[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 99 (Wednesday, May 21, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29481-29482]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-11435]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-122-840)


Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Canada: Notice of 
Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 21, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Salim Bhabhrawala or David Neubacher, 
at (202) 482-1784 or (202) 482-5823, respectively; AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 24, 2006, the Department of 
Commerce (``Department'') published in the Federal Register the final 
results for the second administrative review of the antidumping duty 
order on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Canada. See 
Notice of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: 
Carbon and Certain Steel Alloy Steel Wire Rod from Canada, 71 FR 3822 
(Jan. 24, 2006) (Final Results). Mittal Canada, Inc. (formerly Ispat 
Sidbec Inc.) (``Mittal'') challenged several aspects of the Final 
Results before a NAFTA binational panel. On November 28, 2007, the 
panel issued a decision. See Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod 
from Canada, Decision of the Panel, USA-CDA-2006-1904-04 (Nov. 28, 
2007).
    On April 17, 2008, the United States Department of Commerce, 
Mittal, and Gerdau Ameristeel U.S., Inc. and Keystone Consolidated 
Industries, Inc. entered into a Settlement Agreement covering this 
NAFTA proceeding (``Agreement''). Pursuant to this settlement of 
litigation, Mittal filed a consent motion to terminate the panel review 
and vacate the panel's decisions in the proceeding referenced above. On 
April 29, 2008, the NAFTA Secretariat of the U.S. Section published the 
notice of termination of the panel review. See North American Free 
Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Article 1904; Binational Panel Reviews: Notice 
of Consent Motion to Terminate Panel Review, 73 FR 23183 (Apr. 29, 
2008). The review period covered by these amended final results is from 
October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004.

Assessment of Duties

    Pursuant to the Agreement, the Department is amending the final 
results of the contested review and will instruct U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) to liquidate all entries of Canadian wire rod 
that were entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during 
the period of October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004, that were 
produced and exported by Mittal or Ispat Sidbec Inc., at the assessment 
rate of 3.86% ad valorem. Because parties waived any right to challenge 
these amended final results pursuant to the Agreement, the Department 
will issue assessment instructions to CBP following publication of this 
notice.

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Cash-Deposit Requirements

    As provided by section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended, and as stipulated in the Agreement with regard to the 
settlement of the second administrative review, the cash-deposit rate 
for all shipments of Canadian wire rod produced and exported by Mittal 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after May 
21, 2008, 2008, shall be 3.86% ad valorem. The deposit requirements 
shall remain in effect until further notice.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.

    Dated: May 15, 2008.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-11435 Filed 5-20-08; 8:45 am]
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