[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 88 (Monday, May 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20230-20231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-11126]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-508-604]


Industrial Phosphoric Acid From Israel; Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of antidumping duty administrative 
review.

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SUMMARY: On February 8, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published the preliminary results of administrative review 
of the antidumping duty order on industrial phosphoric acid from Israel 
(61 FR 4766). The review covers one exporter, Haifa Chemicals, Ltd. 
(Haifa), and the period August 1, 1994 through July 31, 1995.
    We gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the 
preliminary results of review. Because the Department received no 
comments, these final results of review remain unchanged from the 
preliminary results of review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 6, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy S. Wei 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-
5253.

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act), by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise 
indicated, all citations to the Departments regulations are to the 
current regulations, as amended by the interim regulations published in 
the Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).

Background

    On August 25, 1995, FMC Corporation and Monsanto Company, two 
domestic producers of industrial phosphoric acid, requested an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on industrial 
phosphoric acid from Israel. On September 15, 1995, the Department 
published the initiation of its administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on industrial phosphoric acid from Israel, 
covering one exporter, Haifa, and the period August 1, 1994 through 
July 31, 1995 (60 FR 47930). On
    February 8, 1996, the Department published the preliminary results 
of review. In the preliminary results of review, the Department 
preliminarily determined that there were no shipments of the subject 
merchandise during the period of review and assigned Haifa the rate 
applicable to it from its most recent administrative review. The 
Department has now completed this administrative review in accordance 
with section 751 of the Act.

Scope of the Review

    Imports covered by the review are shipments of industrial 
phosphoric acid, classifiable under item number

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2809.20.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). HTS item numbers 
are provided for convenience and for Customs purposes. The written 
description remains dispositive.

Final Results of Review

    We gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the 
preliminary results. Because the Department received no comments, we 
have not changed the rate from the preliminary results. Accordingly, 
the following deposit requirement will be effective for all shipments 
of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the publication date of the final results of 
this administrative review, as provided for by section 751(a)(1) of the 
Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for Haifa will be 6.82 percent; (2) for 
previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the 
cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate 
published for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered in any review or the original less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 
investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate will be 
the rate established for the most recent period for the manufacturer of 
the merchandise; (4) for all other producers and/or exporters of this 
merchandise, the cash deposit rate shall be 1.77 percent, the all 
others rate from the LTFV investigation. These deposit requirements, 
when imposed, shall remain in effect until publication of the final 
results of the next administrative review.
    This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 353.26(b) to file a certificate regarding 
the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the 
relevant entries during these review periods. Failure to comply with 
this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    This administrative review and notice are in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675 (a)(1)) and 19 CFR 353.22.

    Dated: April 26, 1996.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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