Notice2025-06864
Raw Honey From India: Final Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2023
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Published
April 22, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that sales of raw honey from India were made at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) November 23, 2021, through May 31, 2023. We are also rescinding this review with respect to 14 companies that had no entries of the subject merchandise during the POR.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 76 (Tuesday, April 22, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16864-16867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06864]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-903]
Raw Honey From India: Final Results and Partial Rescission of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2023
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that
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sales of raw honey from India were made at less than normal value (NV)
during the period of review (POR) November 23, 2021, through May 31,
2023. We are also rescinding this review with respect to 14 companies
that had no entries of the subject merchandise during the POR.
DATES: Applicable April 22, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brittany Bauer or Javier Barrientos,
AD/CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3860 or (202)
482-2243, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 9, 2024, Commerce published the Preliminary Results and
invited interested parties to comment.\1\ On September 19, 2024, the
petitioners \2\ and Indocan Honey Private Limited (Indocan) submitted
case briefs,\3\ and, on October 3, 2024, Allied Natural Product
(Allied) and Indocan submitted a joint rebuttal brief.\4\ On November
12, 2024, we extended the deadline for these final results until
January 10, 2025.\5\ On December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled the deadline
for these final results until April 10, 2025,\6\ and, on April 10,
2025, we extended the deadline for the final results by an additional
two days, to April 14, 2025.\7\ For a complete description of the
events that occurred since the Preliminary Results, see the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.\8\
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\1\ See Raw Honey from India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review and Preliminary Partial Rescission of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2023, 89 FR 56306 (July
9, 2024) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.
\2\ The petitioners in this case are the American Honey
Producers Association and the Sioux Honey Association.
\3\ See Petitioners' Letter, ``Petitioners' Case Brief
Concerning Allied Natural Product and Indocan Honey Private
Limited,'' dated September 19, 2024; and Indocan's Letter, ``Case
Brief,'' dated September 19, 2024.
\4\ See Allied and Indocan's Letter, ``Rebuttal Case Brief,''
dated October 3, 2024.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' dated November 12, 2024.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2023,'' dated April 10,
2025. Two days after April 10, 2025, is Saturday, April 12, 2025.
Commerce's practice dictates that, where a deadline falls on a
weekend or federal holiday, the appropriate deadline is the next
business day, which, in this case, is Monday, April 14, 2025. 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).
\8\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the
Final Results of the Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty
Order on Raw Shrimp from India; 2021-2023,'' dated concurrently
with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision
Memorandum).
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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 <a href="https://access.trade.gov">https://access.trade.gov</a>. In
addition, a complete version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can
be accessed directly at <a href="https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx">https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx</a>.
Scope of the Order \9\
The product covered by this Order is raw honey from India. For a
full description of the scope, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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\9\ See Raw Honey from Argentina, Brazil, India, and the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders, 87 FR 35501
(June 10, 2022) (Order).
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Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
In the Preliminary Results, we stated that we intended to rescind
this review pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3) with respect to 14
companies \10\ for which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data
showed no suspended entries of the subject merchandise during the
POR.\11\ No party filed comments with respect to this preliminary
finding and we received no information to contradict it. Therefore, we
are rescinding this administrative review with respect to these 14
companies.
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\10\ See Appendix II for a list of these companies.
\11\ See Preliminary Results, 89 FR at 56306-07.
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Analysis of Comments Received
We addressed the issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs in
the Issues and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues addressed in
the Issues and Decision Memorandum is included in Appendix I to this
notice.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results
Based on our review of the record, including comments received from
interested parties, we have made changes to the Preliminary Results
margin calculations for Allied and Indocan.\12\
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\12\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at Comments 3-5, 7-8,
and 10.
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Rates for Non-Selected Respondents
The Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and Commerce's
regulations do not address the establishment of a rate to be applied to
companies not selected for individual examination when Commerce limits
its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section
777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5)
of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others
rate in a market economy investigation, for guidance when calculating
the rate for companies which were not selected for individual
examination in an administrative review. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of
the Act, the all-others rate is normally ``an amount equal to the
weighted average of the estimated weighted average dumping margins
established for exporters and producers individually investigated,
excluding any zero and de minimis margins, and any margins determined
entirely {on the basis of facts available{time} .''
For these final results, we have calculated a weighted-average
dumping margin for Allied and Indocan that is not zero, de minimis, or
determined entirely on the basis of facts available. Therefore,
Commerce assigned a margin to the all-others rate companies based on
the simple average of the two mandatory respondents' rates, as listed
below.\13\
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\13\ We calculated a simple average margin because the record
does not contain usable publicly ranged data for both respondents
and computing a weighted-average margin using actual data would
disclose business proprietary information.
