[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 15, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66503-66504]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19293]


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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. See Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Steel 
Concrete Reinforcing Bars from Turkey, 62 FR 18748 (April 17, 1997) 
(Rebar from Turkey Order). 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 Ege Celik 
Endustrisi Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., a producer of subject merchandise, 
and its affiliated export trading company, Ege Dis Ticaret A.S. 
(collectively ``Ege Celik'').

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 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 Ege Celik, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c), for a new shipper 
review of the antidumping duty order on rebar from Turkey. See Rebar 
from Turkey Order.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2), Ege Celik 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. Ege Celik 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, pursuant to 19 CFR 
351.214(b)(2)(i).

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

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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 Ege Celik. See 
the Memorandum from the Team to the File through James Maeder, Office 
Director, entitled ``Initiation of AD New Shipper Review: Certain Steel 
Concrete Reinforcing Bars from Turkey,'' dated November 2, 2006. 
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(i), we will issue the preliminary results of 
this review no later than 180 days after the date on which the review 
is initiated, and the final results of this review no later than 90 
days after the date on which the preliminary results are issued.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(g)(1)(i)(B), if a new shipper review is 
initiated in the month immediately following the semiannual anniversary 
month, the period of review will be the six-month period immediately 
preceding the semiannual anniversary month. Therefore, the POR for the 
new shipper review for Ege Celik is April 1, 2006, through September 
30, 2006.
    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: November 7, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-19293 Filed 11-14-06; 8:45 am]
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