[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 193 (Thursday, October 3, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51682-51683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25410]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[C-423-806]


Certain Carbon Steel Products From Belgium: Notice of Decision of 
the Court of International Trade

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

SUMMARY: On August 27, 1996, the United States Court of International 
Trade (CIT) affirmed the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) 
results of redetermination on remand of the final countervailing duty 
determinations on certain steel products from Belgium. Geneva Steel, et 
al. v. United States, Slip Op. 96-147 (CIT Aug. 27, 1996) (``Geneva 
II''). Consistent with the decision of the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) in Timken Co. v. 
United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (``Timken''), the 
Department is notifying the public that Geneva II and the CIT's earlier 
opinion in this case, discussed below, were ``not in harmony'' with the 
Department's original determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 3, 1996.


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Vincent Kane at (202) 482-2815, Office of Antidumping/Countervailing 
Duty Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230, or Duane Layton at 
(202) 482-5285, Office of the Chief Counsel for the Import 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 9, 1993, the Department published its final countervailing 
duty determinations on certain steel products from Belgium. Final 
Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determinations: Certain Steel Products 
From Belgium, 58 FR 37273 (July 9, 1993). On August 17, 1993, the 
Department published its amendment to the final countervailing duty 
determinations. Countervailing Duty Order and Amendment: Certain Steel 
Products from Belgium, 58 FR 43749 (Aug. 17, 1993).
    Subsequent to the Department's determinations, petitioners and one 
of the investigated companies filed lawsuits with the CIT challenging 
these determinations. Thereafter, the CIT issued an Order and Opinion 
dated January 3, 1996, in Geneva Steel, et al. v. United States, 914 F. 
Supp. 563 (CIT 1996), (``Geneva I''), remanding six issues to the 
Department. The Department filed its remand results on May 10, 1995. 
Petitioners challenged one aspect of the Department's redetermination 
on remand. On August 27, 1996, the CIT affirmed the Department's final 
results of redetermination on remand in Geneva II.

Timken Notice

    In its decision in Timken, the Federal Circuit held that, pursuant 
to 19 U.S.C. 1516a(e), the Department must publish notice of a decision 
of the CIT or Federal Circuit which is ``not in harmony'' with the 
Department's determination. The CIT's decisions in Geneva I and Geneva 
II were not in harmony with the Department's original countervailing 
duty determinations. Therefore, publication of this notice fulfills the 
obligation imposed upon the Department by the decision in Timken. If 
these decisions are not appealed, or if appealed, if they are upheld, 
the Department will publish amended final countervailing duty 
determinations.

    Dated: September 25, 1996.
Barbara R. Stafford,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-25410 Filed 10-2-96; 8:45 am]
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