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BILLING CODE 3510–IL–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Utah State University, et al.; Notice of 

Consolidated Decision on Applications 

for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific 

Instruments 

This is a decision pursuant to Section 

6(c) of the Educational, Scientific, and 

Cultural Materials Importation Act of 

1966 (Pub. L. 89–651, as amended by 

Pub. L. 106–36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR 

part 301). Related records can be viewed 

between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. in 

Room 3720, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th and Constitution Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC 

Comments: None received. Decision: 

Approved. We know of no instruments 

of equivalent scientific value to the 

foreign instruments described below, for 

such purposes as each is intended to be 

used, that was being manufactured in 

the United States at the time of its order. 

Docket Number: 14–021. Applicant: 

Utah State University, Logan, Utah 

84322–2400. Instrument: Respirometer 

for measuring the oxygen consumption 

of aquatic animals. 

Manufacturer: Loligo Systems, 

Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 79 

FR 60137, October 6, 2014. Comments: 

None received. Decision: Approved. We 

know of no instruments of equivalent 

scientific value to the foreign 

instruments described below, for such 

purposes as this is intended to be used, 

that was being manufactured in the 

United States at the time of order. 

Reasons: The instrument will be used to 

better understand how the ability of 

aquatic organisms to obtain oxygen 

under different environmental 

conditions affects their growth, 

survivorship, distribution, and 

abundance. The phenomenon being 

studied is the rate of oxygen 

consumption by aquatic invertebrates, 

using the instrument under different 

temperatures and pollution 

concentrations. Continuous 

measurement of metabolic (oxygen 

consumption) response to stress by 

small aquatic organisms (<10mm in 

length) requires a flow-through system 

with oxygen probes and equipment that 

can both be programmed to precisely 

increase the temperature of a water bath 

and automatically detect ug level 

changes in oxygen concentrations, 

without which the research could not be 

conducted. 

Docket Number: 14–023. Applicant: 

Louisiana State University, Baton 

Rouge, LA 70803. Instrument: Scanning 

Probe Microscope (SPM)—scanning 

tunneling microscopy. 

Manufacturer: SPECS Surface Nano 

Analysis, Germany. Intended Use: See 

notice at 79 FR 60137, October 6, 2014. 

Comments: None received. Decision: 

Approved. We know of no instruments 

of equivalent scientific value to the 

foreign instruments described below, for 

such purposes as this is intended to be 

used, that was being manufactured in 

the United States at the time of order. 

Reasons: The instrument will be used to 

elucidate catalytic properties of metal 

and metal-oxide systems, uncovering 

new schemes by which organic 

molecules become environmentally 

hazardous upon chemisorption. 

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) 

will be used to probe the nanoscale 

atomic structure, growth, and atomic/

molecular dynamics of a variety of 

systems, including metal nanoclusters 

on oxides and grasphene, metal oxide 

surfaces and metal surfaces. All 

experiments will be conducted in ultrahigh vacuum conditions, including in 

addition the STM, other surface 

sciences probes such as electron-energy 

loss spectroscopy, x-ray and UV 

photoemission spectroscopy. The 

electronics and STM head must provide 

60 frames per second scan rate with 

pixel density of 128×128, the STM head 

must be mounted on an 8 inch flange 

with a vertical face, the instrument must 

have the ability to sputter clean the tip 

without removing it from the STM scan 

head, the tunneling bias voltage must be 

applied to the sample, and the preamp 

must collect current from the tip. 

Dated: November 17, 2014. 

Gregory W. Campbell, 

Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–014] 

53-Foot Domestic Dry Containers From 

the People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value; Preliminary 

Negative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances; and Postponement of 

Final Determination and Extension of 

Provisional Measures 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Department’’) preliminarily 

determines that 53-foot domestic dry 

containers (‘‘domestic dry containers’’) 

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1See 53-Foot Domestic Dry Containers From the 

People’s Republic of China: Initiation of 

Antidumping Duty Investigation, 79 FR 28674 (May 

19, 2014) (‘‘Initiation Notice’’). 

2See 53-Foot Domestic Dry Containers From the 

People’s Republic of China: Postponement of 

Preliminary Determination of Antidumping Duty 

Investigation, 79 FR 51305 (August 28, 2014). 

3 ‘‘Intermodal transport’’ refers to a movement of 

freight using more than one mode of transportation, 

most commonly on a container chassis for on-theroad transportation and on a rail car for rail 

transportation. 

