[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8380-8381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3982]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-822]


Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From 
Canada: Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On January 16, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published the final results of its administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel 
flat products From Canada for the period August 1, 2001 through July 
31, 2002. See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products 
From Canada: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review 
(69 FR 2566 (January 16, 2004) (Final Results). We are amending our 
final results to correct ministerial errors alleged by United States 
Steel Corporation (Petitioner) pursuant to section 751(h) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 24, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elfi Blum-Page or Christian Hughes, 
Office of Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Enforcement VII, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone (202) 482-0197 or (202) 482-0190, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Scope of the Antidumping Duty Order

    The product covered by this antidumping duty order is certain 
corrosion-resistant steel, and includes flat-rolled carbon steel 
products, of rectangular shape, either clad, plated, or coated with 
corrosion-resistant metals such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-, 
nickel- or iron-based alloys, whether or not corrugated or painted, 
varnished or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances in 
addition to the metallic coating, in coils (whether or not in 
successively superimposed layers) and of a width of 0.5 inch or 
greater, or in straight lengths which, if of a thickness less than 4.75 
millimeters, are of a width of 0.5 inch or greater and which measures 
at least 10 times the thickness or if of a thickness of 4.75 
millimeters or more are of a width which exceeds 150 millimeters and 
measures at least twice the thickness, as currently classifiable in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) under item numbers 7210.30.0030, 
7210.30.0060, 7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030, 7210.49.0090, 7210.61.0000, 
7210.69.0000, 7210.70.6030, 7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 7210.90.1000, 
7210.90.6000, 7210.90.9000, 7212.20.0000, 7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090, 
7212.30.3000, 7212.30.5000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000, 
7212.60.0000, 7215.90.1000, 7215.90.3000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.20.1500, 
7217.30.1530, 7217.30.1560, 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060, 
and 7217.90.5090. Included in this review are corrosion-resistant flat-
rolled products of non-rectangular cross-section where such cross-
section is achieved subsequent to the rolling process (i.e., products 
which have been ``worked after rolling'')-- for example, products which 
have been beveled or rounded at the edges. Excluded from this review 
are flat-rolled steel products either plated or coated with tin, lead, 
chromium, chromium oxides, both tin and lead (``terne plate''), or both 
chromium and chromium oxides (``tin-free steel''), whether or not 
painted, varnished or coated with plastics or

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other nonmetallic substances in addition to the metallic coating. Also 
excluded from this review are clad products in straight lengths of 
0.1875 inch or more in composite thickness and of a width which exceeds 
150 millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness. Also 
excluded from this review are certain clad stainless flat-rolled 
products, which are three-layered corrosion-resistant carbon steel 
flat-rolled products less than 4.75 millimeters in composite thickness 
that consist of a carbon steel flat-rolled product clad on both sides 
with stainless steel in a 20%-60%-20% ratio.

Amendment of Final Results

    On January 16, 2004, the Department published the final results for 
its review of the antidumping duty order on certain corrosion-resistant 
carbon steel flat products. See Final Results. In accordance with 
section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224(c)(2), on January 20, 
2004, Petitioner timely filed an allegation that the Department made 
ministerial errors in the final results. Petitioner contends that in 
its Final Results, the Department inadvertently did not correct its 
programming language in the model-match and margin calculation programs 
to match U.S. sales first to home market sales of identical or most 
similar merchandise made within the 90/60 day contemporaneity window 
and at the same level of trade (LOT) as the U.S. sale, before matching 
to home market sales of identical or most similar merchandise at a 
different LOT within the 90/60 day contemporaneity window. In the 
Issues and Decision Memorandum accompanying the final results of review 
\1\ the Department stated that it had made such a correction. 
Petitioner suggests programming language to correct this alleged 
ministerial error. In addition, Petitioner alleges that the Department, 
when calculating home market revenues, REVENUH, in its model-match 
program, did not convert U.S. dollar-denominated components of this 
calculation to Canadian dollars, thereby inadvertently adding together 
U.S. and Canadian dollars for home market revenues. Respondent did not 
file comments in response to Petitioner's ministerial error 
allegations.
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    \1\ See Issues and Decision Memorandum accompanying the Final 
Results at comment 2.
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    The Act, as well as the Department's regulations, define a 
ministerial error as one involving ``addition, subtraction, or other 
arithmetic function, clerical error resulting from inaccurate copying, 
duplication or the like, and any similar type of unintentional error 
which the Secretary considers ministerial.'' See section 751(h) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.224(f).
    After reviewing Petitioner's allegations, we have determined, in 
accordance with section 751(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.224, that 
these two allegations constitute ministerial errors. In the Issues and 
Decision Memorandum, we stated that we were going to match HM sales of 
identical or most similar merchandise made within the 90/60 day 
contemporaneity window and at the same LOT as the U.S. sale. However, 
the programming language did not reflect our intent. Moreover, there 
were U.S. dollar-denominated components of the REVENUH calculation that 
we did not convert into Canadian dollars. Therefore, we are amending 
the final results to correct the above-mentioned ministerial errors. 
All changes to the programming language in the model-match and margin 
calculation program can be found in the analysis memorandum for the 
amended final results. See Memorandum To File: Analysis of Dofasco, 
Inc. and Sorevco, Inc. (Dofasco) for the Amended Final Results of the 
Ninth Administrative Review of Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat 
Products from Canada, dated February 13, 2004.
    Furthermore, we note that, in the Summary section of the Final 
Results, the Department inadvertently referenced an inaccurate review 
period. The correct period of this review is August 1, 2001 through 
July 31, 2002.
    The revised weight-averaged dumping margin is as follows:

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        Manufacturer/exporter                        Time period                             Margin
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Dofasco Inc..........................  08/01/01-07/31/02                       1.87 percent.
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    The revised cash deposit rate for Dofasco shown above is effective 
on all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of publication of this 
notice, and will remain in effect until publication of the final 
results of the next administrative review. Accordingly, the Department 
will determine, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection will assess, 
antidumping duties on all entries of subject merchandise from Dofasco 
during the period August 1, 2001 through July 31, 2002, in accordance 
with these amended final results.
    Consequently, we are issuing and publishing these amended final 
results and notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(1), 751(h), and 
777(i) of the Act, as well as 19 CFR 351.224(f).

    Dated: February 18, 2004.
James J. Jochum,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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