[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10024-10025]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5403]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-583-508]


Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware From Taiwan: Final Results of 
Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and 
Revocation in Part of Antidumping Duty Order

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping 
duty administrative review, and revocation in part of antidumping duty 
order.

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SUMMARY: On January 10, 1997, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of a changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative 
review and preliminary results of review with intent to revoke, in 
part, the antidumping duty order on porcelain-on-steel (POS) cooking 
ware from Taiwan. We are now revoking this order in part, with regard 
to teakettles, based on the fact that domestic parties have expressed 
no interest in the importation or sale of teakettles imported from 
Taiwan.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 5, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy S. Wei or James Terpstra, Office 
of Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Enforcement, Office 4, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20230; telephone (202) 482-4737.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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 September 12, 1996, General Housewares Corporation (GHC) 
requested that the Department conduct a changed circumstances 
administrative review to determine whether to partially revoke the 
order with regard to imports of teakettles from Taiwan. In its request, 
GHC stated that it is the only U.S. producer of POS cooking ware and 
that, in the original petition, it requested that the scope of order 
include teakettles. GHC also stated that it no longer manufactures POS 
teakettles and has no further interest in the antidumping duty order 
with respect to teakettles.
    We preliminarily determined that petitioner's affirmative statement 
of no interest constituted changed circumstances sufficient to warrant 
a partial revocation of this order. Consequently, on January 10, 1997, 
the Department published a notice of initiation and preliminary results 
of changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and 
intent to revoke this order in part (62 FR 1434). We gave interested 
parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this 
changed circumstances review. We received no comments.

Scope of Review

    The products covered by this antidumping order are POS cooking 
ware, including teakettles, which do not have self-contained electric 
heating elements. All of the foregoing are constructed of steel and are 
enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses. Kitchenware is not subject to 
this order. See Antidumping Duty Order; Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware 
from Taiwan, 51 FR 43416 (December 2, 1986).
    The merchandise covered by this changed circumstances review are 
teakettles from Taiwan. Imports of teakettles are currently 
classifiable under the harmonized tariff schedule (HTS) subheading 
7323.94.00.10. The HTS subheading is provided for convenience and U.S. 
Customs purposes. Our written description of the scope of this 
proceeding is dispositive. The order with regard to imports of other 
POS cooking ware is not affected by this request. Thus, pursuant to the 
Department's determination to revoke in part the antidumping order on 
POS cooking ware from Taiwan with respect to teakettles, the scope of 
the antidumping order on POS cooking ware from Taiwan now reads as 
follows: The products covered by this antidumping duty order are POS 
cooking ware which do not have self-contained electric heating 
elements. All of the foregoing are constructed of steel and are 
enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses. Kitchenware and teakettles 
are not subject to this order.

Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty 
Order

    The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioner in POS 
cooking ware from Taiwan constitutes changed circumstances sufficient 
to warrant

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partial revocation of this order. Therefore, the Department is 
partially revoking the order on POS cooking ware from Taiwan with 
regard to teakettles, in accordance with sections 751 (b) and (d) and 
782(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act) and 19 CFR 
353.25(d)(1).
    The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service (Customs) to 
proceed with liquidation, without regard to antidumping duties, of all 
unliquidated entries of teakettles from Taiwan that are not subject to 
final results of administrative review. The Department will further 
instruct Customs to refund with interest any estimated duties collected 
with respect to unliquidated entries of teakettles from Taiwan that are 
not subject to final results of administrative review.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protection orders (APOs) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d). Timely written notification of 
the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial 
protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the 
regulations and terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    This changed circumstances administrative review, partial 
revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance 
with sections 751 (b) and (d) and 782(h) of the Act and sections 
353.22(f) and 353.25(d) of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: February 27, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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