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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 3 / Wednesday, January 6, 2021 / Notices and the FTZ Boards regulations, including Section 400.14.
Dated: December 31, 2020.
Elizabeth Whiteman, Acting Executive Secretary.
FR Doc. 202029271 Filed 1521; 8:45 am BILLING CODE 3510DSP

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration A580908

Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires From the Republic of Korea:
Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce Commerce preliminarily determines that passenger vehicle and light truck tires passenger tires from the Republic of Korea Korea are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value LTFV. The period of investigation is April 1, 2019, through March 31, 2020. Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination.
DATES: Applicable January 6, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elfi Blum or Jun Jack Zhao, AD/CVD
Operations, Office VII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
202 4820197 or 202 4821396, respectively.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
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This preliminary determination is made in accordance with section 733b of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended the Act. Commerce published the notice of initiation of this investigation on June 29, 2020.1 On October 16, 2020, Commerce postponed the preliminary determination of this investigation by 50
days, to December 29, 2020, pursuant to section 733c1A of the Act and 19
CFR 351.205e.2 For a complete 1 See Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of LessThan-Fair-Value Investigations, 85 FR 38854 June 29, 2020 Initiation Notice.
2 See Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires From the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the Less-Than-Fair-

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description of the events that followed the initiation of this investigation, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics included 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 https
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 the electronic versions of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum are identical in content.
Scope of the Investigation The products covered by this investigation are passenger tires from Korea. 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. For a summary of the product coverage comments on the record of this investigation, and accompanying discussion and analysis of all comments timely received, see the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum.6 As discussed in the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum, Commerce is preliminarily modifying the scope language as it appeared in the Initiation Value Investigations, 85 FR 65791 October 16, 2020; see also Petitioners Letter, Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Petitioners Request for Extension of Preliminary Determination, dated October 1, 2020.
3 See Memorandum, Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Affirmative Determination in the Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the Republic of Korea, 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, 85 FR at 38855.
6 See Memorandum, Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Scope Comments Decision Memorandum, dated concurrently with this preliminary determination Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum.

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Notice. See the revised scope in Appendix I to this notice.
The deadline to submit scope case briefs is established in the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum. There will be no further opportunity for comments on scope-related issues.7
Methodology Commerce is conducting this investigation in accordance with section 731 of the Act. Commerce has calculated export price and constructed export price in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Normal value NV is calculated in accordance with section 773 of the Act. Furthermore, pursuant to sections 776a and b of the Act, Commerce has preliminarily relied on partial facts otherwise available, with adverse inferences, for Hankook Tire &
Technology Co. Ltd Hankook.8 For a full description of the methodology underlying the preliminary determination, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
All-Others Rate Sections 733d1ii and 735c5A
of the Act provide that in the preliminary determination Commerce shall determine an estimated all-others rate for all exporters and producers not individually examined. This rate shall be an amount equal to the weighted average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins established for exporters and producers individually investigated, excluding rates that are zero, de minimis, or determined entirely under section 776
of the Act. In this investigation, Commerce calculated estimated weighted-average dumping margins for Hankook and Nexen that are not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts otherwise available. Commerce calculated the all-others rate using an average of the estimated weightedaverage dumping margins calculated for the examined respondents weighted by each companys publicly-ranged total 7 Case briefs and rebuttal briefs submitted in response to this preliminary LTFV determination should not include scope-related issues. See Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum and the Public Comment section of this notice.
8 In its section A questionnaire response, Hankook stated that in March 1999, the name Hankook Tire Mfg. Co., Ltd. was changed to Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. In May 2019, the name of Hankook Tire Co. Ltd. was changed to Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd. Hankook Tire America Corp. and Hankook Tire Manufacturing Tennessee, LP, are directly and indirectly wholly-owned subsidiaries of Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd.
See Hankooks Letter, Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires from the Republic of Korea A580
908: Initial Section A Questionnaire Response, dated September 14, 2020.

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