[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 167 (Monday, August 31, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44819-44822]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-20980]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-427-801, A-428-801, A-475-801, A-588-804, A-412-801]


Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof From France, Germany, Italy, 
Japan, and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Revocation of an Order in Part

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

SUMMARY: On April 27, 2009, the Department of Commerce published the 
preliminary results of the administrative reviews of the antidumping 
duty orders on ball bearings and parts thereof from France, Germany, 
Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The reviews cover 15 
manufacturers/exporters. The period of review is May 1, 2007, through 
April 30, 2008.
    Based on our analysis of the comments received, we have made 
changes, including corrections of certain programming and other 
ministerial errors, in the margin calculations. Therefore, the final 
results are different from the preliminary results. The final weighted-
average dumping margins for the reviewed firms are listed below in the 
section entitled ``Final Results of the Reviews.''

DATES: Effective Date: August 31, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:  Yang Jin Chun or Richard Rimlinger, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 5, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
5760 or (202) 482-4477, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 27, 2009, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the preliminary results of the administrative reviews of the 
antidumping duty orders on ball bearings and parts thereof from France, 
Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. See Ball Bearings and 
Parts Thereof From France, et al.: Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Reviews and Intent to Revoke Order in Part, 74 FR 
19056 (April 27, 2009) (Preliminary Results). For these administrative 
reviews, the period of review is May 1, 2007, through April 30, 2008.
    We invited interested parties to comment on the Preliminary 
Results. At the request of an interested party, we held a hearing for 
Italy-specific issues on June 22, 2009. The Department has conducted 
these administrative reviews in accordance with section 751 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

Scope of the Orders

    The products covered by the orders are ball bearings and parts 
thereof. These products include all antifriction bearings that employ 
balls as the rolling element. Imports of these products are classified 
under the following categories: Antifriction balls, ball bearings with 
integral shafts, ball bearings (including radial ball bearings) and 
parts thereof, and housed or mounted ball bearing units and parts 
thereof.
    Imports of these products are classified under the following 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings: 
3926.90.45, 4016.93.10, 4016.93.50, 6909.19.50.10, 8431.20.00, 
8431.39.00.10, 8482.10.10, 8482.10.50, 8482.80.00, 8482.91.00, 
8482.99.05, 8482.99.35, 8482.99.25.80, 8482.99.65.95, 8483.20.40, 
8483.20.80, 8483.30.40, 8483.30.80, 8483.50.90, 8483.90.20, 8483.90.30, 
8483.90.70, 8708.50.50, 8708.60.50, 8708.60.80, 8708.93.30, 
8708.93.60.00, 8708.99.06, 8708.99.31.00, 8708.99.40.00, 8708.99.49.60, 
8708.99.58, 8708.99.80.15, 8708.99.80.80, 8803.10.00, 8803.20.00, 
8803.30.00, 8803.90.30, and 8803.90.90.
    As a result of changes to the HTSUS, effective February 2, 2007, 
the subject merchandise is also classifiable under the following 
additional HTSUS item numbers: 8708.30.50.90, 8708.40.75, 
8708.50.79.00, 8708.50.89.00, 8708.50.91.50, 8708.50.99.00, 
8708.70.60.60, 8708.80.65.90, 8708.93.75.00, 8708.94.75, 8708.95.20.00, 
8708.99.55.00, 8708.99.68, 8708.99.81.80.
    Although the HTSUS item numbers above are provided for convenience 
and customs purposes, the written descriptions of the scope of these 
orders remain dispositive.
    The size or precision grade of a bearing does not influence whether 
the bearing is covered by one of the orders. These orders cover all the 
subject bearings and parts thereof (inner race,

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outer race, cage, rollers, balls, seals, shields, etc.) outlined above 
with certain limitations. With regard to finished parts, all such parts 
are included in the scope of these orders. For unfinished parts, such 
parts are included if they have been heat-treated or if heat treatment 
is not required to be performed on the part. Thus, the only unfinished 
parts that are not covered by these orders are those that will be 
subject to heat treatment after importation. The ultimate application 
of a bearing also does not influence whether the bearing is covered by 
the orders. Bearings designed for highly specialized applications are 
not excluded. Any of the subject bearings, regardless of whether they 
may ultimately be utilized in aircraft, automobiles, or other 
equipment, are within the scope of these orders.
    For a list of scope determinations which pertain to the orders, see 
the ``Memorandum to Laurie Parkhill'' regarding scope determinations 
for the 2007-08 reviews, dated April 21, 2009, which is on file in the 
Central Records Unit (CRU) of the main Department of Commerce building, 
Room 1117, in the General Issues record (A-100-001).

Analysis of the Comments Received

    All issues raised in the case briefs by parties to the current 
administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on ball bearings 
and parts thereof are addressed in the ``Issues and Decision 
Memorandum'' (Decision Memo) from Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary 
John M. Andersen to Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Carole A. Showers 
dated August 25, 2009, which is hereby adopted by this notice. A list 
of the issues which parties have raised and to which we have responded 
is in the Decision Memo and attached to this notice as an Appendix. The 
Decision Memo, which is a public document, is on file in the CRU of the 
main Department of Commerce building, Room 1117, and is accessible on 
the Web at http://ia.ita.doc.gov/frn/index.html. The paper copy and 
electronic version of the Decision Memo are identical in content.

