[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51292-51293]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24709]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-428-815, C-428-817]
Notice of Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty
and Countervailing Duty Reviews and Revocation of Orders in Part:
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From Germany
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping
duty and countervailing duty reviews and revocation of orders in part.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: September 22, 1999.
SUMMARY: On June 11, 1999, the U.S. Department of Commerce (the
Department) received a request on behalf of Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, Ispat Inland Steel, LTV Steel Company, Inc., National
Steel Corporation, and U.S. Steel Group, a unit of USX Corporation,
petitioners in the above mentioned cases, for changed circumstances
antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) reviews for the purpose
of revoking, in part, the AD and CVD orders with respect to specific
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany.
Petitioners' letter confirmed a lack of interest in the continuation of
the AD and CVD orders with respect to the subject merchandise defined
in the Scope of the Review section below.
Accordingly, on August 2, 1999, the Department published a notice
of initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews
and intent to revoke these orders in part (64 FR 41916). We gave
interested parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results
of these changed circumstances reviews. No comments were received.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Chaves (202-482-0414) or Linda
Ludwig (202-482-3833), Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement
Group III, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington DC 20230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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 (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise
indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to the
regulations at 19 CFR part 351 (April 1998).
Background
On August 17, 1993, the Department published the CVD order on
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany (58
FR 43756). On August 19, 1993, the Department published the AD order on
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany (58
FR 44170).
On June 11, 1999, petitioners requested partial revocation of the
AD and CVD orders with respect to specific corrosion-resistant carbon
steel flat products from Germany described below pursuant to section
751(b)(1) of the Act and Sec. 351.222(g) of the Department's
regulations. On August 2, 1999, the Department published a notice of
initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews and
intent to revoke these orders in part. We gave interested parties an
opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of these changed
circumstances reviews. No comments were received.
Scope of the Reviews
The corrosion-resistant steel products covered by these AD/CVC
orders include flat-rolled carbon steel products, of rectangular shape,
either clad, plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant metals such as
zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-based alloys,
whether or not corrugated or painted, varnished or coated with plastics
or other nonmetallic substances in addition to the metallic coating, in
coils (whether or not in successively superimposed layers) and of a
width of 0.5 inch or greater, or in straight lengths which, if of a
thickness less than 4.75 millimeters, are of a width of 0.5 inch or
greater and which measures at least 10 times the thickness or if of a
thickness of 4.75 millimeters or more are of a width which exceeds 150
millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness, as currently
classifiable in the HTS under item numbers 7210.31.0000, 7210.39.0000,
7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030, 7210.49.0090, 7210.60.0000, 7210.70.6030,
7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 7210.90.1000, 7210.90.6000, 7210.90.9000,
7212.21.0000, 7212.29.0000, 7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090, 7212.30.3000,
7212.30.5000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000, 7212.60.0000,
7215.90.1000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.12.1000, 7217.13.1000, 7217.19.1000,
7217.19.5000, 7217.22.5000, 7217.23.5000, 7217.29.1000, 7217.29.5000,
7217.32.5000, 7217.33.5000, 7217.39.1000, and 7217.39.5000. Although
the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and Customs
purposes, the written description of the merchandise under review is
dispositive.
Included in these orders are flat-rolled products of nonrectangular
cross-section where such cross-section is achieved subsequent to the
rolling process (i.e., products which have been ``worked after
rolling'')--for example, products which have been bevelled or rounded
at the edges. Excluded from these orders are flat-rolled steel products
either plated or coated with tin, lead, chromium, chromium oxides, both
tin and lead (``terne plate''), or both chromium and chromium oxides
(``tin-free steel''), whether or not painted, varnished or coated with
plastics or other nonmetallic substances in addition to the metallic
coating. Also excluded are clad products in straight lengths of 0.1875
inch or more in composite thickness and of a width which exceeds 150
millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness, and certain clad
stainless flat-rolled products, which are three-layered corrosion-
resistant carbon steel flat-rolled products less than 4.75 millimeters
in composite thickness that consist of a carbon steel flat-rolled
product clad on both sides with stainless steel in a 20%-60%-20% ratio.
Merchandise covered by these changed circumstances reviews and
partial revocations are shipments of certain corrosion-resistant carbon
steel flat products that are deep-drawing carbon steel strip, roll-clad
on both sides with aluminum (AlSi) foils in accordance with St3 LG as
to EN 10139/10140. The merchandise's chemical composition encompasses a
core material of U St 23 (continuous casting) in which carbon is less
than 0.08; manganese is less than 0.30; phosphorous is less than 0.20;
sulfur is less than 0.015; aluminum is less than 0.01; and the cladding
material is a minimum of 99% aluminum with silicon/copper/iron of less
than 1%. The products are in strips with thicknesses of 0.07mm to 4.0mm
(inclusive) and widths of 5mm to 800mm (inclusive). The thickness ratio
of aluminum on either side of steel may range from 3%/94%/3% to 10%/
80%/10%.
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Final Results of Changed Circumstances AD and CVD Reviews, and
Revocation of Orders in Part
Based on the affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners,
combined with the lack of comments from interested parties, the
Department has determined that substantially all of the domestic
producers have no further interest in maintaining these orders with
respect to certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products,
described above, in accordance with section 782(h) of the Act. This
lack of interest by domestic producers constitutes changed
circumstances sufficient to warrant partial revocation of these orders.
Therefore, the Department is partially revoking these orders on certain
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products with respect to deep-
drawing carbon steel strip, roll-clad on both sides with aluminum
(AlSi) foils in accordance with St3 LG as to EN 10139/10140, as
described above, in accordance with sections 751(b) and 782(h) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d). This partial revocation applies to all
unliquidated entries of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat
products described above that are not covered by the final results of
an administrative review.
The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to proceed
with liquidation, without regard to antidumping or countervailing
duties, of all unliquidated entries of deep-drawing carbon steel strip,
roll-clad on both sides with aluminum (AlSi) foils in accordance with
St3 LG as to EN 10139/10140, as described above, as provided under
section 778 of the Act.
These changed circumstances administrative reviews, partial
revocations of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders and
notice are in accordance with sections 751(b) and 782(h) of the Act and
Secs. 351.216, 351.221(c)(3) and 351.222(g)(1)(i) of the Department's
regulations.
Dated: September 14, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-24709 Filed 9-21-99; 8:45 am]
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