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7A chiffonier is typically a tall and narrow chest 

of drawers normally used for storing undergarments 

and lingerie, often with mirror(s) attached. 

8A hutch is typically an open case of furniture 

with shelves that typically sits on another piece of 

furniture and provides storage for clothes. 

9An armoire is typically a tall cabinet or 

wardrobe (typically 50 inches or taller), with doors, 

and with one or more drawers (either exterior below 

or above the doors or interior behind the doors), 

shelves, and/or garment rods or other apparatus for 

storing clothes. Bedroom armoires may also be used 

to hold television receivers and/or other audiovisual entertainment systems. 

10As used herein, bentwood means solid wood 

made pliable. Bentwood is wood that is brought to 

a curved shape by bending it while made pliable 

with moist heat or other agency and then set by 

cooling or drying. See Customs’ Headquarters’

Ruling Letter 043859, dated May 17, 1976. 

11Any armoire, cabinet or other accent item for 

the purpose of storing jewelry, not to exceed 24′′ in 

width, 18′′ in depth, and 49′′ in height, including 

a minimum of 5 lined drawers lined with felt or 

felt-like material, at least one side door (whether or 

not the door is lined with felt or felt-like material), 

with necklace hangers, and a flip-top lid with inset 

mirror. See Memorandum from Laurel LaCivita to 

Laurie Parkhill, Office Director, Issues and Decision 

Memorandum Concerning Jewelry Armoires and 

Cheval Mirrors in the Antidumping Duty 

Investigation of Wooden Bedroom Furniture from 

the People’s Republic of China dated August 31, 

2004. See also Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the 

People’s Republic of China: Notice of Final Results 

of Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation 

in Part, (71 FR 38621) (July 7, 2006). 

12Cheval mirrors, i.e., any framed, tiltable mirror 

with a height in excess of 50′′ that is mounted on 

a floor-standing, hinged base. Additionally, the 

scope of the order excludes combination cheval 

mirror/jewelry cabinets. The excluded merchandise 

is an integrated piece consisting of a cheval mirror, 

i.e., a framed tiltable mirror with a height in excess 

of 50 inches, mounted on a floor-standing, hinged 

base, the cheval mirror serving as a door to a 

cabinet back that is integral to the structure of the 

mirror and which constitutes a jewelry cabinet 

lined with fabric, having necklace and bracelet 

hooks, mountings for rings and shelves, with or 

without a working lock and key to secure the 

contents of the jewelry cabinet back to the cheval 

mirror, and no drawers anywhere on the integrated 

piece. The fully assembled piece must be at least 

50 inches in height, 14.5 inches in width, and 3 

inches in depth. 

13Metal furniture parts and unfinished furniture 

parts made of wood products (as defined above) 

that are not otherwise specifically named in this 

scope (i.e., wooden headboards for beds, wooden 

footboards for beds, wooden side rails for beds, and 

wooden canopies for beds) and that do not possess 

the essential character of wooden bedroom 

furniture in an unassembled, incomplete, or 

unfinished form. Such parts are usually classified 

under HTSUS subheading 9403.90.7000. 

chiffoniers 7, hutches 8, and armoires 9; 

(6) desks, computer stands, filing 

cabinets, book cases, or writing tables 

that are attached to or incorporated in 

the subject merchandise; and (7) other 

bedroom furniture consistent with the 

above list. 

The scope of the order excludes the 

following items: (1) Seats, chairs, 

benches, couches, sofas, sofa beds, 

stools, and other seating furniture; (2) 

mattresses, mattress supports (including 

box springs), infant cribs, water beds, 

and futon frames; (3) office furniture, 

such as desks, stand-up desks, computer 

cabinets, filing cabinets, credenzas, and 

bookcases; (4) dining room or kitchen 

furniture such as dining tables, chairs, 

servers, sideboards, buffets, corner 

cabinets, china cabinets, and china 

hutches; (5) other non-bedroom 

furniture, such as television cabinets, 

cocktail tables, end tables, occasional 

tables, wall systems, book cases, and 

entertainment systems; (6) bedroom 

furniture made primarily of wicker, 

cane, osier, bamboo or rattan; (7) side 

rails for beds made of metal if sold 

separately from the headboard and 

footboard; (8) bedroom furniture in 

which bentwood parts predominate; 10

(9) jewelry armories; 11 (10) cheval 

mirrors 12 (11) certain metal parts 13 (12) 

mirrors that do not attach to, 

incorporate in, sit on, or hang over a 

dresser if they are not designed and 

marketed to be sold in conjunction with 

a dresser as part of a dresser-mirror set. 

