[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 190 (Wednesday, October 1, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59217-59218]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-23412]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[C-533-844]
Certain Lined Paper Products From India: Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Review
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On July 3, 2014, the Department of Commerce (the Department)
published its notice of initiation and preliminary results of a changed
circumstances review (CCR) of the countervailing duty order on certain
lined paper products from India.\1\ The Department preliminarily
determined that Navneet Education Limited (Navneet Education) is the
successor-in-interest to Navneet Publications (India) Ltd. (Navneet
Publications). No parties submitted comments. For these final results
we continue to find that Navneet Education is the successor-in-interest
to Navneet Publications.
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\1\ See Certain Lined Paper Products from India: Notice of
Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review,
79 FR 38011 (July 3, 2014) (Preliminary Results); Notice of Amended
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Lined
Paper Products from the People's Republic of China; Notice of
Antidumping Duty Orders: Certain Lined Paper Products from India,
Indonesia and the People's Republic of China; and Notice of
Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Lined Paper Products from India
and Indonesia, 71 FR 56949 (September 28, 2006) (CLPP Order).
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DATES: Effective October 1, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Conniff, AD/CVD Operations,
Office III, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 202/482-1009.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On October 17, 2013, Navneet Education submitted a request for a
CCR asking the Department to find that Navneet Education is the
successor-in-interest to Navneet Publications.\2\ On
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May 16, 2014, Navneet Education submitted a revised CCR request
updating the period covered by the original CCR request for purposes of
determining countervailing duties liability as a result of the CLPP
Order.\3\ On July 3, 2014, the Department published its Preliminary
Results, in which it preliminarily determined that Navneet Education is
the successor-in-interest to Navneet Publications for purposes of the
Department's countervailing duty proceeding on certain lined paper
products from India.\4\ The Department invited interested parties to
comment on the Preliminary Results.\5\ We received no comments or
requests for a hearing from interested parties.
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\2\ See Navneet Education's March 17, 2014, letter to the
Department, Request for Changed Circumstances Review Navneet
Publications (India) Ltd. (CCR Request) at 2.
\3\ See CLPP Order; Navneet Education's May 16, 2014, submission
(Second Supplemental Filing).
\4\ See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 38011.
\5\ Id.
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Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the CLPP Order is certain lined paper
products, typically school supplies (for purposes of this scope
definition, the actual use of or labeling these products as school
supplies or non-school supplies is not a defining characteristic)
composed of or including paper that incorporates straight horizontal
and/or vertical lines on ten or more paper sheets (there shall be no
minimum page requirement for looseleaf filler paper). The products are
currently classified under the following Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
the United States (HTSUS) subheadings: 4811.90.9035, 4811.90.9080,
4820.30.0040, 4810.22.5044, 4811.90.9050, 4811.90.9090, 4820.10.2010,
4820.10.2020, 4820.10.2030, 4820.10.2040, 4820.10.2050, 4820.10.2060,
and 4820.10.4000. Although the HTSUS numbers are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the written product description
remains dispositive.\6\
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\6\ For a complete description of the scope of the CLPP Order,
see the Preliminary Results.
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Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review
Because no parties submitted comments opposing the Department's
Preliminary Results, and because there is no other information or
evidence on the record that calls into question the Preliminary
Results, the Department continues to find that Navneet Education is the
successor-in-interest to Navneet Publications for the purpose of
determining countervailing duty liability.
Instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection
As a result of this determination, we find that Navneet Education
should retain the cash deposit rate previously assigned to Navneet
Publications (i.e., the 8.76 percent cash deposit rate currently
assigned to Navneet Publications) in the most recently completed review
of the countervailing duty order on certain lined paper products from
India for Navneet Publications.\7\ However, because cash deposits are
only estimates of the amount of countervailing duties to be assessed,
changes in cash deposit rates are not made retroactively.\8\ Therefore,
as stated in the Preliminary Results, no retroactive change will be
made to Navneet Education's cash deposit rate, as Navneet Education
requested.\9\ Consequently, the Department will instruct U.S Customs
and Border Protection to collect estimated countervailing duties for
all shipments of subject merchandise exported by Navneet Education and
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
publication date of this notice in the Federal Register at the current
cash deposit rate for Navneet Publications. This cash deposit
requirement shall remain in effect until further notice.
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\7\ See Certain Lined Paper Products From India: Final Results
of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review, 74 FR 6573, 6574
(February 10, 2009).
\8\ See Notice of Initiation and Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review: Certain Frozen
Warmwater Shrimp from India, 77 FR 64953, 64955 (October 24, 2012),
unchanged in final, Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed
Circumstances Review: Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From India, 77
FR 73619, December 11, 2012; see also Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and
Bismuth Carbon Steel Products From the United Kingdom: Final Results
of Changed-Circumstances Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Administrative Reviews, 64 FR 66880, 66881 (November 30, 1999).
\9\ Navneet Education argued that the determination as
successor-in-interest should be made effective as of the date of the
name change, i.e., September 30, 2013. See CCR Request at 8 and see
Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 38012.
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Notification
This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.306. 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 sanctionable violation.
This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and
777(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.216(e).
Dated: September 25, 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2014-23412 Filed 9-30-14; 8:45 am]
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