[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13715-13716]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6266]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-827]


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

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 14, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Russell Morris at (202) 482-1775, AD/
CVD Enforcement, Office VI, Group II, Import Administration, Room 1870, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 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 large diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and 
pressure pipe from Mexico. 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 Large Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless 
Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe from Mexico, 65 FR 5587 (February 4, 
2000).
    On February 11, 2000, the petitioners \1\ submitted allegations of 
certain ministerial errors. The petitioners alleged that the Department 
made ministerial errors when it deducted both U.S. dollar and Mexican 
Peso imputed credit expenses from its normal value (NV) calculation, 
and that it incorrectly made an exchange rate conversion on one of the 
imputed credit expenses. The petitioners claimed that another 
ministerial error occurred when the Department made a constructed 
export price (CEP) offset to sales matched at a comparable level of 
trade (LOT). The sole respondent in this investigation, Tubos de Acero 
de

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Mexico S.A. (TAMSA), did not submit any ministerial error allegations.
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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, in part, that the Department made certain 
ministerial errors within the meaning of 19 CFR 351.224(f) and (g). The 
Department inadvertently deducted from the home market price two 
imputed credit expenses. We intended to deduct only one credit expense 
from each home market sale. Further, since we were able to match U.S. 
sales to NV at the same LOT, no CEP offset should have been made. 
However, we disagree with the petitioners' allegation concerning the 
currency conversion applied in one of the imputed credit expense 
calculations. See ``Ministerial Error Allegations for the Preliminary 
Determination'' memorandum to Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant 
Secretary, for Import Administration, Group II, dated 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 TAMSA 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-
                                                               average
                   Manufacturer/exporter                        margin
                                                              percentage
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TAMSA......................................................        14.20
All Others.................................................        14.20
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    This determination is issued and published pursuant to sections 
733(d) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-6266 Filed 3-13-00; 8:45 am]
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