[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 45 (Thursday, March 7, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10384-10385]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5646]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-829]


Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From Italy

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: Jarrod Goldfeder, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-0189.

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 
(``Department'') regulations are 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 is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

    In accordance with section 735(a) of the Act, the Department 
published its final determination that stainless steel bar from Italy 
is being 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 Italy, 67 FR 3155 (January 23, 2002). Subsequently, the 
Department amended its final determination of the antidumping duty 
investigation of stainless steel bar from Italy to correct a 
ministerial error in the final margin calculation for one respondent. 
See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Stainless Steel Bar from Italy, 67 FR 8228 (February 22, 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 Italy.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the 
Department will direct the U.S. Customs Service to assess, upon further 
advice by the Department, antidumping duties equal to the amount by 
which the normal value of the subject merchandise exceeds the export 
price or constructed export price of the subject merchandise for all 
entries of stainless steel bar from Italy, except for subject 
merchandise both produced and exported by Trafilerie Bedini, Srl 
(``Bedini''), which received a de minimis final margin. For all 
producers and exporters, with the exception of Bedini and Acciaierie 
Valbruna Srl/Acciaierie Bolzano S.p.A. (which was de minimis at the 
Department's preliminary determination), antidumping duties will be 
assessed on all unliquidated entries of stainless steel bar entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after August 2, 2001, 
the date of publication of the Department's preliminary determination 
in the Federal Register 66 FR 40214), and the Department will direct 
Customs to refund any cash deposits made, or bonds posted, on any 
subject merchandise which was entered prior to the Department's 
preliminary determination publication date of August 2, 2001. For 
Acciaierie Valbruna Srl/Acciaierie Bolzano S.p.A., antidumping duties 
will be assessed on all unliquidated entries of stainless steel bar 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
January 23, 2002, the date of publication of the Department's final 
determination in the Federal Register 67 FR 3155), and the Department 
will direct Customs to refund any cash deposits made, or bonds posted, 
on any subject merchandise which was entered prior to the Department's 
final determination publication date of January 23, 2002. Finally, for 
Bedini, we will instruct Customs to liquidate without regard to 
antidumping duties and to refund all cash deposits, or bonds posted, 
for entries of subject merchandise both produced and exported by 
Bedini.
    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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                                                               Revised
                                                              Weighted-
                   Exporter/manufacturer                       average
                                                                margin
                                                              percentage
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Acciaierie Valbruna Srl/Acciaierie Bolzano S.p.A...........         2.50

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Acciaiera Foroni SpA.......................................         7.07
Trafilerie Bedini, Srl.....................................        (\2\)
Rodacciai S.p.A............................................         3.83
Cogne Acciai Speciali Srl..................................        33.00
All Others.................................................        3.81
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\1\ Excluded.

    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to 
stainless steel bar from Italy, pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. 
Interested parties may contact the 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 the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.211.

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