[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 208 (Thursday, October 28, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62866-62867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-2897]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-828]


Hot-Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon Quality Steel Products From Brazil: 
Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Initiation of Antidumping New Shipper Review of Hot-
Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon Quality Steel Products from Brazil.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: October 28, 2004.

SUMMARY: On September 27, 2004, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') received a request to conduct a new shipper review of the 
antidumping duty (``AD'') order on hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon 
quality steel products from Brazil. In accordance with section 
751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 
CFR 351.214(d) (2003), we are initiating an AD new shipper review for 
Companhia Siderrgica de Tubaro (``CST''), a producer and exporter of 
hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon quality steel products from Brazil.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Kramer or Kristin Najdi at (202) 
482-0405 and (202) 482-8221, respectively; Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Operations, Office 7, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 27, 2004, the Department received a timely request 
from CST, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c), for a new shipper 
review of the AD order on certain hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon quality 
steel products from Brazil, which has a September semiannual 
anniversary month. See Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Hot-Rolled Flat-
Rolled Carbon Quality Steel

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Products from Brazil, 67 FR 11093 (March 12, 2002).
    As required by 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(i) and (iii)(A), CST certified 
that it did not export subject merchandise to the United States during 
the period of investigation (``POI''), and that it has never been 
affiliated with any exporter or producer who exported subject 
merchandise during the POI. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iv), the 
company submitted documentation establishing the date on which it first 
shipped the subject merchandise to the United States. CST indicated in 
its request that because it sold the subject merchandise to an 
unaffiliated customer, it could not provide the Department with 
documentation establishing the exact date of entry. See submission from 
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP on behalf of Companhia Siderrgica de 
Tubaro to the Department regarding Request for New Shipper Review, 
dated September 27, 2004 (``NSR Request''). Pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.214(b)(2)(iv), CST also submitted documentation establishing the 
volume of the shipment and the date of the first sale to an 
unaffiliated customer in the United States. Both the date of shipment 
and the date of sale of the subject merchandise fall in the March 1, 
2004, through August 31, 2004, period of review. See NSR Request.

Initiation of Reviews

    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(d), and based on record information and our analysis of 
proprietary import data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
(``CBP''), we find that CST has met the Department's requirements for 
initiating an AD new shipper review. See New Shipper Initiation 
Checklist on file in Import Administration's Central Records Unit, Room 
B-099 of the Herbert H. Hoover Building, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW. 
Therefore, we are initiating a new shipper review for CST. We intend to 
issue the preliminary results of this new shipper review not later than 
180 days after initiation of this review. See 19 CFR 351.214(i).
    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(g)(1)(i)(B), the POR for a new 
shipper review, initiated in the month following the semiannual 
anniversary month, will be the six-month period immediately preceding 
the semiannual anniversary month. Therefore, the POR for this new 
shipper review is:

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         New shipper review proceeding               Period of review
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Companhia Siderurgica de Tubarao...............        03/01/04-08/31/04
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    We will instruct CBP to allow the importer, until the completion of 
the review, to post a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for 
each entry of the subject merchandise produced and exported by the 
above-listed company, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(iii) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.214(e). Because CST certified that it both produced 
and exported the subject merchandise, the sale of which is the basis 
for this new shipper review request, we will permit the bonding 
privilege only with respect to entries of subject merchandise for which 
CST is both the producer and exporter.
    Interested parties that need access to proprietary information in 
this new shipper review should submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 
351.306.
    This initiation and notice are in accordance with section 751(a) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(d).

    Dated: October 22, 2004.
Jeffrey A. May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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