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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 16 / Wednesday, January 27, 2021 / Notices
quantity and value Q&V of exports of uncoated paper rolls to various companies. We received responses to these questionnaires from all parties except Ahlstrom. One company, Carvajal Pulpa y Papel S.A. Carvajal, a Colombian producer of paper rolls, reported no shipments of uncoated paper rolls produced in Brazil to the United States.3
Subsequently, Commerce selected two companies, International Paper do Brasil Ltda IP/International Paper Exportadora Ltda IPEX collectively, IP,4 and Suzano S.A. Suzano, and required them to respond to a full questionnaire relating to their export activity with respect to uncoated paper rolls.5 We received questionnaire and supplemental questionnaire responses from IP and Suzano, as well as responses from three U.S. companies.
For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this inquiry, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.6

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Scope of the Order The merchandise subject to this Order includes uncoated paper in sheet form;
weighing at least 40 grams per square meter but not more than 150 grams per square meter; that either is a white paper with a GE brightness level of 85
or higher or is a colored paper; whether 3 In its Q&V questionnaire response, Carvajal reported that it exported rolls produced in Colombia through Brazil. See Carvajals Letter, Anticircumvention Inquiry of the Antidumping Duty Orders on Uncoated Paper Sheets from Australia, Brazil, the Peoples Republic of China, and Indonesia, and the Countervailing Duty Orders on Uncoated Paper Sheets from the Peoples Republic of China and Indonesia: Quantity and Value Questionnaire, dated November 20, 2019
Carvajal Q&V Response.
4 In the less-than-fair-value investigation, we determined that IP and IPEX constituted a single entity. Because no interested party submitted comments on this issue, and in the absence of any new information regarding this finding, Commerce is continuing to find that IP and IPEX are affiliated, pursuant to sections 77133E and F of the Act and are a single entity, pursuant to 19 CFR
351.401f. See Certain Uncoated Paper from Brazil:
Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of Final Determination, 80 FR 52029 August 27, 2015, and accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum at Affiliation Determinations, unchanged in Certain Uncoated Paper from Brazil: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 81
FR 3115 January 20, 2016.
5 See Memorandum, Anti-Circumvention Inquiry of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Uncoated Paper from Brazil: Respondent Selection, dated May 18, 2020. IP and Suzano are herein after also referred to as the mandatory respondents or the Brazilian producers and/or exporters.
6 See Memorandum, Preliminary Decision Memorandum for Anti-Circumvention Inquiry of the Antidumping Duty Order on Certain Uncoated Paper from Brazil: Uncoated Paper Rolls, dated concurrently, and hereby adopted, with this notice Preliminary Decision Memorandum.

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or not surface-decorated, printed except as described below, embossed, perforated, or punched; irrespective of the smoothness of the surface; and irrespective of dimensions Certain Uncoated Paper. For a full description of the scope, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Merchandise Subject to the AntiCircumvention Inquiries This anti-circumvention inquiry covers certain uncoated paper rolls that are commonly, but not exclusively, known as sheeter rolls, from Brazil that are further processed in the United States into individual sheets of uncoated paper that would be subject to the Order i.e., paper that weighs at least 40 grams per square meter but not more than 150 grams per square meter; and that either is a white paper with a GE
brightness level of 83 +/1% or higher or is a colored paper as defined in the Scope section of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, except as noted below. The uncoated paper rolls covered by this inquiry are able to be converted into sheets of uncoated paper using specialized cutting machinery prior to printing, and are typically, but not exclusively, between 52 and 103
inches wide and 50 inches in diameter.
For clarity, we herein refer to subjectpaper rolls when referencing the certain uncoated paper rolls that may be converted into subject merchandise.
Subject-paper rolls are classified under HTSUS category 4802.55.7
Certain importers of the subject-paper rolls that will not be converted into subject merchandise may certify that the rolls will not be further processed into subject merchandise covered by the scope of the Order. Failure to comply with the requisite certification requirement may result in the merchandise being found subject to AD
duties.
Methodology Commerce made this preliminary finding of circumvention in accordance with section 781a of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended the Act and 19 CFR
351.225g. We relied on information placed on the record by the petitioners; 8
by IP and Suzano; and by Colonial Press International, Inc., Company B, and Perez Trading Company collectively, U.S. companies. Further, because Ahlstrom did not cooperate by failing to 7 See
Initiation Notice, 84 FR at 55917.
petitioners are Domtar Corporation, Packaging Corporation of America, North Pacific Paper Company, Finch Paper LLC, and United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union.
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respond to the best of its ability to Commerces requests for information, we have used adverse inferences when selecting from among the facts otherwise available on the record for certain aspects of this preliminary determination, pursuant to sections 776a and b of the Act.
For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 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.
A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached at Appendix I to this notice.
Affirmative Preliminary Determination of Circumvention Based on our analysis, as detailed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, we preliminarily find, pursuant to section 781a of the Act, that imports from Brazil of uncoated paper rolls that meet the description of inquiry merchandise above i.e., subject-paper rolls that are further processed in the United States into subject merchandise are circumventing the Order.
We also preliminarily determine that Carvajal and IP did not export subjectpaper rolls from Brazil to the United States during the period of inquiry.9
To administer this affirmative circumvention determination, Commerce is requiring that importers of certain paper rolls from Brazil that otherwise match the physical description of subject-paper rolls and will not be further processed into uncoated paper sheets subject to the Order certify that the merchandise will not be further processed into subject uncoated paper sheets. Importers of such merchandise will be required to certify and maintain their certifications and supporting documentation to 9 The period for this inquiry examines the time period starting in the month the initiation of the underlying Order was published, and ending four years later, i.e., February 1, 2015, through February 28, 2019. For Carvajal, see Carvajal Q&V Response.
For IP, see Memorandum, Business Proprietary Memorandum for International Paper do Brasil Ltda and International Paper Exportadora Ltda, dated concurrently with this memorandum.

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