[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 185 (Wednesday, September 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57047-57050]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22732]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-552-802]
Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 2012-
2013
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On March 24, 2014, the Department of Commerce (``Department'')
published in the Federal Register the Preliminary Results of the eighth
administrative review of the antidumping duty Order \1\ on certain
warmwater shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
(``Vietnam'').\2\ Based upon our analysis of the comments and
information received, we
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determine that Minh Phu Group,\3\ and Stapimex,\4\ the two mandatory
respondents, sold subject merchandise at less than normal value during
the period of review (``POR''), February 1, 2012, through January 31,
2013.
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\1\ See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Frozen Warmwater
Shrimp From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 70 FR 5152 (February
1, 2005) (``Order'').
\2\ See Certain Warmwater Shrimp from the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review, 2012-2013, 79 FR 15944 (March 24, 2014) (``Preliminary
Results'').
\3\ Minh Phu Seafood Export Import Corporation (and affiliated
Minh Qui Seafood Co., Ltd. and Minh Phat Seafood Co., Ltd.); Minh
Phu Seafood Corporation, Minh Phu Seafood Corp., Minh Qui Seafood
Co., Ltd., Minh Qui Seafood, Minh Phat Seafood Co., Ltd., Minh Phat
Seafood, and Minh Phu Hau Giang Seafood Co., Ltd. (collectively, the
``Minh Phu Group'').
\4\ Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Company (``Stapimex'').
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DATES: Effective Date: September 24, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Palmer or Irene Gorelik, AD/CVD
Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-9068 or (202)
482-6905, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 24, 2013, the Department published
the Preliminary Results. On June 3, 2014, the Department extended the
time limit for these final results by 60 days. On April 28, 2014,
Petitioner \5\ and the Minh Phu Group submitted additional surrogate
value (``SV'') information.
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\5\ The Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (``Petitioner'').
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We gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the
Preliminary Results. On April 23, 2014, Gallant Ocean (Quang Ngai) Co.,
Ltd., Gallant Dachan Seafood Co., Ltd., and Gallant Ocean (Vietnam)
Co., Ltd. submitted a case brief. On May 28, 2014, Petitioner, Domestic
Processors,\6\ Quoc Viet, the Minh Phu Group and Stapimex submitted
case briefs. On June 2, 2014, Petitioner, Domestic Processors, Quoc
Viet, the Minh Phu Group and Stapimex submitted rebuttal briefs.
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\6\ American Shrimp Processors Association (``Domestic
Processors'').
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the order is certain frozen warmwater
shrimp. The product is currently classified under the following
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States item numbers:
0306.17.00.03, 0306.17.00.06, 0306.17.00.09, 0306.17.00.12,
0306.17.00.15, 0306.17.00.18, 0306.17.00.21, 0306.17.00.24,
0306.17.00.27, 0306.17.00.40, 1605.21.10.30, and 1605.29.10.10. The
written description of the scope of the order is dispositive. A full
description of the scope of the Order is available in the accompanying
Issues and Decision Memorandum.\7\
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\7\ See Memorandum to Ronald K. Lorentzen, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, From Gary Taverman,
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Operations, Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Issues and Decision Memorandum
for the Final Results, (``Issues and Decision Memorandum'') dated
concurrently and hereby adopted by this notice.
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Analysis of Comments Received
All issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs by parties to
this review are addressed in the accompanying Issues and Decision
Memorandum.\8\ A list of the issues which parties raised, and to which
we respond in the Issues and Decision Memorandum is attached to this
notice as an Appendix. 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 (IA ACCESS). IA ACCESS is available to registered users at
http://iaaccess.trade.gov and in the Central Records Unit, room 7046 of
the main Department of Commerce building. In addition, a complete
version of the Issues and Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly
on the internet at http://enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html. The
signed Issues and Decision Memorandum and electronic versions of the
Issues and Decision Memorandum are identical in content.
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\8\ Id.
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Final Determination of No Shipments
In the Preliminary Results, the Department preliminarily determined
the following companies did not have any reviewable transactions during
the POR: Anvifish Joint Stock Company, Bac Lieu Fisheries Company
Limited, Bien Dong Seafood Co., Ltd., Camranh Seafoods Processing
Enterprise Pte., Ngoc Sinh Private Enterprise, Ngoc Tri Seafood Joint
Stock Company, Nhat Duc Co., Ltd., Seavina Joint Stock Company, and
Vinh Hoan Corporation. We have not received any information to
contradict this determination. Therefore, the Department made the final
determination that the above-named companies did not have any
reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR, and will
issue appropriate instructions that are consistent with our ``automatic
assessment'' clarification, for these final results.