Revocation of an Order in Part

    In the Preliminary Results, we preliminarily determined that 
Gebr[uuml]der Reinfurt GmbH & Co., KG (GRW), qualifies for revocation 
from the order on ball bearings and parts thereof from Germany pursuant 
to 19 CFR 351.222(b)(2)(i). Accordingly, in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.222(b)(2)(ii), we preliminarily determined to revoke the order with 
respect to ball bearings and parts thereof from Germany exported and/or 
sold by GRW to the United States.
    We have received comments concerning our intent to revoke the order 
on ball bearings and parts thereof from Germany exported and/or sold by 
GRW to the United States. See the Decision Memo at Comment 2 for 
further discussion of this issue. In accordance with 19 CFR 
351.222(b)(2)(ii), we are revoking the order on ball bearings and parts 
thereof from Germany exported and/or sold by GRW to the United States, 
effective May 1, 2008.

Selection of Respondents

    Due to the large number of companies in the reviews and the 
resulting administrative burden to review each company for which a 
request had been made and not withdrawn, the Department exercised its 
statutory authority under section 777A(c)(2) of the Act to limit the 
number of respondents selected for the reviews. Based on our analysis 
of the responses and our available resources, we chose certain 
companies for individual examination of their sales of the subject 
merchandise to the United States during the period of review. For a 
detailed discussion on the selection of respondents for individual 
examination, see Preliminary Results, 74 FR at 19057. For the final 
results, we have not changed the source of the rates we applied to 
respondents not selected for individual examination. See Preliminary 
Results, 74 FR at 19507-08. Because the margin for SKF Italy changed 
for the final results, we applied the final margin for SKF Italy to 
Schaeffler Italia S.r.L. (formerly FAG Italia S.p.A.), which is the 
sole Italian respondent not selected for individual examination. For 
discussions of the issues involving the rates for non-selected 
respondents, see the Decision Memo at Comment 13.

Adverse Facts Available

    Two of the respondents we selected for individual examination, 
Edwards Ltd./Edwards High Vacuum Int'l Ltd. (Edwards Japan) of Japan 
and myonic GmbH (myonic) of Germany, did not provide responses to our 
questionnaire other than their responses to our quantity-and-value 
questionnaire. Because these two companies did not respond to our 
questionnaire fully, they failed to cooperate by not acting to the best 
of their ability and we could not complete the administrative reviews 
of these two companies. See Preliminary Results, 74 FR at 19058-59. We 
received no comments on our preliminary decision to apply adverse facts 
available to these companies. For our final results, we have based 
their margins on facts available with an adverse inference in 
accordance with section 776 of the Act.
    As facts available with an adverse inference for these non-
responsive companies, we have selected the rates of 70.41 percent for 
Germany and 73.55 percent for Japan. We corroborated these rates in 
accordance with section 776(c) of the Act. Id.

Sales Below Cost in the Home Market

    The Department disregarded home-market sales that failed the cost-
of-production test for the following firms for these final results of 
reviews:

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                Country                              Company
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France.................................  SKF France S.A. and SKF
                                          Aerospace France S.A.S. (SKF
                                          France)
Germany................................  GRW
                                         Schaeffler KG
Italy..................................  SKF Industrie S.p.A./Somecat
                                          S.p.A. (SKF Italy)
United Kingdom.........................  Barden/Schaeffler UK
                                         SKF (U.K.) Limited (SKF UK)
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Changes Since the Preliminary Results

    Based on our analysis of comments received and based on our own 
analysis of the Preliminary Results, we have made revisions that have 
changed the results for certain firms. We have corrected programming 
and ministerial errors in the margins we included in the Preliminary 
Results, where applicable. A detailed discussion of each correction we 
made is in the company-specific analysis memoranda which are on file in 
the CRU of the main Department of Commerce building, Room 1117.

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Final Results of the Reviews

    We determine that the following percentage weighted-average dumping 
margins on ball bearings and parts thereof exist for the period May 1, 
2007, through April 30, 2008:

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                                                              Margin
                         Company                             (percent)
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                                 France
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Edwards Ltd. and Edwards High Vacuum Int'l Ltd..........           10.13
SKF France..............................................           10.13
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                                 Germany
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Edwards Ltd. and Edwards High Vacuum Int'l Ltd..........            3.32
GRW.....................................................            0.10
myonic..................................................           70.41
RWG Frankenjura Industrie Aircraft Bearings GmbH........            3.32
Schaeffler KG...........................................            3.32
SKF GmbH................................................            3.32
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                                  Italy
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Schaeffler Italy........................................           15.10
SKF Italy...............................................           15.10
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                                  Japan
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Edwards Japan...........................................           73.55
Japanese Aero Engines Corporation.......................            0.00
Sapporo Precision Inc...................................            6.65
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                             United Kingdom
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Barden/Schaeffler UK....................................            0.14
SKF UK..................................................           18.64
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Assessment Rates

