[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 29 (Friday, February 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7167-7168]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3547]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-122-823]
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Canada: Final
Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative
Review, and Revocation of Order (in Part)
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping
duty administrative review, and revocation in part of antidumping duty
order.
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SUMMARY: On August 19, 1993, the Department of Commerce (the
Department) published an antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-
length carbon steel plate from Canada. On December 28, 1998, the
Department simultaneously initiated a changed circumstances antidumping
duty administrative review and issued the preliminary results of this
review expressing an intent to revoke the order in part. We are now
revoking this order in part, with regard to certain cut-to-length
carbon steel plate free of cobalt-60 and other radioactive nuclides,
based on the fact that domestic parties (petitioners in the underlying
proceeding 1) have expressed no interest in the importation
or sale of cobalt-60-free cut-to-length carbon steel plate produced in
Canada as described in the ``Scope of Review'' section below.
\1\ The petitioners are: Bethlehem Steel Corporation, U.S. Steel
Group (a unit of USX Corporation), Inland Steel Industries, Inc.,
Gulf States Steel Inc. of Alabama, Sharon Steel Corporation, Geneva
Steel, and Lukens Steel Company.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: February 12, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Hoadley (202-482-4106) or Maureen
Flannery (202-482-3020), Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20230.
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The 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 to the Tariff Act
of 1930 (the Act) by the Uruguay Rounds Agreements Act. In addition,
unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's
regulations are to the regulations as codified at 19 CFR Part 351
(April 1998).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In response to a request by Canberra Industries, Inc., (Canberra)
that the Department conduct a changed circumstances administrative
review to determine whether to revoke in part the order with regard to
certain cobalt-60-free cut-to-length carbon steel plate, on December 4,
1998, the petitioners informed the Department in writing that they did
not object to the changed circumstances review and had no interest in
the importation or sale of cobalt-60-free cut-to-length carbon steel
plate produced in Canada as described in the ``Scope of Review''
section below. The Department has previously revoked from the order a
similar cobalt-60-free cut-to-length carbon steel plate product, also
per Canberra's request. See, Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate
From Canada: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review, and Revocation in Part of Antidumping Duty Order
61 FR 7471 (Feb. 28, 1996).
We preliminarily determined that petitioners' affirmative statement
of no interest constitutes good cause for conducting a changed
circumstances review and for partially revoking the order.
Consequently, on January 6, 1999, the Department published a notice of
initiation, preliminary results of review, and intent to revoke order
in part (64 FR 846). This determination did not affect the order with
regard to other cut-to-length carbon steel plate. We gave interested
parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this
changed circumstances review. We received no comments.
Scope of Review
The merchandise covered by this changed circumstance review
includes cut-to-length carbon steel plate meeting the following
criteria: (1) 100% dry steel plates, virgin steel, no scrap content
(free of cobalt-60 and other radioactive nuclides); (2) .300 inches
maximum thickness, plus 0.0, minus .030 inches; (3) 48.00 inches wide,
minimum; (4) 20 foot lengths; (5) flatness, plus/minus 0.5 inches over
10 feet; (6) AISI 1006; (7) tension leveled; (8) pickled and oiled; and
(9) carbon content, .03 to .08 (max). This merchandise is currently
classified under subheading HTS 7208.52.0000. HTS numbers are provided
for convenience and customs purposes. The written description of the
scope of this review remains dispositive.
This changed circumstances administrative review covers all
manufacturers/exporters of cobalt-60-free cut-to-length carbon steel
plate from Canada.
Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty
Order
The petitioners' affirmative statement of no interest in this case
constitutes changed circumstances sufficient to warrant partial
revocation of this order. See 782(h) of the Act; 19 CFR
351.222(g)(1)(i). Therefore, the Department is partially revoking this
order on certain cobalt-60-free cut-to-length carbon steel plate from
Canada, described above, in accordance with section 751(b)(1) of the
Act.
The Department will, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.222(g)(4),
instruct the U.S. Customs Service to proceed with liquidation, without
regard to antidumping duties, of all unliquidated entries of cobalt-60-
free cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Canada with the
specifications described above not subject to final results of an
administrative review, and to refund with interest any estimated
antidumping duties collected with respect to such entries.
This changed circumstances administrative review, partial
revocation of the antidumping duty order, and notice are in accordance
with sections 751(b)(1) and 782(h) of the Act and sections 351.216,
351.221(c)(3), and 351.222(g) of the Department's regulations.
Dated: February 3, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-3547 Filed 2-11-99; 8:45 am]
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