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5 In accordance with 19 CFR 351.225(d)(2), within 

30 days after the filing of a scope ruling application, 

if Commerce determines that it intends to address 

the scope issue raised in the application in another 

segment of the proceeding (such as a circumvention 

inquiry under 19 CFR 351.226 or a covered 

merchandise inquiry under 19 CFR 351.227), it will 

notify the applicant that it will not initiate a scope 

inquiry, but will instead determine if the product 

is covered by the scope at issue in that alternative 

segment. 

6See Notice of Clarification: Application of ‘‘Next 

Business Day’’ Rule for Administrative 

Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act 

of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005). 

7This structure maintains the intent of the 

applicable regulation, 19 CFR 351.225(d)(1), to 

allow day 30 and day 31 to be separate business 

days. 

8See Scope Ruling Application; Annual Inquiry 

Service List; and Informational Sessions, 86 FR 

53205 (September 27, 2021). 

1See Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products 

from the People’s Republic of China: Countervailing 

Duty Order, 82 FR 12437 (March 3, 2017) (Order). 

2See Initiation of Five-Year (Sunset) Reviews, 87 

FR 5467 (February 1, 2022) (Initiation Notice). 

3See Tensar’s Letter, ‘‘Notice of Intent to 

Participate in the First Five-Year Review of the 

Countervailing Duty Order on Certain Biaxial 

Integral Geogrid Products from the People’s 

Republic of China,’’ dated February 16, 2022. 

4See Tensar’s Letter, ‘‘First Five-Year (‘‘Sunset’’) 

Review,’’ dated March 3, 2022. 

5See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘Sunset Reviews 

Initiated on February 1, 2022,’’ dated March 21, 

2022. 

inquiry will be deemed initiated the 

following day—day 31.5 Commerce’s 

practice generally dictates that where a 

deadline falls on a weekend, Federal 

holiday, or other non-business day, the 

appropriate deadline is the next 

business day.6 Accordingly, if the 30th 

day after the filing of the application 

falls on a non-business day, the next 

business day will be considered the 

‘‘updated’’ 30th day, and if the 

application is not rejected or a scope 

inquiry initiated by or on that particular 

business day, the application will be 

deemed accepted and a scope inquiry 

will be deemed initiated on the next 

business day which follows the 

‘‘updated’’ 30th day.7

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.225(m)(2), if there are companion 

AD and CVD orders covering the same 

merchandise from the same country of 

origin, the scope inquiry will be 

conducted on the record of the AD 

proceeding. Further, please note that 

pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(m)(1), 

Commerce may either apply a scope 

ruling to all products from the same 

country with the same relevant physical 

characteristics, (including chemical, 

dimensional, and technical 

characteristics) as the product at issue, 

on a country-wide basis, regardless of 

the producer, exporter, or importer of 

those products, or on a companyspecific basis. 

For further information on procedures 

for filing information with Commerce 

through ACCESS and participating in 

scope inquiries, please refer to the 

Filing Instructions section of the Scope 

Ruling Application Guide, at https://

access.trade.gov/help/Scope_Ruling_

Guidance.pdf. Interested parties, apart 

from the scope ruling applicant, who 

wish to participate in a scope inquiry 

and be added to the public service list 

for that segment of the proceeding must 

file an entry of appearance in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.103(d)(1) 

and 19 CFR 351.225(n)(4). Interested 

parties are advised to refer to the case 

segment in ACCESS as well as 19 CFR 

351.225(f) for further information on the 

scope inquiry procedures, including the 

timelines for the submission of 

comments. 

Please note that this notice of scope 

ruling applications filed in AD and CVD 

proceedings may be published before 

any potential initiation, or after the 

initiation, of a given scope inquiry 

based on a scope ruling application 

identified in this notice. Therefore, 

please refer to the case segment on 

ACCESS to determine whether a scope 

ruling application has been accepted or 

rejected and whether a scope inquiry 

has been initiated. 

Interested parties who wish to be 

served scope ruling applications for a 

particular AD or CVD order may file a 

request to be included on the annual 

inquiry service list during the 

anniversary month of the publication of 

the AD or CVD order in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.225(n) and Commerce’s 

procedures.8

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on the completeness of this 

monthly list of scope ruling applications 

received by Commerce. Any comments 

should be submitted to James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD 

Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, via email to 

CommerceCLU@trade.gov. 

