[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13714-13715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6269]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-412-814]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From the United Kingdom: 
Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

SUMMARY: On October 1, 1999, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published in the Federal Register (64 FR 53318) the 
initiation of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from the United Kingdom for 
the manufacturer/exporter, British Steel Limited (British Steel). This 
review was requested by the petitioners, and covered the period August 
1, 1998, through July 31, 1999. The Department is now rescinding this 
review after receiving a withdrawal of its request for the review from 
the petitioners.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 14, 2000.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maureen McPhillips or Linda Ludwig, 
Group III, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-0193 or (202) 482-3833, 
respectively.

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Tariff Act), are references to the provisions 
effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to 
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, by the Uruguay Round Agreements 
Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the 
Department of Commerce (the Department) regulations are to the 
regulations at 19 CFR part 351 (April 1999).

Scope of the Review

    The products covered by this order constitute one ``class or kind'' 
of merchandise: certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate. These 
products include hot-rolled carbon steel universal mill plates (i.e., 
flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a closed box pass, of a 
width exceeding 150 millimeters but not exceeding 1,250 millimeters and 
of a thickness of not less than 4 millimeters, not in coils and without 
patterns in relief), of rectangular shape, neither clad, plated nor 
coated with metal, whether or not painted, varnished or coated with 
plastics or other nonmetallic substances; and certain hot-rolled carbon 
steel flat-rolled products in straight lengths, of rectangular shape, 
hot rolled, neither clad, plated, nor coated with metal, whether or not 
painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic 
substances, 4.75 millimeters or more in thickness and of a width which 
exceeds 150 millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness, as 
currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the (HTSUS) 
under item numbers 7208.40.3030, 7208.40.3060, 7208.51.0030, 
7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 7208.52.0000, 7208.53.0000, 7208.90.0000, 
7210.70.3000, 7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0045, 
7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, and 7212.50.0000. Included 
are flat-rolled products of non-rectangular cross-section where such 
cross-section is achieved subsequent to the rolling process (i.e., 
products which have been ``worked after rolling'') for example, 
products which have been beveled or rounded at the edges. Excluded are 
grade X-70 plate and certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate with a 
maximum thickness of 80 mm in steel grades BS 7191, 355 EM and 355 EMZ, 
as amended by Sable Offshore Energy Project specification XB MOO Y 15 
0001, types 1 and 2 (see, Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from 
Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Reviews, and 
Revocation of Orders in Part, 64 FR 46343, 46344 (August 25, 1999)). 
These HTSUS item numbers are provided for convenience and Customs 
purposes. The written description remains dispositive.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 31, 1999, Bethlehem Steel 
Corporation and U.S. Steel Group, a unit of USX Corporation, 
collectively ``petitioners'', requested an administrative review of 
British Steel Limited (British Steel), a British producer and importer 
of the subject merchandise, with respect to the antidumping duty order 
published in the Federal Register on August 19, 1993 (58 FR 44168). We 
initiated this review on October 1, 1999 (64 FR 53318).
    On February 24, 2000, the petitioners filed a letter with the 
Department requesting withdrawal of its request for the Department to 
conduct an administrative review. Ordinarily, parties have 90 days from 
the publication of the notice of initiation of review in which to 
withdraw a request for review. See CFR 351.213(d)(1). We did not 
receive petitioners' withdrawal request until after the 90-day period 
had elapsed. However, the review has not progressed substantially and 
there would be no undo burden on the parties or the Department, if the 
Department were to rescind the review on the basis of this request. 
Therefore, the Department has determined that it would be reasonable to 
grant the withdrawal at this time.
    This notice is published pursuant to section 751 of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended, (19 U.S.C. 1675 (1999)), and section 351.213 of 
the Department's regulations (19 CFR 351.213 (1999)).

    Dated: March 8, 2000.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, AD/CVD Enforcement Group III.
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