[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 207 (Friday, October 26, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60807-60808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-21109]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-428-830]


Notice of Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review: 
Stainless Steel Bar from Germany

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') has received a 
request for a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on 
Stainless Steel Bar (``SSB'') from Germany published on March 7, 2002 
(67 FR 10382). 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 Flanschenwerk Bebitz 
GmbH (``Flanschenwerk'').

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 26, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brandon Farlander or Damian Felton, 
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-
0182 or (202) 482-0133, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department received a timely request 
from Flanschenwerk, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c), for a new 
shipper review of the antidumping duty order on SSB from Germany, which 
has a September semiannual anniversary month.
    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(I) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(b)(2)(i), Flanschenwerk, an exporter and producer of the 
subject merchandise, certified that it did not export subject 
merchandise to the United States during the period of investigation 
(``POI'') (October 1, 1999, through September 30, 2000). Pursuant to 
section 751(a)(2)(B)(i)(II) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(b)(2)(iii)(A), Flanschenwerk also certified that since the 
initiation of the investigation it has not been affiliated with any 
exporter or producer who exported the subject merchandise to the United 
States during the POI, including those not individually examined during 
the investigation. Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iv), Flanschenwerk 
also submitted documentation establishing the date on which its SSB was 
first shipped for export to the United States, the volume of that 
shipment, and the date of the first sale to an unaffiliated customer in 
the United States.
    The Department conducted a query of the U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (``CBP'') database to confirm that Flanschenwerk's shipment 
of subject merchandise had entered the United States for consumption 
and has been suspended for antidumping duties. The Department also 
corroborated Flanschenwerk's assertion that it made no subsequent 
shipments to the United States by reviewing CBP data.

Scope of the Order

    For the purposes of this order, the term ``stainless steel bar'' 
includes 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 stainless steel bars that 
are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-
rolled bar or from

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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 length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut 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), products that have been cut from stainless 
steel sheet, strip or plate, 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 this order 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, the written description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.

Initiation of Review

    Based on the information on the record and in accordance with 
section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(d)(1), we have 
determined that Flanschenwerk has met the statutory and regulatory 
requirements for the initiation of a new shipper review. Thus, we are 
initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on SSB 
from Germany (produced and exported) by Flanschenwerk. Because we are 
initiating this new shipper review in the month immediately following 
the semiannual anniversary month, this review covers the period from 
March 1, 2007, through August 31, 2007, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.214(g)(1)(i)(B). We intend to issue the preliminary results of this 
review no later than 180 days after the date on which this review is 
initiated, and the final results within 90 days after the date on which 
we issue the preliminary results. See section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the 
Act.
    On August 17, 2006, the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (``H.R. 4'') 
was signed into law. Section 1632 of H.R. 4 temporarily suspends the 
authority of the Department to instruct CBP to collect a bond or other 
security in lieu of a cash deposit in new shipper reviews. Therefore, 
the posting of a bond under section 751(a)(B)(iii) of the Act in lieu 
of a cash deposit is not available in this case. Importers of SSB 
manufactured and exported by Flanschenwerk must continue to post cash 
deposits of estimated antidum ping duties on each entry of subject 
merchandise (i.e., SSB) at the current all-others rate of 15.16 
percent, established in Implementation of the Findings of the WTO Panel 
in US-Zeroing (EC): Notice of Determination Under Section 129 of the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act and Revocations and Partial Revocations of 
Certain Antidumping Duty Orders, 72 FR 25261, 25262 (May 4, 2007).
    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, 19 CFR 351.214(d) and 19 CFR 351.221(c)(1)(i).

    Dated: October 22, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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