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published the notice initiating the antidumping duty investigation of ceramic tile from India. See id. The period of investigation(“ POI”) was from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024. Id.
7. On July 15, 2024, Commerce selected Antiqa Minerals(“ Antiqa”) and Win-Tel Ceramics Pvt. Ltd.(“ Win-Tel”) as the mandatory respondents in this investigation. See Commerce Memorandum, Less-Than-Fair-Value Investigation of Ceramic Tile from India: Respondent Selection( July 15, 2024)(“ Respondent Selection Memo”). Commerce subsequently issued its Initial Questionnaires to both mandatory respondents.
8. Before filing initial questionnaire responses, Antiqa requested that it be allowed to exclude two companies, Antique Marbonite P. Ltd(“ Marbonite”) and Segam Tiles PVT Ltd(“ Segam”), from its reporting to Commerce. Antiqa acknowledged that it is affiliated with these companies and that both companies are involved with either the production or the sale of subject merchandise.
9. On August 22, 2024, Commerce granted Antiqa’ s request for reporting exclusions regarding Marbonite and Segam before Antiqa filed any of its initial questionnaire responses and before Commerce made any affiliation and collapsing determinations on the record. On August 30, 2024, Plaintiff submitted comments opposing Commerce’ s decision to grant Antiqa’ s exclusion request of Marbonite and Segam as premature.
10. On August 29, 2024, Antiqa submitted its response to Section A of the Initial Questionnaire without information regarding two of its affiliated producers, Marbonite and Segam, pursuant to Commerce’ s granting of the exclusion request. Additionally, in its Section A response, Antiqa requested yet another exclusion for another affiliate, Affiliate A. 1
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The name of this affiliated company is treated as business proprietary information in the underlying administrative record. Therefore, for purposes of this complaint, we refer to this affiliate as“ Affiliate A.”
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