BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-523-810]
Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from the Sultanate of Oman: Preliminary Results of
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2022-2023
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of
Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that
OCTAL SAOC FZC (OCTAL), the sole respondent subject to this administrative review of the
antidumping duty (AD) order on polyethylene terephthalate resin (PET resin) from the Sultanate
of Oman (Oman), did not make sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV)
during the period of review (POR) May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023. Interested parties are
invited to comment on the preliminary results of this administrative s review.
DATES: Applicable [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Pedersen or Jonathan Hill, AD/CVD
Operations, Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482-2769 and (202) 482-3518, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Based on timely requests for review, in accordance with section 751 (a)(1)(B) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), on July 6, 2023, Commerce initiated an administrative
review of the AD order on PET resin from the Oman with respect to OCTAL covering the POR.1

See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 44262, 44267 (July 12,
2023) (Initiation); see also Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from Canada, the People’s Republic of China,
On January 24, 2024, Commerce extended the deadline for these preliminary results to May 30,
2024.2
For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this review, see the
accompanying Preliminary Decision Memorandum.3 A list of the topics discussed in the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum is attached as an appendix to this notice. The Preliminary
Decision Memorandum is a public document and is on file electronically via Enforcement and
Compliance’s Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Centralized Electronic Service System
(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to registered users at https://access.trade.gov. In addition, a
complete version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at
https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the Order is PET resin having an intrinsic viscosity of at
least 0.70, but not more than 0.88, deciliters per gram. The merchandise subject to the Order is
properly classified under subheadings 3907.60.00.30, 3907.61.0000, 3907.61.0010,
3907.61.0050, 3907.69.0000, 3907.69.0010, and 3907.69.0050 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).4 Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the merchandise covered by the
Order is dispositive. For a full description of the scope of the Order, see Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.
Methodology

India, and the Sultanate of Oman: Amended Final Affirmative Antidumping Determination (Sultanate of Oman) and
Antidumping Duty Orders, 81 FR 27979 (May 6, 2016) (Order). While Commerce initiated this administrative
review with respect to OCTAL and OCTAL Inc., OCTAL Inc. is OCTAL’s affiliated U.S. importer, and as such,
Commerce should not have included OCTAL Inc. in the Initiation. See OCTAL’s Letter, “Section A Response of
OCTAL SAOC-FZC,” dated September 5, 2023, at 8.
2 See Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,”
dated January 24, 2024.
3 See Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the 2022-2023 Administrative Review
of the Antidumping Duty Order on Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from the Sultanate of Oman,” dated
concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
4 Commerce added HTSUS subheadings 3907.61.0000, 3907.69.0000, 3907.61.0010, 3907.61.0050, 3907.69.0010,
and 3907.69.0050 to the scope after issuing the Order. See Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin from the Sultanate of
Oman: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2020–2021, 87 FR 75594 (December 9, 2022).

Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751 (a)(1)(B) the Act.
We calculated export and constructed export prices and NV in accordance with sections 772 and
773 of the Act, respectively. For a full description of the methodology underlying our
preliminary results of review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Preliminary Results of Review
We are assigning the following weighted-average dumping margin to the company listed
below for the period May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023:
Producer/Exporter

Weighted-Average Dumping Margin
(percent)

OCTAL SAOC FZC

0.00

Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations for the preliminary results of review to
parties to the proceeding within five days of any public announcement or, if there is no public
announcement, within five days of the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b).
Verification
Commerce received a timely request from DAK Americas LLC, Indorama Ventures
USA, Inc., and Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America (collectively, the petitioners) to verify the
information submitted in this administrative review, pursuant to 19 CFR 307(b)(1)(iv).5
Commerce does not intend to verify the information submitted by the mandatory respondent in
the course of this administrative review.
Public Comment
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), interested parties may submit case briefs to
Commerce no later than 30 days after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal
Register.6 Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed not later than

5
See Petitioners’ Letter, “Petitioners’ Verification Request,” dated October 18, 2023.
See 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements).

