[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 173 (Thursday, September 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46601-46605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-22415]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-848]


Notice of Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty New Shipper 
Review: Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of 
China

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting a 
new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on freshwater crawfish 
tail meat from the People's Republic of China (PRC) in response to a 
request from Shanghai Taoen International Trading Co., Ltd. (Shanghai 
Taoen). The review covers the period September 1, 1999 through 
September 30, 2000.
    We preliminarily determine that sales have been made below normal 
value (NV). The preliminary results are listed below in the section 
titled ``Preliminary Results of Review.'' If these preliminary results 
are adopted in our final results, we will instruct the U.S. Customs 
Service to assess antidumping duties based on the difference between 
the export price (EP) and NV. Interested parties are invited to comment 
on these preliminary results. (See the ``Preliminary Results of 
Review'' section of this notice.)

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 6, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Renkey or Mark Hoadley, Office 
of AD/CVD Enforcement VII, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
2312 or (202) 482-0666, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act) are 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 are to 19 CFR part 351 
(2000).

Background

    The Department published in the Federal Register an antidumping 
duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from the PRC on September 
15, 1997 (62 FR 48218). On September 29, 2000 the Department received 
timely requests for review, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of 
the Act and section 351.214(c) of the Department's regulations, from 
Coastal (Jiangsu) Foods Co., Ltd. (Coastal), Shouzhou Huaxiang 
Foodstuffs Co., Ltd. (Shouzhou), and Shanghai Taoen, to conduct new 
shipper reviews of the antidumping duty order on freshwater crawfish 
tail meat from the PRC.
    On November 6, 2000, the Department published its initiation of 
these new shipper reviews for the period September 1, 1999 through 
August 31, 2000. See Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's 
Republic of China: Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Administrative 
Reviews, 65 FR 66525 (November 6, 2000).
    On March 16, 2001 the Department published an extension of the 
deadline for completion of the preliminary results of these new shipper 
reviews until August 27, 2001. See Notice of Extension of Time Limit 
for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Reviews: 
Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the People's Republic of China, 66 
FR 15219 (March 16, 2001).
    The new shipper requests were made pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B) 
of the Act and Sec. 351.214(b) of the Department's regulations, which 
state that, if the Department receives a request for review from an 
exporter or producer of the subject merchandise stating that it did not 
export the merchandise to the United States during the period covered 
by the original investigation (the POI) and that such exporter or 
producer is not affiliated with any exporter or producer who exported 
the subject merchandise during that period, the Department shall 
conduct a new shipper review to establish an individual weighted-
average dumping margin for such exporter or producer, if the Department 
has not previously established such a margin for the exporter or 
producer.
    The regulations require that the exporter or producer shall include 
in its request, with appropriate certifications: (i) The date on which 
the merchandise was first entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption, or, if it cannot certify as to the date of first entry, 
the date on which it first shipped the merchandise for export to the 
United States, or if the merchandise has not yet been shipped or 
entered, the date of sale; (ii) a list of the firms with which it is 
affiliated; (iii) a statement from such exporter or producer, and from 
each affiliated firm, that it did not, under its current or a former 
name, export the merchandise during the period of investigation (POI); 
and (iv) in an antidumping proceeding involving inputs from a non-
market-economy (NME) country, a certification that the export 
activities of such exporter or producer are not controlled by the 
central government. See 351.214(b)(2) of the Department's Regulations.
    The request received from Shanghai Taoen was accompanied by 
information and certifications establishing the effective date on which 
this company first shipped and entered freshwater crawfish tail meat 
for consumption in the United States, the volume of each shipment, and 
the date of first sale to an unaffiliated customer in the United 
States. Shanghai Taoen certified that it was not affiliated with any 
company which exported freshwater crawfish tail meat from the PRC 
during the POI. In addition, Shanghai Taoen certified that its export 
activities are not controlled by the central government. With respect 
to Coastal and Shouzhou, their entries of subject merchandise occurred 
well after the end of the period of review (POR), and we determined 
that an expansion of the normal POR would likely prevent the Department 
from completing this review within the designated time limits. 
Therefore, we rescinded the new shipper reviews for Coastal and 
Shouzhou. For a full discussion of this issue, see Freshwater Crawfish 
Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China: Final Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Reviews, 66 FR 41831 (August 9, 2001) 
(Rescission Notice). Thus, only the new shipper review of Shanghai 
Taoen remains.