    The Department will determine and U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) shall assess antidumping duties on all appropriate 
entries. We intend to issue appropriate assessment instructions 
directly to CBP 15 days after publication of these final results of 
reviews. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), we have calculated, 
whenever possible, an importer/customer-specific assessment rate or 
value for subject merchandise.
    The Department clarified its ``automatic assessment'' regulation on 
May 6, 2003. See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003) (Assessment 
of Antidumping Duties). This clarification will apply to entries of 
subject merchandise during the period of review produced by companies 
included in these final results of reviews for which the reviewed 
companies did not know their merchandise was destined for the United 
States. In such instances, we will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed 
entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate 
company(ies) involved in the transaction. For a full discussion of this 
clarification, see Assessment of Antidumping Duties.
    For the responsive companies which were not selected for individual 
review, we will instruct CBP to apply the rates listed above to all 
entries of subject merchandise that were produced and/or exported by 
such firms.
    For companies for which we are relying on total adverse facts 
available to establish a dumping margin, we will instruct CBP to apply 
the assigned dumping margins to all entries of subject merchandise 
during the period of review that were produced and/or exported by the 
companies.

Export Price

    With respect to export-price (EP) sales, we divided the total 
dumping margins (calculated as the difference between normal value and 
the EP) for each exporter's importer or customer by the total number of 
units the exporter sold to that importer or customer. We will direct 
CBP to assess the resulting per-unit dollar amount against each unit of 
merchandise on each of that importer's or customer's entries under the 
relevant order during the period of review.

Constructed Export Price

    For constructed export-price (CEP) sales, we divided the total 
dumping margins for the reviewed sales by the total entered value of 
those reviewed sales for each importer. We will direct CBP to assess 
the resulting percentage margin against the entered customs values for 
the subject merchandise on each of that importer's entries under the 
relevant order during the period of review. See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1).

Cash-Deposit Requirements

    To calculate the cash-deposit rate for each respondent, i.e., each 
exporter and/or manufacturer included in these reviews, we divided the 
total dumping margins for each company by the total net value of that 
company's sales of merchandise during the period of review subject to 
each order.
    To derive a single deposit rate for each respondent, we weight-
averaged the EP and CEP deposit rates (using the EP and CEP, 
respectively, as the weighting factors). To accomplish this when we 
sampled CEP sales (see Preliminary Results, 74 FR at 19060), we first 
calculated the total dumping margins for all CEP sales during the 
period of review by multiplying the sample CEP margins by the ratio of 
total days in the period of review to days in the sample weeks. We then 
calculated a total net value for all CEP sales during the period of 
review by multiplying the sample CEP total net value by the same ratio. 
Finally, we divided the combined total dumping margins for both EP and 
CEP sales by the combined total value for both EP and CEP sales to 
obtain the deposit rate.
    We will direct CBP to collect the resulting percentage deposit rate 
against the entered customs value of each of the exporter's entries of 
subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after the date of publication of this notice. Entries 
of parts incorporated into finished bearings before sales to an 
unaffiliated customer in the United States will receive the 
respondent's deposit rate applicable to the order.
    Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will be effective 
upon publication of this notice of final results of administrative 
reviews for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of 
publication, consistent with section 751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) The 
cash-deposit rates for the reviewed companies will be the rates shown 
above except that, for firms whose weighted-average margins are less 
than 0.5 percent and therefore de minimis, the Department shall not 
require a deposit of estimated antidumping duties; (2) for previously 
reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the cash-deposit 
rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the 
most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this 
review, a prior review, or the original less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 
investigation but the manufacturer is, the cash-deposit rate will be 
the rate established for the most recent period for the manufacturer of 
the merchandise; (4) the cash-deposit rate for all other manufacturers 
or exporters will continue to be the all-others rate for the relevant 
order made effective by the final results of review published on July 
26, 1993. See Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews 
and Revocation in Part of an Antidumping Duty Order, 58 FR 39729 (July 
26, 1993). For ball bearings from Italy, see Antifriction Bearings 
(Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts Thereof from France, et 
al.; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews and 
Partial Termination of Administrative Reviews, 61 FR 66472, 66521 
(December 17, 1996). These rates are the all-others

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rates from the relevant LTFV investigation.
    These deposit requirements shall remain in effect until further 
notice.

Notification to Importers

    This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding 
the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the 
relevant entries during this period of review. Failure to comply with 
this requirement could result in the Department's presumption that 
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
assessment of doubled antidumping duties.

Notification Regarding APOs

    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 notification of the 
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.
    We are issuing and publishing these results in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: August 25, 2009.
Carole A. Showers,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations.

Appendix

1. Zeroing of Negative Margins
2. Verification for GRW's Revocation
3. 15-Day Liquidation Policy
4. CEP Offset and CEP Profit
5. Sample Sales
6. Short-Term U.S. Interest Rates
7. Freight, Insurance, and Packing Revenue
8. Rate for Firms Not Selected for Individual Examination
9. Miscellaneous Issues
    A. Freight Expense
    B. Packing Expense
    C. Imputed Credit
    D. Completeness of Database
    E. Cost of Grease
10. Ministerial Errors

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