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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-475-059]

 

Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape From Italy; Preliminary Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of preliminary results of antidumping duty 
administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has conducted an administrative 
review of the antidumping finding on pressure sensitive plastic tape 
from Italy. Interested parties are invited to comment on these 
preliminary results.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 13, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Todd Peterson or Thomas Futtner, 
Office of Antidumping Compliance, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
4195 or 482-3814, respectively.

Background

    On October 21, 1977, the Department of the Treasury published in 
the Federal Register (42 FR 56110) the antidumping finding on pressure 
sensitive plastic tape (PSPT) from Italy. On October 18, 1993, the 
Department of Commerce (the Department) published a notice of 
``Opportunity to Request Administrative Review'' (58 FR 53709). On 
October 27, 1993, the petitioner, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing 
Company (3M), requested that we conduct an administrative review for 
the period October 1, 1992, through September 30, 1993. We published a 
notice of initiation of the antidumping administrative review on 
November 17, 1993.
    The Department has now conducted the administrative review in 
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Tariff Act).

Scope of the Review

    Imports covered by the review are shipments of PSPT measuring over 
1\3/8\ inches in width and not exceeding 4 mils in thickness, 
classifiable under item numbers 3919.90.20 and 3919.90.50 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedules (HTS). HTS item numbers are provided for 
convenience and for Customs purposes. The written descriptions remain 
dispositive.

Preliminary Results of Review

    Because the single manufacturer/exporter subject to review, NAR, 
had no shipments of this merchandise to the United States during the 
period of review, the Department has preliminarily assigned NAR the 
rate applicable to it from its most recent administrative review as the 
estimated cash deposit rate. This rate is 1.24 percent.
    Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will be effective 
for all shipments of the subject merchandise, entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided for by section 
751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for the reviewed 
firm will be that firm's rate established in the final results of this 
administrative review; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated 
companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be 
the company-specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) if 
the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, or the original 
less-than-fair-value investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent period 
for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate 
for all other manufacturers or exporters not previously reviewed will 
be 12.66 percent, the ``new shipper'' rate established in the first 
notice of final results of administrative review published by the 
Department (48 FR 35686, August 5, 1983).
    These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect 
until publication of the final results of the next administrative 
review.
    Interested parties may request disclosure within five days of the 
date of publication of this notice, and may request a hearing within 10 
days of the date of publication. Any hearing, if requested, will be 
held as early as convenient for the parties but not later than 44 days 
after the date of publication or the first workday thereafter. Case 
briefs or other written comments from interested parties may be 
submitted not later than 30 days after the date of publication of this 
notice. Rebuttal briefs and rebuttal comments, limited to issues raised 
in the case briefs, may be filed not later than 37 days after the date 
of publication. The Department will publish the final results of this 
administrative review, including its results of its analysis of issues 
raised in any such written comments.
    This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 353.26 to file a certificate regarding the 
reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the 
relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    This administrative review and notice are in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and 19 CFR 
353.22.

    Dated: April 5, 1994.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 94-8906 Filed 4-12-94; 8:45 am]
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