[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 183 (Friday, September 21, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 54000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-18710]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-533-810


Stainless Steel Bar from India: Notice of Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review of Sunflag Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 21, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Devta Ohri, 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) 482-3853.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On February 21, 1995, the Department published in the Federal 
Register the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar (SSB) from 
India. See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, 
India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995). On February 28, 2007, 
the Department received a timely request from Sunflag for a new shipper 
review of the antidumping duty order on SSB from India, in accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.214(c). On March 23, 2007, the Department initiated a 
new shipper review of Sunflag. See Stainless Steel Bar from India: 
Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 72 FR 
15110 (March 30, 2007). On April 16, 2007, Sunflag withdrew its request 
for a new shipper review.

Scope of the Order

    Imports covered by the order are shipments of SSB. SSB means 
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 SSBs 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-to-length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut-to-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), 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 these reviews 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, 
our written description of the scope of the order is dispositive.
    On May 23, 2005, the Department issued a final scope ruling that 
SSB manufactured in the United Arab Emirates out of stainless steel 
wire rod from India is not subject to the scope of this order. See 
Memorandum from Team to Barbara E. Tillman, ``Antidumping Duty Orders 
on Stainless Steel Bar from India and Stainless Steel Wire Rod from 
India: Final Scope Ruling,'' dated May 23, 2005, which is on file in 
the CRU in room B-099 of the main Department building. See also Notice 
of Scope Rulings, 70 FR 55110 (September 20, 2005).

Rescission of Review

    The Department's regulations at 19 CFR 351.214(f)(1) provide that 
the Department will rescind a new shipper review if the party that 
requested the review withdraws the request within 60 days of the date 
of publication of the notice of initiation of the requested review. 
Sunflag withdrew its request for a new shipper review on April 16, 
2007, which is within the 60-day deadline. Therefore, the Department is 
rescinding this new shipper review of Sunflag.
    We note that Sunflag is currently participating in the 2006-2007 
antidumping duty administrative review of SSB from India, which has the 
exact same period of review as this new shipper review, i.e., February 
1, 2006, through January 31, 2007. Therefore, we will not issue any 
liquidation instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection until 
after the final results are issued for the 2006-2007 antidumping duty 
administrative review.

Notification Regarding Administrative Protective Orders

    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written 
notification of the return or 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 notice is published in accordance with section 777(i) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).

    Dated: September 12, 2007.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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