[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 119 (Friday, June 20, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33587-33588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16244]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-580-815, A-580-816]


Notice of Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Reviews: Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products 
From Korea; Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from 
Korea

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

ACTION: Notice of amendment to final results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review.

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SUMMARY: On April 15, 1997, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the final results of its administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat 
products from Korea, and certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat 
products from Korea (62 FR 18404). The period of review (POR) is August 
1, 1994, through July 31, 1995. On April 23, 1997, Pohang Iron and 
Steel Co., Ltd. (POSCO) alleged, in a timely fashion, that the 
Department had made six ministerial errors with respect to the final 
results for POSCO and the companies collapsed with POSCO (Pohang Coated 
Steel Co., Ltd. (POCOS) and Pohang Steel Industries Co., Ltd. (PSI)), 
collectively referred to below as the POSCO Group. POSCO therefore 
requested that we amend the final results of the review as published on 
April 15, 1997. On April 30, 1997, petitioners asserted that none of 
the issues raised by POSCO in its April 23, 1997, submission 
constituted ministerial errors.
    The Department has determined that one of the alleged errors is in 
fact a ministerial error. We have corrected the error in question and 
recalculated the dumping margins for the POSCO Group. The margin for 
cold-rolled products has changed from 0.54 percent to 0.49 percent, and 
the margin for corrosion-resistant products remains at 0.09 percent.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 20, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Bezirganian or Alain Letort, AD/
CVD Enforcement Group III--Office 8, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone 
202/482-1395 (Bezirganian) or 202/482-4243 (Letort), fax 202/482-1388.

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 April 15, 1997, the Department published the final results of 
its administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain 
cold-rolled and corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from 
Korea, for the period August 1, 1994 through July 31, 1995 (62 FR 
18404). The reviews covered shipments of the merchandise from Korea by 
the POSCO Group that entered the United States during the period August 
1, 1994 through July 31, 1995.
    Subsequent to the publication of the final results, POSCO alleged, 
in a timely fashion, that the Department had made six ministerial 
errors with respect to the final results for the POSCO Group. POSCO 
therefore requested that we amend the final results of the review as 
published on April 15, 1997. Petitioners

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subsequently asserted that none of the alleged errors cited by POSCO 
constituted ministerial errors.
    Section 353.28(d) of the Department's regulations defines a 
``ministerial error'' as ``an error in addition, subtraction, or other 
arithmetic function, clerical error resulting from inaccurate copying, 
duplication, or the like, and any other type of unintentional error 
which the Secretary considers ministerial.'' 19 CFR Sec. 353.28(d). The 
first error that POSCO alleged was the Department's failure to reflect 
in its margin calculations the methodology explicitly stated in the 
final results with regard to the deduction from U.S. price of one-half 
of the POSTRADE markup. See the May 2, 1997, memorandum from Steve 
Bezirganian for John Kugelman. We agree with POSCO that this 
constituted a ministerial error as defined by 19 CFR Sec. 353.28(d), 
and have corrected the error in question.
    The Department has determined that the other five ministerial 
errors alleged by POSCO are not ministerial errors. See the May 2, 
1997, memorandum from Steve Bezirganian for John Kugelman. Therefore, 
we did not amend the final results on those five points.

Amended Final Results of Review

    As a result of the correction, we have determined that the 
following de minimis percentage weighted-average margins exist for the 
period August 1, 1994 through July 31, 1995:

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                                                              Weighted- 
                                                               average  
               Manufacturer/producer/exporter                   margin  
                                                              (percent) 
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             Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products             
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POSCO......................................................         0.49
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         Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products         
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POSCO......................................................         0.09
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    The Department shall determine, and the United States 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 for all shipments of the subject 
merchandise from Korea that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 
for consumption, on or after the date of publication of this notice, as 
provided by section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``the Act''): (1) The cash deposit rates for POSCO and the collapsed 
companies (POCOS and PSI) shall be zero percent; (2) for previously 
reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the cash deposit 
rate shall continue to be the company-specific rate published for the 
most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in these 
reviews, or the original investigations, but the manufacturer is, the 
cash deposit rate shall be that established for the most recent period 
for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) if neither the 
exporter nor the manufacturer is a firm covered in these or any 
previous reviews, the cash deposit rate will continue to be 14.44 
percent (for certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat products) and 17.70 
percent (for certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products), 
which were the ``all others'' rates in the LTFV investigations.
    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 final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility 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 also is the only reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR Sec. 353.34(d). Failure 
to comply is a violation of the APO.
    These amended final results of administrative review and notice are 
in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 
Sec. 1675(a)(1)) and 19 CFR Sec. 353.28(c).

    Dated: June 13, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 97-16244 Filed 6-19-97; 8:45 am]
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