80_FR_15611 80 FR 15555 - Magnesium Metal From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014

80 FR 15555 - Magnesium Metal From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 56 (March 24, 2015)

Page Range15555-15557
FR Document2015-06727

On November 24, 2014, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published in the Federal Register the preliminary results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on magnesium metal from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') covering the period April 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014.\1\ This review covers two PRC producer/exporters, Tianjin Magnesium International, Co., Ltd. (``TMI'') and Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd. (``TMM''). The Department gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Results, but we received no comments. Hence, these final results are unchanged from the Preliminary Results, and we continue to find that TMI and TMM did not have reviewable entries during the period of review (``POR''). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-896]


Magnesium Metal From the People's Republic of China: Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-2014

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

DATES: Effective Date: March 24, 2015.
SUMMARY: On November 24, 2014, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published in the Federal Register the preliminary results 
of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on magnesium 
metal from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') covering the period 
April 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014.\1\ This review covers two PRC 
producer/exporters, Tianjin Magnesium International, Co., Ltd. 
(``TMI'') and Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd. (``TMM''). The 
Department gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the 
Preliminary Results, but we received no comments. Hence, these final 
results are unchanged from

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the Preliminary Results, and we continue to find that TMI and TMM did 
not have reviewable entries during the period of review (``POR'').
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    \1\ See Magnesium Metal From the People's Republic of China: 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013-
2014, 79 FR 69834 (November 24, 2014) (``Preliminary Results'').

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Terpstra or Erin Begnal, 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-
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3965 or (202) 482-1442, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On November 24, 2014, the Department published the Preliminary 
Results of the instant review.\2\ TMI and TMM submitted timely-filed 
certifications indicating that they had no shipments of subject 
merchandise to the United States during the POR.\3\ In addition, in 
response to the Department's query, U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(``CBP'') did not provide any evidence that contradicted TMI's and 
TMM's claims of no shipments.\4\ The Department received no comments 
from interested parties concerning the results of the CBP query. 
Therefore, based on TMI's and TMM's certification and our analysis of 
CBP information, we preliminarily determined that TMI did not have any 
reviewable entries during the POR.\5\ We invited interested parties to 
comment on the Preliminary Results.\6\ We received no comments from 
interested parties.
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    \2\ Id.
    \3\ See letter from TMI, ``Magnesium Metal from the People's 
Republic of China; A-570-896; Certification of No Sales by Tianjin 
Magnesium International, Co., Ltd.,'' dated June 25, 2014, at 1; and 
letter from TMM, ``Magnesium Metal from the People's Republic of 
China; A-570-896; Certification of No Sales by Tianjin Magnesium 
Metal, Co., Ltd.,'' dated July 21, 2014 at 1.
    \4\ See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 69834.
    \5\ Id.
    \6\ Id.
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    The Department conducted this review in accordance with section 
751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act'').

