[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 239 (Friday, December 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69376-69377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E3-00548]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-881]


Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Malleable Iron Pipe Fittings From 
the People's Republic of China

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

ACTION: Notice of Antidumping Duty Order.

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EFFECTIVE DATE:  December 12, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anya Naschak, Helen Kramer, or Ann

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Barnett-Dahl at (202) 482-6375, (202) 482-0405, or (202) 482-3833, 
respectively; Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement Group 
III, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of Order

    For purposes of this order, the products covered are certain 
malleable iron pipe fittings, cast, other than grooved fittings, from 
the People's Republic of China. The merchandise is classified under 
item numbers 7307.19.90.30, 7307.19.90.60 and 7307.19.90.80 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTSUS). Excluded from the scope of this 
order are metal compression couplings, which are imported under HTSUS 
number 7307.19.90.80. A metal compression coupling consists of a 
coupling body, two gaskets, and two compression nuts. These products 
range in diameter from 1/2 inch to 2 inches and are carried only in 
galvanized finish. Although HTSUS subheadings are provided for 
convenience and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) purposes, the 
Department's written description of the scope of this proceeding is 
dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

    In accordance with section 735(a) of the Act, the Department made 
its final determination that malleable iron pipe fittings (MPF) from 
the People's Republic of China (the PRC) is being sold at less-than-
fair-value (LTFV). See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value: Certain Malleable Iron Pipe Fittings from the PRC, 68 
FR 61395 (October 28, 2003). Subsequently, the Department amended its 
final determination of the antidumping duty investigation of MPF from 
the PRC to correct certain ministerial errors in the final margin 
calculation. See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value: Certain Malleable Iron Pipe Fittings from the People's 
Republic of China, 68 FR 65873 (November 24, 2003). On December 3, 
2003, the International Trade Commission (ITC) notified the Department 
of Commerce (the Department) of its final determination, pursuant to 
section 735(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), that the industry in the United States producing MPF is 
threatened with material injury by reason of import of the subject 
merchandise from the PRC. In accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the 
Act, the Department will direct CBP to assess, upon further advice by 
the administering authority, 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 MPF from the PRC.
    Section 736(b)(2) of the Act provides that duties shall be assessed 
on subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the date of publication of the ITC's notice of 
final determination if that determination is based on the threat of 
material injury and is not accompanied by a finding that injury would 
have resulted but for the imposition of suspension of liquidation of 
entries since the Department's preliminary determination. In addition, 
section 736(b)(2) of the Act requires CBP to refund any cash deposits 
or bonds of estimated antidumping duties posted since the Department's 
preliminary antidumping determination if the ITC's final determination 
is based on a threat of material injury.
    Because the ITC's final determination in this case is based on the 
threat of material injury and is not accompanied by a finding that 
injury would have resulted but for the imposition of suspension of 
liquidation of entries since the Department's preliminary 
determination, section 736(b)(2) of the Act is applicable to this 
order. Therefore, the Department will direct CBP to assess, upon 
further advice, antidumping duties on all unliquidated entries of MPF 
from the PRC entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on 
or after the date of publication of the ITC's notice of final 
determination of threat of material injury in the Federal Register and 
terminate the suspension of liquidation for entries of MPF from the PRC 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption prior to that 
date. The Department will also instruct CBP to refund any cash deposits 
made, or bonds posted, between the period 90 days prior to the 
publication date of the Department's preliminary antidumping 
determination and the publication of the ITC's final determination.
    On or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, CBP must require, at the same time as importers would 
normally deposit estimated duties on this merchandise, a cash deposit 
equal to the estimated weighted-average antidumping duty margins noted 
below:

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                                                             Margin
                 Exporter/Manufacturer                  [chyph](percent)
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Jinan Meide Casting Co., Ltd..........................            11.31
Beijing Sai Lin Ke Hardware Co. Ltd...................            15.92
Langfang Pannext Pipe [chyph]Fitting Co., Ltd.........             7.35
Chengde Malleable Iron General Factory................            11.18
SCE Co., Ltd..........................................            11.18
PRC-Wide..............................................           111.36
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    The ``PRC-wide'' rate applies to all exporters in the PRC of 
subject merchandise not specifically listed above.
    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to 
MPF from the PRC, pursuant to section 736(a) of the Act. 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 the 
antidumping duty orders currently in effect.
    This order is published in accordance with section 736(a) of the 
Act, and 19 CFR 351.211(b).

    Dated: December 5, 2003.
James J. Jochum,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E3-00548 Filed 12-11-03; 8:45 am]
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