This notice of scope ruling 

applications filed in AD and CVD 

proceedings is published in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.225(d)(3). 

Dated: May 18, 2022. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–037] 

Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid 

Products From the People’s Republic 

of China: Final Results of the 

Expedited First Sunset Review of the 

Countervailing Duty Order 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) finds that 

revocation of the countervailing duty 

(CVD) order on certain biaxial integral 

geogrid products (geogrids) from the 

People’s Republic of China (China) 

would be likely to lead to continuation 

or recurrence of countervailing 

subsidies at the levels indicated in the 

‘‘Final Results of Sunset Review’’ 

section of this notice. 

DATES: Applicable May 24, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jasun Moy, AD/CVD Operations, Office 

V, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–8194. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On March 3, 2017, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

CVD order on geogrids from China.1 On 

February 1, 2022, Commerce initiated 

the first sunset review of the Order, 

pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).2 On 

February 16, 2022, Commerce received 

a timely filed notice of intent to 

participate from Tensar Corporation 

(Tensar), a domestic interested party, 

within the deadline specified in 19 CFR 

351.218(d)(1)(i).3 Tensar claimed 

interested party status under section 

771(9)(C) of the Act as a producer of the 

domestic like product. 

On March 3, 2022, Commerce 

received an adequate substantive 

response to the Initiation Notice from 

the domestic interested party within the 

30-day deadline specified in 19 CFR 

351.218(d)(3)(i).4 We received no 

substantive responses from any other 

interested parties, including the 

Government of China. On March 21, 

2022, Commerce notified the U.S. 

International Trade Commission that it 

did not receive an adequate substantive 

response from respondent interested 

parties.5 As a result, pursuant to section 

751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.218(e)(1)(ii)(B)–(C), Commerce 

conducted an expedited (120-day) 

sunset review of the Order. 


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6See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the Expedited 

First Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty 

Order on Certain Biaxial Integral Geogrid Products 

from the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum). 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the Order 

are geogrids from China. For a complete 

description of the scope of the Order, 

see Appendix I. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in this sunset review 

are addressed in the accompanying 

Issues and Decision Memorandum.6 The 

issues discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum are listed in 

Appendix II. The Issues and 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 Issues and 

Decision Memorandum can be accessed 

directly at https://access.trade.gov/ 

public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Final Results of Sunset Review 

Pursuant to sections 751(c)(1) and 

752(b) of the Act, Commerce determines 

that revocation of the Order would 

likely lead to continuation or recurrence 

of countervailable subsidies at the rates 

listed below. 

Exporter/producer 

Net 

countervailable 

subsidy rate 

(percent) 

BOSTD Geosynthetics Qingdao Ltd. and Beijing Orient Science & Technology Development Co., Ltd .......................................... 15.61 

Taian Modern Plastic Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................................. 56.24 

Chengdu Tian Road Engineering Materials Co., Ltd .......................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Chongqing Jiudi Reinforced Soil Engineering Co., Ltd ....................................................................................................................... 152.50 

CNBM International Corporation ......................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Dezhou Yaohua Geosynthetics Ltd ..................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Dezhou Zhengyu Geosynthetics Ltd ................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Hongye Engineering Materials Co., Ltd .............................................................................................................................................. 152.50 

Hubei Nete Geosynthetics Ltd ............................................................................................................................................................ 152.50 

Jiangsu Dingtai Engineering Material Co., Ltd .................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Jiangsu Jiuding New Material Ltd ....................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Lewu New Material Ltd ........................................................................................................................................................................ 152.50 

Nanjing Jinlu Geosynthetics Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Nanjing Kunchi Composite Material Ltd .............................................................................................................................................. 152.50 

Nanyang Jieda Geosynthetics Co., Ltd ............................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Qingdao Hongda Plastics Corp ........................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Shandong Dexuda Geosynthetics Ltd ................................................................................................................................................. 152.50 

Shandong Haoyang New Engineering Materials Co., Ltd .................................................................................................................. 152.50 

Shandong Tongfa Glass Fiber Ltd ...................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Shandong Xinyu Geosynthetics Ltd .................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Tai’an Haohua Plastics Co., Ltd .......................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Taian Hengbang Engineering Material Co., Ltd .................................................................................................................................. 152.50 