Changes Since the Preliminary Results
The Department has not made changes to any surrogate values or
company-specific margin calculations since the Preliminary Results. For
detailed information, see the Issues and Decision Memorandum and the
company-specific final results analysis memoranda.
Separate Rates
In the Preliminary Results, we determined that 30 companies \9\
(``Separate Rate Respondents'') in addition to Minh Phu Group and
Stapimex met the criteria for separate rate status. We have not
received any information since the issuance of the Preliminary Results
that provides a basis for reconsidering this preliminary determination.
Therefore, the Department continues to find that these 32 companies
meet the criteria for a separate rate for the final results.
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\9\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at Appendix I.
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Rate for Non-Selected Companies
For the final results, the calculated rates for both mandatory
respondents have not changed from the Preliminary Results. Therefore,
there is no change to the separate rate assigned to the Separate Rate
Respondents for the final results of this review, and we continue to
determine that a ``reasonable method for determining the weighted-
average dumping margins for the non-selected respondents in this review
is to average the weighted-average dumping margins calculated for the
mandatory respondents,'' as noted in the Preliminary Results.\10\
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\10\ See Preliminary Results, and accompanying Preliminary
Decision Memorandum at 10-11.
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Vietnam-Wide Entity
In the Preliminary Results, we determined that 45 companies failed
to demonstrate their eligibility for a separate rate. In non-market
economy (``NME'') proceedings, ```rates' may consist of a single
dumping margin applicable to all exporters and producers.'' \11\
Therefore, we assigned the Vietnam-wide entity a rate of 25.76 percent,
the only rate ever determined for the Vietnam-wide entity in this
proceeding. We have not received any information since the Preliminary
Results that provides a basis for reconsidering this determination. We,
therefore, continue to apply the Vietnam-wide entity rate of 25.76
percent to these 45 companies.\12\
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\11\ See 19 CFR 351.107(d).
\12\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at Appendix II for a
list of the companies included in the Vietnam-Wide Entity.
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Final Results of Review
The Department determines that the following final dumping margins
exist:
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\13\ The Department found the companies comprising the Minh Phu
Group are a single entity and, because there have been no changes to
the facts which supported this determination since the sixth
administrative review, we continue to find these companies to be
part of a single entity. Therefore, we will assign this rate to the
companies in the single entity. See Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp
From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Results of
Administrative Review, 77 FR 13547, 13549 (March 7, 2012), unchanged
in Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Final Results and Final Partial Rescission of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review, 77 FR 55800 (September 11, 2012).
\14\ The Department found the companies comprising Nha Trang
Seafoods are a single entity and, because there have been no changes
to the fact which supported this determination since the fifth
administrative review, we continue to find these companies to be
part of a single entity. Therefore, we will assign this rate to the
companies in the single entity. See Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp
From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Results, Partial
Rescission, and Request for Revocation, In Part, of the Fifth
Administrative Review, 76 FR 12054, 12056 (March 4, 2012), unchanged
in Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam: Final Results and Final Partial Rescission of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review, 76 FR 56158 (September 12, 2011).
\15\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum at Appendix II for a
list of the companies included in the Vietnam-Wide Entity.
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Weighted-average
Exporter margin %
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Minh Phu Group: \13\
Minh Phu Seafood Corp., aka Minh Phu Seafood 4.98
Corporation, aka Minh Phu Seafood Pte, aka Minh
Phu Hau Giang Seafood Co., Ltd., aka Minh Phat
Seafood Co., Ltd., aka Minh Qui Seafood Co.,
Ltd............................................
Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Company, aka Stapimex, 9.75
aka Soc Trang Aquatic Products and General Import
Export Company, aka Stapimex Soc Trans Aquatic
Products and General Import Export Company, aka
Stapmex............................................
BIM Seafood Joint Stock Company..................... 6.37
Camau Frozen Seafood Processing Import Export 6.37
Corporation, aka Camimex, aka Camau Seafood Factory
No. 4, aka Camau Seafood Factory No. 5, aka Camau
Frozen Seafood Processing Import Export Corp.
(CAMIMEX-FAC 25), aka Frozen Factory No. 4.........
C.P. Vietnam Corporation, aka C.P. Vietnam Livestock 6.37
Corporation, aka C.P. Vietnam Livestock Company
Limited, aka C.P. Vietnam..........................
Cadovimex Seafood Import-Export and Processing Joint 6.37
Stock Company, aka Cai Doi Vam Seafood Import-
Export Company, aka Caidoivam Seafood Company, aka
Cadovimex-Vietnam, aka Cadovimex...................
