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6The Initiation Notice lists the company as Jindal 

Poly Films Limited of India. 

7See 19 CFR 351.212(b). 

8See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1). 

1See Antidumping Duty Order: Potassium 

Permanganate from the People’s Republic of China, 

49 FR 3897 (January 31, 1984). 

Final Results of Review 

As a result of our review, we 

determine the following weightedaverage dumping margins exist for the 

period July 1, 2013, through June 30, 

2014. 

Producer or exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Jindal Poly Films Limited 6 ... 0.59 

SRF Limited .......................... 0.00 

Ester Industries Limited ........ 0.59 

Garware Polyester Ltd .......... 0.59 

Polyplex Corporation Limited 0.59 

Vacmet .................................. 0.59 

Assessment Rates 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), the 

Department determined, and U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries of subject 

merchandise, in accordance with the 

final results of this review. The 

Department will issue assessment 

instructions to CBP 15 days after the 

date of publication of the final results of 

review. We will instruct CBP to 

liquidate entries of merchandise 

produced and/or exported by the 

aforementioned companies. The 

Department will calculate importerspecific assessment rates for Jindal. 

Where the respondent reported the 

entered value for its sales, the 

Department calculates importer-specific 

ad valorem assessment rates based on 

the ratio of the total amount of dumping 

calculated for the examined sales to the 

total entered value of those same sales.7

However, where the respondent did not 

report the entered value for its sales, the 

Department calculates importer-specific 

per-unit duty assessment rates. We will 

instruct CBP to apply an ad valorem 

assessment rate as indicated above to all 

entries of subject merchandise during 

the POR which were produced and/or 

exported by the four non-selected 

companies Ester Industries Limited, 

Garware Polyester Ltd, Polyplex 

Corporation Limited, and Vacmet. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), we 

will instruct CBP to liquidate without 

regard to antidumping duties any 

entries produced and/or exported by 

SRF during the POR.8

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following deposit requirements 

will be effective for all shipments of 

PET Film from India entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

administrative review, as provided for 

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

The cash deposit rate for the company 

under review will be equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margin 

established in the final results of this 

review (except, if the rate is de minimis, 

i.e., less than 0.5 percent, then the cash 

deposit rate will be zero); (2) for 

previously reviewed or investigated 

companies not listed above, the cash 

deposit rate will continue to be the 

company-specific rate published in the 

completed segment for the most recent 

period for that company; (3) if the 

exporter is not a firm covered in this 

review, a prior review, or the less-thanfair-value investigation, but the 

manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate 

will be the rate established in the 

completed segment for the most recent 

period for the manufacturer of the 

merchandise; and (4) if neither the 

exporter nor the manufacturer is a firm 

covered in this or any other completed 

segment of this proceeding, then the 

cash deposit rate will be the all others 

rate for this proceeding, 5.71 percent. 

These deposit requirements, when 

imposed, shall remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a final reminder 

to importers of their responsibility 

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

certificate regarding the reimbursement 

of antidumping duties prior to 

liquidation of the relevant entries 

during this review period. Failure to 

comply with this requirement could 

result in the Secretary’s presumption 

that reimbursement of antidumping 

duties occurred and the subsequent 

assessment of doubled antidumping 

duties. 

Notifications to Interested Parties 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to administrative 

protective order (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. 

The Department is issuing and 

publishing these final results of 

administrative review in accordance 

with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of 

the Act. 

Dated: February 8, 2016. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

Scope of the Order 

III. Discussion of the Issues 

Comment 1: Whether To Exclude Certain 

Sales From the Margin Calculation 

Comment 2: Whether To Grant a Quantity 

Discount Adjustment to Jindal 

Comment 3: G&A Expense and Interest 

Expense Ratio 

Comment 4: Differential Pricing 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–001] 

Potassium Permanganate From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Results of the 2014 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: In response to a request by 

Pacific Accelerator Limited (‘‘PAL’’), the 

Department of Commerce (the 

‘‘Department’’) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty (‘‘AD’’) order on 

potassium permanganate from the 

People’s Republic of China (the ‘‘PRC’’) 

for the period of review (‘‘POR’’) 

January 1, 2014, through December 31, 

2014.1 The Department preliminarily 

determines that PAL sold subject 

merchandise in the United States at 

prices below normal value (‘‘NV’’) 

during the POR. If these preliminary 

results are adopted in the final results, 

the Department will instruct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) 

to assess antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries of subject 

merchandise during the POR. Interested 

parties are invited to comment on these 

preliminary results. 

DATES: Effective February 16, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Walker or Javier Barrientos, AD/CVD 

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2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 80 FR 

11166 (March 2, 2015) (‘‘Initiation Notice’’). 

3See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations, ‘‘Potassium 

Permanganate from the People’s Republic of China: 

Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of 

2014 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,’’ 

dated October 5, 2015. 

