[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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