[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 77 (Friday, April 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 20236]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9857]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-811]


Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel From Italy: Rescission of 
Antidumping Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of rescission of antidumping duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: On October 2, 2000, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (65 FR 58733) a notice of initiation of an administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel 
from Italy. This review was requested by the petitioners, and covered 
the period August 1, 1998, through July 31, 1999. The Department is now 
rescinding this review after receiving a withdrawal of its request for 
the review from the petitioners on March 29, 2001.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 20, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Kramer or Steve Bezirganian, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0405 or (202) 482-1131, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:   

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

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

Scope of Review

    The product covered by this review is grain-oriented silicon 
electrical steel, which is a flat-rolled alloy steel product containing 
by weight at least 0.6 percent of silicon, not more than 0.08 percent 
of carbon, not more than 1.0 percent of aluminum, and no other element 
in an amount that would give the steel the characteristics of another 
alloy steel, of a thickness of no more than 0.560 millimeters, in coils 
of any width, or in straight lengths which are of a width measuring at 
least 10 times the thickness, as currently classifiable in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) under item 
numbers 7225.30.7000, 7225.40.7000, 7225.50.8085, 7225.99.0090, 
7226.11.1000, 7226.11.9030, 7226.11.9060, 7226.91.7000, 7226.91.8000, 
7226.92.5000, 7226.92.7050, 7226.92.8050, 7226.99.0000, 7228.30.8050, 
and 7229.90.1000. Although the HTS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, our written descriptions of the scope 
of these proceedings are dispositive.
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 31, 2000, Allegheny Ludlum and 
AK Steel Corporation (formerly Armco, Inc.), collectively 
``petitioners,'' requested an administrative review of the antidumping 
duty order on grain-oriented electrical steel from Italy. We initiated 
this review on October 2, 2000 (65 FR 58733). On March 29, 2001, the 
petitioners filed a letter with the Department withdrawing their 
request for the Department to conduct an administrative review. 
Ordinarily, parties have 90 days from the publication of the notice of 
initiation of review in which to withdraw a request for review. See CFR 
351.213(d)(1). We did not receive petitioners' withdrawal request until 
after the 90-day period had elapsed. However, the review has not 
progressed substantially and there would be no undo burden on the 
parties or the Department if the Department were to rescind the review 
on the basis of this request. Therefore, the Department has determined 
that it would be reasonable to grant the withdrawal at this time.
    This notice is published pursuant to section 751 of the Tariff Act 
of 1930, as amended, (19 U.S.C. 1675 (1999)), and section 351.213 of 
the Department's regulations (19 CFR 351.213 (2000)).

    Dated: April 16, 2001.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, AD/CVD Enforcement Group III.
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