[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16966-16967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8974]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-427-812]


Calcium Aluminate Flux From France; Final Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administration Review, Revocation of 
Order, and Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review.

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed-circumstances antidumping 
duty administrative review, revocation of order, and rescission of 
antidumping duty administration review.

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SUMMARY: On February 9, 1998, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) initiated a changed circumstances antidumping duty 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on calcium 
aluminate flux (CA flux) from France, and issued the preliminary 
results of review with intent to revoke the order (63 FR 6524). We 
received one comment from the sole respondent, Lafarge Aluminates and 
Lafarge Calcium Aluminates, Inc. (Lafarge), regarding the preliminary 
results. We are now revoking the order on CA flux, based on fact than 
the domestic party, Lehigh Portland Cement (Lehigh), has expressed its 
lack of interest in the order on CA flux from France.
    On June 30, 1997, Lafarge requested an administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on calcium aluminate flux from France. On August 
1, 1997, the Department published in the Federal Register (62 FR 41339) 
a notice of initiation of this administrative review for the period 
June 1, 1996 through May 31, 1997. The Department is rescinding this 
review as a result of the Department's revocation of the order due to 
petitioner's expression of no interest in the order.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 7, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maureen McPhillips or Linda Ludwig, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement Group III, Office 8, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 
20230; telephone (202) 482-0193 or (202) 482-3833.

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 
regulations codified at 19 CFR Part 351, 62 FR 27296 (May 19, 1997).

Background

    On December 12, 1997, Lafarge, the respondent, requested that the 
Department conduct a changed circumstances administrative review to 
determine whether to revoke the antidumping duty order on CA flux from 
France. Subsequent to Lafarge's request for a changed circumstances 
administrative review, Lehigh, the petitioner and the sole U.S. 
producer of

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the subject merchandise during the less-than-fair value (LTFV) 
investigation, informed the Department that it had no interest in 
continuing the antidumping duty order on CA flux from France (see 
Memorandum to the File, January 28, 1998).
    We preliminarily determined that petitioner's affirmative statement 
of no interest constituted changed circumstances sufficient to warrant 
a revocation of this order. Consequently, on February 9, 1998, the 
Department published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of 
changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and 
consideration of revocation of the order (63 FR 6524). We gave 
interested parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results 
of this changed circumstances review. The respondent, Lafarge, 
contended that the requirements for revocation of the order had been 
met in this case and, therefore, the Department should issue a final 
determination revoking the antidumping duty order on CA flux from 
France. We received no other comments.

Scope of the Review

    Imports covered by this changed circumstances review are shipments 
of CA flux, other than white, high purity CA flux. This product 
contains by weight more than 32 percent but less than 65 percent 
alumina and more than one percent each of iron and silica.
    CA flux is currently classifiable under the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheading 2523.10.0000. The 
HTSUS subheading is provided for convenience and U.S. Customs' purposes 
only. The written description of the scope of this order remains 
dispositive.

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review; Revocation of Antidumping Duty Order; 
Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

    The affirmative statement of no interest by the petitioner, the 
only U.S. producer, in CA flux from France constitutes changed 
circumstances sufficient to warrant revocation of this order. 
Therefore, the Department is revoking the order on calcium aluminate 
flux from France, pursuant to sections 751(b) and (d), and section 
782(h) of the Act, as well as sections 351.216 and 351.222(g) of the 
Department's regulations. Because we are revoking the order, we are 
also rescinding the ongoing administrative review on CA flux from 
France pursuant to section 751(d)(3) of the Act. This review covers the 
period June 1, 1996 through May 31, 1997.
    The Department, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.222, will instruct 
the U.S. Customs Service (Customs) to proceed with liquidation, without 
regard to antidumping duties, of all unliquidated entries of CA flux 
from France, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on 
or after June 1, 1996, the date of suspension of liquidation for the 
1996-1997 administrative review. The Department will further instruct 
Customs to refund with interest any estimated duties collected with 
respect to unliquidated entries of CA flux entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after June 1, 1996, in accordance with 
section 778 of the Act.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d). Timely written notification of 
return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial 
protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the 
regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation. Timely 
written notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or 
conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested.
    This changed circumstances administrative review, 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 351.216(d) and 
351.222(g) of the Department's regulations. The rescission of the 1996-
1997 antidumping duty administrative review on CA flux from France is 
being rescinded in accordance with section 751(d)(3) of the Act.

    Dated: March 30, 1998.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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