• Effective Date: May 29, 2014
  • Period of Review: Aug 06, 2012 to Dec 31, 2013
  • Notice of Lifting of Suspension Date: May 29, 2014
  • Cite as: 79 FR 30809 • Cite date: May 29, 2014

1. This is a correction to message 4171302, dated 06/20/2014, to add a paragraph instructing CBP to continue to suspend entries of certain products that are subject to an on-going formal scope inquiry. Below is the fully corrected message.

2. Commerce does not automatically conduct administrative reviews of countervailing duty orders. Instead, reviews must be requested pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213.

3. Commerce has not received a request for an administrative review of the countervailing duty order for the period and on the merchandise listed below except for the firms listed below. Therefore, except if paragraph 4 is applicable, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212, you are to assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit or bonding rate in effect on the date of entry.

Product: Drawn Stainless Steel Sinks
Country: People's Republic of China
Case number: C-570-984
Period: 08/06/2012 through 12/31/13

Liquidate all entries for all firms except:

Company: Zhongshan Superte Kitchenware Co., Ltd.
Case number: C-570-984-002 or C-570-984-003

Company: Foshan Zhaoshun Trade Co., Ltd.
Case number: C-570-984-003

Company: Guangdong Dongyuan Kitchenware Industrial Co., Ltd.
Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review.

Company: Shunde Native Produce Import and Export Co., Ltd. of Guangdong
Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review.

Company: Zhongshan Newecan Enterprise Development Corporation Limited
Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review.

Company: Zhongshan Silk Imp. & Exp. Group Co., Ltd. of Guangdong
Case number: No case number was in place for this company during the period of review.

Entries for the companies listed above may have entered under C-570-984-000 or other company-specific case numbers.

4. On 02/19/2014, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.225(e), Commerce initiated a formal scope inquiry to determine whether industrial bowls used as parts of safety products imported by Speakman Company are outside the scope of the antidumping duty order on drawn stainless steel sinks from the People's Republic of China. Continue to suspend liquidation of entries of Speakman Company's imports of industrial bowls used as parts for safety products, pending the final outcome of the ongoing scope inquiry. Upon completion of the scope inquiry, Commerce will issue separate liquidation instructions based on the final outcome of the scope inquiry.

5. There are no injunctions applicable to the entries covered by this instruction.

6. Entries of merchandise of excepted firms should not be liquidated until you receive specific instructions after the completion of the countervailing duty review. Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries exported or produced by the listed firms and entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period of review.

7. Notice of the lifting of suspension of liquidation of entries of subject merchandise during the period 08/06/2012 through 12/31/13 occurred with the publication of the notice of initiation of administrative review for the 04/2014 anniversary month (79 FR 30809, 05/29/2014). You shall continue to collect cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties for subsequent entries of subject merchandise at the current rates.

8. The assessment of countervailing duties by CBP on shipments or entries of this merchandise is subject to the provisions of section 778 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. Section 778 requires that CBP pay interest on overpayments or assess interest on underpayments of the required amounts deposited as estimated countervailing duties. The interest provisions are not applicable to cash or bonds posted as estimated countervailing duties before the date of publication of the countervailing duty order. Interest shall be calculated from the date of payment of estimated countervailing duties through the date of liquidation. The rate at which such interest is payable is the rate in effect under section 6621 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for such period.

9. If there are any questions by the importing public regarding this message, please contact the Call Center for the Office of AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce at (202) 482-0984. CBP ports should submit their inquiries through authorized CBP channels only. (This message was generated by OIII:EB)

10. There are no restrictions on the release of this information.

Michael B. Walsh