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**GENERAL INFORMATION, INSTRUCTIONS, AND**

**DEFINITIONS FOR COMMISSION FOREIGN**

**PRODUCER/EXPORTER QUESTIONNAIRES**

**LOW ENRICHED URANIUM from FRANCE**

**Investigation No. 731-TA-909 (Review)**

***[Further information]{.underline}.\--If you have any questions
concerning the enclosed***

***questionnaire(s) or other matters related to this review, you may
contact***

***the following members of the Commission's staff (Fax
202-205-3205):***

***Nathanael Comly, investigator (202-205-3174; E-mail
Nathanael.Comly@USITC.GOV)***

***regarding general questions and trade and related information; and***

***Kelly Clark, economist (202-205-3166; E-mail
Kelly.Clark@USITC.GOV)***

***regarding market related information.***

***[Background]{.underline}***.\-- On February 13, 2002, the Department
of Commerce issued an antidumping duty order on imports of low enriched
uranium from France (67 F.R. 6680-6681). On January 2, 2007 the
Commission instituted a review pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff
Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether
revocation of the order would be likely to lead to continuation or
recurrence of material injury to the domestic industry within a
reasonably foreseeable time (72 F.R. 144). If the Commission makes an
affirmative determination, the order will remain in place. If the
Commission makes a negative determination, the Department of Commerce
will revoke the order.

Additional questionnaires will be supplied promptly upon request, or
photocopies of the enclosed questionnaire(s) may be used. Address all
correspondence to the United States International Trade Commission,
Washington, DC 20436. Hearing-impaired individuals can obtain
information regarding this review via the Commission's TDD terminal
(202-205-1810).

***[Due date of questionnaire(s)]{.underline}***.\--Return the completed
questionnaire(s) to the United States International Trade Commission by
no later than **August 3, 2007**. Although the enclosed postpaid
envelope may be used to return the completed questionnaire, use of an
overnight mail service may be necessary to ensure that your response (in
hard copy or on CD) actually reaches the Commission by **August 3,
2007**. If submitting in CD format, please also submit a hard copy of
the signed first page of the questionnaire response. If you do not use
the enclosed envelope, please make sure the completed questionnaire is
sent to the attention of Nathanael Comly. **Return [only
one]{.underline} copy of the completed questionnaire(s), but please keep
a copy for your records so that you can refer to it if the Commission
staff contacts you with any questions during the course of the review.**

**Electronic submission:** Please submit one copy of the completed
questionnaire via email to the email address listed on the first page of
the questionnaire. [In addition]{.underline}, return a signed hard copy
of the first page of the questionnaire.

***[Service of questionnaire response(s)]{.underline}***.\--In the event
that your firm is a party to this review, you are required to serve a
copy of the questionnaire(s), once completed, on parties to the
proceeding that are subject to administrative protective order (see 19
CFR § 207.7). A list of such parties is maintained by the Commission's
Secretary and may be obtained by calling 202-205-1803. A certificate of
service must accompany the copy of the completed questionnaire(s) you
submit (see 19 CFR § 207.7).

***[Confidentiality]{.underline}***.\--The commercial and financial data
furnished in response to the enclosed questionnaire(s) that reveal the
individual operations of your firm will be treated as confidential by
the Commission to the extent that such data are not otherwise available
to the public and will not be disclosed except as may be required by law
(see 19 U.S.C. § 1677f). Such confidential information will not be
published in a manner that will reveal the individual operations of your
firm; however, nonnumerical characterizations of numerical business
proprietary information (such as discussion of trends) will be treated
as confidential business information only at the request of the
submitter for good cause shown.

***[Verification]{.underline}*.\--The information submitted in the
enclosed questionnaire(s) is subject to audit and verification by the
Commission. To facilitate possible verification of data, please keep all
your workpapers and supporting documents used in the preparation of the
questionnaire response(s).**

***[Release of information]{.underline}***.\--The information provided
by your firm in response to the questionnaire(s), as well as any other
business proprietary information submitted by your firm to the
Commission in connection with the review, may become subject to, and
released under, the administrative protective order provisions of the
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1677f) and section 207.7 of the
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR § 207.7). This
means that certain lawyers and other authorized individuals may
temporarily be given access to the information for use in connection
with this review or other import-injury investigations or reviews
conducted by the Commission on the same or similar merchandise; those
individuals would be subject to severe penalties if the information were
divulged to unauthorized individuals.

