[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 26 (Friday, February 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 5800]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3102]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-201-802]


Gray Portland Cement and Clinker From Mexico; Amended Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review in Accordance With 
Court Decision

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

ACTION: Notice of amended final results of antidumping duty 
administrative review in accordance with court decision.

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SUMMARY: On August 1, 1996, the Court of Appeals for the Federal 
Circuit (the Federal Circuit) affirmed the July 12, 1995 decision of 
the Court of International Trade (CIT) in The Ad Hoc Committee of AZ-
NM-TX-FL Producers of Gray Portland Cement v. United States, Slip Op. 
95-125 (CIT 1995) (Ad Hoc). In its July 12, 1995 opinion, the CIT 
affirmed the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) results of 
redetermination pursuant to remand, and prior remand determinations of 
the Department, of the final results of the first administrative review 
of the antidumping duty order on gray portland cement and clinker from 
Mexico. The Federal Circuit's ruling represents a ``final and 
conclusive'' court decision ``not in harmony'' with the Department's 
original determination. As a result of these remand redeterminations, 
the Department found a dumping margin for respondent Cemex, S.A. de 
C.V. (Cemex) for the period April 12, 1990 through July 31, 1991 of 
61.42 percent.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 7, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert James or John Kugelman, Office 
Eight, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement Group III, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-5222.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 28, 1993, the Department published in the Federal Register 
the final results of its first administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on gray portland cement and clinker from Mexico (58 FR 25803 
(April 28, 1993)). In those final results the Department set forth its 
determination of the weighted-average margins for the two respondent 
companies for the period April 12, 1990 through July 31, 1991. 
Petitioners and Cemex subsequently filed separate complaints with the 
CIT challenging the final results; these complaints were later 
consolidated. Thereafter, the CIT published an Order and Opinion dated 
September 26, 1994 in Ad Hoc Committee v. United States, Ct. No. 93-05-
00273, Slip Op. 94-151, remanding the Department's final results with 
instructions to (1) consider CEMEX's claimed deductions for pre-sale 
home market transportation costs under the circumstances-of-sale (COS) 
provision of the Department's regulations, (2) apply a value-added-tax 
(VAT) adjustment consistent with the methodology established in 
Torrington Co. v. United States, 853 F. Supp. 446 (CIT 1994), (3) 
reclassify certain transactions designated as exporter's sales price 
transactions and reconsider the selection of best information available 
(BIA) for certain other sales, and (4) reconsider the selection of BIA 
data for missing added material costs. On January 5, 1995, the 
Department filed its remand results with the CIT. Cemex challenged 
certain aspects of the Department's remand results, including our 
treatment of VAT.
    On May 15, 1995, the CIT ordered a second remand which affirmed the 
Department's treatment of Cemex's pre-sale transportation expenses and 
its application of the so-called Torrington methodology for calculating 
VAT. The CIT, however, directed the Department to consider different 
VAT rates. Ad Hoc Committee v. United States, Slip Op. 95-91 (CIT May 
15, 1995). The Department filed its redetermination with the Court on 
June 13, 1995. The CIT, on July 12, 1995, affirmed the Department's 
remand results and issued a judgment that Cemex's January 25, 1995 
challenge on the issue of VAT methodology was untimely filed and, 
therefore, moot.
    Cemex appealed from the CIT's July 12, 1995 decision in Ad Hoc 
affirming the Department's redetermination. This appeal challenged the 
CIT's ruling that Cemex had waived its right in this case to challenge 
Commerce's application of the Torrington methodology for calculating 
VAT, and that Cemex's pre-sale transportation expenses were not 
deductible in the calculation of foreign market value. Consistent with 
the Federal Circuit's decision in Timken Company v. United States, 893 
F.2d 337 (Fed. Cir. 1990), on October 12, 1995, the Department 
published a ``Notice of Court Decision'' in the Federal Register which 
suspended liquidation of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption until there was a ``final and 
conclusive'' decision in this case (60 FR 53163).
    On August 1, 1996, the Federal Circuit issued its decision 
affirming the earlier rulings of the CIT (Appeal No. 95-1485, Fed. Cir. 
August 1, 1996). On October 17, 1996, the Federal Circuit issued its 
mandate. The Federal Circuit's ruling constitutes a ``final and 
conclusive'' decision in this case which is ``not in harmony'' with the 
Department's original determination. Accordingly, we have prepared 
these amended final results and will proceed to issue liquidation 
instructions to the Customs Service.

Amended Final Results of Review

    In its April 29, 1993 Final Results of Administrative Review, the 
Department calculated a weighted-average margin for Cemex for the 
period April 12, 1990 through July 31, 1991 of 30.74 percent. As a 
result of the Department's redeterminations on court remand, we have 
determined the weighted-average dumping margin for Cemex for the period 
April 12, 1990 through July 31, 1991 to be 61.42 percent. The 
Department will instruct the Customs Service to assess antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries, and will issue appraisement 
instructions accordingly. This notice is published in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and 19 CFR 
353.22(c)(8).

    Dated: January 31, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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