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1The petitioners in the large diameter pipe cases

include U.S. Steel Group (a unit of USX Corp.),

Lorain Tubular Co. LLC (‘‘formerly USS/Kobe Steel

Company’’) and the United Steel Workers of

America. The petitioners in the small diameter pipe

cases include Koppel Steel Corporation, Sharon

Tube Company, U.S. Steel Group, Lorain Tubular

Co. LLC and Vision Metals, Inc. (Gulf States Tube

Division) and the United Steel Workers of America.

2See Preliminary Determinations of Critical

Circumstances: Certain Small Diameter Carbon and

Alloy Seamless Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe

from Japan and South Africa 65 FR 12509 (March

9, 2000).

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–838]

Notice of Postponement of Preliminary

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review: Suspension

Agreement on Honey from the

People’s Republic of China

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of postponement of

preliminary results of antidumping duty

administrative review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Becky J. Hagen or James C. Doyle, Office

IX, DAS Group III, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230;

telephone (202) 482–3362 and (202)

482–0159, respectively.

Postponement of Preliminary Results

The Department of Commerce (‘‘the

Department’’) is postponing the

preliminary results in the antidumping

administrative review of the Suspension

Agreement on Honey from the People’s

Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’). The

deadline for issuing the preliminary

results in these administrative reviews

is now August 30, 2000.

On August 30, 1999, the Department

initiated this administrative review,

setting May 2, 2000 as the date for

issuing the preliminary results of the

review. See Initiation of Antidumping

and Countervailing Duty Administrative

Reviews and Requests for Revocation in

Part, August 30, 1999 (64 FR 53318).

Because it is only the second time a

review of a suspension agreement

involving export limits and reference

prices has been initiated by the

Department, raising novel legal and

enforcement issues, we have determined

that it is not practicable to complete this

review within the normal time frame

and are therefore extending the time

limit for these preliminary results of the

administrative review of the Suspension

Agreement on Honey from the PRC by

120 days, in accordance with section

751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended.

The date for issuing the preliminary

results is moved from May 2, 2000 to

August 30, 2000.

Dated: April 28, 2000.

Joseph A. Spetrini,

Deputy Assistant Secretary, AD/CVD

Enforcement Group III.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–588–850, A–588–851, A–791–808]

Notice of Final Determinations of Sales

at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Large

Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless

Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe from

Japan; and Certain Small Diameter

Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard,

Line and Pressure Pipe from Japan

and the Republic of South Africa

AGENCY: Important Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Charles Riggle at (202) 482–5288 or

Constance Handley at (202) 482–0631,

Important Administration, Room 1870,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington DC 20230.

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions effective January 1, 1995,

the effective date of the amendments

made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (‘‘the

Act’’) by the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (‘‘URAA’’). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department of Commerce (‘‘the

Department’’) regulations refer to the

regulations codified at 19 CFR part 351

(April 1999).

Final Determinations

We determine that large diameter

carbon and alloy seamless standard, line

and pressure pipe (large diameter

seamless pipe) from Japan, and small

diameter carbon and alloy seamless

standard, line and pressure pipe (small

diameter seamless pipe) from Japan and

the Republic of South Africa (South

Africa) are being sold in the United

States at less than fair value (LTFV), as

provided in section 735 of the Act. The

estimated margins are shown in the

Suspension of Liquidation section of

this notice.

Case History

The preliminary determinations in

these investigations were issued on

December 7, 1999. See Notice of

Preliminary Determinations of Sales at

Less Than Fair Value: Certain Large

Diameter Carbon and Alloy Seamless

Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe from

Japan and Certain Small Diameter

Carbon and Alloy Seamless Standard,

Line and Pressure Pipe from Japan and

the Republic of South Africa, 64 FR

69718 (December 14, 1999)

‘‘(Preliminary Determinations’’). On

January 13, 2000, in the investigations

involving Japan, case briefs were filed

by Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

(SMI), MC Tubular Products, Inc.

(MCTP) and the American Boiler

Manufacturers Association (ABMA).

The petitioners 1 submitted a rebuttal

brief on January 21, 2000. No briefs

were filed in the investigation involving

the Republic of South Africa (South

Africa). On March 9, 2000, we

published an affirmative preliminary

determination of critical circumstances

in the investigations involving small

diameter pipe from Japan and South

Africa.2 A hearing was held on March

14, 2000, in the context of the

investigations involving Japan. On April

26, 2000, the petitioners requested that

the scope of the large diameter

investigation be amended to exclude

certain products.

Analysis of Comments Received

All issues raised in the case and

rebuttal briefs by parties to these

investigations are addressed in the

‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum’’

(Decision Memorandum) from Holly A.

Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant

Secretary, Import Administration, to

Troy H. Cribb, Acting Assistant

Secretary for Import Administration,

dated April 27, 2000, which is hereby

adopted by this notice.

A list of the issues which parties have

raised and to which we have responded,

all of which are in the Decision

Memorandum, is attached to this notice

as an Appendix. Parties can find a

complete discussion of all issues raised

in these investigations and the

corresponding recommendations in this

public memorandum which is on file in

the Central Records Unit, room B–099 of

the main Department building.

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In addition, a complete version of the

Decision Memorandum can be accessed

directly on the World Wide Web at

www.ita.doc.gov/import_admin/

records/frn. The paper copy and

electronic version of the Decision

Memorandum are identical in content.

