[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 109 (Tuesday, June 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 35901]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14203]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-504]


Porcelain-on-Steel Cookware From Mexico: Amended Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katherine Johnson or David J. 
Goldberger, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone, (202) 482-4929 or (202) 482-4136, 
respectively.

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 
(Department's) regulations are to 19 CFR Part 351 (1998).

Scope of the Review

    Imports covered by this review are shipments of porcelain-on-steel 
cookware, including tea kettles, which do not have self-contained 
electric heating elements. All of the foregoing are constructed of 
steel and are enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses. This 
merchandise is currently classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
of the United States (HTSUS) subheading 7323.94.00. Kitchenware 
currently classifiable under HTSUS subheading 7323.94.00.30 is not 
subject to the order. Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and Customs purposes, our written description of the scope 
of this proceeding is dispositive.

Amendment to Final Results

    In accordance with section 751(a) of the Act, on May 4, 2000, we 
issued our final results of the 1997-1998 administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on porcelain-on-steel cookware from Mexico in 
which we determined that sales of porcelain-on-steel cookware from 
Mexico were made at less than normal value (65 FR 30068, May 10, 2000). 
On May 9, 2000, we received an allegation, timely filed pursuant to 19 
CFR 351.224(c)(2), from the petitioner, Columbian Home Products, LLC, 
that the Department made a ministerial error in its final results. We 
did not receive ministerial error allegations from Cinsa, S.A. de C.V. 
(Cinsa) or Esmaltaciones de Norte America, S.A. de C.V. (ENASA).
    After analyzing petitioner's submission, we have determined, in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.224, that a ministerial error was made in 
our final margin calculations for Cinsa. Specifically, certain indirect 
selling expenses incurred in Mexico by Cinsa in connection with sales 
to the unaffiliated customer in the United States, which were formerly 
classified as export prices sales, were not: (1) Deducted from the 
constructed export price (CEP) calculation; (2) included in the pool of 
U.S. indirect selling expenses used to calculate the CEP offset; and 
(3) included in the calculation of CEP profit due to a programming 
error. We have now corrected the programming error. For a detailed 
discussion of the ministerial error allegation and the Department's 
analysis, see the Memorandum to Louis Apple from the Team, dated May 
30, 2000.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.224(e), we are amending the final results of the 1997-1998 
antidumping duty administrative review on porcelain-on-steel cookware 
from Mexico.
    The revised weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                  Original     Revised
                                                   final        final
            Manufacturer/ exporter                 margin       margin
                                                 percentage   percentage
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Cinsa.........................................         8.96         9.31
ENASA.........................................        27.37        27.37
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    This amended final results of administrative review and notice are 
in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)), 
section 777(i) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1677f(i)), and 19 CFR 351.210(c).

    Dated: May 20, 2000.
Troy H. Cribb,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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