4For a list of topics discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum, see Appendix II to this 

notice. 

5See Enforcement and Compliance’s Policy 

Bulletin No. 05.1, regarding, ‘‘Separate-Rates 

Practice and Application of Combination Rates in 

Antidumping Investigations involving Non-Market 

Economy Countries,’’ (April 5, 2005) (‘‘Policy 

Bulletin 05.1’’), available on the Department’s Web 

site at http://enforcement.trade.gov/policy/bull05- 

1.pdf. 

from the People’s Republic of China 

(‘‘PRC’’) are being, or are likely to be, 

sold in the United States at less than fair 

value (‘‘LTFV’’), as provided in section 

733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (‘‘the Act’’). The period of 

investigation (‘‘POI’’) is October 1, 2013, 

through March 31, 2014. The estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins of 

sales at LTFV are shown in the 

‘‘Preliminary Determination’’ section of 

this notice. Interested parties are invited 

to comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Effective Date: November 26, 

2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Davis or John Drury, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–7924 or (202) 482– 

0195, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Department published the notice 

of initiation of this investigation on May 

19, 2014.1 Pursuant to section 

733(c)(1)(A) of the Act, on August 28, 

2014, the Department postponed this 

preliminary LTFV determination by a 

period of 50 days.2

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise subject to 

investigation is closed (i.e., not open 

top) van containers exceeding 14.63 

meters (48 feet) but generally measuring 

16.154 meters (53 feet) in exterior 

length, which are designed for the 

intermodal transport 3 of goods other 

than bulk liquids within North America 

primarily by rail or by road vehicle, or 

by a combination of rail and road 

vehicle (domestic containers). The 

merchandise is known in the industry 

by varying terms including ‘‘53-foot 

containers,’’ ‘‘53-foot dry containers,’’ 

‘‘53-foot domestic dry containers,’’ 

‘‘domestic dry containers’’ and 

‘‘domestic containers.’’ Imports of the 

subject merchandise are provided for 

under subheading 8609.00.0000 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS). Imports of the 

subject merchandise which meet the 

definition of and requirements for 

‘‘instruments of international traffic’’ 

pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 1322 and 19 CFR 

10.41a may be classified under 

subheading 9803.00.50, HTSUS. 

While HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

subject merchandise is dispositive. For 

a complete description of the scope of 

the investigation, see Appendix I to this 

notice. 

Various parties submitted comments 

on the scope. For a discussion of these 

comments, see the Memorandum from 

Christian Marsh, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations to Paul 

Piquado, Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

‘‘Antidumping Duty Investigation of 53- 

Foot Domestic Dry Containers from the 

People’s Republic of China: Decision 

Memorandum for the Preliminary 

Determination,’’ dated concurrently 

with, and hereby adopted by, this notice 

(‘‘Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum’’).4 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 http://access.trade.gov, and is 

available to all parties in the 

Department’s Central Records Unit, 

located in room 7046 of the main 

Department of Commerce building. In 

addition, a complete version of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum can 

be accessed directly on the Internet at 

http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The 

signed Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum and the electronic 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Methodology 

The Department conducted this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. We calculated export 

prices in accordance with section 772 of 

the Act. Because the PRC is a nonmarket economy within the meaning of 

section 771(18) of the Act, we calculated 

normal value (‘‘NV’’) in accordance with 

section 773(c) of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. 

Combination Rates 

In the Initiation Notice, the 

Department stated that it would 

calculate combination rates for the 

respondents that are eligible for a 

separate rate in this investigation. Policy 

Bulletin 05.1 describes this practice.5

Preliminary Determination 

The Department preliminarily 

determines that the following weightedaverage dumping margins exist for the 

exporter-producer combinations listed 

below during the period October 1, 

2013, through March 31, 2014: 

Exporter Producer 

Weighted-average 

dumping margin 

(percent) 

Hui Zhou Pacific Container Co., Ltd./Qingdao Pacific Container Co., Ltd./Qidong Singamas Energy Equipment Co., 

Ltd./Singamas Management Services Limited.

Hui Zhou Pacific Container Co., Ltd./Qingdao Pacific Container Co., Ltd./Qidong Singamas Energy Equipment Co., 

Ltd.

