Notice2023-20660
Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From Colombia: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022
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Published
September 25, 2023
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that sales of citric acid and certain citrate salts (citric acid) from Colombia were made at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 184 (Monday, September 25, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65654-65656]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20660]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-301-803]
Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts From Colombia: Final
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that
sales of citric acid and certain citrate salts (citric acid) from
Colombia were made at less than normal value during the period of
review (POR), July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
DATES: Applicable September 25, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: T.J. Worthington or David Lindgren,
AD/CVD Operations, Office III, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4567
or (202) 482-1671, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 28, 2023, Commerce published the Preliminary Results of
this review in the Federal Register and invited interested parties to
comment on those results.\1\ No interested party submitted comments on
the Preliminary Results. Accordingly, the final results remain
unchanged from the Preliminary Results and, thus, there is no decision
memorandum accompanying this notice. Commerce conducted this review in
accordance with section
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751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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\1\ See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Colombia:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-
2022, 88 FR 48794 (July 28, 2023) (Preliminary Results).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>2</SUP>
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\2\ See Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from Belgium,
Colombia and Thailand: Antidumping Duty Orders, 83 FR 35214 (July
25, 2018) (Order).
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The merchandise covered by the scope of the Order includes all
grades and granulation sizes of citric acid, sodium citrate, and
potassium citrate in their unblended forms, whether dry or in solution,
and regardless of packaging type. The scope also includes blends of
citric acid, sodium citrate, and potassium citrate; as well as blends
with other ingredients, such as sugar, where the unblended form(s) of
citric acid, sodium citrate, and potassium citrate constitute 40
percent or more, by weight, of the blend.
The scope also includes all forms of crude calcium citrate,
including dicalcium citrate monohydrate, and tricalcium citrate
tetrahydrate, which are intermediate products in the production of
citric acid, sodium citrate, and potassium citrate.
The scope includes the hydrous and anhydrous forms of citric acid,
the dihydrate and anhydrous forms of sodium citrate, otherwise known as
citric acid sodium salt, and the monohydrate and monopotassium forms of
potassium citrate. Sodium citrate also includes both trisodium citrate
and monosodium citrate which are also known as citric acid trisodium
salt and citric acid monosodium salt, respectively.
The scope does not include calcium citrate that satisfies the
standards set forth in the United States Pharmacopeia and has been
mixed with a functional excipient, such as dextrose or starch, where
the excipient constitutes at least 2 percent, by weight, of the
product.
Citric acid and sodium citrate are classifiable under 2918.14.0000
and 2918.15.1000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS), respectively. Potassium citrate and crude calcium citrate are
classifiable under 2918.15.5000 and, if included in a mixture or blend,
3824.99.9397 of the HTSUS. Blends that include citric acid, sodium
citrate, and potassium citrate are classifiable under 3824.99.9397 of
the HTSUS. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience
and customs purposes, the written description of the merchandise is
dispositive.
Final Results of Review
Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping
margin exists for the period July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022:
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Weighted-
average dumping
Exporter/producer margin
(percent)
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Sucroal S.A............................................ 6.10
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Disclosure
Normally, Commerce will disclose to the parties in a proceeding the
calculations performed in connection with the final results of review
within five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of the notice
of final results in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.224(b). However, Commerce made no adjustments to the margin
calculation methodology used in the Preliminary Results; therefore,
there are no calculations to disclose for these final results.
Assessment Rate
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries covered by this review. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), where
the respondent reported the entered value of its U.S. sales, we
calculated importer-specific antidumping duty assessment rates by
aggregating the total amount of dumping calculated for the examined
sales of each importer and dividing each of these amounts by the total
entered value associated with those sales. Where the respondent did not
report entered value, we calculated a per-unit assessment rate for each
importer by dividing the total amount of dumping calculated for the
examined sales made to that importer by the total quantity associated
with those sales. To determine whether an importer-specific, per-unit
assessment rate is de minimis, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2),
we also calculated an importer-specific ad valorem ratio based on
estimated entered values. Where either the respondent's weighted-
average dumping margin is zero or de minimis within the meaning of 19
CFR 351.106(c)(1), or an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or
de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries
without regard to antidumping duties.
Commerce's ``automatic assessment'' will apply to entries of
subject merchandise during the POR produced by the mandatory respondent
for which the company did not know that the merchandise it sold to an
intermediary (e.g., a reseller, trading company, or exporter) was
destined for the United States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP
to liquidate such entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate
for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.\3\
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\3\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier
than 35 days after the date of publication of the final results of this
review in the Federal Register. If a timely summons is filed at the
U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will
direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties
to file a request for a statutory injunction has expired (i.e., within
90 days of publication).
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all
shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided by section
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for Sucroal S.A.
will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established in
these final results of this administrative review; (2) for merchandise
exported by a company not covered in this administrative review but
covered in a completed prior segment of the proceeding, the cash
deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published
for the most recently completed segment of this proceeding; (3) if the
exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or in
the investigation but the producer is, the cash deposit rate will be
the rate established for the most recently-completed segment of this
proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be
the all-others rate of 28.48 percent, the rate established in the
investigation of this proceeding.\4\ These cash deposit requirements,
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\4\ See Order, 83 FR at 35215.
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Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a final 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 POR. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in
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Commerce's presumption that reimbursement of antidumping duties has
occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Order
This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which
continues to govern business proprietary information in this segment of
the proceeding. 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 term of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
Commerce is issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5)
and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).
Dated: September 18, 2023.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2023-20660 Filed 9-22-23; 8:45 am]
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