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produced as part of Phase 3 of the 2020 

Census Redistricting Data Program. 

The 2020 Census Redistricting Data 

Program was initially announced on 

July 15, 2014, in the Federal Register 

(79 FR 41258). This notice described the 

program that the Census Bureau 

proposed to adopt for the 2020 Census. 

As seen in the 1990, 2000, and 2010 

censuses, the 2020 Census Redistricting 

Data Program is partitioned into several 

phases. Phase 1, the Block Boundary 

Suggestion Project, was announced in a 

Federal Register notice on June 26, 2015 

(80 FR 36765). This notice described the 

procedures for the states to provide the 

Census Bureau with their suggestions 

for the 2020 Census tabulation block 

inventory. Phase 2, the Voting District 

Project, was announced in a Federal 

Register notice on June 28, 2017 (82 FR 

29276). This second phase specifically 

provides states the opportunity to 

provide the Census Bureau with their 

voting district boundaries (election 

precincts, wards, etc.). Phase 3 of the 

2020 Redistricting Data Program is data 

delivery. 

The Census Bureau will produce, in 

preparation for Phase 3, a prototype 

2020 Census Public Law 94–171 

Redistricting Data File from the 2018 

End-to-End Census Test. This prototype 

product will be delivered to official 

recipients and the public in early 2019. 

The content of this prototype product, 

which includes population counts by 

race and ethnicity, is meant to simulate 

the official product that will be 

produced as the 2020 Census Public 

Law 94–171 Redistricting Data File, 

delivered in early 2021. This prototype 

should not be interpreted, however, as 

signifying that a design decision for 

collecting race and ethnicity data has 

been made for the 2020 Census. 

The U.S. Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) is currently reviewing 

proposed revisions to the Standards for 

Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting 

Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. 

OMB will announce their decision on 

making any changes to the standards in 

the Federal Register later this year. 

These standards will inform how the 

Census Bureau collects and publishes 

race/ethnicity data for the 2020 Census. 

More information on OMB’s review is 

available on https://

www.whitehouse.gov/sites/ 

whitehouse.gov/files/briefing-room/ 

presidential-actions/related-ombmaterial/r_e_iwg_faqs_and_talking_

points_032917.pdf. 

One of the potential changes being 

decided by OMB is question format, 

specifically the use of two separate 

questions or a combined question for 

race/ethnicity data. In the 2010 Census, 

race/ethnicity data were collected using 

a two separate questions approach. 

Consequently, the Census Bureau has 

experience and is prepared to produce 

statistics on race/ethnicity in that 

format. Should the use of a combined 

race/ethnicity question be allowed 

under the as yet to be released guidance 

from OMB, the Census Bureau must be 

prepared to produce race/ethnicity 

statistics with the combined question 

format. Therefore, the current design for 

the prototype 2020 Census Public Law 

94–171 Redistricting Data File reflects 

the combined question format, and 

alters the design of that produced as the 

official 2010 Census Public Law 94–171 

Redistricting Data File. If only a separate 

questions format is permitted under the 

as yet to be released guidance from 

OMB, then the 2020 Census Public Law 

94–171 Redistricting Data File will 

mirror that of the 2010 Census Public 

Law 94–171 Redistricting Data File, 

with the addition of the group quarters 

table described below. If a combined 

question format is permitted under the 

revised OMB standards, then the design 

for the 2020 Census Public Law 94–171 

Redistricting Data File will mirror that 

of the prototype 2020 Census Public 

Law 94–171 Redistricting Data File. 

Regardless of whether a separate or 

combined question format is used in the 

2020 Census, to assist those states that 

reallocate populations prior to 

conducting redistricting, a group 

quarters table is added. This table will 

include the group quarters categories of: 

Institutionalized populations 

(correctional facilities for adults, 

juvenile facilities, nursing facilities/ 

skilled nursing facilities, and other 

institutional facilities) and 

noninstitutionalized populations 

(college/university student housing, 

military quarters, and other noninstitutionalized facilities). The group 

quarters table will include state, county, 

county sub-division, voting district, 

tract, and block geographic levels for the 

total population in the group quarters 

count. A schematic of the tables 

planned for the prototype 2020 Census 

Public Law 94–171 Redistricting File is 

available at the Census Bureau’s FTP 

site: https://www2.census.gov/ 

programs-surveys/decennial/rdo/about/ 

2020-census-program/Phase3/Phase3_

prototype_schematic.pdf. 

