[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 118 (Tuesday, June 21, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35624-35625]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-3216]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-485-803]


Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances 
Review: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Romania

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On May 3, 2005, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation and the preliminary 
results of its changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty 
finding on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate (``carbon steel 
plate'') from Romania in which we preliminarily determined that Mittal 
Steel Galati S.A. (``Mittal Steel'') is the successor-in-interest to 
the S.C. Ispat Sidex S.A. (``Sidex''). See Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon 
Steel Plate from Romania: Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 70 FR 22847 (May 
3, 2005) (``Preliminary Results''). We gave interested parties the 
opportunity to comment on the Preliminary Results. We received no 
comments. Therefore, for these final results, the Department is 
adopting its preliminary determination that Mittal Steel is the 
successor-in-interest to Sidex.

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EFFECTIVE DATE:  June 21, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Edwards or Abdelali 
Elouaradia, AD/CVD Operations, Office 7, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone 
(202) 482-8029 or (202) 482-1374, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 19, 1993, the Department published in the Federal 
Register the antidumping duty order on carbon steel plate from Romania. 
See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon 
Steel Plate from Romania, 58 FR 44167 (August 19, 1993) (``Order''). On 
March 14, 2005, Mittal Steel submitted a letter stating that it is the 
successor-in-interest to Sidex and, as such, is entitled to receive the 
same antidumping duty treatment previously accorded to Sidex. See 
Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Romania: Notice of Final 
Results and Final Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, 70 FR 12651 (March 15, 2005). In that same letter, Mittal Steel 
explained that on February 7, 2005, Sidex changed its corporate name to 
Mittal Steel, following the approval of the name change by Sidex's 
General Meeting of Shareholders on January 10, 2005. Mittal provided 
record evidence indicating that the name change was unconditionally 
recorded and approved by the Trade Register Office of the Galati 
Tribunal and the National Office of the Trade Registry, a bureau of the 
Romanian Ministry of Justice, on February 7, 2005. In the March 14, 
2005, letter, Mittal Steel also requested that the Department conduct 
an expedited changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order 
on carbon steel plate from Romania pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the 
Tariff Act (``the Act''), as amended, and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3)(ii). 
Because the record evidence supporting Mittal Steel's claim was 
sufficient, the Department found that an expedited review was 
practicable and, on May 3, 2005, issued a combined notice of initiation 
with the preliminary results. See Preliminary Results.
    In its Preliminary Results, the Department provided the interested 
parties with an opportunity to comment or request a public hearing 
regarding the Department's finding that Mittal Steel is the successor-
in-interest to Sidex. No comments were submitted, nor was a public 
hearing requested.

Scope of the Order

    For a complete description of the scope of the order, see Certain 
Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Romania: Notice of Final Results 
and Final Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 
70 FR 12651 (March 15, 2005).

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review

    For the reasons stated in the Preliminary Results, and because we 
received no comments to the contrary, we continue to find that Mittal 
Steel is the successor-in-interest to Sidex. We will instruct U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to apply the cash deposit rate 
determination in this changed circumstances review to all entries of 
the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the date of publication of the final results of 
this changed circumstances review. See Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene 
Resin from Italy: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Changed 
Circumstances Review, 68 FR 25327 (May 12, 2003). The cash deposit rate 
shall remain in effect until publication of the final results of the 
next administrative review in which Mittal Steel participates.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written 
notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion 
to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply 
with the regulations and the terms of APO is a sanctionable violation.
    This notice is in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) 
of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.216.

    Dated: June 13, 2005.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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