Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 121 / Friday, June 24, 2022 / Notices 37829 

1See Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber from 

Mexico: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of 

Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional 

Measures, 87 FR 5790 (February 2, 2022) 

(Preliminary Determination), and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

2 Id. 

Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.224(b). However, because there are 

no changes from the Preliminary 

Determination, there are no new 

calculations to disclose. 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

As a result of our Preliminary 

Determination, and pursuant to sections 

703(d)(1)(B) and (d)(2) of the Act, 

Commerce instructed U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) to suspend 

liquidation of entries of subject 

merchandise, as described in the scope 

of the investigation section, that were 

entered or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption, on or after December 

3, 2021, the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination in the 

Federal Register. In accordance with 

section 703(d) of the Act, we instructed 

CBP to discontinue the suspension of 

liquidation for subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

on or after April 2, 2022, but to continue 

the suspension of liquidation of all 

entries of subject merchandise between 

December 3, 2021, and April 1, 2022. 

If the U.S. International Trade 

Commission (ITC) issues a final 

affirmative injury determination, we 

will issue a countervailing duty order, 

reinstate the suspension of liquidation 

under section 706(a) of the Act, and 

require a cash deposit of estimated 

countervailing duties for entries of 

subject merchandise in the amounts 

indicated above. If the ITC determines 

that material injury, or threat of material 

injury, does not exist, this proceeding 

will be terminated, and all estimated 

duties deposited or securities posted as 

a result of the suspension of liquidation 

will be refunded or canceled. 

ITC Notification 

In accordance with section 705(d) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the ITC 

of its final affirmative determination 

that countervailable subsidies are being 

provided to producers and exporters of 

UAN from Trinidad and Tobago. As 

Commerce’s final determination is 

affirmative, in accordance with section 

705(b) of the Act, the ITC will 

determine, within 45 days, whether the 

domestic industry in the United States 

is materially injured or threatened with 

material injury. In addition, we are 

making available to the ITC all nonprivileged and nonproprietary 

information related to this investigation. 

We will allow the ITC access to all 

privileged and business proprietary 

information in our files, provided the 

ITC confirms that it will not disclose 

such information, either publicly or 

under an administrative protective order 

(APO), without the written consent of 

the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Notification Regarding APO 

In the event the ITC issues a final 

negative injury determination, this 

notice serves as the only reminder to 

parties subject to an APO of their 

responsibility concerning the 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 

written 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 sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 705(d) 

and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.210(c). 

Dated: June 17, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I—Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is all mixtures of urea and 

ammonium nitrate in aqueous or ammonia 

solution, regardless of nitrogen concentration 

by weight, and regardless of the presence of 

additives, such as corrosion inhibiters and 

soluble micro or macronutrients (UAN). 

Subject merchandise includes merchandise 

matching the above description that has been 

processed in a third country, including by 

commingling, diluting, adding or removing 

additives, or performing any other processing 

that would not otherwise remove the 

merchandise from the scope of the 

investigation if performed in the subject 

country. 

The scope also includes UAN that is 

commingled with UAN from sources not 

subject to these investigations. Only the 

subject component of such commingled 

products is covered by the scope of this 

investigation. 

The covered merchandise is currently 

classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 

of the United States (HTSUS) at subheading 

3102.80.0000. Although the HTSUS 

subheading is provided for convenience and 

customs purposes, 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 Investigation 

IV. Subsidies Valuation 

V. Analysis of Programs 

VI. Analysis of Comments 

Comment 1: Whether Commerce Should 

Revise the Natural Gas Benchmark 

Calculation for MHTL’s Methanol 

Facilities 

Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should 

Use Separate Natural Gas Benchmarks 

for MHTL’s Ammonia, Urea, and 

Melamine (AUM) and Methanol 

Facilities 

Comment 3: Whether Certain Affiliated 

Companies are Cross-Owned with and 

Provided Primarily Dedicated Inputs to 

MHTL 

Comment 4: Whether Commerce Should 

Include the Rate Calculated for the 

Import Duty Exemptions Program in the 

Cash Deposit Instructions for MHTL 

VII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–201–855] 

Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber From 

Mexico: Final 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) determines that 

acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (AB 

rubber) from Mexico is being, or is 

likely to be, sold in the United States at 

less than fair value (LTFV). The period 

of investigation is April 1, 2020, through 

March 31, 2021. 

DATES: Applicable June 24, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dennis McClure or Faris Montgomery, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–5973 or 

(202) 482–1537, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On February 2, 2022, Commerce 

published the Preliminary 

Determination in the LTFV investigation 

of AB rubber from Mexico, in which we 

also postponed the final determination 

until June 17, 2022.1 Commerce invited 

interested parties to comment on the 

Preliminary Determination; 2 we 


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3See Memorandum, ‘‘Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum,’’ dated January 26, 2022 

(Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum). 

4See ARLANXEO Emulsion Rubber France 

S.A.S.’s Letter, ‘‘Scope Brief,’’ dated February 25, 

2022; and Zeon Chemicals L.P. and Zeon GP, LLC 

(collectively, the petitioner)’s Letter, ‘‘Petitioner’s 

Rebuttal Scope Brief,’’ dated March 4, 2022. 