Scope of the Order

    The product covered by this antidumping duty order is magnesium 
metal from the PRC, which includes primary and secondary alloy 
magnesium metal, regardless of chemistry, raw material source, form, 
shape, or size. Magnesium is a metal or alloy containing by weight 
primarily the element magnesium. Primary magnesium is produced by 
decomposing raw materials into magnesium metal. Secondary magnesium is 
produced by recycling magnesium-based scrap into magnesium metal. The 
magnesium covered by this order includes blends of primary and 
secondary magnesium.
    The subject merchandise includes the following alloy magnesium 
metal products made from primary and/or secondary magnesium including, 
without limitation, magnesium cast into ingots, slabs, rounds, billets, 
and other shapes; magnesium ground, chipped, crushed, or machined into 
rasping, granules, turnings, chips, powder, briquettes, and other 
shapes; and products that contain 50 percent or greater, but less than 
99.8 percent, magnesium, by weight, and that have been entered into the 
United States as conforming to an ``ASTM Specification for Magnesium 
Alloy'' \7\ and are thus outside the scope of the existing antidumping 
orders on magnesium from the PRC (generally referred to as ``alloy'' 
magnesium).
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    \7\ The meaning of this term is the same as that used by the 
American Society for Testing and Materials in its Annual Book for 
ASTM Standards: Volume 01.02 Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys.
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    The scope of this order excludes: (1) All forms of pure magnesium, 
including chemical combinations of magnesium and other material(s) in 
which the pure magnesium content is 50 percent or greater, but less 
than 99.8 percent, by weight, that do not conform to an ``ASTM 
Specification for Magnesium Alloy'' \8\; (2) magnesium that is in 
liquid or molten form; and (3) mixtures containing 90 percent or less 
magnesium in granular or powder form by weight and one or more of 
certain non-magnesium granular materials to make magnesium-based 
reagent mixtures, including lime, calcium metal, calcium silicon, 
calcium carbide, calcium carbonate, carbon, slag coagulants, fluorspar, 
nephaline syenite, feldspar, alumina (Al203), calcium aluminate, soda 
ash, hydrocarbons, graphite, coke, silicon, rare earth metals/
mischmetal, cryolite, silica/fly ash, magnesium oxide, periclase, 
ferroalloys, dolomite lime, and colemanite.\9\
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    \8\ The material is already covered by existing antidumping 
orders. See Notice of Antidumping Duty Orders: Pure Magnesium from 
the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation and Ukraine; 
Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Antidumping Duty Investigation of Pure Magnesium from the 
Russian Federation, 60 FR 25691 (May 12, 1995); and Antidumping Duty 
Order: Pure Magnesium in Granular Form from the People's Republic of 
China, 66 FR 57936 (November 19, 2001).
    \9\ This third exclusion for magnesium-based reagent mixtures is 
based on the exclusion for reagent mixtures in the 2000-2001 
investigations of magnesium from China, Israel, and Russia. See 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Pure Magnesium 
in Granular Form From the People's Republic of China, 66 FR 49345 
(September 27, 2001); Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Pure Magnesium From Israel, 66 FR 49349 (September 27, 2001); 
Final Determination of Sales at Not Less Than Fair Value: Pure 
Magnesium From the Russian Federation, 66 FR 49347 (September 27, 
2001). These mixtures are not magnesium alloys, because they are not 
combined in liquid form and cast into the same ingot.
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    The merchandise subject to this order is classifiable under items 
8104.19.00, and 8104.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (``HTSUS''). Although the HTSUS items are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the 
merchandise is dispositive.

Final Determination of No Shipments

    As explained above, in the Preliminary Results, the Department 
found that TMI and TMM did not have reviewable entries during the 
POR.\10\ Also in the Preliminary Results, the Department stated that 
consistent with its refinement to its assessment practice in non-market 
economy (``NME'') cases, it is appropriate not to rescind the review in 
this circumstance but, rather, to complete the review with respect to 
TMI and TMM and to issue appropriate instructions to CBP based on the 
final results of the review.\11\
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    \10\ See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 69834-35.
    \11\ See Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment 
of Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) (``Assessment 
Practice Refinement'') and the ``Assessment Rates'' section, below.
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    After issuing the Preliminary Results, the Department received no 
comments from interested parties, nor has it received any information 
that would cause it to revisit its preliminary results. Therefore, for 
these final results, the Department continues to find that TMI and TMM 
did not have any reviewable entries during the POR.

Assessment Rates

    The Department determined, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties 
on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise in accordance with 
the final results of this review.\12\ The Department intends to issue 
assessment instructions to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of 
these final results of review.
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    \12\ See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
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    Additionally, consistent with the Department's refinement to its 
assessment practice in NME cases, because the Department determined 
that TMI and TMM had no shipments of subject merchandise during the 
POR, any suspended entries that entered under TMI's antidumping duty 
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number (i.e., at that exporter's rate) will be liquidated at the PRC-
wide rate.\13\ As TMM's entries are subject to the PRC-wide rate, any 
suspended entries will also be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.
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    \13\ See Assessment Practice Refinement, 76 FR 65694.
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Cash Deposit Requirements