This notice requests comment on 

these changes and the continued 

suitability of these data in redistricting. 

Other potential changes to the OMB 

guidance on the collection and 

tabulation of Race and Ethnicity 

announced in the Federal Register later 

this year may necessitate changes to the 

prototype product beyond those 

proposed here. The Census Bureau will 

announce any respective revisions in a 

forthcoming, final Federal Register 

notice in the second quarter of fiscal 

year 2018. 

The Census Bureau will continue to 

communicate with each state to ensure 

all are well informed of the benefits of 

working with the Census Bureau 

towards a successful 2020 Census. In 

addition, the Census Redistricting and 

Voting Rights Data Office will continue 

to work with each state to ensure that 

all are prepared to participate in every 

phase of the Redistricting Data Program. 

As required by Public Law 94–171, 

every state, regardless of its 

participation in Phase 1 or Phase 2, will 

receive the official redistricting data in 

Phase 3. 

Dated: November 2, 2017. 

Ron S. Jarmin, 

Associate Director for Economic Programs, 

Performing the Non-Exclusive Functions and 

Duties of the Director, Bureau of the Census. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24242 Filed 11–7–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–122–857] 

Certain Softwood Lumber Products 

From Canada: Final Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Affirmative Final 

Determination of Critical 

Circumstances 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) determines that certain 

softwood lumber products (softwood 

lumber) from Canada is being, or is 

likely to be, sold in the United States at 

less than fair value (LTFV). The period 

of investigation (POI) is October 1, 2015, 

through September 30, 2016. 

DATES: Applicable: November 8, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen Bailey, Robert Galantucci, 

Thomas Martin, or Jeff Pedersen, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office IV, Enforcement 

and Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–0193, (202) 482–2923, (202) 

482–3936, or (202) 482–2769, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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1See Certain Softwood Lumber Products from 

Canada: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 82 FR 29833 (June 

30, 2017), and accompanying Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum (collectively, Preliminary 

Determination). 

2See Certain Softwood Lumber Products from 

Canada: Postponement of Final Determination of 

Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation and Extension 

of Provisional Measures, 82 FR 41609 (September 

1, 2017). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Issues and Decision 

Memorandum for the Final Affirmative 

Determination in the Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Certain Softwood Lumber Products 

from Canada,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision 

Memorandum). 

4See Preliminary Determination, 82 FR, at 29835. 

5See section 504 of the Trade Preferences 

Extension Act of 2015 (TPEA), amending section 

773(e) of the Act. 

6See Memorandum ‘‘Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigation of Certain Softwood Lumber Products 

from Canada: Particular Market Situation,’’ dated 

June 23, 2017. 

7The Department has previously found that AD 

and CVD laws provide separate remedies for 

distinct unfair trade practices. See Certain Seamless 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line and Pressure 

Pipe from the People’s Republic of China: Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Critical Circumstances, In Part, 75 FR 57449 

(September 21, 2010), at Comment 2. 

Background 

On June 30, 2017, the Department 

published the Preliminary 

Determination of this antidumping duty 

(AD) investigation, as provided by 

section 733 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act), in which the 

Department preliminarily determined 

that softwood lumber from Canada was 

being sold at LTFV.1 On September 1, 

2017, the Department published a 

postponement fully extending the due 

date of the final AD determination until 

November 13, 2017.2

A summary of the events that 

occurred since the Department 

published the Preliminary 

Determination, as well as a full 

discussion of the issues raised by 

interested parties for this final 

determination, may be found in the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum.3 The 

Issues and Decision Memorandum is a 

public document and is on file 

electronically via Enforcement and 

Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 

ACCESS is available to registered users 

at https://access.trade.gov, and it is 

available to all parties in the Central 

Records Unit, Room B–8024 of the main 

Department of Commerce building. In 

addition, a complete version of the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum can 

be accessed directly at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is softwood lumber from 

Canada. For a complete description of 

the scope of this investigation, see 

Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

In accordance with the Preliminary 

Scope Decision Memorandum, the 

Department provided parties an 

opportunity to provide comments on all 

issues discussed in the Preliminary 

Determination, including issues 

regarding product coverage (i.e., scope).4

Certain interested parties commented on 

the scope of the investigation as it 

appeared in the Initiation Notice. 