4See Memorandum to Christian Marsh, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations, ‘‘Potassium 

Permanganate from the People’s Republic of China: 

Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of 

2014 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,’’ 

dated October 27, 2015. 

5See Memorandum to the Record from Ron 

Lorentzen, Acting A/S for Enforcement & 

Compliance, regarding ‘‘Tolling of Administrative 

Deadlines As a Result of the Government Closure 

During Snowstorm Jonas,’’ dated January 27, 2016. 

6See 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). 

7See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii). 8See 19 CFR 351.309(d)(1)–(2). 9See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2), (d)(2). 

Operations, Office V, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone 202–482–0413 or 202–482– 

2243, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On March 2, 2015, the Department 

initiated an administrative review of the 

antidumping order on potassium 

permanganate from the PRC.2 Between 

April and September 2015, the 

Department sent AD questionnaires and 

supplemental questionnaires to PAL, to 

which it responded in a timely manner. 

On October 5, 2015, the Department 

partially extended the deadline for 

issuing the preliminary results until 

November 2, 2015.3 On October 27, 

2015, the Department fully extended the 

deadline for issuing the preliminary 

results until February 1, 2016.4 As 

explained in the memorandum from the 

Acting Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, the 

Department has exercised its discretion 

to toll all administrative deadlines due 

to the recent closure of the Federal 

Government. All deadlines in this 

segment of the proceeding have been 

extended by four business days. The 

revised deadline for the preliminary 

results of this administrative review is 

now February 5, 2016.5

Scope of the Order 

Imports covered by the order are 

shipments of potassium permanganate, 

an inorganic chemical produced in freeflowing, technical, and pharmaceutical 

grades. Potassium permanganate is 

currently classifiable under item 

2841.61.00 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States 

(‘‘HTSUS’’). Although the HTSUS item 

number is provided for convenience and 

customs purposes, the written 

description of the merchandise remains 

dispositive. 

Methodology 

The Department conducted this 

review in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1)(B) and 751(a)(2)(A) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

‘‘Act’’). Export prices have been 

calculated in accordance with section 

772 of the Act. Because the PRC is a 

non-market economy (‘‘NME’’) within 

the meaning of section 771(18) of the 

Act, NV has been calculated in 

accordance with section 773(c) of the 

Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. The 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a 

public document and is on file 

electronically via Enforcement aCnd 

Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (‘‘ACCESS’’). 

ACCESS is available to registered users 

at http://access.trade.gov, and is 

available to all parties in the Central 

Records Unit, room B8024 of the main 

Department of Commerce building. In 

addition, a complete version of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum can 

be accessed directly at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum and 

the electronic versions of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 

identical in content. 

PRC-Wide Entity 

The Department’s change in policy 

regarding conditional review of the 

PRC-wide entity applies to this 

administrative review.6 Under this 

policy, the PRC-wide entity will not be 

under review unless a party specifically 

requests, or the Department selfinitiates, a review of the entity. Because 

no party requested a review of the PRCwide entity in this review, the entity is 

not under review and the entity’s rate 

(i.e., 128.94 percent) is not subject to 

change. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

The Department preliminarily 

determines that the following weightedaverage dumping margins exist for the 

period January 1, 2014, through 

December 31, 2014: 

Exporter 

Weightedaverage 

margin 

(USD/ 

kilogram) 

Pacific Accelerator Limited ......... 2.20 

Disclosure, Public Comment and 

Opportunity To Request a Hearing 

The Department will disclose the 

calculations used in our analysis to 

parties in this review within five days 

of the date of publication of this notice 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Interested parties may submit case 

briefs within 30 days after the date of 

publication of these preliminary results 

of review in the Federal Register.7

Rebuttals to case briefs, which must be 

limited to issues raised in the case 

briefs, must be filed within five days 

after the time limit for filing case briefs.8

Parties who submit arguments are 

requested to submit with the argument 

(a) a statement of the issue, (b) a brief 

summary of the argument, and (c) a 

table of authorities.9 Parties submitting 

briefs should do so pursuant to the 

Department’s electronic filing system, 

ACCESS. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing must submit a written request to 

the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance within 30 days of the 

date of publication of this notice. 

Requests should contain: (1) The party’s 

name, address and telephone number; 

(2) the number of participants; and (3) 

a list of issues parties intend to discuss. 

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, the Department 

intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th Street 

and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230, at a date and 

time to be determined. See 19 CFR 

351.310(d). Parties should confirm by 

telephone the date, time, and location of 

the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. 

The Department 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, pursuant to 

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

Assessment Rates 

Upon issuance of the final results, the 

Department will determine, and CBP 

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10See 19 CFR 351.212(b). 

11See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

12See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). 

1See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet and 

Strip From India: Preliminary Results And Partial 

Rescission of Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2013, 80 FR 46956 (August 6, 2015) 

(Preliminary Results 2013). 