Imports of subject merchandise are 

classified under subheading 

9403.50.9040 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States 

(‘‘HTSUS’’) as ‘‘wooden * * * beds’’

and under subheading 9403.50.9080 of 

the HTSUS as ‘‘other * * * wooden 

furniture of a kind used in the 

bedroom.’’ In addition, wooden 

headboards for beds, wooden footboards 

for beds, wooden side rails for beds, and 

wooden canopies for beds may also be 

entered under subheading 9403.50.9040 

of the HTSUS as ‘‘parts of wood’’ and 

framed glass mirrors may also be 

entered under subheading 7009.92.5000 

of the HTSUS as ‘‘glass mirrors * * * 

framed.’’ This order covers all wooden 

bedroom furniture meeting the above 

description, regardless of tariff 

classification. Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, our 

written description of the scope of this 

proceeding is dispositive. 

Final Results of Review; Partial 

Revocation of Antidumping Duty Order 

The affirmative statement of no 

interest by petitioners concerning 

cheval style mirrored jewelry cabinets, 

as described herein, constitutes changed 

circumstances sufficient to warrant 

revocation of this order in part. No party 

commented on the Initiation and 

Preliminary Results. Additionally, no 

party contests that petitioners’ statement 

of no interest represents the views of 

substantially all of the domestic 

industry. Therefore, the Department is 

partially revoking the order on wooden 

bedroom furniture with respect to 

cheval style mirrored jewelry cabinets 

from the PRC with regard to products 

which meet the specifications detailed 

above, in accordance with sections 

751(b), (d) and 782(h) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.216(d) and 351.222(g). We will 

instruct the U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection to liquidate without regard to 

antidumping duties, as applicable, and 

to refund any estimated antidumping 

duties collected for all unliquidated 

entries of cheval style mirrored jewelry 

cabinets, meeting the specifications 

indicated above, and not subject to final 

results of an administrative review as of 

the date of publication in the Federal 

Register of the final results of this 

changed circumstances review in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.222. 

This notice serves as a reminder to 

parties subject to administrative 

protective orders (‘‘APOs’’) of their 

responsibility concerning the 

disposition of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.306. Timely written 

notification of the return/destruction of 

APO materials or conversion to judicial 

protective order is hereby requested. 

Failure to comply with the regulations 

and terms of an APO is a sanctionable 

violation. 

This changed circumstances 

administrative review, partial 

revocation of the antidumping duty 

order and notice are in accordance with 

sections 751(b), (d) and 782(h) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.216(e) and 

351.222(g). 

Dated: December 27, 2006. 

Stephen J. Claeys, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Expected Non-Market Economy 

Wages: Request for Comments on 

2006 Calculation 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Department’’) has a longstanding 

practice of calculating expected nonmarket economy (‘‘NME’’) wages for use 

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antidumping proceedings involving 

NME countries. These expected NME 

wages are calculated annually in 

accordance with § 351.408(c)(3) of the 

Department’s regulations. This notice 

presents the Department’s preliminary 

2006 expected NME wages, which were 

calculated according to the 

Department’s revised methodology 

described in the Federal Register notice 

Antidumping Methodologies: Market 

Economy Inputs, Expected Non-Market 

Economy Wages, Duty Drawback; and 

Request for Comments, 71 FR 61716, 

Oct. 19, 2006 (hereafter, the 

‘‘Antidumping Methodologies notice’’), 

and provides the public with an 

opportunity to comment on potential 

clerical errors in the calculation. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted no 

later than 10 days after publication of 

this notice. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments (original 

and six copies) should be sent to David 

Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Central Records Unit, Room 

1870, 14th Street and Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shauna Lee-Alaia, Policy Analyst, 

Office of Policy, Import Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230, (202) 482–2793. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Department’s regulations 

generally describe the methodology by 

which the Department calculates 

expected NME wages: 

For labor, the Secretary will use regressionbased wage rates reflective of the observed 

relationship between wages and national 

income in market economy countries. The 

Secretary will calculate the wage rate to be 

applied in non-market economy proceedings 

each year. The calculation will be based on 

current data, and will be made available to 

the public.19 CFR 351.408 (c)(3). 

Briefly, the Department’s expected 

NME wages are calculated each year in 

two steps. First, the relationship 

between hourly wage rates (obtained 

from the International Labour 

Organization’s (‘‘ILO’’) Yearbook of 

Labour Statistics) and per-capita gross 

national income (‘‘GNI’’) (obtained from 

the World Bank) is estimated using 

ordinary least squares (OLS) regression 

analysis. Second, the GNI of each of the 

countries designated by the Department 

to be an NME are applied to the 

regression, which yields an expected 

hourly wage rate for each NME. 

