[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 94 (Wednesday, May 14, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27795-27796]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-10903]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Corrected 2007 Calculation of Expected Non-Market Economy Wages

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

ACTION: Correction of 2007 Expected Non-Market Economy Wage 
Calculation.

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SUMMARY: On May 9, 2008 the Department published finalized 2007 
expected NME wage rates. See 2007 Calculation of Expected Non-Market 
Economy Wages, 73 FR 26363, (May 9, 2008). However, those results 
inadvertently omitted observation 1 (the data for Albania) 
from the regression analysis. That error has been corrected.

DATES: These expected NME wage rates are finalized on the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register and will be in 
effect for all antidumping proceedings for which the Department's final 
decision is due after the publication of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony Hill, Economist, Office of 
Policy, or Juanita Chen, Special Assistant to the Senior Enforcement 
Coordinator, China/NME Group, Import Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-1843 and (202) 482-1904, respectively.

Correction of Clerical Error

    The Department inadvertently omitted observation 1 (the 
data for Albania) from the regression analysis. That error has now been 
corrected.

Results

    After correction of the clerical error, the regression results are:

Wage = 0.257585 + 0.000448* GNI.

    The final expected NME wage rates, as calculated after this 
correction, are shown in Attachment 1.

    Dated: May 12, 2008.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Attachment 1

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                                                Expected NME
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              Country                 2005 GNI  (USD    Wage rate  (USD
                                        per annum)         per hour)
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Armenia...........................              1,470               0.92
Azerbaijan........................              1,270               0.83
Belarus...........................              2,760               1.49

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China.............................              1,740               1.04
Georgia...........................              1,300               0.84
Kyrgyz Republic...................                450               0.46
Moldova...........................                960               0.69
Tajikistan........................                330               0.41
Uzbekistan........................                530               0.50
Vietnam...........................                620               0.54
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    The World Bank did not publish a GNI for Turkmenistan.
    The final results and underlying data for the 2007 calculation have 
been posted on the Import Administration Web site at (http://ia.ita.doc.gov).

[FR Doc. E8-10903 Filed 5-13-08; 8:45 am]
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