[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 21 (Wednesday, January 31, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8378-8380]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2685]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part

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

ACTION: Notice of initiation of antidumping and countervailing duty 
administrative reviews and request for revocation in part.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received 
requests to conduct administrative reviews of various antidumping and 
countervailing duty orders and findings with December anniversary 
dates. In accordance with our regulations, we are initiating those 
administrative reviews. The Department also received a request to 
revoke one antidumping duty order in part.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 31, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly A. Kuga, Office of AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

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Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-4737.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department has received timely requests, in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.213(b)(2000), for administrative reviews of various antidumping 
and countervailing duty orders and findings with December anniversary 
dates. The Department also received a timely request to revoke in part 
the antidumping duty order on Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware from the 
People's Republic of China.

Initiation of Reviews

    In accordance with section 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we are 
initiating administrative reviews of the following antidumping and 
countervailing duty orders and findings. We intend to issue the final 
results of these reviews not later than December 31, 2001.

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                                                          Period to be
                                                            reviewed
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             Antidumping Duty Proceedings
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Chile: Certain Preserved Mushrooms, A-337-804........   12/1/99-11/30/00
    Nature's Farm Products
    Ravine Foods
    Compania Envasadora del Atlantico
India: Stainless Steel Wire Rod, A-533-808...........   12/1/99-11/30/00
    Viraj Group, Ltd.
Japan: Polychloroprene Rubber, A-588-046.............   12/1/99-11/30/00
    Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Tosoh Corporations
Mexico:
    Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe,\1\ A-201-     11/1/99-10/31/00
     805.............................................
    Tuberias Procarsa, S.A. de C.V.
    Tuberia Nacional S.A. de C.V.
    Porcelain-On-Steel Cooking Ware, A-201-504.......   12/1/99-11/30/00
    Cinsa, S.A. de C.V.
    Esmaltaciones de Norte America, S.A. de C.V.
The People's Republic of China:
    Certain Cased Pencils,\2\ A-570-827..............   12/1/99-11/30/00
    China First Pencil Company, Ltd.
    China Second Pencil Company, Ltd.
    Shanghai Three Star Stationery Company, Ltd.
    Beijing Pencil Factory
    Dalian Pencil Factory
    Donghua Pencil Factory
    Harbin Pencil Factory
    Jiangsu Pencil Factory
    Jinan Pencil Factory
    Juihai Pencil Factory
    Julong Pencil Factory
    Kaiyuan Group Corporation
    Qingdao Pencil Factory
    Shenyiang Pencil Factory
    Songnan Pencil Factory
    Tianjin Pencil Factory
    Xinbang Joint Venture Pencil Factory
    Anhui Bengbu Pencil Factory
    Anhui Stationery Company
    Anhui Import/Export Group Corporation
    Anhui Light Industrial Products I/E Corporation
    Anhui Provincial Imports & Exports Corporation
    Beijing Light Industrial Products I/E Corp.
    China National Light Industrial Products Import &
     Export Corporation (all branches)
    Dalian Light Industrial Products Import/Export
     Corporation
    Guangdong Provincial Stationery & Sporting Goods
     Import & Export Corporation
    Guangdong Textile Factory
    Jiangsu Light Industrial Products Import/Export
     Group Corp.
    Jilin Provincial Machinery & Equipment Import &
     Export Corporation
    Liaoning Light Industrial Products Import/Export
     Corporation
    New Century
    Qingdao Light Industrial Products Import/Export
     Corporation
    Shandong Light Industrial Products Import/Export
     Corporation
    Shanghai JV Stationery Co., Ltd./Shanghai Jay-Vee
     Stationery Co., Ltd.
    Shanghai Three Star Stationery Company, Ltd.
    Sichuan Light Industrial Products Import/Export
     Corporation
    Tianjin Stationery and Sporting Goods Import/
     Export Corporation
    Zhenjiang Foreign Trade Corporation
    Laizhou City Guangming Pencil-Making Lead Co.,
     Ltd.
    Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware,\3\ A-570-506....   12/1/99-11/30/00

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    Clover Enamelware Enterprise Ltd.
    Lucky Enamelware Factory, Ltd.
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           Countervailing Duty Proceedings
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    None.
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                Suspension Agreements
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    None.
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\1\ Inadvertently omitted from previous initiation notice.
\2\ If one of the above named companies does not qualify for a separate
  rate, all other exporters of certain cased pencils from the People's
  Republic of China who have not qualified for a separate rate are
  deemed to be covered by this review as part of the single PRC entity
  of which the named exporters are a part.
\3\ If one of the above named companies does not qualify for a separate
  rate, all other exporters of porcelain-on-steel cooking ware from the
  People's Republic of China who have not qualified for a separate rate
  are deemed to be covered by this review as part of the single PRC
  entity of which the named exporters are a part.

    During any administrative review covering all or part of a period 
falling between the first and second or third and fourth anniversary of 
the publication of an antidumping duty order under 351.211 or a 
determination under 351.218(f)(4) to continue an order or suspended 
investigation (after sunset review), the Secretary, if requested by a 
domestic interested party within 30 days of the date of publication of 
the notice of initiation of the review, will determine whether 
antidumping duties have been absorbed by an exporter or producer 
subject to the review if the subject merchandise is sold in the United 
States through an importer that is affiliated with such exporter or 
producer. The request must include the name(s) of the exporter or 
producer for which the inquiry is requested.
    Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305.
    These initiations and this notice are in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 USC 1675(a)), and 19 
CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i).

    Dated: January 25, 2001.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Group II for Import Administration.
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