82_FR_28163 82 FR 28046 - Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) Public Meeting

82 FR 28046 - Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 117 (June 20, 2017)

Page Range28046-28047
FR Document2017-12758

This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a meeting of the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC).

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 117 (Tuesday, June 20, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 117 (Tuesday, June 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28046-28047]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12758]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) 
Public Meeting

AGENCY: International Trade Administration, DOC.

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a 
meeting of the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee 
(ETTAC).

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 18, 2017 from 8:30 
a.m.-3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The deadline for members of 
the public to register or to submit written comments for dissemination 
prior to the meeting is 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, July 7, 2017. The 
deadline for members of the public request auxiliary aids is 5:00 p.m. 
EDT on Tuesday, July 11, 2017.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in room 6057-59 at the U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Herbert Clark Hoover Building, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. The address to register, 
submit comments, or request auxiliary aids is: Ms. Amy Kreps, Office of 
Energy & Environmental Industries (OEEI), International Trade 
Administration, Room 28018, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 
DC 20230 or email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Amy Kreps, Office of Energy &

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Environmental Industries (OEEI), International Trade Administration, 
Room 28018, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (Phone: 
202-482-3835; Fax: 202-482-5665; email: [email protected].)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    The meeting will take place on July 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. 
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The general meeting is open to the public 
and time will be permitted for public comment from 3:00-3:30 p.m. EDT. 
All guests are required to register in advance. Those interested in 
attending must provide notification by Friday, July 7, 2017 at 5:00 
p.m. EDT, via the contact information provided above. This meeting is 
physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign 
language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to 
OEEI at (202) 482-5225 no less than one week prior to the meeting. Last 
minute requests will be accepted, but may not be possible to fill.
    Written comments concerning ETTAC affairs are welcome any time 
before or after the meeting. To be considered during the meeting, 
written comments must be received by Friday, July 7, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. 
EDT to ensure transmission to the members before the meeting. Minutes 
will be available within 30 days of this meeting.
    Topic To Be Considered: The agenda for the July 18, 2017 meeting 
includes a roundtable briefing and discussion with the U.S. interagency 
Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) Environmental Technology 
Working Group, which includes the Departments of State and Energy as 
well as the Environmental Protection Agency and others. Also during the 
meeting, the three ETTAC subcommittees will review their top priorities 
and objectives for the charter, including optimizing the U.S. 
Government's trade promotion programs, identifying market access 
barriers and pros and cons of existing trade agreements, and discussing 
procurement policy, including issues with financing mechanisms, 
localization and non-tariff barriers. The subcommittees are: Trade and 
Export Market Development, Professional Services and Infrastructure 
Advancement, and Trade Policy and American Competitiveness.
    Background: The ETTAC is mandated by Section 2313(c) of the Export 
Enhancement Act of 1988, as amended, 15 U.S.C. 4728(c), to advise the 
Environmental Trade Working Group of the Trade Promotion Coordinating 
Committee, through the Secretary of Commerce, on the development and 
administration of programs to expand U.S. exports of environmental 
technologies, goods, services, and products. The ETTAC was originally 
chartered in May of 1994. It was most recently re-chartered until 
August 2018.

