[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 102 (Friday, May 26, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30383-30384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-8166]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-807]


Notice of Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review: 
Certain Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars from Turkey

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received a 
request to conduct a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order 
on certain steel concrete reinforcing bars (rebar) from Turkey 
published on April 17, 1997 (62 FR 18748). 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 
Kroman Celik Sanayii A.S., a producer of subject merchandise, and its 
affiliated export trading company, Yucelboru

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Ihracat Ithalat ve Pazarlama A.S. (collectively ``Kroman'').

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 26, 2006.

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 or (202) 482-0498, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department received a timely request 
from Kroman, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c), for a new shipper 
review of the antidumping duty order on rebar from Turkey. See 
Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars from 
Turkey, 62 FR 18748 (April 17, 1997).
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b), Kroman certified that it is both the 
exporter and producer of the subject merchandise, that it did not 
export subject merchandise to the United States during the period of 
the investigation (POI) (January 1, 1995, through December 31, 1995), 
and that it was not affiliated with any exporter or producer that 
exported the subject merchandise to the United States during the POI. 
Kroman also submitted documentation establishing the date on which its 
shipment of subject merchandise 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

    The product covered by this order is all stock deformed steel 
concrete reinforcing bars sold in straight lengths and coils. This 
includes all hot-rolled deformed rebar rolled from billet steel, rail 
steel, axle steel, or low-alloy steel. It excludes (i) plain round 
rebar, (ii) rebar that a processor has further worked or fabricated, 
and (iii) all coated rebar. Deformed rebar is currently classifiable 
under subheadings 7213.10.000 and 7214.20.000 of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). The HTSUS subheadings are 
provided for convenience and customs purposes. The written description 
of the scope of this proceeding 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 rebar from Turkey produced and exported by Kroman. See 
the Memorandum from the Team to the File through Irene Darzenta 
Tzafolias, Acting Office Director, entitled ``Initiation of AD New 
Shipper Review: Certain Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars from Turkey,'' 
dated May 22, 2006. Normally, we would issue the preliminary results of 
this review not later than 180 days after the date on which the review 
is initiated. However, on May 15, 2006, Kroman agreed to waive the time 
limits in order that the Department, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(j)(3), 
may conduct this review concurrently with the ninth administrative 
review of this order for the period April 1, 2005, through March 31, 
2006, which will be conducted pursuant to section 751(a)(1) of the Act. 
Therefore, we intend to issue the final results of this review not 
later than 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(g)(1)(i)(A), the period of review (POR) 
for a new shipper review, initiated in the month immediately following 
the anniversary month, will be the 12-month period immediately 
preceding the anniversary month. Therefore, the POR for the new shipper 
review of Kroman is April 1, 2005, through March 31, 2006.
    We will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend 
liquidation of any unliquidated entries of the subject merchandise from 
Kroman 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 Kroman in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(e). Because Kroman 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 for those entries of subject merchandise for 
which Kroman 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: May 22, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-8166 Filed 5-25-06; 8:45 am]
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