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7See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

8See sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act. 

building. In addition, a complete 

version of the Final Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

on the Internet at http://www.trade.gov/ 

enforcement/. The signed Final Decision 

Memorandum and the electronic 

versions of the Final Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Methodology 

The Department conducted this 

review in accordance with section 

751(a)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act). For each of the 

subsidy programs found 

countervailable, we determine that there 

is a subsidy, i.e., a financial 

contribution from an ‘‘authority’’ that 

confers a benefit to the recipient, and 

that the subsidy is specific.7 For a full 

description of the methodology 

underlying our conclusions, see the 

Final Decision Memorandum. 

In making these findings, we relied, in 

part, on facts available and, because the 

GOC did not act to the best of its ability 

to respond to the Department’s requests 

for information, we drew an adverse 

inference in selecting from among the 

facts otherwise available.8 For further 

information, see ‘‘Use of Facts 

Otherwise Available and Adverse 

Inferences’’ in the Final Decision 

Memorandum. 

Final Results of the Review 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(b)(5), we determine a net 

countervailable subsidy rate of 17.55 

percent ad valorem for the RZBC 

Companies. 

Assessment Rates 

The Department intends to issue 

appropriate assessment instructions 

directly to U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) 15 days after the date 

of publication of these final results, to 

liquidate shipments of subject 

merchandise by the RZBC Companies 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after January 1, 

2012, through December 31, 2012. 

Cash Deposit Instructions 

The Department also intends to 

instruct CBP to collect cash deposits of 

estimated CVDs in the amount shown 

above on shipments of subject 

merchandise by the RZBC Companies 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review. For all non-reviewed 

companies, we will instruct CBP to 

continue to collect cash deposits at the 

most recent company-specific or 

country-wide rate applicable to the 

company. Accordingly, the cash deposit 

rates that will be applied to companies 

covered by this order, but not examined 

in this review, are those established in 

the most recently completed segment of 

the proceeding for each company. These 

cash deposit requirements, when 

imposed, shall remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice serves as a 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 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. 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act 

of 1930, as amended. 

Dated: December 22, 2014. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in 

the Issues and Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. Use of Facts Otherwise Available and 

Adverse Inferences 

V. Subsidies Valuation Information 

VI. Benchmarks and Discount Rates 

VII. Analysis of Programs 

VIII. Analysis of Comments 

Comment 1: Whether to Reverse the 

Department’s ‘‘Authorities’’ 

Determination 

Comment 2: Whether to Find Certain 

Calcium Carbonate Producers are 

‘‘Authorities’’ 

Comment 3: Whether the Department Should 

Countervail Input Purchases Made 

Through Trading Companies and 

Produced by ‘‘Authorities’’ 

Comment 4: Whether to Find Input for LTAR 

Programs Not Specific 

Comment 5: Whether to Find the Provision 

of Caustic Soda for LTAR 

Countervailable 

A. Specificity 

B. ‘‘Authorities’’ 

C. Market Distortion 

D. Benchmark 

Comment 6: Export-Import Bank of China 

Buyer’s Credit 

Comment 7: Whether to Apply Adverse Facts 

Available (AFA) to Steam Coal and 

Sulfuric Acid Purchases 

Comment 8: Whether to Exclude Freight 

Surcharges for Limestone Flux 

Comment 9: Whether the Provision of 

Calcium Carbonate for LTAR is Specific 

to the RZBC Companies’ Purchases 

Comment 10: Whether to Average Benchmark 

Prices 

Comment 11: Whether to Use Inland Freight 

Benchmark Data for Steam Coal 

Comment 12: Whether to Include Hazardous 

Shipping Charges in International 

Freight Calculations for Sulfuric Acid 

and Caustic Soda Benchmarks 

Comment 13: How to Ensure That World 

Market Prices Used in Benchmarks Are 

Reasonably Available in China 

Comment 14: How to Treat Steam Coal 

Benchmark Data Reported on CIF Basis 

Comment 15: Whether to Account for Grade 

or Specification of Sulfuric Acid, Steam 

Coal, and Limestone Flux In Benchmarks 

Comment 16: Whether to Account for 

Quantities Sold for Limestone Flux, 

Sulfuric Acid, and Steam Coal 

Benchmarks 

Comment 17: How to Calculate Benchmarks 

Using GTIS Data 

Comment 18: Whether to Recalculate Land 

Benchmark 

IX. Conclusion 

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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: 

Amended Preliminary Determination of 

Sales at Less-Than-Fair-Value 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(‘‘the Department’’) is amending the 

preliminary determination of the lessthan-fair-value investigation of 53-foot 

domestic dry containers from the 

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

correct for certain ministerial errors, as 

described below, in the ‘‘Supplementary 

Information’’ section of this notice. The 

Department corrected these errors and 

recalculated the weighted-average 

dumping margins for a mandatory 

respondent and the PRC-Wide entity, as 

described below in the ‘‘Amended 

Preliminary Determination’’ section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 31, 

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 

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1See 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, 79 FR 70501 (November 26, 2014) 

(‘‘Preliminary Determination’’). 

2 ‘‘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. 

3See 19 CFR 351.224(f). 

4See 19 CFR 351.224(e). 

5See 19 CFR 351.224(g). 

