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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-588-818]

 

Personal Word Processors From Japan; Final Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; Revocation of 
Order; Termination of Anticircumvention Inquiry

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; Revocation of Order; Termination of 
Anticircumvention Inquiry.

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SUMMARY: On March 24, 1994, the Department of Commerce published the 
Notice of Initiation of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, Consideration of Revocation of Order, 
Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, and Intent to Revoke Order on personal word 
processors from Japan (59 FR 13930). We have completed this review and 
are revoking the antidumping duty order on PWPs from Japan. We are also 
terminating the ongoing anticircumvention inquiry of this order.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 2, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas O. Barlow or Wendy J. Frankel, 
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) 482-5256 
and 482-0367, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 28, 1991, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published in the Federal Register (56 FR 42593) an antidumping duty 
order on personal word processors (PWPs) from Japan (the order). On 
August 20, 1992, (57 FR 37770), the Department published an amended 
order. On February 15, 1994, Smith Corona Corporation (Smith Corona), 
the petitioner in the underlying less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 
investigation, submitted a request for a changed circumstances 
administrative review and revocation of the order based on the 
represented fact that the order no longer is of interest to the 
domestic interested parties. For the same reasons, in its February 15, 
1994, request, Smith Corona withdrew its petition requesting an 
investigation to determine whether the order was being circumvented 
pursuant to section 781(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act). Smith Corona made the withdrawal of that petition and the 
revocation contingent upon termination of the suspended antidumping 
investigation on portable electric typewriters from Singapore (A-559-
806). Smith Corona also made representations that other U.S. producers 
of this merchandise (Canon Business Machines and Brother Industries 
(USA), Inc.) consented to revocation of the order.
    On March 24, 1994, the Department published the Notice of 
Initiation of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, Consideration of Revocation of Order, Preliminary Results of 
Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and 
Intent to Revoke Order on PWPs from Japan (59 FR 13930). In that notice 
the Department preliminarily determined that the order no longer is of 
interest to domestic interested parties and notified the public of its 
intent to revoke the order. The Department gave interested parties an 
opportunity to comment on the preliminary results and none of the 
interested parties commented. On April 8, 1994, Brother Industries 
(USA), Inc., the petitioner in the investigation of portable electric 
typewriters from Singapore (A-559-806), submitted its request, pursuant 
to 19 CFR 353.17(a), to terminate the suspended investigation in that 
case. A notice of such termination will be published simultaneously 
with this notice.

Scope of Review

    The scope of the order covers personal word processors from Japan 
as defined in the Department's antidumping duty order on PWPs from 
Japan (56 FR 42593, August 28, 1991), as amended (57 FR 37770, August 
20, 1992). PWPs are currently classifiable under item number 8469.10.00 
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) of the United States. HTS item 
numbers are provided for convenience and Customs purposes. The written 
description remains dispositive as to the scope of the product 
coverage.

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, Revocation of Order

    Pursuant to section 751(c) of the Act, the Department may revoke an 
antidumping duty order if the Department determines, based on a review 
under section 751(b)(1) of the Act, that changed circumstances exist 
sufficient to warrant revocation. Section 751(b)(1) of the Act requires 
a changed circumstances review to be conducted upon receipt of a 
request containing sufficient information concerning changed 
circumstances.
    Section 353.25(d)(2) of the Department's regulations permits the 
Department to conduct an administrative review under Sec. 353.22(f) 
based upon an affirmative statement of no interest from the petitioner 
in the proceeding. Section 353.25(d)(1)(i) further provides that if the 
Department determines that the order under review is no longer of 
interest to domestic interested parties, the Department may revoke the 
antidumping duty order.
    In accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and (c) of the Act and 19 CFR 
353.25(d) and 353.22(f), based upon the facts of this case and the fact 
that none of the interested parties objected to or otherwise commented 
on our preliminary results, we have determined that the order no longer 
is of interest to domestic interested parties. The Department 
determines that the requirement for revocation based on the changed 
circumstance that the order no longer is of interest to domestic 
interested parties has been met. Therefore, we are hereby revoking the 
antidumping duty order on PWPs from Japan. We are also terminating the 
ongoing anticircumvention inquiry of the order on PWPs from Japan.
    These final results will apply to all shipments of the merchandise 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
August 1, 1993 (the day after the last administrative review period for 
which automatic liquidation instructions were sent to the U.S. Customs 
Service). We intend to instruct the U.S. Customs Service to liquidate 
all entries of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after August 1, 1993, without regard 
to antidumping duties.
    We will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to refund with interest 
any estimated antidumping duties collected with respect to those 
entries.
    This administrative review, revocation, and notice are in 
accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and (c) of the Act and 
Secs. 353.22(f) and 353.25(d) of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: April 22, 1994.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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