[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 176 (Monday, September 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54840-54841]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23254]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Initiation of Antidumping New 
Shipper Review

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

ACTION: Notice of initiation of antidumping new shipper review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has received a request to conduct a 
new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar 
from India. In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.214, we are initiating this new 
shipper review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 11, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blanche Ziv or Ryan Langan, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone (202) 482-4207 or (202) 482-1279, respectively.

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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. In addition, all 
references to the Department of Commerce's (``the Department's'') 
regulations are to 19 CFR part 351 (April 1999).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 3, 2000, the Department received a request from Snowdrop 
Trading PVT. LTD. (``Snowdrop''), pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B) of 
the Act, and in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(b), to conduct a new 
shipper review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar 
from India. This order has an August semi-annual anniversary month.

Initiation of Review

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b), in its request of August 3, 2000, 
Snowdrop certified that it did not export subject merchandise to the 
United States during the period of investigation (``POI'') (July 1, 
1993 through December 31, 1993) and that it is not now and never has 
been affiliated with any exporter or producer who exported the subject 
merchandise to the United States during the period of review (`` 
POR''). Snowdrop submitted documentation establishing: (i) The date on 
which its stainless steel bar was first entered or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption, or if the exporter or producer could not 
establish the date of first entry, the date on which it first shipped 
the subject merchandise for export in the United States; (ii) the 
volume of that and subsequent shipments; and (iii) the date of the 
first sale to an unaffiliated customer in the United States.
    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214, we are initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping duty 
order on stainless steel bar from India. In accordance with 19 CFR 
351.214(h)(i), we intend to issue the preliminary results of this 
review not later than 180 days from the date of publication of this 
notice. All provisions of 19 CFR 351.214 will apply to Snowdrop 
throughout the duration of this new shipper review. The standard period 
of review in a new shipper review initiated in the month immediately 
following the semiannual anniversary month is the six-month period 
immediately preceding the semiannual anniversary month.

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                                                          Period to be
             Antidumping duty proceeding                    reviewed
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India: Stainless Steel Bar, A-533-810: Snowdrop        02/01/00--7/31/00
 Trading PVT. LTD.
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    Concurrent with publication of this notice, and in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.214(e), we will instruct the Customs Service to allow, at 
the option of the importer, the posting of a bond or security in lieu 
of a cash deposit for each entry of the merchandise exported by the 
company listed above, until the completion of the review.
    Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 
351.306.
    This initiation notice is in accordance with section 751(a) of the 
Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 351.214.

    Dated: September 1, 2000.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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