[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 247 (Monday, December 27, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72315-72316]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-33497]


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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: Final Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Intent To 
Revoke Antidumping Duty Order, In Part

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

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

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SUMMARY: On November 3, 1999, the Department of Commerce published a 
notice of preliminary results of changed circumstances review and 
intent to revoke the order, in part, of the antidumping duty order on 
large newspaper printing presses and components thereof, whether 
assembled or unassembled, from Japan. We gave interested parties an 
opportunity to comment on the preliminary results. No party opposed the 
preliminary results. We received comments only from Mitsubishi Heavy 
Industries, Ltd., requesting that the Department of Commerce clarify 
the application of the proposed certification requirements with respect 
to entries of the merchandise covered by the partial revocation.
    We are now revoking this order, in part, based on the fact that 
producers accounting for substantially all production of the domestic 
like product, as described in our preliminary results of changed 
circumstances, support the request of Goss Graphic Systems, Inc., the 
petitioner and a U.S. producer of the subject merchandise, for 
revocation, in part, of the order with regard to large newspaper 
printing presses (``LNPP'') and components thereof, whether assembled 
or unassembled, from Japan, as described below.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 27, 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, US Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington DC 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 (``the Department's'') 
regulations are to the regulations at 19 CFR Part 351 (1999).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On November 3, 1999, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (64 FR 59739) a notice of preliminary results of changed 
circumstances

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antidumping duty administrative review and intent to revoke antidumping 
duty order, in part, for large newspaper printing presses and 
components thereof, whether assembled or unassembled, from Japan. On 
November 18, 1999, we received comments from Mitsubishi Heavy 
Industries, Ltd. requesting clarification of the certification 
requirements.

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. 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.

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

    Pursuant to section 751(d)(1) of the Act, the Department may 
partially revoke an antidumping duty order based on a review under 
section 751(b) of the Act (i.e., a changed circumstances review). 
Section 751(b)(1) of the Act requires a changed circumstances review to 
be conducted upon receipt of a request containing information 
concerning changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a review.
    The Department's regulations at 19 CFR 351.216 provide that the 
Department will conduct a changed circumstances review based upon 
changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a review. Section 782(h) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i) further provide that the Department 
may revoke an order, or revoke an order in part, if it determines that 
the order (or part of the order) under review is no longer of interest 
to domestic interested parties.
    Based on the fact that producers accounting for substantially all 
production of the domestic like product, as described in our 
preliminary results of changed circumstances review, support the 
request of Goss Graphic Systems, Inc., the petitioner, to revoke the 
antidumping duty order, in part, we have determined that there are 
changed circumstances sufficient to warrant revocation of the order, in 
part. Therefore, the Department is revoking, in part, the antidumping 
duty order on LNPPs from Japan with respect to the import of the 
elements and components of LNPP systems and additions thereto as 
described above, in accordance with sections 751(b) and 782(h) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i). This partial revocation will apply to 
all entries of LNPP systems and additions thereto as described above 
from Japan entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
after September 4, 1996, as requested by the petitioner.
    We have taken into account comments from Mitsubishi Heavy 
Industries, Ltd. requesting that the Department clarify the Customs 
certification requirements proposed in the preliminary results.
    We will instruct the Customs Service (Customs) to liquidate without 
regard to antidumping duties, and to refund any cash deposits collected 
for all entries of the merchandise described above, made on or after 
September 4, 1996. Further, we will instruct Customs to require that a 
party requesting a refund of cash deposits collected on entries of the 
merchandise described above, made on or after September 4, 1996, or a 
party importing the merchandise described above during this period, 
submit a certification to Customs stating that the imported merchandise 
meets the specifications of the merchandise covered by the partial 
revocation.
    We are issuing and publishing this determination and notice in 
accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.216 and 351.222.

    Dated: December 15, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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