[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 230 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61536-61538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29271]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-122-823]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Canada: Initiation 
and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, and Intent To Revoke Order in Part

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

ACTION: Notice of initiation and preliminary results of changed 
circumstances antidumping duty administrative review, and intent to 
revoke order in part.

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SUMMARY: In response to a request from Sidbec-Dosco Inc., (Sidbec-
Dosco) and Canberra Industries, Inc., (Canberra), the Department of 
Commerce (the Department) is initiating a changed circumstances 
antidumping duty administrative review and issuing a preliminary intent 
to revoke in part the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length 
carbon steel plate from Canada, the scope of which currently includes 
Cobalt 60 free cut-to-length carbon steel plate. See Antidumping Duty 
Orders: Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products and 
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Canada, 58 FR 44162 
(August 19, 1993). Sidbec-Dosco and Canberra requested that the 
Department revoke the order in part as to imports of cut-to-length 
carbon steel plate free of Cobalt-60 and other radioactive nuclides 
(Cobalt-60 free carbon steel plate) from Canada. Based on the fact that 
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Inland Steel Industries, Inc., and U.S. 
Steel Group, a unit of USX Corporation, (the petitioners) have 
expressed no interest 

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in the importation or sale of Cobalt-60 free cut-to-length carbon steel 
plate produced in Canada, we intend to partially revoke this order.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 30, 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-
5253.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 3, 1995, Sidbec-Dosco and Canberra requested that the 
Department conduct a changed circumstances administrative review to 
determine whether to partially revoke the order with regard to Cobalt 
60 free cut-to-length carbon steel plate. The order with regard to 
imports of other cut-to-length carbon steel plate is not affected by 
this request. In addition, on November 13, 1995, the petitioners 
informed the Department in writing that they do not object to the 
changed circumstances review and have no interest in the importation or 
sale of Cobalt 60 free cut-to-length carbon steel plate produced in 
Canada.

Scope of Review

    The antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel 
plate from Canada covers hot-rolled carbon steel universal mill plates 
(i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a closed box 
pass, of a width exceeding 150 millimeters but not exceeding 1,250 
millimeters and of a thickness of not less than 4 millimeters, not in 
coils and without patterns in relief), of rectangular shape, neither 
clad, plated nor coated with metal, whether or not painted, varnished, 
or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances; and certain 
hot-rolled carbon steel flat-rolled products in straight lengths, of 
rectangular shape, hot rolled, neither clad, plated, nor coated with 
metal, whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or 
other nonmetallic substances, 4.75 millimeters or more in thickness and 
of a width which exceeds 150 millimeters and measures at least twice 
the thickness, as currently classifiable in the HTS numbers 
7208.31.0000, 7208.32.0000, 7208.33.1000, 7208.33.5000, 7208.41.0000, 
7208.42.0000, 7208.43.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7210.90.9000, 
7211.11.0000, 7211.12.0000, 7211.21.0000, 7211.22.0045, 7211.90.0000, 
7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, and 7212.50.0000. Included in these 
investigations are flat-rolled products of nonrectangular cross-section 
where such cross-section is achieved subsequent to the rolling process 
(i.e., products which have been ``worked after rolling'')--for example, 
products which have been bevelled or rounded at the edges. Excluded 
from these investigations is grade X-70 plates. HTS item numbers are 
provided for convenience and for Customs purposes. The written 
description remains dispositive. The preceding description of the steel 
plate products covered by this order is included in Appendix 1 to the 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Cold-
Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products from Argentina, 58 FR 37062 (July 9, 
1993).
    The merchandise covered by this changed circumstances review 
includes cut-to-length carbon steel plate meeting the following 
criteria: (1) 100% dry steel plates, virgin steel, no scrap content 
(free of Cobalt-60 and other radioactive nuclides); (2) .290 inches 
maximum thickness, plus 0.0, minus .030 inches; (3) 48.00 inch wide, 
plus .05, minus 0.0 inches; (4) 10 foot lengths, plus 0.5, minus 0.0 
inches; (5) flatness, plus/minus 0.5 inch over 10 feet; (6) AISI 1006; 
(7) tension leveled; (8) pickled and oiled; and (9) carbon content, .03 
to.08 (max).
    This changed circumstance administrative review covers all 
manufacturers/exporters of Cobalt 60 free cut-to-length carbon steel 
plate from Canada.

Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review, and Intent To Revoke Order in Part

    Pursuant to section 751(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act), the Department may partially revoke an antidumping duty 
order based on a review under section 751(b) of the Act (i.e., a 
changed circumstances review). Section 751(b)(1) of the Act requires a 
changed circumstances administrative review to be conducted upon 
receipt of a request containing sufficient information concerning 
changed circumstances.
    The Department's regulations at 19 CFR 353.25(d)(2) permit the 
Department to conduct a changed circumstances administrative review 
under section 353.22(f) based upon an affirmative statement of no 
interest from the petitioner in the proceeding. Section 782(h) of the 
Act and Section 353.25(d)(1)(i) of the Department's regulations further 
provide that the Department may revoke an order or revoke an order in 
part if it determines that the order under review is no longer of 
interest to interested parties. In addition, in the event that the 
Department concludes that expedited action is warranted, section 
353.22(f)(4) of the regulations permits the Department to combine the 
notices of initiation and preliminary results.
    Therefore, in accordance with sections 751(d) and 782(h) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 353.25(d) and 353.22(f), based on an affirmative statement 
of no interest in the proceeding by petitioners, we are initiating this 
changed circumstances administrative review. Further, based on the 
representation made by the petitioners that other U.S. producers and 
potential producers of this merchandise have no interest in the order 
regarding Cobalt 60 free cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Canada, 
we have determined that expedited action is warranted, and we have 
preliminarily determined that there are changed circumstances 
sufficient to warrant revocation of the order regarding Cobalt 60 free 
cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Canada. Because we have concluded 
that expedited action is warranted, we are combining these notices of 
initiation and preliminary results. Therefore, we are hereby notifying 
the public of our intent to revoke in part the antidumping duty order 
as to imports of Cobalt 60 free cut-to-length carbon steel plate from 
Canada.
    If final revocation in part occurs, we intend to instruct the U.S. 
Customs Service (Customs) to liquidate without regard to antidumping 
duties and to refund any estimated antidumping duties collected for all 
unliquidated entries of Cobalt-60 free cut-to-length carbon steel plate 
from Canada made on or after the effective date of partial revocation, 
in accordance with 19 CFR 353.25(d)(5). We will also instruct Customs 
to refund interest for entries made on or after August 1, 1995, in 
accordance with section 778 of the Act. The current requirement for a 
cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties will continue until 
publication of the final results of this changed circumstances review.

Public Comment

    Parties to the proceeding may request disclosure within 5 days of 
the date of publication of this notice and any interested party may 
request a hearing within 10 days of publication. Any hearing, if 
requested, will be held no later than 28 days after the date of 
publication of this notice, or the first workday thereafter. Case 
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parties may be submitted not later than 14 days after the date of 
publication of this notice. Rebuttal briefs and rebuttals to written 
comments, limited to the issues raised in those comments, may be filed 
not later than 21 days after the date of publication of this notice. 
All written comments shall be submitted in accordance with 19 CFR 
353.31(e) and shall be served on all interested parties on the 
Department's service list in accordance with 19 CFR 353.31(g). Persons 
interested in attending the hearing should contact the Department for 
the date and time of the hearing. The Department will publish the final 
results of this changed circumstances review, including the results of 
its analysis of issues raised in any written comments.
    This notice is in accordance with sections 751 (b)(1) and (c) of 
the Act and section 353.22(a)(5), 353.22(f), and 353.25(d) of the 
Department's regulations.

    Dated: November 20, 1995.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 95-29271 Filed 11-29-95; 8:45 am]
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