[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 131 (Monday, July 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35550-35551]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16839]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-821-807]


Notice of Antidumping Order: Ferrovanadium and Nitrided Vanadium 
From the Russian Federation

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 10, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David J. Goldberger or Louis Apple, 
Office of Antidumping Investigations, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC, 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-4136 or (202) 482-1769, respectively.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute and to the 
Department of Commerce (the Department) regulations are in reference to 
the provisions as they existed on December 31, 1994.

Scope of Order

    The products covered by this order are ferrovanadium and nitrided 
vanadium, regardless of grade, chemistry, form or size, unless 
expressly excluded from the scope of this order. Ferrovanadium includes 
alloys containing ferrovanadium as the predominant element by weight 
(i.e., more weight than any other element, except iron in some 
instances) and at least 4 percent by weight of iron. Nitrided vanadium 
includes compounds containing vanadium as the predominant element, by 
weight, and at least 5 percent, by weight, of nitrogen. Excluded from 
the scope of this order are vanadium additives other than 

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ferrovanadium and nitrided vanadium, such as vanadium-aluminum master 
alloys, vanadium chemicals, vanadium waste and scrap, vanadium-bearing 
raw materials, such as slag, boiler residues, fly ash, and vanadium 
oxides.
    The products subject to this order are currently classifiable under 
subheadings 2850.00.20, 7202.92.00, 7202.99.5040, 8112.40.3000, and 
8112.40.6000 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 is 
dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

    In accordance with sections 735(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act''), the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
made its final determination that ferrovanadium and nitrided vanadium 
from the Russian Federation (``Russia'') is being sold at less than 
fair value (60 FR 27957, May 26, 1995). On July 3, 1995, the 
International Trade Commission (ITC) notified the Department of its 
final determination, 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 from Russia.
    Therefore, all unliquidated entries of ferrovanadium and nitrided 
vanadium from Russia that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after January 4, 1995, the date of publication of the 
Department's preliminary determination (60 FR 438), 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 exceeds the United States price for all 
relevant entries of ferrovanadium and nitrided vanadium from Russia. 
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 ad valorem weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                               Weighted-
               Manufacturer/Producer/Exporter                   Average 
                                                                Margin  
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Galt Alloys, Inc............................................        3.75
Gesellschaft far Elektrometallurgie m.b.H. (and its related             
 companies Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corporation, and                   
 Metallurg, Inc.)...........................................       11.72
Odermet.....................................................       10.10
Russia-wide Rate............................................      108.00
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    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to 
ferrovanadium and nitrided vanadium from Russia. Interested parties may 
contact the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the Main Commerce 
Building, for copies of an updated list of antidumping duty orders 
currently in effect.
    This order is published in accordance with section 736(a) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 353.21.

    Dated: July 3, 1995.
Barbara R. Stafford,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-16839 Filed 7-7-95; 8:45 am]
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