153.24 

PRC-Wide Entity 24.27 

As detailed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, China International Marine Containers (Group) Co., Ltd., China International Marine 

Containers (HK) Ltd., Xinhui CIMC Special Transportation Equipment Co., Ltd., Nantong CIMC-Special Transportation Equipment Manufacture 

Co., Ltd., and Qingdao CIMC Container Manufacture Co., Ltd. (collectively, ‘‘CIMC’’), a mandatory respondent in this investigation, did not demonstrate that it is entitled to a separate rate and we consider CIMC to be the PRC-Wide Entity. 

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6See Letter from Petitioner to the Secretary of 

Commerce, ‘‘53-Foot Domestic Dry Containers from 

the People’s Republic of China,’’ dated October 30, 

2014. 

7See section 733(e)(1)(A)(ii) of the Act. 

8See 19 CFR 351.309(c). 

9See 19 CFR 351.309(d). 

10See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

11See Modification of Regulations Regarding the 

Practice of Accepting Bonds During the Provisional 

Measures Period in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 76 FR 61042 

(October 3, 2011). 

12See section 772(c)(1)(C) of the Act. Unlike in 

administrative reviews, the Department calculates 

the adjustment for export subsidies in 

investigations not in the margin calculation, but in 

the cash deposit instructions issued to CBP. See 

Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value, and Negative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances: Certain Lined Paper Products from 

India, 71 FR 45012 (August 8, 2006), and 

accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum at 

Comment 1. 

13For further discussion, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum at the section, ‘‘Section 

777A(f) of the Act.’’ 

14For further discussion, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum at the section, ‘‘The PRCwide Entity.’’ 

15The following subsidy program in the 

preliminary determination of the companion CVD 

investigation is an export subsidy: Export Seller’s 

Credits from China Ex-Im Bank (4.75 percent for 

CIMC). See Countervailing Duty Investigation of 53- 

Foot Domestic Dry Containers From the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Determination and 

Alignment of Final Determination With Final 

Antidumping Duty Determination, 79 FR 58320 

(September 29, 2014) and accompanying 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 21–22. 

16See Preliminary Decision Memorandum at the 

section, ‘‘Section 777A(f) of the Act.’’ 

17See Letter from Singamas to the Secretary of 

Commerce regarding ‘‘53-Foot Domestic Dry 

Containers from the People’s Republic of China; 

Request to Extend Final Determination,’’ dated 

November 14, 2014. 

Preliminary Negative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances 

On October 30, 2014, Stoughton 

Trailers LLC (‘‘Petitioner’’), filed a 

timely critical circumstances allegation, 

pursuant to section 733(e)(1) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.206(c)(1), alleging that 

critical circumstances exist with respect 

to imports of domestic dry containers 

from the PRC.6 We preliminarily 

determine that Petitioner’s critical 

circumstances allegation is deficient 

because it does not contain information 

regarding how ‘‘the importer knew or 

should have known that the exporter 

was selling the merchandise at less than 

fair value and that there was likely to be 

material injury by reason of such 

sales.’’ 7 Therefore, we preliminarily 

determine that critical circumstances do 

not exist for Singamas and the PRCwide entity. A discussion of our 

determination can be found in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum at 

the section, ‘‘Critical Circumstances.’’ 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

The Department intends to disclose 

calculations performed for this 

preliminary determination to parties in 

this proceeding within five days of the 

date of publication of this notice in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, through Enforcement and 

Compliance’s electronic records system, 

ACCESS, no later than seven days after 

the date on which the final verification 

report is issued in this proceeding.8

Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised 

in case briefs, may be submitted through 

ACCESS no later than five days after the 

deadline for case briefs.9 Pursuant to 19 

CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), parties 

who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs 

in this proceeding 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, or to participate in a hearing if 

one is requested, must submit a written 

request to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, filed 

electronically through ACCESS. 

Electronically filed case briefs/written 

comments and hearing requests must be 

received successfully in their entirety by 

the Department’s electronic records 

system, ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time. Hearing requests must 

be received by the Department within 

30 days after the date of publication of 

this notice 10 and should contain the 

party’s name, address, and telephone 

number, the number of participants, and 

a list of the issues to be presented at the 

hearing. 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 time and location to be determined. 

