[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 14 (Thursday, January 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3117-3119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1357]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part

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

ACTION: Notice of initiation of antidumping and countervailing duty 
administrative reviews and request for revocation in part.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received 
requests to conduct administrative reviews of various antidumping and 
countervailing duty orders and findings with December anniversary 
dates. In accordance with our regulations, we are initiating those 
administrative reviews. The Department

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also received a request to revoke in part one antidumping duty order.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 22, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly A. Kuga, Office of AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-4737.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department has received timely requests, in accordance with 19 
CFR 351.213(b)(2002), for administrative reviews of various antidumping 
and countervailing duty orders and findings with December anniversary 
dates. The Department also received a timely request to revoke in part 
the antidumping duty order for Stainless Steel Wire Rod from India.

Initiation of Reviews

    In accordance with section 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i), we are 
initiating administrative reviews of the following antidumping and 
countervailing duty orders and findings. We intend to issue the final 
results of these reviews not later than December 31, 2004.

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                                                         Period to be
                                                           reviewed
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            Antidumping Duty Proceedings
 
Argentina: Honey, A-357-812........................    12/01/02-11/30/03
    Asociacion de Cooperativas Argentinas
    Compania Apicola Argentina SA
    Compania Europea Americana S.A.
    HoneyMax S.A.
    Nexco S.A.
    Nutrin S.A.
    Radix S.r.L.
    Seylinco S.A.
    Transhoney S.A.
Brazil: Silicomanganese A-351-824..................    12/01/02-11/30/03
    Rio Doce Manganes S.A. (formerly SIBRA-
     Electrosiderurgica Brazileira S.A.)/Compania
     Paulista De Ferro-Ligas/Urucum Mineracao S.A.
India: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat            12/01/02-11/30/03
 Products, A-533-820...............................
    Essar Steel Ltd.
India: Stainless Steel Wire Rod, A-533-808.........    12/01/02-11/30/03
    Isibars Steel Limited
    The Viraj Group
Japan: Polychloroprene Rubber, A-588-046...........    12/01/02-11/30/03
    Showa Denko Elastomers K.K.
    Showa Denko K.K.
The People's Republic of China: Certain Cased          12/01/02-11/30/03
 Pencils \1\, A-570-827............................
    Anhui Import/Export Group Corporation
    Beijing Light Industrial Products Import/Export
     Corporation
    China First Pencil Company, Ltd.
    Orient International Holding Shanghai Foreign
     Trade Co., Ltd.
    Shanghai Three Star Stationary Industry Corp.
    Shandong Rongxin Import & Export Company Ltd.
    Sichuan Light Industrial Products Import/Export
     Corporation
    Tianjin Customs Wood Processing Co., Ltd.
The People's Republic of China: Honey \2\, A-570-      12/01/02-11/30/03
 863...............................................
    Anhui Native Produce Import & Export Corp.
    Anhui Honghui Foodstuff (Group) Co., Ltd.
    Cheng Du Wai Yuan Bee Products Co., Ltd.
    Eurasia Bee's Products Co., Ltd.
    Foodworld International Club, Ltd.
    Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Native Produce
     and Animal By-Products Import & Export Corp.
    Inner Mongolia Youth Trade Development Co.,
     Ltd.
    Jiangsu Kanghong Natural Healthfoods co., Ltd.
    Jinfu Trading Co., Ltd.
    Kunshan Foreign Trade Company
    Shanghai Eswell Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Shanghai Shinomiel International Trade
     Corporation
    Shanghai Xiuwei International Trading Co., Ltd.
    Sichuan-Dujiangyan Dubao Bee Industrial Co.,
     Ltd.
    Wuhan Bee Healthy Company, Ltd.
    Zhejiang Native Produce and Animal By-Products
     Import & Export Group Corp. (formerly known as
     Zhejiang Native Produce and Animal By-Products
     Import & Export Corp.)
 
          Countervailing Duty Proceedings
 
Argentina: Honey \3\, C-357-813....................      1/1/03-12/31/03
Thailand: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat           1/1/02-12/31/02
 Products, C-549-818...............................
    Sahaviriya Steel Industries Public Company
     Limited
           Suspension Agreements: None.
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\1\ If one of the above named companies does not qualify for a separate
  rate, all other exporters of certain cased pencils from the People's
  Republic of China who have not qualified for a separate rate are
  deemed to be covered by this review as part of the single PRC entity
  of which the named exporters are a part.

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\2\ If one of the above named companies does not qualify for a separate
  rate, all other exporters of honey from the People's Republic of China
  who have not qualified for a separate rate are deemed to be covered by
  this review as part of the single PRC entity of which the named
  exporters are a part.
\3\ In the countervailing duty investigation of Honey from Argentina,
  the Department solicited information from the Government of Argentina
  (GOA) on an aggregate or industry-wide basis in accordance with
  section 777A(e)(2)(B) of the Act, rather than from individual
  producers and exporters, due to the large number of producers and
  exporters of Honey in Argentina. See Final Affirmative Countervailing
  Duty Determination: Honey from Argentina, 66 FR 50613-01 (October 4,
  2001). In accordance with section 351.213(b) of the regulations, the
  GOA and the petitioners have requested an administrative review of
  this countervailing duty order. No individual exporters requested the
  review pursuant to section 351.213(b) of the regulations. Accordingly,
  the Department will be conducting the review of this order on an
  aggregate basis.

    During any administrative review covering all or part of a period 
falling between the first and second or third and fourth anniversary of 
the publication of an antidumping duty order under section 351.211 or a 
determination under section 351.218(f)(4) to continue an order or 
suspended investigation (after sunset review), the Secretary, if 
requested by a domestic interested party within 30 days of the date of 
publication of the notice of initiation of the review, will determine 
whether antidumping duties have been absorbed by an exporter or 
producer subject to the review if the subject merchandise is sold in 
the United States through an importer that is affiliated with such 
exporter or producer. The request must include the name(s) of the 
exporter or producer for which the inquiry is requested.
    Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305.
    These initiations and this notice are in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)), and 
19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i).

    Dated: January 15, 2004.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Group II for Import Administration.
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