Notice2025-18441
Hexamethylenetetramine from India: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part
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September 23, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from India is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV). The period of investigation is July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 182 (Tuesday, September 23, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45725-45727]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-18441]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-932]
Hexamethylenetetramine from India: Final Affirmative
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative
Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that
hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from India is being, or is likely to
be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV). The
period of investigation is July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
DATES: Applicable September 23, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dylan Hill, AD/CVD Operations, Office
IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1197.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 6, 2025, Commerce published in the Federal Register its
preliminary affirmative determination in the LTFV investigation of
hexamine from India,\1\ in which we also postponed the final
determination until September 18, 2025, and invited interested parties
to comment on the Preliminary Determination. On August 20, 2025, we
issued a post-preliminary analysis memorandum in which we made certain
changes to Commerce's differential pricing analysis.\2\
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\1\ See Hexamethylenetetramine from India: Preliminary
Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value,
Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional
Measures, 90 FR 19178 (May 6, 2025) (Preliminary Determination), and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Post-Preliminary Analysis for the
Affirmative Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation
of Hexamethylenetetramine from India,'' dated August 20, 2025.
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A summary of the events that occurred since Commerce published the
Preliminary Determination, as well as a full discussion of the issues
raised by parties for this final determination, may be found in the
Issues and Decision Memorandum.\3\ 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>.
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\3\ See Memorandum, ``Issues and Decision Memorandum for the
Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value in
the Investigation of Hexamethylenetetramine from India,'' dated
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Issues and
Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Investigation
The product covered by this investigation is hexamine from India.
For a complete description of the scope of this investigation, see
Appendix I.
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 from
that published in the Preliminary Determination for the final
determination.
Verification
As provided in section 782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act), in June 2025, we conducted a verification of the sales and
cost information submitted by the sole mandatory respondent, Kanoria
Chemicals and Industries Limited (Kanoria), for use in the final
determination.\4\ We used standard verification procedures, including
an examination of relevant sales and accounting records, and original
source documents provided by Kanoria.
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\4\ See Memorandum, ``Verification of the Kanoria Chemicals and
Industries Limited in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of
Hexamethylenetetramine from India,'' dated August 20, 2025.
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Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and rebuttal brief submitted by
interested parties in this investigation are addressed in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum. A list of the issues addressed in the Issues
and Decision Memorandum is attached to this notice as Appendix II.
Use of Adverse Facts Available
In the Preliminary Determination, we based the estimated weighted-
average dumping margin of the companies that did not timely respond to
the quantity and value questionnaire (i.e., Horizon Chemicals, Micro
Labs Limited, Shreenathji Rasayan Private Limited, and Rajsha Chemicals
Pvt. Ltd.) on adverse facts available (AFA). No parties commented on
that decision. As explained in the Issues and Decision Memorandum, we
have continued to base the estimated weighted-average dumping margin of
these companies on AFA, pursuant to sections 776(a) and (b) of the Act.
Final Affirmative Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part
On August 27, 2025, Bakelite LLC (the petitioner) alleged that
critical circumstances exist with respect to U.S. imports of hexamine
from India.\5\ We determine that critical circumstances do not exist
for Kanoria, and all other companies not individually examined, except
for the companies to which we applied AFA (i.e., Horizon Chemicals,
Micro Labs Limited, Shreenathji Rasayan Private Limited, and Rajsha
Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.), pursuant to section 735(a)(3) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.206. For a discussion of Commerce's critical circumstances
analysis, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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\5\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Critical Circumstances
Allegation,'' dated August 27, 2025.
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Changes Since the Preliminary Determination
We made certain changes to the Preliminary Determination. For a
discussion of these changes, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\6\
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\6\ See also Memorandum, ``Analysis for the Final
Determination,'' dated concurrently with this notice.
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All-Others Rate
Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act provides that Commerce shall
determine an estimated all-others rate for all exporters and producers
not individually examined. This rate shall be 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 under section 776 of the Act.
Commerce calculated an individual estimated weighted-average
dumping margin for Kanoria, the only individually examined exporter/
producer in this investigation, that is not zero, de minimis, or based
entirely on facts otherwise available. Therefore, we assigned the
estimated weighted-average dumping margin that we calculated for
Kanoria to all other producers and exporters, pursuant to section
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act.
Final Determination
Commerce determines that the following estimated weighted-average
dumping margins exist for the period, July 1, 2023, through June 30,
2024:
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Cash deposit
Weighted- rate (adjusted
Exporter/producer average for subsidy
dumping margin offset(s))
(percent) (percent)
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Kanoria Chemicals and Industries Limited 5.11 \7\ 3.12
Horizon Chemicals....................... * 105.76 103.77
Micro Labs Limited...................... * 105.76 103.77
Shreenathji Rasayan Private Limited..... * 105.76 103.77
Rajsha Chemicals Pvt. Ltd............... * 105.76 103.77
All Others.............................. 5.11 3.12
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* Rate based on facts available with adverse inferences.
Disclosure
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\7\ Adjusted for export subsidies of 1.99 percent (comprised of
1.19 percent for the duty drawback program, and 0.80 percent for the
remissions of duties and taxes on export products program) for
Kanoria and All Others. See unpublished Federal Register notice,
``Hexamethylenetetramine from India: Final Affirmative
Countervailing Duty Determination and Final Affirmative Critical
Circumstances Determination, In Part,'' and accompanying Issues and
Decision Memorandum, dated September 18, 2025.