Therefore, the scope of this 

investigation has been modified for this 

final determination. For a summary of 

the product coverage comments and 

rebuttal responses submitted to the 

record for this final determination, and 

accompanying discussion and analysis 

of all comments timely received, see the 

Issues and Decision Memorandum. 

Particular Market Situation (PMS) 

Allegation 

On May 15, 2017, the petitioner first 

alleged that a particular market situation 

exists with respect to the production of 

softwood lumber in Canada, such that 

the cost of materials and fabrication or 

other processing of any kind does not 

accurately reflect the cost of production 

in the ordinary course of trade.5

According to the petitioner, the 

Department should, accordingly, ‘‘use 

another calculation methodology under 

this subtitle or any other calculation 

methodology,’’ pursuant to its 

discretionary authority under section 

773(e)(3) of the Act. 

The Department accepted the 

petitioner’s PMS allegation submission 

on June 23, 2017, and articulated its 

intent to further investigate the merits of 

the allegation.6 On June 30, 2017, the 

Department issued a supplemental 

questionnaire to the mandatory 

respondents and the Government of 

Canada (GOC) to obtain more 

information regarding GOC initiatives 

related to bioenergy, electricity, and 

stumpage. On July 21, 2017, the 

mandatory respondents, additional 

interested parties and the GOC 

(collectively, the Canadian parties) 

responded to our supplemental 

questionnaire. In its case brief dated 

August 8, 2017, the petitioner provided 

additional arguments regarding its PMS 

allegation. 

The petitioner alleges that the GOC’s 

subsidization of bioenergy programs 

that consume lumber byproducts, 

subsidization and involvement in 

Canada’s electricity market, and 

subsidization of stumpage has, 

collectively, distorted the market for 

lumber byproducts (e.g., wood chips, 

shavings, sawdust, etc.) in Canada, such 

that sales of lumber byproducts in 

Canada are outside the ordinary course 

of trade and should not be accounted for 

in the Department’s normal value 

calculations. Specifically, the petitioner 

argues that the Department should 

decline to grant offsets for the sale of 

byproducts to each of the mandatory 

respondents. 

The Department determines that the 

record evidence pertaining to GOC 

initiatives concerning bioenergy 

programs does not support the 

petitioner’s allegation that a PMS exists 

in Canada with respect to the sale of 

lumber byproducts. Specifically, the 

record evidence does not demonstrate 

that sales of lumber byproducts in 

Canada have been impacted by the GOC 

initiatives referred to by the petitioner, 

such that they are outside the ordinary 

course of trade. That is, the record 

evidence does not demonstrate a 

connection between the bioenergy 

programs referred to by the petitioner 

and a change in demand and prices for 

lumber byproducts in Canada. 

Additionally, given the Department’s 

aforementioned determination regarding 

PMS and bioenergy programs, the 

Department also finds that the 

allegations regarding electricity and 

stumpage are moot.7 Thus, the 

Department determines that the record 

evidence does not support the 

petitioner’s allegation that a PMS exists 

in Canada with respect to the sale of 

lumber byproducts. Accordingly, the 

Department will continue to grant the 

mandatory respondents in this 

investigation company-specific offsets 

for sales of lumber byproducts 

according to our normal practice. For 

further discussion of this matter, see 

Comment 16 of the Department’s Issues 

and Decision Memorandum. 

Final Affirmative Determination of 

Critical Circumstances, in Part 

On April 13, 2017, the Department 

preliminarily determined that critical 

circumstances exist for all-others but 

did not exist for Canfor Corporation 

(Canfor), Resolute FP Canada Inc. 

(Resolute), Tolko Marketing and Sales 

Ltd. (Tolko) and West Fraser Mills Ltd. 

