 

assigned to these companies is the all-others rate 

from the investigation. See CVD Order. 

25Commerce finds the following company to be 

cross-owned with Produits Matra Inc. and Sechoirs 

de Beauce Inc.: Bois Ouvre de Beauceville (1992), 

Inc. The subsidy rate assigned to these companies 

is the non-selected rate from the first administrative 

review of the order. See Certain Softwood Lumber 

Products from Canada: Final Results of the 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review, 2017– 

2018, 85 FR 77163 (December 1, 2020). 

1See Pentafluoroethane (R–125) from the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment 

of Final Determination With Final Antidumping 

Duty Determination, 86 FR 33648 (June 25, 2021) 

(CVD Preliminary Determination). 

2See Pentafluoroethane (R–125) from the People’s 

Republic of China: 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, 86 FR 45959 (August 17, 2021) (AD 

Producer/exporter 

Subsidy rate 

(percent 

ad valorem) 

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Cash Deposit Requirements 

Commerce will issue revised cash 

deposit instructions to U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP). 

Liquidation of Suspended Entries 

At this time, Commerce remains 

enjoined by CIT order from liquidating 

entries of subject merchandise subject to 

the Final Results of Expedited Review 

that were produced and/or exported by 

Fontaine and that were entered into the 

United States, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption during the 

period April 28, 2017, through 

December 31, 2018. These entries will 

remain enjoined pursuant to the terms 

of the injunction during the pendency of 

any appeals process. In the event the 

CIT’s ruling is not appealed, or, if 

appealed, upheld by a final and 

conclusive court decision, Commerce 

intends to instruct CBP to assess 

countervailing duties on unliquidated 

entries of subject merchandise exported 

by Fontaine and that were entered into 

the United States, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption during the 

period April 28, 2017, through 

December 31, 2018. 

Furthermore, Commerce’s final results 

of administrative review of the CVD 

Order for the period April 28, 2017, 

through December 31, 2018 are 

currently the subject of a United States 

Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) 

Binational Panel Review (USMCA 

Secretariat File No.: USA–CDA–2020– 

10.12–01). Pursuant to that Panel 

Review, Commerce will continue to 

suspend liquidation of all entries of 

subject merchandise produced and/or 

exported by the companies subject to 

the first administrative review pending 

final disposition of the Binational Panel 

proceeding. Because Produits Matra was 

subject to the first administrative 

review, Commerce will continue to 

suspend liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise produced and/or exported 

by Produits Matra (and its cross-owned 

affiliate) that were entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for the 

period April 28, 2017, through 

December 31, 2018, pending final 

disposition of the USMCA Binational 

Panel proceeding. 

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: August 24, 2021. 

Ryan Majerus, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Negotiations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–138] 

Pentafluoroethane (R–125) From the 

People’s Republic of China: Amended 

Preliminary Countervailing Duty 

Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) is amending the scope of 

the countervailing duty (CVD) 

investigation of pentafluoroethane (R– 

125) from the People’s Republic of 

China (China) to conform with the scope 

published in the preliminary 

determination of the companion 

antidumping duty (AD) investigation of 

R–125 from China. The period of 

investigation is January 1, 2020, through 

December 31, 2020. 

DATES: Applicable August 30, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joshua Tucker or Adam Simons, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–2044 or (202) 482–6172, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Commerce published its CVD 

Preliminary Determination on June 25, 

2021.1

On August 17, 2021, Commerce 

published the AD Preliminary 

Determination within which the scope 

of the investigations was amended to 

exclude certain products, and to clarify 

the inclusion of certain products, based 

upon comments received from 

interested parties.2


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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 

ensure U.S. innovation and 

competitiveness in clean technologies 


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