2As explained in the memorandum from the 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement & 

Compliance, the Department has exercised its 

discretion to toll all administrative deadlines due 

to the recent closure of the Federal Government. All 

deadlines in this segment of the proceeding have 

been extended by four business days. The revised 

deadline for the final results of this review is now 

February 8, 2016. See Memorandum to the Record 

from Ron Lorentzen, Acting A/S for Enforcement & 

Compliance, regarding ‘‘Tolling of Adminstrative 

Deadlines as a Result of the Government Closure 

During Snowstorm Jonas,’’ dated January 27, 2016. 

3 DuPont Teijin Films, Inc., Mitsubishi Polyester 

Film, Inc. and SKC, Inc. (collectively, 

‘‘Petitioners’’). 

4See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, ‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum for 

the Final Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review: Polyethylene Terephthalate 

Film, Sheet, and Strip from India; 2013,’’ dated 

concurrently with this notice and herein 

Continued 

shall assess, antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries covered by this 

review.10 The Department intends to 

issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 

days after the publication date of the 

final results of this review. 

For any individually examined 

respondent whose weighted average 

dumping margin is above de minimis 

(i.e., 0.50 percent) in the final results of 

this review, the Department will 

calculate importer-specific assessment 

rates on the basis of the ratio of the total 

amount of dumping calculated for the 

importer’s examined sales to the total 

entered value of sales, in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where an 

importer- (or customer-) specific ad 

valorem rate is greater than de minimis, 

the Department will instruct CBP to 

collect the appropriate duties at the time 

of liquidation.11 Where either a 

respondent’s weighted average dumping 

margin is zero or de minimis, or an 

importer- (or customer-) specific ad 

valorem is zero or de minimis, the 

Department will instruct CBP to 

liquidate appropriate entries without 

regard to antidumping duties.12

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

publication of the final results of this 

review for shipments of the subject 

merchandise from the PRC entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the publication 

date, as provided by sections 

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 established in the final results of 

this review (except, if the rate is zero or 

de minimis, then zero cash deposit will 

be required); (2) for previously 

investigated or reviewed PRC and nonPRC exporters not listed above that 

received a separate rate in a prior 

segment of this proceeding, the cash 

deposit rate will continue to be the 

existing exporter-specific rate; (3) for all 

PRC exporters of subject merchandise 

that have not been found to be entitled 

to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate 

will be that for the PRC-wide entity; and 

(4) for all non-PRC exporters of subject 

merchandise which have not received 

their own rate, the cash deposit rate will 

be the rate applicable to the PRC 

exporter that supplied that non-PRC 

exporter. These deposit requirements, 

when imposed, shall remain in effect 

until further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a 

preliminary reminder to importers of 

their responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping duties prior to liquidation 

of the relevant entries during the POR. 

Failure to comply with this requirement 

could result in the Department’s 

presumption that reimbursement of 

antidumping duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of double 

antidumping duties. 

These preliminary results are issued 

and published in accordance with 

sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the 

Act. 

Dated: February 8, 2016. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

1. Summary 

2. Case History 

3. Scope of the Order 

4. Discussion of the Methodology 

a. Non-Market Economy Country Status 

b. Separate Rates 

c. Surrogate Country 

d. PRC-Wide Entity 

e. Determination of Comparison Method 

f. Results of Differential Pricing Analysis 

g. Comparisons to Normal Value 

h. Date of Sale 

i. Export Price 

j. Value Added Tax 

k. Normal Value 

l. Factor Valuations 

m. Currency Conversion 

5. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–533–825] 

Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, 

Sheet, and Strip From India: Final 

Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2013 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On August 6, 2015, the 

Department published the preliminary 

results of the administrative review of 

the countervailing duty order on 

polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, 

and strip (PET film) from India.1 The 

period of review (POR) is January 1, 

2013, through December 31, 2013.2

Based on an analysis of the comments 

received, the Department has made 

changes to the subsidy rate determined 

for Jindal Poly Films Limited (Jindal). 

The final subsidy rates are listed in the 

‘‘Final Results of Administrative 

Review’’ section below. 

DATES: Effective date: February 16, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elfi 

Blum, AD/CVD Operations, Office VII, 

Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th Street 

and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–0197. 

Scope of the Order 

For the purposes of the order, the 

products covered are all gauges of raw, 

pretreated, or primed polyethylene 

terephthalate film, sheet and strip, 

whether extruded or coextruded. 

Excluded are metallized films and other 

finished films that have had at least one 

of their surfaces modified by the 

application of a performance-enhancing 

resinous or inorganic layer of more than 

0.00001 inches thick. Imports of PET 

film are classifiable in the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

(HTSUS) under item number 

3920.62.00.90. HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes. The written description of the 

scope of the order is dispositive. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

The issues raised by Petitioners 3 and 

Jindal in their case briefs, and 

Petitioners’ rebuttal brief, are addressed 

in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum.4 The issues are 

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