Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 123 / Tuesday, June 28, 2022 / Notices 38377 

1See Sodium Nitrite from India and the Russian 

Federation: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigations, 87 FR 7122 (February 2, 2022) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Determination in the Less-ThanFair-Value Investigation of Sodium Nitrite from the 

Russian Federation’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum). 

3See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, 

Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997). 

4See Initiation Notice. 

commonly used to reference sodium nitrite 

are nitrous acid, sodium salt, anti-rust, 

diazotizing salts, erinitrit, and filmerine. 

Sodium nitrite’s chemical composition is 

NaNO2, and it is generally classified under 

subheading 2834.10.1000 of the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS). The American Chemical Society 

Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) has 

assigned the name ‘‘sodium nitrite’’ to 

sodium nitrite. The CAS registry number is 

7632–00–0. For purposes of the scope of this 

investigation, the narrative description is 

dispositive, not the tariff heading, CAS 

registry number or CAS name, which are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–821–836] 

Sodium Nitrite From the Russian 

Federation: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that sodium nitrite from the 

Russian Federation (Russia) is being, or 

is likely to be, sold in the United States 

at less than fair value (LTFV). The 

period of investigation (POI) is January 

1, 2021, through December 31, 2021. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Applicable June 28, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Paola Aleman Ordaz, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office IV, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–4031. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

This preliminary determination is 

made in accordance with section 733(b) 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 

(the Act). Commerce published the 

notice of initiation of this investigation 

on February 8, 2022.1 For a complete 

description of the events that followed 

the initiation of this investigation, see 

the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.2 A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

II 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://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is sodium nitrite from 

Russia. For a full description of the 

scope of this investigation, see 

Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the preamble to 

Commerce’s regulations,3 in the 

Initiation Notice, we set aside a period 

of time for parties to raise issues 

regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).4

No interested parties submitted 

comments on the scope of this 

investigation. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

investigation in accordance with section 

733 of the Act. Pursuant to section 

776(a) and (b) of the Act, Commerce has 

preliminarily relied upon facts 

otherwise available, with adverse 

inferences, to determine the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin for 

the sole mandatory respondent, i.e., 

Uralchem, JSC (Uralchem). For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying the preliminary 

determination, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

All-Others Rate 

Sections 733(d)(1)(ii) and 735(c)(5)(A) 

of the Act provide that in the 

preliminary determination Commerce 

shall determine an estimated all-others 

rate for all exporters and producers not 

individually examined. This rate shall 

be an amount equal to the weighted 

average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins established 

for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding 

rates that are zero, de minimis, or 

determined entirely under section 776 

of the Act. 

In the situation where no estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

other than zero, de minimis, or those 

determined entirely under section 776 

of the Act have been established for 

individually examined entities, in 

accordance with section 735(c)(5)(B) of 

the Act, 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.’’ In this investigation, 

Commerce has preliminarily determined 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin for Uralchem entirely 

under section 776 of the Act. Therefore, 

in the absence of a calculated estimated 

weighted-average dumping margin on 

the record of this investigation, we have 

preliminarily decided to assign the 

Petition rate of 207.17 percent to all 

other producers and exporters, pursuant 

to section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act. For a 

full description of the methodology 

underlying Commerce’s analysis, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Preliminary Determination 

Commerce preliminarily determines 

that the following estimated weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Cash deposit 

rate adjusted for 

subsidy offset 

(percent) 5

Uralchem, JSC ............................................................................................................................................... 207.17 25.73 

All Others ....................................................................................................................................................... 207.17 25.73 


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5 In the preliminary determination of the 

companion CVD proceeding, Commerce applied the 

AFA rate of 45.36 percent to each of the following 

export subsidy programs: (1) Preferential Lending 

by Sberbank to Restructure $3.99 Billion in 

Uralchem Debt; (2) State Financing for Industrial 

Export Projects; (3) Russian Export Center (REC) 

Lending; and (4) State Specialized Russian ExportImport Bank (Eximbank) Financing. We subtracted 

181.44 percent, the sum of the export subsidy rates, 

from the dumping margin of 207.17 percent. 

6See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(i); and 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filling requirements). Commerce has 

exercised its discretion under 19 CFR 

351.309(c)(1)(i) to alter the time limit for 

submission of case briefs. 

