Truck and Bus Tires From China

Lisa Barton
International Trade Commission
19 February 2019

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 33 (Tuesday, February 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 4855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02602]


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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION

[Investigation Nos. 701-TA-556 and 731-TA-1311 (Final) (Remand)]


Truck and Bus Tires From China

Determinations

    The United States International Trade Commission (Commission) 
hereby publishes notice of its final determinations pursuant to the 
remand ordered by the U.S. Court of International Trade in the 
antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of truck and bus 
tires from China. See Diamond Sawblades Manufacturers Coalition v. 
United States, 626 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2010); 19 U.S.C. 1673d(d). On 
the basis of the Court's remand instructions and the parties' comments, 
and the record \1\ developed in the subject investigations, the 
Commission determines, pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930, that an 
industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of 
subject imports of truck and bus tires from China, provided for in 
subheadings 4011.20.1015 and 4011.20.5020 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States, that have been found by the Department 
of Commerce to be sold in the United States at less than fair value and 
to be subsidized by the Government of China.\2\
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    \1\ The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the Commission's 
Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 207.2(f)).
    \2\ Chairman Johanson and Commissioner Broadbent dissented, 
finding that an industry in the United States is neither materially 
injured nor threatened with material injury by reason of the subject 
imports.
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Background

    In February 2017, the Commission issued negative determinations in 
the antidumping and countervailing duty determinations of truck and bus 
tires from China. Truck and Bus Tires from China, 701-TA-556 and 731-
TA-1311 (Final), USITC Pub. 4673 (March 2017). Petitioner, the United 
Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied 
Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, 
appealed the Commission's negative determinations to the U.S. Court of 
International Trade. Following briefing and oral argument, the Court, 
on November 1, 2018, remanded the Commission's determinations for 
reconsideration by the Commission. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, 
Rubber, Mfg., Energy, Allied Indus. and Serv. Workers Int'l Union v. 
United States, Slip Op. 18-151 (Ct. Int'l Trade Nov. 1, 2018).
    On January 30, 2019, the Commission on remand issued these 
affirmative determinations.

    By order of the Commission.

    Issued: February 12, 2019.
Lisa Barton,
Secretary to the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2019-02602 Filed 2-15-19; 8:45 am]
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