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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 126 / Tuesday, July 6, 2021 / Notices 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/.
Scope of the Investigation The product covered by this investigation is granular PTFE resin from Russia. 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 An interested party commented on the scope of the investigation as it appeared in the Initiation Notice. For a summary of these comments and the rebuttal response submitted to the record for this preliminary determination, and accompanying discussion and analysis of the comments timely received, see the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum.6 Commerce is not preliminarily modifying the scope language as it appeared in the Initiation Notice. See scope in Appendix I.
The Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum establishes the deadline to submit scope case briefs.7 There will be no further opportunity to comment on scope-related issues.

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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 3 See Memorandum, Decision Memorandum for the Affirmative Preliminary Determination of the Countervailing Duty Investigation of Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from the Russian Federation, 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.
6 See Memorandum, Comments on Scope of Investigations, dated concurrently with this notice Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum.
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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.8
Alignment
Company Joint Stock Company HaloPolymer 10
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In accordance with section 705a1
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210b4, Commerce is aligning the final determination in this countervailing duty CVD investigation with the final determination in the companion antidumping duty AD investigation of granular PTFE resin from Russia based on a request made by the petitioner.9
Consequently, the final CVD
determination will be issued on the same date as the final AD
determination, which is currently scheduled to be issued no later than November 8, 2021, unless postponed.

Suspension of Liquidation
All-Others Rate
Disclosure
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. This 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 based entirely under section 776 of the Act.
Commerce calculated an individual estimated countervailable subsidy rate for Joint Stock Company HaloPolymer HaloPolymer, the only individually examined exporter/producer in this investigation. Because the only individually calculated rate is not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts otherwise available, the rate calculated for HaloPolymer is the rate assigned to all other producers and exporters not individually examined in this investigation, pursuant to section 705c5Ai of the Act.

Commerce intends to disclose to interested parties its calculations and analysis performed in this preliminary determination within five days of the date of its public announcement, or if there is no public announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this notice in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224b.

Preliminary Determination
8 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.
9 See Petitioners Letter, Request for Alignment, dated April 9, 2021.
10 As discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, Commerce has found the following companies to be cross-owned with Joint Stock Company HaloPolymer: Limited Liability Company HaloPolymer Kirovo-Chepetsk, Joint Stock Company HaloPolymer Perm, and URALCHEM JSC.

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Verification As provided in section 782i1 of the Act, Commerce intends to verify the information relied upon in making its final determination. Normally, Commerce verifies information using standard procedures, including an onsite examination of original accounting, financial, and sales documentation.
However, due to current travel restrictions in response to the global COVID19 pandemic, Commerce is unable to conduct on-site verification in this investigation. Accordingly, we intend to verify the information relied upon in making the final determination through alternative means in lieu of an on-site verification.
Public Comment
Commerce preliminarily determines that the following estimated countervailable subsidy rates exist:

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In accordance with section 703d1B and d2 of the Act, Commerce will direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP to suspend liquidation of entries of subject merchandise as described in the scope of the investigation section entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Further, pursuant to 19 CFR
351.205d, Commerce will instruct CBP
to require a cash deposit equal to the rates indicated above.

Case briefs or other written comments may be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance. Interested parties will be notified of the timeline for the submission of case briefs and written comments on non-scope issues at a later date. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in these case briefs, may be submitted no later than seven days after the deadline date for case briefs.11 Note 11 See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303
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