[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 127 (Monday, July 3, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34516-34517]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16311]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-401-603; A-401-206]


Welded Stainless Steel Hollow Products From Sweden; Opportunity 
To Request Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request administrative review of 
antidumping duty order.

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BACKGROUND: On October 9, 1987, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published in the Federal Register the final determination 
of its investigation of sales at less-than-fair-value (LTFV) of 
stainless steel hollow products (SSHP) from Sweden (52 FR 37810). On 
November 25, 1987, the International Trade Commission (ITC) published 
its final determination, in which it found that imports of seamless 
SSHP were causing material injury to the U.S. industry, but that 
imports of welded SSHP were not causing injury, or threatening to cause 
injury, to the U.S. industry (52 FR 45246). Therefore, on December 3, 
1987, the Department published an antidumping duty order covering only 
seamless SSHP from Sweden (A-401-603).
    Subsequently, the domestic producers of SSHP challenged the ITC's 
negative determination with respect to imports of welded SSHP before 
the Court of International Trade (CIT). On June 20, 1990, the CIT 
remanded the determination to the ITC. Upon remand, the ITC determined 
that the U.S. industry was materially injured by imports of welded SSHP 
from Sweden. The CIT affirmed the ITC's redetermination on November 27, 
1990. Accordingly, the Department published in the Federal Register a 
notification of the CIT's decision, and instructions, effective 
December 7, 1990, to suspend the liquidation of entries of welded SSHP 
from Sweden (55 FR 51745, December 17, 1990).
    Following the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's (CAFC) 
affirmation of the CIT's decision, the ITC published its final 
affirmative determination of injury for the antidumping duty 
investigation of welded SSHP from Sweden (57 FR 42761). Subsequently, 
the Department published an amended antidumping duty order for SSHP 
from Sweden on November 5, 1992 (57 FR 52761) in order to include 
welded, along with seamless, SSHP in the scope of the order.
    The Department is now issuing an opportunity notice for interested 
parties, as defined in section 771(9) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended, to request, in accordance with section 353.22 of the 
Department's regulations (1993), that the Department conduct 
administrative reviews of the antidumping duty order on welded SSHP for 
the periods December 7, 1990 through November 30, 1991, and December 1, 
1991 through November 30, 1992.
    Additionally, since the Department considers welded and seamless 
SSHP to be a single class or kind of merchandise, we are disregarding 
the separate case number (A-401-206) under which the Department 
instructed the Customs Service (Customs) to suspend liquidation of 
entries of welded SSHP and have instructed Customs to suspend the 
liquidation of all entries of SSHP under the original case number (A-
401-603). Furthermore, since we intend to conduct any administrative 
reviews requested as a result of this notice under the original case 
number (A-401-603), all requests for administrative reviews should be 
filed under this case number.

OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST A REVIEW: Not later than July 31, 1995, 
interested parties may request administrative reviews of the following 
order for the following periods:

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            Antidumping duty proceedings                    Period      
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SWEDEN: Stainless Steel Welded Hollow Products (A-                      
 401-603)..........................................    12/07/90-11/30/91
SWEDEN: Stainless Steel Welded Hollow Products (A-                      
 401-603)..........................................    12/01/91-11/30/92
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    In accordance with sections 353.22(a) of the regulations, an 
interested party as defined by section 353.2(k) may request in writing 
that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. The interested 
party must specify for which individual producers or resellers covered 
by an antidumping finding or order it is requesting a review, and must 
state why it desires the Secretary to review those particular producers 
or resellers.
    Seven copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, Room B-099, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, 
D.C. 20230. The Department also asks parties to serve a copy of their 
requests to the Office of Antidumping Compliance, Attention: John 
Kugelman, in room 3065 of the main Commerce Building. Further, in 
accordance with section 353.3l(g), a copy of each request must be 
served on every party on the Department's service list.
    The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of 
``Initiation of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review,'' for requests 
received by July 31, 1995. If the Department does not receive, by July 
31, 1995, a request for review of entries covered by the order listed 
in this notice and for the period identified above, the Department will 
instruct Customs to assess antidumping duties on those entries at a 
rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated antidumping 
duties required on those entries at the time of entry, or withdrawal 
from warehouse, for consumption and to continue to collect the cash 
deposit previously ordered.
    This notice is not required by statute, but is published as a 
service to the international trading community.

    Dated: June 22, 1995.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Compliance.
[FR Doc. 95-16311 Filed 6-30-95; 8:45 am]
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