Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2021-2022

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration [A-570-827] AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that the single entity Wah Yuen Stationery Co. Ltd./Shandong Wah Yuen Stationery Co. Ltd. (Wah Yuen) is part of the China-wide entity, and continues to find that Tianjin Tonghe Stationery Co., Ltd. (Tianjin Tonghe) and Ningbo Homey Union Co., Ltd. (Ningbo Homey) are part of the China-wide entity. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. DATES: Applicable September 5, 2023. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katherine Johnson, AD/CVD Operations, Office VIII, Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4929. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On December 28, 1994, Commerce published in the Federal Register the antidumping duty order on certain cased pencils from the People's Republic of China (China). [ 1 ] On December 1, 2022, Commerce published in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of the Order. [ 2 ] Based on timely requests for review, in accordance with 351.221(c)(1)(i), Commerce published the initiation of this administrative review on February 2, 2023, with respect to three companies: Tianjin Tonghe, Ningbo Homey, and Wah Yuen. [ 3 ] The p…