Notice2026-08957
Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents From Taiwan: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
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Published
May 6, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentInternational Trade Administration
Abstract
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that the sole producer and/or exporter subject to this review, Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd. (TFM), made sales of subject merchandise in the United States at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 6, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24511-24513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-08957]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-583-848]
Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents From Taiwan: 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 the
sole producer and/or exporter subject to this review, Teh Fong Min
International Co., Ltd. (TFM), made sales of subject merchandise in the
United States at less than normal value during the period of review
(POR), May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024.
DATES: Applicable May 6, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gemma Larsen, AD/CVD Operations,
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-8125.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 4, 2025, Commerce published the preliminary results of
the 2023-2024 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on
stilbenic optical brightening agents (stilbenic OBAs) from Taiwan.\1\
We invited
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interested parties to comment on the Preliminary Results.\2\ We
received a case brief from the petitioner and a rebuttal case brief
from TFM.\3\ Commerce conducted this review in accordance with section
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).
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\1\ See Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from Taiwan:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-
2024, 90 FR 42739 (September 4, 2025) (Preliminary Results), and
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
\2\ Id.
\3\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Archroma's Case Brief and Request
for Hearing,'' dated September 25, 2025; see also TFM's Letter,
``Rebuttal Brief,'' dated November 17, 2025.
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Due to the lapse in appropriations and Federal Government shutdown,
on November 14, 2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative
proceedings by 47 days.\4\ Additionally, due to a backlog of documents
that were electronically filed via Enforcement and Compliance's
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service
System (ACCESS) during the Federal Government shutdown, on November 24,
2025, Commerce tolled all deadlines in administrative proceedings by an
additional 21 days.\5\ On February 10, 2026, Commerce extended the
deadline for the final results by 43 days.\6\ On April 23, 2026,
Commerce extended the deadline for the final results by an additional 8
days.\7\ Accordingly, the deadline for these final results is now May
1, 2026.
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\4\ See Memorandum, ``Deadlines Affected by the Shutdown of the
Federal Government,'' dated November 14, 2025.
\5\ See Memorandum, ``Tolling of all Case Deadlines,'' dated
November 24, 2025.
\6\ See Memorandum, ``Extension of Deadline for Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024,'' dated February
10, 2026.
\7\ See Memorandum, ``Second Extension of Deadline for Final
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024,''
dated April 23, 2026.
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For a complete description of the events that followed the
Preliminary Results, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.\8\ The
Issues and Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file
electronically via 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/frnotices">https://access.trade.gov/frnotices</a>.
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\8\ See Memorandum, ``Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from
Taiwan: Issues and Decision Memorandum for the Final Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024,'' dated April 23,
2026 (Issues and Decision Memorandum).
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Scope of the Order <SUP>9</SUP>
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\9\ See Certain Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from
Taiwan: Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
and Antidumping Duty Order, 77 FR 27419 (May 10, 2012) (Order).
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The products covered by the Order are stilbenic OBAs. A full
description of the scope of the Order is provided in the Issues and
Decision Memorandum.\10\
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\10\ See Preliminary Results PDM.
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Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs that were
submitted by 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 as an appendix to this notice.
Change Since the Preliminary Results
Based on our analysis of the comments received, we made a certain
change to the margin calculations for TFM. For a discussion of this
change, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
Final Results of Administrative Review
We determine that the following estimated weighted-average dumping
margin exists for the period May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024:
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\11\ Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd. is also known as Teh
Fong Ming International Co., Ltd. See Preliminary Results, 90 FR at
42739.
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Weighted-
average
Producer/exporter dumping
margin
(percent)
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Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd.\11\................... 7.61
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Disclosure
We intend to disclose the calculations performed for TFM in these
final results to parties in this proceeding within five days after the
date of any public announcement or, if there is no public announcement,
within five days after the date of publication of these final results
in the Federal Register, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.212(b),
Commerce has determined, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject
merchandise in accordance with the final results of this review.\12\
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\12\ Commerce remains enjoined from ordering the lifting of
suspension of liquidation, and entries of subject merchandise will
continue to be subject to suspension of liquidation at the cast
deposit rate of zero and we will instruction CBP accordingly. See
Archroma U.S., Inc., v. United States Dep't of Commerce and United
States Int'l Trade Comm., CIT Ct. No. 22-00354, ECF No. 8 (appeal
pending sub. nom. Archroma U.S., Inc. v. Commerce, CAFC Ct. No.
2024-2159) (collectively, Archroma) (challenging Commerce's
determination in Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents from the
People's Republic of China and Taiwan: Final Results of Sunset
Review and Revocation of Order, 87 FR 80162 (December 29, 2022); see
also Stilbenic Optical Brightening Agents From Taiwan and the
People's Republic of China: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony
With the Results of Antidumping Sunset Reviews, Reinstatement of
Antidumping Duty Orders, and Reconduction of Sunset Reviews, 89 FR
53392, 53393 (June 26, 2024)).
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We intend to instruct CBP, pending a final and conclusive court
decision in Archroma, to apply the importer-specific ad valorem
assessment rates we calculated for the Preliminary Results on the basis
of the ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for each
importer's examined sales and the total entered value of those same
sales in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).\13\ If the importer-
specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis, then Commerce will
instruct CBP to liquidate such entries without regard to antidumping
duties.
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\13\ See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted-
Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping
Duty Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14,
2012).
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For entries of subject merchandise during the POR produced by TFM,
for which it did not know that its merchandise was destined for the
United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at
the all-others rate (i.e., 6.19 percent) \14\ if there is no rate for
the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.
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\14\ See Order, 77 FR at 27420.
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Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier
than 35 days after the date of publication of these final results 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 upon
publication in the Federal Register of this notice \15\ for all
shipments of stilbenic OBAs from Taiwan entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication as
provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate
for TFM will be 7.61 percent, the weighted-average dumping margin
established in these final results;
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(2) for previously investigated companies not subject to this review,
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate
published in the most recently completed segment of this proceeding in
which the company participated; (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 is, the cash deposit rate
will be the rate established in the most recent completed segment for
the producer of the merchandise; (4) the cash deposit rate for all
other producers or exporters will continue to be 6.19 percent, the all-
others rate established in the LTFV investigation.\16\ These cash
deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until
further notice.
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\15\ See n.13 supra.
\16\ See Order, 77 FR at 27420.
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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 review period. Failure to comply
with this requirement could result in Commerce's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of doubled 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 the 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/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
Commerce is issuing and publishing the final results of this review
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and
351.221(b)(5).
Dated: May 1, 2026.
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. Changes Since the Preliminary Results
V. Discussion of the Issues
Comment 1: Whether Commerce Should Collapse TFM and One of Its
Home Market Customers and Apply Adverse Facts Available
Comment 2: Whether Commerce Should Revise Its Conversion of
Liquid State Sales to Powder State Equivalents
Comment 3: Whether Commerce Should Convert TFM's Comparison
Market Billing Adjustments from Euros to New Taiwan Dollars
Comment 4: Whether Commerce Should Revise TFM's General and
Administrative Expense Ratio
VI. Recommendation
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