[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 154 (Thursday, August 10, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45768-45773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13038]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-849]


Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from the People's Republic of 
China: Notice of Rescission, in Part, and Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: In response to a request from Nucor Corporation, a domestic 
producer and interested party in this proceeding, the Department of 
Commerce (``Department'') is conducting an administrative review of 
cut-to-length carbon steel plate (``CTL plate'') from the People's 
Republic of China (``PRC'') for the period November 1, 2004, through 
October 31, 2005. We preliminarily determine that application of 
adverse facts available (``AFA'') is warranted with respect to the sole 
company participating in this administrative review, China 
Metallurgical Import & Export Liaoning Company (``Liaoning Company''). 
In addition, the Department is preliminarily rescinding the 
administrative review with respect to Angang New Steel Co., Ltd. and 
Angang Group Hong Kong Co., Limited (collectively ``Angang''), as its 
request for review was properly and timely withdrawn. If these 
preliminary results are adopted in our final results of administrative 
review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') 
to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject 
merchandise. Interested parties are invited to comment on these 
preliminary results. We will issue the final results no later than 120 
days from the date of publication of this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 10, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Juanita H. Chen, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 8, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, 
DC 20230; telephone: 202-482-1904.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Background

    On November 1, 2005, the Department published a notice of 
opportunity to request an administrative review of the antidumping duty 
order on CTL plate from the PRC. See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 
Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request 
Administrative Review, 70 FR 65883 (November 1, 2005). On November 30, 
2005, domestic producer Nucor Corporation (``Nucor'') requested that 
the Department conduct an administrative review of Liaoning Company. 
Also on November 20, 2005, Chinese producer Angang requested that the 
Department conduct an administrative review on the antidumping duty 
order on CTL plate from the PRC. On December 22, 2005, the Department 
published a notice of the initiation of this administrative review of 
CTL plate from the PRC for the period November 1, 2004, through October 
31, 2005. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 76024 
(December 22, 2005).

Angang

    On December 27, 2005, the Department issued an antidumping 
questionnaire to Angang. On February 8 and February 24, 2006, the 
Department received Angang's responses to Sections A, C and D of the 
questionnaire. On March 3, 2006, the Department received Angang's FOP 
reconciliation. On March 1 and March 14, 2006, Nucor submitted comments 
on Angang's Sections A, C and D responses.
    On March 22, 2006, Angang requested an extension of time in which 
to withdraw its request for an administrative review, which the 
Department granted until March 29, 2006. On March 29, 2006, Angang 
timely withdrew its request for an administrative review. On April 10, 
2006, Nucor submitted comments on Angang's withdrawal of its request 
for an administrative review. On May 15, 2006, the Department received 
a request from Angang to issue liquidation instructions regarding a 
shipment made during the POR.