Scope of Investigations

For a description of the scope of this

investigation, see the ‘‘Scope and

Investigations’’ section of the Decision

Memorandum, which is on file in B–099

and available on the Web at

www.ita.doc.gov/import_admin/

records/frn/. The scope of the

investigations has been amended since

the preliminary determination.

Period of Investigations

The period of the investigations

(‘‘POI’’) for both the large and small

diameter seamless pipe cases is April 1,

1998, through March 31, 1999.

Facts Available

In the preliminary determinations, the

Department based the dumping margins

for the mandatory respondents,

Kawasaki Steel Corporation (Kawasaki),

Nippon Steel Corporation (Nippon), and

Sumitomo Metal Industries (SMI) for

both investigations involving Japan; and

Iscor Ltd. (Iscor) in the investigation

involving South Africa, on facts

otherwise available pursuant to section

776(a)(2)(A) of the Act. The use of facts

otherwise available is necessary because

the record does not contain companyspecific information due to the fact that

each of these respondents failed to

respond to the Department’s

questionnaire, nor did they provide any

indication that they were unable to do

so. Therefore, the Department found

that they failed to cooperate by not

acting to the best of their ability. As a

result, pursuant to section 776(b), the

Department used an adverse inference

in selecting from the facts available.

Specifically, the Department assigned to

the mandatory respondents the highest

margins alleged in the respective

petitions. We continue to find these

margins corroborated, pursuant to

section 776(c) of the Act, for the reasons

discussed in the Preliminary

Determinations. No interested parties

have objected to the use of adverse facts

available for the mandatory respondents

in these investigations, nor to the

Department’s choice of facts available.

For its final determinations, the

Department is continuing to use the

highest margins alleged by petitioners

for all non-responding mandatory

respondents in these proceedings. See

Preliminary Determinations. In

addition, the Department has left

unchanged from the preliminary

determinations the ‘‘All Others Rate’’ in

each investigation.

Critical Circumstances

No comments were received regarding

the Department’s preliminary critical

circumstances determinations, and the

Department has not made any changes

to those determinations. For the reasons

given in the preliminary determinations,

the Department continues to find that

critical circumstances exist with respect

to small diameter seamless pipe

imported from SMI, Kawasaki and

Nippon in the investigation involving

Japan and Iscor in the investigation

involving South Africa in accordance

with section 733(e)(1) of the Act.

As set forth in preliminary

determinations, because the massive

imports criterion necessary our to find

critical circumstances has not been met

with respect to firms other than SMI,

Kawasaki, Nippon and Iscor, the

Department continues to find, for the

purposes of these final determinations,

that critical circumstances do not exist

for imports of small diameter seamless

pipe for the ‘‘all others’’ category in both

the Japan and South Africa

investigations.

There was no allegation of critical

circumstances in the investigation of

large diameter pipe from Japan.

Continuation of Suspension of

Liquidation

In accordance with section

735(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we are directing

the Customs Service to continue to

suspend all entries of small diameter

seamless pipe from the Japan produced

by Kawasaki, Nippon and SMI and all

entries of small diameter seamless pipe

from South Africa produced by Iscor,

that are entered, or withdrawn from

warehouse, for consumption on or after

September 15, 1999, the date 90 days

prior to the date of publication of our

preliminary determination. The

Customs Service will also be directed to

continue to suspend liquidation of all

entries of large diameter seamless pipe

exported from Japan and all entries of

small diameter seamless pipe from

Japan and South Africa produced by all

companies not named above, that are

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,

for consumption on or after December

14, 1999, the date of publication of our

preliminary determinations in the

Federal Register. The Customs Service

shall require a cash deposit or bond

equal to the dumping margin, as

indicated in the chart below. These

instructions suspending liquidation will

remain in effect until further notice. The

dumping margins are provided below:

Manufacturer/exporter Margin

(percent)

Japan—large diameter

Nippon Steel Corporation .. 107.80

Kawasaki Steel Corporation ................................. 107.80

Sumitomo Metal Industries 107.80

All others ........................... 68.88

Japan—small diameter

Nippon Steel Corporation .. 106.07

Kawasaki Steel Corporation ................................. 106.07

Sumitomo Metal Industries 106.07

All others ........................... 70.43

South Africa—small diameter

Iscor Ltd. ............................ 43.51

All others ........................... 40.17

ITC Notification

In accordance with section 735(d) of

the Act, we have notified the

International Trade Commission (ITC) of

our determinations. As our final

determinations are affirmative, the ITC

will, within 45 days, determine whether

these imports are materially injuring, or

threaten material injury to, the U.S.

industry. If the ITC determines that

material injury or threat of material

injury does not exist, the proceeding

will be terminated and all securities

posted will be refunded or canceled. If

the ITC determines that such injury

does exist, the Department will issue an

antidumping duty order directing the

Customs Service to assess antidumping

duties on all imports of the subject

merchandise entered, or withdrawn

from warehouse, for consumption on or

after the effective date of the suspension

of liquidation.

These determinations are published

pursuant to sections 735(d) and 777(i)(1)

of the Act.

Dated: April 27, 2000.

Troy H. Cribb,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

Appendix I—Issues in Decision Memo

Comments and Responses

1. Class or Kind

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