[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59739-59741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28762]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-588-837]


Large Newspaper Printing Presses and Components Thereof, Whether 
Assembled or Unassembled, From Japan: Preliminary Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Intent To 
Revoke Antidumping Order, In Part

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of preliminary results of changed circumstances and 
intent to revoke antidumping duty order, in part.

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SUMMARY: At the request of Goss Graphic Systems, Inc., the petitioner 
and a U.S. producer of the subject merchandise, the Department of 
Commerce is conducting a changed circumstances administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on large newspaper printing presses and 
components thereof, whether assembled or unassembled, from Japan to 
determine whether to revoke in part the order with respect to large 
newspaper printing presses and components thereof, whether assembled or 
unassembled. Goss states that it has no interest in maintaining the 
antidumping duty order on subject merchandise from Japan with respect 
to the specific category of large newspaper printing presses and 
components thereof, whether assembled or unassembled, identified in its 
request. We preliminarily determine to revoke the order, in part, with 
respect to these specific systems, as described below under ``Scope of 
Review.'' We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary 
results.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 3, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David J. Goldberger or Dinah 
McDougall, Office 2, AD/CVD Enforcement Group I, Import Administration, 
Room B099, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 
20230; telephone (202) 482-4136 or (202) 482-3773, 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 of Commerce's (``Department's'') 
regulations are to the regulations at 19 CFR Part 351 (1999).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 4, 1996, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (61 FR 46621) the antidumping duty order on large newspaper 
printing presses (``LNPP'') and components thereof, whether assembled 
or unassembled, from Japan. On May 28, 1999, Goss Graphic Systems, Inc. 
(``Goss'') requested that the Department conduct a changed 
circumstances administrative review to determine, pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.216(b), whether to revoke in part the antidumping duty order on 
LNPPs from Japan with regard to imports of the elements and components 
of LNPP systems, and additions thereto, imported to fulfill a contract 
for one or more complete LNPP systems, as described in detail below 
under ``Scope of Review.'' Goss states that it is no longer interested 
in maintaining the order as applied to the category of merchandise 
described in the request.
    KBA North America (``KBA''), a U.S. producer and an affiliate of 
the German respondent Koenig & Bauer-Albert AG in the German less-than-
fair-value (``LTFV'') investigation of LNPP from Germany, Tokyo Kikai 
Seisakusho, Ltd.

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(``TKS''), a respondent in the current administrative review of the 
order on LNPPs from Japan, and MAN Roland, Inc. (``MAN Roland''), a 
U.S. producer and an affiliate of the other respondent in the German 
LTFV investigation, MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, submitted comments in 
opposition to Goss' request, which they note, among other things, is 
limited to a very specific product covered by the antidumping duty 
order. KBA has also questioned Goss' claim that it represents 
``substantially all'' of the U.S. industry. Mitsubishi Heavy 
Industries, Ltd. (``MHI''), the other respondent in the current 
administrative review of the order on LNPPs from Japan, supports Goss' 
request.

Scope of Review

    The products covered by this changed circumstances review are 
elements and components of LNPP systems, and additions thereto, 
imported to fulfill a contract for one or more complete LNPP systems 
which feature a 22 inch cut-off, 50 inch web width and a rated speed no 
greater than 75,000 copies per hour. In addition to the specifications 
set out in this paragraph, all of which must be met in order for the 
product to fall within this changed circumstances review, the product 
must also possess all of the specifications detailed in the five (5) 
numbered sections following this paragraph and in any figures 
referenced below. If one or more of these criteria is not fulfilled, 
the product is not within the scope of this changed circumstances 
review:
    1. Printing Unit: A printing unit which is a color keyless blanket-
to-blanket tower unit with a fixed gain infeed and fixed gain outfeed, 
with a rated speed no greater than 75,000 copies per hour, which 
includes the following features:
     Each tower consisting of four levels, one or more of which 
must be populated.
     Plate cylinders which contain slot lock-ups and blanket 
cylinders which contain reel rod lock-ups both of which are of solid 
carbon steel with nickel plating and with bearers at both ends which 
are configured in-line with bearers of other cylinders.
     Keyless inking system which consists of a passive feed ink 
delivery system, an eight roller ink train, and a non-anilox and non-
porous metering roller.
     The dampener system which consists of a two nozzle per 
page spraybar and two roller dampener with one chrome drum and one form 
roller.
     The equipment contained in the color keyless ink delivery 
system is designed to achieve a constant, uniform feed of ink film 
across the cylinder without ink keys. This system requires use of 
keyless ink which accepts greater water content.
    2. Folder: A module which is a double 3:2 rotary folder with 160 
pages collect capability and double (over and under) delivery, with a 
cut-off length of 22 inches. The upper section consists of three-high 
double formers (total of 6) with six sets of nipping rollers.
    3. RTP: A component which is of the two-arm design with core drives 
and core brakes, designed for 50 inch diameter rolls; and arranged in 
the press line in the back-to-back configuration (left and right hand 
load pairs).
    4. Conveyance and Access Apparatus: Conveyance and access apparatus 
capable of manipulating a roll of paper more than two newspaper 
broadsheets across through the production process, and a drive system 
which is of conventional shafted design.
    5. Computerized Control System: A computerized control system, 
which is any computer equipment and/or software designed specifically 
to control, monitor, adjust, and coordinate the functions and 
operations of large newspaper printing presses or press components.
    The order with regard to imports of other LNPPs is not affected by 
this request.

Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

    Pursuant to section 751(d) of the Act, the Department may partially 
revoke an antidumping duty order based on a review under section 751(b) 
of the Act. Section 782(h)(2) of the Act and Sec. 351.222(g)(1)(i) of 
the Department's regulations provide that the Department may revoke an 
order (in whole or in part) if it determines that producers accounting 
for substantially all of the production of the domestic like product 
have no further interest in the order, in whole or in part. The 
Department interprets ``substantially all'' production to mean at least 
85 percent of production of the domestic like product (i.e., the 
merchandise produced in the United States that corresponds to the scope 
of the proceeding) (see, e.g., Preliminary Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review : Oil Country 
Tubular Goods From Mexico, 64 FR 14213-14214, March 24, 1999).
    In order to determine whether ``substantially all'' of the domestic 
producers supported revocation in part of the order, the Department 
requested domestic production information from Goss and KBA (MAN Roland 
did not identify any domestic production). Based on their responses, we 
have preliminarily determined that Goss represents at least 85 percent 
of the domestic production of the domestic like product and thus 
accounts for ``substantially all'' of the production of the domestic 
like product. This lack of interest by the domestic industry 
constitutes sufficient changed circumstances to warrant partial 
revocation of the order (see, e.g., Final Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Reviews, and 
Revocation of Orders in Part: Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon Steel Plate 
from Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom, 64 FR 46343, August 25, 
1999). The objections raised by other interested parties do not provide 
a basis for rejecting Goss' request. Therefore, the Department is 
notifying the public of its intent to revoke in part the antidumping 
duty order on LNPP from Japan with respect to the import of the 
elements and components of LNPP systems and additions thereto as 
described above.
    If final revocation in part occurs, we intend to instruct the U.S. 
Customs Service (Customs) to liquidate without regard to antidumping 
duties, and to refund any estimated antidumping duties collected for 
all entries, of the merchandise described above, made on or after 
September 4, 1996, as requested by the petitioner. Further, we intend 
to issue instructions to Customs requiring that a party importing the 
merchandise described above submit a certification to Customs 
certifying that the imported merchandise meets the specifications of 
the merchandise covered by the revocation in part. The current 
requirement for a cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties on LNPP 
from Japan with regard to the specified merchandise will continue 
unless and until we publish a final determination to revoke in part.

Public Comment

    Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary 
results. Parties who submit argument in this proceeding are requested 
to submit with the argument (1) a statement of the issue, and (2) a 
brief summary of the argument. Any interested party may request a 
hearing within 10 days of the date of publication of this notice. Any 
hearing, if requested, will be held no later than 25 days after the 
date of publication of this notice, or the first workday thereafter. 
Case briefs may be submitted by interested parties not later than 15 
days after the date of publication of this notice. Rebuttal

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briefs, limited to the issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed 
not later than 20 days after the date of publication of this notice. 
All written comments shall be submitted in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.303 and shall be served on all interested parties on the 
Department's service list in accordance with 19 CFR 351.303. Persons 
interested in attending the hearing should contact the Department for 
the date and time of the hearing. The Department will publish the final 
results of this changed circumstances review, including the results of 
its analysis of issues raised in any written comments.
    This notice is in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216 and 351.222.

    Dated: October 28, 1999.
Richard Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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