(West Fraser). For this final 

determination, the Department has 

determined that critical circumstances 

exist for Resolute, Tolko, West Fraser, 

and all-others but did not exist for 

Canfor. For a full description of the 


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8See Memorandum, ‘‘Calculations for Final 

Determination of Critical Circumstances in the 

Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain 

Softwood Lumber Products from Canada,’’ dated 

concurrently with this memorandum (Final 

Determination Critical Circumstances Analysis 

Memo). 

9The petitioner is the Committee Overseeing 

Action for Lumber International Trade 

Investigations or Negotiations (COALITION). The 

petitioner is an ad hoc association whose members 

are: U.S. Lumber Coalition, Inc.; Collum’s Lumber 

Products, L.L.C.; Hankins, Inc.; Potlatch 

Corporation; Rex Lumber Company; Seneca 

Sawmill Company; Sierra Pacific Industries; 

Stimson Lumber Company; Swanson Group; 

Weyerhaeuser Company; Carpenters Industrial 

Council; Giustina Land and Timber Company; and 

Sullivan Forestry Consultants, Inc. 

10For a complete analysis of the data, please see 

the All-Others Calculation Memorandum dated 

concurrently with this notice. 

11 In the preliminary determination, the 

Department determined that Canfor, Canadian 

Forest Products Ltd., and Canfor Wood Products 

Marketing Ltd. are a single entity. See 

Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty Investigation of 

Certain Softwood Lumber from Canada: Tolko 

Industries Ltd. and Tolko Marketing and Sales Ltd. 

Preliminary Affiliation and Collapsing 

Memorandum,’’ dated June 23, 2017. This decision 

is unchanged for this final determination. 

12 In the preliminary determination, the 

Department determined that Resolute, Resolute 

Growth Canada Inc. (Resolute Growth), Abitibi-LP 

Engineered Wood Inc. (Abitibi-LP), Abitibi-LP 

Engineered Wood II Inc. (Abitibi-LP II), Forest 

Products Mauricie LP (Mauricie), Produits 

Forestiers Petit-Paris Inc. (Petit-Paris), and Socie ́te ́

en commandite Scierie Opitciwan (Opitciwan) are 

a single entity. See Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping 

Duty Investigation of Certain Softwood Lumber 

from Canada: Resolute FP Canada Inc. Preliminary 

Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum,’’ dated 

June 23, 2017. This decision is unchanged for this 

final determination. 

13 In the preliminary determination, the 

Department determined that Tolko, and Tolko 

Industries Ltd., and Gilbert Smith Forest Products 

Ltd. are a single entity. See Memorandum, 

‘‘Antidumping Duty Investigation of Certain 

Softwood Lumber from Canada: Tolko Industries 

Ltd. and Tolko Marketing and Sales Ltd. 

Preliminary Affiliation and Collapsing 

Memorandum,’’ dated June 23, 2017. This decision 

is unchanged for this final determination. 

14 In the preliminary determination, the 

Department determined that West Fraser, Blue 

Ridge Lumber Inc. (Blue Ridge), Manning Forest 

Products Ltd. (Manning), and Sundre Forest 

Products Inc. (Sundre) are a single entity. See 

Memorandum, ‘‘Antidumping Duty Investigation of 

Certain Softwood Lumber from Canada: West Fraser 

Mills Ltd. Preliminary Affiliation and Collapsing 

Memorandum,’’ dated June 23, 2017. This decision 

is unchanged for this final determination. 

methodology and results of the 

Department’s critical circumstances 

analysis, see Final Determination 

Critical Circumstances Analysis Memo 8

and Issues and Decision Memorandum 

at Comment 18. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

The issues raised in the case briefs 

and rebuttals by interested parties to 

this investigation, including Canfor, 

West Fraser, Tolko, Resolute and the 

petitioner,9 are addressed in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum. A list of 

these issues is attached to this notice as 

Appendix II. Based on our analysis of 

the comments received, and our 

findings at verification, we made 

changes to the sales and costs reported 

by Canfor, Resolute, Tolko, and West 

Fraser prior to the preliminary 

determination. We also made changes to 

the margin calculations for these 

manadatory respondents; these changes 

resulted in a change to the all-others 

rate. 

