[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 134 (Friday, July 11, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39948-39949]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-15511]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sheila E. Forbes, Office of AD/CVD 
Operations, Customs Unit, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-
4697.

Background

    Each year during the anniversary month of the publication of an 
antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension of 
investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 77 1(9) of 
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), may request, in 
accordance with section 35 1.213 (2007) of the Department of Commerce 
(the Department) Regulations, that the Department conduct an 
administrative review of that antidumping or countervailing duty order, 
finding, or suspended investigation.
    Opportunity to Request a Review: Not later than the last day of 
July 2008 \1\, interested parties may request administrative review of 
the following orders, findings, or suspended investigations, with 
anniversary dates in July for the following periods:
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    \1\ Or the next business day, if the deadline falls on a 
weekend, federal holiday or any other day when the Department is 
closed.

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                                                            Period
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            Antidumping Duty Proceedings
 
The People's Republic of China:
    Persulfates, A-570-847.........................       7/1/07-6/30/08
    Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A-570-814       7/1/07-6/30/08
    Saccharin, A-570-878...........................       7/1/07-6/30/08
Finland: Carboxymethylcellulose, A-405-803.........       7/1/07-6/30/08
Germany: Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils,        7/1/07-6/30/08
 A-428-825.........................................
India: Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Film, A-533-      7/1/07-6/30/08
 824...............................................
Iran: In-Shell Pistachios, A-507-502...............       7/1/07-6/30/08
Italy:
    Certain Pasta, A-475-818.......................       7/1/07-6/30/08
    Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils, A-475-      7/1/07-6/30/08
     824...........................................
Japan:
    Clad Steel Plate, A-588-838....................       7/1/07-6/30/08
    Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils, A-          7/1/07-6/30/08
     588845........................................
    Polyvinyl Alcohol, A-588-861...................       7/1/07-6/30/08
Mexico:
    Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils, A-201-      7/1/07-6/30/08
     822...........................................
    Carboxymethylcellulose, A-201-834..............       7/1/07-6/30/08
Netherlands: Carboxymethylcellulose, A-421-811.....       7/1/07-6/30/08
Russia:
    Solid Urea, A-821-801..........................       7/1/07-6/30/08
    Ferrovanadium and Nitrided Vanadium, A-821-807.       7/1/07-6/30/08
South Korea: Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in           7/1/07-6/30/08
 Coils, A-580-834..................................
Sweden: Carboxymethylcellulose, A-401-808..........       7/1/07-6/30/08
Taiwan:
    Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Film, A-583-         7/1/07-6/30/08
     837...........................................
    Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip in Coils, A-583-      7/1/07-6/30/08
     831...........................................
Thailand: Carbon Steel butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A-        7/1/07-6/30/08
 549-807...........................................
Turkey: Certain Pasta, A-489-805...................       7/1/07-6/30/08
Ukraine: Solid Urea, A-823-801.....................       7/1/07-6/30/08
 
          Countervailing Duty Proceedings
 
India: Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Film, C-533-     1/1/07-12/31/07
 825...............................................

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Italy: Certain Pasta, C-475-819....................      1/1/07-12/31/07
Turkey: Certain Pasta, C-489-806...................      1/1/07-12/31/07
               Suspension Agreements
 
Russia: Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat              7/1/07-6/30/08
 Products, A-821-809...............................
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    In accordance with section 351.213(b) of the regulations, an 
interested party as defined by section 771(9) of the Act may request in 
writing that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. For both 
antidumping and countervailing duty reviews, the interested party must 
specify the individual producers or exporters covered by an antidumping 
finding or an antidumping or countervailing duty order or suspension 
agreement for which it is requesting a review, and the requesting party 
must state why it desires the Secretary to review those particular 
producers or exporters.\2\ If the interested party intends for the 
Secretary to review sales of merchandise by an exporter (or a producer 
if that producer also exports merchandise from other suppliers) which 
were produced in more than one country of origin and each country of 
origin is subject to a separate order, then the interested party must 
state specifically, on an order-by-order basis, which exporter(s) the 
request is intended to cover.
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    \2\ If the review request involves a non-market economy and the 
parties subject to the review request do not qualify for separate 
rates, all other exporters of subject merchandise from the non-
market economy country who do not have a separate rate will be 
covered by the review as part of the single entity of which the 
named firms are a part.
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    Please note that, for any party the Department was unable to locate 
in prior segments, the Department will not accept a request for an 
administrative review of that party absent new information as to the 
party's location. Moreover, if the interested party who files a request 
for review is unable to locate the producer or exporter for which it 
requested the review, the interested party must provide an explanation 
of the attempts it made to locate the producer or exporter at the same 
time it files its request for review, in order for the Secretary to 
determine if the interested party's attempts were reasonable, pursuant 
to 19 CFR 351.303(f)(3)(ii).
    As explained in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003), the 
Department has clarified its practice with respect to the collection of 
final antidumping duties on imports of merchandise where intermediate 
firms are involved. The public should be aware of this clarification in 
determining whether to request an administrative review of merchandise 
subject to antidumping findings and orders. See also the Import 
Administration Web site at http://ia.ita.doc.gov.

Respondent Selection

    In the event the Department limits the number of respondents for 
individual examination for administrative reviews initiated pursuant to 
requests made for the orders identified above, the Department intends 
to select respondents based on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
data for U.S. imports during the POR. We intend to release the CBP data 
under Administrative Protective Order (APO) to all parties having an 
APO within five days of publication of the initiation notice and to 
make our decision regarding respondent selection within 20 days of 
publication of the initiation Federal Register notice. Therefore, we 
encourage all parties interested in commenting on respondent selection 
to submit their APO applications on the date of publication of the 
initiation notice, or as soon thereafter as possible. The Department 
invites comments regarding the CBP data and respondent selection within 
10 calendar days of publication of the initiation Federal Register 
notice.
    Six copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, Room 1870, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. The Department also 
asks parties to serve a copy of their requests to the Office of 
Antidumping/Countervailing Operations, Attention: Sheila Forbes, in 
room 3065 of the main Commerce Building. Further, in accordance with 
section 351.303(f)(l)(i) of the regulations, a copy of each request 
must be served on every party on the Department's service list.
    The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of 
``Initiation of Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing 
Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation'' for requests received 
by the last day of July 2008. If the Department does not receive, by 
the last day of July 2008, a request for review of entries covered by 
an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this notice and 
for the period identified above, the Department will instruct the U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection to assess antidumping or countervailing 
duties on those entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond 
for) estimated antidumping or countervailing duties required on those 
entries at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for 
consumption and to continue to collect the cash deposit previously 
ordered.
    This notice is not required by statute but is published as a 
service to the international trading community.

    Dated: July 1, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
 [FR Doc. E8-15511 Filed 7-10-08; 8:45 am]
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