BILLING CODE: 3510-DS-P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-357-823]
Raw Honey from Argentina: Preliminary Results and Rescission, In Part, 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
Asociación De Cooperativas Argentinas Cooperativa Limitada (ACA), and the non-individuallyexamined companies for which a review was requested made sales of raw honey from Argentina
is being sold in the United States at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review
(POR), November 23, 2021, through May 31, 2023. Additionally, Commerce preliminarily
determines that NEXCO S.A. (NEXCO) did not make sales of raw honey at prices below NV
during the POR. We are also rescinding this review, in part, with respect to five companies
which had no suspended entries. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary
results.
DATES: Applicable [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Martin or Zachary Shaykin,
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) 482-3936 or (202) 482-2638, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On June 10, 2022, Commerce published in the Federal Register the antidumping duty
(AD) order on raw honey from Argentina.1 On August 3, 2023, Commerce initiated an
administrative review of the Order covering 24 companies, in accordance with section 751(a) of
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).2 On February 13, 2024, we extended the deadline
for the preliminary results of this review to June 28, 2024.3
For details regarding the events that occurred subsequent to the initiation of this review,
see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.4 A list of topics discussed in the Preliminary
Decision Memorandum is included in as Appendix I 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.

See Raw Honey from Argentina, Brazil, India, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Antidumping Duty
Orders, 87 FR 35501 (June 10, 2022) (Order).
See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 51271 (August 3, 2023)
(Initiation Notice).
3 See Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review,” dated February 13, 2024.
4 See Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review of Raw Honey from Argentina; 2021-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this notice
(Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
Scope of the Order
The merchandise covered by the Order is raw honey from Argentina. For a complete
description of the scope of the Order, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rescission, In Part, of Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), Commerce will rescind an administrative review
when there are no entries of subject merchandise during the POR for which liquidation is
suspended.5 Normally, upon completion of an administrative review, the suspended entries are
liquidated at the AD assessment rate calculated for the review period.6 Therefore, for an
administrative review of a company to be conducted, there must be a suspended entry that
Commerce can instruct and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate at the AD
assessment rate calculated for the POR.7
On June 14, 2024, we notified parties of our intent to rescind this administrative review,
in part, with respect to the five companies listed in Appendix II because there were no suspended
entries of subject merchandise produced or exported by these companies during the POR. We
invited interested parties to comment.8 No parties commented on our intent to rescind the
review, in part. In the absence of suspended entries of subject merchandise from these
companies during the POR, we are rescinding, in part, the administrative review for the
companies listed in Appendix II, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and (2) of the
Act. We calculated constructed export price in accordance with section 772(b) of the Act. We

See, e.g., Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review;
2022-2023, 89 FR 4274 (January 23, 2024).
6 See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(2).
7 See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
8 See Memorandum, “Notice of Intent to Rescind Review, In Part,” dated June 14, 2024.
calculated NV in accordance with section 773 of the Act. For a full description of the
methodology underlying these preliminary results, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Rate for Non-Examined Companies
The statute and Commerce’s regulations do not address the establishment of a 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 a market economy investigation, for guidance when calculating the rate for
companies which were not selected for individual examination in an administrative review.
Under section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act, the all-others rate is normally “an amount equal to the
weighted average of the estimated weighted-average dumping margins established for exporters
and producers individually investigated, excluding any zero or de minimis margins, and any
margins determined entirely on the basis of facts available.” In this review, we calculated a
weighted-average dumping margin for the two mandatory respondents, ACA and NEXCO, of
58.34 percent and 0.00 percent, respectively, and we have assigned to the non-selected
companies a rate of 58.34 percent, which is the rate calculated for ACA.
Preliminary Results of the Review
We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average dumping margins exist
for the period of November 23, 2021, through May 31, 2023:
Producer or Exporter
Asociación De Cooperativas Argentinas Cooperativa Limitada
Nexco S.A.
Review-Specific Rate for Non-Examined Companies9

See Appendix III.

Weighted-Average
Dumping Margin (Percent)
58.34
0.00
58.34

Disclosure
Commerce intends to disclose its calculations and analysis performed for these
preliminary results 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 accordance with 19
CFR 351.224(b).
Verification
As provided in section 782(i)(3) of the Act, we intend to verify the information upon
which we will rely in determining our final results of review with respect to the mandatory
respondents, ACA and NEXCO.
Public Comment
As stated below, Commerce intends to verify the information upon which it will rely in
making its final determination. Interested parties may submit case briefs within seven days after
issuance of the last verification report. Rebuttal briefs, limited to issues raised in case briefs,
may be filed no later than five days after the date for filing case briefs.10 Interested parties who
submit case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this proceeding must submit: (1) a table of contents listing
each issue; and (2) a table of authorities.11
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.12 Further, we request that interested parties limit their public executive summary
of each issue to no more than 450 words, no including citations. We intend to use the public
executive summaries as the basis of the comment summaries included in the issues and decision

