[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 58 (Tuesday, March 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15736-15737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-6042]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-428-830]


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

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is rescinding 
the new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel 
bar from Germany manufactured by Flanschenwerk Bebitz GmbH 
(``Flanschenwerk''). The period of review (``POR'') covers March 1, 
2007, through August 31, 2007. This order was revoked as a result of a 
sunset proceeding and the effective date of revocation is prior to the 
U.S. entry made by Flanschenwerk subject to this new shipper review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 25, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brandon Farlander, 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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 7, 2002, the Department published an antidumping duty 
order on stainless steel bar from Germany. See Notice of Amended Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty 
Order: Stainless Steel Bar from Germany, 67 FR 10382 (March 7, 2002) 
(``Investigation Final''). On October 10, 2003, the Department 
published an amended antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from 
Germany. See Notice of Amended Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel 
Bar from France, Germany, Italy, Korea, and the United Kingdom, 68 FR 
58660 (October 10, 2003).
    On October 1, 2007, we received a request for a new shipper review 
from Flanschenwerk for the period March 1, 2007, through August 31, 
2007. We initiated the review on October 26, 2007. See Notice of 
Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review: Stainless Steel Bar 
from Germany, 72 FR 60807 (October 26, 2007). On December 20, 2007, 
Flanschenwerk responded to Section A of the antidumping questionnaire.
    On February 1, 2007, the Department initiated, and the U.S. 
International Trade Commission (``ITC'') instituted, a sunset review of 
the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from Germany. See 
Initiation of Five-Year (``Sunset'') Reviews, 72 FR 4689 (February 1, 
2007). As a result of its sunset review, the Department found that 
revocation of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from 
Germany would be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of 
dumping. See Stainless Steel Bar from Germany; Final Results of the 
Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order, 72 FR 56985 (October 5, 
2007).
    On January 31, 2008, the ITC determined that revocation of the 
order on stainless steel bar from Germany would not be likely to lead 
to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the 
United States within a reasonably foreseeable time. See Stainless Steel 
Bar From France, Germany, Italy, Korea, and The United Kingdom, 73 FR 
5869 (January 31, 2008) and USITC Publication 3981 (January 2008), 
entitled Stainless Steel Bar from France, Germany, Italy, Korea, and 
the United Kingdom (Inv. Nos. 701-TA-413 and 731-TA-913-916 & 918 
(Review)). As a result of the determination by the ITC that revocation 
of the order on stainless steel bar from Germany is not likely to lead 
to the continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in 
the United States, the Department, pursuant to section 751(d) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the Act''), revoked the antidumping 
duty order on stainless steel bar from Germany. See Revocation of 
Antidumping Duty Orders on Stainless Steel Bar From France, Germany, 
Italy, South Korea, and the United Kingdom and the Countervailing Duty 
Order on Stainless Steel Bar From Italy, 73 FR 7258 (February 7, 2008) 
(``Stainless Steel Bar Revocation Notice'').
    As a result of the ITC's vote to revoke the antidumping duty order 
on stainless steel bar from Germany on January 8, 2008, Flanschenwerk 
submitted an extension request, also on January 8, 2008, for filing its 
Sections B and C questionnaire responses until the Department published 
its revocation notice of this order. On March 17, 2008, Flanschenwerk 
withdrew its new shipper review request.

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. Stainless steel bar (``SSB'') 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 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.

Rescission of Review

    Flanschenwerk's POR U.S. entry occurred after the effective date of 
revocation of the order, which was March 7, 2007. Further, the 
Department has already issued its revocation instructions to the U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection, which will liquidate this entry without 
regard to antidumping duties (i.e., release all bonds and refund all 
cash deposits, with interest). See Stainless Steel Bar Revocation 
Notice. Because Flanschenwerk has no additional U.S. entries to review 
during the POR, we are rescinding this new shipper review. No 
liquidation instructions are necessary because the Department has 
already issued its revocation instructions, which will result in the 
liquidation of Flanschenwerk's U.S. entry. In addition, because this 
order is now revoked, no cash deposit instructions are necessary.

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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 
Act and 19 CFR 351.214(f)(3).

    Dated: March 18, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-6042 Filed 3-24-08; 8:45 am]
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