[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62168-62169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29909]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
(A-570-007)


Barium Chloride From the People's Republic of China; Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of the antidumping duty administrative 
review of Barium Chloride from the People's Republic of China.

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SUMMARY: On July 12, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the preliminary results of its administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on barium chloride from the People's Republic of 
China (PRC) covering the period October 1, 1997 through September 30, 
1998. This review covers the following Chinese manufacturers/exporters 
of the subject merchandise: Hebei Xinji Chemical Plant (Hebei); Hengnan 
Chemical Factory (Hengnan); Kunghan Chemical Factory (Kunghan); Linshu 
Chemical Factory (Linshu); Qingdao Red Star Chemical Group Co. (Red 
Star); Sichuan Emeishan Salt Chemical Industry Group Company, Ltd. 
(Sichuan); Sinochem (U.S.A.) (Sinochem); Tangshan Chemical Factory 
(Tangshan); Tianjin Chemical Industry Corporation (Tianjin); Tianjin 
Bohai Chemical United Import/Export Company (Tianjin Bohai); and 
Zhangjiaba Salt Chemical Plant (Zhangjiaba). We gave interested parties 
an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of review but 
received no comments. Therefore, these final results of review have not 
changed from those presented in the preliminary results of review, in 
which we applied total adverse facts available.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 16, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nova J. Daly or Thomas Futtner, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Group II, Office Four, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone 
(202) 482-0989, and 482-3814, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act), are references to the provisions as of 
January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to 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 (1998).

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Scope of the Review

    The imports covered by this review are shipments of barium 
chloride, a chemical compound having the formulas BaCl2 or BaCl2-2H2O, 
currently classifiable under item number 2827.38.00 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule (HTS). Although the HTS item number is provided for 
convenience and for Customs purposes, the written description remains 
dispositive.

Background

    On July 12, 1999, we published in the Federal Register (64 FR 
37498) the preliminary results of the review of this order. We gave 
interested parties an opportunity to comment on our preliminary 
results. We received no comments. In the preliminary results, we 
determined that it was appropriate to use, as adverse facts available 
for the PRC-wide rate, the highest rate from this or previous segments 
of the proceeding. We selected Sinochem's rate of 60.84 percent from 
Barium Chloride From the People's Republic of China; Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 57 FR 29467 (July 2, 1992). The 
Department has now completed the administrative review in accordance 
with section 751 of the Act.

Final Results of Review

    Because we received no comments from interested parties, we have 
determined that no changes to the preliminary results are warranted for 
purposes of these final results. The weighted-average dumping margin 
for the period October 1, 1997 through April 30, 1998 is as follows:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
               Manufacturer/producer/exporter                   margin
                                                              percentage
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PRC-wide Rate..............................................        60.84
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    The Department will issue appraisement instructions directly to the 
Customs Service. Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will 
be effective upon publication of the final results of this 
administrative review for all shipments of barium chloride from the PRC 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the 
publication date, as provided for by section 751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) 
The cash deposit rate for all Chinese exporters will be the rate 
established in the final results of this review; and (2) for non-PRC 
exporters of subject merchandise from the PRC, the cash deposit rate 
will be the rate applicable to their PRC suppliers. These deposit 
requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until publication of 
the final results of the next administrative review.
    This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding 
the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the 
relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this 
requirement could result in the Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    This notice also serves as the only reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely notification of 
return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial 
protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the 
regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    This administrative review and notice are in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)), section 777(i) of 
the Act (19 U.S.C. section 1677f(i)), and 19 CFR 351.221.

    Dated: November 3, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-29909 Filed 11-15-99; 8:45 am]
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