[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13713-13714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6265]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-412-810, C-412-811]


Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon Steel Products From 
the United Kingdom: Final Results of Changed-Circumstances Antidumping 
and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, Revocation of Orders, 
and Rescission of Administrative Reviews

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed-circumstances antidumping 
and countervailing duty administrative reviews, revocation of orders, 
and rescission of administrative reviews.

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SUMMARY: On February 15, 2000, the Department of Commerce published a 
notice of initiation of a changed circumstances review and preliminary 
results of review with intent to revoke the antidumping and 
countervailing duty orders on certain hot-rolled carbon steel products 
from the United Kingdom and rescind the ongoing administrative reviews 
(65 FR 7490). We are now revoking this order, retroactive to January 1, 
1995, based on the fact that domestic parties no longer have an 
interest in maintaining the antidumping and countervailing duty orders. 
We are also rescinding the ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty 
administrative reviews covering the periods March 1, 1998, through 
February 28, 1999, and January 1, 1998, through December 31, 1998, 
respectively.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebecca Trainor or Kate Johnson 
(Antidumping); or Jon Lyons (Countervailing), AD/CVD Enforcement, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-4007, (202) 482-4929, and 
(202) 482-0374, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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The Applicable Statute and Regulations

    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 of Commerce's (the 
Department's) regulations are to 19 CFR Part 351 (April 1999).

Background

    On December 28, 1999, Ispat Inland Inc. and Republic Technologies 
International LLC (the petitioners) requested that the Department 
revoke the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on certain hot-
rolled lead and bismuth carbon steel products from the United Kingdom, 
retroactive to January 1, 1994, stating that they no longer have an 
interest in maintaining these orders. The petitioners represent 
domestic interested parties, and are successor companies to the 
petitioners in the less-than-fair-value and countervailing duty 
investigations. On January 5, 2000, the petitioners submitted a letter 
substantiating their claim that they represent more than 85 percent of 
domestic production and shipments of the subject merchandise. On 
February 2, 2000, petitioners amended their initial revocation request, 
and asked that revocation of the orders be retroactive to January 1, 
1995, rather than to January 1, 1994. We preliminarily determined that 
the petitioner's statement of no interest constituted changed 
circumstances sufficient to warrant revocation of these orders. 
Consequently, on February 15, 2000, we published a notice of initiation 
of changed circumstances reviews and preliminary results of reviews 
with intent to revoke the orders and rescind the ongoing administrative 
reviews (65 FR 7490). We invited interested parties to comment on these 
preliminary results. We received no comments.

Scope of the Reviews

    The products covered by these reviews are hot-rolled bars and rods 
of nonalloy or other alloy steel, whether or not descaled, containing 
by weight 0.03 percent or more of lead or 0.05 percent or more of 
bismuth, in coils or cut lengths, and in numerous shapes and sizes. 
Excluded from the scope of this review are other alloy steels (as 
defined by the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) 
Chapter 72, note 1 (f)), except steels classified as other alloy steels 
by reason of containing by weight 0.4 percent or more of lead, or 0.1 
percent or more of bismuth, tellurium, or selenium. Also excluded are 
semi-finished steels and flat-rolled products. Most of the products 
covered in these reviews are provided for under subheadings 
7213.20.00.00 and 7214.30.00.00 of the HTSUS. Small quantities of these 
products may also enter the United States under the following HTSUS 
subheadings: 7213.31.30.00; 7213.31.60.00; 7213.39.00.30; 
7213.39.00.60; 7213.39.00.90; 7213.91.30.00; 7213.91.45.00; 
7213.91.60.00; 7213.99.00; 7214.40.00.10, 7214.40.00.30, 7214.40.00.50; 
7214.50.00.10; 7214.50.00.30; 7214.50.00.50; 7214.60.00.10; 
7214.60.00.30; 7214.60.00.50; 7214.91.00; 7214.99.00; 7228.30.80.00; 
and 7228.30.80.50. HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and 
customs purposes. The written description of the scope of these 
proceedings is dispositive.

Final Results of Changed-Circumstances Reviews and Intent To Revoke 
Orders

    Pursuant to section 751(d)(1) of the Act, the Department may 
revoke, in whole or in part, a countervailing or antidumping duty order 
based on a review under section 751(b) of the Act (i.e., a changed-
circumstances review). The Department's regulations, at 19 CFR 
351.216(d), require the Department to conduct a changed-circumstances 
review in accordance with 19 CFR 351.221 if it decides that changed 
circumstances sufficient to warrant a review exist. Section 782(h)(2) 
of the Act and section 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 petitioners are domestic interested parties as defined by 
section 771(9)(E) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.102(b) and represent 
substantially all of the production of the domestic like product. Based 
on the petitioners' statement of no interest in the continued 
application of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders and the 
fact that no interested parties objected to or otherwise commented on 
our preliminary results, we determine that there are changed 
circumstances sufficient to warrant revocation of the orders. 
Therefore, we are revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty 
orders on certain hot-rolled carbon steel products from the United 
Kingdom, retroactive to January 1, 1995. We are also rescinding the 
ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews 
covering the periods March 1, 1998, through February 28, 1999, and 
January 1, 1998, through December 31, 1998, respectively.
    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.222(g)(4), we will instruct the 
Customs Service to end the suspension of liquidation and to refund any 
estimated antidumping and countervailing duties collected for all 
unliquidated entries of certain hot-rolled carbon steel products from 
the United Kingdom on or after January 1, 1998. We will also instruct 
the Customs Service to pay interest on such refunds in accordance with 
section 778 of the Act. We will issue liquidation instructions to the 
Customs Service for the year 1995, 1996, and 1997 when pending 
litigation of these CVD review periods is dismissed and the preliminary 
injunctions are lifted.
    We are issuing and publishing these determinations and notice in 
accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and section 
351.222 of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: March 7, 2000.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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