[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 28 (Friday, February 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4956-4957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2909]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Opportunity to Request Administrative Review of 
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation.

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BACKGROUND: Each year during the anniversary month of the publication 
of an antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension 
of investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 771(9) of 
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, may request, in accordance with 
section 353.22 or 355.22 of the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
Regulations (19 CFR 353.22/355.22 (1993)), that the Department conduct 
an administrative review of that antidumping or countervailing duty 
order, finding, or suspended investigation.

OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST A REVIEW: Not later than February 29, 1996, 
interested parties may request administrative review of the following 
orders, findings, or suspended investigations, with anniversary dates 
in February for the following periods:

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                                                           Period       
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Antidumping duty proceedings:                                           
    Austria: Railway Track Maintenance Equipment,                       
     (A-433-063)..................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    Brazil: Stainless Steel Bar, (A-351-825)......     08/04/94-01/31/96
    Canada: Racing Plates, (A-122-050)............     02/01/95-01/31/96
    Germany: Sodium Thiosulfate, (A-428-807)......     02/01/95-01/31/96
    India: Forged Stainless Steel Flanges, (A-533-                      
     809).........................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    India: Stainless Steel Bar, (A-533-810).......     08/04/94-01/31/96
    Japan: Benzyl Paraben, (A-588-816)............     02/01/95-01/31/96
    Japan: Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings,                        
     (A-588-602)..................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    Japan: Melamine, (A-588-056)..................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    Japan: Mechanical Transfer Presses, (A-588-                         
     810).........................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    Japan: Stainless Steel Bar, (A-588-833).......     08/04/94-01/31/96
    Korea: Certain Small Business Telephone                             
     Systems and Subassemblies Thereof, (A-580-                         
     803).........................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    Korea: Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe                               
     Fittings, (A-580-813)........................     02/01/95-01/31/96

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    Taiwan: Forged Stainless Steel Flanges, (A-583-                     
     821).........................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    The People's Republic of China: Axes/Adzes, (A-                     
     570-803).....................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    The People's Republic of China: Bars/Wedges,                        
     (A-5570-803).................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    The People's Republic of China: Hammers/                            
     Sledges, (A-570-803).........................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    The People's Republic of China: Picks/                              
     Mattocks, (A-570-803)........................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    The People's Republic of China: Coumarin, (A-                       
     570-830).....................................     05/06/94-01/31/96
    The People's Republic of China: Natural                             
     Bristle Paint Brushes, (A-570-501)...........     02/01/95-01/31/96
    The People's Republic of China: Sodium                              
     Thiosulfate, (A-570-805).....................     02/01/95-01/31/96
    United Kingdom: Sodium Thiosulfate, (A-412-                         
     805).........................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
Suspension Agreements:                                                  
    Venezuela: Gray Portland Cement and Clinker,                        
     (A-307-803)..................................     02/01/95-01/31/96
Countervailing Duty Proceedings:                                        
    None..........................................                      
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    In accordance with sections 353.22(a) and 355.22(a) of the 
regulations, an interested party as defined by section 353.2(k) may 
request in writing that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. 
The Department has changed its requirements for requesting reviews for 
countervailing duty orders. Pursuant to 19 CFR 355.22(a) of the 
Department's Interim Regulations (60 FR 25137 (May 11, 1995)), an 
interested party must specify the individual producers or exporters 
covered by the order for which they are requesting a review. Therefore, 
for both antidumping and countervailing duty reviews, the interested 
party must specify for which individual producers or exporters covered 
by an antidumping finding or an antidumping or countervailing duty 
order it is requesting a review, and the requesting party must state 
why it desires the Secretary to review those particular producers or 
exporters. If the interested party intends for the Secretary to review 
sales of merchandise by an exporter (or a producer if that producer 
also exports merchandise from other suppliers) which were produced in 
more than one country of origin, and each country of origin is subject 
to a separate order, then the interested party must state specifically, 
on an order-by-order basis, which exporter(s) the request is intended 
to cover.
    Seven copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, Room B-099, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, 
D.C. 20230. The Department also asks parties to serve a copy of their 
requests to the Office of Antidumping Compliance, Attention: Pamela 
Woods, in room 3065 of the main Commerce Building. Further, in 
accordance with section 353.31(g) or 355.31(g) of the regulations, a 
copy of each request must be served on every party on the Department's 
service list.
    The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of 
``Initiation of Antidumping (Countervailing) Duty Administrative 
Review,'' for requests received by February 29, 1996. If the Department 
does not receive, by February 29, 1996, a request for review of entries 
coverd by an order or finding listed in this notice and for the period 
identified above, the Department will instruct the Customs Service to 
assess antidumping or countervailing duties on those entries at a rate 
equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated antidumping or 
countervailing duties required on those entries at the time of entry, 
or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption and to continue to 
collect the cash deposit previously ordered.
    This notice is not required by statute, but is published as a 
service to the international trading community.

    Dated: February 5, 1996.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Compliance.
[FR Doc. 96-2909 Filed 2-8-96; 8:45 am]
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