Parties should confirm by telephone the 

date, time, and location of the hearing 

two days before the scheduled date. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, the Department will instruct 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(‘‘CBP’’) to suspend liquidation of all 

entries of domestic dry containers from 

the PRC, as described in the ‘‘Scope of 

the Investigation’’ section above, 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(d), the 

Department will instruct CBP to require 

a cash deposit 11 equal to the weightedaverage amount by which NV exceeds 

U.S. price, adjusted where appropriate 

for export subsidies 12 and estimated 

domestic subsidy pass-through,13 as 

follows: (1) The cash deposit rate for the 

exporter/producer combination listed in 

the table above will be the rate 

identified for that combination in the 

table; (2) for all combinations of PRC 

exporters/producers of merchandise 

under consideration that have not 

received their own separate rate above, 

the cash-deposit rate will be the cash 

deposit rate established for the PRCwide entity, 24.27 percent; and (3) for 

all non-PRC exporters of the 

merchandise under consideration which 

have not received their own separate 

rate above, the cash-deposit rate will be 

the cash deposit rate applicable to the 

PRC exporter/producer combination 

that supplied that non-PRC exporter. 

These suspension of liquidation and 

cash deposit instructions will remain in 

effect until further notice. 

Furthermore, as stated above and 

consistent with our practice, we will 

instruct CBP to require a cash deposit 

equal to the amount by which NV 

exceeds the export price or constructed 

export price, less the amount of the 

countervailing duty (‘‘CVD’’) rate 

determined to constitute an export 

subsidy. In this LTFV investigation, 

with regard to the PRC-wide entity rate 

(which is based on CIMC’s data),14

export subsidies constitute 4.75 

percent 15 of CIMC’s preliminarily 

calculated CVD rate in the companion 

CVD investigation. Therefore, we will 

offset the PRC-wide rate of 24.27 

percent by the CVD rate attributable to 

export subsidies (i.e., 4.75 percent) to 

calculate the preliminary PRC-wide 

entity cash deposit rate for this LTFV 

investigation. 

We are adjusting the preliminary cash 

deposit rate for estimated domestic 

subsidy pass-through for Singamas (i.e., 

6.39 percent). However, we are not 

adjusting the PRC-wide entity rate for 

estimated domestic subsidy passthrough because we have no basis upon 

which to make such an adjustment.16

Postponement of Final Determination 

and Extension of Provisional Measures 

Pursuant to requests from the 

mandatory respondents Singamas 17 and 

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18See Letter from CIMC to the Secretary of 

Commerce regarding ‘‘Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of 53-Foot Domestic Dry Containers 

from the People’s Republic of China: Extension of 

Final Determination’’ dated November 17, 2014. 

19See Letter from Petitioner to the Secretary of 

Commerce regarding ‘‘53-Foot Domestic Dry 

Containers from the People’s Republic of China,’’ 

dated November 14, 2014. 

20 Id. 

21See also 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2) and (e). 

22 ‘‘Intermodal transport’’ refers to a movement of 

freight using more than one mode of transportation, 

most commonly on a container chassis for on-theroad transportation and on a rail car for rail 

transportation. 

23 ‘‘Double-stacking’’ refers to two levels of 

intermodal containers on a rail car, one on top of 

the other. 

CIMC18 and Petitioner,19 we are 

postponing the final determination. 

Further, Singamas and CIMC requested 

to extend the application of the 

provisional measures prescribed under 

section 733(d) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(e)(2), from a four-month period 

to a six-month period. The suspension 

of liquidation described above will be 

extended accordingly.20 Accordingly, 

we intend to make our final 

determination no later than 135 days 

after the date of publication of this 

preliminary determination, pursuant to 

section 735(a)(2) of the Act.21

International Trade Commission 

(‘‘ITC’’) Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, we notified the ITC of our 

preliminary affirmative determination of 

sales at LTFV. Because the preliminary 

determination in this investigation is 

affirmative, section 735(b)(2) of the Act 

requires the ITC to make its final 

determination as to whether the 

domestic industry in the United States 

is materially injured, threatened with 

material injury, or is materially 

retarded, by reason of imports of 

domestic dry containers from the PRC, 

or sales (or the likelihood of sales) for 

importation, of the merchandise under 

consideration before the later of 120 

days after the date of this preliminary 

determination or 45 days after our final 

determination. Because we are 

postponing the deadline for our final 

determination to 135 days from the date 

of publication of this preliminary 

determination the ITC will make its 

final determination no later than 45 

days after our final determination. 

