[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 196 (Friday, October 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54440-54441]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27278]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request administrative review of 
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, finding, or suspended 
investigation.

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Background

    Each year during the anniversary month of the publication of an 
antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension of 
investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 771(9) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, may request, in accordance with 
Sec. 351.213 of the Department of Commerce (the Department) Regulations 
(19 CFR 351.213 (1997)), that the Department conduct an administrative 
review of that antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or 
suspended investigation.

Opportunity To Request a Review

    Not later than the last day of October 1998, interested parties may 
request administrative review of the following orders, findings, or 
suspended investigations, with anniversary dates in October for the 
following periods:

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                                                             Period
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             Antidumping Duty Proceedings
Italy: Pressure Sensitive Tape, A-475-059............    10/1/97-9/30/98
Japan:...............................................
    Steel Wire Rope, A-588-045.......................    10/1/97-9/30/98
    Tapered Roller Bearings, Over 4 Inches, A-588-604    10/1/97-9/30/98
    Tapered Roller Bearings, Over 4 Inches, A-588-054    10/1/97-9/30/98
    Vector Supercomputers, A-588-841.................   10/16/97-9/30/98
Malaysia: Extruded Rubber Thread, A-557-805..........    10/1/97-9/30/98
The People's Republic of China: Barium, Chloride, A-
 570-007.............................................    10/1/97-9/30/98
    Lock Washers, A-570-822..........................    10/1/97-9/30/98
    Shop Towels, A-570-003...........................    10/1/97-9/30/98
Yugoslavia: Industrial Nitrocellulose, A-479-801.....    10/1/97-9/30/98
           Countervailing Duty Proceedings
Argentina: Leather, C-357-803........................    1/1/97-12/31/97
Brazil: Certain Agriculture Tillage Tools, C-351-406.    1/1/97-12/31/97
Iran: Roasted In-Shell Pistachios, C-507-602.........    1/1/97-12/31/97
Sweden: Certain Carbon Steel Products, C-401-401.....    1/1/97-12/31/97
                Suspension Agreements
Kazakhstan: Uranium, A-834-802.......................    10/1/97-9/30/97
    Uranium, A-835-802...............................    10/1/97-9/30/97
Russia: Uranium, A-821-802...........................    10/1/97-9/30/97
Uzbekistan: Uranium, A-844-802.......................    10/1/97-9/30/97
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    In accordance with Sec. 351.213 of the regulations, an interested 
party as defined by section 771(9) of the Act may request in writing 
that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. In revisions to 
its regulations, the Department changed its requirements for requesting 
reviews of countervailing duty orders. Pursuant to 771(9) of the Act, 
an interested party must specify the individual producers or exporters 
covered by the order or suspension agreement for which they are 
requesting a review (Department of Commerce Regulations, 62 FR 27295, 
25494 (May 19, 1997)). Therefore, for both antidumping and 
countervailing duty reviews, the interested party must specify for 
which individual producers or exporters covered by an antidumping 
finding or an antidumping or countervailing duty order it is requesting 
a review, and the requesting party must state why it desires the 
Secretary to review those particular producers or exporters. If the 
interested party intends for the Secretary to review sales of 
merchandise by an exporter (or a producer if that producer also exports 
merchandise from other suppliers) which were produced in more than one 
country or origin and each country of origin is subject to a separate 
order, then the interested party much state specifically, on an order-
by-order basis, which exporter(s) the request is intended to cover.
    Seven copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, Room 1870, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. The Department also 
asks parties to serve a copy of their requests to the Office of 
Antidumping/Countervailing Enforcement, Attention: Sheila Forbes, in 
room 3065 of the main Commerce Building. Further, in accordance with 
Sec. 351.303(f)(i) of the regulations, a copy of each request must be 
served on every party on the Department's service list.
    The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of 
``Initiation of Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing 
Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation'' for requests received 
by the last day of October 1998. If the Department does not receive, by 
the last day of October 1998, a request for review of entries covered 
by an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this notice 
and for the period identified above, the Department will instruct the 
Customs Service to assess antidumping or countervailing duties on those 
entries at a rate equal to the cash

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deposit of (or bond for) estimated antidumping or countervailing duties 
required on those entries at the time of entry, or withdrawal from 
warehouse, for consumption and to continue to collect the cash deposit 
previously ordered.
    This notice is not required by statute but is published as a 
service to the international trading community.

    Dated: September 28, 1998.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-27278 Filed 10-8-98; 8:45 am]
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