[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 48 (Friday, March 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 12971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-5936]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-851-802]


Notice of Amended Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value: Certain Small Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard, 
Line, and Pressure Pipe From the Czech Republic

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 10, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis McClure at (202) 482-0984; AD/
CVD Enforcement, Office VI, Group II, Import Administration, Room 1870, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230.

Amendment of Preliminary Determination

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) is amending the 
preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of 
certain small diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and 
pressure pipe from the Czech Republic. This amended preliminary 
determination results in revised antidumping rates.
    On January 28, 2000, the Department issued its affirmative 
preliminary determination in this proceeding. See Notice of Preliminary 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement of 
Final Determination: Certain Small Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless 
Standard, Line, and Pressure Pipe from the Czech Republic, 65 FR 5599 
(February 4, 2000).
    On February 10, 2000, the petitioners\1\ submitted allegations of 
certain ministerial errors. The petitioners alleged that the Department 
applied an incorrect conversion to U.S. packing costs, and, that the 
Department's margin calculation program language incorrectly matched 
U.S. sales to constructed value when appropriate identical or similar 
sales matches were available. On February 10, 2000, Nova Hut, the 
respondent, submitted a ministerial error allegation regarding our 
product matching criteria alleging that the Department did not match 
certain U.S. sales to the most similar home market product.
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    \1\The petitioners in this investigation are Gulf States Tube, a 
Division of Vision Metals, Inc.; Koppel Steel Corporation; Sharon 
Tube Corporation; USS/Kobe Steel Corporation; U.S. Steel Group, a 
unit of USX Corporation; and the United Steelworkers of America.
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    The Department has reviewed its preliminary calculations and agrees 
with the petitioners that it made certain ministerial errors within the 
meaning of 19 CFR 351.224(f) and (g). However, we disagree with Nova 
Hut that our criteria for matching U.S. and home market products 
contained a ministerial error. See ``Ministerial Error Allegations for 
the Preliminary Determination'' memorandum to Holly A. Kuga, Acting 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II, 
February 24, 2000, on file in room B-099 of the Main Commerce building.
    As a result of our analysis of the petitioners' allegations, we are 
amending our preliminary determination to revise the antidumping rate 
for Nova Hut in accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(e), along with the 
corresponding correction to the ``all others'' rate, as listed below. 
Suspension of liquidation will be revised accordingly and parties shall 
be notified of this determination, in accordance with sections 733(d) 
and (f) of the Act.

The revised weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                             Weighted-
                  Manufacturer/exporter                   average margin
                                                            percentage
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Nova Hut................................................           32.26
All Others..............................................           32.26
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    This determination is issued and published pursuant to sections 
733(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: March 6, 2000.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-5936 Filed 3-9-00; 8:45 am]
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