[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 5, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34967-34968]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16465]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-122-814]


Pure Magnesium From Canada, Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of preliminary results of antidumping duty 
administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) has conducted an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on pure magnesium 
from Canada. Interested parties are invited to comment on these 
preliminary results.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 5, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron Trentham or Zev Primor, Office of 
Antidumping Compliance, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
3931 or 482-4114, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 31, 1992, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (57 FR 39399) the antidumping duty order on pure magnesium 
from Canada. On August 3, 1994, the Department published a notice of 
``Opportunity to Request Administrative Review'' (59 FR 39543). On 
August 23, 1994, the petitioner, the Magnesium Corporation 

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of America (Magcorp), requested that we conduct an administrative 
review of Norsk Hydro Canada Inc. (NHCI), for the period August 1, 
1993, through July 31, 1994. On August 31, 1994, NHCI, an interested 
party, requested that we conduct an administrative review for the same 
period. We published a notice of initiation of the antidumping 
administrative review on September 16, 1994.
    The Department has now conducted the administrative review in 
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Tariff Act).

Scope of the Review

    The product covered by this review is pure magnesium. Pure 
unwrought magnesium contains at least 99.8 percent magnesium by weight 
and is sold in various slab and ingot forms and sizes. Granular and 
secondary magnesium are excluded from the scope of this review. Pure 
magnesium is currently classified under subheading 8104.11.0000 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). HTS item numbers are provided for 
convenience and for Customs purposes. The written description remains 
dispositive.

Preliminary Results of Review

    The Department has preliminarily determined that the single 
manufacturer/exporter subject to review, NHCI, had no shipments of this 
merchandise to the United States during the period of review. The 
Department will verify this determination. Due to the need to verify 
information in the first administrative review, that review has not yet 
been completed, and, therefore, the Department has preliminarily 
assigned NHCI the cash deposit rate established in Pure Magnesium From 
Canada: Amendment of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value and Order in Accordance With Decision on Remand, 58 FR 62643, 
November 29, 1993. The rate is 21 percent.
    Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will be effective 
for all shipments of the subject merchandise, entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the 
final results of this administrative review, as provided for by section 
751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for the reviewed 
firm will be that firm's rate established in the final results of this 
administrative review; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated 
companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be 
the company-specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) if 
the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, or the original 
less-than-fair-value investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash 
deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent period 
for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate 
for all other manufacturers or exporters not previously reviewed will 
be 21 percent, the rate established in Pure Magnesium From Canada: 
Amendment of Final Determination of Sales At Less Than Fair Value and 
Order in Accordance With Decision on Remand, 58 FR 62643, November 29, 
1993.
    These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect 
until publication of the final results of the next administrative 
review.
    Interested parties may request disclosure within five days of the 
date of publication of this notice, and may request a hearing within 10 
days of the date of publication. Any hearing, if requested, will be 
held as early as convenient for the parties but not later than 44 days 
after the date of publication or the first workday thereafter. Case 
briefs or other written comments from interested parties may be 
submitted not later than 30 days after the date of publication of this 
notice. Rebuttal briefs and rebuttal comments, limited to issues raised 
in the case briefs, may be filed not later than 37 days after the date 
of publication. The Department will publish the final results of this 
administrative review, including its results of its analysis of issues 
raised in any such written comments.
    This notice serves as a preliminary 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 administrative review and notice are in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and 19CFR 
353.22.

    Dated: June 28, 1995.
Paul L. Joffe,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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