[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 12 (Friday, January 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2655-2656]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1257]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-475-811]


Certain Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel from Italy: 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 July 11, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain grain-oriented electrical steel from 
Italy (61 FR 36551). The review covers one manufacturer/exporter of the 
subject merchandise to the United States and the period February 9, 
1994, through July 31, 1995. We gave interested parties an opportunity 
to comment on our preliminary results. No comments were received, and 
we have not changed the results from those presented in the preliminary 
results of review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 17, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Decker or Robin Gray, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Group III, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, D.C. 20230, telephone: (202) 482-
3793.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 11, 1996, the Department published in the Federal Register 
(61 FR 36551) the preliminary results of the administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on certain grain-oriented electrical steel 
from Italy (59 FR 41431, August 12, 1994). The Department has now 
completed this administrative review in accordance with section 751 of 
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Applicable Statute

    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).

Scope of the Review

    The product covered by this review is grain-oriented silicon 
electrical steel, which is a flat-rolled alloy steel product containing 
by weight at least 0.6 percent of silicon, not more than 0.08 percent 
of carbon, not more than 1.0 percent of aluminum, and no other element 
in an amount that would give the steel the characteristics of another 
alloy steel, of a thickness of no more than 0.560 millimeters, in coils 
of any width, or in straight lengths which are of a width measuring at 
least 10 times the thickness, as currently classifiable in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) under item 
numbers 7225.10.0030, 7225.30.7000, 7225.40.7000, 7225.50.8000, 
7225.90.0000, 7226.10.1030, 7226.10.5015, 7226.10.5056, 7226.91.7000, 
7226.91.8000, 7226.92.5000, 7226.92.7050, 7226.92.8050, 7226.99.0000, 
7228.30.8050, 7228.60.6000, and 7229.90.1000. Although the HTS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, our 
written descriptions of the scope of these proceedings are dispositive.
    This review covers one manufacturer/exporter of grain-oriented 
electrical steel, Acciai Speciali Terni S.p.A. (``AST''), and the 
period February 9, 1994, through July 31, 1995.

Final Results of Review

    As a result of this review, we have determined that the following 
margin exists for the period February 9, 1994, through July 31, 1995:

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                                                                 Margin 
                    Manufacturer/exporter                      (percent)
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Acciai Speciali Terni S.p.A..................................     60.79 
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    The Department shall determine, and the U.S. Customs Service shall 
assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. The Department 
shall issue appraisement instructions directly to the Customs Service.
    Furthermore, the following deposit requirements shall be effective, 
upon publication of this notice of final results of administrative 
review, for all shipments of the subject merchandise from Italy that 
are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
the publication date, as provided for by section 751(a)(1) of the 
Tariff Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for AST will be the rate 
established above; (2) for previously investigated companies not listed 
above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific 
rate published for

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the most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in 
this review, or the original 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; and (4) the cash 
deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters of this 
merchandise will continue to be 60.79 percent, the all others rate 
established in the final results of the less than fair value 
investigation (59 FR 41431, August 12, 1994).
    The deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect 
until publication of the final results of the next administrative 
review.
    This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 353.26 to file a certificate regarding the 
reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the 
relevant entries during this review period. 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 notice serves as the only reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d). Timely written notification of 
return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial 
protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the 
regulation and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.

    This administrative review and notice are in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 353.22.

    Dated: January 7, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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