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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-580-008]

 

Color Television Receivers From the Republic of Korea; 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and 
Partial Termination of Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and Partial Termination of Administrative Review.

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SUMMARY: In response to a request from petitioners, the Department of 
Commerce (the Department) has conducted an administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on color television receivers (CTVs) from the 
Republic of Korea. The review covers four manufacturers/exporters of 
the subject merchandise and the period April 1, 1993, through March 31, 
1994. Based on petitioners' withdrawal of requests for review, the 
Department previously terminated the review of one manufacturer/
exporter and is now terminating the review of two additional 
manufacturers/exporters.
    We have preliminarily determined that one of the four 
manufacturers/exporters being reviewed made no shipments of subject 
merchandise to the United States during the period of review. The 
remaining three manufacturers/exporters failed to respond to our 
request for information. If these preliminary results are adopted in 
our final results of administrative review, we will instruct the U.S. 
Customs Service to assess antidumping duties equal to the amounts 
established in these preliminary results.
    Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 23, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joseph Hanley or Zev Primor, 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-
5253.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 30, 1984, the Department published in the Federal Register 
(49 FR 18336) the antidumping duty order on CTVs from the Republic of 
Korea. On April 7, 1994, the Department published (59 FR 16615) a 
notice of ``Opportunity to Request an Administrative Review'' of this 
antidumping duty order for the period April 1, 1993, through March 31, 
1994 (eleventh review). We received a timely request for review from 
the United Electronic Workers of America, Independent (formerly the 
Independent Radionic Workers of America), the International Brotherhood 
of Electrical Workers, the International Union of Electronic, 
Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers, AFL-CIO, and the 
Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, petitioners in this proceeding. 
On May 12, 1994, the Department published a notice of initiation (59 FR 
24683) covering the following seven manufacturers/exporters: Samsung 
Electronics Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics America, Inc., Samsung 
International, Inc. (Samsung), Cosmos Electronics Manufacturing, Ltd., 
Quantronics Manufacturing, Ltd., Tongkook General Electronics, Inc., 
Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd., and Daewoo Electronics Corp. of America, 
Inc. (Daewoo), Goldstar Electronics International, Inc., Goldstar Co., 
Ltd., and Goldstar of America, Inc. (Goldstar), and Samwon Electronics, 
Ltd. On May 23, 1994, petitioners submitted a timely withdrawal of 
their request for review of Goldstar. The Department terminated the 
review of Goldstar on June 29, 1994 (59 FR 33486). On June 29, and 
August 22, 1994, petitioners submitted additional requests to terminate 
the reviews of Daewoo and Samwon, respectively. Section 353.22(a)(5) of 
our regulations states that ``[t]he Secretary may permit a party that 
requests a review under paragraph (a) of this section to withdraw the 
request not later than 90 days after the date of publication of notice 
of initiation of the requested review. The Secretary may extend this 
time limit if the Secretary decides that it is reasonable to do so.'' 
Since petitioners' request to terminate the review of Daewoo was 
submitted within the 90-day period, and no other interested party 
requested a review of this company, we are terminating this review. 
While petitioners' request to terminate the review of Samwon was not 
submitted within the 90-day time limit cited above, because no 
significant work had yet been done at the time of the request to 
withdraw, withdrawal does not unfairly burden the Department or other 
interested parties. Therefore, we have determined that it is reasonable 
to extend the time limit and terminate this review also. The Department 
has conducted this review in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Tariff Act).

Scope of the Review

    Imports covered by this review include CTVs, complete and 
incomplete, from the Republic of Korea. This merchandise is currently 
classified under item numbers 8528.10.80, 8529.90.15, 8529.90.20, and 
8540.11.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). Since the order 
covers all CTVs regardless of HTS classification, the HTS subheading is 
provided for convenience and for the U.S. Customs Service purposes. Our 
written description of the scope of the order remains dispositive. The 
period of review is April 1, 1993 through March 31, 1994.

Preliminary Results of Review

    Samsung reported, and the Department verified through the U.S. 
Customs Service, that Samsung made no shipments of subject merchandise 
to the United States during the period of review. Therefore, we 
preliminarily determine to maintain Samsung's current cash deposit 
rate. This rate is zero percent because the margin assigned to Samsung 
in the most recent final results of review (0.37 percent) was a de 
minimis rate.
    Since Cosmos, Quatronics, and Tongkook failed to respond to our 
questionnaire, we have preliminarily determined that, in accordance 
with section 776(c) of the Tariff Act, the use of best information 
available (BIA) is appropriate. Our regulations provide that we may 
consider whether a party refuses to provide information in determining 
what is the best information available (19 CFR 353.37(b)). Standard 
Department practice dictates that when a company fails to provide the 
information requested in a timely manner, the Department considers the 
company uncooperative and generally assigns that company the higher of 
(a) the highest rate assigned to any company in any previous review or 
the less-than-fair-value investigation (LTFV), or (b) the highest rate 
for a responding company with shipments during the period of review. 
See Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 
Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts 
Thereof From the Federal Republic of Germany, et al., 56 FR 31692 (July 
11, 1994). See also Allied-Signal Aerospace Co. v. United States, 996 
F. 2nd 1195, 1191-92 (Fed. Cir. 1993), Krupp Stahl AG et al v. United 
States, 822 F. Supp. 789 (CIT May 26, 1993). Therefore, we have used 
the highest rate from the LTFV investigation, which was 16.57 percent, 
in determining the margins for these three companies for this review.
    We preliminarily determine that the following margins exist for the 
period April 1, 1993 through March 31, 1994:

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                                                               Percent  
                   Manufacturer/exporter                        margin  
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Samsung....................................................      0.37\1\
Cosmos.....................................................        16.57
Quantronics................................................        16.57
Tongkook...................................................       16.57 
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\1\No shipments; rate from last review in which there were shipments.   

    The Department shall determine, and the Customs Service shall 
assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. Upon completion 
of the review the Department will issue appraisement instructions on 
each exporter directly to the U.S. Customs Service.
    Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will be effective 
for all shipments of CTVs entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of 
this administrative review, as provided by section 751(a)(1) of the 
Tariff Act: (1) The cash deposit rates for the reviewed companies will 
be those rates established in the final results of this 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, a prior review, or the original LTFV 
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) If neither the exporter nor the manufacturer 
is a firm covered in this or any previous review conducted by the 
Department, the cash deposit rates will be 13.90 percent, ``all 
others'' rate established in the LTFV investigation (49 FR 18336). 
These deposit requirements will 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 work day 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 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 the 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: December 16, 1994.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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