6See, Memorandum from Richard Weible, Office 

Director, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations, Office VI, to Christian Marsh, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations, ‘‘Less-Than-FairValue Investigation of 53-Foot Domestic Dry 

Containers from the People’s Republic of China: 

Allegations of Ministerial Errors’’ (‘‘Ministerial 

Error Memorandum’’), which is dated concurrently 

hereby adopted by this notice. 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

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

0195, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On July 31, 2014, the Department 

published its affirmative preliminary 

determination that 53-foot domestic dry 

containers (‘‘domestic dry containers’’) 

from the PRC are being, or are likely to 

be, sold in the United States at less than 

fair value, as provided by section 733 of 

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the 

Act’’).1 On November 25, 2014, the 

Department disclosed to interested 

parties its calculations for the 

Preliminary Determination. On 

December 1, 2014, Hui Zhou Pacific 

Container Co., Ltd., Qingdao Pacific 

Container Co., Ltd., and Qidong 

Singamas Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. 

and their holding company Singamas 

Container Holdings Limited 

(collectively, ‘‘Singamas’’), a mandatory 

respondent in this investigation, 

submitted a timely ministerial error 

allegations with respect to the 

Preliminary Determination. In addition, 

on December 1, 2014, Stoughton 

Trailers LLC (‘‘Petitioner’’) submitted 

timely ministerial error allegations with 

respect to the Department’s calculation 

of the PRC-Wide entity rate. Therefore, 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(e), 

we made changes, as discussed below, 

to the Preliminary Determination. 

Period of Investigation 

The period of investigation (‘‘POI’’) is 

October 1, 2013, through March 31, 

2014. 

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 2 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. 

Significant Ministerial Errors 

Ministerial errors are defined in 19 

CFR 351.224(f) as ‘‘errors in addition, 

subtraction, or other arithmetic 

function, clerical errors resulting from 

inaccurate copying, duplication, or the 

like, and any other type of unintentional 

error which the Department considers 

ministerial.’’ 3 19 CFR 351.224(e) 

provides that the Department ‘‘will 

analyze any comments received and, if 

appropriate, correct any significant 

ministerial error by amending the 

preliminary determination . . .’’ 4 A 

significant ministerial error is defined as 

a ministerial error, the correction of 

which, either singly or in combination 

with other errors, would result in (1) a 

change of at least five absolute 

percentage points in, but not less than 

25 percent of, the weighted-average 

dumping margin calculated in the 

original (erroneous) preliminary 

determination, or (2) a difference 

between a weighted-average dumping 

margin of zero (or de minimis) and a 

weighted-average dumping margin of 

greater than de minimis or vice versa.5

In accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(e) 

and (g)(1), the Department is amending 

the preliminary determination of the 

less-than-fair-value investigation of 53- 

foot domestic dry containers from the 

PRC to reflect the corrections of 

significant ministerial errors it made in 

the weighted-average dumping margin 

calculations for Singamas, a mandatory 

respondent in this investigation, and for 

PRC-Wide entity.6

Ministerial Error Allegations 

For a complete analysis of the 

ministerial error allegations, see the 

Ministerial Error Memorandum. 

Amended Preliminary Determination 

As a result of this amended 

preliminary determination, we revised 

the preliminary estimated weightedaverage dumping margin for Singamas 

and the PRC-Wide entity as follows: 

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.

98.82 

PRC-Wide Entity ...................................................................... .................................................................................................. 104.59 

As detailed in 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 November 19, 

2014, 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 

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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, 

therefore, we found it to be the PRCWide Entity. 

Amended Collection of Cash Deposits 

and Suspension of Liquidation 

The collection of cash deposits and 

suspension of liquidation will be 

revised according to the rates calculated 

in this amended preliminary 

determination. Because the amended 

rate for Singamas results in reduced 

cash deposits, the rate for Singamas will 

be effective retroactively to November 

26, 2014, the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination. The rate for 

the PRC-wide entity will be effective 

upon publication of this notice. Parties 

will be notified of this determination, in 

accordance with sections 733(d) and (f) 

of the Act. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, we notified the International 

Trade Commission of our amended 

preliminary determination. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

The Department intends to disclose 

calculations performed in connection 

with this amended preliminary 

determination within five days of the 

date of publication of this notice in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

This amended preliminary 

determination is issued and published 

in accordance with sections 733(f) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.224(e). 

Dated: December 22, 2014. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Fisheries Finance 

Program Requirements 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before March 2, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Brian Summers at (301) 427– 

8783 or brian.summers@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This request is for extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

The National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

operates a direct loan program to assist 

in financing certain actions relating to 

commercial fishing vessels, shoreside 

fishery facilities, aquaculture 

operations, and individual fishing 

quotas. Application information is 

required to determine eligibility 

pursuant to 50 CFR part 253 and to 

determine the type and amount of 

assistance requested by the applicant. 

An annual financial statement is 

required from the recipients to monitor 

the financial status of the loan. 

II. Method of Collection 

Paper applications. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0012. 

Form Number(s): 88–1. 

Type of Review: Regular (extension of 

a currently approved information 

collection). 

Affected Public: Affected Public: 

Individuals or households; business or 

other for-profit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

456. 

Estimated Time per Response: 2–10 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,528. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $2,622 in recordkeeping/

reporting costs. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: December 19, 2014. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Atlantic Highly 

Migratory Species Vessel and Gear 

Marking 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before March 2, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at JJessup@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Craig Cockrell, (301) 427– 

8503 or Craig.Cockrell@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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