[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8202-8203]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4131]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-809]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Mexico: Notice of 
Final Court Decision and Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Final Court Decision and Amended Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review.

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SUMMARY: On November 12, 2002, the United States Court of International 
Trade (CIT) affirmed the remand determination of the Department of 
Commerce (the Department) in the 1997-98 administrative review for 
Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (AHMSA) arising from the 
antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from 
Mexico. See Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. v. United States of 
America, Bethlehem Steel Corporation and United States Steel 
Corporation, Consol. Ct. No. 01-00018, Slip Op. 02-136 (CIT November 
12, 2002) (the November 12, 2002 Court order). As there is now a final 
court decision, we are amending the amended final results of the review 
in this matter. We will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to liquidate 
entries subject to these amended final results.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 20, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Killiam or Michael Heaney, 
Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Enforcement, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street N.W. and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,Washington D.C. 20230; 
telephone (202) 482-5222 or (202) 482-4475, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 19, 1993, the Department published the antidumping duty 
order on steel plate from Mexico (58 FR 44165). On February 18, 2000, 
the Department published the final results of the 1997-1998 
administrative review. See Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate 
From Mexico: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 
65 FR 8338, February 18, 2000. The Department published three 
successive sets of amended results, on November 2, 2000 (65 FR 65830), 
December 12, 2000 (65 FR 77566), and January 24, 2001 (66 FR 7619).
    Following the January 24, 2001 amended results, the foreign 
producer, AHMSA, contested certain aspects of the Department's final 
and amended final results at the CIT. The Department requested a 
voluntary remand, and on April 15, 2002, the CIT remanded the amended 
final results to the Department. On June 28, 2002, the Department 
issued its remand redetermination. See Redetermination Pursuant to 
Court Remand Order in Altos Hornos de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. v. United 
States, et. al., Court No. 01-00018, June 28, 2002. See also Memorandum 
to the File from T. Killiam, Case Analyst, ``Analysis of Programming 
Revisions in the Final Remand Results of Review of Cut-to-Length Carbon 
Steel Plate from Mexico A-201-809), June 28, 2002; and Memorandum to 
Neal Halper, Director, Office of Accounting, from Peter S. Scholl, 
Senior Accountant, ``Final Remand Redetermination - Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review of Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from 
Mexico,'' June 28, 2002. In the remand determination, the Department 
used historical and inflation-adjusted information previously placed on 
the record by AHMSA to calculate a revised financial expense rate, and 
applied this revised rate to AHMSA's historical cost of manufacturing.
    On November 12, 2002, the CIT sustained the Department's remand 
results.

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Amendment to Final Results

    The time period for appealing the CIT's decision sustaining the 
Department's remand results has expired and no party has appealed this 
decision. Therefore, pursuant to section 516 A(c) of the Tariff Act, 
(19 U.S.C. 1516a(c)), we are amending our final results of review for 
the period August 1, 1997 through July 1, 1998, to reflect the findings 
in the remand results.
    The revised weighted-average margin for AHMSA is as follows:

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                Manufacturer/Exporter                   Margin (percent)
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AHMSA................................................  0.07 (de minimis)
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    The Department will issue appraisement instructions directly to 
Customs to liquidate without regard to antidumping duties all entries 
of AHMSA's subject merchandise during the POR, as provided in 19 C.F.R. 
351.106(c)(2). The above amended rate will not affect AHMSA's cash 
deposit rates currently in effect, which continue to be based on the 
margins found to exist in the most recently completed review.
    We are issuing and publishing this determination in accordance with 
section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act, (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)).

    Dated: February 11, 2003.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-4131 Filed 2-19-03; 8:45 am]
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