Cafatex Fishery Joint Stock Corporation, aka Cafatex 6.37
Corporation, aka Cafatex Corp., aka Cafatex, aka
Taydo Seafood Enterprise, aka Xi Nghiep Che Bien
Thuy Suc San Xuat Kau Cantho.......................
Camau Seafood Processing and Service Joint Stock 6.37
Company............................................
Can Tho Import Export Fishery Limited Company, aka 6.37
CAFISH.............................................
Coastal Fisheries Development Corporation, aka 6.37
COFIDEC, aka Coastal Fisheries Development Corp.,
aka Coastal Fisheries Development Co., aka Coastal
Fisheries Development..............................
Cuu Long Seaproducts Company, aka Cuu Long 6.37
Seaproducts Limited, aka Cuulong Seapro aka Cuu
Long Seapro........................................
Danang Seaproducts Import Export Corporation, aka 6.37
Danang Sea Products Import Export Corporation, aka
Tho Quang Seafood Processing & Export Company, aka
Tho Quang Seafood Processing and Export Company,
aka Tho Quang, aka Tho Quang Co., aka Seaprodex
Danang.............................................
Gallant Ocean (Vietnam) Co., Ltd.................... 6.37
Hai Viet Corporation................................ 6.37
Investment Commerce Fisheries Corporation, aka 6.37
Investment Commerce Fisheries Corp., aka Investment
Commerce Fisheries, aka Incomfish, aka Incomfish
Corp., aka Incomfish Corporation...................
Kim Anh Company Limited, aka Kim Anh Co, Ltd........ 6.37
Minh Hai Export Frozen Seafood Processing Joint- 6.37
Stock Company, aka Minh Hai Jostoco, aka...........
Minh Hai Joint-Stock Seafoods Processing Company, 6.37
aka Seaprodex Minh Hai, aka Sea Minh Hai, aka
Seaprodex Min Hai, aka Seaprodex Minh Hai-Factory
No. 78, aka Seaprodex Minh Hai (Minh Hai Joint
Stock Seafoods Processing Co.), aka Seaprodex Minh
Hai (Workshop 1), aka Seaprodex Minh Hai Factory
No. 69.............................................
Minh Hai Sea Products Import Export Company, aka Ca 6.37
Mau Seafood Joint Stock Company, aka Seaprimexco
Vietnam aka Seaprimexco aka Minh Hai Seaproducts Co
Ltd................................................
Nha Trang Fisheries Joint Stock Company, aka Nha 6.37
Trang Fisco aka Nhatrang Fisheries Joint Stock
Company, aka Nhatrang Fisco, aka Nha Trang
Fisheries, Joint Stock.............................
Nha Trang Seafoods: \14\
Nha Trang Seaproducts Company, aka Nha Trang 6.37
Seafoods, aka NT Seafoods Corporation, aka NT
Seafoods, aka Nha Trang Seafoods--F.89 Joint
Stock Company, aka Nha Trang Seafoods--F.89,
aka NTSF Seafoods Joint Stock Company, aka NTSF
Seafoods.......................................
Phu Cuong Jostoco Seafood Corporation, aka Phu Cuong 6.37
Seafood Processing and Import-Export Co., Ltd., aka
Phu Cuong Seafood Processing and Import Export
Company Limited, aka Phu Cuong Jostoco Seafood Corp
Phuong Nam Foodstuff Corp., aka Phuong Nam Co., Ltd. 6.37
Quoc Viet Seaproducts Processing Trading and Import- 6.37
Export Co., Ltd....................................
Sao Ta Foods Joint Stock Company, aka Fimex VN aka 6.37
Sao Ta Seafood Factory aka Saota Seafood Factory...
Thong Thuan Company Limited, aka Cong Ty Tnhh Thong 6.37
Thuan..............................................
Thuan Phuoc Seafoods and Trading Corporation, aka 6.37
Thuan Phuoc Corp., aka Frozen Seafoods Factory No.
32, aka Seafoods and Foodstuff Factory, aka
Seafoods and Foodstuff Factory Vietnam, aka My Son
Seafoods Factory...................................
UTXI Aquatic Products Processing Corporation, aka UT 6.37
XI Aquatic Products Processing Corporation, aka
UTXI Aquatic Products Processing Company, aka UT XI
Aquatic Products Processing Company, aka UTXI Co.
Ltd., aka UTXI, aka UTXICO, aka Hoang Phuong
Seafood Factory, aka Hoang Phong Seafood Factory...
