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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 147 / Wednesday, August 4, 2021 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration A533824

Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip From India:
Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 20192020
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip PET film from India. The period of review POR is July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020. This review covers Jindal Poly Films Ltd. Jindal and SRF Limited of India SRF, producers and exporters of PET film from India. Commerce preliminarily determines that Jindal and SRF did not make sales of subject merchandise below normal value during the POR. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable August 4, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jacqueline Arrowsmith at 202 482
5255; AD/CVD Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:

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Background On July 1, 2020, Commerce published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on PET film from India, for the period July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020.1
Subsequently, on September 3, 2020, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.222c1i, Commerce published a notice of initiation of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on PET film from India.2
On March 30, 2021, in accordance with section 751a3A of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended the Act and 19 CFR 351.213h2, Commerce extended the due date for the preliminary results by 60 days from 1 See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review, 85 FR 39531 July 1, 2020.
2 See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 85 FR
54983 September 3, 2020 Initiation Notice.

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April 2, 2021 to July 1, 2021.3 On June 17, 2021, we extended the deadline by an additional 28 days.4 The current deadline is July 29, 2021.
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 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/
index.html.
Scope of the Order 5
The products covered by this Order are all gauges of raw, pretreated, or primed polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip, whether extruded or coextruded. Excluded are metallized films and other finished films that have had at least one of their surfaces modified by the application of a performance-enhancing resinous or inorganic layer of more than 0.00001
inches thick. Imports of PET film are classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States HTSUS
under item number 3920.62.00.90.
HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes. The written description of the scope of the Order is dispositive.
Partial Rescission of Administrative Review Commerce initiated a review of eight separate companies in this proceeding.6
We are rescinding this administrative review with respect to six of these companies: 1 Ester Industries Ltd.
Ester; 2 Garware Polyester Ltd.
Garware; 3 MTZ Polyesters Ltd.
MTZ; 4 Polyplex Corporation 3 See Memorandum Polyethylene Terephthalate PET Film, Sheet and Strip from India: Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review20192020, dated March 30, 2021.
4 See Memorandum Polyethylene Terephthalate PET Film, Sheet and Strip from India: Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review20192020, dated June 17, 2021.
5 See Notice of Amended Final Antidumping Duty Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Polyethylene Film, Sheet and Strip from India, 67 FR 44176 July 1, 2002
Order.
6 See Initiation Notice. As noted above, SRF Ltd.
is the same company as SRF Limited of India.

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Polyplex; 5 Uflex Ltd. Uflex; and 6
Vacmet India Ltd. Vacmet, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213d1, because all review requests of these companies were timely withdrawn. Accordingly, the companies that remain subject to the instant review are Jindal Poly Films Ltd.
Jindal and SRF Limited of India SRF.7
Methodology Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751a2 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.
Preliminary Results of Review As a result of this review, we preliminarily determine the following weighted-average dumping margins for the period July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020.

Manufacturer/exporter
Weightedaverage margin percent
Jindal Poly Films Ltd.
SRF Limited of India

0.00
0.00

Disclosure and Public Comment We intend to disclose the calculations performed to parties in this proceeding within five days after public announcement of the preliminary results in accordance with 19 CFR
351.224b. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.309c, interested parties may submit case briefs not later than 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than seven days after the date for filing case briefs.8 Parties who submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are encouraged to submit with each argument: 1 A
statement of the issue; 2 a brief 7 SRF Limited and SRF Limited of India are the same company. See SRFs Letter, Polyethylene Terephthalate PET Film, Sheet and Strip from India/SRF Limited/Comments on U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP Data Release, dated November 30, 2020. SRF states that there is only one SRF producing the subject merchandise . . .
SRF Limited. For purposes of this review, when we refer to SRF Limited, we will use the formal name, SRF Limited of India.
8 See 19 CFR 351.309d; see also Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements Due to COVID19, 85 FR 17006, 17007 March 26, 2020
To provide adequate time for release of case briefs via ACCESS, E&C intends to schedule the due date for all rebuttal briefs to be 7 days after case briefs are filed while these modifications remain in effect; and Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD
Service Requirements Due to COVID19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 41363 July 10, 2020.

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