[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 23, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2858-2859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-862]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-351-825, A-533-810, A-588-833, A-469-805)


Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain: 
Continuation of Antidumping Duty Orders

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: As a result of the determinations by the Department of 
Commerce (the Department) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) 
that revocation of the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel bar 
from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain would be likely to lead to 
continuation or recurrence of dumping and of material injury to an 
industry in the United States within a reasonably foreseeable time, the 
Department is publishing notice of the continuation of these 
antidumping duty orders.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 23, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristin Case or Minoo Hatten, Office 
5, AD/CVD Operations, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3174 and (202) 
482-1690, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 1, 2006, the Department initiated the second sunset 
reviews of the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel bar (SSB) 
from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain pursuant to section 751(c) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). See Initiation of Five-Year 
(``Sunset'') Reviews, 71 FR 10476 (March 1, 2006).
    As a result of our review, we found that revocation of the 
antidumping duty orders would be likely to lead to continuation or 
recurrence of dumping and we notified the ITC of the magnitude of the 
margins likely to prevail were the orders to be revoked. See Stainless 
Steel Bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain; Final Results of the 
Expedited Sunset Reviews of the Antidumping Duty Orders, 71 FR 38372 
(July 6, 2006). On December 4, 2006, the ITC determined, pursuant to 
section 751(c) of the Act, that revocation of the antidumping duty 
orders on SSB from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain would be likely to 
lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in 
the United States within a reasonably foreseeable time. See Stainless 
Steel Bar From Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain, 72 FR 1243 (January 10, 
2007), and ITC Publication 3895 (January 2007) entitled Stainless Steel 
Bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and Spain: Investigation Nos. 731-TA-
678, 679, 681 and 682 (Second Review).

Scope of the Orders

    Imports covered by these orders are shipments of SSB. SSB means 
articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been either 
hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise cold-
finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along their 
whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, 
rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other 
convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished SSBs that are turned or 
ground in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-rolled bar or 
from straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have 
indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced during the 
rolling process.
    Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless 
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e., 
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have 
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or 
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at 
least twice the thickness), wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, 
of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do 
not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, 
shapes, and sections.
    The SSB subject to these orders is currently classifiable under 
subheadings 7222.11.00.05, 7222.11.00.50, 7222.19.00.05, 7222.19.00.50, 
7222.20.00.05, 7222.20.00.45, 7222.20.00.75, and 7222.30.00.00 of the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). Although the 
HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, 
our written description of the scope of these orders is dispositive.

Determination

    As a result of the determinations by the Department and ITC that 
revocation of these antidumping duty orders would be likely to lead to 
continuation or recurrence of dumping and material injury to an 
industry in the United States, pursuant to section 751(d)(2) of the 
Act, the Department hereby orders the continuation of the antidumping 
duty orders on stainless steel bar from Brazil, India, Japan, and 
Spain.

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    U.S. Customs and Border Protection will continue to collect 
antidumping duty cash deposits at the rates in effect at the time of 
entry for all imports of subject merchandise.
    The effective date of continuation of these orders will be the date 
of publication in the Federal Register of this Notice of Continuation. 
Pursuant to section 751(c) of the Act, the Department intends to 
initiate the next five-year reviews of these orders not later than 
January 2012.
    This notice is in accordance with sections 751(c) and 777(i)(1) of 
the Act.

    Dated: January 16, 2007.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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