All-Others Rate 

Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act 

provides that, in the final 

determination, the Department shall 

determine an estimated all-others rate 

for all exporters and producers not 

individually examined. This rate shall 

be an amount equal to the weightedaverage of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins established 

for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero and de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. 

For the final determination, the 

Department calculated individual 

estimated weighted-average dumping 

margins for Canfor, Resolute, Tolko, and 

West Fraser, none of which are zero, de 

minimis, or based entirely on facts 

otherwise available. The Department 

calculated the all-others rate using a 

weighted-average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

calculated for the examined respondents 

using each company’s business 

proprietary data for the merchandise 

under consideration.10

Final Determination 

The Department determines that the 

following estimated weighted-average 

dumping margins exist: 

Exporter/producer 

Estimated 

weightedaverage 

dumping 

margins 

(percent) 

Canfor Corporation 11 ........... 8.89 

Resolute FP Canada Inc 12 .. 3.20 

Tolko Marketing and Sales 

Ltd 13 ................................. 7.22 

West Fraser Mills Ltd 14 ........ 5.57 

All-Others .............................. 6.58 

Continuation of Suspension of 

Liquidation 

As noted above, the Department 

found that critical circumstances exist 

with respect to imports of merchandise 

under consideration from Resolute, 

Tolko, West Fraser, and all-others but 

did not exist for Canfor. In accordance 

with section 733(e)(2)(A) of the Act, the 

suspension of liquidation shall apply to 

unliquidated entries of shipments of 

softwood lumber from Canada as 

described in Appendix I of this notice, 

from Resolute, Tolko, West Fraser, and 

companies subject to the all-others rate 

that were entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date which is 90 days before the 

publication of the preliminary 

determination. Because we did not find 

that critical circumstances exist with 

regard to Canfor, in accordance with 

section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the 

Department will instruct CBP to 

continue to suspend liquidation of all 

Canfor entries of softwood lumber from 

Canada as described in Appendix I of 

this notice, which were entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after June 30, 2017, 

the date of publication of the 

Preliminary Determination of this 

investigation in the Federal Register. 

Further, pursuant to section 

735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(d), the Department will instruct 

CBP to require a cash deposit equal to 

the estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin or the estimated allothers rate, as follows: (1) The cash 

deposit rate for the respondents listed 

above will be equal to the respondentspecific estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin determined in this 

final determination; (2) if the exporter is 

not a respondent identified above, but 

the producer is, then the cash deposit 

rate will be equal to the respondentspecific estimated weighted-average 

dumping margin established for that 

producer of the subject merchandise; 

and (3) the cash deposit rate for all other 

producers and exporters will be equal to 

the all-others estimated weightedaverage dumping margin. 

Exclusion of Certain Softwood Lumber 

Products Certified by the Atlantic 

Lumber Board (ALB) 

As noted in the scope of the 

investigation (Appendix I), the 

Department has excluded from the 

scope of the investigation softwood 

lumber products certified by the ALB as 

being first produced in the Provinces of 

Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova 

Scotia, or Prince Edward Island from 

logs harvested in Newfoundland and 

Labrador, Nova Scotia, or Prince 

Edward Island. We will instruct CBP to 

require that the ALB certificate be 

included with each entry and require 

that the ALB certificate of origin number 

be identified on each CBP Form 7501 for 

such entries to be excluded from the 

scope of the investigation. We will 


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instruct CBP to refund cash deposits on 

any suspended entries after April 1, 

2017 that are accompanied by the ALB 

certificate. 

Disclosure 

The Department intends to disclose to 

interested parties its calculations and 

analysis performed in this final 

determination within five days of any 

public announcement in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 735(d) of 

the Act, the Department will notify the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its final determination. Because the final 

determination in this proceeding is 

affirmative, in accordance with section 

735(b)(2)(B) of the Act, the ITC will 

make its final determination as to 

whether the domestic industry in the 

United States is materially injured, or 

threatened with material injury, by 

reason of imports of softwood lumber 

from Canada no later than 45 days after 

the Department’s final determination. If 

the ITC determines that material injury 

or threat of material injury does not 

exist, the proceeding will be terminated 

and all securities posted will be 

refunded or canceled. If the ITC 

determines that such injury does exist, 

the Department will issue an 

antidumping duty order directing CBP 

to assess, upon further instruction by 

the Department, antidumping duties on 

appropriate imports of the subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the effective date of the suspension 

of liquidation. 