Scope of Review

    The product covered by this review is freshwater crawfish tail 
meat, in all its

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forms (whether washed or with fat on, whether purged or unpurged), 
grades, and sizes; whether frozen, fresh, or chilled; and regardless of 
how it is packed, preserved, or prepared. Excluded from the scope of 
the order are live crawfish and other whole crawfish, whether boiled, 
frozen, fresh, or chilled. Also excluded are saltwater crawfish of any 
type, and parts thereof. Freshwater crawfish tail meat is currently 
classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTS) under item numbers 1605.40.10.10 and 1605.40.10.90, which are the 
new HTS numbers for prepared foodstuffs, indicating peeled crawfish 
tail meat and other, as introduced by the U.S. Customs Service in mid-
year 2000, and HTS items 0306.19.00.10 and 0306.29.00, which are 
reserved for fish and crustaceans in general. The HTS subheadings are 
provided for convenience and Customs purposes only. The written 
description of the scope of this order is dispositive.

Verification

    As provided in section 782(i) of the Act, we conducted a 
verification of the responses of Shanghai Taoen. We used standard 
verification procedures, including on-site inspection of the 
manufacturer's facilities and the examination of relevant sales and 
financial records. Our verification results are outlined in the public 
versions of the verification reports, which are on file in the Central 
Records Unit (room B099 of the Main Commerce Building).

New Shipper Status

    Based on the questionnaire responses received from Shanghai Taoen, 
and our verification thereof, we preliminarily determine that this 
company has met the requirements to qualify as a new shipper during the 
POR. We have determined that the company made its first sale or 
shipment of subject merchandise to the United States during the POR, 
that these sales were bona fide sales, and that these companies were 
not affiliated with any exporter or producer that previously shipped to 
the United States.

Separate Rates

    Shanghai Taoen has requested a separate, company-specific rate. In 
its questionnaire responses, the company states that it is an 
independent legal entity.
    To establish whether a company operating in an NME country is 
sufficiently independent to be entitled to a separate rate, the 
Department analyzes each exporting entity under the test established in 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Sparklers from 
the People's Republic of China, 56 FR 20588 (May 6, 1991), as amplified 
by Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Silicon 
Carbide from the People's Republic of China, 59 FR 22585 (May 2, 1994). 
Under this policy, exporters in NMEs are entitled to separate, company-
specific margins when they can demonstrate an absence of government 
control, both in law and in fact, with respect to export activities. 
Evidence supporting, though not requiring, a finding of de jure absence 
of government control over export activities includes: (1) An absence 
of restrictive stipulations associated with an individual exporter's 
business and export licenses; (2) any legislative enactments 
decentralizing control of companies; and (3) any other formal measures 
by the government decentralizing control of companies. De facto absence 
of government control over exports is based on four factors: (1) 
Whether each exporter sets its own export prices independently of the 
government and without the approval of a government authority; (2) 
whether each exporter retains the proceeds from its sales and makes 
independent decisions regarding the disposition of profits or financing 
of losses; (3) whether each exporter has the authority to negotiate and 
sign contracts and other agreements; and (4) whether each exporter has 
autonomy from the government regarding the selection of management.

De Jure Control

    With respect to the absence of de jure government control over the 
export activities of all the companies reviewed, evidence on the record 
indicates that Shanghai Taoen's export activities are not controlled by 
the government. Shanghai Taoen submitted evidence of its legal right to 
set prices independently of all government oversight. The business 
license of the company indicates that it is permitted to engage in the 
exportation of crawfish. We find no evidence of de jure government 
control restricting this company's exportation of crawfish.
    In general, no export quotas apply to crawfish. Prior verifications 
have confirmed that there are no commodity-specific export licenses 
required and no quotas for the seafood category ``Other,'' which 
includes crawfish, in China's Tariff and Non-Tariff Handbook for 1996. 
In addition, we have previously confirmed that crawfish is not on the 
list of commodities with planned quotas in the 1992 PRC Ministry of 
Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation document entitled Temporary 
Provisions for Administration of Export Commodities. (See Freshwater 
Crawfish Tail Meat From The People's Republic of China; Preliminary 
Results of New Shipper Review, 64 FR 8543 (February 22, 1999) and 
Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China; 
Final Results of New Shipper Review, 64 FR 27961 (May 24, 1999) (Ningbo 
New Shipper Review).)
    The following law, which has been placed on the record of this 
review, indicates a lack of de jure government control over privately-
owned companies, such as Shanghai Taoen, and that control over these 
enterprises rests with the enterprises themselves. The Administrative 
Regulations of the People's Republic of China for Controlling the 
Registration of Enterprises as Legal Persons (Legal Persons Law), 
issued on June 13, 1988 by the State Administration for Industry and 
Commerce of the PRC and placed on the record of this review, provides 
that, to qualify as legal persons, companies must have the ``ability to 
bear civil liability independently'' and the right to control and 
manage their businesses. These regulations also state that, as an 
independent legal entity, a company is responsible for its own profits 
and losses. See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value: Manganese Metal from the People's Republic of China, 60 FR 
56045 (November 6, 1995) (Manganese Metal). At verification, we saw 
that the business license for Shanghai Taoen was granted in accordance 
with this law. Therefore, we preliminarily determine that there is an 
absence of de jure control over export activity with respect to this 
firm.

