[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 59 (Monday, March 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14862-14863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7521]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-588-824]
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From
Japan: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review, and Revocation in Part of Antidumping Duty Order
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping
duty administrative review, and revocation in part of antidumping duty
order.
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SUMMARY: On February 2, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the
Department) published a notice of initiation of a changed circumstances
antidumping duty administrative review and preliminary results of
review with intent to revoke, in part, the antidumping duty order on
certain corrosion resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. We
are now revoking this order in part, with respect to corrosion-
resistant steel flat products with certain dimensions and coatings as
discussed below, based on the fact that domestic parties have expressed
no interest in the importation or sale of this product, imported from
Japan.
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 29, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doreen Chen or Rick Johnson, Import
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0408, (202) 482-3818, respectively.
The Applicable Statute and Regulations
Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated,
all citations to the Department's regulations are to the regulations as
codified at 19 CFR part 351 (April 1998).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On December 11, 1998, Uchiyama requested that the Department revoke
in part the antidumping duty order on certain corrosion-resistant
carbon steel flat products from Japan. Specifically, Uchiyama requested
that the Department revoke the order with respect to imports of subject
merchandise meeting all of the following criteria: (1) Widths ranging
from 10 millimeters (0.394 inches) through 100 millimeters (3.94
inches); (2) thicknesses, including coatings, ranging from 0.11
millimeters (0.004 inches) through 0.60 millimeters (0.024 inches); and
(3) a coating that is from 0.003 millimeters (0.00012 inches) through
0.005 millimeters (0.000196 inches) in thickness and that is comprised
of either two evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of 99%
zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum, followed by a layer consisting
of chromate, or three evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting
of 99% zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum followed by a layer
consisting of chromate, and finally a layer consisting of silicate.
Uchiyama, a domestic manufacturer of rubber seals and metal inserts for
ball bearings, is an importer of the products in question. The order
with regard to imports of other types of corrosion resistant carbon
steel flat products is not affected by this request.
On January 19, 1999, Inland Steel Industries, Inc. (Inland), LTV
Steel Company (LTV), National Steel Corporation (National), and U.S.
Steel Group, A Unit of USX Corporation (U.S. Steel), domestic
interested parties in this case, submitted a letter indicating that
they have no objection to the initiation of this changed circumstances
review and no interest in maintaining the antidumping duty order on
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan with respect
to products meeting the specifications indicated above. We
preliminarily determined that domestic producers' affirmative statement
of no interest constituted changed circumstances sufficient to warrant
a partial revocation of this order. Consequently, on February 2, 1999,
the Department published a notice of initiation and preliminary results
of changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and
intent to revoke this order in part (64 FR 5024). We gave interested
parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this
changed circumstances review. We received no comments from interested
parties.
Scope of Changed Circumstances Review
The merchandise covered by this changed circumstances review is
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. This
changed circumstances administrative review covers all manufacturers/
exporters of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products
meeting the following specifications: (1) widths ranging from 10
millimeters (0.394 inches) through 100 millimeters (3.94 inches); (2)
thicknesses, including coatings, ranging from 0.11 millimeters (0.004
inches) through 0.60 millimeters (0.024 inches); and (3) a coating that
is from 0.003 millimeters (0.00012 inches) through 0.005 millimeters
(0.000196 inches) in thickness and that is comprised of either two
evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of 99% zinc, 0.5%
cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum, followed by a layer consisting of
chromate, or three evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of
99% zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum followed by a layer
consisting of chromate, and finally a layer consisting of silicate.
Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty
Order
The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners in certain
corrosion resistant carbon steel flat products, as described above,
produced in Japan, constitutes changed circumstances sufficient to
warrant partial revocation of this order. Therefore, the Department is
partially revoking the order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon
steel flat products from Japan with regard to products which
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meet the specifications detailed above, in accordance with sections 751
(b) and (d) and 782(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d)(1). This
partial revocation applies to all entries of the subject merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the
date of this publication of final results.
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protection orders (APOs) of their responsibility
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d)(1997). Timely written
notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion
to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply
with the regulations and terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
This changed circumstances administrative review, partial
revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance
with sections 751 (b) and (d) and 782(h) of the Act and sections
351.216 and 351.222(g) of the Department's regulations.
Dated: March 19, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-7521 Filed 3-26-99; 8:45 am]
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