7See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

8See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 

Requirements Due to COVID–19; Extension of 

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

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

suspend liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise, as described in Appendix 

I, entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. Further, pursuant 

to section 733(d)(1)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(d), Commerce will instruct 

CBP to require a cash deposit equal to 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin or the estimated allothers rate, as follows: (1) The cash 

deposit rate for the respondents listed 

above will be equal to the companyspecific estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins determined in this 

preliminary determination; (2) if the 

exporter is not a respondent identified 

above, but the producer is, then the cash 

deposit rate will be equal to the 

company-specific estimated weightedaverage dumping margin established for 

that producer of the subject 

merchandise; and (3) the cash deposit 

rate for all other producers and 

exporters will be equal to the all-others 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin. Commerce normally adjusts 

cash deposits for estimated antidumping 

duties by the amount of export subsidies 

countervailed in a companion 

countervailing duty (CVD) proceeding, 

when CVD provisional measures are in 

effect. Accordingly, where Commerce 

preliminarily made an affirmative 

determination for countervailable export 

subsidies, Commerce has offset the 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margin by the appropriate CVD rate. 

Any such adjusted cash deposit rate 

may be found in the ‘‘Preliminary 

Determination’’ section above. 

Should provisional measures in the 

companion CVD investigation expire 

prior to the expiration of provisional 

measures in this LTFV investigation, 

Commerce will direct CBP to begin 

collecting estimated antidumping duty 

cash deposits unadjusted for 

countervailed export subsidies at the 

time that the provisional CVD measures 

expire. 

These suspension of liquidation 

instructions will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Disclosure 

Normally, Commerce discloses to 

interested parties the calculations 

performed in connection with a 

preliminary determination within five 

days of any public announcement or, if 

there is no public announcement, 

within five days of the date of 

publication of the notice of preliminary 

determination in the Federal Register, 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

However, because Commerce 

preliminarily applied adverse facts 

available (AFA) to the individually 

examined company, Uralchem, in this 

investigation, in accordance with 

section 776 of the Act, and applied an 

AFA rate, which is based solely on the 

Petition, there are no calculations to 

disclose. 

Verification 

Because the sole mandatory 

respondent in this investigation did not 

provide any of the information 

requested by Commerce, and Commerce 

preliminarily determines that the 

respondent failed to cooperate by not 

acting to the best of its ability to 

respond to Commerce’s request for 

information, pursuant to section 776(b) 

of the Act, we will not conduct 

verification. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

on all issues may be submitted to the 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than 21 days after 

the date of publication of the 

preliminarily determination.6 Rebuttal 

briefs, limited to issues raised in case 

briefs, may be submitted no later than 

seven days after the deadline date for 

case briefs.7 Note that Commerce has 

temporarily modified certain of its 

requirements for serving documents 

containing business proprietary 

information, until further notice.8

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

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

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. 

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 

for a hearing should contain: (1) the 

requesting party’s name, address, and 

telephone number; (2) the number of 

individuals from the requesting party 

that will attend the hearing, including, 

whether any individuals are foreign 

nationals; and (3) a list of the issues the 

party intends to discuss at the hearing. 

Issues raised in the hearing will be 

limited to those raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs. If a hearing is requested, 

Commerce will notify interested parties 

of the hearing date and time. Parties 

should confirm by telephone the date 

and time of the hearing two days before 

the scheduled hearing date. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. If the 

final determination is affirmative, the 

ITC will determine before the later of 

120 days after the date of this 

preliminary determination or 45 days 

after the final determination whether 

these imports materially injure, or 

threaten material injury to, the U.S. 

industry. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: June 22, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I—Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this investigation 

is sodium nitrite in any form, at any purity 

level. In addition, the sodium nitrite covered 

by this investigation may or may not contain 

an anti-caking agent. Examples of names 

commonly used to reference sodium nitrite 

are nitrous acid, sodium salt, anti-rust, 

diazotizing salts, erinitrit, and filmerine. 

Sodium nitrite’s chemical composition is 

NaNO2, and it is generally classified under 

subheading 2834.10.1000 of the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS). The American Chemical Society 

Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) has 

assigned the name ‘‘sodium nitrite’’ to 

sodium nitrite. The CAS registry number is 


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1See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the 

People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, Partial 

Rescission of Antidumping Administrative Review, 

and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments; 

2019–2020, 86 FR 72923 (December 23, 2021) 

(Preliminary Results), and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Results of the 2019– 

2020 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of 

Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or 

Not Assembled into Modules, from the People’s 

Republic of China,’’ dated concurrently with, and 

hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Crystalline Silicon 

Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, from the People’s Republic of China: 

Extension of Deadline for Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2019– 

2020,’’ dated April 19, 2022. 