De Facto Control

    With respect to the absence of de facto control over export 
activities, the information provided, and reviewed at verification, 
indicates that the management of Shanghai Taoen is responsible for the 
determination of export prices, profit distribution, marketing 
strategy, and contract negotiations. Our analysis indicates that there 
is no government involvement in the daily operations or the selection 
of management for this company. In addition, we have found that the 
respondent's pricing and export strategy decisions are not subject to 
any outside entity's review or approval, and that there are no 
governmental policy directives that affect these decisions.
    There are no restrictions on the use of export earnings. The 
company's general manager has the right to negotiate and enter into 
contracts, and may delegate

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this authority to employees within the company. There is no evidence 
that this authority is subject to any level of governmental approval. 
Shanghai Taoen has stated that its management is selected by its board 
of directors and/or its employees and that there is no government 
involvement in the selection process. Lastly, decisions made by 
respondent concerning purchases of subject merchandise from other 
suppliers are not subject to government approval. Consequently, because 
evidence on the record indicates an absence of government control, both 
in law and in fact, over its export activities, we preliminarily 
determine that a separate rate should be applied to Shanghai Taoen.

Normal Value Comparisons

    To determine whether respondent's sales of the subject merchandise 
to the United States were made at prices below NV, we compared their 
United States prices to NV, as described in the ``United States Price'' 
and ``Normal Value'' sections of this notice.

United States Price

    For Shanghai Taoen, we based United States price on EP in 
accordance with section 772(a) of the Act, because the first sale to an 
unaffiliated purchaser was made prior to importation, and constructed 
export price (CEP) was not otherwise warranted by the facts on the 
record. We calculated EP based on the packed price from the exporter to 
the first unaffiliated purchaser in the United States. We deducted 
foreign inland freight and brokerage and handling expenses from the 
starting price (gross unit price) in accordance with section 772(c) of 
the Act.

