[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51292-51293]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24709]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-428-815, C-428-817]


Notice of Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
and Countervailing Duty Reviews and Revocation of Orders in Part: 
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From Germany

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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EFFECTIVE DATE: September 22, 1999.

SUMMARY: On June 11, 1999, the U.S. Department of Commerce (the 
Department) received a request on behalf of Bethlehem Steel 
Corporation, Ispat Inland Steel, LTV Steel Company, Inc., National 
Steel Corporation, and U.S. Steel Group, a unit of USX Corporation, 
petitioners in the above mentioned cases, for changed circumstances 
antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) reviews for the purpose 
of revoking, in part, the AD and CVD orders with respect to specific 
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany. 
Petitioners' letter confirmed a 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.
    Accordingly, on August 2, 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 41916). We gave 
interested parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results 
of these changed circumstances reviews. No comments were received.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Chaves (202-482-0414) or Linda 
Ludwig (202-482-3833), Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement 
Group III, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington DC 20230.

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 (April 1998).

Background

    On August 17, 1993, the Department published the CVD order on 
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany (58 
FR 43756). On August 19, 1993, the Department published the AD order on 
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany (58 
FR 44170).
    On June 11, 1999, petitioners requested partial revocation of the 
AD and CVD orders with respect to specific corrosion-resistant carbon 
steel flat products from Germany described below pursuant to section 
751(b)(1) of the Act and Sec. 351.222(g) of the Department's 
regulations. On August 2, 1999, the Department published a notice of 
initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews and 
intent to revoke these orders in part. We gave interested parties an 
opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of these changed 
circumstances reviews. No comments were received.

Scope of the Reviews

    The corrosion-resistant steel products covered by these AD/CVC 
orders include flat-rolled carbon steel products, of rectangular shape, 
either clad, plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant metals such as 
zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-based alloys, 
whether or not corrugated or painted, varnished or coated with plastics 
or other nonmetallic substances in addition to the metallic coating, in 
coils (whether or not in successively superimposed layers) and of a 
width of 0.5 inch or greater, or in straight lengths which, if of a 
thickness less than 4.75 millimeters, are of a width of 0.5 inch or 
greater and which measures at least 10 times the thickness or if of a 
thickness of 4.75 millimeters or more are of a width which exceeds 150 
millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness, as currently 
classifiable in the HTS under item numbers 7210.31.0000, 7210.39.0000, 
7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030, 7210.49.0090, 7210.60.0000, 7210.70.6030, 
7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 7210.90.1000, 7210.90.6000, 7210.90.9000, 
7212.21.0000, 7212.29.0000, 7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090, 7212.30.3000, 
7212.30.5000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000, 7212.60.0000, 
7215.90.1000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.12.1000, 7217.13.1000, 7217.19.1000, 
7217.19.5000, 7217.22.5000, 7217.23.5000, 7217.29.1000, 7217.29.5000, 
7217.32.5000, 7217.33.5000, 7217.39.1000, and 7217.39.5000. Although 
the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and Customs 
purposes, the written description of the merchandise under review is 
dispositive.
    Included in these orders 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 bevelled or rounded 
at the edges. Excluded from these orders are flat-rolled steel products 
either plated or coated with tin, lead, chromium, chromium oxides, both 
tin and lead (``terne plate''), or both chromium and chromium oxides 
(``tin-free steel''), whether or not painted, varnished or coated with 
plastics or other nonmetallic substances in addition to the metallic 
coating. Also excluded are clad products in straight lengths of 0.1875 
inch or more in composite thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 
millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness, and certain clad 
stainless flat-rolled products, which are three-layered corrosion-
resistant carbon steel flat-rolled products less than 4.75 millimeters 
in composite thickness that consist of a carbon steel flat-rolled 
product clad on both sides with stainless steel in a 20%-60%-20% ratio.
    Merchandise covered by these changed circumstances reviews and 
partial revocations are shipments of certain corrosion-resistant carbon 
steel flat products that are deep-drawing carbon steel strip, roll-clad 
on both sides with aluminum (AlSi) foils in accordance with St3 LG as 
to EN 10139/10140. The merchandise's chemical composition encompasses a 
core material of U St 23 (continuous casting) in which carbon is less 
than 0.08; manganese is less than 0.30; phosphorous is less than 0.20; 
sulfur is less than 0.015; aluminum is less than 0.01; and the cladding 
material is a minimum of 99% aluminum with silicon/copper/iron of less 
than 1%. The products are in strips with thicknesses of 0.07mm to 4.0mm 
(inclusive) and widths of 5mm to 800mm (inclusive). The thickness ratio 
of aluminum on either side of steel may range from 3%/94%/3% to 10%/
80%/10%.

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Final Results of Changed Circumstances AD and CVD Reviews, and 
Revocation of Orders in Part

    Based on the affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners, 
combined with the lack of comments from interested parties, the 
Department has determined that substantially all of the domestic 
producers have no further interest in maintaining these orders with 
respect to certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products, 
described above, in accordance with section 782(h) of the Act. This 
lack of interest by domestic producers constitutes changed 
circumstances sufficient to warrant partial revocation of these orders. 
Therefore, the Department is partially revoking these orders on certain 
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products with respect to deep-
drawing carbon steel strip, roll-clad on both sides with aluminum 
(AlSi) foils in accordance with St3 LG as to EN 10139/10140, as 
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 certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat 
products described above that are 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 deep-drawing carbon steel strip, 
roll-clad on both sides with aluminum (AlSi) foils in accordance with 
St3 LG as to EN 10139/10140, as described above, as provided under 
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 
Secs.  351.216, 351.221(c)(3) and 351.222(g)(1)(i) of the Department's 
regulations.

    Dated: September 14, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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