[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 105 (Wednesday, May 31, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34661-34662]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13582]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-807]


Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet and Strip From the 
Republic of Korea, Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping 
duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: On March 7, 2000, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the notice of initiation and preliminary results of its 
changed circumstances administrative review concerning whether Toray

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Saehan, Inc. (TSI) is the successor firm to Saehan Industries, Inc. 
(Saehan) and whether the revocation issued for Cheil Synthetics, Inc. 
(Cheil), and applied to Saehan, applies to TSI. We have now completed 
that review. We have determined that TSI is the successor-in-interest 
to Saehan, and that the revocation issued for Cheil, and applied to 
Saehan, also applies to TSI.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 31, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael J. Heaney at (202) 482-4475 or 
Robert James at (202) 482-0649, AD/CVD Enforcement Office Eight, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 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 by the Uruguay Round 
Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all citations 
to the Department's regulations are to the regulations codified at 19 
CFR 351 (1999).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 5, 1996, the Department issued a partial revocation with 
respect to Cheil after finding zero or de minimis margins in three 
consecutive administrative reviews. (See Polyethtylene Terephthalate 
Film, Sheet, and Strip from the Republic of Korea; Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews and Notice of Revocation in 
Part, (61 FR 35177, July 5, 1996).) On January 26, 1998, the Department 
determined that Saehan was the successor-in-interest to Cheil, and that 
the partial revocation issued for Cheil applied to Saehan. (See 
Polyethtylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from the Republic of 
Korea; Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, (63 FR 3703, January 26, 1998).) On March 7, 
2000, the Department published the preliminary results of this case. 
(See Polyethtylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet, and Strip from the 
Republic of Korea; Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review (65 FR 11982, 
March 7, 2000).) The Department preliminarily determined that TSI is 
the successor company to Saehan, and that the partial revocation issued 
to Cheil, and applied to Saehan, also applies to TSI. We received no 
comments on those preliminary results. The Department has conducted 
this administrative review in accordance with Section 751(b) of the 
Act.

Scope of the Review

    The merchandise subject to this antidumping duty order are 
shipments of all gauges of raw, pretreated, or primed polyethylene 
terephthalate, film, sheet, and strip, whether extruded or coextruded. 
The films excluded from this review are metallized films, and other 
finished films that have had at least one of their surfaces modified by 
the application of a performance-enhancing resinous or inorganic layer 
of more than 0.00001 inches (0.254 micrometers) thick. Roller transport 
cleaning film which has at least one of its surfaces modified by the 
application of SBR latex has also been ruled as not within the scope of 
the order.
    PET film is currently classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule 
of the United States subheading 3920.62.00.00. The HTS subheading is 
provided for convenience and customs purposes. The written description 
of the scope of this order is dispositive.
    This changed circumstances administrative review covers TSI.

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review

    We determine that the July 5, 1996 partial revocation issued with 
respect to Cheil, and applied to Saehan as Cheil's successor company, 
also applies to TSI. We will notify the U.S. Customs Service of our 
decision and instruct Customs to liquidate without regard to 
antidumping duties, merchandise produced by TSI on or after October 15, 
1999, the date on which TSI was established.
    This changed circumstances review and notice are in accordance with 
section 751(b) of the Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675(b)), and 19 CFR 
351.216.

    Dated: May 17, 2000.
Troy H. Cribb,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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