Liaoning

    On December 27, 2005, the Department issued an antidumping 
questionnaire to the legal representative for Liaoning Company in a 
prior segment of this case. On February 1, 2006, the Department sent a 
letter to the same legal representative concerning Liaoning Company's 
failure to respond to the Department's questionnaire, and extended the 
deadline for responding to February 8, 2006. On February 8, 2006, the 
legal representative submitted a letter to the Department stating that 
the firm no longer represented Liaoning Company, that the firm had 
contacted Liaoning Company, and that Liaoning Company wished to inform 
the Department it would not participate in this administrative review. 
On April 5, 2006, the Department sent a letter to the legal 
representative, inquiring whether the firm was authorized by Liaoning 
Company to act as its representative in notifying the Department that 
Liaoning Company intended not to participate in this administrative 
review. On April 17, 2006, the legal representative submitted a letter 
to the Department confirming that, as the firm no longer represented 
Liaoning Company, it was no longer authorized to notify the Department 
as to Liaoning Company's participation status in this administrative 
review.
    On April 18, 2006, the Department issued an antidumping 
questionnaire directly to Liaoning Company specifying the following 
deadlines for responding to the various sections of the questionnaire: 
May 9, 2006 for Section A and May 19, 2006, for Sections C, D, and the 
Factors of Production and Sales Reconciliations. On May 15, 2006, the 
Department sent a letter to Liaoning Company concerning its failure to 
respond to the Department's Section A questionnaire by the due date of 
May 9, 2006, and extended the deadline for responding to the 
questionnaire, in its entirety, to May 19, 2006. On May 17, 2006, 
Liaoning Company requested an extension of time in which to respond to 
the Department's questionnaire, which the Department granted until May 
26, 2006. On May 22, 2006, Liaoning Company submitted its questionnaire 
response, which the Department rejected on June 15, 2006, for numerous 
deficiencies, including failure to provide requested information, 
failure to follow filing procedures and requirements, and failure to 
serve copies of the submission on parties to the review. In the 
rejection letter, the Department also provided Liaoning Company with 
extensive guidance and instructions to assist Liaoning Company in 
revising its questionnaire response, and gave Liaoning Company until 
July 6, 2006, to submit a revised questionnaire response. On June 20, 
2006, the Department returned the sole copy of the rejected 
questionnaire response to Liaoning Company. On June 27, 2006, Nucor 
requested that the Department not grant Liaoning Company any further 
extensions or opportunities to provide information past the July 6, 
2006, deadline, and argued that if the deadline is missed or the 
revised questionnaire response rejected, the Department should 
terminate the review of Liaoning Company and apply AFA.
    On July 5, 2006, Liaoning Company submitted its revised 
questionnaire response (``revised response'') to the Department. On 
July 13, 2006, Nucor filed a letter noting it had not received service 
of the revised response and requested that the Department terminate the 
review of Liaoning Company immediately, for its failure to participate. 
Liaoning Company's revised response, other than adding an index page 
and a proper case heading to the first page of the Sections A, C and D 
responses and the appendices, appeared to be identical to the 
submission rejected by the Department on June 15, 2006. As a result, on 
July 31, 2006, the Department rejected Liaoning Company's revised 
response in its entirety, for the same deficiencies under which the 
prior response was rejected.

Period of Review

    The period of review (``POR'') is November 1, 2004, through October 
31, 2005.

Scope of the Order

    The products covered by this order include hot-rolled carbon steel 
universal mill plates (i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four faces 
or in a closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 millimeters but not 
exceeding 1,250 millimeters and of a thickness of not less than 4 
millimeters, not in coils and without patterns in relief), of 
rectangular shape, neither clad, plated nor coated with metal, whether 
or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic 
substances; and certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat-rolled products in 
straight lengths, of rectangular shape, hot rolled, neither clad, 
plated, nor coated with metal, whether or not painted, varnished, or 
coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances, 4.75 millimeters 
or more in thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 millimeters and 
measures at least twice the thickness, as currently classifiable in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS'') under item 
numbers 7208.40.3030, 7208.40.3060, 7208.51.0030, 7208.51.0045, 
7208.51.0060, 7208.52.0000, 7208.53.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 
7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0045, 7211.90.0000, 
7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, and 7212.50.0000. Included in this order 
are

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flat-rolled products of non-rectangular cross-section where such cross-
section is achieved subsequent to the rolling process (i.e., products 
which have been ``worked after rolling'') for example, products which 
have been beveled or rounded at the edges. Excluded from this order is 
grade X-70 plate. Also excluded from this order is certain carbon cut-
to-length steel plate with a maximum thickness of 80 mm in steel grades 
BS 7191, 355 EM, and 355 EMZ, as amended by Sable Offshore Energy 
Project specification XB MOO Y 15 0001, types 1 and 2. Although the 
HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, 
the written description of the scope is dispositive.

Partial Rescission of Review

    The Department's regulations at 19 C.F.R. 351.213(d)(1) provide 
that the Department will rescind an administrative review if the party 
that requested the review withdraws its request for review within 90 
days of the date of publication of the notice of initiation of the 
requested review, or withdraws its request at a later date if the 
Department determines that it is reasonable to extend the time limit 
for withdrawing the request. Nucor alleged in its April 10, 2006, 
submission that Angang withdrew its request for an administrative 
review to avoid responding to issues Nucor raised in its comments to 
Angang's questionnaire responses. However, Angang timely withdrew its 
request for administrative review within the extended time limit 
granted by the Department. Accordingly, regardless of the reasons for 
withdrawal, pursuant to the Department's regulations, the request for 
withdrawal was proper. As no other party requested that the Department 
conduct an administrative review of Angang, the Department is 
preliminarily rescinding the administrative review with respect to 
Angang, in accordance with 19 C.F.R. 351.213(d)(1).

