[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 45 (Thursday, March 7, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 10385]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5644]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-427-820]


Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From France

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of antidumping duty order.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 7, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Smith or Terre Keaton at (202) 
482-1766 and (202) 482-1280, 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.

Antidupming Duty Order

    In accordance with section 735(a) of the Act, the Department 
published its final determination that stainless steel bar from France 
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 France, 67 FR 3143 (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 France. 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 France. 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 France, 66 FR 40201 (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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Aubert & Duval, S.A........................................        71.83
Ugine-Savoie Imphy, S.A....................................         3.90
All Others.................................................         3.90
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    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to 
stainless steel bar from France 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(b).

    Dated: March 4, 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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