    The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all 
shipments of subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption on or after the publication date of this notice of 
final results of the administrative review, as provided by section 
751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) For TMI, which claimed no shipments, the 
cash deposit rate will remain unchanged from the rate assigned to TMI 
in the most recently completed review of the company; (2) for 
previously investigated or reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters who are 
not under review in this segment of the proceeding but who have 
separate rates, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the exporter-
specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) for all PRC 
exporters of subject merchandise that have not been found to be 
entitled to a separate rate (including TMM, which claimed no shipments, 
but has not been found to be separate from the PRC-wide entity), the 
cash deposit rate will be the PRC-wide rate of 141.49 percent; \14\ and 
(4) for all non-PRC exporters of subject merchandise which have not 
received their own rate, the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
applicable to the PRC exporter(s) that supplied that non-PRC exporter. 
These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
further notice.
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    \14\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Magnesium Metal From 
the People's Republic of China, 70 FR 19928 (April 15, 2005).
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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 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 Order

    This notice also 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 351.305(a)(3). 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 sanctionable 
violation.
    We are issuing and publishing these final results and this notice 
in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: March 18, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
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                                                  EFP would authorize the applicant to                       The applicant requests authorization                  NMFS finds this application warrants
                                                  collect red drum in Federal waters using                through the EFP to allow state of MS-                 further consideration. Possible
                                                  state of MS-licensed charter and                        licensed for-hire vessels to have a                   conditions the agency may impose on
                                                  headboat vessels (for-hire vessels). The                recreational bag and possession limit of              this permit, if it is indeed granted,
                                                  purpose of this study is to collect                     one red drum per person per trip from                 include but are not limited to, a
                                                  population data specific to the genetics,               Federal waters. There would be no size                prohibition of conducting research
                                                  age and growth, reproduction, and food                  limits applicable for the red drum                    within marine protected areas, marine
                                                  habits of adult red drum in Federal                     collected through this EFP.                           sanctuaries, or special management
                                                  waters where harvest is currently                       Additionally, the red drum bag and                    zones, without additional authorization.
                                                  prohibited. The data would then be                      possession limits for captain and crew                A report on the research would be due
                                                  used to support future stock assessment                 of any for-hire vessel participating in               at the end of the collection period, to be
                                                  information for red drum.                               this study would be zero.                             submitted to NMFS and reviewed by the
                                                  DATES: Comments must be received no                        Beginning in the fall of 2015, the                 Council.
                                                  later than April 23, 2015.                              applicant requests to collect a maximum                  A final decision on issuance of the
                                                                                                          of 30,000 lb (13,608 kg) of red drum                  EFP will depend on NMFS’ review of
                                                  ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
                                                                                                          during a 2-year period. The 30,000 lb                 public comments received on the
                                                  on the application by any of the
                                                                                                          (13,608 kg) is equivalent to                          application, consultations with
                                                  following methods:
                                                     • Email:                                             approximately 2,000 red drum or about                 appropriate fishery management
                                                  0648.XD816.Red.Drum.EFP@noaa.gov.                       1,000 red drum per each year of the                   agencies of the affected states, the
                                                                                                          study. According to MS DMR, as many                   Council, and the U.S. Coast Guard, as
                                                  Include in the subject line of the email
                                                                                                          as 70 for-hire vessels would be a part of             well as a determination that it is
                                                  comment the following document
                                                                                                          the study. For any vessel trip that plans             consistent with all applicable laws.
                                                  identifier: ‘‘MS Red Drum_EFP’’.
                                                     • Mail: Steve Branstetter, Southeast                 to harvest red drum, the vessel would be
                                                                                                                                                                  Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
                                                  Regional Office, NMFS, 263 13th                         required to hail-in and hail-out with a
                                                                                                          representative of MS DMR using an                       Dated: March 18, 2015.
                                                  Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.                                                                       Emily H. Menashes,
                                                     The application and related                          existing MS DMR electronic reporting
                                                  documents are available for review                      format. A representative of MS DMR                    Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
                                                                                                          would then meet the vessel that has red               Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
                                                  upon written request to any of the above
                                                  addresses.                                              drum onboard harvested from Federal                   [FR Doc. 2015–06661 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                          waters to collect sample information.                 BILLING CODE 3510–22–P
