[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 5619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-2595]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-827]


Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China: 
Initiation of Antidumping New Shipper Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Initiation of Antidumping New Shipper Review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received a 
request from Beijing Dixon Ticonderoga Stationery Company, Ltd. 
(Beijing Dixon) to conduct a new shipper review of the antidumping duty 
order on certain cased pencils from the People's Republic of China 
(PRC). In accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(d) of the Department's 
regulations, we are initiating this new shipper review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 4, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Crystal Scherr Crittenden or Howard 
Smith, AD/CVD Enforcement, Office 4, Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-0989 or (202) 482-5193 respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 30, 2002 the Department received a request, in 
accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.214(c), for a new shipper review of 
the antidumping duty order on certain cased pencils (cased pencils) 
from the PRC.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(i) and 19 CFR 
351.214(b)(2)(iii)(A), Beijing Dixon's December 30, 2002 request for 
review certified that it did not export the subject merchandise to the 
United States during the period of investigation (POI) and that, since 
the initiation of the cased pencils investigation, it has never been 
affiliated with any exporter or producer which did export subject 
merchandise to the United States during the POI. Pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.214(b)(2)(iii)(B), Beijing Dixon's request certified that its 
export activities are not controlled by the central government of the 
PRC.
    In addition, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iv), Beijing Dixon's 
request contained documentation establishing : the date on which the 
subject merchandise first entered the United States; the volume of that 
and other shipments; and, the date of the first sale to an unaffiliated 
customer in the United States.
    It is the Department's usual practice in cases involving non-market 
economies to require that a company seeking to establish eligibility 
for an antidumping duty rate separate from the country-wide rate 
provide de jure and de facto evidence of an absence of government 
control over the company's export activities. See Certain Preserved 
Mushrooms from the People's Republic of China: Initiation of New 
Shipper Antidumping Duty Review, 65 FR 17257 (March 31, 2000). 
Accordingly, we will issue a separate-rates questionnaire to the above-
named respondent. If the respondent provides sufficient evidence that 
it is not subject to either de jure or de facto government control with 
respect to its exports of cased pencils, this review will proceed. If, 
on the other hand, Beijing Dixon does not demonstrate its eligibility 
for a separate rate, then Beijing Dixon will be deemed to be affiliated 
with other companies that exported cased pencils during the POI. This 
review will then be terminated due to failure of the exporter or 
producer to meet the requirements of section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(II) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iii)(B).

Initiation of Review

    The antidumping duty order on cased pencils from the PRC has a 
December anniversary month. See Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Cased 
Pencils From the People's Republic of China, 59 FR 66909 (December 28, 
1994). The Department received Beijing Dixon's request for review on 
December 30, 2002. The Department's regulations provide that it will 
initiate a new shipper review in the calendar month immediately 
following the anniversary month if the request for the review is made 
during the six-month period ending with the end of the anniversary 
month. See 19 CFR 351.214(d)(1).
    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(d), we are initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping 
duty order on cased pencils from the PRC. We intend to issue the 
preliminary results of this review not later than 180 days after the 
date on which the review is initiated.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(g)(1)(i)(A), the period of review (POR) 
for a new shipper review initiated in the month immediately following 
the anniversary month will be the twelve-month period immediately 
preceding the anniversary month. Therefore, the POR for this new 
shipper is:

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    Antidumping duty [chyph]proceeding          Period to be reviewed
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Certain Cased Pencils from the PRC, A-570-
 827:.....................................
Beijing Dixon Ticonderoga Stationery                    12/1/01-11/30/02
 Company, Ltd.............................
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    We will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to allow, at the option 
of the importer, the posting, until the completion of the review, of a 
bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the 
subject merchandise from Beijing Dixon in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.214(e). Because Beijing Dixon certified that it both produces and 
exports the subject merchandise, the sale of which is the basis for 
this new shipper review request, we will apply the bonding privilege 
only to subject merchandise for which Beijing Dixon is both the 
producer and the exporter.
    Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective order in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 
351.306.
    This initiation and notice are in accordance with section 751(a) of 
the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 351.214.

    Dated: January 28, 2003.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-2595 Filed 2-3-03; 8:45 am]
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