***[Answer all questions]{.underline}***.\--Do not leave any question or
section blank unless a questionnaire expressly directs you to skip over
certain questions or sections. If the answer to any question is "none,"
write "none." **If information is not readily available from your
records in exactly the form requested, furnish carefully prepared
estimates\--designated as such by the letter "E"\--and explain the basis
of your estimates**. **Number range CHAPTERFOR EXAMPLE, if you purchase
SWU, you will know from your records information related to the quantity
and value of the SWU purchased as well as the kilograms of U in the
natural UF6 that you are required to give to the enricher, however you
may have to make some assumptions to derive the approximate kg of
enriched U delivered and other assumptions to derive an approximate
value for the natural UF6 given to the enricher. LIKEWISE, if you
purchase EUP, you will know from your records the value and the
kilograms of U in the EUP purchased but you may have to make some
assumptions as to the SWU component (both number of SWU and value of the
SWU) and the value of the natural UF6 component. Estimates for the value
of natural UF6 could be given based on published pricing information
such as TradeTech and estimates for the quantities of LEU (whether in
SWU or in kilograms of enriched U) could be based on whatever industry
standard formula that you believe typical for a purchase at the product
assay stated for the period during which the purchase was made.**
Answers to questions and any necessary comments or explanations should
be supplied in the space provided or on separate sheets attached to the
appropriate page of the questionnaire(s). If your firm is completing
more than one questionnaire in connection with this review (i.e., a
producer, importer, purchaser, and/or foreign producer questionnaire),
you need not respond to duplicated questions in the questionnaires.

***[Consolidate all establishments in France]{.underline}***.\--Report
the requested data for your establishment(s) located in **France**.
**Firms operating more than one establishment should combine the data
for all establishments into a single report.**

***[Low enriched uranium]{.underline}***.--- Low enriched uranium
("LEU") is enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF~6~) with a U^235^ low
enriched uranium assay of less than 20 percent that has not been
converted into another chemical form, such as UO~2~, or fabricated into
nuclear fuel assemblies, regardless of the means by which the LEU is
produced (including LEU produced through the downblending of highly
enriched uranium).

Certain merchandise is outside the scope of this order. Specifically,
this order does not cover enriched uranium hexafluoride with a U^235^
assay of 20 percent or greater, also known as highly enriched uranium.
In addition, fabricated LEU is not covered by the scope of this order.
For purposes of this order, fabricated uranium is defined as enriched
uranium dioxide (UO~2~), whether or not contained in nuclear fuel rods
or assemblies. Natural uranium concentrates (U~3~O~8~) with a U^235^
concentration of no greater than 0.711 percent and natural uranium
concentrates converted into uranium hexafluoride with a U^235^
concentration of no greater than 0.711 percent are not covered by the
scope of this order. Also excluded from this order is LEU owned by a
foreign utility end-user and imported into the United States by or for
such end-user solely for purposes of conversion by a U.S. fabricator
into uranium dioxide (UO~2~) and/or fabrication into fuel assemblies so
long as the uranium dioxide and/or fuel assemblies deemed to incorporate
such imported LEU (i) remain in the possession and control of the U.S.
fabricator, the foreign end-user, or their designed transporter(s) while
in U.S. customs territory, and (ii) are reexported within eighteen (18)
months of entry of the LEU for consumption by the end-user in a nuclear
reactor outside the United States. Such entries must be accompanied by
the certifications of the importer and end-user.

Low enriched uranium is covered by statistical reporting number
2844.20.0020 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTS). Subject merchandise may also enter under 2844.20.0030,
2844.20.0050, and 2844.40.00. Although the HTS numbers are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the
merchandise is dispositive.

***[Number range CHAPTEREnriched uranium product
(EUP)]{.underline}***.\--LEU that is sold or purchased where the
customer does not provide any natural UF~6~.

***[Assay]{.underline}***.\--Percent weight of U^235^ in LEU or tails.

***[Depleted uranium (tails)]{.underline}***.\--Byproduct of the
enrichment process with a U^235^ product assay of approximately 0.2 to
0.3 percent.

***[Firm]{.underline}***.\--An individual proprietorship, partnership,
joint venture, association, corporation (including any subsidiary
corporation), business trust, cooperative, trustee in bankruptcy, or
receiver under decree of any court.

***[Related firm]{.underline}***.\--A firm that your firm solely or
jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled; a firm that solely or
jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled your firm; and/or a firm
that was solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled by a
firm that also solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled
your firm.

***[Establishment]{.underline}***.\--Each facility of a firm in France
involved in the production of LEU (as defined above), including
auxiliary facilities operated in conjunction with (whether or not
physically separate from) such facilities.

