[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 80 (Wednesday, April 26, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24643-24644]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-6289]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-820]


Stainless Steel Wire Rod from Italy: Notice of Final Results of 
Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On March 20, 2006, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of its changed 
circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel 
wire rod (SSWR) from Italy. See Notice of Initiation and Preliminary 
Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Review: Stainless 
Steel Wire Rod from Italy, 71 FR 13964 (Mar. 20, 2006) (Preliminary 
Results). We have now completed that review. For these final results, 
as in the Preliminary Results, we determine that: 1) Acciaierie 
Valbruna S.p.A. (Valbruna S.p.A.) is the successor-in-interest to 
Acciaierie Valbruna S.r.l. (Valbruna S.r.l.) and its subsidiary 
Acciaierie Bolzano S.p.A. (Bolzano S.p.A.), a respondent in the less-
than-fair-value investigation; and 2) merchandise from Acciaierie 
Valbruna S.p.A. should be excluded from the antidumping duty order.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 16, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irina Itkin or Alice Gibbons, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 2, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-0656 
and (202) 482-0498, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 15, 1998, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (63 FR 49327) the antidumping duty order on SSWR from Italy. 
Valbruna S.r.l. and its affiliate Bolzano S.p.A. were excluded from the 
order because their dumping margin was de minimis. On January 26, 2006, 
Valbruna S.p.A. submitted a written request that the Department conduct 
a changed circumstances review in order to clarify for U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) that Valbruna S.p.A. is the successor-in-
interest to Valbruna S.r.l./Bolzano S.p.A. and that subject merchandise 
produced by this entity should not be subject to antidumping

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duties. Valbruna S.p.A. requested that the result of the Department's 
changed circumstances review be retroactive to December 16, 1998, the 
effective date of Valbruna S.r.l.'s name and corporate change to 
Valbruna S.p.A.
    On March 20, 2006, the Department published a notice of initiation 
and preliminary results of its changed circumstances review of the 
antidumping duty order on SSWR from Italy. See Preliminary Results. 
Interested parties were invited to comment on the preliminary results. 
No parties submitted comments.

Scope of Order

    For purposes of this order, SSWR comprises products that are hot-
rolled or hot-rolled annealed and/or pickled and/or descaled rounds, 
squares, octagons, hexagons or other shapes, in coils, that may also be 
coated with a lubricant containing copper, lime or oxalate. SSWR is 
made of alloy steels containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or less of 
carbon and 10.5 percent or more of chromium, with or without other 
elements. These products are manufactured only by hot-rolling or hot-
rolling, annealing, and/or pickling and/or descaling, are normally sold 
in coiled form, and are of solid cross-section. The majority of SSWR 
sold in the United States is round in cross-sectional shape, annealed 
and pickled, and later cold-finished into stainless steel wire or 
small-diameter bar.
    The most common size for such products is 5.5 millimeters or 0.217 
inches in diameter, which represents the smallest size that normally is 
produced on a rolling mill and is the size that most wire-drawing 
machines are set up to draw. The range of SSWR sizes normally sold in 
the United States is between 0.20 inches and 1.312 inches diameter. Two 
stainless steel grades, SF20T and K-M35FL, are excluded from the scope 
of the order. The chemical makeup for the excluded grades is as 
follows:

                                                                          SF20T
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Carbon........................................................                       0.05max                      Chromium                   19.00/21.00
Manganese.....................................................                      2.00 max                    Molybdenum                     1.50/2.50
Phosphorous...................................................                      0.05 max                          Lead             added (0.10/0.30)
Sulfur........................................................                      0.15 max                     Tellurium              added (0.03 min)
Silicon.......................................................                      1.00 max
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                                                                         K-M35FL
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Carbon........................................................                     0.015 max                        Nickel                      0.30 max
Silicon.......................................................                     0.70/1.00                      Chromium                   12.50/14.00
Manganese.....................................................                      0.40 max                          Lead                     0.10/0.30
Phosphorous...................................................                      0.04 max                      Aluminum                     0.20/0.35
Sulfur........................................................                      0.03 max
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    The products subject to this order are currently classifiable under 
subheadings 7221.00.0005, 7221.00.0015, 7221.00.0030, 7221.00.0045, and 
7221.00.0075 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 merchandise is 
dispositive.

Final Results of Review

    Based on our analysis in the Preliminary Results, we find that 
Valbruna S.p.A. is the successor-in-interest to Valbruna S.r.l./Bolzano 
S.p.A. Based on evidence on the record, we find that Valbruna S.p.A.'s 
organizational structure, management, production facilities, supplier 
relationships, and customers have remained essentially unchanged. 
Further, we find that Valbruna S.p.A. operates as the same business 
entity as Valbruna S.r.l./Bolzano S.p.A. Because Valbruna S.r.l./
Bolzano S.p.A. was excluded from the antidumping duty order on SSWR 
from Italy, we will apply this determination retroactively and will 
instruct CBP to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, all 
unliquidated entries entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after December 16, 1998, the date of Valbruna 
S.r.l.'s name change to Valbruna S.p.A, in accordance with past 
precedent. See Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon Steel 
Products from the United Kingdom: Final Results of Changed-
Circumstances Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Review, 64 FR 66880, 66881 (Nov. 30, 1999) (where the Department 
applied the changed circumstances determination retroactively because 
the company in question received a de minimis margin at the final 
determination and, thus, was never subject to the countervailing duty 
order).

Notification

    This notice also serves as a final reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (APOs) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 352.305(a)(3). Timely 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 an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    This determination and notice are issued and published in 
accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.216.

    Dated: April 19, 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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