[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 236 (Friday, December 7, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63521-63522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30377]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-816]


Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: 
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From Korea

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

ACTION: Notice of rescission of the antidumping duty administrative 
review of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from 
Korea.

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SUMMARY: On October 1, 2001, the Department of Commerce 
(``Department'') published a notice of initiation of an antidumping 
duty administrative review on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel 
flat

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products from Korea (66 FR 49924). This review covers three 
manufacturers/exporters of the subject merchandise. The period of 
review (``POR'') is August 1, 2000 through July 31, 2001. This review 
has now been rescinded as a result of a timely withdrawal of the 
request for administrative review by the interested parties.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 7, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marlene Hewitt or Jim Doyle, 
Enforcement Group III, Office 9, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone 202-482-1385 (Hewitt) or 
202-482-0159 (Doyle), fax 202-482-1388.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 1930 
(``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 (``URAA''). In addition, unless otherwise 
indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to the 
regulations at 19 CFR part 351 (2001).

Background

    On August 1, 2001, the Department published a notice of opportunity 
to request an administrative review of this order for the period August 
1, 2000 through July 31, 2001. See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 
Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request 
Administrative Review, 66 FR 39729 (August 1, 2001). Pohang Iron & 
Steel Co., Ltd. (``POSCO''), Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd. (``Dongbu'') and 
Union Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (``Union''), Korean producers or 
exporters of subject merchandise (collectively ``respondents''), timely 
requested that the Department conduct an administrative review of their 
sales of subject merchandise to the United States. On October 1, 2001, 
in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act, the Department published 
in the Federal Register a notice of initiation of this antidumping duty 
administrative review. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Administrative Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 66 FR 
49924 (October 1, 2001).

Rescission of Review

    Dongbu and Union withdrew their request for review on November 5, 
2001 and POSCO withdrew its request for review on November 7, 2001. The 
Department's regulations provide that the Secretary will rescind an 
administrative review ``if a party that requested a review withdraws 
the request within 90 days of the date of publication of notice of 
initiation of the requested review.'' See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1). 
Respondents withdrew their review requests within the 90 day time 
limit. There were no other requests for administrative review from 
petitioners or other interested parties. Therefore, in accordance with 
section 351.213(d)(1) of the Department's regulations, we are 
rescinding this administrative review. See Memorandum to the File from 
Marlene Hewitt, Enforcement Group III: Recission of Eighth Review 
(November 21, 2001). The Department will issue appropriate assessment 
instructions to the U.S. Customs Service.
    This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written 
notification of the return or destruction of APO materials or 
conversion to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to 
comply with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable 
violation.
    This notice is published in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of 
the Act, and section 351.213(d) of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: November 29, 2001.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
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