Taian Naite Geosynthetics Ltd ............................................................................................................................................................ 152.50 

Taian Road Engineering Materials Co., Ltd ........................................................................................................................................ 152.50 

Tenax ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 152.50 

Hengshui Zhongtiejian Group Co ........................................................................................................................................................ 152.50 

Qingdao Sunrise Dageng Import and Export Co., Ltd ........................................................................................................................ 152.50 

All-Others ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 35.93 

Administrative Protective Order (APO) 

This notice serves as the only 

reminder to interested parties subject to 

an APO of their responsibility 

concerning the return or destruction of 

proprietary information disclosed under 

APO in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.305. Timely notification of the 

return or destruction of APO materials 

or conversion to judicial protective 

order is hereby requested. Failure to 

comply with the regulations and terms 

of an APO is a violation which is subject 

to sanction. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

final results and notice in accordance 

with sections 751(c), 752(b), and 

777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218. 

Dated: May 18, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the scope are 

certain biaxial integral geogrid products. 

Biaxial integral geogrid products are a 

polymer grid or mesh material (whether or 

not finished, slit, cut-to-length, attached to 

woven or non-woven fabric or sheet material, 

or packaged) in which four-sided openings in 

the form of squares, rectangles, rhomboids, 

diamonds, or other four-sided figures 

predominate. The products covered have 

integral strands that have been stretched to 

induce molecular orientation into the 

material (as evidenced by the strands being 

thinner in width toward the middle between 

the junctions than at the junctions 

themselves) constituting the sides of the 

openings and integral junctions where the 

strands intersect. The scope includes 

products in which four-sided figures 

predominate whether or not they also contain 

additional strands intersecting the four-sided 

figures and whether or not the inside corners 

of the four-sided figures are rounded off or 

not sharp angles. As used herein, the term 

‘‘integral’’ refers to strands and junctions that 

are homogenous with each other. The 

products covered have a tensile strength of 

greater than 5 kilonewtons per meter (kN/m) 

according to American Society for Testing 

and Materials (ASTM) Standard Test Method 

D6637/D6637M in any direction and average 

overall flexural stiffness of more than 

100,000 milligram-centimeter according to 

the ASTM D7748/D7748M Standard Test 

Method for Flexural Rigidity of Geogrids, 

Geotextiles and Related Products, or other 

equivalent test method standards. 


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1See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 

Japan: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review and Preliminary 

Determination of No Shipments; 2019–2020, 86 FR 

64901 (November 19, 2021) (Preliminary Results), 

and accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum. 

2Commerce found in a changed circumstances 

review that Nippon Steel Corporation is the 

successor-in-interest to Nippon Steel & Sumitomo 

Metal Corporation, Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd., 

is the successor-in-interest to Nisshin Steel Co., 

Ltd., and Nippon Steel Trading Corporation is the 

successor-in-interest to Nippon Steel & Sumikin 

Bussan Corporation. See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel 

Flat Products from Japan: Notice of Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 

84 FR 46713 (September 5, 2019). Commerce also 

determined that the three successor-in-interest 

companies are affiliated and should be collapsed 

into a single entity. Id. Because there is no 

information on the record of this administrative 

review that would lead us to revisit this 

determination, we are continuing to treat these 

companies as part of a single entity. 

3 In this administrative review, the petitioners are 

AK Steel Corporation; Nucor Corporation; SSAB 

Enterprises, LLC; Steel Dynamic, Inc.; and United 

States Steel Corporation. 

4See NSC’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan: NSC’s Case Brief,’’ dated 

December 21, 2021; JFE’s Letter, ‘‘Certain HotRolled Steel Flat Products from Japan: Letter in Lieu 

of Case Brief,’’ dated December 20, 2021; Nucor 

Letter, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 

Japan: Petitioner’s Rebuttal Brief,’’ dated December 

28, 2021; Tokyo Steel’s Letter, ‘‘Letter in lieu of 

Rebuttal Brief: Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan,’’ dated December 27, 2021. 

5See NSC’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan: NSC’s Hearing Request,’’ 

dated December 20, 2021. 

