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1See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

To Request Administrative Review, 79 FR 51958, 

51959 (September 2, 2014). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 79 FR 

64565, 64567 (October 30, 2014). 

on the withdrawal of all requests for 

review. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 11, 

2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Goldberger, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–4136. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 2, 2014, the 

Department published in the Federal 

Register a notice of opportunity to 

request administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain 

magnesia carbon bricks from Mexico for 

the POR.1

On September 30, 2014, in accordance 

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.213(b), the Department received a 

timely request from Resco Products, Inc. 

(Resco), the petitioner in the underlying 

investigation, and Magnesita 

Refractories Company (Magnesita), a 

domestic producer of magnesia carbon 

bricks, to conduct an administrative 

review of the POR sales of RHI-Refmex 

S.A. de C.V. (RHI), Trafinsa S.A. de C.V. 

(Trafinsa), Vesuvius Mexico S.A. de 

C.V. (Vesuvius), and Ferro Alliages & 

Mineraux Inc. (Ferro Alliages). Also on 

this date, RHI timely requested a review 

of its POR sales. 

On October 30, 2014, the Department 

published in the Federal Register a 

notice of initiation of an administrative 

review of the antidumping duty order 

on certain magnesia carbon bricks from 

Mexico with respect to RHI, Trafinsa, 

Vesuvius, and Ferro Alliages.2

On November 18, 2014, RHI timely 

withdrew its request for review. On 

November 20, 2014, Resco and 

Magnesita withdrew their request for 

review of RHI, Trafinsa, and Vesuvius. 

On December 2, 2014, Resco and 

Magnesita withdrew their request for 

review of Ferro Alliages. 

Rescission of Administrative Review 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the 

Department will rescind an 

administrative review, in whole or in 

part, if the parties that requested a 

review withdraw the request within 90 

days of the date of publication of notice 

of initiation of the requested review. 

Resco and Magnesita, as well as RHI, 

withdrew their requests for review 

before the 90-day deadline (i.e., January 

28, 2015), and no other party requested 

an administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain 

magnesia carbon bricks from Mexico for 

the POR. Therefore, in response to the 

timely withdrawal of requests for review 

and pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), 

the Department is rescinding this review 

in its entirety. 

Assessment 

The Department will instruct U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 

assess antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries. Antidumping duties 

shall be assessed at rates equal to the 

cash deposit of estimated antidumping 

duties required at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). The Department 

intends to issue appropriate assessment 

instructions directly to CBP 15 days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as the only 

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 double antidumping duties. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Order 

This notice serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to 

administrative protective order (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 the return or 

destruction of APO materials, or 

conversion to judicial protective order, 

is hereby requested. Failure to comply 

with the regulations and the terms of an 

APO is a sanctionable violation. 

This notice is published in 

accordance with section 777(i)(1) of the 

Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4). 

Dated: December 5, 2014. 

Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Joint Department of Commerce and 

Department of Energy: Smart CitiesSmart Growth Business Development 

Mission to China—April 12–17, 2015 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Mission Description 

The United States Secretaries of 

Commerce Penny Pritzker and Energy 

Ernest Moniz will lead a Smart CitiesSmart Growth Business Development 

Mission to China from April 12–17, 

2015. This mission was announced 

during President Obama’s visit to China 

in November 2014. It will promote U.S. 

exports to China by supporting U.S. 

companies in launching or increasing 

their business in the marketplace for 

Smart Cities-Smart Growth products 

and services, such as green buildings, 

building energy retrofitting, building 

management, green data centers, carbon 

capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), 

energy efficiency technologies, clean air 

and clean water technologies, waste 

treatment technologies, smart grid and 

green transportation. Key elements will 

include business-to-government and 

business-to-business meetings, market 

briefings, and networking events. 

On November 12, President Obama 

and President Xi jointly announced the 

two countries’ respective post-2020 

climate targets in Beijing. This 

announcement is a pivotal step in 

addressing the global challenge of 

climate change and movement towards 

achieving the deep decarbonization of 

the global economy. This announcement 

should encourage other major 

economies to put forward ambitious 

commitments soon and should urge 

countries to work across traditional 

divides so that a strong global climate 

agreement can be concluded at the 

United Nations Climate Change 

Conference in Paris in late 2015. The 

announcement is the culmination of a 

major effort by the two countries, 

inspired by serious shared concern 

about the global effects of climate 

change and our commitment to 

leadership as the world’s largest 

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economies, energy consumers, and 

carbon emitters. 

This mission will build on strong 

climate change progress during the first 

six years of the Obama Administration, 

and supports the intent of the 

announcement, as it will help to achieve 

the ambitious climate goals of the 

announcement. It is one of several 

measures that will strengthen and 

expand U.S.-China clean energy 

cooperation, and support the 

deployment of cutting edge, innovative 

technologies to combat and adapt to 

climate change. Additionally, the recent 

announcements from President Obama 

and President Xi will spur new 

opportunities for U.S. clean technology 

companies in China. 

