[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 21, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9661-9662]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4199]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-351-825, A-533-810, A-588-833]


Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India 
and Japan

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 21, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irene Darzenta or James Terpstra, 
Office of Antidumping Investigations, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; 
telephone: (202) 482-3320 or (202) 482-6965, respectively.

Scope of Orders

    The product covered by these orders is stainless steel bar (SSB). 
SSB means 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. SSB includes cold-finished SSBs 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.
    Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless 
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut 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 and sections.
    The SSB subject to these orders is currently classifiable under 
subheadings 7222.10.0005, 7222.10.0050, 7222.20.0005, 7222.20.0045, 
7222.20.0075, and 7222.30.0000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 
United States (HTSUS). Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope 
of these orders is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Orders

    In accordance with section 735(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act''), on December 19, 1994, the Department of Commerce 
(``the Department'') made its final determinations that SSB from 
Brazil, India and Japan was being sold at less than fair value (59 FR 
66914, 66915, 66930 (Brazil, India and Japan, respectively) December 
28, 1994). On February 10, 1995, the International Trade Commission 
notified the Department of its final determinations, pursuant to 
section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, that an industry in the United 
States is materially injured by reason of imports of the subject 
merchandise.
    Therefore, all unliquidated entries of SSB from Brazil, India and 
Japan entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
August 4, 1994, which is the date on which the Department published its 
notices of preliminary determination in the Federal Register, are 
liable for the assessment of antidumping duties.
    In accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the Department 
will direct Customs officers to assess, upon further advice by the 
administering authority, antidumping duties equal to the amount by 
which the foreign market value of the merchandise exceeds the United 
States price for all relevant entries of SSB from Brazil, India and 
Japan. Customs officers must require, at the same time as importers 
would normally deposit estimated duties on this merchandise, a cash 
deposit equal to the estimated weighted-average antidumping duty 
margins as noted below. The ``All Others'' rate applies to all 
exporters of subject merchandise not specifically listed below.
    The ad valorem weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                                Margin  
               Manufacturer/Producer/Exporter                 percentage
                                                               (percent)
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Brazil:                                                                 
  Acos Villares, S.A........................................       19.43
  All Others................................................       19.43
India:                                                                  
  Grand Foundry, Ltd........................................        3.87
  Mukand, Ltd...............................................       21.02
  All Others................................................       12.45
Japan:                                                                  
  Aichi Steel Works, Ltd....................................       61.47
  Daido Steel Co., Ltd......................................       61.47
  Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd..............................       61.47
  All Others................................................       61.47
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    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty orders with respect to 
SSB from Brazil, India and Japan, pursuant to section 736(a) of the 
Act. Interested parties may contact the [[Page 9662]] Central Records 
Unit, Room B-099 of the Main Commerce Building, for copies of an 
updated list of antidumping orders currently in effect.
    These orders are published in accordance with section 736(a) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 353.21.

    Dated: February 13, 1995.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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