[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 78 (Tuesday, April 23, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19734-19735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-9916]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-841]


Notice of Amended Final Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: 
Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from the Republic of Korea

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

ACTION: Notice of amended final results of antidumping duty 
administrative review of stainless steel plate in coils from the 
Republic of Korea.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: April 23, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brandon Farlander and Robert Bolling, 
AD/CVD Enforcement Group III, Office 9, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-0182 and (202) 482-3434, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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's 
regulations are to the regulations codified at 19 C.F.R. Part 351 
(2001).

Scope of the Review

    For purposes of this administrative review, the product covered by 
this order is certain stainless steel plate in coils. Stainless steel 
is an alloy steel containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or less of carbon 
and 10.5 percent or more of chromium, with or without other elements. 
The subject plate products are flat-rolled products, 254 mm or over in 
width and 4.75 mm or more in thickness, in coils, and annealed or 
otherwise heat treated and pickled or otherwise descaled. The subject 
plate may also be further processed (e.g., cold-rolled, polished, etc.) 
provided that it maintains the specified dimensions of plate following 
such processing. Excluded from the scope of this order is the 
following: (1) Plate not in coils, (2) plate that is not annealed or 
otherwise heat treated and pickled or otherwise descaled, (3) sheet and 
strip, and (4) flat bars. In addition, certain cold-rolled stainless 
steel plate in coils is also excluded from the scope of this order. The 
excluded cold-rolled stainless steel plate in coils is defined as that 
merchandise which meets the physical characteristics described above 
that has undergone a cold-reduction process that reduced the thickness 
of the steel by 25 percent or more, and has been annealed and pickled 
after this cold reduction process.
    The merchandise subject to this order is currently classifiable in 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) at 
subheadings: 7219.11.00.30, 7219.11.00.60, 7219.12.00.06, 
7219.12.00.21, 7219.12.00.26, 7219.12.00.51, 7219.12.00.56, 
7219.12.00.66, 7219.12.00.71, 7219.12.00.81, 7219.90.00.10, 
7219.90.00.20, 7219.90.00.25, 7219.90.00.60, 7219.90.00.80, 
7220.11.00.00, 7220.90.00.10, 7220.90.00.15, 7220.90.00.60, and 
7220.90.00.80. Although the HTS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and Customs purposes, the written description of the scope 
of the orders is dispositive.

Amendment of Final Results

    On December 4, 2001, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') issued its final results for the administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on stainless steel plate in coils from the 
Republic of Korea for the November 4, 1998, through April 30, 2000, 
period of review. See Stainless Steel Plate in Coils From the Republic 
of Korea; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review 
(``Final Results''), 66 FR 64017 (December 11, 2001).
    Interested parties did not file any ministerial error comments on 
the Final Results. However, the Department discovered that it 
unintentionally stated that the all others rate is the rate determined 
in the original less-than-fair value (``LTFV'') investigation, rather 
than the all others rate determined in the amended final determination 
of the LTFV investigation. See Notice of Amendment of Final 
Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Stainless

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Steel Plate in Coils From the Republic of Korea; and Stainless Steel 
Sheet and Strip in Coils From the Republic of Korea (``Amended Final 
Determinations''), 66 FR 45279 (August 28, 2001).
    Our Final Results erroneously stated that the ``all others rate'' 
applicable to exporters or manufacturers who have not been covered in 
this review or investigated in the original LTFV investigation is 16.26 
percent rather than the 6.08 percent established in the Amended Final 
Determinations. Thus, the correct all others rate is the all others 
rate established in the Amended Final Determinations.
    The Department's regulations define a ministerial error as an 
``error in addition, subtraction, or other arithmetic function, 
clerical error resulting from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the 
like, and any other similar type of unintentional error which the 
Secretary considers ministerial,'' citing 19 CFR 351.224(f). Therefore, 
the Department notes that it is now correcting this ministerial error 
and stating that the correct all others rate is 6.08 percent, in 
accordance with the Amended Final Determinations.
    Therefore, we are amending the final results of the antidumping 
duty administrative review of stainless steel plate in coils from the 
Republic of Korea to reflect the correction of the above-cited 
ministerial error.
    No other changes have been made to the cash deposit requirements 
provided in the Final Results.
    We are issuing and publishing this determination and notice in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: April 12, 2002
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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