The delegation will be composed of 

senior executives (equivalent to C-suite) 

from 20–25 U.S. firms, representing the 

mission’s target sectors. This 

collaborative interagency approach 

highlights the shared interest among 

U.S. Government agencies in promoting 

China as a critical overseas market for 

U.S. business interests, and reflects the 

‘‘All of Government’’ approach to 

President Obama’s National Export 

Initiative. 

Commercial Setting 

Overview of China 

In November 2013, following the 

Third Plenum of the 18th Chinese 

Communist Party Congress, President Xi 

Jinping rolled out an ambitious agenda 

to re-shape the Chinese economy and 

fully embrace the market as the 

‘‘decisive force’’ in shaping the 

country’s economic future. In order to 

continue China’s labor force evolution 

to fuel its unprecedented growth, Xi 

directed his administration to 

implement policy changes that increase 

domestic consumption, stimulate 

domestic innovation, and develop a 

world-class services sector, supporting 

the expansion of China’s middle class 

and movement of millions of rural 

Chinese citizens to urban centers. 

U.S. goods exports in 2013 to China 

were $121.7 billion, up 10.2 percent 

from the previous year. Corresponding 

U.S. imports from China were $440.4 

billion, up 3.5 percent. The U.S. goods 

trade deficit with China was $318.7 

billion in 2013, up $3.6 billion from 

2012. China is currently the third largest 

export market for U.S. goods. 

U.S. exports of private commercial 

services to China were $37.4 billion in 

2013, and U.S. imports were $14.3 

billion. Sales of services in China by 

majority U.S.-owned affiliates were 

$36.5 billion in 2012 (latest data 

available), while sales of services in the 

United States by majority China-owned 

firms were $1.7 billion. 

Urbanization is one of Premier Li 

Keqiang’s top priorities; it is a 

mechanism for modernization, a 

potential engine of future economic 

growth, and a way to avoid the ‘‘middle 

income trap.’’ Premier Li estimated in a 

major speech on urbanization that 

another 300 million Chinese citizens 

will move to cities over the next 12 

years. New cities that are clean, resource 

efficient and well planned will avoid 

many millions of tons of greenhouse gas 

emissions (GHG) emissions. Globally, 

residential and commercial buildings 

account for approximately one-quarter 

of GHG emissions (including electricity 

consumption). Given China’s 

tremendous need to build and redevelop cities, this area of focus is of 

great interest to the Chinese 

government. China’s Minister of Science 

and Technology, Wan Gang has raised 

‘‘smart infrastructure for urbanization’’ 

as a top priority for U.S.-China 

cooperation at nearly every recent 

opportunity including at the July 2014 

Innovation Dialogue, at the U.S.-China 

Strategic and Economic Dialogue 

(S&ED) and during his visit to 

Washington, DC in September 2014. 

In 2010, China identified five Chinese 

provinces, including Guandong 

Province, and seven Chinese cities to 

serve as low-carbon pilot programs. 

Each territory was required to set a GHG 

reduction target, create a local cap-andtrade program, pursue low-carbon 

development, and serve as a model for 

other cities. Sub-national authorities 

experimented with climate mitigation 

policies to determine which ones would 

work best in the Chinese context. The 

National Development and Reform 

Commission (NDRC) announced an 

additional 29 provinces and cities in 

2012. China’s New Energy City platform 

involves 100 cities in China that will 

work toward achieving aggressive 

renewable energy targets. 

Moreover, during the recent Asia 

Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 

Leaders’ meeting hosted by China in 

Beijing, Leaders called for the 

promotion of inclusive and sustainable 

development, and for cooperation 

projects that explore new ways of 

urbanization that are green, low-carbon 

and people-oriented. In the July 2014 

Report of the U.S.-China Climate 

Change Working Group, the United 

States and China agreed to ‘‘explore 

appropriate cooperative efforts subnationally among our states, provinces, 

and cities on climate-related policies 

and programs’’ as a potential area of 

future cooperation. 

Overview of Construction and Green 

Building (Design, Smart Urbanization, 

Better Cities) 

From 2011 to 2013, the construction 

market in China grew exponentially, 

and more modestly in 2014. Demand for 

construction of energy efficient 

buildings will increase as China 

continues to rapidly urbanize. On 

March 16, 2014, the Chinese 

government issued the National Newtype Urbanization Plan for 2014 to 2020, 

which aims to lift the proportion of 

Chinese citizens living in cities from the 

present 53.7 percent to 60 percent by 

2020. 

With the urbanization of China 

expected to continue to grow, green 

buildings will be relied on to fulfill the 

demand for new energy efficient 

buildings. New construction of urban 

green buildings is expected to rise from 

2 percent in 2012 to 50 percent by 2020. 

From 2010 to 2030, China is expected to 

increase floor space growth in a range of 

15 to 23 billion square meters. 

