[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 87 (Thursday, May 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25909-25910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11170]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-825; A-533-810; A-588-833; A-469-805]


Stainless Steel Bar From Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain; Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Expedited Sunset Reviews

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of antidumping duty expedited sunset 
reviews: Stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain.

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SUMMARY: On December 30, 1999, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published the notice of initiation of sunset reviews of 
the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel bar (``SSB'') from 
Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain. On the basis of notices of intent to 
participate and adequate substantive comments filed on behalf of 
domestic interested parties and inadequate response (in these cases, no 
response) from respondent interested parties, we determined to conduct 
expedited reviews. As a result of these reviews, we find that 
revocation of the antidumping duty orders would be likely to lead to 
continuation or recurrence of dumping at the levels listed below in the 
section entitled ``Final Results of Reviews.''

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark D. Young, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-6397.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Statute and Regulations

    These reviews are being conducted pursuant to sections 751(c) and 
752 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''). The 
Department's procedures for the conduct of sunset reviews are set forth 
in Procedures for Conducting Five-year (``Sunset'') Reviews of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders, 63 FR 13516 (March 20, 
1998) (``Sunset Regulations'') and 19 CFR part 351 (1999) in general. 
Guidance on methodological or analytical issues relevant to the 
Department's conduct of sunset reviews is set forth in the Department's 
Policy Bulletin 98:3--Policies Regarding the Conduct of Five-year 
(``Sunset'') Reviews of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders; 
Policy Bulletin, 63 FR 18871 (April 16, 1998) (``Sunset Policy 
Bulletin'').

Background

    On December 30, 1999, the Department published the notice of 
initiation of the sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on SSB 
from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain (64 FR 73510). The Department 
received Notices of Intent to Participate on behalf of Empire Specialty 
Steel Inc. (formerly AL Tech Specialty Steel Corp.), Carpenter 
Technology Corp., Republic Technologies International (formerly 
Republic Engineered Steels, Inc.), Crucible Specialty Metals Division 
of Crucible Materials Corp., Electralloy Corp., Slater Steels 
Corporation, and the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO/CLC 
(collectively ``domestic interested parties''), within the deadline 
specified in section 351.218(d)(1)(i) of the Sunset Regulations. The 
domestic interested parties claimed interested party status under 
section 771(9)(C) and (D) of the Act, as U.S. manufacturers of SSB and 
a certified union. We received complete substantive responses, in the 
Brazilian, Indian, Japanese, and Spanish reviews, from the domestic 
interested parties on January 28, 2000, within the 30-day deadline 
specified in the Sunset Regulations under section 351.218(d)(3)(i). In 
their substantive responses, the domestic interested parties stated 
that they were the petitioners in the original investigations of SSB 
from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain. Furthermore, the domestic 
interested parties stated that they have been involved in these 
proceedings since their inception.\1\ We did not receive a substantive 
response from any respondent interested party to these proceedings. As 
a result, pursuant to 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C) of the Department's Regulations, the Department 
determined to conduct expedited, 120-day, reviews of these orders.
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    \1\ Two of the original petitioners have undergone a change of 
name: AL Tech Specialty Steel Corp. is now Empire Specialty Steel 
Inc. and Republic Engineered Steel, Inc. is now Republic 
Technologies International. Talley Metals Technology, Inc. also was 
a petitioner in these cases; Talley was acquired by Carpenter 
Technology Corp. and is now a part of Carpenter's operations.
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Scope of Review

    Imports covered by these reviews are shipments of SSB, specifically 
articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been either 
hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise cold-
finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along their 
whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, 
rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other 
convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished SSB that are turned or 
ground in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-rolled bar or 
from straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have 
indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced during the 
rolling process. Except as specified above, the term does not include 
stainless steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products 
(i.e., cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in 
thickness have a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 
4.75 mm or more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and 
measures at least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed 
products in coils, of any uniform solid cross section along their whole 
length, which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled 
products), and angles, shapes and sections. The SSB subject to these 
reviews are currently classifiable under subheadings 7222.10.0005, 
7222.10.0050, 7222.20.0005, 7222.20.0045, 7222.20.0075, and 
7222.30.0000 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(``HTSUS''). Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope 
of this review is dispositive.
    With respect to the order on the subject imports from Japan the 
Department has made two scope rulings. The following product was 
determined to be within the scope of the order:
    The following product was determined to be outside the scope of the 
order:

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    Product within scope             Company              Citation
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Keystone 2000...............  Keystone Stainless    63 FR 6722 (February
                               Inc.                  10, 1998).
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    Product within scope             Company              Citation
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M35FL steel bar.............  Tohoku Steel Co.....  64 FR 50273
                                                     (September 16,
                                                     1999).
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    These reviews cover all imports from all manufacturers and 
exporters of SSB from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain.

Analysis of Comments Received

    All issues raised in these cases by parties to these sunset reviews 
are addressed in the ``Issues and Decision Memorandum'' (``Decision 
Memo'') from Jeffrey A. May, Director, Office of Policy, Import 
Administration, to Troy H. Cribb, Acting Assistant Secretary for Import 
Administration, dated April 28, 2000, which is hereby adopted by this 
notice. The issues discussed in the Decision Memo include the 
likelihood of continuation or recurrence of dumping and the magnitude 
of the margin likely to prevail were the orders revoked. Parties can 
find a complete discussion of all issues raised in these reviews and 
the corresponding recommendations in this public memorandum, which is 
on file in room B-099 of the main Commerce Building.
    In addition, a complete version of the Decision Memo can be 
accessed directly on the Web at www.ita.doc.gov/import_admin/records/frn/. The paper copy and electronic version of the Decision Memo are 
identical in content.

Final Results of Reviews

    We determine that revocation of the antidumping duty orders on SSB 
from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain would be likely to lead to 
continuation or recurrence of dumping at the following percentage 
weighted-average margins:

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                                                                 Margin
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Brazilian Manufacturers/Exporters:
  Acos Villares, S.A.........................................      19.43
  All Others.................................................      19.43
Indian Manufacturers/Exporters:
  Grand Foundry Limited......................................       3.87
  Mukand, Limited............................................      21.02
  All Others.................................................      12.45
Japanese Manufacturers/Exporters:
  Aichi Steel Works, Ltd.....................................      61.47
  Daido Steel Co., Ltd.......................................      61.47
  Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd...............................      61.47
  All Others.................................................      61.47
Spanish Manufacturers/Exporters:
  Acensor, S.A. (And all successor companies including             62.85
   Digeco, S.A. and Clorimax, SRL)...........................
  Roldan, S.A................................................       7.72
  All Others.................................................      25.77
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    This notice also serves as the only reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (``APO'') of their responsibility 
concerning the return or destruction of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 of the 
Department's regulations. Timely notification of the return or 
destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial protective order 
is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the regulations and terms 
of an APO is a violation which is subject to sanction.
    We are issuing and publishing these results and notice in 
accordance with sections 751(c), 752, and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: April 28, 2000.
Troy H. Cribb,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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