BILLING CODE: 3510-DS-P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-552-833]
Raw Honey from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2023
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of
Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that
Ban Me Thout Honeybee Joint Stock Company (BMT), Daklak Honeybee Joint Stock Company
(DakHoney), and 13 non-individually examined and separate-rate eligible exporters of raw
honey from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam) sold subject merchandise to the United
States at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) August 25, 2021,
through May 31, 2023.
DATES: Applicable [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Krisha Hill or Stephanie Trejo, 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) 482-4037 or (202) 482-4390, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 10, 2022, Commerce published in the Federal Register the antidumping duty
(AD) order on raw honey from Vietnam. On June 1, 2023, Commerce published in the Federal

Register a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the Order.1 In the June
Opportunity Notice Commerce inadvertently listed an incorrect POR for this proceeding.2
Commerce noted this error in its August Initiation Notice in which it initiated the review for this
proceeding.3 Commerce also noted the error in a subsequent opportunity notice, giving parties a
further opportunity to request an administrative review using the correct POR.4
On August 3, 2023, Commerce published in the Federal Register the initiation notice of
an administrative review of the AD Order on raw honey from Vietnam.5 Commerce further
published an addendum to the August Initiation Notice in which it initiated a review of raw
honey from Vietnam for two companies, one that requested a review based on the August
Opportunity Notice and one company for which Commerce failed to initiate a review based on
its request for review made pursuant to the June Opportunity Notice.6 Commerce selected BMT
and DakHoney as mandatory respondents in this administrative review.7
On January 29, 2024, Commerce extended the deadline for these preliminary results to
June 28, 2024.8 For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this
administrative review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.9

1 See

Raw Honey From Argentina, Brazil, India, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty Orders,
87 FR 35501 (June 10, 2022) (Order); and Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended
Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 88 FR 35835
(June 1, 2023) (June Opportunity Notice).
2 See June Opportunity Notice, 88 FR at 35837.
3 See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 51271, 51276 (August 3,
2023) (August Initiation Notice).
4 See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request
Administrative Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List, 88 FR 50840 (August 2, 2023) (August Opportunity
Notice).
5 See August Initiation Notice.
6 See Raw Honey From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Addendum to Initiation of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review, 88 FR 65155 (September 21, 2023) (August Initiation Notice Addendum). The August
Initiation Notice and August Initiation Notice Addendum list 35 companies. However, in the August Initiation
Notice, Commerce mistakenly listed Hung Thinh Trading Pvt twice. Additionally, we note that review requests
were filed for two separate companies with minor variations in their names: Daklak Honey Bee JSC and Daklak
Honeybee Joint Stock Company, and Dong Nai Honey Bee Corp and Dongnai HoneyBee Corporation.
Accordingly, Commerce initiated this administrative review with respect to the 32 companies.
7 See Memorandum, “Respondent Selection,” dated October 5, 2023.
8 See Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,”
dated January 29, 2024.
9 See Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review: Raw Honey from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; 2021-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby
adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).

Scope of the Order
The product covered by this Order is raw honey from Vietnam. Raw honey is honey as it
exists in the beehive or as obtained by extraction, settling and skimming, or coarse straining.
The merchandise subject to this investigation is currently classifiable under statistical subheading
0409.00.0005, 0409.00.0035, 0409.00.0045, 0409.00.0056, and 0409.00.0065 of the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided
for convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the scope of this investigation
is dispositive.
A full description of the scope of the Order is contained in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum.10
Separate Rates
The Act and Commerce’s regulations do not address the establishment of a separate rate
to be applied to companies not selected for individual examination when Commerce limits its
examination in an administrative review pursuant to section 777A(c)(2) of the Act. Generally,
Commerce looks to section 735(c)(5) of the Act, which provides instructions for calculating the
all-others rate in an investigation, for guidance when calculating the rate for separate-rate
respondents which Commerce did not examine individually in an administrative review. Section
735(c)(5)(A) of the Act states that the all-others rate should be calculated by averaging the
weighted-average dumping margins calculated for individually-examined respondents, excluding
dumping margins that are zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available. For the
preliminary results of this review, Commerce determined the estimated dumping margins for
BMT and DakHoney to be 100.54 percent and 154.47 percent, respectively, and we have
assigned to the separate-rate companies a rate of 120.92 percent, which is the weighted-average

Id.

