Federal Register, Volume 75 Issue 13 (Thursday, January 21, 2010)

[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 13 (Thursday, January 21, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3444-3445]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1069]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-428-801]


Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof From Germany: Initiation of 
Antidumping Duty Changed-Circumstances Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended, and

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19 CFR 351.216 and 351.221(c)(3), the Department of Commerce is 
initiating a changed-circumstances review of the antidumping duty order 
on ball bearings and parts thereof from Germany with respect to myonic 
GmbH.

DATES: Effective Date: January 21, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yang Jin Chun or Richard Rimlinger, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office 5, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
5760 or (202) 482-4477, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) published antidumping 
duty orders on ball bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, and 
spherical plain bearings and parts thereof from Germany on May 15, 
1989. See Antidumping Duty Orders: Ball Bearings, Cylindrical Roller 
Bearings, and Spherical Plain Bearings and Parts Thereof From the 
Federal Republic of Germany, 54 FR 20900 (May 15, 1989). The orders on 
cylindrical roller bearings and spherical plain bearings and parts 
thereof from Germany have been revoked. See Revocation of Antidumping 
Duty Orders on Certain Bearings From Hungary, Japan, Romania, Sweden, 
France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, 65 FR 42667 (July 11, 
2000).
    Miniaturkugellager GmbH (MKL) was a respondent in a new-shipper 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on ball bearings 
and parts thereof from Germany covering the period December 1, 1994, 
through May 31, 1995. See Ball Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller 
Bearings) and Parts Thereof, From Germany; Final Results of New Shipper 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 61 FR 15769 (April 9, 1996). As 
a result of a changed-circumstances review, we determined that myonic 
GmbH (myonic), a foreign producer of subject merchandise, is a 
successor-in-interest to MKL. See Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from 
Germany: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed-Circumstances 
Review, 73 FR 75078 (December 10, 2008).
    On June 24, 2009, we initiated the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on ball bearings and parts thereof from Germany 
covering the period May 1, 2008, through April 30, 2009. See Initiation 
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and 
Requests for Revocation in Part, 74 FR 30052 (June 24, 2009). After 
analysis of the quantity and value of the sales of ball bearings and 
parts thereof from Germany during the 2008-09 period of review, we 
selected myonic as a respondent for individual examination. See the 
memorandum to the File entitled ``Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from 
Germany--Respondent Selection'' dated August 3, 2009. In its October 1, 
2009, response to the Department's antidumping questionnaire, myonic 
informed the Department that, on March 5, 2009, Minebea Co., Ltd., 
purchased 100 percent of the shares of myonic GmbH Holding, which is 
myonic's parent company. In addition, myonic reported that an 
unaffiliated investor purchased myonic Inc., which was myonic's U.S. 
subsidiary. The Department did not receive a request from myonic or any 
other interested parties for a changed-circumstances review with 
respect to myonic.

Scope of the Order

    The products covered by the order are ball bearings and parts 
thereof. These products include all antifriction bearings that employ 
balls as the rolling element. Imports of these products are classified 
under the following categories: Antifriction balls, ball bearings with 
integral shafts, ball bearings (including radial ball bearings) and 
parts thereof, and housed or mounted ball bearing units and parts 
thereof.
    Imports of these products are classified under the following 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings: 
3926.90.45, 4016.93.10, 4016.93.50, 6909.19.50.10, 8431.20.00, 
8431.39.00.10, 8482.10.10, 8482.10.50, 8482.80.00, 8482.91.00, 
8482.99.05, 8482.99.35, 8482.99.25.80, 8482.99.65.95, 8483.20.40, 
8483.20.80, 8483.30.40, 8483.30.80, 8483.50.90, 8483.90.20, 8483.90.30, 
8483.90.70, 8708.50.50, 8708.60.50, 8708.60.80, 8708.93.30, 
8708.93.60.00, 8708.99.06, 8708.99.31.00, 8708.99.40.00, 8708.99.49.60, 
8708.99.58, 8708.99.80.15, 8708.99.80.80, 8803.10.00, 8803.20.00, 
8803.30.00, 8803.90.30, and 8803.90.90, 8708.30.50.90, 8708.40.75, 
8708.50.79.00, 8708.50.89.00, 8708.50.91.50, 8708.50.99.00, 
8708.70.60.60, 8708.80.65.90, 8708.93.75.00, 8708.94.75, 8708.95.20.00, 
8708.99.55.00, 8708.99.68, 8708.99.81.80.
    Although the HTSUS item numbers above are provided for convenience 
and customs purposes, the written description of the scope of the order 
remains dispositive.

Initiation of Changed-Circumstances Review

    Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act), and 19 CFR 351.216(d), the Department will conduct a 
changed-circumstances review upon receipt of information concerning, or 
a request from an interested party for a review of, an antidumping duty 
order which shows changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a review 
of the order. Based on the information myonic has submitted in the 
2008-09 administrative review, we find that we have received 
information which shows changed circumstances sufficient to warrant 
initiation of such a review in order to determine whether the post-
acquisition myonic is the successor-in-interest to the pre-acquisition 
myonic. See 19 CFR 351.216(d). Therefore, in accordance with the above-
referenced statute and regulation, the Department is initiating a 
changed-circumstances review.
    Because we are currently conducting the 2008-09 administrative 
review, we will conduct the changed-circumstances review in the context 
of the 2008-09 administrative review. In accordance with 19 CFR 
351.221(b)(2), we will issue a questionnaire requesting factual 
information pertinent to the changed-circumstances review. We intend to 
issue the preliminary results of the changed-circumstances review when 
we issue the preliminary results of the 2008-09 administrative review; 
we intend to issue the final results of the changed-circumstances 
review when we issue the final results of the 2008-09 administrative 
review. During the course of this review, we will not change the cash-
deposit requirements for the subject merchandise. The cash-deposit rate 
will be altered, if warranted, pursuant only to the final results of 
the changed-circumstances and/or administrative review.
    This notice of initiation is in accordance with section 751(b)(1) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(1).

    Dated: January 14, 2010.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
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