                                                  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                                                                          The applicant would monitor the
                                                  Steve Branstetter, 727–824–5305; email:                 amount of red drum collected to ensure
                                                  Steve.Branstetter@noaa.gov.                             that the 30,000 lb (13,608 kg) sample                 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                                                  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EFP is                   limit is not exceeded. After biological
                                                  requested under the authority of the                    sampling by MS DMR is completed for                   International Trade Administration
                                                  Magnuson-Stevens Fishery                                each red drum landed by participating                 [A–570–896]
                                                  Conservation and Management Act (16                     for-hire vessels, recreational fishers
                                                  U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), and regulations at                from the for-hire vessel would be                     Magnesium Metal From the People’s
                                                  50 CFR 600.745(b) concerning exempted                   allowed to retain the red drum as                     Republic of China: Final Results of
                                                  fishing.                                                recreational harvest. All red drum                    Antidumping Duty Administrative
                                                     The harvest and possession of red                    collected through this study would be                 Review; 2013–2014
                                                  drum in the Federal waters of the Gulf                  harvested during regular for-hire trips
                                                  of Mexico (Gulf) has been prohibited                                                                          AGENCY:  Enforcement and Compliance,
                                                                                                          using hook-and-line gear in Gulf Federal
                                                  since 1988 (53 FR 24662, June 29, 1988).                                                                      International Trade Administration,
                                                                                                          waters. A MS-licensed for-hire vessel
                                                  The harvest and possession prohibition                                                                        Department of Commerce.
                                                                                                          would not be permitted to fish for or
                                                  was implemented to protect the Gulf red                 possess either Gulf reef fish species or              DATES: Effective Date: March 24, 2015.
                                                  drum stock from overfishing. The Gulf                                                                         SUMMARY: On November 24, 2014, the
                                                                                                          coastal migratory pelagic species unless
                                                  of Mexico Fishery Management Council                    that vessel also had a Federal charter                Department of Commerce (‘‘the
                                                  (Council) is currently discussing                       vessel/headboat permit for the                        Department’’) published in the Federal
                                                  whether to modify or remove this                        applicable species. It is not anticipated             Register the preliminary results of the
                                                  harvest and possession prohibition, but                 that the study will increase any overall              administrative review of the
                                                  data regarding the adult red drum in                    fishing effort in the Gulf.                           antidumping duty order on magnesium
                                                  Gulf Federal waters is limited. The                        Samples to be collected by the                     metal from the People’s Republic of
                                                  existing population data is not                         applicant include biological material for             China (‘‘PRC’’) covering the period April
                                                  representative of the Gulf red drum                     red drum population genetics, age and                 1, 2013 through March 31, 2014.1 This
                                                  population as a whole as it mainly                      growth, reproduction, and food habits                 review covers two PRC producer/
                                                  consists of younger and smaller red                     analyses of adult red drum in Federal                 exporters, Tianjin Magnesium
                                                  drum samples obtained from state                        waters. Some specific information to be               International, Co., Ltd. (‘‘TMI’’) and
                                                  waters where harvest is permitted.                      collected include using molecular                     Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd.
                                                     The proposed collection for scientific               techniques to identify possible meta-                 (‘‘TMM’’). The Department gave
                                                  research involves activities that would                 populations and genetic structure,                    interested parties an opportunity to
                                                                                                                                                                comment on the Preliminary Results,
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                                                  be prohibited by regulations at 50 CFR                  stomach content analysis, tissue
                                                  part 622, as they pertain to red drum                   analysis, several length measurements,                but we received no comments. Hence,
                                                  managed by the Council. Specifically,                   otolith sampling, and histology analysis.             these final results are unchanged from
                                                  the EFP requests exemption from                            The research data are intended to
                                                                                                                                                                   1 See Magnesium Metal From the People’s
                                                  Federal regulations at § 622.92                         provide better life history information to
                                                                                                                                                                Republic of China: Preliminary Results of
                                                  (Prohibited species) that prohibit the                  assist with any future red drum stock                 Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2013–
                                                  harvest and possession of red drum in                   assessments and to assist the Council                 2014, 79 FR 69834 (November 24, 2014)
                                                  Gulf Federal waters.                                    with future management decisions.                     (‘‘Preliminary Results’’).