4See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, from the 

People’s Republic of China: Amended Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

and Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 73018 

(December 7, 2012) (Order); see also Crystalline 

Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not 

Assembled Into Modules, from the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Results of Changed 

Circumstances Reviews, and Revocation of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders, in 

Part, 86 FR 71616–71617 (December 17, 2021) 

(excluding certain off-grid CSPV). This scope also 

reflects the USHTS subheadings 8541.42.0010, and 

8541.43.0010. which were updated in 2022. The 

HTSUS subheadings in effect during the POR were 

8501.61.0010, 8507.20.80, 8541.40.6015, 

8541.40.6025, and 8501.31.8010. 

5Canadian Solar comprises Canadian Solar 

International Limited; Canadian Solar 

Manufacturing (Changshu) Inc.; Canadian Solar 

Manufacturing (Luoyang) Inc.; CSI Cells Co., Ltd.; 

CSI Solar Power (China) Inc.; and CSI–GCL Solar 

Manufacturing (Yancheng) Co., Ltd. 

6 Yingli comprises Shenzhen Yingli New Energy 

Resources Co., Ltd.; Baoding Jiasheng Photovoltaic 

Technology Co., Ltd.; Baoding Tianwei Yingli New 

Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; Beijing Tianneng Yingli 

New Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; Hainan Yingli New 

Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; Hengshui Yingli New 

Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; Lixian Yingli New 

Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; Tianjin Yingli New 

Energy Resources Co., Ltd.; and Yingli Energy 

(China) Company Limited. 

7See Preliminary Results PDM at 5. 

7632–00–0. For purposes of the scope of this 

investigation, the narrative description is 

dispositive, not the tariff heading, CAS 

registry number or CAS name, which are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes. 

Appendix II—List of Sections in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Application of Facts Available and Use of 

Adverse Inference 

V. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–979] 

Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, From the People’s Republic 

of China: 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) has determined 

that the manufacturers/exporters of 

crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, 

whether or not assembled into modules 

(solar cells), from the People’s Republic 

of China (China) listed in the ‘‘Final 

Results of Review’’ section below, sold 

subject merchandise in the United 

States at less than normal value during 

the period of review (POR) December 1, 

2019, through November 30, 2020. 

DATES: Applicable June 28, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Pedersen, AD/CVD Operations, Office 

IV, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2769. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 23, 2021, Commerce 

published the Preliminary Results of 

this review in the Federal Register.1

After publication of the Preliminary 

Results, a number of interested parties 

filed case and rebuttal briefs and 

Commerce held a public hearing (see 

the Issues and Decision Memorandum 

for details).2 On April 19, 2022, 

Commerce extended the deadline for the 

final results of this review until June 21, 

2022.3 The final weighted-average 

dumping margins determined in this 

review are in the ‘‘Final Results of 

Review’’ section of this notice. 

Scope of the Order 4

The merchandise covered by this 

Order is crystalline silicon photovoltaic 

cells, and modules, laminates, and 

panels, consisting of crystalline silicon 

photovoltaic cells, whether or not 

partially or fully assembled into other 

products, including, but not limited to, 

modules, laminates, panels and building 

integrated materials. Merchandise 

covered by this Order is currently 

classified in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

under subheadings 8501.71.0000, 

8501.72.1000, 8501.72.2000, 

8501.72.3000, 8501.72.9000, 

8501.80.1000, 8501.80.2000, 

8501.80.3000, 8501.80.9000, 

8507.20.8010, 8507.20.8031, 

8507.20.8041, 8507.20.8061, 

8507.20.8091, 8541.42.0010, and 

8541.43.0010. Although these HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope of this 

order is dispositive. For a complete 

description of the scope of the Order, 

see the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

We addressed all of the issues that 

were raised in interested parties’ case 

and rebuttal briefs in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum. A list of the 

sections in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum, including a list of issues 

that parties raised, and to which we 

responded, is in the appendix to this 

notice. 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 Determination of No Shipments 

In the Preliminary Results we found 

that, during the POR, there were no 

shipments of subject merchandise into 

the United States by Canadian Solar,5

JingAo Solar Co., Ltd., and Yingli.6 No 

parties commented on these preliminary 

determinations. Accordingly, because 

we have not received any information to 

contradict our preliminary noshipments determination, nor any 

comment in opposition to our 

preliminary finding, our determinations 

remain unchanged for the final results 

of review.7 We will issue instructions to 

U.S. Customs Border and Protection 

(CBP) based on these final results. 

Changes Since the Preliminary Results 

As discussed in detail in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum, since 

issuing the Preliminary Results, we 

corrected certain ministerial errors in 


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