[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 80 (Wednesday, April 26, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24642-24643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-6285]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-428-830]


Notice of Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review: 
Stainless Steel Bar from Germany

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') has received a 
request for a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on 
Stainless Steel Bar (``SSB'') from Germany published on March 7, 2002 
(67 FR 10382). In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), and 19 CFR 351.214(d), we are 
initiating an antidumping new shipper review of Schmiedewerke Groditz 
GmbH (``SWG'').

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 26, 2006.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brandon Farlander or Natalie Kempkey, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
0182 or (202) 482-1698, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department received a timely request 
from SWG, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c), for a new shipper 
review of the antidumping duty order on SSB from Germany, which has a 
March anniversary month.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b), SWG certified that it is both an 
exporter and producer of the subject merchandise, that it did not 
export subject merchandise to the United States during the period of 
investigation (``POI'') (October 1, 1999, through September 30, 2000), 
and that it was not affiliated with any exporter or producer who 
exported the subject merchandise to the United States during the POI. 
SWG also submitted documentation establishing the date on which the 
subject merchandise was first entered for consumption, the volume 
shipped, and the date of its first sale to an unaffiliated customer in 
the United States.

Scope of the Order

    For the purposes of this order, the term ``stainless steel bar'' 
includes articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been 
either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise 
cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along 
their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, 
rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other 
convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished stainless steel bars that 
are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-
rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing 
bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations 
produced during the rolling process.
    Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless 
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have 
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or 
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at 
least twice the thickness), products that have been cut from stainless 
steel sheet, strip or plate, wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, 
of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do 
not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, 
shapes and sections.
    The SSB subject to this order is currently classifiable under 
subheadings 7222.11.00.05, 7222.11.00.50, 7222.19.00.05, 7222.19.00.50, 
7222.20.00.05, 7222.20.00.45, 7222.20.00.75, and 7222.30.00.00 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS''). Although 
the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs 
purposes, the written description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.

Initiation of Review

    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(d), we are initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping 
duty order on SSB from Germany (produced and exported) by SWG. Because 
we are initiating this new shipper review in the month immediately 
following the anniversary month, this review covers the period from 
March 1, 2005, through February 28, 2006, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.214(g)(1)(i)(A). We intend to issue the preliminary results of this 
review no later than 180 days after the date on which this review is 
initiated, and the final results within 90 days after the date on which 
we issue the preliminary results. See section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the 
Act.
    We will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend 
liquidation of any unliquidated entries of the subject merchandise from 
SWG and allow, at the option of the importer, the posting, until 
completion of the review, of a bond or security in lieu of a cash 
deposit for each entry of the merchandise exported by SWG in accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.214(e). Because SWG certified that it both produces and 
exports the subject merchandise, the sale of which is the basis for 
this new shipper review request, we will permit the bonding privilege 
only for those entries of subject merchandise for which SWG is both the 
producer and the exporter.
    Interested parties may submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective order in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 
351.306.
    This initiation and notice are in accordance with section 
751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(d).

    Dated: April 20, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-6285 Filed 4-25-06; 8:45 am]
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