[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 250 (Thursday, December 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82323-82324]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-33203]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-588-804]
Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and
Parts Thereof From Japan; Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Reviews
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of final court decision and amended final results of
administrative reviews.
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SUMMARY: The United States Court of International Trade and the United
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have affirmed the
Department of Commerce's final remand results affecting final
assessment rates for the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty
orders on antifriction bearings (other than tapered roller bearings)
and parts thereof from Japan with regard to NTN Corporation, Koyo Seiko
Co., Ltd., and Honda Motor Company Limited. The classes or kinds of
merchandise covered by these reviews are ball bearings and parts
thereof, cylindrical roller bearings and parts thereof, and spherical
plain bearings and parts thereof. The period of review is May 1, 1992,
through April 30, 1993. As there is now a final and conclusive court
decision in this action, we are amending our final results of reviews,
as appropriate, and we will subsequently instruct the U.S. Customs
Service to liquidate entries subject to these reviews.
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 28, 2000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Schauer or Richard Rimlinger,
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-4733 and (202) 482-4477.
Applicable Statute
Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Tariff Act), are references to the provisions in
effect as of December 31, 1994. In addition, unless otherwise
indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the
Department's) regulations are to 19 CFR Part 353 (1995).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 28, 1995, the Department published its final results of
administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on antifriction
bearings (other than tapered roller bearings) and parts thereof from
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, and the United
Kingdom, covering the period May 1, 1992, through April 30, 1993 (60 FR
10900) (AFBs 4). The classes or kinds of merchandise covered by these
reviews are ball bearings and parts thereof (BBs), cylindrical roller
bearings and parts thereof (CRBs), and spherical plain bearings and
parts thereof (SPBs). Subsequently, one domestic producer (The
Torrington Company), NSK Ltd., NTN Corporation (NTN), and Koyo Seiko
Co., Ltd. (Koyo), filed lawsuits with the U.S. Court of International
Trade (CIT) challenging the final results. These lawsuits were
consolidated and litigated at the CIT and the United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). The CIT and CAFC affirmed the
Department's final remand results for AFBs 4 with respect to all
companies except NTN, Koyo, and Honda Motor Company Limited (Honda) in
the proceedings concerning antifriction bearings from Japan. On
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September 13, 1999, the Department published its amended final results
of administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on
antifriction bearings (other than tapered roller bearings) and parts
thereof, from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, and the
United Kingdom, covering the period May 1, 1992, through April 30,
1993, with respect to all companies except NTN, Koyo, and Honda (64 FR
49442).
The CIT and CAFC have affirmed the Department's original
determination in AFBs 4 with respect to Honda. Therefore, since neither
court remanded the determination with respect to Honda to the
Department, the Department has not changed its final results of review
with respect to Honda and no amendment to AFBs 4 is necessary with
respect to this company.
However, the Department received remand instructions during the
litigation pertaining to NTN and Koyo. The CIT and CAFC issued a number
of orders and opinions of which the following have resulted in changes
to the antidumping margins we had calculated for NTN and Koyo in AFBs
4:
NSK Ltd., et al. v. United States, Slip Op. 97-74 (June 17, 1997);
NSK Ltd., et al. v. United States, Slip Op. 98-11 (February 4,
1998);
NSK Ltd., et al. v. United States, Slip Op. 99-135 (December 17,
1999).
In the context of the above-cited litigation, the CIT and CAFC
ordered the Department to make methodological changes and to
recalculate the antidumping margins for NTN and Koyo. Specifically, the
CIT ordered the Department, inter alia, to make the following changes
on a company-specific basis:
NTN--(1) apply a tax-neutral methodology in computing the value-
added tax adjustment, (2) deny the adjustment to foreign market value
(FMV) for home-market discounts, (3) deny the adjustments to FMV for
billing adjustments that were not made solely to in-scope merchandise,
(4) exclude sample sales from the home-market database for which NTN
received no consideration, (5) allow the adjustment to U.S. indirect
selling expenses for interest expense incurred in financing antidumping
duty cash deposits, (6) recalculate the cost of production and
constructed value without resort to best information available, and (7)
correct a clerical error; Koyo--(1) apply a tax-neutral methodology in
computing the value-added tax adjustment, (2) reopen the record to
allow Koyo to submit documentation showing the nature of the expenses
it characterized as non-operating expenses and subsequently exclude
certain items from general expenses for purposes of calculating cost of
production and constructed value, (3) re-examine the acceptance of the
allocation of air-freight expenses, (4) explain further the basis for
accepting Koyo's efficiency variance without adjustment, and (5)
correct a clerical error.
The CIT and CAFC have affirmed the Department's final remand
results affecting final assessment rates for these reviews of NTN and
Koyo. As there are now final and conclusive court decisions in these
actions, we are amending our final results of review in these matters
and we will subsequently instruct the U.S. Customs Service to liquidate
entries subject to these reviews.
Amendment to Final Results
Pursuant to section 516A(e) of the Tariff Act, we are now amending
the final results of administrative reviews of the antidumping duty
orders on antifriction bearings (other than tapered roller bearings)
and parts thereof from Japan and the period May 1, 1992, through April
30, 1993, with respect to NTN and Koyo. The revised weighted-average
margins are as follows:
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Company BBs CRBs SPBs
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Koyo Seiko....................... 14.90 6.53 (1)
NTN.............................. 9.25 7.99 0.43
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(1) No shipments or sales subject to this review.
Accordingly, the Department will determine and the U.S. Customs
Service will assess appropriate antidumping duties on entries of the
subject merchandise made by firms covered by these reviews. Individual
differences between United States price and FMV may vary from the
percentages listed above. The Department has already issued
appraisement instructions to the Customs Service for certain companies
whose margins have not changed from those announced in AFBs 4 and the
September 13, 1999, amendment. The Department will issue appraisement
instructions to the U.S. Customs Service for NTN, Koyo, and Honda after
publication of these amended final results of reviews.
This notice is published pursuant to section 751(a) of the
Tariff Act.
Dated: December 20, 2000.
Troy H. Cribb,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-33203 Filed 12-27-00; 8:45 am]
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