[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 45 (Thursday, March 7, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10381-10382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5643]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-412-822]


Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From the United 
Kingdom

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

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ACTION: Notice of antidumping duty order.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 7, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Johnson or Rebecca Trainor at 
(202) 482-4929 and (202) 482-4007, respectively, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (``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 (``URAA''). In addition, 
unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department of 
Commerce's (``the Department's'') regulations refer to 19 CFR part 351 
(April 2000).

Scope of Order

    For purposes of this order, the term ``stainless steel bar'' 
includes articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been 
either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise 
cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along 
their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, 
rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other 
convex polygons. Stainless steel bar includes cold-finished stainless 
steel bars that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether 
produced from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, 
and reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other 
deformations produced during the rolling process.
    Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless 
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have 
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or 
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at 
least twice the thickness), products that have been cut from stainless 
steel sheet, strip or plate, wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, 
of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do 
not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, 
shapes and sections.
    The stainless steel bar subject to this order is currently 
classifiable under subheadings 7222.11.00.05, 7222.11.00.50, 
7222.19.00.05, 7222.19.00.50, 7222.20.00.05, 7222.20.00.45, 
7222.20.00.75, and 7222.30.00.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States (``HTSUS''). Although the HTSUS subheadings are 
provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description 
of the scope of this order dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order:

    In accordance with section 735(a) of the Act, the Department 
published its final determination that stainless steel bar from the 
United Kingdom is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States 
at less than fair value. See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at 
Less Than Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar from the United Kingdom, 67 
FR 3146 (January 23, 2002). On February 28, 2002, the International 
Trade Commission notified the Department of its final determination 
pursuant to section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act that an industry in the 
United States is materially injured by reason of less-than-fair-value 
imports of subject merchandise from the United Kingdom. Therefore, in 
accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the Department will 
direct the Customs Service to assess, upon further advice by the 
Department, antidumping duties equal to the amount by which the normal 
value of the merchandise exceeds the export price or constructed export 
price of the merchandise for all relevant entries of stainless steel 
bar from the United Kingdom. These antidumping duties will be assessed 
on all unliquidated entries of imports of the subject merchandise that 
are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
August 2, 2001, the date on which the Department published its notice 
of affirmative preliminary determination in the Federal Register. See 
Notice of Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: 
Stainless Steel Bar from the United Kingdom, 66 FR 40192 (August 2, 
2001).
    On or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, Customs Service officers must require, at the same time as 
importers would normally deposit estimated duties, a cash deposit equal 
to the estimated weighted-average antidumping duty margins as noted 
below. The ``All Others'' rate applies to all exporters of subject 
merchandise not specifically listed. The weighted-average dumping 
margins are as follows:

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                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                   Exporter/Manufacturer                        margin
                                                              percentage
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Corus Engineering Steels, Ltd..............................         4.48
Crownridge Stainless Steel, Ltd/Valkia Ltd.................       125.77
Firth Rixson Special Steels, Ltd...........................       125.77
All Others.................................................         4.48
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    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to 
stainless steel bar from the United Kingdom pursuant to section 736(a) 
of the Act. Interested parties may contact the Department's Central 
Records Unit, Room B-099 of the Main Commerce Building, for copies of 
an updated list of antidumping duty orders currently in effect.
    This order is published in accordance with section 736(a) of Act 
and 19 CFR 351.211.

    Dated: March 4, 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-5643 Filed 3-6-02; 8:45 am]
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