Automatic liquidation instructions for certain hardwood plywood products from the People's Republic of China for the period 01/01/2022 through 12/31/2022 (C-570-052)

1. Commerce does not automatically conduct administrative reviews of countervailing duty orders. Instead, reviews must be requested pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213. 2. Commerce has not received a request for an administrative review of the countervailing duty order for the period and on the merchandise identified below except for the firms listed in paragraph 3. Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c), you are to liquidate all entries for all firms except those listed in paragraph 3 and assess countervailing duties on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption at the cash deposit rate in effect on the date of entry: Product: Certain Hardwood Plywood Products Country: People's Republic of China Case number: C-570-052 Period: 01/01/2022 through 12/31/2022 3. Entries of merchandise of the firms listed below should not be liquidated until specific instructions are issued. Continue to suspend liquidation of all entries of merchandise produced and/or exported by the listed firms entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the period 01/01/2022 through 12/31/2022. No case number was in place during the period of review for the companies listed below. Entries may have been made under C-570-052-000 or other company-specific numbers. An An Plywood Joint Stock Company Arrow Forest International Co., Ltd. BAC Son Woods Processing Joint Stock Company Cam Lam Vietnam Joint Stock Company Camlam Vietnam Joint Stock Company Cong Ty TNHH Greatriver Wood Eagle Industries Company Limited Fulin Wood Import Export Company Limited Golden Bridge Industries Pte. Ltd. Govina Investment Joint Stock Company Greatriver Wood Co., Ltd. Greatwood Hung Yen Joint Stock Company Greatwood Joint Stock Company Greentech Investment Co., Ltd. Groll Ply and Cabinetry Groll Ply and Cabinetry Co., Ltd. Hai Hien Bamboo Wood Joint Stock Company Her Hui Wood (Vietnam) Co., Ltd Hoang LAM Plywood Joint Stock Co. Huong Son Wood Group Co., Ltd. Innovgreen Thanh Hoa Co., Ltd. Lechenwood Viet Nam Company Limited Lechenwood Vietnam Company Limited Long Dat Import and Export Production Company Long LUU Plywood Production Co., Ltd. Long Phat Construction Investment and Trade Joint Stock Company Plywood Sunshine Co., Ltd. Plywood Sunshine Ltd. Co. Quang Phat Wood Joint Stock Company Quang Phat Woods JSC Quoc Thai Forestry Import Export Limited Company Star Light Multimedia Co., Ltd. TEKCOM Corporation Thang Long Wood Panel Company Thang Long Wood Panel Company Ltd. TL Trung Viet Company Limited VietBac Plywood LLC VietNam ZhongJia Wood Company Limited Win Faith Trading Win Faith Trading Limited (See 88 FR 15642, 03/14/2023, and 88 FR 21609, 04/11/2023.) CBP officers must also examine entries under C-570-052-000 and all existing company-specific case numbers to ensure the continued suspension of liquidation of entries during the applicable period of review for the producers and/or exporters listed above. 4. Commerce is currently conducting scope and circumvention inquiries on whether hardwood plywood completed in Vietnam using hardwood plywood inputs (face veneer, back veneer, and/or either an assembled core or individual core veneers) manufactured in China, or Chinese hardwood plywood inputs (assembled cores, multi-ply core panels, or individual core veneers) combined in Vietnam with other inputs (face and/or back veneers) manufactured in Vietnam or third countries, and subsequently exported to the United States are covered by the scope of the countervailing duty order on certain hardwood plywood products from China. Specifically, these inquiries cover hardwood plywood that is exported to the United States that is produced under the following scenarios: (i) Face veneer, back veneer, and assembled core components (e.g., veneer core platforms) (see note below) manufactured in China and assembled in Vietnam; (ii) Fully assembled veneer core platforms manufactured in China that are combined in Vietnam with face and/or back veneers produced in Vietnam or third countries; (iii) Multi-ply panels of glued core veneers manufactured in China that are combined in Vietnam to produce veneer core platforms and combined with either a face and/or back veneer produced in China, Vietnam, or a third country; (iv) Face veneer, back veneer, and individual core veneers produced in China and assembled into hardwood plywood in Vietnam; and (v) Individual core veneers manufactured in China and processed into a veneer core platform in Vietnam and combined with a face and/or back veneer produced in Vietnam or other third country. In messages 2220401 and 2220409, dated 08/08/2022, Commerce directed CBP to suspend liquidation of shipments entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 06/17/2020 (the date of initiation of the inquiries), of hardwood plywood product from the People's Republic of China assembled under any of the five production scenarios identified above. Entries of products covered by those messages should not be liquidated until specific liquidation instructions are issued. 5. There are no injunctions applicable to the entries covered by this instruction. 6. Notice of the lifting of suspension of liquidation of entries of subject merchandise covered by paragraph 2 occurred with the publication of the notice of initiation of administrative review for the 01/2023 anniversary month (88 FR 15642, 03/14/2023). Unless instructed otherwise, for all other shipments of hardwood plywood products from the People's Republic of China you shall continue to collect cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties for the merchandise at the current rates. 7. The assessment of countervailing duties by CBP on shipments or entries of this merchandise is subject to the provisions of section 778 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. Section 778 requires that CBP pay interest on overpayments or assess interest on underpayments of the required amounts deposited as estimated countervailing duties. The interest provisions are not applicable to cash posted as estimated countervailing duties before the date of publication of the countervailing duty order. Interest shall be calculated from the date payment of estimated countervailing duties is required through the date of liquidation. The rate at which such interest is payable is the rate in effect under section 6621 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for such period. 8. This instruction to liquidate entries covered by this message does not limit CBP's independent authority, including its authority to suspend, continue to suspend, or extend liquidation of entries addressed by this message. Accordingly, CBP should examine all entries for which this message directs liquidation to determine whether any such entries are subject to suspension, continued suspension, or extension of liquidation pursuant to CBP's independent authority (e.g., Enforce and Protect Act under section 517 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended). If entries of subject merchandise covered by this message are subject to suspension, continued suspension, or extension of liquidation pursuant to CBP's own authority, CBP port officials should follow CBP's internal procedures with respect to continuing any suspension, the lifting of suspension, and/or continuing any extension of liquidation for such entries. 9. If there are any questions by the importing public regarding this message, please contact the Call Center for the Office of AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce at (202) 482-0984. CBP ports should submit their inquiries through authorized CBP channels only. (This message was generated by OV:RG.) 10. There are no restrictions on the release of this information. Alexander Amdur