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Commerce intends to disclose the calculations performed in
connection with this final determination to parties to the proceeding
within five days of any public announcement 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).
Continuation of Suspension of Liquidation
In accordance with section 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, for Kanoria and
the companies to which the All-Others dumping margin applies, Commerce
will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue to
suspend liquidation of all entries of subject merchandise, as described
in Appendix I of this notice, which were entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after May 6, 2025, the date of
publication of the Preliminary Determination in the Federal Register.
With respect to the companies for which Commerce found critical
circumstances, section 735(c)(4)(B) of the Act provides that, given an
affirmative determination of critical circumstances, any suspension of
liquidation shall apply to unliquidated entries of subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
date which is 90 days before the date on which suspension of
liquidation was first ordered. As noted above, Commerce finds that
critical circumstances exist for imports of subject merchandise
produced or exported by the following companies: (1) Horizon Chemicals;
(2) Micro Labs Limited; (3) Shreenathji Rasayan Private Limited; and
(4) Rajsha Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. In accordance with section 735(c)(4)(B)
of the Act, Commerce will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of all
unliquidated entries of subject merchandise from Horizon Chemicals,
Micro Labs Limited, Shreenathji Rasayan Private Limited, or Rajsha
Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. that were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after February 5,
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2025, which is 90 days before the date of publication of the
Preliminary Determination in the Federal Register. These suspension of
liquidation instructions will remain in effect until further notice.
Pursuant to section 735(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.210(d), upon the publication of this notice, we will instruct CBP
to require a cash deposit for estimated antidumping duties for entries
of subject merchandise as follows: (1) the cash deposit rate for each
of the companies listed in the table above is the company-specific
estimated weighted-average dumping margin listed for the company in the
table; (2) if the exporter of the subject merchandise is not listed in
the table above, but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate is the
company-specific estimated weighted-average dumping margin listed for
the producer of the subject merchandise in the table above; and (3) the
cash deposit rate for all other producers and exporters is the all-
others estimated weighted-average dumping margin listed in the table
above.
To determine the cash deposit rates in LTFV investigations,
Commerce normally adjusts the estimated weighted-average dumping
margins by the amount of export subsidies countervailed in the
companion countervailing duty (CVD) investigation when CVD provisional
measures are in effect. Accordingly, where Commerce has made a final
affirmative determination of countervailable export subsides, Commerce
offsets the estimated weighted-average dumping margins in the companion
LTFV investigation by the appropriate export subsidy rate. Here,
Commerce normally would have adjusted the estimated weighted-average
dumping margins that are listed in the table above by the appropriate
export subsidy rate determined in the companion CVD investigation to
determine the cash deposit rate. However, the suspension of liquidation
under provisional measures in the companion CVD investigation has been
discontinued.\8\ Therefore, at this time Commerce is instructing CBP to
collect cash deposits based on the ``Weighted-Average Dumping Margin''
listed in the above table rather than the ``Cash Deposit Rate (Adjusted
for Subsidy Offset(s))'' listed in the above table. 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 rates will be revised effective as of the date of
publication of the ITC's final affirmative determination in the Federal
Register to be the ``Cash Deposit Rate (Adjusted for Subsidy
Offset(s))'' listed in the table above.
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\8\ See 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 investigation is 120 days after the
publication of the preliminary determination in the Federal
Register, or July 4, 2025 (i.e., the last day provisional measures
are in effect).
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ITC Notification
In accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, Commerce will notify
the ITC of its final affirmative determination of sales at LTFV.
Because Commerce's final determination 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 or sales (or the likelihood of sales) for importation of
hexamine from India no later than 45 days after this final
determination. If the ITC determines that such injury does not exist,
this proceeding will be terminated, all cash deposits posted will be
refunded, and suspension of liquidation will be lifted. If the ITC
determines that such injury does exist, Commerce will issue an
antidumping duty order directing CBP to assess, upon further
instruction by Commerce, antidumping duties on all imports of the
subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after the effective date of the suspension of
liquidation, as discussed in the ``Continuation of Suspension of
Liquidation'' section above.
Administrative Protective Order (APO)
This notice serves as a final 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 violation
subject to sanction.
Notification to Interested Parties
This final determination and notice are issued and published in
accordance with sections 735(d) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.210(c).
Dated: September 18, 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
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
C<INF>6</INF>H<INF>12</INF>N<INF>4</INF>.
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 investigation 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.
Appendix II
List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and Decision Memorandum
I. Summary
II. Background
III. Application of Facts Available With Adverse Inferences
IV. Final Determination of Critical Circumstances
V. Changes Since the Preliminary Determination
VI. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Whether to Deny the Duty Drawback Adjustment
Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should Apply Partial Adverse Facts
Available (AFA) for Kanoria Chemicals and Industries Limited
(Kanoria)'s Failure to Cooperate to the Best of Its Ability
VII. Recommendation
[FR Doc. 2025-18441 Filed 9-22-25; 8:45 am]
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