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                                                  the Preliminary Results, and we                          magnesium is produced by recycling                       The merchandise subject to this order
                                                  continue to find that TMI and TMM did                    magnesium-based scrap into magnesium                  is classifiable under items 8104.19.00,
                                                  not have reviewable entries during the                   metal. The magnesium covered by this                  and 8104.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff
                                                  period of review (‘‘POR’’).                              order includes blends of primary and                  Schedule of the United States
                                                  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                         secondary magnesium.                                  (‘‘HTSUS’’). Although the HTSUS items
                                                  James Terpstra or Erin Begnal, AD/CVD                       The subject merchandise includes the               are provided for convenience and
                                                  Operations, Office III, Enforcement and                  following alloy magnesium metal                       customs purposes, the written
                                                  Compliance, International Trade                          products made from primary and/or                     description of the merchandise is
                                                  Administration, U.S. Department of                       secondary magnesium including,                        dispositive.
                                                  Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution                   without limitation, magnesium cast into
                                                                                                                                                                 Final Determination of No Shipments
                                                  Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230;                        ingots, slabs, rounds, billets, and other
                                                  telephone: (202) 482–3965 or (202) 482–                  shapes; magnesium ground, chipped,                       As explained above, in the
                                                                                                           crushed, or machined into rasping,                    Preliminary Results, the Department
                                                  1442, respectively.
                                                                                                           granules, turnings, chips, powder,                    found that TMI and TMM did not have
                                                  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:                                                                                     reviewable entries during the POR.10
                                                                                                           briquettes, and other shapes; and
                                                  Background                                               products that contain 50 percent or                   Also in the Preliminary Results, the
                                                                                                           greater, but less than 99.8 percent,                  Department stated that consistent with
                                                    On November 24, 2014, the
                                                                                                           magnesium, by weight, and that have                   its refinement to its assessment practice
                                                  Department published the Preliminary
                                                                                                           been entered into the United States as                in non-market economy (‘‘NME’’) cases,
                                                  Results of the instant review.2 TMI and
                                                                                                           conforming to an ‘‘ASTM Specification                 it is appropriate not to rescind the
                                                  TMM submitted timely-filed
                                                                                                           for Magnesium Alloy’’ 7 and are thus                  review in this circumstance but, rather,
                                                  certifications indicating that they had
                                                                                                           outside the scope of the existing                     to complete the review with respect to
                                                  no shipments of subject merchandise to
                                                                                                           antidumping orders on magnesium from                  TMI and TMM and to issue appropriate
                                                  the United States during the POR.3 In
                                                                                                           the PRC (generally referred to as ‘‘alloy’’           instructions to CBP based on the final
                                                  addition, in response to the
                                                                                                           magnesium).                                           results of the review.11
                                                  Department’s query, U.S. Customs and                                                                              After issuing the Preliminary Results,
                                                  Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) did not                         The scope of this order excludes: (1)
                                                                                                           All forms of pure magnesium, including                the Department received no comments
                                                  provide any evidence that contradicted                                                                         from interested parties, nor has it
                                                  TMI’s and TMM’s claims of no                             chemical combinations of magnesium
                                                                                                           and other material(s) in which the pure               received any information that would
                                                  shipments.4 The Department received                                                                            cause it to revisit its preliminary results.
                                                  no comments from interested parties                      magnesium content is 50 percent or
                                                                                                           greater, but less than 99.8 percent, by               Therefore, for these final results, the
                                                  concerning the results of the CBP query.                                                                       Department continues to find that TMI
                                                  Therefore, based on TMI’s and TMM’s                      weight, that do not conform to an
                                                                                                           ‘‘ASTM Specification for Magnesium                    and TMM did not have any reviewable
                                                  certification and our analysis of CBP                                                                          entries during the POR.
                                                  information, we preliminarily                            Alloy’’ 8; (2) magnesium that is in liquid
                                                  determined that TMI did not have any                     or molten form; and (3) mixtures                      Assessment Rates
                                                  reviewable entries during the POR.5 We                   containing 90 percent or less
                                                                                                                                                                    The Department determined, and CBP
                                                  invited interested parties to comment on                 magnesium in granular or powder form
                                                                                                                                                                 shall assess, antidumping duties on all
                                                  the Preliminary Results.6 We received                    by weight and one or more of certain
