[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 191 (Tuesday, October 2, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50173-50174]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24620]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-428-825]


Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils From Germany; Final 
Results of Changed Circumstances Review

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances review, and 
revocation, in part, of order of the antidumping duty order.

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SUMMARY: On August 17, 2001, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of 
a changed circumstances review and notice of intent to revoke in part 
the antidumping duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils 
from Germany. See Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils From 
Germany; Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 66 FR 43183 (August 17, 2001) 
(Preliminary Results). This notice concerned the specialty stainless 
steel strip product known as Semi Vac 90, described in the ``Scope of 
Changed Circumstances Review'' section, below. We gave interested 
parties an opportunity to comment on our preliminary results; no party 
submitted comments on these preliminary results. We are hereby revoking 
the order in part because domestic producers of the like product have 
expressed no interest in continuation of the order with respect to this 
particular stainless steel product.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 2, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert M. James, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0649.

THE APPLICABLE STATUTE AND REGULATIONS: Unless otherwise indicated, all 
citations to the statute are references to the provisions effective 
January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Tariff Act), by the Uruguay Round 
Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all citations 
to the Department's regulations are to the regulations as codified at 
19 CFR part 351 (2000).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department published the antidumping duty order on stainless 
steel sheet and strip in coils from Germany on July 27, 1999. See 
Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value 
and Antidumping Duty Order, 64 FR 40557. On May 18, 2001, Sensormatic 
Electronics Corporation (Sensormatic) requested that the Department 
determine that a specialty stainless steel strip product known as 
SemiVac 90 is outside the scope of the antidumping duty order on 
stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Germany; in the 
alternative, Sensormatic requested that the Department revoke in part 
the antidumping duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils 
from Germany on the basis of ``changed circumstances.'' See Letter from 
Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., May 18, 2001, at 2 and 4. On July 5, 
2001, producers of the domestic like product (Allegheny Ludlum 
Corporation, Armco, Inc., J&L Specialty Steel, Inc., Washington Steel 
Division of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, United Steelworkers

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of America, AFL-CIO/CLC, Butler Armco Independent Union, and Zanesville 
Armco Independent Organization) informed the Department that, 
consistent with the position stated during the less-than-fair-value 
investigation, they have no objection to Sensormatic's request. See 
Letter from Collier Shannon Scott, July 5, 2001.
    As noted, our August 17, 2001 Preliminary Results elicited no 
comment from any interested party.

Scope of Changed Circumstances Review

    The product subject to this changed circumstances review is a 
permanent magnet iron-chromium-cobalt stainless steel strip containing, 
by weight, 13 percent chromium, 6 percent cobalt, 71 percent iron, 6 
percent nickel and 4 percent molybdenum. The product is supplied in 
widths up to 1.27 cm (12.7 mm), inclusive, with a thickness between 45 
and 75 microns, inclusive. This product exhibits magnetic remanence 
between 400 and 780 nWb, and coercivity of between 60 and 100 oersteds. 
This product is currently supplied under the trade name ``SemiVac 90.''

Final Results of Review, and Revocation in Part of the Antidumping 
Duty Order

    Pursuant to sections 751(d)(1) and 782(h)(2) of the Tariff Act, the 
Department may revoke an antidumping or countervailing duty order, in 
whole or in part, based on a review under section 751(b) of the Tariff 
Act (i.e., a changed circumstances review) where the Department 
determines that producers accounting for substantially all of the 
production of that domestic like product have expressed a lack of 
interest in continuance of an order. Similarly, section 351.222(g) of 
the Department's regulations provides that the Department will conduct 
a changed circumstances administrative review under 19 CFR 351.216, and 
may revoke an order (in whole or in part), if it determines that 
producers accounting for substantially all of the production of the 
domestic like product to which the order pertains have expressed a lack 
of interest in the relief provided by the order, in whole or in part, 
or if other changed circumstances sufficient to warrant revocation 
exist.
    The affirmative statement by the domestic producers expressing no 
opposition to excluding Semi Vac 90 from the scope of the order 
constitutes changed circumstances sufficient to warrant partial 
revocation of this order. In addition, these producers, the original 
petitioners in this case, account for substantially all of the 
production of the domestic like product. Therefore, in accordance with 
sections 751(b) and (d) and 782(h)(2) of the Tariff Act, and 19 CFR 
351.216(d), the Department is revoking the order in part as it pertains 
to the permanent magnet iron-chromium-cobalt stainless steel strip 
product known as SemiVac 90 described above. We will instruct the U.S. 
Customs Service to liquidate without regard to antidumping duties, as 
applicable, all unliquidated entries of this specialty stainless 
product not subject to final results of an administrative review, as of 
the date of publication of these final results of review in the Federal 
Register. See 19 CFR 351.222. We will also direct the Customs Service 
to refund any estimated antidumping duties collected, and to pay 
interest on such refunds in accordance with section 778 of the Tariff 
Act. Finally, we will instruct the Customs Service to discontinue the 
suspension of liquidation and the collection of cash deposits on 
entries of Semi Vac 90 effective on the date of publication of this 
notice.
    This changed circumstances review and revocation in part, and this 
notice, are published in accordance with sections 751(b) and (d) and 
782(h) of the Tariff Act, and 19 CFR 351.216 and 351.222(g).

    Dated: September 20, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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