[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 24 (Thursday, February 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5929-5930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2894]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request administrative review of 
antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended 
investigation.

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BACKGROUND: Each year during the anniversary month of the publication 
of an antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension 
of investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 771(9) of 
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, may request, in accordance with 
Sec. 351.213 of the Department of Commerce (the Department) Regulations 
(19 CFR 351.213 (1997)), that the Department conduct an administrative 
review of that antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or 
suspended investigation.

OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST A REVIEW: Not later than the last day of 
February 1998, interested parties may request administrative review of 
the following orders, findings, or suspended investigations, with 
anniversary dates in February for the following periods:

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             Antidumping duty proceedings                    Period     
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AUSTRIA: Railway Track Maintenance Equipment                            
    A-433-064........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
BRAZIL: Stainless Steel Bar                                             
    A-351-825........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
CANADA: Racing Plates                                                   
    A-122-050........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
GERMANY: Sodium Thiosulfate                                             
    A-428-807........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
INDIA: Forged Stainless Steel Flanges                                   
    A-533-809........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
INDIA: Stainless Steel Bar                                              
    A-533-810........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
JAPAN: Benzyl Paraben                                                   
    A-588-816........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
JAPAN: Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings                                          
    A-588-602........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
JAPAN: Mechanical Transfer Presses                                      
    A-588-810........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
JAPAN: Melamine                                                         
    A-588-056........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
JAPAN: Stainless Steel Bar                                              
    A-588-833........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Business Telephone Systems                           
    A-580-803........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe                       
 Fittings                                                               
    A-580-813........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
TAIWAN: Forged Stainless Steel Flanges                                  
    A-583-821........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Axes/adzes                              
    A-570-803........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98

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THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Bars/wedges                             
    A-570-803........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Coumarin                                
    A-570-830........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Hammers/sledges                         
    A-570-803........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Paint Brushes                           
    A-570-501........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Picks/mattocks                          
    A-570-803........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Sodium Thiosulfate                      
    A-570-805........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
THE UNITED KINGDOM: Sodium Thiosulfate                                  
    A-412-805........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
Countervailing Duty Proceedings                                         
    NONE.............................................                   
Suspension Agreements                                                   
VENEZUELA: Cement                                                       
    A-307-803........................................     2/1/97-1/31/98
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    In accordance with Sec. 351.213 of the regulations, an interested 
party as defined by section 771(9) of the Act may request in writing 
that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. In recent 
revisions to its regulations, the Department changed its requirements 
for requesting reviews for countervailing duty orders. Pursuant to 
771(9) of the Act, an interested party must specify the individual 
producers or exporters covered by the order or suspension agreement for 
which they are requesting a review (Department of Commerce Regulations, 
62 FR 27295, 27424 (May 19, 1997)). Therefore, for both antidumping and 
countervailing duty reviews, the interested party must specify for 
which individual producers or exporters covered by an antidumping 
finding or an antidumping or countervailing duty order it is requesting 
a review, and the requesting party must state why it desires the 
Secretary to review those particular producers or exporters. If the 
interested party intends for the Secretary to review sales of 
merchandise by an exporter (or a producer if that producer also exports 
merchandise from other suppliers) which were produced in more than one 
country of origin and each country of origin is subject to a separate 
order, then the interested party must state specifically, on an order-
by-order basis, which exporter(s) the request is intended to cover.
    Seven copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, Room 1870, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230. The Department also asks 
parties to serve a copy of their requests to the Office of Antidumping/
Countervailing Enforcement, Attention: Sheila Forbes, in room 3065 of 
the main Commerce Building. Further, in accordance with 
Sec. 351.303(f)(1)(i) of the regulations, a copy of each request must 
be served on every party on the Department's service list.
    The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of 
``Initiation of Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing 
Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation'' for requests received 
by the last day of February 1998. If the Department does not receive, 
by the last day of February 1998, a request for review of entries 
covered by an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this 
notice and for the period identified above, the Department will 
instruct the Customs Service to assess antidumping or countervailing 
duties on those entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond 
for) estimated antidumping or countervailing duties required on those 
entries at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for 
consumption and to continue to collect the cash deposit previously 
ordered.
    This notice is not required by statute but is published as a 
service to the international trading community.

    Dated: January 28, 1998.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Group II Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-2894 Filed 2-4-98; 8:45 am]
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