[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 158 (Thursday, August 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53336-53337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20773]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Notice of Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review: Stainless Steel Bar From India

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

ACTION: Notice of amended final results of antidumping duty 
administrative review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: August 15, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Langan or Cole Kyle, Office 1, 
AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-2613 
or (202) 482-1503, respectively.

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 
(``the Department'') regulations are to 19 CFR part 351 (April 2000).

Scope of Review

    Imports covered by this review are shipments of stainless steel bar 
(``SSB''). SSB means 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. SSB includes cold-
finished SSBs 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.

Amended Final Results

    On July 5, 2002, the Department determined that stainless steel bar 
from India is not being sold in the United States at less than fair 
value, as provided in section 735(a) of the Act. See Stainless Steel 
Bar from India; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review 
(``Final Results''), 67 FR 45956 (July 11, 2002). On July 15, 2002, we 
received ministerial error allegations, timely filed pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.224(c)(2), from the petitioners regarding the Department's final 
margin calculations. Viraj did not submit any ministerial error 
allegations. However, on July 18, 2002, Viraj submitted comments, 
timely filed pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(c)(3), responding to 
petitioners' ministerial error allegations.
    The petitioners contend that the Department inadvertently omitted 
certain expenses and overstated indirect selling expense deductions 
when calculating the general and administrative expense ratio in our 
final results. The petitioners also allege that we incorrectly 
calculated entered value. The petitioners requested that we correct the 
errors and publish a notice of amended final results in the Federal 
Register, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(e). Viraj counters that the 
Department calculated the general and administrative expense ratio 
correctly and that petitioners' allegation concerning the indirect 
selling expense deduction is, in fact, a methodological argument and 
not a ministerial error. Viraj did not comment on the entered value 
allegation.
    In accordance with section 735(e) of the Act, we have determined 
that certain ministerial errors were made in our final margin 
calculations. We corrected the general and administrative expense ratio 
to include certain additional expenses that we inadvertently omitted in 
the final results. We also corrected the entered value calculation. For 
a detailed discussion of these ministerial error allegations and the 
Department's analysis, see Memorandum to Richard W. Moreland, 
``Antidumping Duty Administrative Review of Stainless Steel Bar from 
India; Allegations of Ministerial Errors'' dated August 8, 2002, which 
is on file in the Central Records Unit (``CRU''), room B-099 of the 
main Department building.
    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(e), we are amending the final 
results of the antidumping duty administrative review of stainless 
steel bar from India to correct these ministerial errors. However, the

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amended weighted-average margin is identical to the weighted-average 
margin in the final results (see Final Results). The weighted-average 
dumping margin for Viraj is listed below:

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                                            Original     Amended results
                                           weighted-        weighted-
    Producer/manufacturer/exporter       average margin   average margin
                                           percentage       percentage
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Viraj Group, Ltd......................            0.47             0.47
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Cash Deposit Rates

    The following antidumping duty deposits will be required on all 
shipments of stainless steel bar from India entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption, effective on or after the publication date 
of the amended final results of this administrative review, as provided 
by section 751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) For Viraj, no antidumping duty 
deposit will be required; (2) for merchandise exported by manufacturers 
or exporters not covered in this review but covered in the original 
less-than-fair-value investigation or a previous review, the cash 
deposit will continue to be the most recent rate published in the final 
determination or final results for which the manufacturer or exporter 
received an individual rate; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered 
in this review, the previous review, or the original investigation, but 
the manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate established 
for the most recent period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and 
(4) if neither the exporter nor the manufacturer is a firm covered in 
this or any previous reviews, the cash deposit rate will be 12.45 
percent, the ``all others'' rate established in the less-than-fair-
value investigation (see Stainless Steel Bar from India; Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 59 FR 66915 (December 
28, 1994)).
    These cash deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in 
effect until publication of the final results of the next 
administrative review.
    We are issuing and publishing these results and this notice in 
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: August 8, 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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