[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 23 (Thursday, February 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5310-5311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2292]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-583-008]


Certain Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Taiwan; 
Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION:  Notice of amended final results of antidumping duty 
administrative review.

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SUMMARY:  On December 13, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published the final results of review of the antidumping 
duty order on certain circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from 
Taiwan (64 FR 69488). These amended final results cover the period 
August 1, 1987 through July 31, 1998, and four manufacturers, Yieh 
Hsing Enterprise Co. Ltd. (Yieh Hsing) and Kao Hsing Chang Iron & Steel 
Corporation (KHC), Yun Din Steel Co. Ltd. (Yun Din), and Yieh Loong Co. 
(Yieh Loong).
    On December 15, 1999, pursuant to section 351.224 of the 
Departments's regulations, Yieh Hsing filed an allegation of 
ministerial errors in the calculation of its final margin. On January 
10, 2000, the petitioners filed an allegation of ministerial errors in 
the calculation of the final margin for KHC. The Department is 
publishing these amended final results to correct the ministerial 
errors identified by Yieh Hsing, and one of those alleged by 
petitioners.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  February 3, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Thomas Killiam or Robert James, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-3019 or 482-0649, 
respectively.

APPLICABLE STATUTE: Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act) are references to the 
provisions effective 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, codified at 19 C.F.R. 
Part 351 (1999).

MINISTERIAL ERRORS IN THE FINAL RESULTS OF REVIEW:  In its December 15, 
1999 letter, Yieh Hsing alleges that the Department intended to compare 
U.S. sales to home market sales that occurred in the same month as, in 
the three months prior to, or in the two months following, the U.S. 
sale. Yieh Hsing further notes that where comparisons to sales of 
identical merchandise were not available, the Department intended to 
make comparisons to sales of the most physically similar home market 
merchandise.
    Yieh Hsing contends that the final results computer program failed 
to successfully search for sales in months other than the month of the 
U.S. sale, and failed to search for home market sales of non-identical 
merchandise. We examined the computer program and agree with Yieh Hsing 
that these programming failures occurred and that they constitute 
clerical error within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.244(f). Therefore, for 
these amended final results, we have corrected the computer program, 
and have used all contemporaneous sales of identical or similar 
merchandise in our calculation of normal value.
    Petitioners argue that in its calculation of the final margin for 
KHC, the Department incorrectly performed a foreign exchange conversion 
on an international freight expense, which had already been reported in 
U.S. dollars. We reviewed the data and agree that we intended to deduct 
the expense in question from the price without converting the currency, 
and for these amended final results, we have removed the incorrect 
conversion step.
    Petitioners also allege that the Department's analysis program 
failed to effect comparisons of U.S. sales to home market sales with a 
``CNS'' grade designation. We disagree that this model-matching 
methodology is a ministerial error. The Department intended to exclude 
CNS grades and to compare the U.S. merchandise to other, more similar 
home market models. See model match program at lines 911-918 (included 
in petitioners' January 10, 2000 allegation at Exhibit 6). Accordingly, 
we have not changed the product comparison methodology for these final 
results.

Non-Responding Companies

    As stated in prior notices concerning this review, Yun Din and Yieh 
Loong did not respond to our requests for information and were 
assigned, as facts available, the highest rate in any segment of this 
proceeding; that rate changed as a result of these amended final 
results.

Amended Final Results of Review

    As a result of the correction of the ministerial errors discussed 
above, the margins are:

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      Manufacturer/exporter                 Period           Margin  (%)
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Yieh Hsing.......................  5/1/97-4/30/98..........         1.35
KHC..............................  5/1/97-4/30/98..........        24.80
Yun Din Steel Co. Ltd............  5/1/97-4/30/98..........        24.80
Yieh Loong Co....................  5/1/97-4/30/98..........        24.80
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    The Department shall determine, and the Customs Service shall 
assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. We also will 
direct Customs Service to collect cash deposits of estimated 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries in accordance with the 
procedures discussed in the final results of review and as amended by 
this determination. The amended deposit requirements are effective for 
all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of this 
notice and shall remain in effect until publication of the final 
results of the next administrative review.
    We are issuing and publishing this determination and notice in 
accordance with sections 751(h) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 
351.224(e).

    Dated: January 19, 2000.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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