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10Commerce finds the following companies to be 

cross-owned with Sumitomo Rubber (Hunan) Co., 

Ltd.: Sumitomo Rubber (China) Co., Ltd. and 

Sumitomo Rubber (Changshu) Co. Ltd. 

11This rate is based on the rates for the 

respondents that were selected for individual 

review, excluding rates that are zero, de minimis, 

or based entirely on facts available. See section 

735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. 

12See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

13See 19 CFR 351.309(c). 

14See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

15See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD 

Service Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension 

of Effective Period, 85 FR 29615 (May 18, 2020); 

and Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 

Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension of 

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

Producer/exporter Subsidy rate 

(percent) 

Review-Specific Average Rate Applicable 

to the Following Companies 11

Jiangsu Hankook Tire Co., 

Ltd ..................................... 25.49 

Qingdao Landwinner Tyre 

Co., Ltd ............................. 25.49 

Shandong Province Sanli 

Tire Manufacture Co., Ltd 25.49 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

We will disclose to parties in this 

review, the calculations performed for 

these preliminary results within five 

days of the date of publication of this 

notice.12 Interested parties may submit 

case briefs no later than 30 days after 

the date of publication of these 

preliminary results of review.13

Rebuttals to case briefs may be filed no 

later than seven days after the case 

briefs are filed, and all rebuttal 

comments must be limited to comments 

raised in the case briefs.14 Note that 

Commerce has temporarily modified 

certain of its requirements for serving 

documents containing business 

proprietary information until further 

notice.15

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 

(d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or 

rebuttal briefs in this review 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. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice. Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants, whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and a 

list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, parties 

will be notified of the date and time for 

the hearing to be determined. 

Unless extended, we intend to issue 

the final results of this administrative 

review, which will include the results of 

our analysis of the issues raised in the 

case briefs, within 120 days of 

publication of these preliminary results 

in the Federal Register, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.213(h). 

Assessment Rates 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(4)(i), we preliminarily 

assigned subsidy rates in the amounts 

shown above for the producer/exporters 

shown above. Upon completion of the 

administrative review, consistent with 

section 751(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.212(b)(2), Commerce shall 

determine, and CBP shall assess, 

countervailing duties on all appropriate 

entries covered by this review. For the 

companies for which this review is 

rescinded, Commerce will instruct CBP 

to assess countervailing duties on all 

appropriate entries at a rate equal to the 

cash deposit of estimated countervailing 

duties required at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, during the period January 

1, 2019, through December 31, 2019, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(l)(i). 

For the companies remaining in the 

review, 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). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

In accordance with section 

751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, Commerce also 

intends to instruct CBP to collect cash 

deposits of estimated countervailing 

duties in the amounts calculated in the 

final results of this review for the 

respective companies listed above with 

regard to shipments of subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the date of publication of the final 

results of this review. For all nonreviewed firms, CBP will continue to 

collect cash deposits of estimated 

countervailing duties at the all-others 

rate or the most recent company-specific 

rate applicable to the company, as 

appropriate. These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

These preliminary results are issued 

and published pursuant to sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: August 31, 2021. 

Ryan Majerus, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Negotiations. 

Appendix I 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Non-Selected Companies Under Review 

V. Diversification of China’s Economy 

VI. Non-Selected Company Rate 

VII. Partial Rescission of the Administrative 

Review 

VIII. Intent to Rescind Administrative 

Review, in Part 

IX. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Application of Adverse Inferences 

X. Interest Rate Benchmarks, Discount Rates, 

Input and Electricity Benchmarks 

XI. Subsidies Valuation 

XII. Analysis of Programs 

XIII. Recommendation 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–016] 

Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light 

Truck Tires From the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; and Preliminary Determination 

of No Shipments; 2019–2020 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily finds that 

certain producers and exporters of 

passenger vehicle and light truck tires 

(passenger tires) from the People’s 

Republic of China (China) made sales of 

subject merchandise at prices below 

normal value (NV) during the period of 

review (POR), August 1, 2019, through 

July 31, 2020. Commerce also 

preliminarily finds that one company 

did not ship subject merchandise to the 

United States during the POR. We invite 

interested parties to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable September 7, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Toni 

Page or Peter Shaw, AD/CVD 


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1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 

63081 (October 6, 2020). 