The State Council Green Building 

Action Plan of 2014 has reaffirmed the 

importance of the Ministry of Housing 

and Urban-Rural Development’s 

(MOHURD) green building standards 

under China’s 3-Star Rating System. The 

Action Plan requires all governmentinvested projects such as schools, 

hospitals, museums, science museums, 

stadiums and affordable housing, as 

well as any single building area over 

20,000 square meters such as airports, 

railway stations, hotels, restaurants, 

shopping malls, offices and other large 

public buildings to meet the MOHURD 

standards. 

The U.S. Government has 

collaborated with Chinese Ministries to 

prime municipal markets for U.S. 

cleantech goods and services. Under the 

U.S.-China Eco-cities collaboration, the 

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) works 

with seven Chinese cities on planning, 

best practices and energy efficiency 

technology deployment. DOE and the 

China Academy of Building Research 

helped introduce the first-ever rural 

building energy code in China, and are 

exploring new opportunities on 

efficiency standards. These and similar 

programs have enabled stronger dealmaking connections between U.S. 

companies and local decision-makers in 

China, while maintaining supportive 

relationships with China’s central 

government. These programs have 

resulted in commercial successes, and 

clear emissions and energy intensity 

reductions. 

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Overview of Energy Efficiency (Smart 

Grid, Green Data Centers, Certain 

Engineering Services) 

China is the world’s largest market for 

power transmission and distribution, 

and is the world’s leading consumer of 

smart grid technologies. China is 

currently constructing a series of ultrahigh voltage (UHV) grid and urban-rural 

distribution grids. This includes the 

construction of smart grid operation and 

control systems and the installation of 

tens of millions of smart meters across 

the country. China now has nearly 250 

million meters installed and is expected 

to continue to build out and update its 

metering system through 2017. The total 

of these investments is expected to grow 

to nearly $20 billion annually through 

the end of the decade. 

Smart Grid 

As part of the Government’s efforts to 

reduce the carbon intensity of its 

economy, combined with the massive 

increase in the use of renewable energy, 

the country will require significant 

smart-grid technologies to support these 

endeavors. As such, there are significant 

opportunities for smart meters, battery 

storage, communication devices, 

integrated solutions, and engineering 

services. 

The USG is already cooperating with 

China in the Smart Grid space through 

several U.S. Trade and Development 

Agency programs, as well as through the 

U.S.-China Climate Change Working 

Group, the U.S.-China Renewable 

Energy Partnership (USCREP) and 

others. These programs can complement 

the aspect of the mission to further pull 

the private sector into these initiatives. 

Smart Cities 

The Smart City represents a new 

mode of urban development and is a 

system composed of multiple systems. 

The key goal is low-carbon 

urbanization. By leveraging expertise in 

infrastructure with collaborative 

business models, companies deliver 

complete solutions that can help make 

cities more efficient, livable and 

sustainable by focusing on five key 

areas: (1) Energy, (2) transportation, (3) 

buildings & homes, (4) water, and (5) 

public services. Smart Cities may 

implement new energy-efficient 

technology in any of these key areas: 

Electric vehicle charging stations are 

just one example of a greener Smart 

City. Today, technology is 

revolutionizing how businesses, 

consumers and governments decrease 

their carbon footprint worldwide while 

increasing productivity through smart 

homes, smart buildings, smart 

transportation and smart grids. Globally, 

smart technologies have the potential to 

reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) by as much 

as 15 percent. 

DOE is collaborating with 13 Chinese 

cities to both reach low-carbon 

urbanization goals and increase U.S. 

clean energy technology exports to 

China. These collaborations focus on the 

policy development that primes Chinese 

municipal markets for U.S. 

technologies. Specifically, DOE 

provides technical assistance with the 

development of China’s urban 

sustainability plans and deployment of 

demonstration projects, which include 

U.S. companies and products and 

provide data back that strengthen U.S. 

modeling capabilities. 

Green Data Centers 

China is in the midst of an 

unprecedented data center construction 

surge that will provide the country with 

one of the most advanced computing 

infrastructures in the world. The 

government has made expanding the 

national computing infrastructure a part 

of its latest five-year plan. The Chinese 

are building numerous large data 

centers to support the needs of the 

nation’s fast-growing population of 

Internet users, estimated at around 500 

million. New data centers also will help 

meet the escalating demand for services 

such as e-commerce, online banking and 

e-government. The Chinese approach to 

data centers is to build more and build 

big. The data center expansion will also 

provide computing infrastructure for 

foreign firms looking to expand in 

China. 

Data center site selection is a resource 

issue. The majority of the data centers 

in China are located in the cities of 

Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, 

where real estate prices and electricity 

costs continue to escalate. As a result, 

the government is now encouraging 

companies to build data centers in the 

western Chinese provinces of Xinjiang, 

Gansu, Qinghai, and Shanxi, where real 

estate is more affordable and electricity 

is abundant. 

China is in the process of drafting 

national energy efficiency standards for 

computer servers used in data centers, 

under the guidance of the 

Standardization Administration of 

China (SAC) and the Ministry of 

Industry and Information Technology 

(MIIT).The United States and China are 

also discussing a green data center pilot 

project and study to demonstrate energy 

efficiency technologies and provide 

recommendations for MIIT on energy 

efficiency standards for data centers. 