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 Procedures).
11 See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
12 We use the term ‘‘issue’’ here to describe an argument that Commerce would normally address in a comment of
the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
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).13
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), interested parties who wish to request a hearing, limited
to issues raised in the case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a written request to the Assistant
Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. Department of Commerce, within 30 days after
the date of publication of this notice. Requests should contain: (1) party’s name, address, and
telephone number; (2) the number of participants; and (3) a list of the issues to be discussed.
Oral presentations at the hearing will be limited to issues raised in the briefs. If a request for a
hearing is made, parties will be notified of the time and date for the hearing.14
Assessment Rates
Upon completion of this administrative review, Commerce shall determine, and CBP
shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. The final results of this review shall
be the basis for the assessment of antidumping duties on entries of merchandise covered by this
review and for future deposits of estimated duties, where applicable.15 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 an individually examined respondent whose weighted-average dumping margin is not
zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent), upon completion of the final results, Commerce
intends to calculate importer-specific AD assessment rates on the basis of the ratio of the total

See APO and Service Procedures.
See 19 CFR 351.310(d).
15 See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
13
amount of dumping calculated for each importer’s examined sales to the total entered value of
those sales. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), neither ACA nor NEXCO reported actual
entered value for all of its U.S. sales; in such instances, we calculated importer-specific per-unit
duty assessment rates by aggregating the importer’s amount of dumping calculated for the
examined sales and dividing this amount by the total quantity of those sales. to consider whether
the importer-specific assessment rate is de minimis, we estimated the enter value for each U.S.
sales and calculated an estimated ad valorem importer-specific assessment rate as the importer’s
aggregated amount of dumping divided by the estimated entry value of those sales. Where either
a respondent’s weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis, or an importer-specific
estimated ad valorem assessment rate is zero or de minimis, we intend to instruct CBP to
liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties.16
Commerce’s “automatic assessment” practice will apply to entries of subject merchandise
during the POR produced by ACA or NEXCO for which it did not know that the merchandise it
sold to an intermediary (e.g., a reseller, trading company, or exporter) was destined for the
United States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate those entries at the all-others
rate (i.e., 16.92 percent)17 if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the
transaction.18
For the companies that were not selected for individual examination, we the antidumping
duty assessment rate will be equal to the weighted-average dumping margin calculated for each
companies in the final results of this review.
For the companies listed in Appendix II for which we are rescinding this review, we will
instruct CBP to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries at a rate equal to the cash

See 19 CFR 351.106(c)(2); see also Antidumping Proceeding: Calculation of the Weighted-Average Dumping
Margin and Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8103 (February
14, 2012).
17 See Raw Honey from Argentina: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative
Determination of Critical Circumstances, 87 FR 22179, 22181 (April 14, 2022) (Honey Argentina Inv. Final).
18 For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of
Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
deposit of estimated antidumping duties required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from
warehouse, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(l)(i), not before 35 days after the publication
date of these preliminary results.
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) the cash deposit rate for the companies listed above will be equal to the weightedaverage dumping margin established in the final results of this review, except if the rate is de
minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent), in which case the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for an
exporter of subject merchandise previously reviewed or investigated companies not covered by
this review, the cash deposit rate will continue to be equal to the company-specific rate published
for the most recently-completed segment of this proceeding in which they were examined; (3) if
the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the LTFV investigation, but
the producer is, the cash deposit rate will continue to be equal to the rate established for the most
recently-completed segment of this proceeding for the producer of the merchandise; and (4) the
cash deposit rate for all other producers or exporters will continue to be 16.92 percent, the allothers rate established in the Amended Final Determination.19
These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until further
notice.

See Honey Argentina Inv. Final, 87 FR at 22181.

Final Results of Review
Unless otherwise extended, Commerce intends to issue the final results of this
administrative review including the results of its analysis of issues raised in written briefs, no
later than 120 days after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register, pursuant to
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(1).
Notification to Importers
This notice also 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 results in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act, 19 CFR 351.213, and 19 351.221(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.

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

Appendix II
Companies for Which Commerce is Rescinding this Review
1. Algodonera Avellaneda S.A.
2. Apicola Danangie.
3. Argentik LLC.
4. Camino de Circunvalancion y Calle.
5. Mieles Cor Pam Srl.

Appendix III
Non-Examined Companies Receiving a Review-Specific Rate
1. Azul Agronegocios S.A.

2. Compaia Apicola Argentina S.A.
3. Compania Inversora Platense S.A.
4. Cooperativa Apicola La Colmena Ltda.
5. D’Ambros Maria de Los Angeles y D’Ambros Maria Daniela SRL.
6. Gasrroni S.R.L.
7. Geomiel S.A.
8. Gruas San Blas S.A.
9. Honey & Grains Srl.
10. Industrial Haedo S.A.
11. Industrias Haedo S.A.
12. Naiman S.A.
13. Newsan S.A.
14. Patagonik Food S.A.,
15. Promiel Srl (Vicentin S.A.I.C.).
16. Terremare Foods S.A.S.
17. Villamora S.A.
[FR Doc. 2024-14912 Filed: 7/5/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 7/8/2024]