Normal Value

    Section 773(c)(1) of the Act provides that the Department shall 
determine NV using a factors-of-production methodology if (1) the 
merchandise is exported from an NME country, and (2) available 
information does not permit the calculation of NV using home-market 
prices, third-country prices, or constructed value under section 773(a) 
of the Act.
    In every case conducted by the Department involving the PRC, the 
PRC has been treated as an NME country. Pursuant to section 
771(18)(C)(i) of the Act, any determination that a foreign country is 
an NME country shall remain in effect until revoked by the 
administering authority. None of the companies contested such treatment 
in these reviews. Accordingly, we have applied surrogate values to the 
factors of production to determine NV. See Factor Values Memo for the 
Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review of 
Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the People's Republic of China, 
August 27, 2001 (Factor Values Memo).
    We calculated NV based on factors of production in accordance with 
section 773(c)(4) of the Act and section 351.408(c) of our regulations. 
Consistent with the original investigation and the first administrative 
review of this order, we determined that India (1) is comparable to the 
PRC in level of economic development, and (2) is a significant producer 
of comparable merchandise. With the exceptions of the crawfish input 
and by-product, we valued the factors of production using publicly 
available information from India. We adjusted the Indian import prices 
by adding freight expenses to make them delivered prices. Because 
Shanghai Taoen was unable to support its reported tape factor at 
verification, we are using partial facts available for this factor, in 
accordance with section 776(a) of the Act and section 351.308 of the 
Department's regulations. For tape, we are using the amount calculated 
at verification.
    In the original investigation of sales at less than fair value 
(LTFV) and in previous reviews of this order, for the crawfish input, 
we used Spanish import statistics for live freshwater crawfish imported 
from Portugal. However, Spanish imports of live freshwater crawfish 
from Portugal have declined drastically. From April 1999 through March 
2000, the production period corresponding to the current review, 
Spanish imports from Portugal were only 17 metric tons, in contrast to 
the 357 metric tons used during the investigation, and 160 metric tons 
used during the 1997-98 administrative review. This represents a 
decline of 95.2 percent since the period of the LTFV investigation. In 
addition, unlike in other years, Spanish imports from Portugal were 
heavily weighted towards one month. This one month accounted for 71 
percent of the total volume of imports from Portugal for that year. 
Small import volumes as a whole, and one month accounting for the vast 
proportion of imports, seem to indicate that live freshwater crawfish 
is no longer a product that is regularly traded between Portugal and 
Spain. Therefore, we searched for data reflecting a more substantial 
volume of trade. For these preliminary results, we have used Australian 
farm gate prices for whole, live freshwater crawfish. See, Factor 
Values Memo. For a complete discussion of our choice of Australian farm 
gate prices, refer to Issues and Decision Memo for the Final Results of 
the Antidumping Duty New Shipper Reviews of Freshwater Crawfish Tail 
Meat from the People's Republic of China, August 20, 2001 (Comment 1) 
(September 1999-March 2000 Decision Memo). The public version of this 
document is on file in the Central Records Unit (room B099 of the Main 
Commerce Building).
    We valued the factors of production as follows:
     To value whole crawfish, we used the Australian farm gate 
price for freshwater crawfish ($3 Australian per kilogram for 
freshwater crawfish less than 40 grams) as reported in Freshwater 
Crawfish Tail Meat (crawfish) from the People's Republic of China 
(PRC): Meetings Regarding the Crawfish Industry in Western Australia, 
July 31, 2001. For further details, refer to the September 1999-March 
2000 Decision Memo, at Comment 4.
     To value the by-product of shells, we used a September 
1999 free-on-board (FOB) factory price quote for crab and shrimp shells 
from a Canadian seller of crustacean shells and incorporated a 30 
percent wet/dry conversion factor. For further details, see Factors 
Value Memorandum.
     To value coal and electricity, we used data reported as 
the average Indian domestic prices within the categories of ``Steam 
Coal for Industry'' and ``Electricity for Industry,'' published in the 
International Energy Agency's publication, Energy Prices and Taxes, 
First Quarter, 2000. We adjusted the cost of coal to include an amount 
for transportation. For water, we relied upon public information from 
the October 1997 Second Water Utilities Data Book: Asian and Pacific 
Region, published by the Asian Development Bank.
    To achieve comparability of energy and water prices to the factors 
reported for the crawfish processing periods applicable to the 
companies under review, we adjusted these factor values to reflect 
inflation to the applicable crawfish processing season during the POR 
using the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for India, as published in the 
2001 International Financial Statistics (IFS) by the International 
Monetary Fund (IMF).
     To value packing materials (plastic bags, cardboard boxes 
and adhesive tape), we relied upon Indian import data from the April 
1998 through March 1999 issues of Monthly Statistics of the Foreign 
Trade of India (Monthly Statistics). We adjusted these prices to 
reflect inflation to the crawfish processing season during the POR. We 
adjusted the values of packing materials

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to include freight costs incurred between the supplier and the factory. 
For transportation distances used in the calculation of freight 
expenses on packing materials, we added, to surrogate values from 
India, a surrogate freight cost using the shorter of (a) the distances 
between the closest PRC port and the factory, or (b) the distance 
between the domestic supplier and the factory. See Notice of Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Collated Roofing Nails 
From the People's Republic of China, 62 FR 51410 (October 1, 1997) 
(Roofing Nails).
     To value factory overhead, selling, general, and 
administrative expenses (SG&A), and profit, we calculated simple 
average rates using publicly available financial statements of four 
Indian seafood processing companies, and applied these rates to the 
calculated cost of manufacture. See Factor Values Memorandum.
     For labor, we used the PRC regression-based wage rate at 
Import Administration's home page, Import Library, Expected Wages of 
Selected NME Countries, revised in May 2000. See http://ia.ita.doc.gov/wages/. Because of the variability of wage rates in countries with 
similar per capita gross domestic products, section 351.408(c)(3) of 
the Department's regulations requires the use of a regression-based 
wage rate. The source of these wage rate data on the Import 
Administration's web site is the 1998 Year Book of Labour Statistics, 
International Labour Office (Geneva: 1998), Chapter 5: Wages in 
Manufacturing.
     We valued movement expenses as follows:
     To value truck freight expenses we used seventeen price 
quotes from six different Indian trucking companies which were used in 
the antidumping investigation of Bulk Aspirin from the People's 
Republic of China, 65 FR 33805 (May 25, 2000). We adjusted the rates to 
reflect inflation to the month of sale of the finished product using 
the WPI for India from the IFS. 
    To value brokerage and handling in the home market, we used 
information reported in the antidumping administrative review of 
Certain Stainless Steel Wire Rod From India; Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative and New Shipper Reviews, 63 FR 48184 
(September 9, 1998) (Stainless Steel Wire Rod from India), and also 
used in the Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of 
China: Final Results of Administrative Antidumping Duty and New Shipper 
Reviews, and Final Rescission of New Shipper Review, 65 FR 20948 (April 
19, 2000). We adjusted the rates to reflect inflation to the month of 
sale using the WPI for India from the IFS.
    We used the average of the foreign brokerage and handling expenses 
reported in the U.S. sales listing of the public questionnaire response 
submitted in the antidumping review of Viraj Group, Ltd. in Stainless 
Steel Wire Rod from India. Charges were reported on a per metric ton 
basis. We adjusted these values to reflect for inflation to the month 
of sale using the WPI for India from the IFS. For further discussion, 
see Factor Values Memorandum.

