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(4) Company or Trade Association 

Name and Address including Web site 

Address; 

(5) Short Biography of nominee 

including credentials; 

(6) Brief description of the company 

or trade association and its business 

activities; company size (number of 

employees and annual sales); and export 

markets served. 

Please do not send company or trade 

association brochures or any other 

information. 

This information may be e-mailed to 

Sarah.Lopp@mail.doc.gov or faxed to 

the attention of Sarah Lopp at 202–482–

5665, and must be received before the 

deadline. Nominees selected for 

appointment to CINTAC will be notified 

by return mail. 

Jamie Estrada, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Manufacturing. 

[FR Doc. E8–19839 Filed 8–26–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–926] 

Sodium Nitrite from the People’s 

Republic of China: Countervailing Duty 

Order 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: Based on an affirmative final 

determination by the U.S. International 

Trade Commission (ITC), the 

Department of Commerce (the 

Department) is issuing a countervailing 

duty order on sodium nitrite from the 

People’s Republic of China (PRC). On 

August 20, 2008, the ITC notified the 

Department of its affirmative 

determination of material injury to a 

U.S. industry. See Sodium Nitrite from 

the People’s Republic of China, USITC 

Pub. 4029, Inv. No. 701–TA–453 (Final) 

(August 2008). 

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 27, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gene Calvert or Paul Matino, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office 6, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–3586 or (202) 482–

4146, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order 

The merchandise covered by this 

order is sodium nitrite in any form, at 

any purity level. In addition, the sodium 

nitrite covered by this order 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. The 

chemical composition of sodium nitrite 

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 order, the 

narrative description is dispositive, not 

the tariff heading, CAS registry number 

or CAS name, which are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes. 

Countervailing Duty Order 

In accordance with section 705(d) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

Act), on July 8, 2008, the Department 

published its final determination in the 

countervailing duty investigation of 

sodium nitrite from the PRC. See 

Sodium Nitrite from the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Affirmative 

Countervailing Determination, 73 FR 

38981 (July 8, 2008). On August 9, 2008, 

the Department terminated suspension 

of liquidation in accordance with 703(d) 

of the Act. Section 703(d) states that the 

suspension of liquidation pursuant to a 

preliminary determination may not 

remain in effect for more than four 

months. 

On August 20, 2008, the ITC notified 

the Department of its final 

determination, pursuant to section 

705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, that an 

industry in the United States is 

materially injured as a result of 

subsidized imports of sodium nitrite 

from the PRC. As a result of the ITC’s 

determination, in accordance with 

Section 706(a) of the Act, the 

Department will direct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) to assess, 

upon further instruction by the 

Department, countervailing duties on all 

unliquidated entries of sodium nitrite 

from the PRC entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after April 11, 2008, the date on which 

the Department published its 

preliminary affirmative countervailing 

duty determination in the Federal 

Register, and before August 9, 2008, the 

date on which the Department 

instructed CBP to discontinue the 

suspension of liquidation in accordance 

with section 703(d) of the Act. Entries 

of sodium nitrite made on or after 

August 9, 2008, and prior to the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final 

determination in the Federal Register 

are not liable for the assessment of 

countervailing duties due to the 

Department’s discontinuation, effective 

August 9, 2008, of the suspension of 

liquidation. 

In accordance with section 706 of the 

Act, the Department will direct CBP to 

reinstitute the suspension of liquidation 

for sodium nitrite from the PRC, 

effective the date of publication of the 

ITC’s notice of final determination in 

the Federal Register, and to assess, 

upon further advice by the Department 

pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the Act, 

countervailing duties for each entry of 

the subject merchandise in an amount 

based on the net countervailable 

subsidy rates for the subject 

merchandise. On or after the date of 

publication of the ITC’s final injury 

determination in the Federal Register, 

CBP must require, at the same time as 

importers would normally deposit 

estimated duties on this merchandise, a 

cash deposit equal to the rates noted 

below: 

Producer/Exporter Subsidy Rate 

Shanxi Jiaocheng 

Hongxing Chemical 

Co., Ltd. (Shanxi 

Jiaocheng) ................. 169.01% 

Tianjin Soda Plant 

Tianjin Port Free 

Trade Zone Pan 

Bohai International 

Trading Co., Ltd. 

(Tianjin Soda Plant) .. 169.01% 

All Others ...................... 169.01% 

This notice constitutes the 

countervailing duty order with respect 

to sodium nitrite from the PRC pursuant 

to section 706(a) of the Act. Interested 

parties may contact the Central Records 

Unit (CRU), Room 1117 of the main 

Commerce building, for copies of an 

updated list of countervailing duty 

orders currently in effect. 

This countervailing duty order is 

issued and published in accordance 

with sections 705(c)(2) and 705(d) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.211. 

Dated: August 22, 2008. 

David M. Spooner, 

Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration. 

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