[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 193 (Friday, October 4, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62227-62228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-25304]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-833]


Stainless Steel Bar From Japan: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review.

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SUMMARY: On July 31, 2002, the Department of Commerce published the 
preliminary results of an administrative review of the antidumping duty 
order

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on stainless steel bar from Japan for sales made by Aichi Steel Works, 
Ltd., for the period February 1, 2001, through January 31, 2002. We 
gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary 
results of review but received no comments. Therefore, these final 
results of review have not changed from those presented in the 
preliminary results of review, in which we applied total adverse facts 
available.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 4, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Ellman, AD/CVD Enforcement 3, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-4852.

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. In addition, unless otherwise 
indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the 
Department's) regulations are to the regulations codified at 19 CFR 
Part 351 (April 2001).

Background

    On July 31, 2002, the Department published in the Federal Register 
(67 FR 49673) the preliminary results of the review of this order. In 
the preliminary results, we determined a weighted-average dumping 
margin of 61.47 percent for Aichi Steel Works, Ltd. (Aichi), for the 
period February 1, 2001, through January 31, 2002. We gave interested 
parties an opportunity to comment on our preliminary results. We 
received no comments. The Department has now completed the 
administrative review in accordance with section 751 of the Act.

Scope of Order

    The merchandise covered by this order is stainless steel bar. For 
purposes of this order, the term ``stainless steel bar'' 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. 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), 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, 7222.19.00, 7222.20.00 and 
7222.30.00 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 the order 
is dispositive.

Final Results of the Review

    We received no comments from interested parties, and we have 
determined that no changes to the preliminary results are warranted for 
these final results. Therefore, the weighted-average dumping margin for 
Aichi for the period February 1, 2001, through January 31, 2002, is 
61.47 percent.
    The Department will determine, and the Customs Service shall 
assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. The rate of 
61.47 percent will be assessed uniformly on all entries of Aichi 
merchandise made during the period of review. The Department will issue 
appropriate assessment instructions directly to the Customs Service 
within 15 days of publication of these final results of review.
    Furthermore, the following deposit rates will be effective upon 
publication of these final results for all shipments of the subject 
merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
after the publication date as provided for by section 751(a)(1) of the 
Act: (1) the cash deposit rate for Aichi will be 61.47 percent; (2) for 
previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the 
cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate 
published for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm 
covered in this review, a prior review, or the original less-than-fair-
value (LTFV) 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) for all other producers and/or 
exporters of this merchandise, the cash deposit rate shall be 61.47 
percent, the ``all others'' rate established in the LTFV investigation 
(59 FR 66930, December 28, 1994). This deposit rate shall remain in 
effect until publication of the final results of the next 
administrative review.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) this notice serves as a final 
reminder to importers of their responsibility to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    This notice also serves as the only reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely notification of 
return or destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial 
protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the 
regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    We are issuing and publishing this determination in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.221(b)(5).

    Dated: September 30, 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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