Overview of Carbon Capture, 

Utilization, and Storage 

China is the world’s largest energy 

consumer and the leading emitter of 

greenhouse gases. In 2013, coal 

accounted for 65 percent of China’s 

overall (i.e., primary) energy 

consumption. It is the most coaldependent country among top energy 

consumers. China’s major cities have 

long endured high levels of air pollution 

from coal use in the power, industrial, 

and residential sectors along with 

emissions from the transport sector. In 

2013, 92 percent of Chinese cities failed 

to meet national ambient air quality 

standards. While this has not held back 

construction of new coal-fired plants or 

factories, many old, inefficient, 

polluting facilities have been closed. 

Also, China has an aggressive effort to 

replace old coal facilities with cleaner, 

more efficient facilities in both the 

power and industrial sectors. Coal 

burning is responsible for a significant 

share of the of the country’s PM2.5

(particulate matter less than 2.5 

micrometers in diameter) pollution. 

China considers CCUS technology an 

important part of its clean coal 

technology option in both short and 

long terms. The International Energy 

Agency (IEA) forecasts that by 2050, 

CCUS could become the biggest 

contributor to CO2 emissions reduction 

technology among single technologies. 

China is emerging as a major influence 

on CCUS deployment, with several 

operational and planned demonstration 

projects. The country has adopted an 

encouraging policy framework and has 

increased the support for research and 

development (R&D) projects. As a 

pioneer within CCUS, the United States 

has developed cutting-edge technology 

through various R&D and demonstration 

projects. DOE administers a Clean Coal 

and Carbon Management Program to 

encourage and support public/private 

partnerships to research, develop, and 

demonstrate clean coal technologies, in 

particular, CCUS, to accelerate largescale commercial deployment. 

The United States and China— 

through a variety of bilateral and 

multilateral platforms, including the 

U.S.-China Fossil Energy Protocol, the 

U.S.-China Clean Energy Research 

Center (CERC), the U.S.-China Climate 

Change Working Group (CCWG), the 

Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum 

(CSLF), and the APEC—are working 

together to promote the deployment of 

CCUS. Under the CCWG/CCUS 

Initiative, the United States and China 

are working together to accelerate the 

adoption of CCUS in both countries 

through joint efforts on large, integrated 

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CCUS demonstration projects within the 

next three years. Both sides are 

exchanging key technical and economic 

assessments and information on 

demonstrations, along with their results. 

This is being achieved in large part 

through joint counter-facing CCUS 

demonstration projects in both 

countries, focusing on CO2 use in 

enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and other 

beneficial uses of CO2 initially, as well 

as CO2 storage in saline formations, 

wherever possible. These identified 

projects are essential to proving 

technological and commercial viability 

of CCUS, thereby accelerating the 

creation of markets and widespread 

deployment. Guangdong Province has 

been identified as a key target for 

potential collaboration on a saline 

storage demonstration project with U.S. 

company participation. There are also 

opportunities for Chinese direct 

investment in U.S. CCUS projects. 

Advanced Coal Gasification 

Technology With CCUS 

Integrated gasification combined cycle 

(IGCC) power generation is a new 

technology, which has reached 

commercial status. Two plants, 

supported in DOE’s Clean Coal 

Technology Program, were built in the 

1990’s. A new IGCC plant, based on 

Southern Company’s and KBR’s 

Transport Reactor Integrated 

Gasification (TRIGTM) technology for 

low-rank coals is expected to be 

operational in 2016. Today’s IGCC 

technology emits equal or more CO2

than many supercritical and ultrasupercritical (U.S.C.) power plants on a 

ton of CO2 emitted per net kilowatt (kW) 

basis. However, IGCC provides an 

opportunity to remove CO2 prior to 

combustion (i.e., pre-combustion) and to 

coproduce valuable chemical and liquid 

transportation fuels. New technology 

and equipment (i.e., CCUS) to these two 

problems are good prospects for U.S. 

companies. Combining coal gasification 

with carbon capture and storage in the 

power sector is a critical pathway for 

both countries towards low-carbon 

power generation. China has high 

interest in developing and 

demonstration new coal co-production 

systems with CO2 capture. The United 

States is leading the world in such 

technology demonstrations, and has 

much to offer China. 

Carbon Storage 

China has significant interest in EOR 

technology to increase domestic oil 

production. However, it lacks EOR 

technology and know-how to deploy 

CCS in EOR applications, which is 

generally viewed as the market entry for 

CCS as it produces a high-value 

product—crude oil. The United States 

developed EOR technology over the past 

40 years based on extracting, 

transporting, and injecting CO2 from 

natural reservoirs and separation during 

natural gas production. China also has 

expressed interest, including 

cooperation under the CCWG/CCUS 

Initiative, on long-term storage of CO2 in 

saline formations, which also offers an 

opportunity to produce potable water 

through enhanced-water recovery (EWR) 

via reverse osmosis by taking advantage 

of the pressure from CO2 injection. 

