Notice2024-08269
Melamine From Germany, India, Qatar, and Trinidad and Tobago: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the Countervailing Duty Investigations
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Published
April 18, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 76 (Thursday, April 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27714-27715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08269]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-428-853, C-533-925, C-518-002, C-274-811]
Melamine From Germany, India, Qatar, and Trinidad and Tobago:
Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the Countervailing Duty
Investigations
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Applicable April 18, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Palmer or Faris Montgomery, Office
VIII (Germany), Paul Kebker or Dylan Hill, Office IV (India), Sofia
Pedrelli or Samantha Kinney, Office II (Qatar), or Colin Thrasher,
Office V (Trinidad and Tobago), AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and
Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230, telephone:
(202) 482-9068, (202) 482-1537, (202) 482-2254, (202) 482-1197, (202)
482-4310, (202) 482-2285, and (202) 482-3004, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 5, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)
initiated countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of U.S. imports of
melamine from Germany, India, Qatar, and Trinidad and Tobago (the
investigations).\1\ Currently, the preliminary determinations in the
investigations are due no later than May 9, 2024.
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\1\ See Melamine from Germany, India, Qatar, and Trinidad and
Tobago: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigations, 89 FR
17381 (March 11, 2024).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determinations
Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in a CVD
investigation within 65 days after the date on which Commerce initiated
the investigation. However, section 703(c)(1) of the Act permits
Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination in a CVD
investigation until no later than 130 days after the date on which
Commerce initiated the investigation if: (A) the petitioner makes a
timely request for an extension of the period within which the
determination must be made; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties
concerned are cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily
complicated, and that additional time is necessary to make the
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. Commerce will grant the request unless it finds compelling
reasons to deny the request.
On April 4, 2024, Cornerstone Chemical Company, the petitioner in
the investigations, timely requested that Commerce postpone the
preliminary determinations in the investigations.\2\ The petitioner
requested postponement of the preliminary determinations in the
investigations so that Commerce can fully analyze the forthcoming
questionnaire responses of the mandatory respondents and issue
supplemental questionnaires, as necessary.\3\
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\2\ See Petitioner's Letters, ``Petitioner's Request For
Postponement Of The Preliminary Determination,'' dated April 4,
2024.
\3\ Id.
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In accordance with 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner submitted its
requests for postponement of the preliminary determinations in the
investigations 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the
preliminary determinations and stated the reasons for its requests.
Commerce finds no compelling reason to deny the requests. Therefore, in
accordance with section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, Commerce is postponing
the deadline for the preliminary determinations in the
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investigations to no later than 130 days after the date on which it
initiated the investigations, i.e., July 15, 2024.\4\
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\4\ Postponing the preliminary determinations to 130 days after
initiation of the investigations would make the deadline on
Saturday, July 13, 2024. Commerce's practice dictates that where a
deadline falls on a weekend or federal holiday, the appropriate
deadline is the next business day, in this case Monday, July 15,
2024. See Notice of Clarification: Application of ``Next Business
Day'' Rule for Administrative Determination Deadlines Pursuant to
the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005).
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Pursuant to section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1),
the deadline for the final determinations in the investigations will
continue to be 75 days after the date of the preliminary
determinations.
This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).
Dated: April 11, 2024.
Ryan Majerus,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-08269 Filed 4-17-24; 8:45 am]
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