[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 16608]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8011]



[[Page 16608]]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[A-427-801]


Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and 
Parts Thereof From France; Amendment to Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Reviews and Recision of Partial Revocation of 
Antidumping Duty Order

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

ACTION: Notice of amendment to final results of antidumping duty 
administrative reviews and recision of partial revocation of 
Antidumping Duty Order.

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SUMMARY: On February 28, 1995, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published in the Federal Register (60 FR 10959) the final 
results of its administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on 
antifriction bearings (other than tapered roller bearings) and parts 
thereof (AFBs) from France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, 
Thailand, and the United Kingdom. The classes or kinds of merchandise 
covered by these reviews are ball bearings and parts thereof (BBs), 
cylindrical roller bearings and parts thereof (CRBs), and spherical 
plain bearings and parts thereof (SPBs). The review period was May 1, 
1992, through April 30, 1993. Based on corrections to the calculation 
of United States price (USP), we are amending the final results with 
respect to French BBs and SPBs sold by one company, SKF France (SKF).
    We are also rescinding the revocation of the antidumping duty order 
on SPBs from France with respect to SKF, since the dumping margin is no 
longer de minimis.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 31, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Rosenbaum or Michael Rill, 
Office of Antidumping Compliance, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202)482-
4733.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 28, 1995, the Department published in the Federal 
Register the final results of its administrative reviews of the 
antidumping duty orders on AFBs from France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, 
Sweden, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. The classes or kinds of 
merchandise covered by these reviews are BBs, CRBs, and SPBs. The 
review period was May 1, 1992, through April 30, 1993.
    In these final results, we revoked in part the antidumping duty 
order on SPBs from France with respect to SKF based on three 
consecutive years of zero or de minimis weighted- average dumping 
margins in accordance with 19 CFR 353.25(a).
    Subsequent to the issuance of our final results, the Torrington 
Company (Torrington), the petitioner, alleged a clerical error in the 
calculation of dumping margins for SKF with respect to BBs and SPBs 
from France. We determined there was a ministerial error in the 
calculation of USP in the final results for AFBs from France sold by 
SKF. Specifically, purchase price sales made by SKF were reported in 
French francs, and we failed to convert these prices to U.S. dollars. 
We have therefore corrected our calculation of SKF's USP.

Recision of Revocation

    After correction of this ministerial error, we found that the 
weighted-average margin for SPBs from France sold by SKF no longer is 
de minimis. Therefore, the criteria for partial revocation pursuant to 
19 CFR 353.25(a) have not been met, and we hereby rescind the partial 
revocation of the antidumping duty order on SPBs from France with 
respect to SKF.

Amended Final Results of Reviews

    As a result of our corrections, we have determined the following 
percentage weighted-average margins to exist for the period May 1, 1992 
through April 30, 1993:

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                       Company                           BBs      SPBs  
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SKF.................................................      3.74     49.08
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    Based on these results, we will direct the Customs Service to 
collect cash deposits of estimated antidumping duties on all 
appropriate entries in accordance with the procedures discussed in the 
final results of these reviews.
    These deposit requirements are effective for all shipments of the 
subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the date of publication of this notice and 
shall remain in effect until publication of the final results of the 
next administrative reviews.
    This notice also serves as a 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 notice is published in accordance with section 751(f) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675(f)) and 19 CFR 
353.28(c).

    Dated: March 23, 1995.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-8011 Filed 3-30-95; 8:45 am]
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