    Dated: June 13, 2017.
Edward A. O'Malley,
Director, Office of Energy and Environmental Industries.
[FR Doc. 2017-12758 Filed 6-19-17; 8:45 am]
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28046 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 117 / Tuesday, June 20, 2017 / Notices and a correction on October 3, 2014.4 and, therefore, the Department issued merchandise where GVN acted as both U.S. Steel appealed the Final amended cash deposit instructions to the producer and exporter. Entries of Determination to the CIT, and on May U.S. Customs and Border Protection on subject merchandise exported to the 5, 2016, the CIT sustained, in part, and May 10, 2017.11 United States by any other producer and remanded, in part, the Final exporter combination involving GVN Amendment of the Order on OCTG Determination.5 The court remanded the are not entitled to this exclusion from From India Final Determination to the Department suspension of liquidation and are with respect to its differential pricing The period to appeal the CIT’s subject to the cash deposit rate for the analysis, specifically the Department’s decision has passed, and a final and all-others entity. application and explanation of its ratio conclusive court decision has been test in this case, for further explanation reached in this case. Therefore, the Notification to Interested Parties and consideration.6 Further, the court Department is amending the This notice constitutes the amended remanded for further explanation and antidumping duty order 12 on OCTG antidumping duty order with respect consideration the Department’s from India to exclude from the order OCTG from India. This notice is issued determinations that: (1) Jindal SAW was subject merchandise produced and and published in accordance with unaffiliated with certain suppliers of exported by GVN because the revised sections 516A(e)(1) and 736(a) of the inputs; (2) Jindal SAW’s yield loss data weighted-average dumping margin for Act. reasonably reflected its costs of GVN is de minimis. This exclusion does Dated: June 14, 2017. production; and (3) the highest COP in not apply to merchandise produced by GVN and exported by any other Ronald K. Lorentzen, GVN’s cost database should be assigned company or merchandise produced by Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement to its dual-grade products.7 On August any other company and exported by and Compliance. 31, 2016, the Department issued its final GVN. Resellers of merchandise [FR Doc. 2017–12819 Filed 6–19–17; 8:45 am] results of redetermination pursuant to remand, in accordance with the CIT’s produced by GVN, are also not entitled BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P order.8 On remand, the Department to this exclusion. revised the weighted-average dumping Estimated Weighted-Average Dumping DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE margins for both GVN and Jindal SAW. Margins On March 16, 2017, the CIT sustained International Trade Administration the Department’s Final The estimated weighted-average dumping margins are as follows: Redetermination.9 Parties had 60 days Environmental Technologies Trade to appeal the CIT’s judgement. No party Estimated Advisory Committee (ETTAC) Public appealed the decision. weighted- Meeting In response to the CIT’s March 16, average Exporter or producer AGENCY: International Trade 2017, decision, the Department dumping mar- published a notice of court decision that gins Administration, DOC. (percent) 13 is not in harmony with a Department ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory determination, and amended its Final Jindal SAW ........................... 11.24 Committee Meeting. Determination with respect to GVN and All Others ............................. 5.79 Jindal SAW.10 The revised weighted- SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the average dumping margin for GVN is schedule and proposed agenda of a 1.07 percent. The revised weighted- meeting of the Environmental Continuation of Suspension of Technologies Trade Advisory average dumping margin for Jindal SAW Liquidation, in Part is 11.24 percent. Neither GVN or Jindal Committee (ETTAC). SAW have a superseding cash deposit In accordance with section DATES: The meeting is scheduled for rate (e.g. from an administrative review) 735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department Tuesday, July 18, 2017 from 8:30 a.m.– has instructed CBP to continue to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Less Than Fair Value, 79 FR 53691 (September 10, suspend liquidation on all relevant The deadline for members of the public 2014) (Orders). entries of OCTG from India.14 These to register or to submit written 4 See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from instructions suspending liquidation will comments for dissemination prior to the India, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, the Republic remain in effect until further notice. of Turkey, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: meeting is 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, July Notice of Correction to the Antidumping Duty However, because the estimated 7, 2017. The deadline for members of Orders With Respect to Turkey and the Socialist weighted-average dumping margin for the public request auxiliary aids is 5:00 Republic of Vietnam, 79 FR 59740 (October 3, merchandise produced and exported by p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. 