[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 59 (Monday, March 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14862-14863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7521]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-588-824]


Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From 
Japan: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, and Revocation in Part of Antidumping Duty Order

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 February 2, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published a notice of initiation of a changed circumstances 
antidumping duty administrative review and preliminary results of 
review with intent to revoke, in part, the antidumping duty order on 
certain corrosion resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. We 
are now revoking this order in part, with respect to corrosion-
resistant steel flat products with certain dimensions and coatings as 
discussed below, based on the fact that domestic parties have expressed 
no interest in the importation or sale of this product, imported from 
Japan.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 29, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doreen Chen or Rick Johnson, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0408, (202) 482-3818, respectively.

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 made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the 
Uruguay Round 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

    On December 11, 1998, Uchiyama requested that the Department revoke 
in part the antidumping duty order on certain corrosion-resistant 
carbon steel flat products from Japan. Specifically, Uchiyama requested 
that the Department revoke the order with respect to imports of subject 
merchandise meeting all of the following criteria: (1) Widths ranging 
from 10 millimeters (0.394 inches) through 100 millimeters (3.94 
inches); (2) thicknesses, including coatings, ranging from 0.11 
millimeters (0.004 inches) through 0.60 millimeters (0.024 inches); and 
(3) a coating that is from 0.003 millimeters (0.00012 inches) through 
0.005 millimeters (0.000196 inches) in thickness and that is comprised 
of either two evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of 99% 
zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum, followed by a layer consisting 
of chromate, or three evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting 
of 99% zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum followed by a layer 
consisting of chromate, and finally a layer consisting of silicate. 
Uchiyama, a domestic manufacturer of rubber seals and metal inserts for 
ball bearings, is an importer of the products in question. The order 
with regard to imports of other types of corrosion resistant carbon 
steel flat products is not affected by this request.
    On January 19, 1999, Inland Steel Industries, Inc. (Inland), LTV 
Steel Company (LTV), National Steel Corporation (National), and U.S. 
Steel Group, A Unit of USX Corporation (U.S. Steel), domestic 
interested parties in this case, submitted a letter indicating that 
they have no objection to the initiation of this changed circumstances 
review and no interest in maintaining the antidumping duty order on 
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan with respect 
to products meeting the specifications indicated above. We 
preliminarily determined that domestic producers' affirmative statement 
of no interest constituted changed circumstances sufficient to warrant 
a partial revocation of this order. Consequently, on February 2, 1999, 
the Department published a notice of initiation and preliminary results 
of changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and 
intent to revoke this order in part (64 FR 5024). We gave interested 
parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this 
changed circumstances review. We received no comments from interested 
parties.

Scope of Changed Circumstances Review

    The merchandise covered by this changed circumstances review is 
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. This 
changed circumstances administrative review covers all manufacturers/
exporters of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products 
meeting the following specifications: (1) widths ranging from 10 
millimeters (0.394 inches) through 100 millimeters (3.94 inches); (2) 
thicknesses, including coatings, ranging from 0.11 millimeters (0.004 
inches) through 0.60 millimeters (0.024 inches); and (3) a coating that 
is from 0.003 millimeters (0.00012 inches) through 0.005 millimeters 
(0.000196 inches) in thickness and that is comprised of either two 
evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of 99% zinc, 0.5% 
cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum, followed by a layer consisting of 
chromate, or three evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of 
99% zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum followed by a layer 
consisting of chromate, and finally a layer consisting of silicate.

Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty 
Order

    The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners in certain 
corrosion resistant carbon steel flat products, as described above, 
produced in Japan, constitutes changed circumstances sufficient to 
warrant partial revocation of this order. Therefore, the Department is 
partially revoking the order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon 
steel flat products from Japan with regard to products which

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meet the specifications detailed above, in accordance with sections 751 
(b) and (d) and 782(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d)(1). This 
partial revocation applies to all entries of the subject merchandise 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the 
date of this publication of final results.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protection orders (APOs) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d)(1997). Timely written 
notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion 
to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply 
with the regulations and terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    This changed circumstances administrative review, partial 
revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance 
with sections 751 (b) and (d) and 782(h) of the Act and sections 
351.216 and 351.222(g) of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: March 19, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-7521 Filed 3-26-99; 8:45 am]
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