These are areas where U.S. companies 

are leading the world, and have much 

to offer China. 

Overview of Environmental 

Technologies (Cement Plant Air 

Pollution Reduction, Power Plant 

Emissions Reduction, Groundwater 

Monitoring, Pollution Prevention, and 

Remediation, Municipal Water and 

Wastewater Treatment and Plant 

Development, Process and Produced 

Water, Water Efficiency and Reuse, 

Sludge Treatment) 

In 2012, China’s environmental 

technologies market was estimated to be 

worth $27 billion, and is expected to 

grow exponentially in the coming years, 

eclipsing the $275 billion U.S. market 

and becoming the largest global 

consumer of environmental 

technologies by 2025. As a global leader 

in producing and implementing 

environmental technologies, the U.S. 

environmental technologies industry is 

poised to grow dramatically if the 

United States can successfully position 

itself as China’s primary provider of 

these technologies and associated 

services. 

U.S. companies also are well 

positioned to take advantage of 

immediate opportunities in air pollution 

monitoring and control; water and 

wastewater treatment and protection; 

and waste management. 

Cement Plant Air Pollution Reduction 

China’s rapid economic development 

has immensely increased cement 

demand for infrastructure, industrial, 

commercial, and residential building 

projects. Limiting the environmental 

impact of cement production by 

instituting ‘‘green cement’’ technologies 

has become a priority of the Chinese 

government. The size of the global 

cement industry is expected to double 

by 2030 with most of this increase 

taking place in China. It is estimated 

that the Chinese cement industry 

completed $7.2 billion worth of fixed 

asset investments in 2007 alone, 

prompted by factors that include high 

energy costs and emission reduction 

mandates. 

Power Plant Emissions Reduction 

The Chinese power generation sector 

is heavily reliant on coal. Coal-fired 

power plants generated about 70 percent 

of China’s electricity in 2011 although 

coal’s share of power generation has 

been trending downward in recent 

years. Coal power generation 

significantly contributes to air quality 

issues in the region. To address related 

environmental and human health 

concerns, the Chinese government 

initiated the development of air 

pollution control regulations. The 

Chinese Government also participated 

in negotiations of the Minamata 

Convention on Mercury, a global legally 

binding instrument to reduce mercury 

use and emissions. The text of the 

Minamata Convention was adopted by 

over 150 countries, including China, in 

January 2013. Given that coal-fired 

power plants represent a major source of 

airborne mercury (and other toxins), the 

implementation of this instrument will 

further foster Chinese interest in air 

pollution control emission control 

technologies—a technology area where 

the United States leads the world in 

commercial deployment. 

Groundwater Monitoring, Pollution 

Prevention, and Remediation 

Much of China’s groundwater 

resources have been degraded by 

pollution limiting their use as a reliable 

source for drinking water. The Ministry 

of Land Resources reports that 57 

percent of ground water ranks ‘bad’ or 

‘very bad’ in quality estimates. The 

National Groundwater Contamination 

Prevention and Remediation Plan calls 

for a $5.6-billion investment through 

2020. Ground water protection efforts 

are focused on monitoring, source 

control, and remediation. The 12th FiveYear Plan delineates the study of 

pollution assessment, monitoring, and 

simulation in order to establish a 

national monitoring system and quality 

standards. Source control research 

focuses on hazardous waste storage, 

landfill contamination, oil and gas 

extraction, mining, agriculture, and 

underground piping and disposal 

systems to establish control techniques 

and rules. China seeks to address 

contaminated groundwater by 

conducting a groundwater pollution 

remediation pilot study that will inform 

national approaches to groundwater 

remediation and lead to subsequent 

large-scale remediation projects. U.S. 

Superfund experience in groundwater 

remediation creates a competitive 

advantage for U.S. companies. 

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Municipal Water and Wastewater 

Treatment and Plant Development 

Aggressive construction of water 

treatment plants continues as China 

works to improve water quality and 

enhance access to drinking water and 

sanitation services. The China 

Greentech Initiative (CGTI) reports that 

40 billion cubic meters of urban water 

supply capability will be added by 

2015. Furthermore, the South-to-North 

Water Diversion Project mandates the 

construction of 426 wastewater 

treatment plants along the eastern route 

to treat heavily polluted surface waters. 

Tightening of national regulations will 

provide retrofit opportunities for 

existing plants. 

Process and Produced Water 

New effluent standards and better 

enforcement thereof are driving growth 

in produced water treatment, while 

continued industrial expansion and 

water reuse targets promote the process 

water market. Investments in improved 

effluent management are expected to 

reach $20 billion by 2015. The State 

12th Five-Year Plan targets nine sectors 

for improved produced water treatment: 

paper and pulp, raw chemicals, 

petroleum refining, textiles, dyeing, 

pharmaceuticals, ferrous metals 

processing, food processing, and power 

generation. The China Greentech 

Initiative has developed a list of top tier 

client industries using government 

prioritization, pollution reduction 

targets, discharge volumes, and 

treatment profitability measures. They 

include pharmaceuticals, beverages, 

paper and pulp, raw chemicals, textiles, 

agricultural food processing, and coal 

mining and washing. Second tier 

industries include ferrous metal 

processing, petroleum refining, tobacco, 

food manufacturing, and chemical 

fibers. 

