China Quartz Surface Products: Commerce Expands AD/CVD Admin Reviews
The Commerce Department is expanding its ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on quartz surface products from China (A-570-084/C-570-085), and may review the eligibility of some Malaysian companies that are currently ineligible to certify their goods are exempt because they aren’t Chinese, it said in a notice released Feb. 23.
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The expanded review periods will allow Commerce to consider entries of quartz surface products from Malaysia made from Chinese quartz slab that the agency found are covered by the scope of the AD/CVD orders, Commerce said. The 2022 scope ruling applies to entries on or after Nov. 4, 2021 (see 2210240036).
Previously covering entries July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, the AD review will now cover entries Nov. 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023, Commerce said. Likewise, the CVD review, which covered entries in calendar year 2022, will now cover entries Nov. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2022, it said.
Commerce is also accepting requests for review by March 11 of several companies that it found didn’t cooperate with the scope proceeding, and ruled ineligible to certify their goods weren’t made from Chinese quartz slab and so shouldn’t be subject to the AD/CVD orders. The agency said that, if requested, it may “review the certification eligibility” of Ever Stone; MSI; Principal Safwa; Resstone; SCLM; and Unique Stone.
Commerce had also found Bada Industries, Karina Stone, and Universal Quartz ineligible for certification, but those companies are already under review, the agency said.
“If interested parties submit a request for review of any of these companies, Commerce’s review will be limited to the company’s eligibility to participate in the certification process,” the agency said. “Moreover, Commerce will only include those companies in the AD and CVD administrative reviews which have suspended entries of subject merchandise during the expanded PORs (i.e., November 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023 for the AD administrative review; and November 1, 2021, through December 31, 2022 for the CVD administrative review).”