[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70532-70533]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-31272]


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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION

[Investigation Nos. 701-TA-393 and 731-TA-829-840 (Final) (Remand)]


Cold-Rolled Steel From Argentina, Brazil, China, Indonesia, 
Japan, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and 
Venezuela; Notice and Scheduling of Remand Proceedings

AGENCY: International Trade Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The United States International Trade Commission (Commission) 
gives notice of the court-ordered remand of its final countervailing 
duty and antidumping duty investigations Nos. 701-TA-393 and 731-TA-
829-840 (Final) (Remand).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Diehl, Esq., Office of the 
General Counsel, telephone (202) 205-3095 or Diane Mazur, Office of 
Investigations, telephone (202) 205-3184, 500 E Street SW., Washington, 
DC 20436, U.S. International Trade Commission. Hearing-impaired 
individuals are advised that information on this matter can be obtained 
by contacting the Commission's TDD terminal on (202) 205-1810. General 
information concerning the Commission may also be obtained by accessing 
its Internet server (http://www.usitc.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Reopening the Record

    In March, May, and July of 2000, the Commission made negative final 
determinations in the referenced investigations. The determinations 
were appealed to the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT). On 
October 28, 2003, the CIT issued an opinion requiring the Commission to 
reconsider its findings on the applicability of the captive production 
provision (19 U.S.C. 1677(7)(C)(iv)) and its injury determination. The 
Commission was instructed to file its findings on remand within 90 days 
of its order, or on January 26, 2004.
    In order to assist it in making its determinations on remand, the 
Commission is reopening the record on remand in these investigations to 
include information bearing on the applicability of the captive 
production provision. The record in these proceedings will encompass 
the material from the record of the original investigations and 
information gathered by Commission staff during the remand proceedings.

Participation in the Proceedings

    Only those persons who were interested parties to the original 
administrative proceedings and are parties to the ongoing litigation 
(i.e., persons listed on the Commission Secretary's service list and 
parties to Bethlehem Steel v. United States, Consol. Ct. No. 00-00151) 
may participate in these remand proceedings.

Nature of the Remand Proceedings

    On January 5, 2004, the Commission will make available to parties 
who participate in the remand proceedings information that has been 
gathered by the Commission as part of these remand proceedings. Parties 
that are participating in the remand proceedings may file comments on 
or before January 8, 2004 on whether any new information received 
affects the Commission's findings as to the applicability of the 
captive production provision in these investigations. Any material in 
the comments that does not address this limited issue will be stricken 
from the record or disregarded. No additional new factual information 
may be included in such comments. Comments shall be typewritten and 
submitted in a font no smaller than 11-point (Times new roman) and 
shall not exceed twelve double-spaced pages (inclusive of any 
footnotes, tables, graphs, exhibits, appendices, etc.).
    In addition, all written submissions must conform with the 
provisions of section 201.8 of the Commission's rules; any submissions 
that contain business proprietary information (BPI) must also conform 
with the requirements of sections 201.6, 207.3, and 207.7 of the 
Commission's rules. The Commission's rules do not authorize filing 
submissions with the Secretary by facsimile or electronic means. Each 
document filed by a party participating in the remand investigations 
must be served on all other parties who may participate in the remand 
investigations (as identified by either the public of BPI service 
list), and a certificate of service

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must be timely filed. The Secretary will not accept a document for 
filing without a certificate of service. Parties are also advised to 
consult the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, part 201, 
subparts A through E (19 CFR part 201), and part 207, subpart A (19 CFR 
part 207) for provisions of general applicability concerning written 
submissions to the Commission.

Limited Disclosure of Business Proprietary Information (BPI) Under an 
Administrative Protective Order (APO) and BPI Service List

    Information obtained during the remand investigations will be 
released to the referenced parties, as appropriate, under the 
administrative protective order (APO) in effect in the original 
investigation. A separate service list will be maintained by the 
Secretary for those parties authorized to receive BPI under the APO in 
these remand investigations.

    Authority: This action is taken under the authority of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, title VII.


By order of the Commission.
    Issued: December 15, 2003.
Marilyn R. Abbott,
Secretary to the Commission.
[FR Doc. 03-31272 Filed 12-17-03; 8:45 am]
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