[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16657-16658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7553]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-560-806]


Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate From Indonesia: 
Notice of Initiation of New Shipper Countervailing Duty Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Initiation of New Shipper Countervailing Duty Review.

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SUMMARY: On February 22, 2001, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) received a request to conduct a new shipper review of the 
countervailing duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel 
plate from Indonesia. We are initiating this new shipper review in 
accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended, (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.214(d).

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 27, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Moore or Tipten Troidl, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Group II, Import Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone numbers (202) 482-3692 and 482-1767, 
respectively.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to 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, unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's 
regulations refer to the regulations codified at 19 CFR part 351 
(2000).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 29, 1999, the Department published the final 
affirmative countervailing duty determination on certain cut-to-length 
carbon-quality steel plate from Indonesia. See Final Affirmative 
Countervailing Duty Determination: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality 
Steel Plate from Indonesia, 64 FR 73155. On February 10, 2000, the 
Department published the countervailing duty order. See Notice of 
Amended Final Determinations: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality 
Steel Plate from India and the Republic of Korea; and Notice of 
Countervailing Duty Orders: Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon-Quality Steel 
Plate from France, India, Indonesia, Italy, and the Republic of Korea, 
65 FR 6587. The Department received a request from a cut-to-length 
carbon-quality steel plate producer and exporter in Indonesia, PT. 
Gunung Rajapaksi, to conduct a new shipper review of the countervailing 
duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from 
Indonesia. This request was made pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(b).

Initiation of Review

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b), in its request of February 1, 2001, 
PT. Gunung Rajapaksi certified that (1) it did not export the subject 
merchandise to the United States during the period of investigation 
(POI) (January 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998) and (2) that, since 
the investigation was initiated, it has never been affiliated with any 
exporter or producer who exported the subject merchandise to the United 
States during the POI. Also, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2), 
PT. Gunung Rajapaksi submitted documentation establishing (1) the date 
on which its merchandise was first entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption in the United States, (2) the volume of that 
first shipment and (3) the date of its first sale to an unaffiliated 
customer in the United States. In addition, the company provided a 
certification stating that it has informed the Government of Indonesia 
that it will be required to provide a full response to the

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Department's countervailing duty questionnaire.
    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and section 
351.214(d) of the Department's regulations, we are initiating a new 
shipper review of the countervailing duty order on certain cut-to-
length carbon-quality steel plate from Indonesia. 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. In a countervailing duty proceeding, the standard period of 
review in a new shipper review is the same as that specified in 19 CFR 
351.213(e)(2) for an administrative review. Although the first 
administrative review of this order covers July 26, 1999 through 
December 31, 2000, the new shipper, PT. Gunung Rajapaksi, had no 
shipments prior to January 1, 2000. The Department generally calculates 
subsidies on a calendar year basis, and PT. Gunung Rajapaksi had no 
shipments before 2000; therefore, we will review the subsidies received 
by the company only for calendar year 2000.

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                                                        Period to be
          Countervailing duty proceeding                  reviewed
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Indonesia: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality        01/01/00-12/31/00
 Steel Plate, C-560-806: PT. Gunung Rajapaksi.....
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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 suspend 
liquidation of any unliquidated entries of the subject merchandise from 
the relevant exporter or producer, and 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 may submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective order 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: March 19, 2001.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
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