Non-Market Economy Country Status

    In every case conducted by the Department involving the PRC, the 
PRC has been treated as a non-market economy (``NME''') country. 
Pursuant to section 771(18)(C)(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``Act''), any determination that a foreign country is an NME country 
shall remain in effect until revoked by the administering authority. 
See Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the People's Republic of China: 
Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 71 
FR 7013 (February 10, 2006). None of the parties to this proceeding has 
contested such treatment.

Separate Rates Determination

    Because the PRC is treated as an NME country for this review, there 
is a rebuttable presumption that all companies within the PRC are 
subject to government control and, thus, should be assessed a single 
antidumping duty rate.
    It is the Department's policy to assign all exporters of the 
merchandise subject to review in an NME country a single rate unless an 
exporter can demonstrate an absence of government control, both in law 
(de jure) and in fact (de facto), with respect to exports. To establish 
whether an exporter is sufficiently independent of government control 
to be entitled to a separate company-specific rate, the Department 
analyzes the exporter following the criteria established in the Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Sparklers from the 
People's Republic of China, 56 FR 20588 (May 6, 1991); and Notice of 
Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Silicon Carbide 
from the People's Republic of China, 59 FR 22585 (May 2, 1994). The 
Department gave Liaoning Company numerous extensions of time and 
opportunities to submit a proper questionnaire response, and provided 
detailed guidance and instructions on how to prepare a questionnaire 
response. Despite these opportunities and assistance, Liaoning Company 
failed to follow the Department's instructions in submitting its 
questionnaire response. We find the information provided by Liaoning 
Company to be incomplete and unreliable, and are therefore, unable to 
perform a separate rates analysis. As a result, Liaoning Company has 
not demonstrated that it is entitled to a separate rate. Accordingly, 
we preliminarily find that Liaoning Company is part of the PRC-wide 
entity, as discussed, infra.

The PRC-Wide Rate and Adverse Facts Available

    Section 776(a)(1) of the Act mandates that the Department shall, 
subject to section 782(d) of the Act, use facts otherwise available in 
reaching its determination if the necessary information is not 
available on the record of an antidumping proceeding. In addition, 
section 776(a)(2) of the Act states that the Department shall use facts 
otherwise available when an interested party or any other person: (A) 
withholds information requested by the Department; (B) fails to provide 
the requested information by the requested date or in the form and 
manner requested; (C) significantly impedes an antidumping proceeding; 
or (D) provides information that cannot be verified. In the instant 
review, the Department gave Liaoning Company multiple opportunities 
pursuant to section 782(d) of the Act to provide the requested 
information and remedy or explain the deficiencies pointed out in its 
submissions. Pursuant to section 782(e) of the Act, the Department must 
consider information submitted by an interested party if all of the 
following criteria are met: (1) The information is submitted by the 
deadline established for its submission; (2) the information can be 
verified; (3) the information is not so incomplete that it cannot serve 
as a reliable basis for reaching the applicable determination; (4) the 
interested party has demonstrated that it acted to the best of its 
ability in providing the information and meeting the requirements 
established by the Department with respect to the information; and (5) 
the information can be used without undue difficulties.
    Liaoning Company has failed to meet any of these criteria. Liaoning 
Company missed the deadlines set for its questionnaire response 
submissions. Nevertheless, the Department gave Liaoning Company 
additional opportunities to submit a response. However, despite these 
additional opportunities, Liaoning Company failed to adequately correct 
its deficiencies and submitted a questionnaire response so incomplete 
that the information could not be used or verified in this 
administrative review. The original questionnaire response lacked 
proper case header information, did not include the proper number of 
copies, was not served upon interested parties, failed to include 
requested narrative detail and descriptions, provided little supporting 
paperwork and documentation, failed to include detailed product and 
sales information, declined to provide factors of production by 
deferring to data submitted by other companies in other proceedings and 
not on the record of this review, failed to include electronic U.S. 
sales and factors of production information, and failed to provide 
reconciliation worksheets, among other discrepancies. See Letter from 
Department of Commerce to Liaoning Company, dated June 15, 2006 
(``Opportunity to Revise Letter'').
    Finally, Liaoning Company failed to demonstrate that it acted to 
the best of its ability in providing the information, as Liaoning 
Company made no effort to follow the specific, detailed instructions 
provided by the Department in revising its questionnaire response. As

