[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 99 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 28355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-13803]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-570-846]


Brake Rotors From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of 
New Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has received a request to conduct a 
new shipper administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
brake rotors from the People's Republic of China. In accordance with 19 
CFR 351.214(d), we are initiating this administrative review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 22, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Smith or Sunkyu Kim, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230; telephone (202) 482-1766 or 482-2613, respectively.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (``the Act''), are references to the provisions 
effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to 
the Act by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless 
otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') regulations are to the provisions codified at 19 CFR part 
351 (62 FR 27295, May 19, 1997).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department has received a timely request from Yantai Chen Fu 
Machinery Co., Ltd., (``YCFM''), in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(d), 
for a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on brake rotors 
from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''), which has an April 
anniversary date. YCFM (``the respondent'') has certified that it did 
not export brake rotors to the United States during the period of 
investigation (``POI''), and that it is not affiliated with any 
exporter or producer which did export brake rotors during the POI.
    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, as amended, and 
19 CFR 351.214(b), and based on information on the record, we are 
initiating the new shipper review as requested.
    It is the Department's usual practice in cases involving non-market 
economies to require that a company seeking to establish eligibility 
for an antidumping duty rate separate from the country-wide rate 
provide de jure and de facto evidence of an absence of government 
control over the company's export activities. Accordingly we will issue 
a separate rates questionnaire to the above-named respondent, allowing 
30 days for response. If the response from the respondent provides 
sufficient indication that the YCFM is not subject to either de jure or 
de facto government control with respect to its exports of brake 
rotors, this review will proceed. If, on the other hand, YCFM does not 
demonstrate its eligibility for a separate rate, then YCFM will be 
deemed to be affiliated with other companies that exported during the 
POI and that did not establish entitlement to a separate rate, and this 
review will be terminated.

Initiation of Review

    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(d)(1), we are initiating a new shipper review of the 
antidumping duty order on brake rotors from the PRC. On May 11, 1998, 
YCFM agreed to waive the time limits in order that the Department, 
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(j)(3), may conduct this review concurrent 
with the first annual administrative review of this order for the 
period October 10, 1996-March 31, 1998, which is being conducted 
pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the Act. See, Antidumping Duties, 
Countervailing Duties; Final Rule, (62 FR 27295, 27395, May 19, 1997). 
Therefore, we intend to issue the final results of this review not 
later than 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month.

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                                                         Period to be   
            Antidumping duty  proceeding                   reviewed     
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PRC: Brake Rotors, A-570-846:                                           
  Yantai Chen Fu Machinery Co., Ltd................    10/10/96-03/31/98
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    We will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to allow, at the option 
of the importer, the posting, until the completion of the review, of a 
bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the 
merchandise exported by the above listed company. This action is in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(e) and (j)(3).
    Interested parties that need access to the proprietary information 
in this new shipper review should submit applications for disclosure 
under administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 
353.34(b).
    This initiation and this notice are in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 351.214(d).

    Dated: May 14, 1998.
Maria Harris Tildon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
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