The Department published a notice in 

the Federal Register on October 19, 

2006 which detailed its revised 

methodology for calculating expected 

NME wages in antidumping proceedings 

involving NME countries. See the 

Antidumping Methodologies notice. In 

that notice, the Department stated that 

its annual calculation of expected NME 

wage rates will be subject to public 

comment approximately one month 

prior to adoption. The Department 

noted further that comment will be 

requested only with regard to potential 

clerical errors in the Department’s 

calculation. 

Accordingly, this notice presents the 

Department’s preliminary 2006 

calculation of expected NME wages in 

Attachment 1, which were calculated 

according to the Department’s revised 

methodology described in the 

Antidumping Methodologies notice. 

The Department is requesting public 

comment only on the potential clerical 

errors in the calculation. Comments 

with regard to the methodology were 

addressed in the Antidumping 

Methodologies notice and will not be 

considered at this time. 

In order to facilitate a full opportunity 

for comment, and because the 

underlying data is voluminous, the 

preliminary results and underlying data 

for the preliminary 2006 expected NME 

wages calculation have been posted on 

the Import Administration Web site 

(http://ia.ita.doc.gov). This preliminary 

calculation will not be used for 

antidumping purposes until it has been 

finalized by the Department following 

the public comment period. 

Comment 

Persons wishing to comment on 

potential clerical errors in the 

Department’s preliminary 2006 

calculation of expected NME wages 

presented in Attachment 1 should file 

one signed original and six copies of 

each set of comments by the date 

specified above. The Department will 

consider all comments regarding 

potential clerical errors received before 

the close of the comment period. 

Comments received after the end of the 

comment period will be considered, if 

possible, but their consideration cannot 

be assured. The Department will not 

accept comments accompanied by a 

request that a part or all of the material 

be treated confidentially because of its 

business proprietary nature or for any 

other reason. The Department will 

return such comments and materials to 

the persons submitting the comments 

and will not consider them. All 

comments responding to this notice will 

be a matter of public record and will be 

available for inspection and copying at 

Import Administration’s Central 

Records Unit, Room B–099, between the 

hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on 

business days. The Department requires 

that comments be submitted in written 

form. The Department recommends 

submission of comments in electronic 

form to accompany the required paper 

copies. 

Comments filed in electronic form 

should be submitted either by e-mail to 

the Webmaster below, or on CD–ROM, 

as comments submitted on diskettes are 

likely to be damaged by postal radiation 

treatment. Comments received in 

electronic form will be made available 

to the public in Portable Document 

Format (PDF) on the Internet at the 

Import Administration Web site at the 

following address: http://ia.ita.doc.gov. 

Any questions concerning file 

formatting, document conversion, 

access on the Internet, or other 

electronic filing issues should be 

addressed to Andrew Lee Beller, Import 

Administration Webmaster, at (202) 

482–0866, e-mail address: webmastersupport@ita.doc.gov. 

Dated: December 29, 2006. 

Steven J. Claeys, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

Attachment 1 

2006 Calculation of Expected NME 

Wages 

Following the criteria and 

methodology described in the 

Antidumping Methodologies notice, and 

using the data available to the 

Department as of November 8, 2006, the 

Department has calculated preliminary 

2006 expected NME wages. 

2003 and 2004 data in Chapter 5B of 

the ILO International Labour Statistics 

were available for 79 entities: Albania, 

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, 

Bahrain, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, 

Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, 

Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, 

Denmark, Dominican Republic, 

Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, 

Finland, French Polynesia, Georgia, 

Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, 

Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of 

Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, 

Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, 

Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, the 

former Yugoslav Republic of 

Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, 

Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, 

Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, 

Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, 

Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto 

Rico, Romania, San Marino, Serbia and 

Montenegro, Seychelles, Singapore, 

Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, 

Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, 


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Ukraine, United Kingdom, United 

States, West Bank and Gaza strip. 

Within this data set, for 2003 and 

2004, there were no ‘‘earnings’’ data for 

Italy, Myanmar, Peru and Thailand. 

Similarly, there were no ‘‘men and 

women’’ data for French Polynesia. 

2003 and 2004 data representing all 

industries (‘‘Total’’) were available for 

the remaining 74 entities. 

There were two entries for Poland 

which met all of the Department’s 

criteria for choosing a single wage rate. 

These two entries were averaged to 

arrive at a single wage rate. 

