[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 225 (Friday, November 23, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65706-65707]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-22865]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-412-822]


Stainless Steel Bar From the United Kingdom: Notice of Final 
Results of Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation of Order, in 
Part

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

DATES: Effective Date: November 23, 2007.
SUMMARY: On October 11, 2007, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of 
a changed circumstances review for a partial revocation of the 
antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from the United Kingdom 
with respect to SAF 2507 grade stainless steel bar. See Stainless Steel 
Bar from the United Kingdom: Notice of Initiation and Preliminary 
Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent to Revoke Order in 
Part, 72 FR 57911 (October 11, 2007) (Initiation and Preliminary 
Results). We received no comments from interested parties objecting to 
the Initiation and Preliminary Results. Thus, we determine that changed 
circumstances exist to warrant revocation of the order, in part.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Johnson or Rebecca Trainor, 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-
4929 or (202) 482-4007, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 7, 2002, the Department published in the Federal Register 
an antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from the United 
Kingdom. See Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar from the 
United Kingdom, 67 FR 10381 (March 7, 2002). On August 27, 2007, 
Swagelok Company (Swagelok), an interested party, requested that the 
Department initiate a changed circumstances review to exclude SAF 2507 
grade stainless steel bar from the antidumping duty order on stainless 
steel bar from the United Kingdom. On September 18, 2007, the Domestic 
Industry \1\ submitted a letter affirming that it does not object to 
the exclusion of the product identified in Swagelok's August 27, 2007, 
request for a changed circumstances review. On September 21, 2007, the 
Domestic Industry submitted a statement affirming that its members 
account for substantially all of the U.S. production of stainless steel 
bar, exceeding 85 percent of total domestic production. On September 
25, 2007, Sandvik Bioline, a U.K. producer of stainless steel bar, 
provided a technical description of the stainless steel bar product 
Swagelok requested to be excluded from the scope of the antidumping 
duty order.\2\
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    \1\ Carpenter Technology Corp., Crucible Specialty Metals 
Division of Crucible Materials Corp., Electralloy Corp., North 
American Stainless, Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., and 
Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc.
    \2\ Sandvik Bioline is the producer of the product which is the 
subject of Swagelok's changed circumstances review request.
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    On October 11, 2007, the Department published a notice of 
initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review 
for a partial

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revocation of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from 
the United Kingdom with respect to SAF 2507 grade bar. See Initiation 
and Preliminary Results. On October 25, 2007, the Domestic Industry 
submitted a letter reiterating that it does not object to the exclusion 
of SAF 2507 grade bar from the order.

Scope of the Order

    For 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. Stainless steel bar includes cold-finished stainless 
steel bars 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 scope 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.
    Also excluded from the scope of the order is grade SAF 2507 
stainless steel bar. SAF 2507 is cold worked and finished Super Duplex 
stainless steel bar material having either a round or hexagonal cross 
section, conforming to UNS S32750, having a minimum elevated tensile 
strength in excess of 140 KSI, and a PRE (pitting resistant equivalent) 
value of 42.5 minimum, supplied in straight bar lengths. SAF 2507 grade 
stainless steel bar is currently classified under HTSUS subheadings 
7222.20.00.45 and 7222.20.00.75.
    The stainless steel bar 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 this order is dispositive.

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation of Order 
in Part

    Pursuant to sections 751(d)(1) and 782(h)(2) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act), the Department may partially revoke an 
antidumping duty order based on a review under section 751(b) of the 
Act (i.e., a changed circumstances review). Section 751(b)(1) of the 
Act requires a changed circumstances review to be conducted upon 
receipt of a request which shows changed circumstances sufficient to 
warrant a review.
    In the instant review, based on the information provided by 
Swagelok and the lack of interest on the part of the Domestic Industry, 
the Department found preliminarily that the continued relief provided 
by the order with respect to the product in question from the United 
Kingdom is no longer of interest to the Domestic Industry. See 
Initiation and Preliminary Results. We did not receive any comments 
objecting to our preliminary results. Therefore, the Department is 
partially revoking the order on stainless steel bar from the United 
Kingdom with respect to grade SAF 2507 stainless steel bar, as 
described in the Scope of the Order section of this notice.
    We will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to 
liquidate without regard to antidumping duties and to refund any 
estimated antidumping duties collected on entries of all shipments of 
the product in question that are not covered by the final results of an 
administrative review or automatic liquidation. The most recent period 
for which the Department has completed an administrative review or 
ordered automatic liquidation under 19 CFR 351.212(c) is March 1, 2006, 
through February 28, 2007. Any prior entries are subject to either the 
final results of review or automatic liquidation. Therefore, we will 
instruct CBP to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties, 
shipments of stainless steel bar from the United Kingdom meeting the 
specifications of the product in question entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after March 1, 2007. We will also 
instruct CBP to release any cash deposits or bonds and pay interest on 
such refunds in accordance with section 778 of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.222(g)(4). The Department intends to issue assessment instructions 
to CBP 15 days after the date of publication of these final results of 
review.
    This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (APOs) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.306. Timely written notification of 
the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial 
protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the 
regulations and terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
    This determination is issued and published in accordance with 
sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216.

    Dated: November 15, 2007.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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