***[United States]{.underline}***.\--For purposes of this review, the 50
States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of
Columbia.

***[Importer]{.underline}***.\--Any person or firm engaged, either
directly or through a parent company or subsidiary, in importing low
enriched uranium (as defined above) into the United States from a
foreign manufacturer or through its selling agent.

***[Number range CHAPTERQuantities]{.underline}***.\--For purposes of
these investigations, quantities of UF~6~ are collected in two ways:

> ***[Separative work units (SWUs)]{.underline}***.\--SWUs are the units
> of effort required to enrich UF~6~ in the U^235^ isotope. The effort
> required to enrich a given quantity of uranium to a product having a
> higher assay of U^235^ than the starting material, and a byproduct
> (tails) having a lower assay of U^235^ than the starting material.
>
> ***[Kg of enriched U]{.underline}***.\--The weight in kilograms of
> uranium in the enriched UF~6~.

***[Average production capacity]{.underline}***.\--The level of
production that your establishment(s) could reasonably have expected to
attain during the specified periods. Assume normal operating conditions
(i.e., using equipment and machinery in place and ready to operate;
normal operating levels (hours per week/weeks per year) and time for
downtime, maintenance, repair, and cleanup; and a typical or
representative product mix).

***[Production]{.underline}***.\--All production in your
establishment(s) in France, including production consumed internally
within your firm. Production of LEU includes traditional methods, such
as centrifugation and gaseous diffusion, as well as all other production
methods resulting in enriched uranium, including such methods as
enriching depleted tails, trails stripping, reprocessing uranium,
downblending highly enriched uranium, and enriching reprocessed uranium.

***[Shipments]{.underline}***.\--Shipments of products produced in your
establishment(s) in France.

> ***[Shipment quantities]{.underline}***.\--Quantities reported should
> be net of returns.
>
> ***[Shipment values]{.underline}***.\--Values reported should be net
> values (i.e., gross sales values less all discounts, allowances,
> rebates, prepaid freight, and the value of returned goods) in [U.S.
> dollars]{.underline}, f.o.b. your point of shipment in France.
>
> ***[Home market commercial shipments]{.underline}***.\--Shipments,
> other than internal consumption and transfers to related firms, within
> France. Report all commercial shipments as either SWU contracts or as
> EUP contracts:
>
> ***[SWU contract]{.underline}***.\--Any agreement for the delivery of
> LEU in which the customer delivers natural UF~6~ for all or part of
> the LEU's natural uranium component.
>
> ***[Natural UF~6~ component]{.underline}***.\--The quantity of natural
> UF~6~ required for the production of a quantity of LEU at a given
> U^235^ product assay and a given U^235^ tails assay. The natural UF~6~
> component is calculated by application of an industry standard formula
> that describes the relationship between SWU and natural UF6 in the
> production of LEU.
>
> ***[SWU component]{.underline}***.\--The quantity (number) of SWU
> required for the production of a quantity of LEU at a given U^235^
> product assay and a given U^235^ tails assay. The SWU component is
> calculated by application of an industry standard formula that
> describes the relationship between SWU and natural UF6 in the
> production of LEU.
>
> ***[EUP contract]{.underline}***.\--A contract for the purchase of LEU
> in which the customer pays the enricher for both the SWU component and
> the natural uranium component. See above for natural UF~6~ and SWU
> components descriptions. In an EUP contract, the quantity and value of
> the natural UF6 component and the quantity (number) or value of SWUs
> may or may not be provided to the customer.
>
> ***[Timing of home market commercial
> shipments]{.underline}***.\--Shipments should be reported in the
> period in which the ownership is transferred. This may involve
> physical delivery to the customer, but more likely will involve a book
> transfer of ownership without any physical movement of the product.
>
> ***[Home market internal consumption/transfers to related
> firms]{.underline}***.\--Shipments made to related firms in France,
> including product consumed internally by your firm.
>
> ***[Export shipments]{.underline}***.\--Shipments to destinations
> outside France, including shipments to related firms. Number range
> CHAPTERReport all shipments as either SWU contracts or EUP contracts
> as defined above under home market commercial shipments.
>
> ***[Number range CHAPTERTiming of export
> shipments]{.underline}***.\--LEU exported is counted as an export in
> the period in which the physical transport of the product occurs, NOT
> when the ownership is transferred.

***[Inventories]{.underline}***.\--Number range CHAPTERUnless otherwise
specified, inventories reported should be finished goods inventory, not
raw materials or work-in-progress. Inventories should include product
held on behalf of your firm by fabricators and others.