                                                                                                                                                                 appropriate entries of subject
                                                  no comments from interested parties.                     non-magnesium granular materials to
                                                                                                                                                                 merchandise in accordance with the
                                                    The Department conducted this                          make magnesium-based reagent
                                                                                                                                                                 final results of this review.12 The
                                                  review in accordance with section                        mixtures, including lime, calcium
                                                                                                                                                                 Department intends to issue assessment
                                                  751(a)(1)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as               metal, calcium silicon, calcium carbide,
                                                                                                                                                                 instructions to CBP 15 days after the
                                                  amended (‘‘the Act’’).                                   calcium carbonate, carbon, slag
                                                                                                                                                                 date of publication of these final results
                                                                                                           coagulants, fluorspar, nephaline syenite,
                                                  Scope of the Order                                                                                             of review.
                                                                                                           feldspar, alumina (Al203), calcium
                                                                                                                                                                    Additionally, consistent with the
                                                     The product covered by this                           aluminate, soda ash, hydrocarbons,
                                                                                                                                                                 Department’s refinement to its
                                                  antidumping duty order is magnesium                      graphite, coke, silicon, rare earth
                                                                                                                                                                 assessment practice in NME cases,
                                                  metal from the PRC, which includes                       metals/mischmetal, cryolite, silica/fly
                                                                                                                                                                 because the Department determined that
                                                  primary and secondary alloy                              ash, magnesium oxide, periclase,
                                                                                                                                                                 TMI and TMM had no shipments of
                                                  magnesium metal, regardless of                           ferroalloys, dolomite lime, and
                                                                                                                                                                 subject merchandise during the POR,
                                                  chemistry, raw material source, form,                    colemanite.9
                                                                                                                                                                 any suspended entries that entered
                                                  shape, or size. Magnesium is a metal or                                                                        under TMI’s antidumping duty case
                                                                                                             7 The meaning of this term is the same as that
                                                  alloy containing by weight primarily the
                                                                                                           used by the American Society for Testing and
                                                  element magnesium. Primary                               Materials in its Annual Book for ASTM Standards:      Value: Pure Magnesium in Granular Form From the
                                                  magnesium is produced by                                 Volume 01.02 Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys.           People’s Republic of China, 66 FR 49345
                                                  decomposing raw materials into                             8 The material is already covered by existing       (September 27, 2001); Final Determination of Sales
                                                                                                           antidumping orders. See Notice of Antidumping         at Less Than Fair Value: Pure Magnesium From
                                                  magnesium metal. Secondary                                                                                     Israel, 66 FR 49349 (September 27, 2001); Final
                                                                                                           Duty Orders: Pure Magnesium from the People’s
                                                                                                           Republic of China, the Russian Federation and         Determination of Sales at Not Less Than Fair Value:
                                                    2 Id.
                                                                                                           Ukraine; Notice of Amended Final Determination of     Pure Magnesium From the Russian Federation, 66
                                                    3 See letter from TMI, ‘‘Magnesium Metal from                                                                FR 49347 (September 27, 2001). These mixtures are
                                                                                                           Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Antidumping Duty
                                                  the People’s Republic of China; A–570–896;               Investigation of Pure Magnesium from the Russian      not magnesium alloys, because they are not
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                                                  Certification of No Sales by Tianjin Magnesium           Federation, 60 FR 25691 (May 12, 1995); and           combined in liquid form and cast into the same
                                                  International, Co., Ltd.,’’ dated June 25, 2014, at 1;   Antidumping Duty Order: Pure Magnesium in             ingot.
                                                  and letter from TMM, ‘‘Magnesium Metal from the          Granular Form from the People’s Republic of China,       10 See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 69834–35.
                                                  People’s Republic of China; A–570–896;                   66 FR 57936 (November 19, 2001).                         11 See Non-Market Economy Antidumping
                                                  Certification of No Sales by Tianjin Magnesium             9 This third exclusion for magnesium-based          Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 76
                                                  Metal, Co., Ltd.,’’ dated July 21, 2014 at 1.            reagent mixtures is based on the exclusion for        FR 65694 (October 24, 2011) (‘‘Assessment Practice
                                                    4 See Preliminary Results, 79 FR at 69834.
                                                                                                           reagent mixtures in the 2000–2001 investigations of   Refinement’’) and the ‘‘Assessment Rates’’ section,
                                                    5 Id.                                                                                                        below.
                                                                                                           magnesium from China, Israel, and Russia. See
                                                    6 Id.                                                  Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair           12 See 19 CFR 351.212(b).




