65 FR 5583 February 4, 2000 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-852]

 
Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Creatine Monohydrate From the 
People's Republic of China

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

EFFECTIVE DATE:  February 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Blanche Ziv, Rosa Jeong, or Ryan 
Langan, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4207, (202) 482-3853, and 
(202) 482-1279, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (``the Act''), are references to the provisions 
effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to 
the Act by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (``URAA''). In addition, 
all citations to the regulations of the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') are to 19 CFR part 351 (1998).

Scope of the Order

    For purposes of this investigation, the product covered is creatine 
monohydrate, which is commonly referred to as ``creatine.'' The 
chemical name for creatine monohydrate is N-(aminoiminomethyl)-N-
methylglycine monohydrate. The Chemical Abstracts Service (``CAS'') 
registry number for this product is 6020-87-7. Creatine monohydrate in 
its pure form is a white, tasteless, odorless powder, that is a 
naturally occurring metabolite found in muscle tissue. Creatine 
monohydrate is provided for in subheading 2925.20.90 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS''). Although

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the HTSUS subheading and the CAS registry number are provided for 
convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the 
merchandise under investigation is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

    On January 28, 2000, in accordance with section 735(d) of the Act, 
the U.S. International Trade Commission (``ITC'') notified the 
Department that a U.S. industry is ``materially injured,'' within the 
meaning of section 735(b)(1)(A) of the Act, by reason of less-than-
fair-value imports of creatine monohydrate from the PRC. Therefore, the 
Department will direct the United States Customs Service to assess, 
upon further advice by the Department, antidumping duties equal to the 
amount by which the normal value of the subject merchandise exceeds the 
export price of the subject merchandise for all relevant entries of 
creatine monohydrate from the PRC, except for subject merchandise 
imported from Tianjin Tiancheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 
(``Tiancheng'') and Nantong Medicines and Health Products Import and 
Export Co., Ltd. (``Nantong''), which both received a zero final 
margin. Antidumping duties will be assessed on all unliquidated entries 
of creatine monohydrate from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') 
(except entries from Tiancheng and Nantong) entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse, for consumption on or after July 30, 1999, the date of 
publication of the Department's preliminary determination in the 
Federal Register (64 FR 41375). Furthermore, we will instruct Customs 
to refund all cash deposits, or bonds posted, for entries of subject 
merchandise from Tiancheng and Nantong.
    The ITC further found that critical circumstances do not exist with 
respect to imports of the subject merchandise from the PRC. As a 
result, the Department will direct Customs officers to refund any cash 
deposits made, or bonds posted, pursuant to the Department's 
affirmative determination of critical circumstances on merchandise 
produced/exported by Shanghai Freemen International Trading Co., Ltd., 
Shanghai Greenmen International Trading Co., Ltd. and by any companies 
subject to the PRC-wide rate which were entered on or after May 1, 1999 
(which is 90 days prior to the Department's preliminary determination 
publication date of July 30, 1999) and before July 30, 1999.
    On or after the date of publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, Customs officers must require, at the same time as importers 
would normally deposit estimated duties, cash deposits for the subject 
merchandise equal to the weighted-average antidumping duty margins as 
noted below:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                              Weighted-
                                                               average
                   Exporter/manufacturer                        margin
                                                              percentage
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Blue Science International Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.....        58.10
Nantong Medicines and Health Products Import and Export             0.00
 Co., Ltd..................................................
Shanghai Desano International Trading Co., Ltd.............        24.84
Shanghai Freemen International Trading Co., Ltd. and               44.43
 Shanghai Greenmen International Trading Co., Ltd..........
Suzhou Sanjian Fine Chemical Co., Ltd......................        50.32
Tianjin Tiancheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd..................         0.00
PRC-wide rate..............................................       153.70
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to 
creatine monohydrate from the PRC, pursuant to section 735(a) of the 
Act. Interested parties may contact the Central Records Unit, Room B-
099 of the Main Commerce Building for copies of an updated list of 
antidumping duty orders currently in effect.
    This order is published in accordance with sections 736(a) and 19 
CFR 351.211.

    Dated: January 31, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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