BILLING CODE: 3510-DS-P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-903]
Raw Honey from India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
and Preliminary Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 20212023
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of
Commerce.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is conducting an administrative
review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on raw honey from India for the period of review
(POR) November 23, 2021, through May 31, 2023. Commerce preliminarily finds that sales of
subject merchandise were made at prices below normal value (NV) during the POR. We are also
preliminarily rescinding the review with respect to 14 companies that had no entries of the
subject merchandise during the POR. We invite interested parties to comment on these
preliminary results.
DATES: Applicable [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brittany Bauer or Javier Barrientos,
AD/CVD Operations, Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3860 or (202) 482-2243, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
On August 3, 2023, Commerce initiated an administrative review of the AD order on raw
honey from India,1 in accordance with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act). This review covers 30 producers/exporters of subject merchandise. Commerce selected
two mandatory respondents for individual examination, Allied Natural Product (Allied) and
Indocan Honey Private Limited (Indocan).
On February 15, 2024, Commerce extended the deadline for these preliminary results
until June 28, 2024.2 For a complete description of the events that followed the initiation of this
review, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.3
Scope of the Order
The merchandise subject to the Order is raw honey from India. For a full description of
the scope, see the Preliminary Decision Memorandum.
Methodology
Commerce is conducting this review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1)(B) and (2) of
the Act. We calculated export price and constructed export price in accordance with section 772
of the Act. We 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. A list of the topics discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Memorandum is included 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

See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 51271 (August 3, 2023)
(Initiation Notice); see also Raw Honey from Argentina, Brazil, India, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam:
Antidumping Duty Orders, 87 FR 35501 (June 10, 2022) (Order).
2 See Memorandum, “Extension of Deadline for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,”
dated February 15, 2024.
3 See Memorandum, “Decision Memorandum for the Preliminary Results of the Administrative Review of the
Antidumping Duty Order on Raw Honey from India; 2021-2023,” dated concurrently with, and hereby adopted by,
this notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum).
version of the Preliminary Decision Memorandum can be accessed directly at
https://access.trade.gov/public/FRNoticesListLayout.aspx.
Preliminary Rescission of Administrative Review, in Part
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), when there are no reviewable entries of subject
merchandise during the POR subject to the AD order for which liquidation is suspended,
Commerce may rescind an administrative review, in whole or only with respect to a particular
exporter or producer.4 At the end of the administrative review, any suspended entries are
liquidated at the assessment rate computed for the review period.5 Therefore, for an
administrative review to be conducted, there must be a reviewable, suspended entry to be
liquidated at the newly calculated assessment rate.
On August 9, 2023, we released U.S. import data from U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) for the purpose of respondent selection.6 These data showed that 14 companies
for which Commerce initiated an administrative review had no reviewable, suspended entries of
subject merchandise.7 Accordingly, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3) and (d)(4), we are
preliminarily rescinding this administrative review with respect to the 14 companies listed in
Appendix II to this notice that had no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise
during the POR. Absent evidence of a shipment on the record from the 14 companies listed in
Appendix II during the POR, Commerce intends to rescind its review of these companies,
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3).
Rate for Companies Not Individually Examined
The Act and Commerce’s regulations do not address the establishment of a weightedaverage dumping margin to be assigned to companies not selected for individual examination
when Commerce limits its examination in an administrative review pursuant to section

See, e.g., Forged Steel Fittings from Taiwan: Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2018-2019,
85 FR 71317, 71318 (November 9, 2020); see also Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Mexico:
Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2016-2017, 83 FR 54084 (October 26, 2018).
5 See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).
6 See Memorandum, “Placing U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data on the Record,” dated August 9, 2023.
7 Id.
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
determining the weighted-average dumping margin 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 and de minimis margins, and any margins determined entirely {on the basis
of facts available}.”
We preliminarily calculated a de minimis dumping margin for Allied and an above de
minimis margin for Indocan. Accordingly, we have preliminarily assigned to the non-selected
companies a rate of 0.59 percent, i.e., the rate for Indocan, because that is the only rate that is not
zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts available.
Preliminary Results of the Review
We preliminarily determine that the following weighted-average dumping margins exist
for the period November 23, 2021, through May 31, 2023:
Exporter/Producer

Weighted-Average Dumping
Margin (percent)

Allied Natural Product

0.00

Indocan Honey Private Limited

0.59

Companies Not Selected for Individual Review8

0.59

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.9 Interested parties may submit case briefs no later than

