Notice2024-29600
Certain Aluminum Foil From the People's Republic of China: Amended Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative; 2022
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Published
December 17, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review of certain aluminum foil (aluminum foil) from the People's Republic of China (China) to correct a ministerial error. The period of review (POR) is January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 102107-102109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29600]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-570-054]
Certain Aluminum Foil From the People's Republic of China:
Amended Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative; 2022
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the
final results of the countervailing duty administrative review of
certain aluminum foil (aluminum foil) from the People's Republic of
China (China) to correct a ministerial error. The period of review
(POR) is January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022.
DATES: Applicable December 17, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Natasia Harrison or Harrison Tanchuck,
AD/CVD Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1240 or (202)
482-7421, respectively.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with sections 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5), on November 12, 2024,
Commerce published its final results in the countervailing duty
administrative review of aluminum foil from China.\1\ On November 13,
2024, the Aluminum Association Trade Enforcement Working Group and its
individual members (collectively, the petitioners) timely alleged that
Commerce made a ministerial error in the Final Results.\2\ No party
submitted rebuttal comments.
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\1\ See Certain Aluminum Foil from the People's Republic of
China: Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative; 2022, 89
FR 88957 (November 12, 2024) (Final Results), and accompanying
Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM).
\2\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Ministerial Error Allegation,''
dated November 13, 2024.
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Scope of the Order <SUP>3</SUP>
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\3\ See Certain Aluminum Foil from the People's Republic of
China: Amended Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination
and Countervailing Duty Order, 83 FR 17360 (April 19, 2018); see
also Certain Aluminum Foil from the People's Republic of China:
Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony With the Amended Final
Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation, and Notice
of Amended Final Determination and Amended Countervailing Duty
Order, 85 FR 47730 (August 6, 2020) (collectively, Order).
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The product covered by the scope of the Order is aluminum foil from
China. A full description of the scope of the Order is contained in the
Final Results IDM.
Ministerial Errors
Section 751(h) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.224(f) define a
``ministerial error'' as an error ``in addition, subtraction, or other
arithmetic function, clerical error resulting from inaccurate copying,
duplication, or the like, and any similar type of unintentional error
which the Secretary considers ministerial.'' Commerce finds that the
purported error alleged by the petitioners constitutes a ministerial
error within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.224(f).\4\ Specifically, we
committed a ministerial error with regard to the calculation of
mandatory respondent Jiangsu Zhongji Lamination Materials Co., (HK)
Limited's (Zhongji HK's) input supplier company sales denominators, and
consequently, the subsidy rate calculations performed in connection
with Zhongji HK's affiliated input supplier company sales denominators.
For a complete discussion of this alleged error, see the Ministerial
Error Analysis Memorandum.
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\4\ See Memorandum, ``Analysis of Ministerial Error
Allegations,'' dated concurrently with this notice (Ministerial
Error Analysis Memorandum).
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In accordance with section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(e),
we are amending the Final Results.\5\ Specifically, we are amending the
net subsidy rate for Zhongji HK. The revised net subsidy rate is
provided in the table below. As a result of amending the net subsidy
rate for Zhongji HK, we are also amending the rate for the non-selected
companies, which is the average of the average of the rates calculated
for two mandatory respondents, as provided in the table below.
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\5\ See Final Results, 89 FR at 88958.
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Amended Final Results of Review
As a result of correcting the ministerial errors described above,
Commerce determines the following net countervailable subsidy rates for
the period January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022:
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Subsidy rate
Company (percent ad
valorem)
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Hangzhou Five Star Aluminium Co., Ltd.\6\............... \7\ 29.90
Jiangsu Zhongji Lamination Materials Co., (HK) Limited \9\ 25.24
\8\....................................................
Non-Selected Companies Under Review \10\................ \11\ 29.13
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Disclosure
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\6\ Commerce finds the following companies to be to be cross-
owned with Five Star: Jiangsu Dingsheng New Materials Joint-Stock
Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Dingsheng), Dingsheng Aluminum Industries (Hong
Kong) Trading Co., Ltd. (Dingsheng HK), Hangzhou Dingsheng Import &
Export Co., Ltd. (Dingsheng IE), Hangzhou Teemful Aluminium Co.,
Ltd. (Teemful), Inner Mongolia Liansheng New Energy Material Co.,
Ltd. or Inner Mongolia Liansheng New Energy Material Joint-Stock
Co., Ltd. (Liansheng), Inner Mongolia Xinxing New Energy Material
Co., Ltd. or Inner Mongolia Xinxing New Material Co., Ltd.