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: November 19, 2014. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I—Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise subject to investigation is 

closed (i.e., not open top) van containers 

exceeding 14.63 meters (48 feet) but generally 

measuring 16.154 meters (53 feet) in exterior 

length, which are designed for the intermodal 

transport 22 of goods other than bulk liquids 

within North America primarily by rail or by 

road vehicle, or by a combination of rail and 

road vehicle (domestic containers). The 

merchandise is known in the industry by 

varying terms including ‘‘53-foot containers,’’ 

‘‘53-foot dry containers,’’ ‘‘53-foot domestic 

dry containers,’’ ‘‘domestic dry containers’’ 

and ‘‘domestic containers.’’ These terms all 

describe the same article with the same 

design and performance characteristics. 

Notwithstanding the particular terminology 

used to describe the merchandise, all 

merchandise that meets the definition set 

forth herein is included within the scope of 

this investigation. 

Domestic containers generally meet the 

characteristic for closed van containers for 

domestic intermodal service as described in 

the American Association of Railroads (AAR) 

Manual of Standards and Recommended 

Practices Intermodal Equipment Manual 

Closed Van Containers for Domestic 

Intermodal Service Specification M 930 

Adopted: 1972; Last Revised 2013 (AAR 

Specifications) for 53-foot and 53-foot high 

cube containers. The AAR Specifications 

generally define design, performance and 

testing requirements for closed van 

containers, but are not dispositive for 

purposes of defining subject merchandise 

within this scope definition. Containers 

which may not fall precisely within the AAR 

Specifications or any successor equivalent 

specifications are included within the scope 

definition of the subject merchandise if they 

have the exterior dimensions referenced 

below, are suitable for use in intermodal 

transportation, are capable of and suitable for 

double-stacking 23 in intermodal 

transportation, and otherwise meet the scope 

definition for the subject merchandise. 

Domestic containers have the following 

actual exterior dimensions: An exterior 

length exceeding 14.63 meters (48 feet) but 

not exceeding 16.154 meters (53 feet); an 

exterior width of between 2.438 meters and 

2.60 meters (between 8 feet and 8 feet 63⁄8

inches); and an exterior height of between 

2.438 meters and 2.908 meters (between 8 

feet and 9 feet 61⁄2 inches), all subject to 

tolerances as allowed by the AAR 

Specifications. In addition to two frames (one 

at either end of the container), the domestic 

containers within the scope definition have 

two stacking frames located equidistant from 

each end of the container, as required by the 

AAR Specifications. The stacking frames 

have four upper handling fittings and four 

bottom dual aperture handling fittings, 

placed at the respective corners of the 

stacking frames. Domestic containers also 

have two forward facing fittings at the front 

lower corners and two downward facing 

fittings at the rear lower corners of the 

container to facilitate chassis interface. 

All domestic containers as described 

herein are included within this scope 

definition, regardless of whether the 

merchandise enters the United States in a 

final, assembled condition, or as an 

unassembled kit or substantially complete 

domestic container which requires additional 

manipulation or processing after entry into 

the United States to be made ready for use 

as a domestic container. 

The scope of this investigation excludes 

the following items: (1) Refrigerated 

containers; (2) trailers, where the cargo box 

and rear wheeled chassis are of integrated 

construction, and the cargo box of the unit 

may not be separated from the chassis for 

further intermodal transport; (3) container 

chassis, whether or not imported with 

domestic containers, but the domestic 

containers remain subject merchandise, to 

the extent they meet the written description 

of the scope. 

Imports of the subject merchandise are 

provided for under subheading 8609.00.0000 

of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS). Imports of the 

subject merchandise which meet the 

definition of and requirements for 

‘‘instruments of international traffic’’ 

pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 1322 and 19 CFR 

10.41a may be classified under subheading 

9803.00.50, HTSUS. While HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for convenience 

and customs purposes, the written 

description of the subject merchandise as set 

forth herein is dispositive. 

Appendix II—List of Topics Discussed 

in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum 

SUMMARY 

BACKGROUND 

PERIOD OF INVESTIGATION 

POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY 

DETERMINATION 

SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION 

SCOPE COMMENTS 

DISCUSSION OF THE METHODOLOGY 

Non-market Economy Country 

Surrogate Country 

Surrogate Value Comments 

Combination Rates 

The PRC-wide Entity 

Single Entity Treatment 

Date of Sale 

Fair Value Comparisons 

Export Price 

Value-Added Tax 

Normal Value 

Factor Valuation Methodology 

Comparisons to Normal Value 

Currency Conversion 

ALLEGATION OF CRITICAL 

CIRCUMSTANCES 

VERIFICATION 

SECTION 777A(F) OF THE ACT 

ITC NOTIFICATION 

CONCLUSION 

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