2014). GVN’s is de minimis, the Department is 5 See United States Steel Corp. v. United States, ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 179 F. Supp. 3d 1114 (CIT 2016) (US Steel). directing U.S. Customs and Border room 6057–59 at the U.S. Department of 6 See US Steel, 179 F. Supp. 3d at 1120. Protection to liquidate all entries Commerce, Herbert Clark Hoover 7 Id. produced and exported by GVN Building, 1401 Constitution Avenue 8 See Final Results of Redetermination Pursuant currently suspended without regard to NW., Washington, DC 20230. The to Remand, United States Steel Corporation et al. antidumping duties, and to not to address to register, submit comments, or and Maverick Tube Corporation et al. v. United suspend liquidation of entries of subject States, Consolidated Court No. 14–00263, dated request auxiliary aids is: Ms. Amy August 31, 2017 (Final Redetermination). Kreps, Office of Energy & Environmental sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES 11 See Message No. 7130310, dated May 10, 2017 9 See United States Steel Corporation et al. v. Industries (OEEI), International Trade United States, Slip Op. 17–28, Consolidated Court (Message No. 7130310). 12 See Orders. Administration, Room 28018, 1401 No. 14–00263 (CIT 2017). 10 See Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from 13 Cash deposit rates are lower than estimated Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, India: Notice of Court Decision Not in Harmony weighted-average dumping margins due to offsets DC 20230 or email: amy.kreps@ With Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair for export subsidies. trade.gov. Value and Final Negative Determination of Critical 14 See Orders at 53692; see also Message No. Circumstances and Notice of Amended Final 4262301, dated September 19, 2017, and Message FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Determination, 82 FR 17631 (April 12, 2017). No. 7130310. Amy Kreps, Office of Energy & VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:01 Jun 19, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20JNN1.SGM 20JNN1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 117 / Tuesday, June 20, 2017 / Notices 28047 Environmental Industries (OEEI), administration of programs to expand Limited (Goldenplam), the respondent International Trade Administration, U.S. exports of environmental in this review, submitted rebuttal Room 28018, 1401 Constitution Avenue technologies, goods, services, and comments.3 NW., Washington, DC 20230 (Phone: products. The ETTAC was originally 202–482–3835; Fax: 202–482–5665; chartered in May of 1994. It was most Period of Review email: amy.kreps@trade.gov.) recently re-chartered until August 2018. The POR covered by this review is SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Dated: June 13, 2017. January 1, 2014, through December 31, The meeting will take place on July 18 Edward A. O’Malley, 2014. from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Director, Office of Energy and Environmental Daylight Time (EDT). The general Scope of the Order Industries. meeting is open to the public and time [FR Doc. 2017–12758 Filed 6–19–17; 8:45 am] The merchandise subject to the order will be permitted for public comment BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P is certain lined paper products. The from 3:00–3:30 p.m. EDT. All guests are products are currently classifiable under required to register in advance. Those the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the interested in attending must provide DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States (HTSUS) item numbers: notification by Friday, July 7, 2017 at 4811.90.9035, 4811.90.9080, 5:00 p.m. EDT, via the contact International Trade Administration 4820.30.0040, 4810.22.5044, information provided above. This [C–533–844] 4811.90.9050, 4811.90.9090, meeting is physically accessible to 4820.10.2010, 4820.10.2020, people with disabilities. Requests for Certain Lined Paper Products From 4820.10.2030, 4820.10.2040, sign language interpretation or other India: Amended Final Results of 4820.10.2050, 4820.10.2060, and auxiliary aids should be directed to Countervailing Duty Administrative 4820.10.4000. Although the HTSUS OEEI at (202) 482–5225 no less than one Review, 2014 week prior to the meeting. Last minute numbers are provided for convenience requests will be accepted, but may not AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, and customs purposes, the written be possible to fill. International Trade Administration, product description remains dispositive. Written comments concerning ETTAC Commerce. A full description of the scope of the affairs are welcome any time before or order is contained in the Final Results SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce after the meeting. To be considered IDM.4 (the Department) is amending the final during the meeting, written comments results of the countervailing duty Ministerial Errors must be received by Friday, July 7, 2017 administrative