2SRI refers to the single entity, Sumitomo Rubber 

Industries Ltd.; Sumitomo Rubber (China) Co., Ltd.; 

Sumitomo Rubber (Hunan) Co., Ltd.; and Sumitomo 

Rubber (Changshu) Co., Ltd. (collectively, SRI). 

3See Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires 

from the People’s Republic of China: Rescission, in 

Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 

2019–2020, 86 FR 7258 (January 27, 2021). 

4See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review of Certain Passenger Vehicle 

and Light Truck Tires from the People’s Republic 

of China and Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments; 2019–2020,’’ dated concurrently with, 

and hereby adapted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

5 Id. at ‘‘Scope of the Order.’’ 

6 Id. at Discussion of the Methodology. 

7See Non-Market Economy Antidumping 

Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76 

FR 65694, 65694–95 (October 24, 2011); see also the 

‘‘Assessment Rates’’ section, below. 

8See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 

Single Entity Treatment; see also Memorandum, 

‘‘Antidumping Administrative Review of Certain 

Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Analysis 

Memorandum for Sumitomo Rubber (Hunan) Co., 

Ltd.,’’ dated concurrently with this notice at Single 

Entity Analysis (Sumitomo Preliminary Calculation 

Memorandum). 

9See 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 (November 4, 2013). 

10See Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck 

Tires from the People’s Republic of China: 

Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty 

Determination and Antidumping Duty Order; and 

Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 

Determination and Countervailing Duty Order, 80 

FR 47902, 47906 (August 10, 2015). 

11See, e.g., Notice of Final Determination of Sales 

at Less Than Fair Value, and Affirmative Critical 

Circumstances, In Part: Certain Lined Paper 

Products from the People’s Republic of China, 71 

FR 53079, 53082 (September 8, 2006); and Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Final Partial Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances: Diamond Sawblades and Parts 

Thereof from the People’s Republic of China, 71 FR 

29303, 29307 (May 22, 2006). 

Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1398 or (202) 482–0697, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 6, 2020, Commerce 

initiated the administrative review of 

the AD order on passenger tires from 

China covering the period August 1, 

2019, through July 31, 2020.1 The 

petitioner in this review is the United 

Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, 

Manufacturing, Energy, Allied 

Industrial and Service Workers 

International Union, AFL–CIO, CLC 

(USW). This review covers mandatory 

respondent Sumitomo Rubber Industries 

Ltd. (SRI); Sumitomo Rubber (Hunan) 

Co., Ltd. (SRH); and Sumitomo Rubber 

(Changshu) Co., Ltd. (SRC) (collectively, 

Sumitomo).2 The administrative review 

also covers 27 other companies that 

were not selected for individual 

examination. On January 27, 2021, 

Commerce rescinded, in part, the 

instant administrative review with 

respect to 21 companies.3

For a complete description of the 

events that followed the initiation and 

the partial rescission of this 

administrative review, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum.4 A 

list of topics discussed in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum is 

included as an Appendix to this notice. 

The Preliminary 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 Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/ 

frn/. 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the order are 

certain passenger vehicle and light truck 

tires from China. A full description of 

the scope of the order is contained in 

the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.5

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). We 

calculated constructed export prices in 

accordance with section 772 of the Act. 

