Notice2025-24036
L-Lysine From the People's Republic of China: Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation
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December 31, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61368-61369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-24036]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-215]
L-Lysine From the People's Republic of China: Postponement of
Preliminary Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Applicable December 29, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mira Warrier and Jerry Xiao, AD/CVD
Operations, Office II, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-8031 and (202) 482-2273,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce)
initiated a less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation of imports of L-
Lysine (Lysine) from the People's Republic of China.\1\ Due to the
lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown, on November
14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings
by 47 days.\2\ Additionally, due to a backlog of documents that were
electronically filed via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty
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Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS) during the Federal
Government shutdown, on November 24, 2025, Commerce tolled all
deadlines by an additional 21 days.\3\ Accordingly, the deadline for
this preliminary determination is now January 12, 2026.
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\1\ See L-Lysine from the People's Republic of China: Initiation
of Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation, 90 FR 26782 (June 24, 2025).
\2\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\3\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
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Postponement of Preliminary Determinations
Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act), requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in a
LTFV investigation within 140 days after the date on which Commerce
initiated the investigation. However, section 733(c)(1)(A)(b)(1) of the
Act permits Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination until no
later than 190 days after the date on which Commerce initiated the
investigation if: (A) the petitioner makes a timely request for a
postponement; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties concerned are
cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily complicated, and
that additional time is necessary to make a preliminary determination.
Under 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must submit a request for
postponement 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the
preliminary determination and must state the reasons for the request.
Commerce will grant the request unless it finds compelling reasons to
deny the request.
On October 10, 2025, the petitioner \4\ submitted a timely request
that Commerce postpone the preliminary determination in this LTFV
investigation.\5\ The petitioner stated that it requested postponement,
``because one mandatory respondent in this investigation (the collapsed
entity including Eppen Asia Pte Ltd and Ningxia Eppen Biotech Co.,
Ltd.) only recently submitted its initial responses to the Department's
antidumping questionnaire, and the subsequently chosen mandatory
respondent (Zhengzhou Longgu Trading Co., Ltd.) has yet to file its
initial questionnaire responses.'' \6\
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\4\ The petitioner is the Lysine Fair Trade Coalition.
\5\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Petitioners' Request for
Postponement of the Preliminary Determination,'' dated October 10,
2025.
\6\ Id.
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For the reasons stated above and because there are no compelling
reasons to deny the request, Commerce, in accordance with section
733(c)(1)(A) of the Act, is postponing the deadline for the preliminary
determinations by 50 days (i.e., 190 days after the date on which this
investigation was initiated). As a result, Commerce will issue its
preliminary determination no later than March 3, 2026. In accordance
with section 735(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the
deadline for the final determination of this investigation will
continue to be 75 days after the date of the preliminary determination,
unless postponed at a later date.
Notification to Interested Parties
This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 733(c)(2)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).
Dated: December 19, 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.
[FR Doc. 2025-24036 Filed 12-30-25; 8:45 am]
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