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Final Results of Administrative Review
Commerce determines that the following weighted-average dumping
margins exist for the period November 23, 2021, through May 31, 2023:
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Weighted
average
Exporter/producer dumping
margin
(percent)
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Allied Natural Product.................................. 3.96
Indocan Honey Private Limited; Queenbee Foods Private 0.66
Limited; and Pearlcot Enterprises \14\.................
Companies Not Selected for Individual Review............ 2.31
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Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in
connection with these final results of review to interested parties
within five days after public announcement of the final results or, if
there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal Register, in accordance with
19 CFR 351.224(b).
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\14\ Commerce has treated Indocan as a single entity with
Queenbee Foods Private Limited and Pearlcot Enterprises. See Issues
and Decision Memorandum at Comment 9. We refer to the companies,
collectively, as Indocan.
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Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1),
Commerce has determined, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on
all appropriate entries covered by this review.
Because the weighted-average dumping margins for Allied and Indocan
are not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent), we calculated
importer-specific ad valorem assessment rates based on the ratio of the
total amount of dumping calculated for the examined sales to the total
entered value of the sales. Where an importer-specific assessment rate
is zero or de minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate the
appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
Consistent with Commerce's assessment practice, for entries of
subject merchandise during the POR produced by Allied or Indocan for
which they did not know their merchandise was destined for the United
States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the
all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies)
involved in the transaction.\15\
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\15\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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For the companies listed in Appendix II, we will instruct CBP to
assess antidumping duties on any suspended entries that entered under
the CBP case numbers of those companies (i.e., at those exporters'
rates) at a rate equal to the cash deposit of estimated antidumping
duties required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for
consumption, during the POR.
For the companies that were not selected for individual examination
(see Appendix III), we will assign an assessment rate based on the
review-specific average rate, calculated as noted in the ``Rate for
Non-Examined Respondents'' section above.
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) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rates for Allied and Indocan
will be the weighted-average dumping margins established in the final
results of this administrative review; (2) for previously reviewed or
investigated companies not listed above, 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 the original
less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation, but the producer has been
covered in a prior completed segment of this proceeding, the cash
deposit rate will be the company-specific rate established for the most
recent period for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash
deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be
5.87 percent, as established in the original LTFV investigation.\16\
These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect
until further notice.
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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 Commerce's presumption that reimbursement
of antidumping duties has occurred and the subsequent assessment of
double antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Order (APO)
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to an 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 terms of an APO is a
sanctionable violation.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(h) and
19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).
Dated: April 14, 2025.
Christopher Abbott,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations, performing the
non-exclusive functions and duties of the Assistant Secretary for
Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix I
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Cost Methodology for Allied
Comment 2: Reporting Consistency With Normal Books and Records
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Comment 3: Application of Transactions Disregarded Rule
Comment 4: Adjustments to Production Quantities
Comment 5: Profit and Selling Expenses for Constructed Value
(CV)
Comment 6: Whether To Apply Total Adverse Facts Available (AFA)
to Indocan
Comment 7: Correction of Ministerial Error
Comment 8: Revision to Home Market Indirect Selling Expense
Ratio
Comment 9: Collapsing
Comment 10: Use of Importer Field in Calculations
VI. Recommendation
Appendix II
Companies for Which We Are Rescinding the Administrative Review
1. AA Food Factory
2. Alpro
3. Aone Enterprises
4. Apl Logistics
5. Bee Hive Farms
6. Dabur India Limited
7. Ess Pee Quality Products
8. Infinator Pvt., Ltd.
9. Natural Agro Foods
10. NYSA Agro Foods
11. Shan Organics
12. Sunlite Organic
13. UTMT
14. Vedic Systems
Appendix III
Companies Not Selected for Individual Examination
1. Ambrosia Natural Products (India) Private Limited/Ambrosia
Enterprise/Sunlite India Agro Producer Co., Ltd.
2. Apis India Limited
3. Brij Honey Pvt., Ltd.
4. Ganpati Natural Products
5. GMC Natural Product
6. Hi Tech Natural Products India Ltd.
7. Kejriwal Bee Care India Private Limited
8. KK Natural Food Industries LLP
9. Salt Range Foods Pvt. Ltd.
10. Shakti Api Foods Private Limited
11. Shiv Apiaries
12. Yieppie Internationals
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