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                                                  number (i.e., at that exporter’s rate) will             with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely                     www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/
                                                  be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.13 As                written notification of the return or                 petition81.htm.
                                                  TMM’s entries are subject to the PRC-                   destruction of APO materials, or                      FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                  wide rate, any suspended entries will                   conversion to judicial protective order,              Heather Coll, NMFS, Office of Protected
                                                  also be liquidated at the PRC-wide rate.                is hereby requested. Failure to comply                Resources, (301) 427–8455.
                                                  Cash Deposit Requirements                               with the regulations and terms of an
                                                                                                                                                                SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
                                                                                                          APO is a sanctionable violation.
                                                    The following cash deposit                               We are issuing and publishing these                Background
                                                  requirements will be effective for all                  final results and this notice in
                                                  shipments of subject merchandise                                                                                 On July 15, 2013, we received a
                                                                                                          accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and                petition from the WildEarth Guardians
                                                  entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,                   777(i) of the Act.
                                                  for consumption on or after the                                                                               to list 81 marine species or
                                                                                                            Dated: March 18, 2015.                              subpopulations as threatened or
                                                  publication date of this notice of final
                                                  results of the administrative review, as                Paul Piquado,                                         endangered under the Endangered
                                                  provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the                 Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and               Species Act (ESA). We found that the
                                                  Act: (1) For TMI, which claimed no                      Compliance.                                           petitioned actions may be warranted for
                                                  shipments, the cash deposit rate will                   [FR Doc. 2015–06727 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am]           24 species and 3 subpopulations,
                                                  remain unchanged from the rate                          BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P                                announced the initiation of status
                                                  assigned to TMI in the most recently                                                                          reviews, and solicited information from
                                                  completed review of the company; (2)                                                                          the public for each of the 24 species and
                                                  for previously investigated or reviewed                 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE                                3 subpopulations (78 FR 63941, October
                                                  PRC and non-PRC exporters who are not                                                                         25, 2013; 78 FR 66675, November 6,
                                                                                                          National Oceanic and Atmospheric                      2013; 78 FR 69376, November 19, 2013;
                                                  under review in this segment of the                     Administration
                                                  proceeding but who have separate rates,                                                                       79 FR 9880, February 21, 2014; and 79
                                                  the cash deposit rate will continue to be               [Docket No. 141015853–4853–01]                        FR 10104, February 24, 2014). We
                                                  the exporter-specific rate published for                                                                      completed comprehensive status
                                                                                                          RIN 0648–XD563
                                                  the most recent period; (3) for all PRC                                                                       reviews under the ESA for six foreign
                                                  exporters of subject merchandise that                   Endangered and Threatened Wildlife                    marine species and evaluated whether
                                                  have not been found to be entitled to a                 and Plants; Notice of 12-Month Finding                one foreign marine subpopulation met
                                                  separate rate (including TMM, which                     on a Petition To List the Harbor                      our DPS Policy criteria in response to
                                                  claimed no shipments, but has not been                  Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the                   the petition (79 FR 74954; December 16,
                                                  found to be separate from the PRC-wide                  Baltic Sea as an Endangered or                        2014).
                                                  entity), the cash deposit rate will be the              Threatened Distinct Population                           This notice addresses the finding for
                                                  PRC-wide rate of 141.49 percent; 14 and                 Segment (DPS) Under the Endangered                    one of the petitioned subpopulations: a