Notification Regarding Administrative 

Protective Orders 

This notice serves as a reminder to 

parties subject to an 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 

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 violation subject to sanction. 

This determination and this notice are 

issued and published pursuant to 

sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.210(c). 

Dated: November 1, 2017. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is softwood lumber, siding, 

flooring and certain other coniferous wood 

(softwood lumber products). The scope 

includes: 

• Coniferous wood, sawn, or chipped 

lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not 

planed, whether or not sanded, or whether or 

not finger-jointed, of an actual thickness 

exceeding six millimeters. 

• Coniferous wood siding, flooring, and 

other coniferous wood (other than moldings 

and dowel rods), including strips and friezes 

for parquet flooring, that is continuously 

shaped (including, but not limited to, 

tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, Vjointed, beaded, molded, rounded) along any 

of its edges, ends, or faces, whether or not 

planed, whether or not sanded, or whether or 

not end-jointed. 

• Coniferous drilled and notched lumber 

and angle cut lumber. 

• Coniferous lumber stacked on edge and 

fastened together with nails, whether or not 

with plywood sheathing. 

• Components or parts of semi-finished or 

unassembled finished products made from 

subject merchandise that would otherwise 

meet the definition of the scope above. 

Finished products are not covered by the 

scope of this investigation. For the purposes 

of this scope, finished products contain, or 

are comprised of, subject merchandise and 

have undergone sufficient processing such 

that they can no longer be considered 

intermediate products, and such products 

can be readily differentiated from 

merchandise subject to this investigation at 

the time of importation. Such differentiation 

may, for example, be shown through marks 

of special adaptation as a particular product. 

The following products are illustrative of the 

type of merchandise that is considered 

‘‘finished,’’ for the purpose of this scope: Ijoists; assembled pallets; cutting boards; 

assembled picture frames; garage doors. 

The following items are excluded from the 

scope of this investigation: 

• Softwood lumber products certified by 

the Atlantic Lumber Board as being first 

produced in the Provinces of Newfoundland 

and Labrador, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward 

Island from logs harvested in Newfoundland 

and Labrador, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward 

Island. 

• U.S.-origin lumber shipped to Canada for 

processing and imported into the United 

States if the processing occurring in Canada 

is limited to one or more of the following: (1) 

Kiln drying; (2) planing to create smooth-tosize board; or (3) sanding. 

• Box-spring frame kits if they contain the 

following wooden pieces—two side rails, two 

end (or top) rails and varying numbers of 

slats. The side rails and the end rails must 

be radius-cut at both ends. The kits must be 

individually packaged and must contain the 

exact number of wooden components needed 

to make a particular box-spring frame, with 

no further processing required. None of the 

components exceeds 1’’ in actual thickness or 

83’’ in length. 

• Radius-cut box-spring-frame 

components, not exceeding 1’’ in actual 

thickness or 83’’ in length, ready for 

assembly without further processing. The 

radius cuts must be present on both ends of 

the boards and must be substantially cut so 

as to completely round one corner. 

Softwood lumber product imports are 

generally entered under Chapter 44 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS). This chapter of the HTSUS 

covers ‘‘Wood and articles of wood.’’ 

Softwood lumber products that are subject to 

this investigation are currently classifiable 

under the following ten-digit HTSUS 

subheadings in Chapter 44: 

4407.10.01.01; 4407.10.01.02; 4407.10.01.15; 

4407.10.01.16; 4407.10.01.17; 4407.10.01.18; 

4407.10.01.19; 4407.10.01.20; 4407.10.01.42; 

4407.10.01.43; 4407.10.01.44; 4407.10.01.45; 

4407.10.01.46; 4407.10.01.47; 4407.10.01.48; 

4407.10.01.49; 4407.10.01.52; 4407.10.01.53; 

4407.10.01.54; 4407.10.01.55; 4407.10.01.56; 

4407.10.01.57; 4407.10.01.58; 4407.10.01.59; 