Viet Foods Co., Ltd., aka Nam Hai Foodstuff and 6.37
Export Company Ltd.................................
Vietnam Clean Seafood Corporation, aka Vina 6.37
Cleanfood..........................................
Viet Hai Seafood Co., Ltd., aka Vietnam Fish One 6.37
Co., Ltd., aka Fish One............................
Viet I-Mei Frozen Foods Co., Ltd.................... 6.37
Vietnam-wide Entity \15\............................ 25.76
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Disclosure and Public Comment
We will disclose the calculations performed within five days of the
date of publication of this notice to parties in this proceeding in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Assessment Rates
Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (``the Act'') and 19 CFR 351.212(b), the Department will
determine, 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. The
Department intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP 15 days
after the date of publication of these final results of review.
For any individually examined respondent whose weighted-average
dumping margin is above de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent), the Department
will calculate importer-specific assessment rates on the basis of the
ratio of the total amount of dumping calculated for the importer's
examined sales and the total entered value of sales. Where we do not
have entered values for all U.S. sales to a particular importer/
customer, we calculate a per-unit assessment rate by aggregating the
antidumping duties due for all U.S. sales to that importer (or
customer) and dividing this amount by the total quantity sold to that
importer (or customer).\16\ To determine whether the duty assessment
rates are de minimis, in accordance with the requirement set forth in
19 CFR 351.106(c)(2), we calculated importer- (or customer-) specific
ad valorem ratios based on the estimated entered value. Where either a
respondent's weighted average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or
an importer- (or customer-) specific ad valorem rate is zero or de
minimis, we will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without
regard to antidumping duties.\17\
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\16\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
\17\ See 19 CFR 352.106(c)(2); Antidumping Proceeding:
Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment
Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR
8101, 8103 (February 14, 2012) (``Final Modification for Reviews'').
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Additionally, pursuant to a refinement to its assessment practice
in NME cases, if the Department continues to determine that an exporter
under review had no shipments of the subject merchandise, any suspended
entries that entered under that exporter's case number (i.e., at that
exporter's rate) will be liquidated at the NME-wide rate.\18\
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\18\ For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market
Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,
76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
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Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective upon
publication of the final results of this administrative review for
shipments of the subject merchandise from Vietnam entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as
provided by sections 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For the companies
listed above, which have a separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be
that established in the final results of this review (except, if the
rate is zero or de minimis, then zero cash deposit will be required);
(2) for previously investigated or reviewed Vietnam and non-Vietnam
exporters not listed above that received a separate rate in a prior
segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate will continue to be
the existing exporter-specific rate; (3) for all Vietnam exporters of
subject merchandise that have not been found to be entitled to a
separate rate, the cash deposit rate will be that for the Vietnam-wide
entity; and (4) for all non-Vietnam exporters of subject merchandise
which have not received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be
the rate applicable to the Vietnam exporter that supplied that non-
Vietnam exporter. These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Reimbursement of Duties
This notice also serves as a 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 POR. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in the Department's presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of double antidumping duties.
Administrative Protective Orders
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
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, 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 terms of an APO
is a violation which is subject to sanction.
This determination is issued and published in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: September 19, 2014.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
Appendix
General Issues
Comment 1: Surrogate Country
Comment 2: Differential Pricing
A. Consideration of an Alternative Comparison Method in
Administrative Reviews
B. Withdrawal of the Regulatory Provisions Governing Targeted
Dumping in Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigations
C. Differential Pricing Analysis
D. Whether to apply the A-to-T methodology to all the Minh Phu
Group's Sales
Surrogate Value Issues
Comment 3: Shrimp Surrogate Value
Comment 4: Bangladeshi Inflator Data
Comment 5: Calculation of Brokerage and Handling Expenses
Comment 6: Labor Surrogate Value
Comment 7: Whether the Chlorine, Birlox, Salt and Skewer SVs are
Aberrational
a. Chlorine and Birlox
b. Salt
c. Skewers
Comment 8: Certain Adjustments to Financial Ratios
Company--Specific Issues
Minh Phu Group
Comment 9: Separate Rate Status for MPG Affiliate Names
Quoc Viet
Comment 10: Whether The Department Should Continue To Decline To
Select Quoc Viet As A Voluntary Respondent
Comment 11: Whether the Rejection of Quoc Viet's Margin Calculation
Submission was Contrary to Law
Quang Ngai and Dachan
Comment 12: Separate Rate Status of Gallant Ocean Quang Ngai and
Gallant Dachan
SR Respondents
Comment 13: Whether to Include Abbreviated Company Names for Certain
Separate Rate Companies
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