[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 39 (Friday, February 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10002-10003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5178]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part

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

ACTION: Notice of initiation of antidumping and countervailing, duty 
administrative reviews and requests for revocation in part.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has received requests to conduct 
administrative reviews of various antidumping and countervailing duty 
orders and findings with January anniversary dates. In accordance with 
the Department's regulations, we are initiating those administrative 
reviews. The Department also received requests to revoke three 
antidumping duty orders in part.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Holly A. Kuga, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement, 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: 

Background

    The Department has received timely requests, in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.213(b)(1997), for administrative reviews of various antidumping 
and countervailing duty orders and findings with January anniversary 
dates. The Department also received timely requests to revoke in part 
the antidumping duty orders on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate 
and corrosion-resistant carbon steel plate from Canada, and elemental 
sulphur from Canada. The request for revocation in part with respect to 
certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate and corrosion-resistant carbon 
steel plate from Canada was inadvertently omitted from initiation 
notice (62 FR 50292, September 25, 1997), and the request for 
revocation in part with respect to elemental sulphur from Canada was 
inadvertently omitted from the previous initiation notice (63 FR 3702, 
January 26, 1998).

Initiation of Review

    In accordance with section 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we are 
initiating administrative reviews of the following antidumping and 
countervailing duty orders and findings. We intend to issue the final 
results of these reviews not later than January 31, 1999.

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                                                        Period to be    
                                                          reviewed      
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           Antidumping Duty Proceedings                                 
                                                                        
Canada: Brass Sheet & Strip A-122-601.............       1/1/97-12/31/97
    Wolverine Tube (Canada), Inc.                                       
France: Anhydrous Sodium Metasilicate (ASM) A-427-                      
 098..............................................       1/1/97-12/31/97
    Rhode-Poulene, S.A.                                                 
Republic of Korea: Welded Stainless Steel Pipe,* A-                     
 580-810..........................................       1/1/97-12/31/97
    SeAH Steel Corporation.                                             
                                                                        
  *Inadvertently omitted from previous notice.                          
                                                                        
The People's Republic of China: Potassium                               
 Permanganate,* A-570-001.........................       1/1/97-12/31/97

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    Guizhou Provincial Chemical I/E Corp.                               
    Zunyi Chemical Factory.                                             
                                                                        
  *If one of the above named companies does not                         
   qualify for a separate rate, all other                               
   exporters of potassium permanganate from the                         
   People's Republic of China who have not                              
   qualified for a separate rate are deemed to be                       
   covered by this review as part of the single                         
   PRC entity of which the named exporters are a                        
   part.                                                                
                                                                        
          Countervailing Duty Proceedings                               
                                                                        
None.                                                                   
                                                                        
               Suspension Agreements                                    
                                                                        
None.                                                                   
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    During any administrative review covering all or part of a period 
falling between the first and second or third and fourth anniversary of 
the publication of an antidumping duty order under section 351.211 or a 
determination under section 351.218(d) (sunset review), the Secretary, 
if requested by a domestic interested party within 30 days of the date 
of publication of the notice of initiation of the review, will 
determine whether antidumping duties have been absorbed by an exporter 
or producer subject to the review if the subject merchandise is sold in 
the United States through an importer that is affiliated with such 
exporter or producer. The request must include the name(s) of the 
exporter or producer for which the inquiry is requested.
    For transition orders defined in section 751(c)(6) of the Act, the 
Secretary will apply paragraph (j)(1) of this section to any 
administrative review initiated in 1996 or 1998 (19 CFR 351.213(j)(1-
2)).
    Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(b) 
and 355.34(b).
    These initiations and this notice are in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)), and 
19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i).

    Dated: February 20, 1998.
Louis Apple,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Group II, Import Administration.
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