Because China is a non-market economy 

(NME) country within the meaning of 

section 771(18) of the Act, we calculated 

NV in accordance with section 773(c) of 

the Act. For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum.6

Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments 

Based on the available record 

information, Commerce preliminarily 

determines that Qingdao Fullrun Tyre 

Tech Corp., Ltd. (Fullrun Tyre Tech) 

had no shipments during the POR. For 

additional information regarding this 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. Consistent with 

our assessment practice in 

administrative reviews, Commerce is 

not rescinding this review for Fullrun 

Tyre Tech, but intends to complete the 

review and issue appropriate 

instructions to U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) based on the final 

results of the review.7

Single Entity Treatment 

We preliminarily find that the 

following companies are affiliated, 

pursuant to section 771(33)(F) of the Act 

and to 19 CFR 351.401(f)(1) and thus 

should be treated as a single entity: SRI; 

SRH; and SRC (collectively, Sumitomo). 

For additional information, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum and 

Sumitomo Preliminary Calculation 

Memorandum.8

China-Wide Entity 

Commerce’s policy regarding 

conditional review of the China-wide 

entity applies to this administrative 

review.9 Under this policy, the Chinawide 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, and we 

did not self-initiate a review, the Chinawide entity cash deposit rate (i.e., 76.46 

percent) is not subject to change as a 

result of this review.10

Separate Rates 

In all proceedings involving NME 

countries, Commerce maintains a 

rebuttable presumption that all 

companies within an NME country are 

subject to government control and, thus, 

should be assessed a single weightedaverage dumping margin unless the 

company can affirmatively demonstrate 

an absence of government control, both 

in law (de jure) and in fact (de facto), 

with respect to its exports so that it is 

entitled to separate rate status.11

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the information placed on the 

record by Qingdao Landwinner Tyre 

Co., Ltd.; Qingdao Nexen Tire 

Corporation; Shandong Qilun Rubber 

Co., Ltd.; and Zhaoqing Junhong Co., 

Ltd. demonstrates that these companies 

are entitled to separate rate status. 

Dumping Margin for Separate Rate 

Companies 

The statute and Commerce’s 

regulations do not identify the dumping 

margin to apply to respondents not 

selected for individual examination 

when Commerce limits its examination 

in an administrative review pursuant to 

section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, 

Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of 


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12See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Temporary 

Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements Due 

to COVID–19, 85 FR 17006, 17007 (March 26, 2020) 

(‘‘To provide adequate time for release of case briefs 

via ACCESS, E&C intends to schedule the due date 

for all rebuttal briefs to be 7 days after case briefs 

are filed (while these modifications remain in 

effect).’’) 

13See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing 

requirements). 

14See 19 CFR 351.303(f). 

15See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 16See 19 CFR 351.310(d). 17See Petitioner’s Letter, ‘‘Passenger Vehicle and 

Light Truck Tires from China: Request for 

Verification,’’ dated January 14, 2021. 18See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

the Act, which provides instructions for 

calculating the all-others rate in an 

investigation, for guidance when 

determining the dumping margin for 

respondents that are not individually 

examined in an administrative review. 

Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act states 

that the all-others rate should be 

calculated by averaging the weightedaverage dumping margins for 

individually-examined respondents, 

excluding dumping margins that are 

zero, de minimis, or based entirely on 

facts available. Where the dumping 

margins for individually examined 

respondents are all zero, de minimis, or 

based entirely on facts available, section 

735(c)(5)(B) of the Act provides that 

Commerce may use ‘‘any reasonable 

method to establish the estimated all 

others rate for exporters and producers 

not individually investigated, including 

averaging the estimated weighted 

average dumping margins determined 

for the exporters and producers 

individually investigated.’’ 

Commerce calculated an individual 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin for SRI, the only individually 

examined exporter/producer in this 

administrative review. Because the only 

individually calculated weightedaverage dumping margin is not zero, de 

minimis, or based entirely on facts 

otherwise available, we are assigning 

the separate rate respondents a dumping 

margin equal to Sumitomo’s margin. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following weighted-average 

dumping margins exist for the period 

August 1, 2019, through July 31, 2020: 

Exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.; Sumitomo Rubber (Hunan) Co., Ltd.; and Sumitomo Rubber (Changshu) Co., Ltd ......................... 1.18 

Qingdao Landwinner Tyre Co., Ltd ........................................................................................................................................................... 1.18 

Qingdao Nexen Tire Corporation .............................................................................................................................................................. 1.18 

Shandong Qilun Rubber Co., Ltd .............................................................................................................................................................. 1.18 

Zhaoqing Junhong Co., Ltd ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1.18 

Disclosure 

Commerce will disclose calculations 

performed for these preliminary results 

to the parties within five days of the 

date of publication of this notice in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. Interested parties will be 

notified of the timeline for the 

submission of such case briefs and 

written comments at a later date. 

Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 

in the case briefs, may be filed no later 

than seven days after the date for filing 

case briefs.12 Parties who submit case 

briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding 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. 

Case and rebuttal briefs should be filed 

using ACCESS 13 and must be served on 

interested parties.14

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, or to participate if one is 

requested, must submit a written 

request to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, within 30 

days of the date of publication of this 

notice.15 Requests should contain: (1) 

The party’s name, address, and 

telephone number; (2) the number of 

participants; and (3) a list of issues to be 

discussed. Issues raised in the hearing 

will be limited to those raised in the 

respective case and rebuttal briefs. If a 

request for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at a date and 

time to be determined.16 Parties should 

confirm the date, time, and location of 

the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. 

Commerce intends to issue the final 

results of this administrative review, 

which will include the results of our 

analysis of all issues raised in the case 

briefs, within 120 days of publication of 

these preliminary results in the Federal 

Register, unless extended, pursuant to 

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

Verification 

On January 14, 2021, the petitioner 

requested, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.307(b)(1)(v), that Commerce 

conduct verification of the 

questionnaire responses submitted in 

this administrative review by 

Sumitomo.17 Commerce is currently 

unable to conduct on-site verification of 

the information relied upon in making 

its final results of this administrative 

review. Accordingly, we intend to take 

additional steps in lieu of on-site 

verification to verify the information. 

Commerce will notify interested parties 

of any additional documentation or 

information required. 

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuing the final results of this 

review, Commerce shall determine, and 

CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on 

all appropriate entries covered by this 

review.18 We intend to liquidate entries 

containing subject merchandise 

exported by the companies under 

review that we determine in the final 

results to be part of the China-wide 

entity at the China-wide cash deposit 

rate of 76.46 percent. For the companies 

receiving a separate rate, we intend to 

assign an assessment rate of 1.18 

percent, consistent with the 

methodology described above. 

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 CBP case number 

will be liquidated at the rate for the 

China-wide entity. 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 


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1See Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from India: 

Countervailing Duty Order, 82 FR 40138 (August 

24, 2017) (Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

to Request Administrative Review, 85 FR 47167 

(August 4, 2020). 

3See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Finished Carbon Steel 

Flanges from India: Request for Administrative 

Review,’’ dated August 31, 2020. 

4We note that Norma requested a review of itself 

and its affiliates USK Export Private Limited; Uma 

Shanker Khandelwal and Co.; and Bansidhar 

Chiranjilal. 

5See Norma’s Letter, ‘‘Finished Carbon Steel 

Flanges from India: Request for entry of appearance 

in the Countervailing Duty Administrative Review 

for Norma (India) Limited, USK Export Private 

Limited, Umashanker Khandelwal and Co. and 

Bansidhar Chiranjilal.,’’ dated August 27, 2020; see 

also RNG’s Letter, ‘‘Finished Carbon Steel Flanges 

from India: Request for Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review,’’ August 28, 2020; Bebitz 

Flanges Works Private Limited’s Letter, ‘‘Finished 

Carbon Steel Flanges from India: Requests for 

Administrative Review,’’ dated August 28, 2020; 

Munish Forge Private Limited’s Letter, ‘‘Finished 

Carbon Steel Flanges from India: Request for 

Counter Vailing Duty Administrative Review,’’ 

dated August 27, 2020; Balkrishna Steel Forge Pvt. 

