Notice2024-03857
Certain Quartz Surface Products From the People's Republic of China: Expansion of the Period of Review and Supplemental Opportunity To Request Administrative Review
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Published
February 26, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is expanding the period of review (POR) for the current antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) administrative reviews of certain quartz surface products (quartz surface products) from the People's Republic of China (China) to include entries suspended by the final scope ruling on Malaysian processed quartz slab prior to the current POR of the instant reviews. Additionally, Commerce is providing a supplemental opportunity for interested parties to request a review of certain companies currently ineligible for the scope certification process with suspended entries during the expanded POR solely for the purposes of examining their certification status.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 38 (Monday, February 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14055-14056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03857]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-084, C-570-085]
Certain Quartz Surface Products From the People's Republic of
China: Expansion of the Period of Review and Supplemental Opportunity
To Request Administrative Review
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is expanding the
period of review (POR) for the current antidumping duty (AD) and
countervailing duty (CVD) administrative reviews of certain quartz
surface products (quartz surface products) from the People's Republic
of China (China) to include entries suspended by the final scope ruling
on Malaysian processed quartz slab prior to the current POR of the
instant reviews. Additionally, Commerce is providing a supplemental
opportunity for interested parties to request a review of certain
companies currently ineligible for the scope certification process with
suspended entries during the expanded POR solely for the purposes of
examining their certification status.
DATES: Supplemental requests for review must be submitted no later than
March 11, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ajay K. Menon, AD/CVD Operations,
Office IX, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-0208.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On October 21, 2022, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
final scope ruling on Malaysian processed quartz slab, finding that
imports of quartz slab manufactured in China and processed in Malaysia
are covered by the AD and CVD orders on quartz surface products from
China.\1\ As part of this determination, Commerce implemented a
certification requirement for all imports of quartz surface products
from Malaysia, effective November 4, 2021, and also directed U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to suspend liquidation and require
cash deposit for entries subject to the scope inquiry retroactive to
this same date.\2\
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\1\ See Certain Quartz Surface Products from the People's
Republic of China: Final Scope Ruling on Malaysian Processed Quartz
Slab and Recission of the Circumvention Inquiry, 87 FR 64009, 64010
(October 21, 2022) (Malaysia Processed Final Scope Ruling).
\2\ Id.
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On July 3, 2023, Commerce notified interested parties of the
opportunity to request administrative reviews of the AD and CVD orders
on quartz surface products from China for the periods: (1) July 1,
2022, through June 30, 2023 for the AD administrative review; and (2)
January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022 for the CVD administrative
review.\3\ On September 11, 2023, Commerce initiated administrative
reviews of the AD and CVD orders on quartz surface products from China
for these periods.\4\
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\3\ See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or
Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative
Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 88 FR 42693 (July 3,
2023).
\4\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 62322 (September 11, 2023) (Initiation
Notice).
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Expanding the PORs of the AD and CVD Administrative Reviews
As noted above, in the Malaysia Processed Final Scope Ruling
published on October 21, 2022, Commerce imposed a certification
requirement and also directed CBP to suspend liquidation and require
cash deposit for entries subject to the inquiry effective November 4,
2021.\5\ Therefore, consistent with 19 CFR 351.213(e)(1)-(2),\6\ to
ensure that Commerce is examining all suspended entries which were not
previously under review, we are expanding the ongoing AD and CVD
administrative reviews to cover the following periods: (1) November 1,
2021, through June 30, 2023 for the AD administrative review; and (2)
November 1, 2021, through December 31, 2022 for the CVD administrative
review.
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\5\ See Malaysian Processed Final Scope Ruling, 87 FR at 64010.
\6\ See 19 CFR 351.213(e)(1)-(2), which provides that
``{w{time} hile AD/CVD reviews normally are limited to 12 months or
the calendar year, Commerce has the discretion to determine the
period under review.''
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Supplemental Opportunity To Request Administrative Review
In the Malaysia Processed Final Scope Ruling, we determined that
the following companies were ineligible from participating in the scope
certification process because they did not fully participate in the
proceeding: Bada Industries SDN BHD (Bada Industries); Ever Stone World
SDN BHD (Ever Stone); Karina Stone; MSI Building Supply SDN (MSI);
Principal Safwa (M) SDN (Principal Safwa); Resstone Manufacturing
(Resstone);
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SCLM Services SDN BHD (SCLM); Unique Stone SDN BHD (Unique Stone); and
Universal Quartz. We are conducting the ongoing AD and CVD
administrative reviews to reconsider the eligibility of Bada
Industries, Karina Stone, and Universal Quartz from the certification
process.\7\
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\7\ See Initiation Notice, 88 FR 62322.
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With this notice, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(b), we are
affording interested parties, as defined by section 771(9) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, with a supplemental opportunity to
request in writing that the Secretary conduct an administrative review
to review the certification eligibility of any of the following
companies: Ever Stone; MSI; Principal Safwa; Resstone; SCLM; and Unique
Stone. For both the AD and CVD administrative reviews, the requestor
must specify for which of these companies it is requesting a review.
The deadline for parties to file a request for review of the
certification status of these entities is not later than 14 days from
the date of publication of this notice. If interested parties submit a
request for review of any of these companies, Commerce's review will be
limited to the company's eligibility to participate in the
certification process. Moreover, Commerce will only include those
companies in the AD and CVD administrative reviews which have suspended
entries of subject merchandise during the expanded PORs (i.e., November
1, 2021, through June 30, 2023 for the AD administrative review; and
November 1, 2021, through December 31, 2022 for the CVD administrative
review).
All review requests must be filed electronically in Enforcement and
Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic
Service System (ACCESS) at <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>.\8\ 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. Note that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements
pertaining to the service of documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).\9\
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\8\ See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Electronic Filing Procedures; Administrative Protective Order
Procedures, 76 FR 39263 (July 6, 2011).
\9\ See Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other
Procedures in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings; Final
Rule, 88 FR 67069 (September 29, 2023).
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Commerce intends to publish in the Federal Register a supplementary
initiation notice for all timely filed review requests which satisfy
the requirements noted above.
Continued Suspension of Liquidation
Commerce previously issued instructions to CBP directing the
assessment of antidumping or countervailing duties on entries not
currently under review at a rate equal to the cash deposit of estimated
antidumping or countervailing duties required on those entries at the
time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption. In the
event that Commerce receives additional review requests for the
companies listed above, Commerce intends to amend these instructions to
direct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation of any unliquidated
entries made by companies subsequently under review until the
completion of these administrative reviews.
Dated: February 20, 2024.
James Maeder,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations.
[FR Doc. 2024-03857 Filed 2-23-24; 8:45 am]
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