[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 164 (Wednesday, August 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46343-46344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22086]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-412-814, A-428-816, A-405-802, C-412-815, C-428-817]
Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Finland, Germany
and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Changed Circumstances
Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Reviews, and Revocation of
Orders in Part
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping
duty and countervailing duty reviews, and revocation of orders in part.
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SUMMARY: On May 12, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the Department)
received a request on behalf of Bethlehem Steel Corporation and U.S.
Steel Group--a unit of USX Corporation (Bethlehem & U.S. Steel),
petitioners in these cases, for changed circumstances antidumping (AD)
and countervailing duty (CVD) reviews and an intent to revoke in part
the AD and CVD orders with respect to specific cut-to-length carbon
steel plate from Germany and the United Kingdom and the AD order with
respect to specific cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Finland. A
telephone conversation on May 17, 1999, with counsel on behalf of all
other petitioners (Inland Steel Industries, Inc., LTV Steel Company,
Inc., National Steel Corporation, AK Steel Corporation, Gulf States
Steel Inc. of Alabama, Sharon Steel Corporation, and WCI Steel Inc.)
confirmed petitioners' lack of interest in the continuation of the AD
and CVD orders with respect to the subject merchandise defined in the
Scope of the Review section below (See Memorandum to the File).
Accordingly, on July 7, 1999, the Department published a notice of
initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews and
intent to revoke these orders in part (64 FR 36666). We gave interested
parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of these
changed circumstances reviews. No comments were received.
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 25, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Decker (AD reviews on Finland
and the United Kingdom), James Doyle or Becky Hagen (AD review on
Germany), Robert Copyak (CVD reviews on Germany and the United
Kingdom), Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,
Washington D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-0196, (202) 482-0159, (202)
482-1102, or (202) 482-2209, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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 (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise
indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to the
regulations at 19 CFR Part 351.
Background
On August 17, 1993, the Department published the CVD orders on
certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Germany and the United
Kingdom (58 FR 43756 and 43748, respectively). On August 19, 1993, the
Department published the AD orders on certain cut-to-length carbon
steel plate from Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom (58 FR 44165,
44170, and 44168, respectively).
On May 12, 1999, Bethlehem and U.S. Steel, petitioners, requested
partial revocation of the AD and CVD orders pursuant to section
751(d)(1) of the Act, with respect to specific carbon steel plate
imports from the United Kingdom, Germany and Finland described below.
Accordingly, on July 7, 1999, the Department published a notice of
initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews and
intent to revoke these orders in part (64 FR 36666). We gave interested
parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of these
changed circumstances reviews. No comments were received.
Scope of the Review
The products covered by these AD/CVD orders constitute one ``class
or kind'' of merchandise: certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate.
These products include hot-rolled carbon steel universal mill plates
(i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a closed box
pass, of a width exceeding 150 millimeters but not exceeding 1,250
millimeters and of a thickness of not less than 4 millimeters, not in
coils and without patterns in relief), of rectangular shape, neither
clad, plated nor coated with metal, whether or not painted, varnished,
or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances; and certain
hot-rolled carbon steel flat-rolled products in straight lengths, of
rectangular shape, hot rolled, neither clad, plated, nor coated with
metal, whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or
other nonmetallic substances, 4.75 millimeters or more in thickness and
of a width which exceeds 150 millimeters and measures at least twice
the thickness, as currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule (HTS) under item numbers 7208.40.3030, 7208.40.3060,
7208.51.0030, 7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 7208.52.0000, 7208.53.0000,
7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 7211.14.0030,
7211.14.0045, 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, and
7212.50.0000. Included are flat-rolled products of nonrectangular
cross-section where such cross-section is achieved subsequent to the
rolling process (i.e., products which have been ``worked after
rolling'') for example, products which have been beveled or rounded at
the edges. Excluded is grade X-70 plate. These HTS item numbers are
provided for convenience and Customs purposes. The written description
remains dispositive.
Merchandise covered by these changed circumstances reviews and
partial revocations are shipments of certain carbon cut-to-length steel
plate with a maximum thickness of 80 mm in steel grades BS 7191, 355 EM
and 355 EMZ, as amended by Sable Offshore Energy Project specification
XB MOO Y 15 0001, types 1 and 2.
Final Results of Changed Circumstances AD and CVD Reviews, and
Revocation of Orders in Part
In accordance with section 782(h) of the Act, the Department has
determined that substantially all of the domestic producers have no
further interest in maintaining these orders with respect to certain
cut-to-length carbon steel plate subject to these requests. This lack
of interest by domestic producers constitutes sufficient changed
circumstances to warrant partial revocation of these orders. Therefore,
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the Department is partially revoking these orders on cut-to-length
carbon steel plate with respect to the plate described above, in
accordance with sections 751(b) and 782(h) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.216(d). This partial revocation applies to all unliquidated entries
of carbon cut-to-length steel plate with a maximum thickness of 80 mm
in steel grades BS 7191, 355 EM and 355 EMZ, as amended by Sable
Offshore Energy Project specification XB MOO Y 15 0001, types 1 and 2
not covered by the final results of an administrative review.
The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to proceed
with liquidation, without regard to antidumping or countervailing
duties, of all unliquidated entries of cut-to-length carbon steel plate
subject to these requests, as described above, in accordance with
section 778 of the Act.
These changed circumstances administrative reviews, partial
revocations of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders and
notice are in accordance with sections 751(b) and 782(h) of the Act and
sections 351.216, 351.221(c)(3) and 351.222(g)(1)(i) of the
Department's regulations.
Dated: August 13, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-22086 Filed 8-24-99; 8:45 am]
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