five days after the date for filing case briefs.7 Interested parties who submit case briefs or
rebuttal briefs in this review must submit: (1) a table of contents listing each issue; and (2) a
table of authorities.8
As provided under 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2), in prior proceedings we have
encouraged interested parties to provide an executive summary of their brief that should be
limited to five pages total, including footnotes. In this review, we instead request that interested
parties provide at the beginning of their briefs a public, executive summary for each issue raised
in their briefs.9 Further, we request that interested parties limit their executive summary of each
issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We intend to use the executive
summaries as the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision
memorandum that will accompany the final results in this administrative review. We request
that interested parties include footnotes for relevant citations in the executive summary of each
issue. Note that Commerce has amended certain of its requirements pertaining to the service of
documents in 19 CFR 351.303(f).10
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to request a hearing must
submit a written request to the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, filed
electronically via ACCESS. Requests should contain: (1) the party’s name, address, and
telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of issues to be discussed.
Requests for a hearing should contain: (1) the requesting party’s name, address, and telephone
number; (2) the number of individuals associated with the requesting party that will attend the
hearing and whether any of those individuals is a foreign national; and (3) a list of the issues
that the party intends to discuss at the hearing. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to
those raised in the case and rebuttal briefs. An electronically filed hearing request must be

See 19 CFR 351.309(d); see also Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 88 FR 67069, 67077 (September 29, 2023) (APO and Service Final Rule).
8 See 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2)
9 We use the term “issue” here to describe an argument that Commerce would normally address in a comment of the
Issues and Decision Memorandum.
10 See APO and Service Final Rule, 88 FR at 67070.
received successfully in its entirety by Commerce’s electronic records system, ACCESS, by
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. If a hearing is requested, Commerce will announce the date and time of the hearing.
Parties should confirm the date and time of the hearing two days before the scheduled hearing
date.
Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final results of this
administrative review, which will include the results of its analysis of issues raised in any briefs,
within 120 days of publication of these preliminary results of review in the Federal Register,
pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.11
Assessment Rates
In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, the assessment of antidumping duties
on entries of merchandise covered by this review shall be based on the final results of the
review.12 Therefore, upon issuance of the final results of this review, Commerce will determine,
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries of subject merchandise covered by this review in accordance with 19 CFR
351.212(b)(1).
Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 days after
the date of publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register. If a timely
summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, the assessment instructions will direct
CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the time for parties to file a request for a statutory
injunction has expired (i.e., within 90 days of publication).

11
See section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act; see also 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).
See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.

We will calculate importer-specific assessment rates for OCTAL, in accordance with 19
CFR 351.212(b)(1).13 Because OCTAL reported entered values for its sales, we will calculate
importer-specific ad valorem assessment rates for the company by dividing the total amount of
dumping calculated for all reviewed U.S. sales to the importer by the total entered value of the
merchandise sold to the importer.14
Where either OCTAL’s ad valorem weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de
minimis, or an importer-specific ad valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis,15 we will
instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.
Pursuant to a refinement to Commerce’s assessment practice, where sales of subject
merchandise that was produced or exported by an individually examined respondent were not
reported in the U.S. sales data submitted by the respondent, but the merchandise was entered for
consumption in the United States during the POR, Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate any
entries of such merchandise at the all-others rate (i.e., 7.62 percent)16 if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction.17
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be in effect for all shipments of subject
merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of
publication of the notice of the final results of this administrative review in the Federal Register,
as provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for OCTAL will be
equal to the weighted-average dumping margin established for the company in the final results of
this review, except if the weighted-average dumping margin is less than 0.50 percent, and,
therefore, de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), the cash deposit rate will be

We applied the assessment rate calculation method adopted in Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of
the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final
Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012).
14 See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
15 See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2).
16 See Order, 81 FR at 27982.
17 For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of
Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
zero; (2) for previously investigated or reviewed companies that are not covered by this review,
the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company’s cash deposit rate from the most recently
completed segment of the proceeding in which it was examined; (3) if the exporter is not covered
by this review, and does not have a cash deposit rate from a completed segment of this
proceeding, but the producer of the subject merchandise does have a cash deposit rate, then the
cash deposit rate will be the producer’s cash deposit rate from the most recently completed
segment of the proceeding in which it was examined; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other
producers or exporters will continue to be 7.62 percent, the all-others rate established in the lessthan-fair-value investigation.18 These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in
effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19
CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to
liquidation of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this
requirement could result in Commerce’s presumption that reimbursement of antidumping duties
occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping duties.
Notification to Interested Parties
We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of review in accordance with
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2) and 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: May 30, 2024.
Abdelali Elouaradia,
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Enforcement and Compliance.

See Order, 81 FR at 27982.

Appendix
List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.

Summary
Background
Scope of the Order
Discussion of the Methodology
Currency Conversion
Recommendation

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