Of these 74 entities, a consumer price 

index was unavailable for the following 

10: Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Cuba, 

Gibraltar, Jersey, Puerto Rico, San 

Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, and 

Ukraine. 

Of the remaining 64 entities, there 

was no exchange rate available for the 

Isle of Man, Macau, and West Bank and 

Gaza Strip. 

Of the remaining 61 entities, the 

following are currently or were NMEs 

designated by the Department in 2003 or 

2004: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and 

Moldova. Accordingly, the Department 

ran its preliminary 2006 expected NME 

wage regression on the following 58 

countries: Albania, Australia, Austria, 

Bahrain, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, 

Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, 

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, 

Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El 

Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, 

Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, 

Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, 

Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, 

Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, 

Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, 

Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, 

Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, 

Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, 

Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, 

Switzerland, United Kingdom, and 

United States. 

As noted in the ILO database, the 

wage rates for Korea and Mongolia are 

denominated in units of 1,000 of their 

respective national currency, and have 

been converted accordingly. 

On July 1, 2005, Romania redenominated its currency, with one old 

leu equal to 10,000 new leu. Romanian 

ILO data was adjusted accordingly. 

Following the data compilation and 

regression methodology described in the 

Antidumping Methodologies notice, and 

using GNI and wage data for Base Year 

2004, the regression results are: Wage = 

0.091436 + 0.000494* GNI. 

Country 2004 GNI 

(USD per annum) 

Expected NME 

wage rate 

(USD per hour) 

Armenia ........................................................................................................................................................ 1,140 0.65 

Azerbaijan .................................................................................................................................................... 930 0.55 

Belarus ......................................................................................................................................................... 2,150 1.15 

China ............................................................................................................................................................ 1,500 0.83 

Georgia ........................................................................................................................................................ 1,060 0.62 

Kyrgyz Republic ........................................................................................................................................... 400 0.29 

Moldova ....................................................................................................................................................... 720 0.45 

Tajikistan ...................................................................................................................................................... 280 0.23 

Uzbekistan ................................................................................................................................................... 450 0.31 

Vietnam ........................................................................................................................................................ 540 0.36 

The World Bank did not publish a GNI for Turkmenistan. 

As stated above, the full preliminary 

results and underlying data for the 2006 

expected NME wages calculation have 

been posted on the Import 

Administration Web site (http:// 

ia.ita.doc.gov). 

[FR Doc. E7–56 Filed 1–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS 

Notice of Meeting 

The next meeting of the U.S. 

Commission of Fine Arts is scheduled 

for 18 January 2007, at 10 a.m. in the 

Commission’s offices at the National 

Building Museum, Suite 312, Judiciary 

Square, 401 F Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20001–2728. Items of discussion 

affecting the appearance of Washington, 

DC, may include buildings, parks and 

memorials. 

Draft agendas and additional 

information regarding the Commission 

are available on our Web site: http:// 

www.cfa.gov. Inquiries regarding the 

agenda and requests to submit written 

or oral statements should be addressed 

to Thomas Luebke, Secretary, U.S. 

Commission of Fine Arts, at the above 

address or call 202–504–2200. 

Individuals requiring sign language 

interpretation for the hearing impaired 

should contact the Secretary at least 10 

days before the meeting. 

Dated in Washington, DC, 28 December 

2006. 

Thomas Luebke, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–23 Filed 1–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6330–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Open Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs); 

DoD. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

10(a)(2) of Public Law 92–463, The 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

announcement is made of the following 

meeting: 

Name of Committee: DoD Task Force 

on Mental Health, a Subcommittee of 

the Defense Health Board. 

Dates: January 22, 2007 (Morning—

Open Session), January 23, 2007 

(Afternoon—Open Session). 

Times: 0800–1200 hours (22 January) 

1500–1700 hours (23 January). 

Location: Sheraton Tacoma Hotel, 

731320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma, WA. 

Agenda: The purpose of the meeting 

is to obtain, review, and evaluate 

information related to the Mental Health 

Task Force’s congressionally-directed 

task of assessing the efficacy of mental 

health services provided to members of 

the Armed Forces by the Department of 

Defense. The Task Force members will 

receive briefings on topics related to 

mental health concerns among military 

service members and mental health care 

delivery. The Task Force will hold a 

‘‘Town Hall Meeting’’ session to hear 

concerns from the Fort Lewis, Tacoma, 

and Seattle metro areas Active Duty 

Military, National Guard and Reserve, 

and Veterans communities and conduct 

executive working sessions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colonel Roger Gibson, Executive 


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