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previously noted, although Liaoning Company's original response was 
severely deficient, the Department provided Liaoning Company an 
opportunity to revise its response and gave extensive instructions to 
assist Liaoning Company in revising its questionnaire response. See 
Opportunity to Revise Letter. The Department included copies of our 
regulations explaining our classification of information, and filing, 
service and certification requirements, the public and proprietary 
service lists, as well as the General Instructions to the 
questionnaire, with the Opportunity to Revise Letter. Id. at 
Attachments 1 through 4. The Department also requested that Liaoning 
Company contact the reviewing analyst if it had any questions regarding 
the revised response. Id. at 4. Liaoning Company failed to follow the 
Department's instructions and did not contact the reviewing analyst (or 
any Department official) regarding revising its questionnaire response. 
When Liaoning Company submitted its revised response, it had added an 
index page and followed the Department's request to properly include a 
case heading in the upper right hand corner (pursuant to instruction 1 
of the Opportunity to Revise Letter) and to properly address the 
revised response (pursuant to instruction 2 of the Opportunity to 
Revise Letter). Other than these minor revisions, however, Liaoning 
Company's revised response appeared to be identical to the original 
submission rejected by the Department, with the same deficiency of 
information, and the same filing format and service deficiencies. See 
Letter from Department of Commerce to Liaoning Company, dated July 31, 
2006. These deficiencies in the revised response, in view of the 
Department's detailed instructions and guidance, indicate that Liaoning 
Company did not act to the best of its ability in providing the 
requested information. Furthermore, as discussed above, it is 
appropriate to consider Liaoning Company part of the PRC-wide entity. 
Accordingly, pursuant to section 776(a) of the Act, the margin for the 
PRC-wide entity (including Liaoning Company) must be based on facts 
otherwise available.
    In selecting from among the facts otherwise available, section 
776(b) of the Act provides that if an interested party fails to 
cooperate by not acting to the best of its ability to comply with a 
request for information, the Department may use an inference that is 
adverse to the interests of the party. An adverse inference is 
appropriate ``to ensure that the party does not obtain a more favorable 
result by failing to cooperate than if it had cooperated fully.'' See 
Statement of Administrative Action (``SAA'') accompanying the Uruguay 
Round Agreements Act, H. Doc. No. 103-316, at 870 (1994). Section 
776(b) of the Act states that, in applying AFA, such an adverse 
inference may include reliance on information derived from the 
petition, a final determination in an antidumping investigation or 
review, or any other information placed on the record. Because Liaoning 
Company failed to adequately respond to our questionnaire, and made no 
effort to follow the specific, detailed instructions provided by the 
Department in revising its questionnaire response, we preliminarily 
determine that the PRC-wide entity, including Liaoning Company, did not 
act to the best of its ability to comply with the Department's 
requests. Therefore, pursuant to section 776(b) of the Act, we are 
preliminarily basing the margin for the PRC-wide entity on AFA.
    The Department's practice in reviews is to select, as an AFA rate, 
the highest rate determined for any respondent in any segment of the 
proceeding. See, e.g., Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and Final Partial Rescission: Certain Cut-to-
Length Carbon Steel Plate from Romania, 71 FR 7008, 7010-11 (February 
10, 2006), and accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum, at Issue 1; 
Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the People's Republic of China; 
Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 68 
FR 19504, 19506 (April 21, 2003) (citing Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat 
from the People's Republic of China; Notice of Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Final Partial Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 67 FR 19546 (April 22, 2002)). 
The courts have consistently upheld this practice. See Ta Chen 
Stainless Steel Pipe, Inc. v. United States, 298 F.3d 1330,1339 (Fed. 
Cir. 2002); Sigma Corp. v. U.S., 117 F.3rd 1401, 1411 (Fed. Cir. 1997) 
(stating that the Department has a ``long standing practice of 
assigning to respondents who fail to cooperate with Commerce's 
investigation the highest margin calculated for any party in the less-
than-fair-value investigation or in any administrative review''); NSK 
Ltd. v. United States, 346 F. Supp. 2d 1312, 1335 (CIT 2004) (upholding 
a 73.55 percent total AFA rate, the highest available dumping margin 
from a different respondent in a less-than-fair-value (``LTFV'') 
investigation); Kompass Food Trading Int'l v. United States, 24 CIT 
678, 682-84 (2000) (upholding a 51.16 percent total AFA rate, the 
highest available dumping margin from a different, fully cooperative 
respondent); Shanghai Taoen International Trading Co., Ltd. v. United 
States, 360 F. Supp. 2d. 1339, 1347-48 (CIT 2005) (upholding a 223.01 
percent total AFA rate, the highest available dumping margin from a 
different respondent in a previous administrative review).
    The Department's practice, when selecting an AFA rate from among 
the possible sources of information, is to ensure that the margin is 
sufficiently adverse ``as to effectuate the statutory purposes of the 
adverse facts available rule to induce respondents to provide the 
Department with complete and accurate information in a timely manner.'' 
See, e.g., Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Brazil: Notice 
of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Final 
Negative Critical Circumstances, 67 FR 55792 (August 30, 2002); Static 
Random Access Memory Semiconductors from Taiwan: Final Determination of 
Sales at Less than Fair Value, 63 FR 8909 (February 23, 1998).
    In accordance with the Department's practice, we are preliminarily 
applying as AFA to the PRC-wide entity (including Liaoning Company) the 
rate of 128.59 percent, which is the rate currently applicable to the 
PRC-wide entity and is a rate calculated for another respondent in the 
LTFV investigation. See Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
Value: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From the People's 
Republic of China, 62 FR 61964, 61966 (November 20, 1997). This rate 
reflects the Department's practice of selecting the highest rate 
determined for any respondent in any segment of the proceeding as AFA 
and is sufficiently adverse to effectuate the purpose of AFA.