4407.10.01.64; 4407.10.01.65; 4407.10.01.66; 

4407.10.01.67; 4407.10.01.68; 4407.10.01.69; 

4407.10.01.74; 4407.10.01.75; 4407.10.01.76; 

4407.10.01.77; 4407.10.01.82; 4407.10.01.83; 

4407.10.01.92; 4407.10.01.93; 4409.10.05.00; 

4409.10.10.20; 4409.10.10.40; 4409.10.10.60; 

4409.10.10.80; 4409.10.20.00; 4409.10.90.20; 

4409.10.90.40; and 4418.99.10.00. 

Subject merchandise as described above 

might be identified on entry documentation 

as stringers, square cut box-spring-frame 

components, fence pickets, truss 

components, pallet components, flooring, 

and door and window frame parts. Items so 

identified might be entered under the 

following ten-digit HTSUS subheadings in 

Chapter 44: 

4415.20.40.00; 4415.20.80.00; 4418.99.90.05; 

4418.99.90.20; 4418.99.90.40; 4418.99.90.95; 

4421.99.70.40; and 4421.99.97.80. 

Although these HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

scope of this investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Investigation 

IV. Scope Comments 

V. Discussion of the Issues: 

Scope Issues 

Comment 1: Definition and Examples of 

Finished Products in Scope Language 

Comment 2: Exclusions Requested for Certain 

Types of Lumber Harvested From 

Western Red Cedar, Douglas Fir, and 

Hemlock Trees 

Comment 3: Previous Scope Determinations 

Comment 4: Whether Certain Products Are 

Finished Products 

Comment 5: Craft Kits 


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1For a full description of the scope of the order, 

see Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for the 

Preliminary Results of the 2016–2017 

Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty 

Order on Large Residential Washers from Mexico,’’ 

dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, 

this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

Comment 6: Whether Certain Scope 

Language Should Be Removed 

Comment 7: Wood Shims 

Comment 8: Pre-Painted Wood Products 

Comment 9: I-Joists 

Comment 10: Miscellaneous Products 

Discussed by the Government of British 

Columbia (GBC) and the BC Lumber 

Trade Council (BCLTC) 

