[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48478-48479]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20028]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-601]


Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China; Amended Final Results 
of 1990/1991, 1991/1992, and 1992/1993 Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Reviews

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

ACTION: Notice of amended final results of administrative reviews.

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SUMMARY: The United States Court of International Trade and the United 
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have affirmed the 
Department of Commerce's final remand results affecting final 
assessment rates for the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty 
order on tapered roller bearings and parts thereof, finished and 
unfinished, from the People's Republic of China. The periods of review 
are June 1, 1990 through May 31, 1991, June 1, 1991 through May 31, 
1992, and June 1, 1992 through May 31, 1993. As there is now a final 
and conclusive court decision in these cases, we are amending the final 
results of reviews and we will instruct the Customs Service to 
liquidate entries subject to these reviews.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 8, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Callen or Robin Gray, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Group I, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
0180 or (202) 482-4023, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act), are references to the provisions in effect 
as of December 31, 1994. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all 
citations to the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) 
regulations are to 19 CFR part 353 (1995).

Background

    On December 13, 1996, the Department published final results of 
administrative reviews of the antidumping duty order on tapered roller 
bearings and parts thereof, finished and unfinished (TRBs), from the 
People's Republic of China covering the periods June 1, 1990 through 
May 31, 1991, June 1, 1991 through May 31, 1992, and June 1, 1992 
through May 31, 1993. See Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, 
Finished and Unfinished, From the People's Republic of China, Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, 61 FR 65527 
(December 13, 1996) (Final Results).
    The Peer Bearing Company and the Timken Company contested the 
Department's decision in the Final Results. In issuing its decision in 
this case, the United States Court of International Trade (CIT) 
instructed the Department to make the following changes to its margin 
calculations for the Final Results: (1) change the best-information-
available (BIA) rate for Chin Jun Industrial, Ltd. (Chin Jun), (2) 
correct a clerical error in the calculation of inland freight, (3) 
recalculate marine insurance expense on a value, rather than weight, 
basis, and (4) recalculate the exporter's-sales-price (ESP) offset of 
foreign market value (FMV). See Peer Bearing Company v. United States, 
Consol. Court No. 97-01-00023, Slip Op. 98-70 (CIT May 27, 1998). The 
Department issued final results of redetermination on remand on August 
26, 1998, and the CIT affirmed the Department's final remand results. 
See Peer Bearing Company v. United States, Slip Op. 98-161 (CIT 
December 7, 1998) aff'd mem., sub nom. The Timken Co. v. United States, 
No. 99-1204 (Fed. Cir. October 6, 1999). As there is now a final and 
conclusive court decision in this action, we are amending our final 
results of reviews, and we will instruct the Customs Service to 
liquidate entries subject to these reviews.

Amendment to Final Results

    Pursuant to section 516A(e) of the Act, we are now amending the 
final results of administrative reviews of the antidumping duty order 
on TRBs from the People's Republic of China for the periods of review 
6/90 through 5/91, 6/91 through 5/92, and 6/92 through 5/93. The 
revised weighted-average margins are as follows:

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                                       6/90         6/91         6/92
             Company               through  5/  through  5/  through  5/
                                        91           92           93
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Premier Bearing and Equipment,        \1\ 4.24    \1\ 5.251     \1\ 5.25
 Ltd.............................
Guizhou Machinery Import and              2.59      \1\3.70         0.00
 Export Corporation..............
Henan Machinery and Equipment             0.00         0.14         0.00
 Import and Export Corporation...
Luoyang Bearing Factory..........         1.14         0.00         0.00
Shanghai General Bearing Company,         0.00         0.00         0.25
 Ltd.............................
Jilin Machinary Import and Export         4.21         5.04         0.00
 Corporation.....................
Chin Jun Industrial, Ltd.........     \2\ 7.07         0.48         1.23
Wafangdian Bearing Factory.......     \2\ 7.07         6.15     No Sales
Lianoning Co., Ltd...............     \2\ 7.07         3.47         0.73
PRC rate.........................         7.07         7.07        7.07
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\1\ As cooperative BIA, we assigned in each review the higher of (1) the
  highest rate ever applicable to that company in the investigation or
  any previous review; or (2) the highest calculated margin for any
  respondent in the same review.
\2\ This party did not respond to the questionnaire or did not respond
  to the supplemental questionnaire; therefore, as uncooperative BIA, we
  assigned the highest rate calculated in the investigation or in this
  or any other review of sales of subject merchandise from the PRC. This
  does not constitute a separate-rate finding for this firm.

    Accordingly, the Department will determine and the Customs Service 
will assess appropriate antidumping duties on entries of the subject 
merchandise exported by firms covered by these reviews. We will 
instruct the Customs Service to apply 7.07 percent in its liquidation 
of entries from companies to which we assigned a BIA rate or which did 
not receive a separate rate.
    We are issuing and publishing this determination in accordance with 
section 751(a) of the Act.


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    Dated: August 1, 2000.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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