Corroboration of Secondary Information

    Section 776(c) of the Act provides that when the Department relies 
on the facts otherwise available and uses ``secondary information,'' 
the Department shall, to the extent practicable, corroborate that 
information from independent sources reasonably at its disposal. 
Secondary information is defined in the SAA as ``{i{time} nformation 
derived from the petition that gave rise to the investigation or 
review, the final determination concerning subject merchandise, or any 
previous review under section 751 concerning the subject merchandise.'' 
See SAA at 870.

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The SAA also states that to ``corroborate'' the Department must satisfy 
itself that the secondary information to be used has probative value. 
Id.
    To corroborate secondary information, the Department will consider 
the reliability and relevance of the information used. In an 
administrative review, if the Department selects as AFA a calculated 
dumping margin from a prior segment of the proceeding, it is not 
necessary to question the reliability of that margin. See Anhydrous 
Sodium Metasilicate from France: Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review, 68 FR 44283 (July 28, 2003) (unchanged in 
final). However, the Department will consider information reasonably at 
its disposal to determine whether that margin continues to have 
relevance. Where circumstances indicate that the selected margin is not 
appropriate as AFA, the Department will disregard the margin and 
determine an appropriate margin. See, e.g., Fresh Cut Flowers from 
Mexico: Final Results of Antidumping Administrative Review, 61 FR 6812 
(February 22, 1996) (the Department disregarded the highest margin as 
AFA because the margin was based on another company's uncharacteristic 
business expense resulting in an unusually high margin). Similarly, the 
Department does not apply a margin that has been discredited. D&L 
Supply Co. v. United States, 113 F.3d 1220, 1221 (Fed. Cir. 1997) (the 
Department will not use a margin that has been judicially invalidated). 
None of these circumstances are present here. The information used in 
calculating this margin was based on data submitted by the respondents 
in the LTFV investigation, along with the most appropriate surrogate 
value information submitted by the parties and gathered by the 
Department in the LTFV investigation. Furthermore, the calculation of 
this margin was subject to comment from interested parties in the LTFV 
investigation proceeding. As the only source for calculated margins is 
administrative determinations, it is not necessary to question the 
reliability of a calculated dumping margin from a prior segment of the 
proceeding. As for the relevance of the rate selected, this rate is the 
rate currently applicable to the PRC-wide entity. Moreover, no 
information has been presented in the current review that calls into 
question the relevance of this information. As there is no information 
on the record of this review that demonstrates that this rate is not 
appropriately used as AFA, we determine that this rate has relevance.
    Based on our analysis, we find that the margin of 128.59 percent is 
both reliable and relevant and, as a result, we determine that this 
rate has probative value. Accordingly, we determine that the calculated 
rate of 128.59 percent, which is the current PRC-wide rate, is in 
accordance with section 776(c) of the Act, which requires that 
secondary information be corroborated to the extent practicable (i.e., 
that it have probative value). As a result, the Department determines 
that this rate is corroborated to the extent practicable for the 
purposes of this administrative review and may reasonably be applied to 
the PRC-wide entity, based on Liaoning Company's failure to cooperate 
to the best of its ability in this administrative review, as the total 
AFA rate. Consequently, we have assigned this AFA rate to exports of 
the subject merchandise from all companies subject to the PRC-wide 
rate, including Liaoning Company.

