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5See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures; 

Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR 

39263 (July 6, 2011). 

1See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From 

Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand: Initiation of 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations, 82 FR 29828 

(June 30, 2017). 

2See letters from the petitioners, ‘‘Antidumping 

Duty Investigations of Citric Acid and Certain 

Citrate Salts From Belgium, Colombia and 

Thailand: Petitioners’ Request for Postponement of 

Preliminary Determinations,’’ dated October 11, 

2017. 

However, in that situation, because no 

review of the NME entity was 

conducted, the NME entity’s entries 

were not subject to the review and the 

rate for the NME entity is not subject to 

change as a result of that review 

(although the rate for the individual 

exporter may change as a function of the 

finding that the exporter is part of the 

NME entity). 

Following initiation of an 

antidumping administrative review 

when there is no review requested of the 

NME entity, the Department will 

instruct CBP to liquidate entries for all 

exporters not named in the initiation 

notice, including those that were 

suspended at the NME entity rate. 

All requests must be filed 

electronically in Enforcement and 

Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS) on 

Enforcement and Compliance’s ACCESS 

Web site at http://access.trade.gov.5

Further, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.303(f)(l)(i), a copy of each request 

must be served on the petitioner and 

each exporter or producer specified in 

the request. 

The Department will publish in the 

Federal Register a notice of ‘‘Initiation 

of Administrative Review of 

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 

Order, Finding, or Suspended 

Investigation’’ for requests received by 

the last day of November 2017. If the 

Department does not receive, by the last 

day of November 2017, a request for 

review of entries covered by an order, 

finding, or suspended investigation 

listed in this notice and for the period 

identified above, the Department will 

instruct CBP to assess antidumping or 

countervailing duties on those entries at 

a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or 

bond for) estimated antidumping or 

countervailing duties required on those 

entries at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption and to continue to collect 

the cash deposit previously ordered. 

For the first administrative review of 

any order, there will be no assessment 

of antidumping or countervailing duties 

on entries of subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption during the relevant 

provisional-measures ‘‘gap’’ period of 

the order, if such a gap period is 

applicable to the period of review. 

This notice is not required by statute 

but is published as a service to the 

international trading community. 

Dated: October 17, 2017. 

James Maeder, 

Senior Director perfoming the duties of 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–423–813, A–301–803, A–549–833] 

Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

From Belgium, Colombia, and 

Thailand: Postponement of Preliminary 

Determinations of Less-Than-FairValue Investigations 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

DATES: Applicable November 1, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Stolz at (202) 482–4474 (Belgium); 

Stephanie Moore at (202) 482–3692 

(Colombia); and Joy Zhang at (202) 482– 

1168 (Thailand), AD/CVD Operations, 

Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On June 22, 2017, the Department of 

Commerce (the Department) initiated 

less-than-fair- value (LTFV) 

investigations of imports of citric acid 

and certain citrate salts (citric acid) from 

Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand.1

Currently, the preliminary 

determinations are due no later than 

November 9, 2017. 

Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act 

of 1930, as amended (the Act), requires 

the Department to issue the preliminary 

determination in a LTFV investigation 

within 140 days after the date on which 

the Department initiated the 

investigation. However, section 

733(c)(1)) of the Act permits the 

Department to postpone the preliminary 

determination until no later than 190 

days after the date on which the 

Department initiated the investigation 

if: (A) The petitioner makes a timely 

request for a postponement; or (B) the 

Department concludes that the parties 

concerned are cooperating, that the 

investigation is extraordinarily 

complicated, and that additional time is 

necessary to make a preliminary 

determination. Under 19 CFR 

351.205(e), the petitioner must submit a 

request for postponement 25 days or 

more before the scheduled date of the 

preliminary determination and must 

state the reasons for the request. The 

Department will grant the request unless 

it finds compelling reasons to deny the 

request. See 19 CFR 351.205(e). 

On October 11, 2017, Archer Daniels 

Midland Company (ADM); Cargill 

Incorporated (Cargill); and Tate & Lyle 

Ingredients America LLC (Tate & Lyle) 

(collectively, the petitioners) submitted 

timely requests pursuant to section 

703(c)(1)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(e) to postpone the preliminary 

determinations in these LTFV 

investigations.2 The petitioners stated 

that they request postponement because 

the Department is still gathering data 

and questionnaire responses from the 

foreign producers in these 

investigations, and additional time is 

necessary for the Department and 

interested parties to fully and properly 

analyze all questionnaire responses. 

For the reasons stated above and 

because there are no compelling reasons 

to deny the request, the Department, in 

accordance with section 733(c)(1)(A) of 

the Act, is postponing the deadline for 

the preliminary determinations by 50 

days (i.e., 190 days after the date on 

which these investigations were 

initiated). As a result, the Department 

will issue its preliminary 

determinations no later than December 

29, 2017. In accordance with section 

735(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(b)(1), the deadline for the final 

determinations of these investigations 

will continue to be 75 days after the 

date of publication of the preliminary 

determinations, unless postponed at a 

later date. 

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to section 733(c)(2) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1). 

Dated: October 20, 2017. 

Carole Showers, 

Executive Director, Office of Policy 

performing the duties of the Deputy Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. 

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