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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Investigations Nos. 731-TA-678 through 682 (Preliminary)]

 

Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, India, Italy, Japan, and Spain

Determinations

    On the basis of the record1 developed in the subject 
investigations, the Commission unanimously determines, pursuant to 
section 733(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1673b(a)), that 
there is a reasonable indication that an industry in the United States 
is materially injured by reason of imports from Brazil, India, Italy, 
Japan, and Spain of stainless steel bar, provided for in subheadings 
7222.10.00, 7222.20.00, and 7222.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States, that are alleged to be sold in the 
United States at less than fair value (LTFV).2
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    \1\The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the Commission's 
Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR 207.2(f)).
    \2\The imported stainless steel bar covered by these 
investigations comprises articles of stainless steel in straight 
lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-
drawn, cold-rolled, or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a 
uniform solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of 
circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), 
triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other convex polygons. Except as 
specified above, the term does not include stainless steel 
semifinished products, cut-to-length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut-to-length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in 
thickness have a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or 
if 4.75 mm or more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm 
and measures at least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed 
products in coils, of any uniform solid cross section along their 
whole length, which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled 
products), and angles, shapes, or sections. Stainless steel bar 
includes cold-finished stainless steel bars that are turned or 
ground in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-rolled bar or 
from straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that 
have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced 
during the rolling process.
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Background

    On December 30, 1993, a petition was filed with the Commission and 
the Department of Commerce by Al Tech Specialty Steel Corp., Dunkirk, 
NY; Carpenter Technology Corp., Reading, PA; Republic Engineered 
Steels, Inc., Massillon, OH; Slater Steels Corp., Fort Wayne, IN; 
Talley Metals Technology, Inc., Hartsville, SC; and the United 
Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO/CLC, alleging that an industry in the 
United States is materially injured or threatened with material injury 
by reason of LTFV imports of stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, 
Italy, Japan, and Spain. Accordingly, effective December 30, 1993, the 
Commission instituted antidumping investigations Nos. 731-TA-678 
through 682 (Preliminary).
    Notice of the institution of the Commission's investigations and of 
a public conference to be held in connection therewith was given by 
posting copies of the notice in the Office of the Secretary, U.S. 
International Trade Commission, Washington, DC, and by publishing the 
notice in the Federal Register of January 7, 1994 (59 FR 1027). The 
conference was held in Washington, DC, on January 20, 1994, and all 
persons who requested the opportunity were permitted to appear in 
person or by counsel.
    The Commission transmitted its determinations in these 
investigations to the Secretary of Commerce on February 14, 1994. The 
views of the Commission are contained in USITC Publication 2734 
(February 1994), entitled ``Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India, 
Italy, Japan, and Spain: Investigations Nos. 731-TA-678 through 682 
(Preliminary).''

    By order of the Commission.

    Issued: February 15, 1994.
Donna R. Koehnke,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-3991 Filed 2-22-94; 8:45 am]
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