2024-27426. Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates From Japan and the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Order; Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates From the People's Republic of China: Countervailing Duty Order

China

Exporter	Producer	Weighted- average dumping margin (percent)	Cash deposit rate (adjusted for subsidy offsets) (percent) 8
Fujifilm Printing Plate (China) Co., Ltd	Fujifilm Printing Plate (China) Co., Ltd	115.85	115.84
China-wide Entity		317.44	317.43

Japan

Exporter/producer	Weighted- average dumping margin (percent)
Fujifilm Corporation; Fujifilm Shizuoka Co., Ltd	91.83
Miraclon Corporation Ltd	160.11
All Others	91.83

Provisional Measures—AD

Section 733(d) of the Act states that suspension of liquidation pursuant to an affirmative preliminary determination may not remain in effect for more than four months, except where exporters representing a significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise request that Commerce extend the four-month period to no more than six months. At the request of exporters that accounted for a significant proportion of exports of printing plates from China and Japan, Commerce extended the four-month period to no more than six months.^[9] In the underlying investigations, Commerce published the LTFV Preliminary Determinations on May 1, 2024. Therefore, the six-month period beginning on the date of the publication of the LTFV Preliminary Determinations ended on October 27, 2024. Pursuant to section 737(b) of the Act, the collection of cash deposits at the rates listed above will begin on the date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination. Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act and our practice, Commerce will instruct CBP to terminate the suspension of liquidation and to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, unliquidated entries of printing plates from China and Japan entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after October 28, 2024, the first day provisional measures were no longer in effect, until and through the day preceding the date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal Register . Suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits will resume on the date of publication of the ITC's final determination in the Federal Register .

CVD Order

As stated above, based on the above-referenced affirmative final determination by the ITC that an industry in the United States is materially injured within the meaning of section 705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act by reason of subsidized imports of printing plates from China,^[10] in accordance with section 705(c)(2) of the Act, Commerce is issuing this CVD order. Moreover, because the ITC determined that imports of printing plates from China are materially injuring a U.S. industry, unliquidated entries of subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, are subject to the assessment of countervailing duties.

Therefore, in accordance with section 706(a) of the Act, Commerce intends to direct CBP to assess, upon further instructions by Commerce, countervailing duties on all relevant entries of printing plates from China, which are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after March 1, 2024, the date of publication of the China CVD Preliminary Determination, but will not include entries occurring after the expiration of the provisional measures period and before the publication of the ITC's final injury determination under section 705(b) of the Act, as further described in the “Provisional Measures—CVD” section of this notice.^[11]

Critical Circumstances—CVD

With respect to the ITC's negative critical circumstances determination on imports of printing plates from China, we will instruct CBP to lift suspension and to refund any cash deposits made to secure the payment of estimated ( print page 92626) countervailing duties with respect to entries of the subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after December 2, 2023 ( i.e., 90 days prior to the date of the publication of the China CVD Preliminary Determination), but before March 1, 2024 ( i.e., the date of publication of the China CVD Preliminary Determination).

Suspension of Liquidation and Cash Deposits—CVD

In accordance with section 706 of the Act, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to reinstitute the suspension of liquidation of printing plates from China, effective on the date of publication of the ITC's final affirmative injury determination in the Federal Register , and to assess, upon further instruction by Commerce, pursuant to section 706(a)(1) of the Act, countervailing duties on each entry of subject merchandise in an amount based on the net countervailable subsidy rates below. On or after the date of publication of the ITC's final injury determination in the Federal Register , CBP must require, at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated customs duties on this merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the rates listed in the table below. These instructions suspending liquidation will remain in effect until further notice. The all-others rate applies to all producers or exporters not specifically listed below, as appropriate.

Estimated Countervailing Duty Subsidy Rates

The estimated countervailing duty subsidy rates are as follows:

Company	Subsidy rate (percent ad valorem)
Fujifilm Printing Plate (China) Co., Ltd.12	35.66
Shanghai National Ink Co. Ltd	229.54
All Others	35.66