6See NSC’s Letter, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat 

Products from Japan: Withdrawal of NSC’s Hearing 

Request,’’ January 31, 2022. 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Certain Hot-Rolled Steel 

Products from Japan: Extension of Deadline for 

Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2019–2020,’’ dated March 10, 2022. 

8See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 

78990 (December 8, 2020). 

9See Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from 

Australia, Brazil, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the 

Netherlands, the Republic of Turkey, and the 

United Kingdom: Amended Final Affirmative 

Antidumping Determinations for Australia, the 

Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Turkey and 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 67962 (October 3, 

2016) (Order). 

10See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain 

Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products from Japan; 2019– 

2020,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

11See, e.g., Magnesium Metal from the Russian 

Federation: Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Continued 

Subject merchandise includes material 

matching the above description that has been 

finished, packaged, or otherwise further 

processed in a third country, including by 

trimming, slitting, coating, cutting, punching 

holes, stretching, attaching to woven or nonwoven fabric or sheet material, or any other 

finishing, packaging, or other further 

processing that would not otherwise remove 

the merchandise from the scope of the Order 

if performed in the country of manufacture 

of the biaxial integral geogrid. 

The products subject to the scope are 

currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under 

the following subheading: 3926.90.9995. 

Subject merchandise may also enter under 

subheadings 3920.20.0050 and 3925.90.0000. 

The HTSUS subheadings set forth above are 

provided for convenience and U.S. Customs 

purposes only. The written description of the 

scope is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. History of the Order 

V. Legal Framework 

VI. Discussion of the Issues 

1. Likelihood of Continuation or 

Recurrence of a Countervailable Subsidy 

2. Net Countervailable Subsidy Rate Likely 

to Prevail 

3. Nature of the Subsidies 

VII. Final Results of Review 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–588–874] 

Certain Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products 

From Japan: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review and Final Determination of No 

Shipments; 2019–2020 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) determines that 

Nippon Steel Corporation, producer and 

exporter of hot-rolled steel flat products 

(hot-rolled steel) from Japan, sold 

subject merchandise in the United 

States at prices below normal value 

during the period of review (POR) 

October 1, 2019, through September 30, 

2020. In addition, Commerce 

determines that Honda Trading Canada, 

Inc. (Honda) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. 

(Mitsui) had no shipments during the 

POR. 

DATES: Applicable May 24, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jun 

Jack Zhao or Myrna Lobo, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–1396 or (202) 482–2371, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On November 19, 2021, Commerce 

published the Preliminary Results of 

this review in the Federal Register.1

This review covers one mandatory 

exporter/producer of subject 

merchandise, Nippon Steel Corporation, 

Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd., Nippon 

Steel Trading Corporation (collectively, 

NSC).2 We invited interested parties to 

comment on the Preliminary Results. 

Between December 20 and 27, 2021, 

Commerce received timely filed case 

briefs and rebuttal briefs from NSC, JFE 

Shoji America LLC and JFE Shoji 

Corporation (JFE), Nucor Corporation 

(Nucor),3 and Tokyo Steel 

Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Steel).4

On December 20, 2021, Commerce 

received a hearing request from NSC.5

On January 31, 2022, NSC withdrew its 

hearing request.6

On March 10, 2022, we extended the 

deadline for the final results.7 The 

deadline for the final results of this 

review is May 18, 2022. 

These final results cover twenty-nine 

producers and/or exporters of subject 

merchandise.8 Based on an analysis of 

the comments received, we made 

certain changes to the weighted-average 

dumping margin determined for NSC. 

The weighted-average dumping margins 

are listed in the ‘‘Final Results of 

Review’’ section, below. Commerce 

conducted this review in accordance 

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). 

Scope of the Order 9

The merchandise covered by the 

Order is certain hot-rolled steel flat 

products. For a complete description of 

the scope of the Order, see the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum.10

Final Determination of No Shipments 

In the Preliminary Results, Commerce 

preliminarily determined that Honda 

and Mitsui had no shipments of subject 

merchandise during the POR. As no 

party has identified any record evidence 

which would call into question the 

preliminary findings with respect to 

these two companies, we continue to 

find that they made no shipments of 

subject merchandise during the POR. 

Accordingly, consistent with our 

practice, we intend to instruct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

liquidate any existing entries of subject 

merchandise produced by Honda and 

Mitsui, but exported by other parties 

without their own rate, at the all-others 

rate.11


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