[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 79 (Thursday, April 24, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20115-20116]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-10196]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-423-809, C-475-823, C-791-806]


Certain Stainless Steel Plate in Coils From Belgium, Italy and 
South Africa; Notice of Correction to the Amended Countervailing Duty 
Orders

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

ACTION: Notice of correction to the amended countervailing duty orders.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 11, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Smith at (202) 482-1276 for 
Belgium and Italy, Eric Greynolds at (202) 482-6071 for South Africa, 
or Robert James at (202) 482-0649, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

Background

    On March 11, 2003, the Department published in the Federal Register 
the amended countervailing duty orders on certain stainless steel plate 
in coils (stainless steel plate) from Belgium, Italy and South Africa. 
See Amended Countervailing Duty Orders; Certain Stainless Steel Plate 
in Coils From Belgium, Italy, and South Africa, 68 FR 11524 (Amended 
Countervailing Duty Orders).
    In its amended countervailing duty orders the Department 
inadvertently failed to convert certain old numbers under the 
Harmonized Tariff System of the United States, annotated (HTS), to 
their new HTS numbers in the ``Scope of the Orders'' section. Due to 
changes in the HTS numbers, subheadings 7219.12.00.05, 7219.12.00.20, 
7219.12.00.25, 7219.12.00.50, 7219.12.00.55, 7219.12.00.65, 
7219.12.00.70, and 7219.12.00.80 are replaced by 7219.12.00.06, 
7219.12.00.21, 7219.12.00.26, 7219.12.00.51, 7219.12.00.56, 
7219.12.00.66, 7219.12.00.71, and 7219.12.00.81. We are now correcting 
the scope of the orders section to reflect those changes. As we note 
below and in the Amended Countervailing Duty Orders, the HTS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and Customs purposes; the 
written description of the merchandise subject to these orders is 
dispositive. See ``Scope of the Orders'' section below.

Scope of the Orders

    The product covered by these orders is certain stainless steel 
plate in coils. Stainless steel is an alloy steel containing, by 
weight, 1.2 percent or less of carbon and 10.5 percent or more of 
chromium, with or without other elements. The subject plate products 
are flat-rolled products, 254 mm or over in width and 4.75 mm or more 
in thickness, in coils, and annealed or otherwise heat treated and 
pickled or otherwise descaled. The subject plate may also be further 
processed (e.g., cold-rolled, polished, etc.) provided that it 
maintains the specified dimensions of plate following such processing. 
Excluded from the scope of these orders are the following: (1) Plate 
not in coils, (2) plate that is not annealed or otherwise heat treated 
and pickled or otherwise descaled, (3) sheet and strip, and (4) flat 
bars.
    The merchandise subject to these orders is currently classifiable 
in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) at 
subheadings: 7219.11.00.30, 7219.11.00.60, 7219.12.00.06, 
7219.12.00.21, 7219.12.00.26, 7219.12.00.51, 7219.12.00.56, 
7219.12.00.66, 7219.12.00.71, 7219.12.00.81, 7219.31.00.10, 
7219.90.00.10, 7219.90.00.20, 7219.90.00.25, 7219.90.00.60, 
7219.90.00.80, 7220.11.00.00, 7220.20.10.10, 7220.20.10.15, 
7220.20.10.60, 7220.20.10.80, 7220.20.60.05, 7220.20.60.10, 
7220.20.60.15, 7220.20.60.60, 7220.20.60.80, 7220.90.00.10, 
7220.90.00.15, 7220.90.00.60, and 7220.90.00.80. Although the HTS 
subheadings are provided for convenience and Customs purposes, the 
written description of the merchandise subject to these orders is 
dispositive.

Amended Countervailing Duty Orders and Suspension of Liquidation

    In accordance with section 706(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Tariff Act), the Department will direct Customs officers 
to assess, upon further advice by the Department, countervailing duties 
for each entry of the stainless steel plate in coils, as described in 
the ``Scope of the Orders'' section above, from Belgium, Italy and 
South Africa in an amount based on the net countervailable subsidy rate 
for the subject merchandise. These countervailing duties will be 
assessed on all unliquidated entries of stainless steel plate in coils, 
other than cold-rolled stainless steel plate in coils, from Belgium, 
Italy and South Africa entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for

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consumption on or after September 4, 1998, the date on which the 
Department published its notices of preliminary determination in the 
Federal Register (63 FR 47239 (Belgium), 63 FR 47263 (South Africa) and 
63 FR 47246 (Italy)).\1\
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    \1\ In accordance with section 703(d) of the Tariff Act, 
suspension of liquidation was lifted for entries made between 
January 2, 1999 and May 11, 1999, the date of publication of the 
Countervailing Duty Orders. See Countervailing Duty Orders 64 FR 
25288, 25289 (May 11, 1999).
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    Furthermore, effective March 11, 2003, we will instruct the Customs 
service to require cash deposits on all entries of cold-rolled 
stainless steel plate in coils, as well as other stainless steel plate 
in coils subject to these orders, as a result of the Court of 
International Trade's December 12, 2002 opinion in Allegheny Ludlum v. 
United States, No. 99-06-00361, Slip Op. 02-147 (Ct. Int'l Trade, 
December 12, 2002).
    For unreviewed producers, and for ``All Others,'' the applicable 
weighted-average margins are those established in the original final 
determinations. For those producers that have been reviewed the 
applicable weighted-average margins are those established in the 
investigation or the most recently completed final results of an 
antidumping administrative review, as noted below:

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                                                                 Cash
                                                               deposit
               Producer/Manufacturer/Exporter                    rate
                                                              (percent)
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Belgium:
  ALZ, N.V.................................................    1.78% (66
                                                               FR 45007)
  All Others...............................................         2.00
Italy:
  ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali Terni SpA (TKAST)...........        15.16
  All Others...............................................        15.16
South Africa:
  Columbus Stainless.......................................         3.95
  All Others...............................................         3.95
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    Customs officers must require, at the same time as importers would 
normally deposit estimated duties on this merchandise, cash deposits 
equal to the rates presently in effect. This notice constitutes the 
amended countervailing duty orders with respect to certain stainless 
steel plate in coils from Belgium, Italy and 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 
countervailing duty orders currently in effect.
    These amended orders are published in accordance with section 
706(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.

    Dated: April 17, 2003.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-10196 Filed 4-23-03; 8:45 am]
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