Notice2025-10291
Certain Corrosion Inhibitors From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 2023-2024
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Published
June 6, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that companies in the People's Republic of China (China) made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) March 1, 2023, through February 29, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 108 (Friday, June 6, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24097-24099]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10291]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-122]
Certain Corrosion Inhibitors From the People's Republic of China:
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 2023-2024
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that
companies in the People's Republic of China (China) made sales of
subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV) during the period of
review (POR) March 1, 2023, through February 29, 2024.
DATES: Applicable June 6, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blair Hood or Dusten Hom, AD/CVD
Operations, Office I, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-8329 and (202)
482-5075, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On January 2, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping
duty order \1\ on corrosion inhibitors from China and invited
interested parties to comment.\2\ This review covers two producers/
exporters of the subject merchandise, Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd. (ATC);
Jiangsu Trust Chem Co., Ltd. (JTC); and Nanjing Trust Chem Co., Ltd.
(NTC) (collectively ATC) \3\ and Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd.
(Botao). Additionally, on December 9, 2024, Commerce tolled certain
administrative deadlines in this review by 90 days; accordingly,
deadline to issue the final results in this administrative review is
now July 8, 2025.\4\ For a summary of the events that occurred since
the Preliminary Results, as well as the full discussion of the issues
raised by parties for these final results, are discussed in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum.\5\ Commerce conducted this administrative
review in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act).
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\1\ See Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic
of China: Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Orders, 86 FR
14869 (March 19, 2021) (Order).
\2\ See Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the People's Republic
of China: Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of the
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024, 90 FR 81 (January
2, 2025) (Preliminary Results), and accompanying Preliminary
Decision Memorandum (PDM).
\3\ As we did in the previous segments of this proceeding and
the Preliminary Results, we continue to treat ATC, JTC, and NTC as a
single entity for the final results of this review. See Memorandum,
``Preliminary Affiliation and Collapsing Memorandum for Anhui Trust
Chem Co., Ltd., and Jiangsu Trust Chem Co., Ltd., and Nanjing Trust
Chem Co., Ltd.,'' dated March 31, 2023; see also Preliminary
Results, 90 FR at 81.
\4\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings,'' dated December 9, 2024.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the
Final Results of the 2023-2024 Administrative Review of the
Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Corrosion Inhibitors from the
People's Republic of China,'' dated concurrently with, and hereby
adopted by, this notice (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by the Order are certain corrosion inhibitors
from China. A complete description of the scope of the Order is
contained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties in
this administrative review are addressed in
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the Issues and Decision Memorandum and are listed in the appendix to
this notice. 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>.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results
Based on the comments received from interested parties regarding
our Preliminary Results, and for the reasons explained in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum, we made certain changes for the final results
of review.
Separate Rate Eligibility
In the Preliminary Results, we found that Gold Chemical Limited
(Gold Chemical), demonstrated its eligibility for a separate rate.\6\
As we received no information or arguments to the contrary, we continue
to find that Gold Chemical is eligible for a separate rate.
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\6\ Id.
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The China-Wide Entity
In accordance with Commerce's policy, the China-wide entity will
not be under review unless a party specifically requests, or Commerce
self-initiates, a review of the China-wide entity.\7\ As stated in the
Preliminary Results, because no party requested a review of the China-
wide entity, and Commerce did not self-initiate a review of the entity,
the entity is not under review, and the entity's rate, i.e., 241.02
percent, is not subject to change.\8\
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\7\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in
Department Practice for Respondent Selection in Antidumping Duty
Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity
in NME Antidumping Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963, 65969-70 (November
4, 2013).
\8\ For an explanation on the derivation of the China-wide rate,
see Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value:
Chlorinated Isocyanurates from the People's Republic of China, 70 FR
24502, 24505 (May 10, 2005).
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Final Results of the Review
Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average
dumping margins exist for the period March 1, 2023, through February
29, 2024:
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Weighted-average
Exporter dumping margin
(percent)
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Anhui Trust Chem Co., Ltd.; Jiangsu Trust Chem Co., 128.88
Ltd.; Nanjing Trust Chem Co., Ltd...................
Nantong Botao Chemical Co., Ltd...................... 128.54
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Separate Rate Applicable to the Following Companies
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Gold Chemical Limited................................ 128.76
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations performed in connection with
these final results of review to interested parties in this review
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).
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1), Commerce has determined, and U.S. Customs and Border
Protections (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate
entries of subject merchandise in accordance with the final results of
this review. 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).
For ATC and Botao, which have final weighted-average dumping
margins that are not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5 percent),
we calculated importer-specific ad valorem duty assessment rates based
on the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each
importer's examined sales and the total entered value of the sales, in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). Where the respondent did not
report entered value, we will calculate importer-specific per-unit duty
assessment rates based on the ratio of the total amount of antidumping
duties calculated for the examined sales to the total quantity of those
sales. Where an importer-specific assessment rate is de minimis (i.e.,
less than 0.5 percent), the entries by that importer will be liquidated
without regard to antidumping duties.
Pursuant to a refinement in our non-market economy practice, for
sales that were not reported in the U.S. sales data submitted by ATC
and Botao, we will instruct CBP to liquidate entries associated with
those sales at the rate for the China-wide entity. For all non-selected
separate rate applicants subject to this review, we will instruct CBP
to liquidate all entries of subject merchandise that entered the United
States during the POR at the average of the rates calculated for ATC
and Botao as listed above. For entries of subject merchandise during
the POR produced by ATC and Botao for which they did not know their
merchandise was destined for the United States, we intend to instruct
CBP to liquidate such entries at the China-wide rate if there is no
rate for the intermediate company or companies involved in the
transaction.
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 the companies
subject to this review will be the rate established in these final
results of the review; (2) for previously investigated or reviewed
Chinese and non-Chinese exporters not listed above that have separate
rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-specific
rate published for the most recently completed segment of this
proceeding in which they were reviewed; (3) for all Chinese exporters
of subject merchandise that have not been found
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to be entitled to a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be equal
to the weighted-average dumping margin for the China-wide entity (i.e.,
241.02 percent); and (4) for all non-Chinese exporters of subject
merchandise which have not received their own separate rate, the cash
deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the Chinese exporter(s)
that supplied that non-Chinese exporter.\9\ These cash deposit
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.
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\9\ See Order, 86 FR at 14871.
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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 and/or countervailing 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 and/or countervailing duties has
occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties,
and/or an increase in the amount of antidumping duties by the amount of
countervailing duties.
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 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
This determination is issued and published in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.2133(h) and
51.221(b)(5).
Dated: May 29, 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
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Scope of the Order
IV. Change Since the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Selection of Surrogate Financial Ratios
Comment 2: Surrogate Value (SV) for Sodium Nitrite
Comment 3: SV for Labor Rates
Comment 4: Customs Liquidation Instructions
VI. Recommendation
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