5See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigations of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene Rubber 

from France, the Republic of Korea, and Mexico: 

Final Scope Decision Memorandum,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Final Scope Memorandum). 

6See Preliminary Determination, 87 FR at 5792. 

Specifically, we added language to the scope that 

clarified that AB Rubber products that include a 

third component that is not methacrylic acid or 

isoprene are not covered by the scope. See Final 

Scope Memorandum. 

7See Commerce’s Letter, ‘‘In Lieu of On-Site 

Verification Questionnaire,’’ dated March 2, 2022. 

8See Negromex’s Letter, ‘‘In Lieu of Verification 

Questionnaire Response,’’ dated March 10, 2022. 

9See Negromex’s Letter, ‘‘Post-Verification Data 

Corrections,’’ dated May 9, 2022. 

10For a discussion of the minor verification 

corrections accepted for the final determination, see 

memorandum, ‘‘Final Determination Calculation 

Memorandum for Industrias Negromex S.A. de 

C.V.,’’ dated concurrently with this notice. 11See Preliminary Determination, 87 FR at 5791. 

received no comments from interested 

parties. However, as a result of the 

minor corrections presented to 

Commerce in the sole mandatory 

respondent’s response to the in lieu of 

on-site verification questionnaire, 

Commerce has made certain changes to 

the Preliminary Determination, as 

discussed below. 

Scope Comments 

On January 26, 2022, we issued the 

Preliminary Scope Decision 

Memorandum.3 Interested parties 

submitted case and rebuttal briefs 

concerning the scope of this 

investigation.4 For a summary of the 

product coverage comments and 

rebuttal responses submitted to the 

record of this investigation, and 

accompanying analysis of all comments 

timely received, see the Final Scope 

Memorandum.5 Based on the comments 

received from interested parties, we are 

revising the scope of this investigation 

as it appeared in the Preliminary 

Determination.6 The scope in the 

appendix reflects these changes. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is AB rubber from Mexico. 

For a complete description of the scope 

of this investigation, see the appendix to 

this notice. 

Verification 

Commerce was unable to conduct onsite verification of the information 

relied upon in making its final 

determination in this investigation. 

However, we took additional steps in 

lieu of an on-site verification to verify 

the information relied upon in making 

this final determination, in accordance 

with section 782(i) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act).7

Changes Since the Preliminary 

Determination 

Based on Industrias Negromex S.A. de 

C.V.’s (Negromex’s) in lieu of on-site 

verification questionnaire response,8 we 

accepted minor corrections to 

Negromex’s reported sales data 9 and 

included these changes in the margin 

calculations for the final 

determination.10

All-Others Rate 

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

provides that the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin for all other 

producers and exporters not 

individually investigated shall be equal 

to the weighted average of the estimated 

weighted-average 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. Section 735(c)(5)(B) of the 

Act provides that, if the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins for 

all individually investigated exporters 

and producers are zero, de minimis, or 

determined entirely under section 776 

of the Act, then Commerce may use any 

reasonable method to establish the 

estimated all-others rate, including 

averaging the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins determined 

for the individually investigated 

exporters and producers. 

In this investigation, Commerce 

calculated an estimated weightedaverage dumping margin for the sole 

mandatory respondent Negromex, that 

is not zero, de minimis, or based 

entirely on facts otherwise available. 

Accordingly, the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin calculated for 

Negromex is the margin assigned to all 

other producers and exporters, pursuant 

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

Final Determination 

Commerce determines that the 

following estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins exist: 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V. 18.45 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

All Others .................................... 18.45 

Disclosure 

Commerce intends to disclose the 

calculations performed in this final 

determination within five days of any 

public announcement or, if there is no 

public announcement, within five days 

of the date of publication of this notice 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

Consistent with the Preliminary 

Determination,11 Commerce will 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) to continue to suspend 

liquidation of all appropriate entries of 

AB rubber from Mexico, as described in 

the Appendix to this notice, which are 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after February 2, 

2022, the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination in the 

Federal Register. 

Pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of 

the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(d), upon 

publication of this notice, Commerce 

will instruct CBP to require a cash 

deposit equal to the estimated weightedaverage dumping margin or the 

estimated all-others rate, as follows: (1) 

the cash deposit rate for the respondent 

listed above will be equal to the 

company-specific estimated weightedaverage dumping margin determined in 

this final 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. These suspension-of-liquidation 

instructions will remain in effect until 

further notice. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 735(d) of 

the Act, we will notify the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

the final affirmative determination of 

sales at LTFV. We will allow the ITC 

access to all privileged and business 

proprietary information in our files, 

provided the ITC confirms it will not 


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Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 121 / Friday, June 24, 2022 / Notices 37831 

1See Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions from the 

Russian Federation: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 

Postponement of Final Determination, and 

Extension of Provisional Measures, 87 FR 5785 

(February 2, 2022) (Preliminary Determination), and 

accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Affirmative 

Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigation of Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions 

from the Russian Federation,’’ dated concurrently 

with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and 

Decision Memorandum). 

