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AGENCY:
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY:
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that producers/exporters subject to this review did not make sales of subject merchandise at prices below normal value. The period of review (POR) is December 1, 2022, through November 30, 2023. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
DATES:
Applicable September 13, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dennis McClure or Henry Wolfe, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5973, and (202) 482-0574, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 8, 2024, based on a timely request for review, and in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), Commerce initiated this administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on carbazole violet pigment 23 (CVP-23) from India covering three companies: Gharda Chemicals, Ltd. (Gharda), Meghmani Pigments (Meghmani), and Navpad Pigments Pvt. Ltd. (Navpad). On March 1, 2024, we limited the number of respondents for individual examination in this administrative review to Meghmani and Navpad. On July 22, 2024, Commerce tolled certain deadlines in this administrative proceeding by seven days. The deadline for the preliminary results is now September 9, 2024. For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 8641 (February 8, 2024). Additionally, we collapsed Meghmani Pigments and its affiliated company, Meghmani LLC, into a single entity based on our affiliation and collapsing analysis. See Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 form India; 2022-2023,” dated concurrently with, and herby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
See Memorandum, “Respondent Selection,” dated March 1, 2024.
See Memorandum, “Tolling of Deadlines for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings,” dated July 22, 2024.
See Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Scope of the Order
See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 from India,69 FR 77988 (December 29, 2004) ( Order).
The product covered by the Order is CVP-23, in any form. For a full description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act. Export price is calculated in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Normal value is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. A list of topics included in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as an appendix to this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliance's Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov. In addition, the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
Rate for the Non-Examined Company
To determine the rate for non-selected companies in an administrative review, generally, Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the all-others rate in a market economy investigation. Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally “an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated weighted average dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero or de minimis margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis of facts available.}”
Where the dumping margin for individually examined respondents are all zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available, section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act provides that Commerce may use “any reasonable method to establish the estimated all-others rate for exporters and producers not individually investigated, including averaging the estimated weighted average dumping margins determined for the exporters and producers individually investigated.”
In this review, we calculated weighted-average dumping margins for Meghmani and Navpad that are zero and we did not calculate any margins which are not zero, de minims, or determined entirely on the basis of facts available. Therefore, consistent with section 735(c)(5)(B) of the Act, we are applying to Gharda, the company not selected for individual examination in this review, a margin of zero percent.
Preliminary Results of Review
As a result of our review, we preliminarily determine the following estimated weight-average dumping margins for the period December 1, 2022, through November 30, 2023:
| Producer/exporter | Weighted-average dumping margin (percent) |
|---|---|
| Gharda Chemicals Limited | 0.00 |
| Meghmani Pigments/Meghmani LLC | 0.00 |
| Navpad Pigments Pvt. Ltd | 0.00 |