[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 216 (Thursday, November 6, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66011-66012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-26393]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-810]


Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``Department'') has determined, 
pursuant to section 751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), that India Steel Works Limited (``India Steel'') is the 
successor-in-interest to Isibars Limited (``Isibars''). As a result, 
India Steel will be accorded the same treatment previously accorded to 
Isibars with regard to the antidumping duty order on stainless steel 
bar (``SSB'') from India as of the date of publication of this notice 
in the Federal Register.

DATES: Effective Date: November 6, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cory Hervey and Devta Ohri, 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-
1664 and (202) 482-3853, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On February 21, 1995, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') 
published in the Federal Register the antidumping duty order on SSB 
from India. See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from 
Brazil, India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995). On August 4, 
2008, India Steel requested that the Department initiate a changed 
circumstances review of this order to determine that, for purposes of 
the antidumping law, India Steel is the successor-in-interest to 
Isibars. See August 4, 2008, letter from India Steel.
    On September 25, 2008, the Department published the notice of 
initiation and preliminary results of review, finding that India Steel 
is the successor-in-interest to Isibars and should be treated as such 
for antidumping duty cash deposit purposes. See Notice of Initiation 
and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Review: Stainless Steel Bar from India, 73 FR 55497 (September 25, 
2008). We invited parties to comment on the preliminary results. We 
received no comments or requests for a hearing.

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Scope of the Review

    Imports covered by the order are shipments of SSB. SSB means 
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. SSB includes cold-finished SSBs 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-to-length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut-to-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), 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 these reviews 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, our written description of the scope of the order is 
dispositive.
    On May 23, 2005, the Department issued a final scope ruling that 
SSB manufactured in the United Arab Emirates out of stainless steel 
wire rod from India is not subject to the scope of this order. See 
Memorandum from Team to Barbara E. Tillman, ``Antidumping Duty Orders 
on Stainless Steel Bar from India and Stainless Steel Wire Rod from 
India: Final Scope Ruling,'' dated May 23, 2005, which is on file in 
the Central Records Unit in room 1117 of the main Department building. 
See also Notice of Scope Rulings, 70 FR 55110 (September 20, 2005).

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review

    For the reasons stated in the preliminary results, and because the 
Department did not receive any comments following the preliminary 
results of this review, the Department continues to find that India 
Steel is the successor-in-interest to Isibars for antidumping duty cash 
deposit purposes.

Instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

    The Department will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of all 
shipments of the subject merchandise produced and exported by India 
Steel entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
the publication date of this notice at 2.01 percent (i.e., Isibars's 
cash deposit rate). This deposit rate shall remain in effect until 
publication of the final results of the next administrative review in 
which India Steel participates.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (``APO'') 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 notice in accordance with sections 751(b) and 777(i)(1) of the 
Act, and sections 351.216(e) and 351.221(c)(3)(i) of the Department's 
regulations.

    Dated: October 30, 2008.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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