8 The
exporters or producers not selected for individual examination are listed in Appendix III.
See 19 CFR 351.224(b).

30 days after the date of publication of this notice.10 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.11
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.12
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.13 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).14
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.15
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.16
If a request for a hearing is made, Commerce intends to hold the hearing at a time and date to be

See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii); see also 19 CFR 351.303 (for general filing requirements).
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).
12 See 19 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2).
13 We use the term “issue” here to describe an argument that Commerce would normally address in a comment of
the Issues and Decision Memorandum.
14 See Administrative Protective Order, Service, and Other Procedures in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Proceedings; Final Rule, 88 FR 67069 (September 29, 2023).
15 See 19 CFR 351.310(c).
16 See 19 CFR 351.310.
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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.
Assessment Rates
Upon completion of the final results of this administrative review, Commerce shall
determine, and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries covered by this
review.17 Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), if the weighted-average dumping margin for Allied
or Indocan is not zero or de minimis (i.e., less than 0.50 percent) in the final results of this
review, we will calculate importer-specific assessment rates based on the ratio of the total
amount of dumping calculated for the importer’s examined sales to the total entered value of
those same sales. If either respondent’s weighted-average dumping margin is zero or de minimis
in the final results of review, or if an importer-specific assessment rate is zero or de minimis,
Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries without regard to antidumping
duties. 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.18
In accordance with Commerce’s “automatic assessment” practice, for entries of subject
merchandise during the POR produced by Allied or Indocan for which the company did not
know that the merchandise was destined for the United States, we will instruct CBP to liquidate
those entries at the all-others rate established in the original less-than-fair-value (LTFV)
investigation (i.e., 5.87 percent)19 if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved
in the transaction.20
For the companies listed in Appendix III which were not selected for individual
examination, we will assign an assessment rate based on the review-specific rate, calculated as

See 19 CFR 351.212(b).
See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.
19 See Order, 87 FR at 35503.
20 For a full discussion of this practice, see Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of
Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
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noted in the “Rate for Companies Not Individually Examined” section, above. 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
duties, where applicable.21
If, in the final results, we continue to find that the administrative review for the
companies listed in Appendix II should be rescinded, we will instruct CBP to assess antidumping
duties on any suspended entries that entered under the CBP case numbers of those companies
(i.e., at those exporters’ rates) at a rate equal to the cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties
required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, during the POR.
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).
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 margins established in the final results of this review, except if the rate is less
than 0.50 percent and, therefore, de minimis within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.106(c)(1), in
which case the cash deposit rate will be zero; (2) for merchandise exported by a company not
covered in this review, but covered in a prior segment of the proceeding, the cash deposit rate
will be the company-specific rate published for the most recently-completed segment in which it
was reviewed; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review or in the original LTFV

See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act.

investigation, but the producer is, then the cash deposit rate will be 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 5.87 percent, the allothers rate established in the LTFV investigation.22 These cash deposit requirements, when
imposed, shall remain in effect until further notice.
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 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)(1).
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 these preliminary results in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213 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.

22 See

Order, 81 FR at 11176.

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

Summary
Background
Scope of the Order
Preliminary Partial Rescission of Administrative Review
Discussion of the Methodology
Currency Conversion
Recommendation

Appendix II
Companies for Which We Are Preliminarily Rescinding the Administrative Review
1. AA Food Factory
2. Alpro
3. Aone Enterprises
4. Apl Logistics
5. Bee Hive Farms
6. Dabur India Limited
7. Ess Pee Quality Products
8. Infinator Pvt., Ltd.
9. Natural Agro Foods
10. NYSA Agro Foods
11. Shan Organics
12. Sunlite Organic
13. UTMT
14. Vedic Systems

Appendix III
Companies Not Selected for Individual Examination
1. Ambrosia Natural Products (India) Private Limited/Ambrosia Enterprise/Sunlite India
Agro Producer Co., Ltd.
2. Apis India Limited
3. Brij Honey Pvt., Ltd.
4. Ganpati Natural Products
5. GMC Natural Product
6. Hi Tech Natural Products India Ltd.
7. Kejriwal Bee Care India Private Limited
8. KK Natural Food Industries LLP
9. Pearlcot Enterprises
10. Queenbee Foods Pvt. Ltd.
11. Salt Range Foods Pvt. Ltd.
12. Shakti Api Foods Private Limited23
13. Shiv Apiaries
14. Yieppie Internationals
[FR Doc. 2024-14988 Filed: 7/8/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 7/9/2024]

23 We

also initiated this review on “Shakti Apifoods Pvt Ltd,” which we are preliminarily considering to be the same
company. See Initiation Notice.