dumping margins of BMT and DakHoney weighted by their publicly ranged U.S. sales values.11
For a listing of the separate rate companies, see Appendix II.
Vietnam-Wide Entity
Under Commerce’s policy regarding the conditional review of the Vietnam-wide entity,12
the Vietnam-wide entity will not be under review unless a party specifically requests, or
Commerce self-initiates, a review of the entity. Because no party requested a review of the
Vietnam-wide entity in this review, the entity is not under review, and the entity’s rate (i.e.,
60.03 percent) is not subject to change.13
With the exception of BMT, DakHoney, and the companies listed in Appendix II,
Commerce considers all other companies for which a review was requested and did not
demonstrate separate rate eligibility to be part of the Vietnam-wide entity.14 For these
preliminary results, we consider the following companies to be part of the Vietnam-wide entity
because they did not file separate rate applications or certifications: (1) Bee Honey Corporation
of Ho Chi Minh City; (2) Golden Bee Company Limited; (3) Golden Honey Co., Ltd.; (4) Hai
Phong Honeybee Company Limited; (5) Highlands Honeybee Travel Co., Ltd.; (6) Hoa Viet
Honeybee Co., Ltd.; (7) Hung Binh Phat; (8) Hung Thinh Trading Pvt; (9) Huong Rung Co.,
Ltd.; (10) Huong Viet Honey Co., Ltd.; (11) Nguyen Hong Honey Co., LTDTA; (12) Phong Son
Co., Ltd.; (13) Saigon Bees Co., Limited; (14) Thai Hoa Mat Bees Raising Co., Ltd.; (15) Thai
Hoa Viet Mat Bees Raising Co.; (16) TNB Foods Co., Ltd.; and (17) Vinawax Producing

With two respondents under examination, Commerce normally calculates: (A) a weighted-average of the
dumping margins calculated for the examined respondents; (B) a simple average of the dumping margins calculated
for the examined respondents; and (C) a weighted-average of the dumping margins calculated for the examined
respondents using each company’s publicly ranged U.S. sale quantities for the merchandise under consideration.
Commerce then compares (B) and (C) to (A) and selects the rate closest to (A) as the most appropriate rate for all
other producers and exporters. See, e.g., Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and
the United Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Review, and Revocation of an Order in Part, 75 FR 53661, 53663 (September 1, 2010).
12 See Antidumping Proceedings: Announcement of Change in Department Practice for Respondent Selection in
Antidumping Duty Proceedings and Conditional Review of the Nonmarket Economy Entity in NME Antidumping
Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 65963 (November 4, 2013).
13 See Order, 87 FR at 35503.
14 See August Initiation Notice, 88 FR at 51272 (“All firms listed below that wish to qualify for separate rate status
in the administrative reviews involving NME countries must complete, as appropriate, either a Separate Rate
Application or Certification, as described below.”).
Trading and Service Company Limited. For additional information, see the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with section 751(a)(1)(B) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). We calculated export price and constructed export
price in accordance with section 772 of the Act. Because Vietnam is a non-market economy
country within the meaning of section 771(18) of the Act, we calculated NV in accordance with
section 773(c) of the Act. For a full description of the methodology underlying our conclusions,
see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 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. A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is included in Appendix I of this notice. In addition, a complete version of the
Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be found at
https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review
Commerce preliminarily determines that the following weighted-average dumping
margins exist for the administrative review covering the period August 25, 2021, through May
31, 2023:

Exporter

Estimated WeightedAverage Dumping Margin
(percent)

Ban Me Thuot Honeybee Joint Stock Company

100.54

Daklak Honeybee Joint Stock Company
Separate Rate Companies15
Vietnam-wide Entity

154.47
120.92
60.03

See Appendix II.

Disclosure and Public Comment
We intend to disclose the calculations performed to parties within five days after public
announcement of the preliminary results or, if there is no public announcement, within five days
of the date of publication of this notice.16 Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than
30 days after the date of publication of this notice.17 Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in
the case briefs, may be filed not later than five days after the date for filing case briefs.18
Interested parties who submit case or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table
of contents listing each issue; and (2) a table of authorities.19
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 briefs 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.20 Further, we request that interested parties limit their public executive summary
of each issue to no more than 450 words, not including citations. We intend to use the public
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 public 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).21
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.22

See 19 CFR 351.224(b).
See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements).
18 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).
19 See 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
20 We use the term “issue” here to describe an argument that Commerce would normally address in a comment of
the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
21 See Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 67069 (September 29, 2023).
22 See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
16
Requests should contain: (1) the party’s name, address, and telephone number; (2) the number
of participants and whether any participant is a foreign national; and (3) a list of issues to be
discussed. Issues raised in the hearing will be limited to those raised in case and rebuttal briefs.23
If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a time and date to be
determined. A hearing request must be filed electronically using ACCESS and received in its
entirety by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after the publication of this notice.
Verification
As provided in section 782(i)(3) of the Act, Commerce intends to verify the information
submitted by BMT and DakHoney in advance of the final results of this review.
Final Results of Review
Unless the deadline is extended, Commerce intends to issue the final results of this
review, including the results of its analysis of the issues raised in any written briefs, no later than
120 days after the date of publication of this notice, pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act
and 19 CFR 351.213(h).
Assessment Rates
Upon issuing the final results, Commerce will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this
review.24 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).
For each individually examined respondent in this review whose weighted-average
dumping margin in the final results of review is not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.5