Comment 11: Bed-Frame Components/ 

Crating Ladder Components 

Comment 12: U.S.-Origin Lumber Sent to 

Canada for Further Processing 

Comment 13: Softwood Lumber Produced in 

Canada From U.S.-Origin Logs 

Comment 14: Remanufactured Goods 

Comment 15: Eastern White Pine 

Comment 16: Additional Scope Issues 

Comment 16A: Whether the Department 

Should Conduct a Pass-Through 

Analysis for Independent 

Remanufacturers That Purchase 

Softwood Lumber at Arm’s Length 

Comment 16B: Whether Countervailing 

Duties Should Only Be Applicable on a 

First Mill Basis 

Comment 16C: Whether the Department 

Should Exclude Softwood Lumber 

Products From New Brunswick 

Comment 16D: Whether the Department 

Should Finalize the Exclusion of 

Softwood Lumber Products From the 

Atlantic Provinces 

General Issues 

Comment 17: Particular Market Situation 

Comment 18: Differential Pricing Analysis 

Comment 19: Whether Critical Circumstances 

Exist With Respect to Shipments of 

Certain Softwood Lumber Imports From 

Canada 

Comment 20: Whether the Department 

Should Deduct SLA Export Tax From 

U.S. Price 

Comment 21: Deduction of Indirect Selling 

Expenses and Inventory Carrying Costs 

Incurred in Canada From U.S. CEP 

Comment 22: Currency Conversions in the 

Home Market Program 

Comment 23: Matching Criteria When 

Applying Arm’s Length Test to Canfor’s 

and Resolute’s Home Market Sales 

Company-Specific Issues 

Comment 24: Basis for Canfor’s Gross Unit 

Price 

Comment 25: Variable Representing Canfor’s 

Total Cost of Manufacturing 

Comment 26: Canfor’s Reported Export Taxes 

Comment 27: Canfor’s Electricity Costs 

Comment 28: Canfor’s Reported Packing 

Costs 

Comment 29: Canfor’s By-Product Offsets 

Comment 30: Canfor’s Reconciling Items 

Comment 31: Canfor’s Cost Related to Canal 

Flats 

Comment 32: Canfor’s Gains and Losses for 

Derivatives 

Comment 33: Resolute’s Credit Expenses 

Comment 34: Corrections to Resolute’s Sales 

Databases as Noted in the Sales 

Verification Report 

Comment 35: Resolute’s Corporate Level 

Costs 

Comment 36: Allocation of Resolute Canada’s 

Corporate Charges 

Comment 37: Resolute Growth’s G&A 

Expense 

Comment 38: Resolute Growth’s 

Miscellaneous Income 

Comment 39: Resolute’s Wood Segment 

Corporate Income and Expense Items 

Comment 40: Resolute’s Long-Term Interest 

Income 

Comment 41: Resolute’s Timber Transport 

Costs 

Comment 42: Resolute’s Minor Cost 

Corrections 

Comment 43: Resolute’s Byproduct Offsets 

Comment 44: Resolute’s Offset for Further 

Processed Byproducts 

Comment 45: Resolute’s Startup Adjustments 

Comment 46: Whether the Department 

Should Adjust Tolko’s U.S. Prices to 

Reflect Losses on Futures Contracts 

Comment 47: Cost of Discontinued 

Operations in Tolko’s G&A Expenses 

Comment 48: Depreciation on Tolko’s Idle 

Assets 

Comment 49: Exclusion of Long-Term 

Interest Income From Tolko’s Financial 

Expenses 

Comment 50: Byproduct Offset Adjustments 

for Tolko 

Comment 51: Offset for the Revenue Earned 

by Tolko on Sales of Self-Generated 

Electricity 

Comment 52: Yield Loss in Tolko’s Cost of 

Manufacturing 

Comment 53: U.S. Price Adjustment 

Comment 54: Billing Adjustments 

Comment 55: West Fraser Reported Millcode 

Comment 56: Financial Expenses 

Comment 57: Byproduct Offset for Sales of 

Byproducts to Affiliated Companies 

Comment 58: Purchases of Seeds 

Comment 59: West Fraser’s Cost 

Reconciliation/Non-Operating Expenses 

VI. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–201–842] 

Large Residential Washers From 

Mexico: Preliminary Results of the 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review; 2016–2017 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on large 

residential washers from Mexico. The 

period of review (POR) is February 1, 

2016, through January 31, 2017. The 

review covers one producer/exporter of 

the subject merchandise, Electrolux 

Home Products Corp. N.V. and 

Electrolux Home Products de Mexico, 

S.A. de C.V. (collectively, Electrolux). 

We preliminarily determine that sales of 

subject merchandise by Electrolux have 

been made at prices below normal value 

(NV). We invite interested parties to 

comment on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable: November 8, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ross 

Belliveau or Rebecca Janz, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office II, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–4952 or (202) 482–2972, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Order 

The products covered by the order are 

all large residential washers and certain 

subassemblies thereof from Mexico. The 

products are currently classifiable under 

subheadings 8450.20.0040 and 

8450.20.0080 of the Harmonized Tariff 

System of the United States (HTSUS). 

Products subject to this order may also 

enter under HTSUS subheadings 

8450.11.0040, 8450.11.0080, 

8450.90.2000, and 8450.90.6000. 

Although the HTSUS subheadings are 

provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

merchandise subject to this scope is 

dispositive.1

Methodology 

The Department is conducting this 

review in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). Pursuant to 

section 776(a) and (b) of the Act, the 

Department has preliminarily relied 

upon facts otherwise available with 

adverse inferences (AFA) for Electrolux 

because this respondent did not timely 

respond to the Department’s 

antidumping duty questionnaire. For a 

complete explanation of the 

methodology and analysis underlying 

the preliminary application of AFA, see 

the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

The Preliminary Decision Memorandum 

is a public document and is on file 

electronically via Enforcement and 

Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 

ACCESS is available to registered users 

at https://access.trade.gov, and to all 

parties in the Central Records Unit, 

Room B8024 of the main Department of 

Commerce building. In addition, a 

complete version of the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum can be found at 


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