                                                  (4) for all non-PRC exporters of subject                Species Act (ESA)                                     putative Baltic Sea harbor porpoise
                                                  merchandise which have not received                                                                           (Phocoena phocoena) subpopulation (79
                                                  their own rate, the cash deposit rate will              AGENCY:  National Marine Fisheries                    FR 9880; February 21, 2014). The
                                                  be the rate applicable to the PRC                       Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and                  remaining species and subpopulation
                                                  exporter(s) that supplied that non-PRC                  Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),                    will be addressed in subsequent
                                                  exporter. These deposit requirements,                   Commerce.                                             findings.
                                                  when imposed, shall remain in effect                    ACTION: Notice of 12-month Finding.                      We are responsible for determining
                                                  until further notice.                                                                                         whether species are threatened or
                                                                                                          SUMMARY:    We, NMFS, announce a 12-                  endangered under the ESA (16 U.S.C.
                                                  Notification to Importers                               month finding on a petition to list the               1531 et seq.). To make this
                                                     This notice serves as a final reminder               harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)                   determination, we first consider
                                                  to importers of their responsibility                    in the Baltic Sea as an endangered or                 whether a group of organisms
                                                  under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a                    threatened distinct population segment                constitutes a ‘‘species’’ under the ESA,
                                                  certificate regarding the reimbursement                 (DPS) under the Endangered Species                    then whether the status of the species
                                                  of antidumping duties prior to                          Act of 1973, as amended. We conducted                 qualifies it for listing as either
                                                  liquidation of the relevant entries                     a DPS analysis based on our joint U.S.                threatened or endangered. Section 3 of
                                                  during this POR. Failure to comply with                 Fish and Wildlife Service and NMFS                    the ESA defines a ‘‘species’’ as ‘‘any
                                                  this requirement could result in the                    DPS Policy. Based on the best available               subspecies of fish or wildlife or plants,
                                                  Department’s presumption that                           scientific and commercial information,                and any distinct population segment of
                                                  reimbursement of antidumping duties                     we find that the harbor porpoise                      any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife
                                                  occurred and the subsequent assessment                  population in the Baltic Sea is not a DPS             which interbreeds when mature.’’ On
                                                  of double antidumping duties.                           because it does not meet the criterion                February 7, 1996, NMFS and the U.S.
                                                                                                          for significance outlined by our DPS                  Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS;
                                                  Administrative Protective Order                         Policy. Thus, we find this population is              together, the Services) adopted a policy
                                                    This notice also serves as a reminder                 not warranted for listing.                            describing what constitutes a DPS of a
                                                  to parties subject to administrative                    DATES: This finding was made on March                 taxonomic species or subspecies (the
                                                  protective order (‘‘APO’’) of their                     24, 2015.                                             DPS Policy; 61 FR 4722). The DPS
                                                  responsibility concerning the
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                                                                                                          ADDRESSES: Information used to make                   Policy identified two elements that must
                                                  disposition of proprietary information                  this finding is available for public                  be considered when identifying a DPS:
                                                  disclosed under APO in accordance                       inspection by appointment during                      (1) The discreteness of the population
                                                                                                          normal business hours at NMFS, Office                 segment in relation to the remainder of
                                                    13 See Assessment Practice Refinement, 76 FR
                                                                                                          of Protected Resources, 1315 East West                the species (or subspecies) to which it
                                                  65694.
                                                    14 See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order:              Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910. The                 belongs; and (2) the significance of the
                                                  Magnesium Metal From the People’s Republic of           petition and a list of the references we              population segment to the remainder of
                                                  China, 70 FR 19928 (April 15, 2005).                    used can also be found at http://                     the species (or subspecies) to which it


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ContactJames Terpstra or Erin Begnal, 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-
FR Citation80 FR 15555 

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