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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 1 / Monday, January 4, 2021 / Notices
approval. Pursuant to the authority delegated to the FTZ Board Executive Secretary 15 CFR Sec. 400.36f, the application to expand Subzone 18F was approved on December 29, 2020, subject to the FTZ Act and the Boards regulations, including Section 400.13, and further subject to FTZ 18s 2,000acre activation limit.
Dated: December 29, 2020.
Elizabeth Whiteman, Acting Executive Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration C570136

Certain Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof From the Peoples Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce Commerce preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of certain chassis and subassemblies thereof chassis from the Peoples Republic of China China. The period of investigation is January 1, 2019
through December 31, 2019. Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination.
DATES: Applicable January 4, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William Langley or Nicholas Czajkowski, AD/CVD Operations, Office I, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 202 4823681 or 202 4821395, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:

Background This preliminary determination is made in accordance with section 703b of the Trade Act of 1930, as amended the Act. Commerce published the notice of initiation of this investigation on August 26, 2020.1 On October 1, 1 See Certain Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof from the Peoples Republic of China: Initiation of
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2020, Commerce postponed the preliminary determination of this investigation and the revised deadline is now December 28, 2020.2
For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this investigation, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is included as Appendix II to this notice. The Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via Enforcement and Compliances Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System ACCESS. ACCESS is available to registered users at http
access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at http enforcement.trade.gov/frn/.
The signed and electronic versions of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical in content.
Scope of the Investigation The products covered by this investigation are certain chassis and subassemblies thereof from China. For a complete description of the scope of this investigation, see Appendix I.
Scope Comments In accordance with the preamble to Commerces regulations,4 the Initiation Notice set aside a period of time for parties to raise issues regarding product coverage i.e., scope.5 Certain interested parties commented on the scope of the investigation as it appeared in the Initiation Notice. Because this investigation is not currently aligned with the companion AD investigation, Commerce intends to issue its preliminary decision regarding comments concerning the scope of the AD and CVD investigations no later than Countervailing Duty Investigation, 85 FR 52549
August 26, 2020 Initiation Notice.
2 See Certain Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof from the Peoples Republic of China: Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation, 85 FR 63251 October 7, 2020.
3 See Memorandum, Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Determination of the Countervailing Duty Investigation of Certain Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof from the Peoples Republic of China, dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
4 See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties, Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 May 19, 1997.
5 See Initiation Notice.

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Methodology Commerce is conducting this investigation in accordance with section 701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy programs found countervailable, Commerce preliminarily determines that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial contribution by an authority that gives rise to a benefit to the recipient, and that the subsidy is specific.6
Commerce notes that, in making these findings, it relied, in part, on facts available and, because it finds that one or more respondents did not act to the best of their ability to respond to Commerces requests for information, it drew an adverse inference where appropriate in selecting from among the facts otherwise available.7 For further information, see Use of Facts Otherwise Available and Adverse Inferences in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
All-Others Rate Sections 703d and 705c5A of the Act provide that, in the preliminary determination, Commerce shall determine an estimated all-others rate for companies not individually examined. The rate shall be an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated subsidy rates established for those companies individually examined, excluding any rates that are zero, de minimis, or rates based entirely under section 776 of the Act.
In this investigation, Commerce preliminarily calculated a rate for Qingdao CIMC Special Vehicles Co., Ltd. and Dongguan CIMC Vehicle Co., Ltd. collectively, CIMC, the only mandatory respondent. The only rate that is not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts otherwise available is the rate calculated for CIMC.
Consequently, the rate calculated for CIMC is also assigned as the rate for all other producers and exporters.
Preliminary Determination Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated countervailable subsidy rates exist:
6 See sections 7715B and D of the Act regarding financial contribution; section 7715E
of the Act regarding benefit; and section 7715A of the Act regarding specificity.
7 See sections 776a and b of the Act.

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