Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 149 / Monday, August 4, 1997 / Notices 41927

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–823–808]

Postponement of Final Determination;

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel

Plate From Ukraine

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of postponement of final

determination of sales at less than fair

value.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 4, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Nithya Nagarajan, Eugenia Chu, or Yury

Beyzarov, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th.

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone:

(202) 482–3793.

The Applicable Statute And

Regulations

Unless other 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 Rounds Agreements Act

(URAA). In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all citations to the

Department’s regulations are in

reference to the regulations, codified at

19 CFR part 353, as they existed on

April 1, 1996.

Postponement of Final Determination

Pursuant to section 735(a)(2) of the

Act, on July 18, 1997, Azovstal Iron and

Steel Works (Azovstal), Ilyich Iron and

Steel Works (Ilyich) and Alchevsk Iron

and Steel Works (Alchevsk), producers

of subject merchandise; requested a

thirty-day extension of the final

determination.

Azovstal and Ilyich account for a

significant proportion of exports of the

subject merchandise. In addition, we are

not aware of any compelling reasons for

denying this request. However, due to

the complexity of the issues involved in

the case, including surrogate values,

Ukraine’s status as a market economy

country, and scope of the subject

merchandise, we are postponing the

final determination in this investigation

until 135 days after the publication of

the preliminary determination.

Therefore, the final determination will

be due no later than October 24, 1997.

Suspension of liquidation will be

extended in accordance with section

733(d) of the Act. See Notice of Final

Determination of Sales at Less Than

Fair Value: Certain Pasta from Italy, 61

Fed. Reg. 30326, 30326 (June 14, 1996).

In accordance with 19 CFR 353.38,

case briefs must be submitted to the

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration no later than Friday,

August 29, 1997, and rebuttal briefs, no

later than Friday, September 5, 1997. A

list of authorities used and a summary

of the arguments made in the briefs

should accompany these briefs. Such

summary should be limited to five pages

total, including footnotes. We will hold

a public hearing, if requested, to afford

interested parties an opportunity to

comment on arguments made in case or

rebuttal briefs.

Interested parties who wish to request

a hearing, or to participate if one is

requested, must submit a written

request to the Assistant Secretary for

Import Administration, U.S. Department

of Commerce, Room 1870, within ten

days of the publication of this notice.

Request should contain: (1) the party’s

name, address, and telephone number;

(2) the number of participants; and (3)

a list of the issues to be discussed. In

accordance with 19 CFR 353.38(b) oral

presentations will be limited to issues

raised in the briefs.

This notice of postponement is

published pursuant to 19 CFR

353.20(b)(2).

Dated: July 29, 1997.

Jeffrey P. Bialos,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 97–20488 Filed 8–1–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C–274–803]

Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing

Duty Determination: Steel Wire Rod

From Trinidad and Tobago

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 4, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Todd Hansen, Vincent Kane, or Sally

Hastings, Office of Antidumping/

Countervailing Duty Enforcement,

Group I, Office 1, Import

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, Room 1874, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20230; telephone (202) 482–1276,

482–2815, or 482–3464, respectively.

Preliminary Determination:

The Department preliminarily

determines that countervailable

subsidies are being provided to

Caribbean Ispat Limited (‘‘CIL’’), a

producer and exporter of steel wire rod

from Trinidad and Tobago. For

information on the estimated

countervailing duty rates, please see the

Suspension of Liquidation section of

this notice.

Case History

Since the publication of the notice of

initiation in the Federal Register on

March 24, 1997 (62 FR 13866), the

following events have occurred.

On April 1, 1997, we issued

countervailing duty questionnaires to

the Government of Trinidad and Tobago

(‘‘GOTT’’) and to CIL concerning

petitioners’ allegations. We received

responses to our questionnaires from

CIL and the GOTT on May 27 and May

29, 1997, respectively. We issued

supplemental questionnaires to parties

on June 13, 1997, and received

responses on June 30, 1997. On May 2,

1997, we postponed the preliminary

determination in this investigation until

July 28, 1997 (62 FR 25172, May 8,

1997).

Scope of Investigation

The products covered by this

investigation are certain hot-rolled

carbon steel and alloy steel products, in

coils, of approximately round cross

section, between 5.00 mm (0.20 inch)

and 19.0 mm (0.75 inch), inclusive, in

solid cross-sectional diameter.

Specifically excluded are steel products

possessing the above noted physical

characteristics and meeting the

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the

United States (HTSUS) definitions for

(a) Stainless steel; (b) tool steel; (c) high

nickel steel; (d) ball bearing steel; (e)

free machining steel that contains by

weight 0.03 percent or more of lead,

0.05 percent or more of bismuth, 0.08

percent or more of sulfur, more than 0.4

percent of phosphorus, more than 0.05

percent of selenium, and/or more than

0.01 percent of tellurium; or (f) concrete

reinforcing bars and rods.

The following products are also

excluded from the scope of this

investigation:

Coiled products 5.50 mm or less in

true diameter with an average partial

decarburization per coil of no more than

70 microns in depth, no inclusions

greater than 20 microns, containing by

weight the following: carbon greater

than or equal to 0.68 percent; aluminum

less than or equal to 0.005 percent;

phosphorous plus sulfur less than or

equal to 0.040 percent; maximum

combined copper, nickel and chromium

content of 0.13 percent; and nitrogen

less than or equal to 0.006 percent. This