Purified Carboxymethylcellulose From the Netherlands; Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

Résumé

In response to requests from petitioner Aqualon Company (Aqualon), a division of Hercules Incorporated and a U.S. manufacturer of purified carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals B.V. (ANFC) and its U.S. affiliate, Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals LLC (AN-US), and CP Kelco B.V. (CP Kelco) and its U.S. affiliates, CP Kelco U.S. Inc. (CP Kelco US) and J.M. Huber Corporation, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on purified CMC from the Netherlands. This administrative review covers imports of subject merchandise produced and exported by ANFC and CP Kelco during the period of review (POR) beginning July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009. We preliminarily determine that ANFC is the successor-in-interest to Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry B.V. and that sales of subject merchandise by ANFC and CP Kelco were made at less than normal value during the POR. If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping duties on appropriate entries based on the difference between the export price and normal value or the con