Currency Conversion

    We made currency conversions pursuant to section 351.415 of the 
Department's regulations at the rates certified by the Federal Reserve 
Bank. See http://ia.ita.doc.gov/exchange/index.html.

Preliminary Results of Review

    We preliminarily determine that the following dumping margin 
exists:

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                                                              Margin
          Manufacturer/exporter             Time period      (percent)
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Shanghai Taoen..........................  9/1/99-9/30/00            7.23
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    Any interested party may request a hearing within 30 days of 
publication of this notice in accordance with section 351.310(c) of the 
Department's regulations. Any hearing would normally be held 37 days 
after the publication of this notice, or the first workday thereafter, 
at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20230. Individuals who wish to request a hearing 
must submit a written request within 30 days of the publication of this 
notice in the Federal Register to the Assistant Secretary for Import 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1870, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Requests for a public 
hearing should contain: (1) the party's name, address, and telephone 
number; (2) the number of participants; and, (3) to the extent 
practicable, an identification of the arguments to be raised at the 
hearing. Unless otherwise notified by the Department, interested 
parties may submit case briefs within 30 days of the date of 
publication of this notice in accordance with 351.309(c)(ii) of the 
Department's regulations. As part of the case brief, parties are 
encouraged to provide a summary of the arguments not to exceed five 
pages and a table of statutes, regulations, and cases cited. Rebuttal 
briefs, which must be limited to issues raised in the case briefs, must 
be filed within five days after the case brief is filed. If a hearing 
is held, an interested party may make an affirmative presentation only 
on arguments included in that party's case brief and may make a 
rebuttal presentation only on arguments included in that party's 
rebuttal brief. Parties should confirm by telephone the time, date, and 
place of the hearing 48 hours before the scheduled time.
    The Department will issue the final results of this new shipper 
review, which will include the results of its analysis of issues raised 
in the briefs, within 90 days from the date of this preliminary result, 
unless the time limit is extended.
    Upon completion of this new shipper review, the Department shall 
determine, and the U.S. Customs Service shall assess, antidumping 
duties on all appropriate entries. The Department will issue 
appraisement instructions directly to the U.S. Customs Service upon 
completion of this review. For assessment purposes, we calculated 
importer-specific assessment rates for freshwater crawfish tail meat 
from the PRC. We divided the total dumping margins (calculated as the 
difference between NV and EP) for each importer by the total quantity 
of subject merchandise sold to that importer during the POR. Upon the 
completion of this review, we will direct Customs to assess the 
resulting quantity-based rates against the weight in kilograms of each 
entry of the subject merchandise by the importer during the POR. See 
Memorandum to Barbara E. Tillman through Maureen Flannery, from Mark 
Hoadley: Collection of Cash Deposits and Assessment of Duties on 
Freshwater Crawfish from the PRC, August 27, 2001.
    The following deposit rates will be effective upon publication of 
the final results of this new shipper review for all shipments of 
freshwater crawfish tail meat from the PRC entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The per kilogram 
cash deposit rate for Shanghai Taoen will be the total amount of duties 
it owes for the POR divided by the total quantity it entered during the 
POR; (2) for previously-reviewed PRC and non-PRC exporters with 
separate rates, the cash deposit rate will be the company-specific rate 
established for the most recent period; (3) for all other PRC 
exporters, the rate will be the current PRC-wide rate, 201.63 percent; 
and (4) for all other non-PRC exporters of

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subject merchandise from the PRC, the cash deposit rate will be the 
rate applicable to the PRC supplier of that exporter.
    This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of 
their responsibility under Sec. 351.402(f) of the Department's 
regulations to file a certificate regarding the reimbursement of 
antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the relevant entries during 
this review period. Failure to comply with this requirement could 
result in the Secretary's presumption that reimbursement of antidumping 
duties occurred and the subsequent assessment of double antidumping 
duties.
    This new shipper review and this notice are published in accordance 
with sections 751(a)(2)(B) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: August 27, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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