[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 193 (Thursday, October 5, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 52155]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-24808]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-428-811]


Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon Steel Products From 
Germany; Termination of Anticircumvention Inquiry of Antidumping Duty 
Order

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

ACTION: Notice of termination of anticircumvention inquiry.

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SUMMARY: On August 31, 1995, Inland Steel Bar Company and USS Kobe 
Steel Company, petitioners in this proceeding, withdrew their petition, 
filed on August 23, 1994, in which they requested that the Department 
of Commerce (the Department) initiate an investigation to determine 
whether imports of certain leaded steel products are circumventing the 
antidumping order issued against certain hot-rolled lead and bismuth 
carbon steel products from Germany. The Department is now terminating 
this anticircumvention inquiry.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 5, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Blaskovich or Zev Primor, 
Office of Antidumping Compliance, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
5831/4114.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 23, 1994, pursuant to section 781(b) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended, (the Tariff Act) and 19 CFR 353.29 (b) and (f), the 
Department received a request from petitioners to investigate whether 
imports of certain leaded steel products from the Netherlands are 
circumventing the antidumping duty order issued against certain hot-
rolled lead and bismuth carbon steel products from Germany.
    Petitioners alleged that Thyssen AG, a German steel producer, is 
shipping leaded steel billets to its wholly-owned subsidiary Nedstaal 
BV (Nedstaal), located in the Netherlands, hot-rolling the billets into 
bars and rods and then exporting them from the Netherlands to the 
United States.
    On February 7, 1995, the Department published in the Federal 
Register a notice of initiation of the anticircumvention inquiry (60 FR 
7166). Subsequently, petitioners withdrew their anticircumvention 
petition on August 31, 1995. Because withdrawal by petitioners does not 
unfairly burden the Department or other interested parties, we have 
determined that it is reasonable to terminate this anticircumvention 
inquiry.

    Dated: September 28, 1995.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-24808 Filed 10-4-95; 8:45 am]
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