23
See 19 CFR 351.310.
See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).

percent), Commerce intends to calculate importer/customer-specific assessment rates.25 Where
the respondent reported reliable entered values, Commerce intends to calculate
importer/customer-specific ad valorem assessment rates by aggregating the amount of dumping
calculated for all U.S. sales to the importer/customer and dividing this amount by the total
entered value of the merchandise sold to the importer/customer.26 Where the respondent did not
report entered values, Commerce will calculate importer/customer-specific assessment rates by
dividing the amount of dumping for reviewed sales to the importer/customer by the total quantity
of those sales. Commerce will calculate an estimated ad valorem importer/customer-specific
assessment rate to determine whether the per-unit assessment rate is de minimis; however,
Commerce will use the per-unit assessment rate where entered values were not reported.27
Where an importer/customer-specific ad valorem assessment rate is not zero or de minimis,
Commerce will instruct CBP to collect the appropriate duties at the time of liquidation. Where
either the respondent’s weighted average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an
importer/customer-specific ad valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis, Commerce will
instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.28
Pursuant to Commerce’s refinement to its practice, for sales that were not reported in the
U.S. sales database submitted by a respondent individually examined during this review,
Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate the entry of such merchandise at the dumping margin
assigned to the Vietnam-wide entity.29 For respondents not individually examined in this
administrative review that qualified for a separate rate, the assessment rate will be equal to the
weighted-average dumping margin assigned to the respondent in the final results of this review.30

See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of the Weighted Average Dumping Margin and Assessment Rate in
Certain Antidumping Proceedings: Final Modification, 77 FR 8101 (February 14, 2012) (Final Modification).
26 See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
27 Id.
28 See Final Modification, 77 FR at 8103.
29 For a full discussion of this practice, see Non-Market Economy Antidumping Proceedings: Assessment of
Antidumping Duties, 76 FR 65694 (October 24, 2011).
30 See Drawn Stainless Steel Sinks from the People’s Republic of China: Preliminary Results of the Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review and Preliminary Determination of No Shipments: 2014-2015, 81 FR 29528 (May 12,
Additionally, where Commerce determines that an exporter under review had no
shipments of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR, any suspended entries of
subject merchandise that entered under that exporter’s CBP case number during the POR will be
liquidated at the dumping margin assigned to the Vietnam-wide entity.
In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act, the final results of this review shall
be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by the
final results of this review and for future deposits of estimated antidumping duties, where
applicable.
Cash Deposit Requirements
The following cash deposit requirements will be effective for all shipments of the subject
merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication
date of the final results of this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the
Act: (1) for the exporters listed above, the cash deposit rate will be equal to the weightedaverage dumping margins established in the final results of this review, except if the rate is de
minimis, in which case the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for previously-examined
Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese exporters not listed above that at the time of entry are eligible
for a separate rate base on a prior completed segment of this proceeding, the cash deposit rate
will continue to the be the existing exporter-specific cash deposit rate; (3) for all non-Vietnamese
exporters of subject merchandise which at the time of entry do not have a separate rate, the cash
deposit rate will be the rate applicable to the Vietnamese exporter that supplied the nonVietnamese exporter. These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect
until further notice.

2016), and accompanying PDM at 10-11, unchanged in Drawn Stainless Steel Sinks from the People’s Republic of
China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; Final Determination of No Shipments; 20142015, 81 FR 54042 (August 15, 2016).

Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their responsibility under 19
CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior
to liquidation of the relevant entries during this POR. 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
Commerce is issuing and publishing the preliminary results of this review in accordance
with sections 751(a)(1)(B) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(4).
Dated: June 28, 2024.
Ryan Majerus,
Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Policy and Negotiations,
performing the non-exclusive functions and duties
of the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.

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

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

Appendix II
List of Companies Eligible for Separate Rate
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
(13)

Bao Nguyen Honeybee Co., Ltd.
Daisy Honey Bee Joint Stock Company
Dak Nguyen Hong Exploitation of Honey Company Limited TA
Dongnai HoneyBee Corporation
Hanoi Honey Bee Joint Stock Company
Hoa Viet Honeybee One Member Company Limited
Hoang Tri Honey Bee Co., Ltd.
Huong Rung Trading-Investment and Export Company Limited
Nhieu Loc Company Limited
Southern Honey Bee Company Ltd.
Spring Honeybee Co., Ltd.
Thanh Hao Bees Co., Ltd.
Viet Thanh Food Co., Ltd.

[FR Doc. 2024-14762 Filed: 7/3/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 7/5/2024]