[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 4169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1901]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-791-815]


Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Ferrovanadium from the Republic 
of South Africa

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

ACTION: Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Ferrovanadium from the 
Republic of South Africa.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 28, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Manning or Crystal Scherr 
Crittenden; AD/CVD Enforcement, Office 4, Group II, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; 
telephone: (202) 482-5253 or (202) 482-0989, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of the Order

    The scope of this order covers all ferrovanadium regardless of 
grade, chemistry, form, shape, or size. Ferrovanadium is an alloy of 
iron and vanadium that is used chiefly as an additive in the 
manufacture of steel. The merchandise is commercially and 
scientifically identified as vanadium. It specifically excludes 
vanadium additives other than ferrovanadium, such as nitrided vanadium, 
vanadium-aluminum master alloys, vanadium chemicals, vanadium oxides, 
vanadium waste and scrap, and vanadium-bearing raw materials such as 
slag, boiler residues and fly ash. Merchandise under the following 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) item numbers 
2850.00.2000, 8112.40.3000, and 8112.40.6000 are specifically excluded. 
Ferrovanadium is classified under HTSUS item number 7202.92.00. 
Although the HTSUS item number is provided for convenience and Customs 
purposes, the Department's written description of the scope of this 
order remains dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

    On January 13, 2003, in accordance with section 735(d) of Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), the International Trade Commission 
(the Commission) notified the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
of its final determination that an industry in the United States is 
materially injured by reason of less-than-fair-value imports of subject 
merchandise from South Africa, pursuant to section 735(b)(1)(A) of the 
Act. 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 merchandise exceeds the U.S. price of the 
merchandise for all relevant entries of ferrovanadium from South 
Africa. For all producers and exporters, antidumping duties will be 
assessed on all unliquidated entries of subject merchandise that are 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after July 
8, 2002, 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 
and Postponement of Final Determination: Ferrovanadium from the 
Republic of South Africa, 67 FR 45083 (July 8, 2002).
    On or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, the U.S. Customs Service must require, at the same time as 
importers would normally deposit estimated duties, cash deposits for 
the subject merchandise equal to the estimated weighted-average dumping 
margins listed below. The ``All Others'' rate applies to all exporters 
of subject merchandise not specifically listed below.

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                                                             Margin
                 Manufacturer/exporter                  [chyph](percent)
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Highveld Steel and [chyph]Vanadium Corporation, Ltd...           116.00
Xstrata South Africa [chyph](Proprietary) Limited.....           116.00
All Others............................................           116.00
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    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to 
ferrovanadium from the Republic of South Africa. 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 issued and published in accordance with section 
736(a) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.211.

    Dated: January 21, 2003.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-1901 Filed 1-27-03; 8:45 am]
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