[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 57218]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-28097]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of initiation of new shipper antidumping duty 
administrative review, Certain Compact Ductile Iron Waterworks Fittings 
and Glands (CDIW), from the People's Republic of China (PRC), A-570-
820.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received a 
request to conduct a new shipper administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on CDIW from the PRC which has a September 
anniversary date. In accordance with Department Regulations, we are 
initiating this administrative review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 14, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly A. Kuga, 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) 482-4737.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department has received a timely request from Beijing M Star 
Pipe Corp., Ltd. (BMSP), in accordance with interim regulation 19 CFR 
353.22(h) (1995), for a new shipper review of the antidumping duty 
order on CDIW from the PRC which has a September anniversary date. BMSP 
has certified that it did not export CDIW to the U.S. during the period 
of investigation (POI), and that it is not affiliated with any exporter 
or producer which did export CDIW during the POI. This certification is 
in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)) of the Tariff Act of 1930 as 
amended, and the Department's interim regulations, 19 CFR 353.22(h). 
Therefore, we are initiating the new shipper review as requested. 
However, it is the Department's usual practice with non-market 
economies to require information regarding de jure and de facto 
government control over a company's export activities to establish its 
eligibility for an antidumping duty rate separate from the country-wide 
rate. Accordingly we will issue a separate rates questionnaire to BMSP 
and seek additional information from the PRC government (as 
appropriate), allowing 30 days for response. If the responses from BMSP 
and the PRC government indicate adequately that BMSP is not subject to 
de jure and de facto government control with respect to its exports of 
CDIW, the review will proceed. If, on the other hand, BMSP does not 
demonstrate its eligibility for a separate rate, BMSP will be deemed to 
be affiliated with other companies that exported during the POI that 
did not establish their entitlement to a separate rate, and the review 
will be terminated.

Initiation of Review

    In accordance with 19 CFR 353.22(h), we are initiating a new 
shipper review of the antidumping duty order on CDIW from the PRC. If 
this review proceeds normally, we will issue the final results of 
review not later than July 31, 1996.

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                                                         Period to be   
            Antidumping duty proceeding                    reviewed     
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People's Republic of China: Certain Compact Ductile                     
 Iron Waterworks Fittings and Glands, A-570-820,                        
 Beijing M Star Pipe Corp., Ltd....................    02/01/95-08/31/95
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    We will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to allow, at the option 
of the importer, the posting, until the completion or termination of 
the review, of a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each 
entry of the merchandise in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iii) 
and 19 CFR 353.22 (h)(4) (1995).
    Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(b).
    This initiation and this notice are in accordance with section 
751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended and 19 CFR 
353.22(h).
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Compliance.
[FR Doc. 95-28097 Filed 11-13-95; 8:45 am]
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