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AGENCY:
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY:
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is amending the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on wood mouldings and millwork products (WMMP) from the People's Republic of China (China) to correct a ministerial error. The period of review (POR) is February 1, 2022, through January 31, 2023.
DATES:
Applicable October 24, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Smith or Hannah Lee, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1766 or (202) 482-1216, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 17, 2024, Commerce received timely submitted ministerial error allegations from the Coalition of American Millwork Producers (the petitioner) with respect to the margin calculations for Jinquan/Baiyuan, one of the two mandatory respondents. No other parties submitted comments. On September 18, 2024, Commerce published the Final Results in the Federal Register . We are amending the Final Results to correct one of the petitioner's alleged ministerial errors while finding the other allegation to be methodological in nature rather than a clerical error.
See Petitioner's Letter, “Ministerial Error Allegations,” dated September 17, 2024 (Ministerial Error Comments).
The full names for the companies included in this collapsed entity are Fujian Jinquan Trade Co., Ltd./Baiyuan Wood Machining Co., Ltd. (Jinquan/Baiyuan).
The other mandatory respondent in this administrative review is Fujian Yinfeng Imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd./Fujian Province Youxi City Mangrove Wood Machining Co., Ltd.
See Wood Mouldings and Millwork Products from the People's Republic of China: Final Results and Partial Rescission in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023,89 FR 76452 (September 18, 2024) ( Final Results), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum (IDM).
See Memorandum, “Analysis of Ministerial Error Allegations,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Ministerial Error Memorandum).
Legal Framework
Section 751(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), defines a “ministerial error” as including “errors in addition, subtraction, or other arithmetic function, clerical errors resulting from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the like, and any other unintentional error which the administering authority considers ministerial.” With respect to final results of administrative reviews, 19 CFR 351.224(e) provides that Commerce “will analyze any comments received and, if appropriate, correct any . . . ministerial error by amending the final results of review. . . .”
See19 CFR 351.224(f).
Ministerial Error
In the Final Results, we stated that we recalculated the freight revenue cap for Jinquan/Baiyuan. In its Ministerial Error Comments, the petitioner alleged that while Commerce correctly calculated the freight revenue cap, Commerce incorrectly applied it to the original gross unit price by: (a) failing to remove the freight expenses from the price; and (b) incorrectly subtracting, rather than adding, the freight revenue cap to the price.
See Final Results IDM at Comment 6.
See Ministerial Error Comments at 1-2.
We agree with the petitioner that we made a ministerial error pursuant to section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f). Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e), we are amending the Final Results to correct this ministerial error in the calculation of the weighted-average dumping margin for Jinquan/Baiyuan. As a result, the margin changes from 4.25 percent to 4.68 percent. Furthermore, based on the revised weighted-average dumping margin calculated for Jinquan/Baiyuan, we are also amending the rate for the companies not selected for individual examination in this review, which changes from 4.25 percent to 4.68 percent.
For a complete discussion of the ministerial error allegation, as well as Commerce's analysis, see the Ministerial Error Memorandum. The Ministerial Error Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via ACCESS. ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov.
See also Memorandum, “Amended Final Results Margin Calculation for Jinquan/Baiyuan,” dated concurrently with this memorandum.
Amended Final Results of Review
As a result of correcting the ministerial error described above, we determine the following estimated amended weighted-average dumping margins for the period February 1, 2022, through January 31, 2023: