Notice2025-13563
Hexamethylenetetramine From the People's Republic of China: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
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Published
July 18, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from the People's Republic of China (China) is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less-than-fair-value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) is January 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 136 (Friday, July 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33922-33923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13563]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-180]
Hexamethylenetetramine From the People's Republic of China: Final
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that
hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from the People's Republic of China
(China) is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at
less-than-fair-value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) is
January 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024.
DATES: Applicable July 18, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Cloyd, AD/CVD Operations,
Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1246.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 6, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register the
Preliminary Determination in this investigation and invited interested
parties to comment.\1\ We received no comments or case briefs
addressing any of the findings in the Preliminary Determination;
therefore, no decision memorandum accompanies this notice.
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\1\ See Hexamethylenetetramine from the People's Republic of
China: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than
Fair Value, 90 FR 19182 (May 6, 2025) (Preliminary Determination),
and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum (PDM).
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Scope of the Investigation
The product covered by this investigation is hexamine from China.
For a complete description of the scope of this investigation, see the
appendix to this notice.
Scope Comments
We received no comments from interested parties on the scope of the
investigation as it appeared in the Preliminary Determination.
Therefore, we made no changes to the scope of the investigation.
China-Wide Entity and Use of Adverse Facts Available (AFA)
For the purposes of this final determination, consistent with the
Preliminary Determination,\2\ we relied solely on the application of
AFA for the China-wide entity, pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b) of
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Further, because no
companies are eligible for a rate separate from the China-wide entity,
we continue to find that all Chinese producers or exporters of hexamine
are part of the China-wide entity. No interested party submitted
comments on the Preliminary Determination. Thus, we made no changes to
our analysis or to the China-wide entity's dumping margin for the final
determination. A detailed discussion of our application of AFA is
provided in the Preliminary Determination.\3\
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\2\ See Preliminary Determination PDM at 3-8.
\3\ Id.
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Combination Rates
Because no Chinese exporters qualified for a separate rate,
producer/exporter combination rates were not calculated for this final
determination.
Final Determination
The final estimated weighted-average dumping margin is as follows:
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Cash deposit
Weighted- rate (Adjusted
Exporter/producer average dumping for subsidy
margin offset)
(percent) (percent)
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China-wide Entity..................... \*\ 405.19 394.65
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\*\ Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Disclosure
Normally, Commerce will disclose to the parties in a proceeding the
calculations performed in connection with a final determination within
five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of the notice
of final determination in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.224(b). However, because Commerce continues to find that all
Chinese producers or exporters of hexamine are part of the China-wide
entity and continues to rely solely on the application of AFA for the
China-wide entity, there are no calculations to disclose for this final
determination.
Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, Commerce will
instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue to
suspend liquidation of subject merchandise, as described in the
appendix to this notice, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after May 6, 2025, which is the date of publication
of the affirmative Preliminary Determination in the Federal Register,
at the cash deposit rate indicated above.
Pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.210(d), we will instruct CBP to require a cash deposit for such
entries of merchandise equal to the amount by which the normal value
exceeds the U.S. price as follows: (1) for all Chinese producers or
exporters of subject merchandise, the cash deposit rate will be equal
to the estimated dumping margin established for the China-wide entity,
adjusted for the subsidy offset as appropriate; and (2) for all third
country exporters of subject merchandise, the cash deposit rate is also
the cash deposit rate applicable to the China-wide entity, adjusted for
the subsidy offset as appropriate. These suspension of liquidation
instructions will remain in effect until further notice.
To determine the antidumping duty cash deposit rate, Commerce
normally adjusts the estimated weighted-average dumping margin by the
amount of domestic subsidy pass-through and export subsidies determined
in a companion countervailing duty (CVD) proceeding. Accordingly, where
Commerce has made a final affirmative determination of countervailable
export subsidies, Commerce offsets the estimated weighted-average
dumping margin by the appropriate CVD rate.
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Commerce has continued to adjust the cash deposit rate for export
subsidies found in the companion CVD investigation by the appropriate
export subsidy rate as indicated in the above chart. However, the
imposition of provisional measures in the companion CVD case has been
discontinued; \4\ therefore, we are instructing CBP to collect cash
deposits based on the unadjusted estimated weighted-average dumping
margin. If the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) makes a final
affirmative determination of injury due to both dumping and subsidies,
then the cash deposit rate will be revised effective on the date of the
imposition of final measures, i.e., the date of publication of the
ITC's final affirmative determination in the Federal Register, to be
the estimated weighted-average dumping margin adjusted for export
subsidies and domestic subsidy pass-through, as appropriate.
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\4\ See Hexamethylenetetramine from the People's Republic of
China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and
Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty
Determination, 90 FR 11508 (March 7, 2025); see also section 703(d)
of the Act, which states that the provisional measures may not be in
effect for more than four months, which in the companion CVD case is
120 days after the publication of the preliminary determination, or
July 4, 2025. (i.e., last day provisional measures are in effect).
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U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Notification
In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, we will notify the
ITC of our final affirmative determination of sales at LTFV. We will
allow the ITC access to all privileged and business proprietary
information in our files, provided the ITC confirms that it will not
disclose such information, either publicly or under an administrative
protective order (APO), without the written consent of the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Because the final determination in this proceeding is affirmative,
in accordance with section 735(b)(2) of the Act, the ITC will make its
final determination as to whether the domestic industry in the United
States is materially injured, or threatened with material injury, by
reason of imports of hexamine from China no later than 45 days after
our final determination. If the ITC determines that material injury or
threat of material injury does not exist, the proceeding will be
terminated and all cash deposits will be refunded. If the ITC
determines that such injury does exist, Commerce intends to issue an
antidumping duty order, in accordance with section 736(a) of the Act,
directing CBP to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce,
antidumping duties on all imports of the subject merchandise that are
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
effective date of the suspension of liquidation, as discussed above in
the ``Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation'' section.
Administrative Protective Order
In the event that the ITC issues a final negative injury
determination, this notice will serve as the only reminder to parties
subject to an 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/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 violation which is subject to sanction.
Notification to Interested Parties
This determination is issued and published in accordance with
sections 735(d) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.210(c).
Dated: July 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
Scope of the Investigation
The scope of the investigation covers hexamine in granular form,
with a particle size of 5 millimeters or less, whether stabilized or
unstabilized, whether or not blended, mixed, pulverized, or grounded
with other products, containing 50 percent or more hexamine by
weight.
Hexamine is the common name for hexamethylene tetramine
(Chemical Abstract Service # 100-97-0), and is also referred to as
1,3,5,7-tetraazaadamantanemethenamine; HMT; HMTA; 1,3,5,7-
tetraazatricyclo {3.3.1.13,7{time} decane; 1,3,5,7-tetraaza
adamantane; hexamethylenamine. Hexamine has the chemical formula
C6H12N4.
Granular hexamine that has been blended with other product(s) is
included in this scope when the resulting mix contains 50 percent or
more of hexamine by weight, regardless of whether it is blended with
inert additives, co-reactants, or any additives that undergo self-
condensation.
Subject merchandise includes merchandise matching the above
description that has been processed in a third country, including by
commingling, diluting, adding or removing additives, or performing
any other processing that would not otherwise remove the merchandise
from the scope of the investigations if performed in the subject
country.
Merchandise covered by the scope of the investigation can be
classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTSUS) of the United
States under the subheading 2933.69.5000. The HTSUS subheading and
Chemical Abstracts Service registry number are provided for
convenience and customs purposes only; however, the written
description of the scope is dispositive.
[FR Doc. 2025-13563 Filed 7-17-25; 8:45 am]
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