Water Efficiency and Reuse 

China’s scarce fresh water resources 

have made water efficiency and reuse a 

national priority designed to limit 

further economic disruptions due to 

water shortages. These priorities will be 

a boon to membrane, non-revenue water 

management, and industrial water 

efficiency technologies. It is estimated 

that water reuse will lead to 30 percent 

annual growth over the next five years 

in the membrane technology market. 

Sludge Treatment 

China discharges approximately 22– 

30 million tons of untreated sludge 

annually, a growing and persistent 

environmental challenge. Recent 

government action has led to the 

development of technology standards 

for sludge treatment, a requirement that 

municipalities install sludge treatment 

systems, and a central government 

capital development investment of $9.7 

billion for sludge treatment facilities. 

Nonetheless, lack of domestic 

operational expertise and technology for 

sludge treatment remains a challenge for 

China that could provide sludge 

treatment opportunities for U.S. firms. 

In February 2011, the NDRC and 

Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural 

Development (MOHURD) issued plans 

for developing sludge treatment 

demonstration projects using advanced 

technologies. U.S. involvement in those 

demonstrations could enhance downstream export opportunities. The 

municipalities of Beijing, Guangdong, 

Hebei, and Hubei are top prospects, 

having set 100 percent treatment targets 

by 2015. 

Other Products and Services 

The foregoing analysis of the 

opportunities in China is not 

exhaustive, but illustrative of the many 

opportunities available to U.S. 

businesses. Applications from 

companies selling products or services 

within the scope of this mission, but not 

specifically identified, will be 

considered and evaluated by the U.S. 

Department of Commerce and the U.S. 

Department of Energy. Companies 

whose products or services do not fit the 

scope of the mission may contact their 

local U.S. Export Assistance Center 

(USEAC) to learn about other business 

development missions and services that 

may provide more targeted export 

opportunities. Companies may call 

1–800–872–8723, or go to http://help.

export.gov/ to obtain such information. 

Mission Goals 

This mission will reaffirm the U.S. 

commitment to sustained economic 

partnerships in China. The mission’s 

purpose is to support the business 

development goals of U.S. firms as they 

construct a firm foundation for future 

business in China and specifically aims 

to: 

• Assist in identifying potential 

partners and strategies for U.S. 

companies in the target sectors. 

• Confirm U.S. Government support 

for the activities of U.S. businesses in 

China and to provide access to senior 

decision makers in the Chinese 

government. 

• Confirm U.S. government support 

for existing government-to-government 

and government-to-business 

collaborations on lowcarbon 

urbanization work. 

• Promote more widespread 

application and deployment of CCUS in 

China. 

• Listen to the needs, suggestions and 

experience of individual participants to 

help shape appropriate U.S. 

Government positions regarding U.S. 

business interests in the region. 

• Organize private and focused events 

with local business and association 

leaders capable of becoming partners 

and clients of U.S. firms as they develop 

their business in China. 

• Assist development of competitive 

strategies and market access with high 

level information gathering from private 

and public-sector leaders. 

Mission Scenario 

The mission will stop in Beijing, 

Shanghai, and Guangzhou with an 

optional stop in Hong Kong. In Beijing, 

the capital of China, the schedule will 

primarily consist of scene setting 

briefings, and engagements with 

Chinese officials. In Shanghai and 

Guangzhou, participants will meet with 

pre-screened potential agents, 

distributors, and representatives, as well 

as other business partners and 

government officials. The participants 

will also attend market briefings by U.S. 

Embassy officials and other industry 

experts, as well as networking events 

offering further opportunities to speak 

with local business and industry 

decision-makers. 

After the conclusion of the mission, 

delegation members will also have the 

opportunity to sign-up for an optional 

add-on stop in Hong Kong. During this 

optional stop, participants will meet 

with pre-screened potential agents, 

distributors, and representatives, as well 

as other business partners and 

government officials through the 

Department of Commerce Gold Key 

program. The optional stop in Hong 

Kong will not include Secretary Pritzker 

or Moniz. 

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1An SME is defined as a firm with 500 or fewer 

employees or that otherwise qualifies as a small 

business under SBA regulations. Parent companies, 

affiliates, and subsidiaries will be considered when 

determining business size. The dual pricing reflects 

the Commercial Service’s user fee schedule that 

became effective May 1, 2008. 

PROPOSED TIME TABLE

Sunday, April 12 and Monday, April 13 ........................... Beijing ................................. Business Development Mission Orientation. 

Welcome Dinner. 

Industry Briefings/Roundtable Discussions. 

Government Meetings. 

Individual Company Business Appointments. 

Networking Dinner or Reception. 

