[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 33 (Friday, February 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9396-9397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4014]



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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Investigations Nos. 731-TA-678, 679, 681, and 682 (Final)]


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

Determinations

    On the basis of the record1 developed in the subject 
investigations, the Commission determines, pursuant to section 735(b) 
of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. Sec. 1673d(b)) (the Act), that an 
industry in the United States is materially injured by reason of 
imports from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain of stainless steel 
bar,2, 3 provided for in subheadings 7222.10.00, 7222.20.00, and 
7222.30.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States,4 that have been found by the Department of Commerce to be 
sold in the United States at less than fair value (LTFV).

    \1\The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the Commission's 
Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR Sec. 207.2(f)).
    \2\Chairman Watson dissenting.
    \3\Commissioner Crawford found two like products in these 
investigations; hot-formed stainless steel bar and cold-finished 
stainless steel bar. She determines that the domestic industry 
producing hot-formed stainless steel bar is not materially injured 
or threatened with material injury by reason of imports from all 
subject countries. She determines that the domestic industry 
producing cold-finished stainless steel bar is materially injured by 
reason of subject imports from Brazil, Japan, and Spain, but is not 
materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of 
subject imports from India.
    \4\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

    The Commission instituted these investigations effective August 4, 
1994, following preliminary determinations by the Department of 
Commerce that imports of stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan, 
and Spain were being sold at LTFV within the meaning of section 733(b) 
of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1673b(b)). Notice of the institution of 
[[Page 9397]] the Commission's investigations and of a public hearing 
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 September 8, 1994 (59 FR 46448). The hearing was held in 
Washington, DC, on December 15, 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 10, 1995. The 
views of the Commission are contained in USITC Publication 2856 
(February 1995), entitled ``Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India, 
Japan, and Spain: Investigations Nos. 731-TA-678-679 and 681-682 
(Final).''

    Issued: February 10, 1995.

    By order of the Commission.
Donna R. Koehnke,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-4014 Filed 2-16-95; 8:45 am]
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