[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 2004)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-32325]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request administrative review of 
antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended 
investigation.

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Background

    Each year during the anniversary month of the publication of an 
antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension of 
investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 771(9) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, may request, in accordance with section 
351.213 (2002) of the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
Regulations, that the Department conduct an administrative review of 
that antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended 
investigation.
    Opportunity to Request a Review: Not later than the last day of 
January 2004, interested parties may request administrative review of 
the following orders, findings, or suspended investigations, with 
anniversary dates in January for the following periods:

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                                                             Period
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             Antidumping Duty Proceedings
Brazil: Brass Sheet and Strip, A-351-603.............   1/1/03--12/31/03
Brazil: Stainless Steel Wire Rod, A-351-819..........   1/1/03--12/31/03
Canada: Brass Sheet and Strip, A-122-601.............   1/1/03--12/31/03
France: Anhydrous Sodium Metasilicate (ASM), A-427-     1/1/03--12/31/03
 098.................................................
France: Stainless Steel Wire Rods, A-427-811.........   1/1/03--12/31/03
South Africa: Ferrovanadium, A-791-815...............   7/8/02--12/31/03
Taiwan: Top-of-the-Stove Stainless Steel Cooking        1/1/03--12/31/03
 Ware, A-583-603.....................................
The People's Republic of China: Ferrovanadium, A-570-   7/8/02--12/31/03
 873.................................................
The People's Republic of China: Folding Gift Boxes, A-  1/1/03--12/31/03
 570-866.............................................
The People's Republic of China: Potassium               1/1/03--12/31/03
 Permanganate, A-570-001.............................
The Republic of Korea: Top-of-the Stove, Stainless      1/1/03--12/31/03
 Steel Cooking Ware, A-580-601.......................
           Countervailing Duty Proceedings
Brazil: Brass Sheet and Strip, C-351-604.............   1/1/03--12/31/03
Taiwan: Top-of-the-Stove Stainless Steel Cooking        1/1/03--12/31/03
 Ware, C-583-604.....................................
The Republic of Korea: Top-of-the-Stove Stainless       1/1/03--12/31/03
 Steel Cooking Ware, C-580-602.......................
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Suspension Agreements

    None.
    In accordance with section 351.213(b) of the regulations, an 
interested party as defined by section 771(9) of the Act may request in 
writing that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. The 
Department changed its requirements for requesting reviews for 
countervailing duty orders. For both antidumping and countervailing 
duty reviews, the interested party must specify the individual 
producers or exporters covered by an antidumping finding or an 
antidumping or countervailing duty order or suspension agreement for 
which it is requesting a review, and the requesting party must state 
why it desires the Secretary to review those particular producers or 
exporters. If the interested party intends for the Secretary to review 
sales of merchandise by an exporter (or a producer if that producer 
also exports merchandise from other suppliers) which were produced in 
more than one country of origin and each country of origin is subject 
to a separate order, then the interested party must state specifically, 
on an order-by-order basis, which exporter(s) the request is intended 
to cover.
    As explained in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 69 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003), the 
Department has clarified its practice with respect to the collection of 
final antidumping duties on imports of merchandise where intermediate 
firms are involved. The public should be aware of this clarification in 
determining whether to request an administrative review of merchandise 
subject to antidumping findings and orders. See also the Import 
Administration Web site at http://www.ia.ita.doc.gov.
    Six copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, Room 1870, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. The Department also 
asks parties to serve a copy of their requests to the Office of 
Antidumping/ Countervailing Enforcement, Attention: Sheila Forbes, in 
room 3065 of the main Commerce Building. Further, in accordance with 
section 351.303(f)(l)(i) of the regulations, a copy of each request 
must be served on every party on the Department's service list.
    The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of 
``Initiation of Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing 
Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation'' for requests received 
by the last day of January 2004. If the Department does not receive, by 
the last day of January 2004, a request for review of entries covered 
by an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this notice 
and for the period identified above, the Department will instruct the 
Customs Service to assess antidumping or countervailing duties on those 
entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated 
antidumping or countervailing duties required on those entries at the 
time of entry, or withdrawal from rehouse, for consumption and to 
continue to collect the cash deposit previously ordered.
    This notice is not required by statute but is published as a 
service to the international trading community.

    Dated: December 30, 2003.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Group II for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-32325 Filed 12-31-03; 8:45 am]
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