Tuesday, April 14 and Wednesday, April 15 .................... Shanghai ............................ Industry Briefings/Roundtable Discussions. 

Government Meetings. 

Individual Company Business Appointments. 

Networking Dinner or Reception. 

Thursday, April 16 and Friday, April 17 ............................ Guangzhou ......................... Government Meetings. 

Individual Company Business Appointments. 

Networking Dinner or Reception. 

Wrap-up Session. 

Closing Dinner. 

OPTIONAL ADD-ON STOP FOR MISSION PARTICIPANTS

Monday, April 20 ............................................................... Hong Kong ......................... Market Briefing by U.S. Embassy Officials. 

Individual Company Business Appointments. 

Participation Requirements 

All companies interested in 

participating in the Secretarial Business 

Development Mission to China must 

complete and submit an application 

package for consideration by the 

Department of Commerce and 

Department of Energy. All applicants 

will be evaluated on their ability to meet 

certain conditions and best satisfy the 

selection criteria as outlined below. 

Approximately 20–25 companies will be 

selected to participate in the mission 

from the applicant pool. U.S. companies 

doing business in China, as well as U.S. 

companies seeking to enter the market 

for the first time may apply. 

Fees and Expenses: After a company 

has been selected to participate on the 

mission, a payment to the Department of 

Commerce in the form of a participation 

fee is required. The fee schedule for the 

mission is below: 

Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou 

• $12,500 for large firms 

• $10,000 for a small or mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) 1

• $3,500 additional firm 

representative (large firm or SME—limit 

one additional representative per 

company) 

Optional Add-on Stop in Hong Kong 

(Fee for Gold Key Service per day) 

• $2,300 for large firms 

• $700 for a small or medium-sized 

enterprises (SMEs) 

Participants selected for the trade 

mission will be expected to pay for the 

cost of all personal expenses, including, 

but not limited to, air travel, lodging, 

meals, communication, incidentals, 

unless otherwise noted. In the event that 

the mission is cancelled, no personal 

expenses paid in anticipation of a trade 

mission will be reimbursed. However, 

participation fees for a cancelled trade 

mission will be reimbursed to the extent 

they have not already been expended in 

anticipation of the mission. 

Business or entry visas may be 

required. Government fees and 

processing expenses to obtain such visas 

are not included in the participation fee. 

However, the U.S. Department of 

Commerce will provide instructions to 

each participant on the procedures 

required to obtain necessary business 

visas. 

Conditions of Participation: An 

applicant must sign and submit a 

completed application and 

supplemental application materials, 

including adequate information on the 

company’s products and/or services, 

primary market objectives, and goals for 

participation. If an incomplete 

application form is submitted or the 

information and material submitted 

does not demonstrate how the applicant 

satisfies the participation criteria, the 

Department of Commerce or the 

Department of Energy may reject the 

application, request additional 

information, or take the lack of 

information into account when 

evaluating the application. 

Each applicant must also: 

• Identify whether the products and 

services it seeks to export through the 

mission are either produced in the 

United States, or, if not, marketed under 

the name of a U.S. firm and have at least 

51 percent U.S. content. In cases where 

the U.S. content does not exceed 50 

percent, especially where the applicant 

intends to pursue investment in major 

project opportunities, the following 

factors, may be considered in 

determining whether the applicant’s 

participation in the Business 

Development Mission is in the U.S. 

national interest: 

Æ U.S. materials and equipment 

content; 

Æ U.S. labor content; 

Æ Contribution to the U.S. technology 

base, including conduct of research and 

development in the United States; 

Æ Repatriation of profits to the U.S. 

economy; 

Æ Potential for follow-on business 

that would benefit the U.S. economy; 

• Certify that the export of the 

products and services that it wishes to 

export through the mission would be in 

compliance with U.S. export controls 

and regulations; 

• Certify that it has identified to the 

Department of Commerce any business 

matter pending before any bureau or 

office in the Departments of Commerce 

or Energy; 

• Certify that it has identified any 

pending litigation (including any 

administrative proceedings) to which it 

is a party that involves the Departments 

of Commerce or Energy; and 

• Certify that it and its affiliates (1) 

have not and will not engage in the 

bribery of foreign officials in connection 

with a company’s/participant’s 

involvement in this mission, and (2) 

maintain and enforce a policy that 

prohibits the bribery of foreign officials. 

Selection Criteria for Participation: 

Selection will be based on the following 

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criteria, listed in decreasing order of 

importance: 

• Suitability of the company’s 

products or services to the Chinese 

Market in the targeted industry sectors 

and the likelihood of a participating 

company’s increased exports or 

business interests in China as a result of 

this mission; 

• Potential of the company’s product 

or service to significantly impact the 

energy, water, waste, emissions, and/or 

pollution in Chinese cities. 

• Consistency of the company’s 

products or services with the scope and 

desired outcome of the mission’s goals; 

• Rank/seniority of the designated 

company representative; 

• Current or pending major project 

participation; and 

• Demonstrated export experience to 

China and/or other foreign markets. 

