[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30401-30403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-11954]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-849]


Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber From Brazil: Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2019-2020

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Commerce) has preliminarily 
assigned ARLANXEO Brasil S.A. (ARLANXEO Brasil), the sole respondent 
subject to this antidumping duty (AD) administrative review, an AD 
margin based on the application of adverse facts available (AFA). We 
invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

DATES: Applicable June 8, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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) 482-4406.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Background

    On October 30, 2020, Commerce published in the Federal Register the 
notice of initiation of an antidumping duty administrative review on 
emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (ESB rubber) from Brazil, covering 
ARLANXEO Brasil for the period of review (POR) September 1, 2019, 
through August 31, 2020.\1\ On November 19, 2020, Commerce issued the 
AD questionnaire to the sole mandatory respondent, ARLANXEO Brasil.\2\ 
ARLANXEO Brasil did not respond to the AD questionnaire.
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 85 FR 68840 (October 30, 2020).
    \2\ See Commerce's Letter, Initial AD Questionniare, dated 
November 19, 2020 (AD Questionnaire).
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    For a complete description of the events that followed the 
initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.\3\ 
The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is made 
available to the public 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 is 
available at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
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    \3\ See Memorandum, ``Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary 
Results of the Third Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: 
Emulsion Styrene Butadiene Rubber from Brazil; 2019-2020,'' dated 
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order

    The product covered by this review is certain ESB rubber from 
Brazil. For a full description of the scope see the Preliminary 
Decision Memorandum.

Methodology

    Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 
751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). 
Commerce is preliminarily relying upon facts otherwise available to 
determine a weighted-average dumping margin for ARLANXEO Brasil in this 
review. Commerce preliminarily finds that necessary information is not 
available on the record, and that ARLANXEO Brasil withheld information 
requested by Commerce, failed to provide the requested information in 
the form and manner requested, and significantly impeded the 
proceeding, warranting a determination on the basis of the facts 
available under sections 776(a)(1) and (2)(A)-(C) of the Act. Further, 
Commerce preliminarily determines that ARLANXEO Brasil failed to 
cooperate to the best of its ability, and thus, Commerce is applying 
AFA in determining a margin for ARLANXEO Brasil, in accordance with 
section 776(b) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology 
underlying our conclusions regarding the application of AFA, see the 
Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review

    We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average 
dumping margin exists for the period September 1, 2019 through August 
31, 2020:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                     Exporter/producer                          margin
                                                              (percent)
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ARLANXEO Brasil S.A........................................       67.99
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Assessment Rate

    Upon completion of the administrative review, Commerce shall 
determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this review. 
The final results of this review shall be the basis for the assessment 
of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by the final 
results of this review and for future deposits of estimated duties, 
where applicable.\4\ If the preliminary results are unchanged for the 
final results, we will instruct CBP to apply an ad valorem assessment 
rate equal to ARLANXEO Brasil's weighted-average dumping margin in the 
final results of this review to all entries of subject merchandise 
during the POR from ARLANXEO Brasil.
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    \4\ See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
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    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

    The following deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for ARLANXEO Brasil 
will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in the 
final results of this review, except if the rate is less than 0.50 
percent and, therefore, de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 
351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) 
for previously investigated or reviewed companies not subject to this 
review, the cash deposit will continue to be the company-specific rate 
published for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in 
which the company participated; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered in this or a previously completed review, or in the original 
less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation, but the producer is, the 
cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent 
segment for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit 
rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be 19.61 
percent, the all-others rate established in the LTFV investigation.\5\ 
These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect 
until further notice.
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    \5\ See Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from Brazil: Final 
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final 
Negative Determination of Critical Circumstances, 82 FR 33048 (July 
19, 2019); see also Emulsion Styrene-Butadiene Rubber From Brazil, 
the Republic of Korea, Mexico, and Poland: Antidumping Duty Orders, 
82 FR 42790 (September 12, 2017).
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Disclosure

    Normally, Commerce discloses the calculations performed in 
connection with preliminary results to interested parties within five 
days after the date of public announcement or publication of this 
notice.\6\ Because Commerce preliminarily applied a rate based entirely 
on AFA in accordance with section 776 of the Act, to the only mandatory 
respondent in this review, there are no calculations to disclose.
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    \6\ See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
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Public Comment

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may submit case 
briefs to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance not 
later than 30 days after the date of publication of this notice, unless 
the Secretary alters the time limit. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues 
raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than seven days after 
the date for filing case briefs.\7\ Parties who submit case briefs or 
rebuttal briefs in this administrative

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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.\8\
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    \7\ See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Temporary Rule Modifying AD/
CVD Service Requirements Due to COVID-19; Extension of Effective 
Period, 85 FR 41363 (July 10, 2020).
    \8\ See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
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    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, filed electronically via 
ACCESS. An electronically filed document must be received successfully 
in its entirety by Commerce's electronic records system, ACCESS, by 
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of publication of 
this notice.\9\ 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 briefs. If a request for a hearing 
is made, Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a time and date to be 
determined.\10\
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    \9\ See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
    \10\ Id.
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Final Results of Review

    Commerce intends to issue the final results of this administrative 
review, including the results of its analysis of the issues raised in 
any written briefs, not later than 120 days after the date of 
publication of these preliminary results in the Federal Register, 
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, unless extended.

Notification to Importers

    This notice 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 this POR. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that reimbursement 
of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double 
antidumping duties.

Notification to Interested Parties

    Commerce is issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).

    Dated: June 2, 2021.
Christian Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

Appendix

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum

I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Application of Facts Available and Use of Adverse Inferences
V. Recommendation

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