Ltd.’s Letter, ‘‘Carbon Steel Flanges from India, 

Antidumping & Countervailing Duty,’’ dated August 

31, 2020; Jai Auto Pvt. Ltd.’s Letter, ‘‘Request for 

review of Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review of Finished Carbon Steel Flanges from 

India,’’ dated August 31, 2020; and Aditya Forge 

Limited’s Letter, ‘‘Request for review of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Review of 

Finished Carbon steel Flanges from India,’’ dated 

August 31, 2020. 

6See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 

63081, 63092–63093 (October 6, 2020). 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review of Finished Carbon Steel 

Flanges from India: Respondent Selection,’’ dated 

November 20, 2020. 

8See Memorandum, ‘‘Finished Carbon Steel 

Flanges from India: Extension of Deadline for 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2019,’’ dated April 19, 

2021. 

time for parties to file a request for a 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review for all shipments 

of the subject merchandise from China 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the 

publication date, as provided for by 

section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For 

the companies listed above that have a 

separate rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be that rate established in the final 

results of this review (except, if the rate 

is zero or de minimis, then a cash 

deposit rate of zero will be established 

for that company); (2) for previously 

investigated or reviewed Chinese and 

non-Chinese exporters not listed above 

that have separate rates, the cash 

deposit rate will continue to be equal to 

the exporter-specific weighted-average 

dumping margin published of 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 the 

rate for China-wide entity, 76.46 

percent; and (4) for all exporters of 

subject merchandise which are not 

located in China and which are not 

eligible for a separate rate, the cash 

deposit rate will be the rate applicable 

to Chinese exporter(s) that supplied that 

non-Chinese exporter. These deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to importers of their responsibility 

under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a 

certificate regarding the reimbursement 

of antidumping and/or countervailing 

duties prior to liquidation of the 

relevant entries during this POR. Failure 

to comply with this requirement could 

result in Commerce’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping and/or 

countervailing duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of double 

antidumping duties and/or an increase 

in the amount of antidumping duties by 

the amount of the countervailing duties. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.213 and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4). 

Dated: August 31, 2021. 

Ryan Majerus, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Negotiations. 

Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Preliminary Determination of No 

Shipments 

V. Affiliation and Single Entity Treatment 

VI. Discussion of the Methodology 

VII. Currency Conversion 

VIII. Recommendation 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–872] 

Finished Carbon Steel Flanges From 

India: Preliminary Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2019 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that Norma (India) Ltd. (Norma) and 

R.N. Gupta & Co. Ltd. (RNG) received 

countervailable subsidies during the 

period of review (POR), January 1, 2019, 

through December 31, 2019. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable September 7, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Moses Song or Natasia Harrison, 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) 482–7885 or (202) 482–1240, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On August 24, 2017, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

countervailing duty (CVD) order on 

finished carbon steel flanges (steel 

flanges) from India.1 On August 4, 2020, 

Commerce published a notice of 

opportunity to request an administrative 

review of the Order.2 On August 31, 

2020, Weldbend Corporation and Boltex 

Mfg. Co., L.P. (the petitioners), 

requested a review of 38 producers and/ 

or exporters of subject merchandise.3

Further, between August 27, 2020, and 

August 31, 2020, Norma,4 RNG, Bebitz 

Flanges Works Private Limited, Munish 

Forge Private Limited, Balkrishna Steel 

Forge Pvt. Ltd., Jai Auto Pvt. Ltd., and 

Aditya Forge Limited, foreign producers 

or exporters of subject merchandise, 

each requested a review of the Order 

with respect to themselves.5 On October 

6, 2020, Commerce published a notice 

of initiation of an administrative review 

of the Order.6 Based on our examination 

of the Customs and Border Protection 

(CBP) data, on November 20, 2020, we 

selected Norma and RNG, the two 

largest producers and/or exporters, as 

mandatory respondents.7

On April 19, 2021, Commerce 

extended the time period for issuing 

these preliminary results by 120 days, in 

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

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act), to August 31, 2021.8 For a 

complete description of the events that 

followed the initiation of this review, 


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