[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 157 (Monday, August 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 49542]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20560]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-580-842]


Notice of Countervailing Duty Order: Structural Steel Beams From 
the Republic of Korea

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 14, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric B. Greynolds or Tipten Troidl, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Import Administration, U.S. Department 
of Commerce, Room 4012, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-2786.

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (``the Act'') by 
the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (``URAA''). In addition, unless 
otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department) regulations refer to the regulations codified at 19 CFR 
part 351 (2000).

Scope of Order

    The products covered are doubly-symmetric shapes, whether hot- or 
cold-rolled, drawn, extruded, formed or finished, having at least one 
dimension of at least 80 mm (3.2 inches or more), whether of carbon or 
alloy (other than stainless) steel, and whether or not drilled, 
punched, notched, painted, coated, or clad. These products (Structural 
Steel Beams) include, but are not limited to, wide-flange beams (W 
shapes), bearing piles (HP shapes), standard beams (S or I shapes), and 
M-shapes.
    All products that meet the physical and metallurgical descriptions 
provided above are within the scope of this order unless otherwise 
excluded. The following products, are outside and/or specifically 
excluded from the scope of this order: Structural steel beams greater 
than 400 pounds per linear foot or with a web or section height (also 
known as depth) over 40 inches.
    The merchandise subject to this order is classified in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) at subheadings: 
7216.32.0000, 7216.33.0030, 7216.33.0060, 7216.33.0090, 7216.50.0000, 
7216.61.0000, 7216.69.0000, 7216.91.0000, 7216.99.0000, 7228.70.3040, 
7228.70.6000.
    Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and 
Customs purposes, the written description of the merchandise in this 
order is dispositive.

Countervailing Duty Order

    In accordance with section 705(d) of the Act, on July 3, 2000, the 
Department published in the Federal Register its final affirmative 
determination in the countervailing duty investigation of structural 
steel beams from the Republic of Korea (65 FR 41051). On August 4, 
2000, the International Trade Commission (``ITC'') notified the 
Department of its final determination, pursuant to section 
705(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, that an industry in the United States is 
materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of 
imports of certain structural steel beams from the Republic of Korea.
    Therefore, countervailing duties will be assessed on all 
unliquidated entries of structural steel beams from the Republic of 
Korea entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
July 3, 2000, the date on which the Department published its final 
affirmative countervailing duty determinations in the Federal Register.
    On or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, U.S. Customs officers must require, at the same time as 
importers would normally deposit estimated duties on this merchandise, 
a cash deposit equal to the countervailable subsidy rates noted below. 
The All Others rates apply to all producers and exporters of structural 
steel beams from the Republic of Korea not specifically listed below. 
The cash deposit rates are as follows:

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                                                             Net subsidy
                          Company                                rate
                                                              (percent)
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Kangwon Industries Ltd.....................................     \1\ 3.88
Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd................................     \1\ 1.34
All Others Rate............................................    \1\ 3.87
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\1\ Ad valorem.

    The steel producer Inchon Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. is excluded from 
the suspension of liquidation because it received a de minimis net 
subsidy of 0.15 percent ad valorem.
    This notice constitutes the countervailing duty order with respect 
to structural steel beams from the Republic of Korea, pursuant to 
section 706(a) of the Act. Interested parties may contact the Central 
Records Unit, for copies of an updated list of countervailing duty 
orders currently in effect.
    This countervailing duty order is published in accordance with 
section 706(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211.

    Dated: August 8, 2000.
Troy H. Cribb,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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