[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 103 (Friday, May 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29370-29372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14273]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Requests for Revocations 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 revocations 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 April anniversary dates. In accordance with 
the Department's regulations, we are initiating those administrative 
reviews. The Department of Commerce also received a request to revoke 
one antidumping duty order in part.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 29, 1998.

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

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U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 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 April anniversary 
dates. The Department also received timely requests to revoke in part 
the antidumping duty order on Roller Chain, Other Than Bicycle from 
Japan:

Initiation of Reviews

    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 April 30, 1999.

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                                                         Period to be   
            Antidumping duty proceedings                   reviewed     
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GREECE: Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide:                                 
    A-484-801.......................................      4/1/97-3/31/98
        Tosoh Hellas A.I.C.                                             
        Eveready Battery Company (EBC)                                  
JAPAN: Roller Chain, Other Than Bicycle:                                
    A-588-028.......................................      4/1/97-3/31/98
        Daido Kogyo Co., Ltd.                                           
        Enuma Chain Mfg. Co. Ltd. HKK Chain Corp./                      
         Hitachi Metals Techno, Ltd.                                    
        Izumi Chain Mfg. Co.                                            
        Kaga Kogyo/Kaga Industries/KCM                                  
        Oriental Chain Manufacturing Co., Ltd.                          
        Pulton Chain Co., Inc.                                          
        RK Excel                                                        
        Sugiyama Chain Co., Ltd.                                        
        Tsubakimoto Chain Co., Ltd.                                     
NORWAY: Salmon:                                                         
    A-403-801.......................................      4/1/97-3/31/98
        Nornir Group A/S                                                
REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Televisions:                                         
    A-580-008.......................................      4/1/97-3/31/98
        Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.                                    
        LG Electronics Inc.                                             
        Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.                                   
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Brake Rotors:*                          
    A-570-846.......................................    10/10/96-3/31/98
        Yantai Import & Export Co.                                      
        Southwest Technical Import & Export Co.                         
        Yangtze Machinery Co.                                           
        MMB International, Inc.                                         
        Hebei Metals and Minerals Import & Export                       
         Co.                                                            
        Jilin Provincial Machinery & Equipment                          
         Import & Export Co.                                            
        Shandong Jiuyang Enterprise Co.                                 
        Longjing Walking Tractor Works Foreign Trade                    
         Import & Export Co.                                            
        Qingdao Metals, Minerals & Machinery Import                     
         & Exports Co.                                                  
        Shanxi Machinery and Equipment Import &                         
         Export Co.                                                     
        Xianghe Zichen Casting Co.                                      
        Yenhere Co.                                                     
        China Non Market Economy Entity                                 
        China National Automotive Industry Import &                     
         Export Co. (only as to merchandise produced                    
         by a firm other than Shandong Laizhou CAPCO                    
         Industry)                                                      
        Shandong Laizhou CAPCO Industry (only as to                     
         merchandise produced by a firm other than                      
         Shandong Laizhou CAPCO Industry)                               
        Shenyang Honbase Machinery Co. Ltd. (Only as                    
         to merchandise produced by a firm other                        
         than either Shenyang Honbase Machinery Co.                     
         Ltd. or Lai Zhou Luyuan Automobile Fitting                     
         Co., Ltd.                                                      
        Lai Zhou Luyuan Automobile Fitting Co., Ltd.                    
         (only as to merchandise produced by a firm                     
         other than either Shenyang Honbase                             
         Machinery Co., Ltd. or Lai Zhou Luyuan                         
         Automobile Fitting Co., Ltd.)                                  
        China National Machinery and Equipment                          
         Import & Export (Xinjiang) Corporation,                        
         Ltd. (only as to merchandise produced by a                     
         firm other than Zibo Botai Manufacturing                       
         Co., Ltd.)                                                     
        *If one of the named companies does not                         
         qualify for a separate rate, all other                         
         exports of brake rotors 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.                                          
TURKEY: Certain Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars:                        
    A-489-807.......................................   10.10.96-03/31/98
        Ekinciler Holding A.S./Ekinciler Demir Celik                    
         A.S.                                                           
        Ferromin International Trade Corp.                              
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 315.211 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 
29 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i).

    Dated: May 22, 1998.
Maria Harris Tildon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Import Administration.
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