The balance of entities participating 

in the mission with respect to type, size, 

location, sector or subsector may also be 

considered during the review process. 

Referrals from political organizations 

and any information, including on the 

application, containing references to 

political contributions or other partisan 

political activities will be excluded from 

the application and will not be 

considered during the selection process. 

The sender will be notified of these 

exclusions. 

Timeframe for Recruitment and 

Applications 

Mission recruitment will be 

conducted in an open and public 

manner, including publication in the 

Federal Register (http://www.gpoaccess.

gov/fr), posting on ITA’s business 

development mission calendar (http://

export.gov/trademissions) and other 

Internet Web sites, press releases to 

general and trade media, direct mail, 

broadcast fax, notices by industry trade 

associations and other multiplier 

groups, and publicity at industry 

meetings, symposia, conferences, and 

trade shows. 

Recruitment will begin immediately 

and conclude no later than January 23, 

2015. Applications can be completed 

on-line and are available on the China 

Smart Cites/Smart Growth Mission Web 

site at http://www.export.gov/China

Mission2015 or can be obtained by 

contacting the U.S. Department of 

Commerce Office of Business Liaison 

(202–482–1360 or BusinessLiaison@

doc.gov). 

The application deadline is Friday, 

January 23, 2015. Completed 

applications should be submitted to the 

Office of Business Liaison. Applications 

received after the January 23rd deadline, 

will be considered only if space and 

scheduling constraints permit. The 

Department of Commerce will evaluate 

all applications and inform applicants 

of selection decisions by February 6, 

2015. 

How To Apply: Applications can be 

downloaded from the business 

development mission Web site (http://

www.export.gov/ChinaMission2015) or 

can be obtained by contacting the Office 

of Business Liaison (see below). 

Contacts: General Information and 

Applications: The Office of Business 

Liaison, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Room 5062, Washington, DC 20230, Tel: 

202–482–1360, Fax: 202–482–4054, 

Email: BusinessLiaison@doc.gov. 

Elnora Moye, 

Trade Program Assistant. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Advisory Committee on Supply Chain 

Competitiveness; Notice of Public 

Meetings 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meetings. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed topics of 

discussion for public meetings of the 

Advisory Committee on Supply Chain 

Competitiveness (Committee). 

DATES: The meetings will be held on 

January 14 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., 

and January 15 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 

p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting on January 14 

will be held at the U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Room 1412, Washington, DC 

20230. The meeting on January 15 will 

be held at the U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Room 4830, Washington, DC 

20230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Boll, Office of Supply Chain, 

Professional & Business Services, 

International Trade Administration. 

(Phone: (202) 482–1135 or Email: 

richard.boll@trade.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Committee was 

established under the discretionary 

authority of the Secretary of Commerce 

and in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

2). It provides advice to the Secretary of 

Commerce on the necessary elements of 

a comprehensive policy approach to 

supply chain competitiveness designed 

to support U.S. export growth and 

national economic competitiveness, 

encourage innovation, facilitate the 

movement of goods, and improve the 

competitiveness of U.S. supply chains 

for goods and services in the domestic 

and global economy; and provides 

advice to the Secretary on regulatory 

policies and programs and investment 

priorities that affect the competitiveness 

of U.S. supply chains. For more 

information about the Committee visit: 

http://trade.gov/td/services/oscpb/

supplychain/acscc/. 

Matters To Be Considered: Committee 

members are expected to continue to 

discuss the major competitivenessrelated topics raised at the previous 

Committee meetings, including trade 

and competitiveness; freight movement 

and policy; information technology and 

data requirements; regulatory issues; 

and finance and infrastructure. The 

Committee’s subcommittees will report 

on the status of their work regarding 

these topics. The agendas may change to 

accommodate Committee business. The 

Office of Supply Chain, Professional & 

Business Services will post the final 

detailed agendas on its Web site, http:// 

trade.gov/td/services/oscpb/

supplychain/acscc/, at least one week 

prior to the meeting. 

The meetings will be open to the 

public and press on a first-come, firstserved basis. Space is limited. The 

public meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Individuals requiring accommodations, 

such as sign language interpretation or 

other ancillary aids, are asked to notify 

Mr. Richard Boll, at (202) 482–1135 or 

richard.boll@trade.gov five (5) business 

days before the meeting. 

Interested parties are invited to 

submit written comments to the 

Committee at any time before and after 

the meeting. Parties wishing to submit 

written comments for consideration by 

the Committee in advance of this 

meeting must send them to the Office of 

Supply Chain, Professional & Business 

Services, 1401 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Room 11014, Washington, DC, 20230, or 

email to richard.boll@trade.gov. 

For consideration during the 

meetings, and to ensure transmission to 

the Committee prior to the meetings, 

comments must be received no later 

than 5:00 p.m. EST on January 7, 2015. 

Comments received after January 7, 

2015, will be distributed to the 

Committee, but may not be considered 

at the meetings. The minutes of the 

meetings will be posted on the 

Committee Web site within 60 days of 

the meeting. 

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