review of certain lined at 5:00 p.m. EDT to ensure transmission paper products from India to correct Section 751(h) of the Act, and 19 CFR to the members before the meeting. ministerial errors. The period of review 351.224(f) define a ‘‘ministerial error’’ as Minutes will be available within 30 (POR) is January 1, 2014, through an error ‘‘in addition, subtraction, or days of this meeting. December 31, 2014. other arithmetic function, clerical error Topic To Be Considered: The agenda DATES: Effective June 20, 2017. resulting from inaccurate copying, for the July 18, 2017 meeting includes duplication, or the like, and any similar FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John a roundtable briefing and discussion type of unintentional error which the Conniff; AD/CVD Operations, Secretary considers ministerial.’’ The with the U.S. interagency Trade Enforcement and Compliance, Department finds that the purported Promotion Coordinating Committee International Trade Administration, errors alleged by the petitioner (TPCC) Environmental Technology U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 constitute ministerial errors within the Working Group, which includes the Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, meaning of 19 CFR 351.224(f).5 Departments of State and Energy as well DC 20230; telephone: 202–482–1009. Specifically, we committed certain as the Environmental Protection Agency and others. Also during the meeting, the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ministerial errors with regard to the ‘‘0.5 three ETTAC subcommittees will review Background Percent Test,’’ as described under 19 their top priorities and objectives for the CFR 351.524(b)(2), and the benefit charter, including optimizing the U.S. In accordance with sections 751(a)(1) calculation performed in connection Government’s trade promotion of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended with import duty exemptions that programs, identifying market access (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5), on Goldenpalm received under the Export barriers and pros and cons of existing April 17, 2017, the Department Promotion of Capital Goods Scheme. trade agreements, and discussing published its final results in the For a complete discussion of these procurement policy, including issues countervailing duty administrative alleged errors, see the Response to with financing mechanisms, localization review of certain lined paper products Ministerial Error Allegations. and non-tariff barriers. The from India.1 On that same day, the Association of American School Paper In accordance with section 751(h) of subcommittees are: Trade and Export the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(e), we are Market Development, Professional Suppliers (the petitioner) timely alleged that the Department made ministerial amending the Final Results.6 Services and Infrastructure Specifically, we are amending the net Advancement, and Trade Policy and errors in the Final Results.2 On April 28, 2017, Goldenpalm Manufacturers PVT subsidy rate for Goldenpalm. The American Competitiveness. Background: The ETTAC is mandated sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES 1 See Certain Lined Paper from India: Final 3 See Letter from Goldenpalm, ‘‘Certain Lined by Section 2313(c) of the Export Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Paper Products from India, C–533–844; Response to Enhancement Act of 1988, as amended, Review; 2014, 82 FR 18112 (April 17, 2017) (Final Ministerial Error Comments,’’ dated April 28, 2017. 4 See Final Results IDM at 3–5. 15 U.S.C. 4728(c), to advise the Resutls) and accompanying Issues and Decision Environmental Trade Working Group of Memorandum (IDM). 5 See Memorandum, ‘‘Response to Ministerial 2 See Letter from Petitioner, ‘‘Certain Lined Paper Error Allegations in the Final Results’’ (Response to the Trade Promotion Coordinating Products from India: Petitioner’s Comments on Ministerial Error Allegations) dated concurrently Committee, through the Secretary of Ministerial Errors in the Final Results,’’ dated April with this notice. Commerce, on the development and 17, 2017. 6 See Final Results, 82 FR at 18113. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:01 Jun 19, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20JNN1.SGM 20JNN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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ActionNotice of Federal Advisory Committee Meeting.
DatesThe meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 18, 2017 from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The deadline for members of the public to register or to submit written comments for dissemination prior to the meeting is 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, July 7, 2017. The deadline for members of the public request auxiliary aids is 5:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 11, 2017.
ContactMs. Amy Kreps, Office of Energy & Environmental Industries (OEEI), International Trade Administration, Room 28018, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (Phone: 202-482-3835; Fax: 202-482-5665; email: [email protected])
FR Citation82 FR 28046 
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