disclose such information, either 

publicly or under an administrative 

protective order (APO), without the 

written consent of the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Because Commerce’s final 

determination is affirmative, in 

accordance with section 735(b)(2) of the 

Act, the ITC will make its final 

determination as to whether the 

domestic industry in the United States 

is materially injured, or threatened with 

material injury, by reason of imports or 

sales (or the likelihood of sales) for 

importation of AB Rubber from Mexico 

no later than 45 days after this final 

determination. If the ITC determines 

that such injury does not exist, this 

proceeding will be terminated, and all 

cash deposits posted will be refunded 

and suspension of liquidation will be 

lifted. If the ITC determines that such 

injury does exist, Commerce will issue 

an antidumping duty order directing 

CBP to assess, upon further instruction 

by Commerce, antidumping duties on 

all imports of the subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the 

February 2, 2022, effective date of the 

suspension of liquidation. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Orders 

This notice will serve as a reminder 

to the parties subject to APO of their 

responsibility concerning the 

disposition of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 

written notification of 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 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 

CFR 351.210(c). 

Dated: June 17, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix—Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this investigation 

is commonly referred to as acrylonitrile 

butadiene rubber or nitrile rubber (AB 

Rubber). AB Rubber is a synthetic rubber 

produced by the emulsion polymerization of 

butadiene and acrylonitrile with or without 

the incorporation of a third component 

selected from methacrylic acid or isoprene. 

AB Rubber products that include a third 

component that is not methacrylic acid or 

isoprene are not covered by the scope. This 

scope covers AB Rubber in solid or nonaqueous liquid form. The scope also includes 

carboxylated AB Rubber. 

Excluded from the scope of this 

investigation is AB Rubber in latex form 

(commonly classified under Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 

subheading 4002.51.0000). Latex AB Rubber 

is commonly either (a) acrylonitrile/ 

butadiene polymer in latex form or (b) 

acrylonitrile/butadiene/methacrylic acid 

polymer in latex form. The broader definition 

of latex refers to a water emulsion of a 

synthetic rubber obtained by polymerization. 

Also excluded from the scope of this 

investigation is: (a) AB Rubber containing 

additives incorporated during the 

compounding, mixing, molding, or use of AB 

Rubber comprising greater than twenty 

percent of the total weight of the product. 

Additives would include, but are not limited 

to, fillers (e.g., carbon black, silica, clay); 

reinforcement agents (e.g., fibers, carbon 

black, silica); vulcanization agents (e.g., 

sulfur, sulfur complexes, peroxide); or AB 

Rubber containing extension oils making up 

greater than forty percent of the total weight 

of the product. Such products would be 

generally classified under HTSUS 

subheading 4005; (b) AB Rubber containing 

polyvinyl chloride (PVC) making up greater 

than twenty percent of total weight of the 

product; (c) hydrogenated AB Rubber 

(commonly referred to as HNBR) produced 

by subsequent dissolution and hydrogenation 

of AB Rubber; (d) reactive liquid polymers 

containing acrylonitrile and butadiene with 

amine, epoxy, carboxyl or methacrylate vinyl 

chemical functionality. 

Subject merchandise includes material 

matching the above description that has been 

finished, packaged, or otherwise processed in 

a third country, including by modifying 

physical form or packaging with another 

product, or performing any other finishing, 

packaging, or processing that would not 

otherwise remove the merchandise from the 

scope of the investigation if performed in the 

country of manufacture of the AB Rubber. 

The merchandise subject to this 

investigation is classified in the HTSUS at 

subheading 4002.59.0000. While the HTSUS 

subheading numbers are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the merchandise under 

investigation is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–821–831] 

Urea Ammonium Nitrate Solutions 

From the Russian Federation: Final 

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) determines that 

urea ammonium nitrate solutions (UAN) 

from the Russian Federation (Russia) are 

being, or are likely to be, sold in the 

United States at less than fair value 

(LTFV). 

DATES: Applicable June 24, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Krisha Hill or Drew Jackson, 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) 482–4037 or (202) 482–4406, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On February 2, 2022, Commerce 

published the Preliminary 

Determination in this investigation.1 A 

summary of the events that occurred 

since Commerce published the 

Preliminary Determination, as well as a 

full discussion of the issues raised by 

parties for this final determination, may 

be found in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum.2

Period of Investigation 

The period of investigation (POI) is 

April 1, 2020, through March 31, 2021. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The products covered by this 

investigation are UAN from Russia. For 

a complete description of the scope of 

this investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

No interested party commented on the 

scope of the investigation as it appeared 

in the Preliminary Determination. We 

made no changes to the scope of the 

investigation. 

Use of Adverse Facts Available 

Pursuant to section 776(a) and (b) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act), we have continued to base the 

dumping margins for PJSC Kuibyshev 

Azot and SBU Azot upon facts 

otherwise available, with adverse 

inferences, because these companies 


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