Preliminary Results of Review

    As a result of our review, we preliminarily determine that a 
weighted-average dumping margin of 128.59 exists for the PRC-wide 
entity for the period November 1, 2004, through October 31, 2005. For 
Angang, we preliminarily rescind the administrative review.
    Interested parties may submit written comments (``case briefs'') to 
be received by the Department no later than 30 days after the date of 
publication of these preliminary results. See 19 C.F.R. 351.309(c)(ii). 
Rebuttal comments (``rebuttal briefs''), which must be limited to 
issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed with the Department no 
later than 37 days after the date of publication of this notice. See 19 
C.F.R. 351.309(d).
    Any interested party may request a hearing within 30 days of 
publication of these preliminary results. See 19 C.F.R. 351.310(c). Any 
request for a hearing should contain the following information: 1) the 
party's name, address, and telephone number; 2) the number of 
participants; and 3) a list of the issues to be discussed. Any hearing, 
if requested, shall be held two working days after the deadline for 
submission of the rebuttal briefs. See 19 C.F.R. 351.310(d). Any 
hearing, if held, will be take place at the U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230. Oral 
presentations will be limited to issues raised in the briefs.
    The Department will publish a notice of the final results of this 
administrative review, which will include the results of its analysis 
of issues raised by the parties, within 120 days of publication of 
these preliminary results. See 19 C.F.R. 351.213(h).

Assessment Rates

    On May 15, 2006, the Department received a request from Angang to 
issue liquidation instructions clarifying that the sole shipment of 
merchandise exported jointly by Angang Group Hong Kong Co. Limited and 
Angang Group International Trade Corporation be liquidated at the 
current 30.68 percent cash deposit rate assigned to Anshan Iron & Steel 
Complex, Angang International Trade Corporation, and Sincerely Asia, 
Limited, from the original LTFV investigation and subsequent 
antidumping duty order. However, as Angang withdrew its request for 
review and the Department did not have an opportunity to conduct an 
analysis of Angang's shipments or relationship with Angang Group 
International Trade Corporation for the POR, the Department cannot 
issue specific liquidation instructions with regard to this shipment.
    Upon issuance of the final results, the Department will determine, 
and CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. 
Because the Department is applying AFA to all exports of subject 
merchandise exported by the PRC-wide entity, including Liaoning 
Company, we will instruct CBP to liquidate entries according to the AFA 
ad valorem rate for all importers. The Department will issue 
appropriate assessment instructions directly to CBP within 15 days of 
publication of the final results of this administrative review.

Cash-Deposit Requirements

    The following cash-deposit requirements will be effective upon 
publication of the final results of this administrative review for all 
shipments of CTL plate from the PRC entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date, as 
provided for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) for previously 
investigated or reviewed companies not subject to this review that have 
separate rates, the cash-deposit rate will continue to be the company-
specific rate published in the most recent proceeding prior to this 
administrative review; (2) for all other PRC exporters, including 
Liaoning Company, the cash-deposit rate will be 128.59 percent; and (3) 
for all other non-PRC exporters, the cash-deposit rate will be the rate 
applicable to the PRC exporter that supplied that exporter. These cash

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deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until 
publication of the final results of the next administrative review.

Notification to Importers

    This notice also serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of 
their responsibility under 19 C.F.R. 351.402(f) to file a certificate 
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation 
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply 
with this requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of double antidumping duties.
    We are issuing and publishing these preliminary results of 
administrative review in accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 
777(i)(1) of the Act, as well as 19 C.F.R. 351.221(b)(4) and 19 C.F.R. 
351.213(d)(4).

    Dated: August 2, 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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