(Xinxing), Hangzhou Dingsheng Industrial Group Co., Ltd. (Dingsheng
Group), Hangzhou Dingcheng Aluminium Co., Ltd. (Dingcheng); Luoyang
Longding Aluminum Co., Ltd. (Longding); Walson (HK) Trading Co.,
Limited (Walson HK); Dingheng New Materials Co., Ltd. (Dingheng) and
Thai Ding Li New Materials Co., Ltd. (Ding Li), (collectively,
Dingsheng Respondents). Walson HK, Dingheng and Ding Li were listed
separately in Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 38021 (June 12, 2023) (Initiation
Notice). See Dingsheng Respondents' Letter, ``Hangzhou Five Star
Affiliation Response,'' dated August 25, 2023 (Dingsheng Respondents
AQR) at Exhibit A.1.
\7\ Unchanged from Final Results.
\8\ As discussed in the Preliminary Results, Commerce finds the
following companies to be to be cross-owned with Zhongji HK: Jiangsu
Zhongji Lamination Materials Co., Ltd. (Zhongji) (FKA Jiangsu
Zhongji Lamination Materials Stock Co., Ltd.); Jiangsu Huafeng
Aluminium Industry Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Huafeng); Shantou Wanshun New
Material Group Co., Ltd. (Shantou Wanshun) (FKA Shantou Wanshun
Package Material Stock Co., Ltd.); Anhui Zhongji Battery Foil
Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Anhui Zhongji) (FKA Anhui Maximum
Aluminium Industries Company Limited); and Sichuan Wanshun Zhongji
Aluminium Industry Co., Ltd. (Sichuan Wanshun). Anhui Zhongji, Anhui
Maximum Aluminium Industries Company Limited, Jiangsu Huafeng,
Zhongji, and Shantou Wanshun Package Material Stock Co., Ltd. were
listed separately in the Initiation Notice.
\9\ This net countervailable ad valorem subsidy rate reflects an
entered value adjustment (EVA). See Final Results IDM at Comment 3.
\10\ See Appendix for a list of the non-selected companies under
review.
\11\ The non-selected company rate reflects Five Star's ad
valorem net countervailable subsidy rate and Zhongji HK's amended ad
valorem net countervailable subsidy rate without the EVA, which is
28.35 percent. See Final Results IDM at Comment 3; see also
Memorandum, ``Amended Final Results Calculation of Subsidy Rate for
Non-Selected Companies Under Review,'' dated concurrently with this
notice.
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Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed for these
amended final results within five days after the date of publication of
this notice in the Federal Register in accordance with 19 CFR
351.224(b).
Assessment Rates
In accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(2), Commerce shall determine, and U.S. Customs and Border
Protections (CBP) shall assess, countervailing duties on all
appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the
amended final results of this review. Commerce intends to issue
assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after the date
of publication of these amended 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
In accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Act, Commerce also
intends to instruct CBP to collect cash deposits of estimated
countervailing duties in the amounts shown for the companies subject to
this review, effective November 12, 2024, the date of publication of
the Final Results in the Federal Register. For all non-selected
companies, CBP will continue to collect cash deposits of estimated
countervailing duties at the most recent company-specific or all-others
rate applicable to the company, as appropriate. These cash deposits,
when imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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Administrative Protective Order
This notice also serves as a final 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 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 terms of an APO is a sanctionable
violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these amended final results of the
review in accordance with sections 751(h) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and
19 CFR 351.224(e).
Dated: December 10, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
Non-Selected Companies Under Review
1. Alcha International Holdings Limited
2. Baotou Alcha Aluminum Co., Ltd.
3. Gr[auml]nges Aluminum (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
4. Guangxi Baise Xinghe Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.
5. Hunan Suntown Marketing Limited
6. Jiangyin Dolphin Pack Ltd. Co.
7. Luoyang Longding Aluminium Industries Co., Ltd.
8. Shandong Yuanrui Metal Material Co., Ltd.
9. Shanghai Huafon Aluminium Corporation
10. Shanghai Shenhuo Aluminium Foil Co., Ltd.
11. Shanghai Shenyan Packaging Materials Co., Ltd.
12. SNTO International Trade Limited
13. Suntown Technology Group Corporation Limited
14. Xiamen Xiashun Aluminium Foil Co. Ltd.
15. Yangtai Jintai International Trade Co., Ltd.
16. Yantai Donghai Aluminum Co., Ltd.
17. Yinbang Clad Material Co., Ltd.
18. Zhejiang Zhongjin Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.
[FR Doc. 2024-29600 Filed 12-16-24; 8:45 am]
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