[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 91 (Monday, May 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 25327]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11744]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-703]


Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from Italy: Final Results 
of Changed Circumstances Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed 
Circumstances Review.

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SUMMARY: On March 20, 2003, the Department of Commerce published a 
notice of initiation and preliminary results of its changed 
circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on granular 
polytetrafluoroethylene resin from Italy (PTFE) (see Antidumping Duty 
Order; Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from Italy, 53 FR 33163 
(August 30, 1988)) in which we preliminarily determined that Solvay 
Solexis SpA and Solvay Solexis, Inc. were the successors-in-interest to 
Ausimont SpA and Ausimont USA, Inc. We gave interested parties an 
opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of review, but 
received no comments. Therefore, the final results do not differ from 
the preliminary results of review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 12, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vicki Schepker, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone 
(202) 482-1756.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background:

    On March 20, 2003, in accordance with Section 751(b) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.216 and 
351.221(c)(3), the Department initiated a changed circumstances review 
and published its preliminary results in the Federal Register, 
preliminarily finding Solvay Solexis SpA and Solvay Solexis, Inc. 
(collectively, Solvay Solexis) to be the successors-in-interest to 
Ausimont SpA and Ausimont USA, Inc. (collectively, Ausimont). See 
Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from Italy; Initiation and 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, 
68 FR 13672 (March 20, 2003) (Preliminary Results). We invited 
interested parties to comment on these findings. No comments were 
received.

Scope of the Review

    The product covered by this review is granular PTFE resin, filled 
or unfilled. This order also covers PTFE wet raw polymer exported from 
Italy to the United States. See Final Affirmative Determination; 
Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene Resin from Italy, 58 FR 26100 (April 
30, 1993). This order excludes PTFE dispersions in water and fine 
powders. Such merchandise is classified under item number 3904.61.00 of 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). We are 
providing this HTSUS number for convenience and customs purposes only. 
The written description of the scope remains dispositive.

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review

    Because we received no comments on the Preliminary Results and for 
the reasons stated in the Preliminary Results, we find Solvay Solexis 
to be the successor-in-interest to Ausimont for antidumping duty cash 
deposit purposes. In order to make this determination, we examined 
Ausimont's personnel, operations, supplier/customer relationships, and 
facilities by reviewing an amended certificate of incorporation, 
investor presentations, an application for amended certificate of 
authority, shareholder meeting minutes, press releases discussing the 
Solvay Group's purchase of Ausimont, management charts, a letter to 
customers, and product labels. Based on all the evidence reviewed, we 
find that Solvay Solexis is the successor-in-interest to Ausimont. 
Solvay Solexis will receive the same antidumping duty cash-deposit rate 
(i.e., 12.08 percent) with respect to the subject merchandise as 
Ausimont, its predecessor company. This cash deposit requirement will 
be effective upon publication of this notice for all shipments of the 
subject merchandise by Solvay Solexis entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption, on or after the publication date of this 
notice. This cash deposit rate shall remain in effect until publication 
of the final results of the next administrative review in which Solvay 
Solexis participates.
    We are issuing and publishing this finding and notice in accordance 
with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and section 351.216 of 
the Department's regulations.

    Dated: May 5, 2003.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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