[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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