[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 151 (Thursday, August 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 42000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21062]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[(A-351-817)]


Certain Cut-to-length Carbon Steel Plate From Brazil; Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review; Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of rescission of antidumping duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: On September 25, 1997, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published in the Federal Register (62 FR 50292) a notice 
announcing the initiation of an administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate 
(Carbon Steel Plate) from Brazil. This administrative review covered 
two Brazilian manufacturers and exporters of plate, Usinas Siderurgica 
de Minas Gerais (``USIMINAS'') and Companhia Siderurgica Paulista 
(``COSIPA''), for the period of August 1, 1996 through July 31, 1997. 
This review has now been rescinded as a result of the absence of 
shipments and entries into the United States of subject merchandise 
during the period of review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 6, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Kramer or Linda Ludwig, Office 
of AD/CVD Enforcement, Group III, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-0405 
or 482-3833, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 29, 1997, Skadden, Arps, Slate, 
Meagher & Flom LLP, on behalf of petitioners in this proceeding, 
requested a review of sales made by USIMINAS and COSIPA. On September 
10, 1997, USIMINAS and COSIPA claimed, in a letter to the Department, 
``that they had no sales or entries of cut-to-length plate in the U.S. 
during the 1996/97 review period.'' The Department sent a no-shipment 
inquiry regarding USIMINAS and COSIPA to U.S. Customs on October 16, 
1997. Customs did not indicate that there were any such entries. In a 
letter to the Department dated January 7, 1998, petitioners asked the 
Department to investigate the accuracy of respondents' claim. U.S. 
Census Bureau import statistics and privately collected data indicated 
there may have been entries of subject merchandise during the period of 
review. On January 20 and 29, 1998, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, counsel 
for USIMINAS and COSIPA, provided documentation to support its claim 
that the merchandise in question was either not entered for consumption 
in the United States (i.e., was transshipped to third countries) or was 
outside the scope of the antidumping duty order. On February 11, 1998, 
counsel for petitioners argued that the documentation provided was 
incomplete and inconclusive. Accordingly, the Department asked the U.S. 
Customs Service (``Customs'') to conduct an inquiry to determine 
whether certain entries for consumption in the United States were 
properly classified as falling under the scope of the antidumping duty 
order. Customs conveyed the results of this inquiry to the Department 
on July 24, 1998, stating that all of the entries in question were of 
non-scope merchandise. The Department therefore concludes that USIMINAS 
and COSIPA made no shipments of the subject merchandise during the 
period of review. Accordingly, this administrative review is being 
rescinded in accordance with Section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act (19 
U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and section 351.213(d)(3) of the Department's 
regulations.

    Dated: July 28, 1998.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Enforcement Group III.
[FR Doc. 98-21062 Filed 8-5-98; 8:45 am]
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