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promotion partners. After undergoing a

review process, DEC nominees are then

selected and appointed to DEC

membership by the Secretary of

Commerce.

Membership Criteria

Each DEC is interested in nominating

highly-motivated people active in the

local exporting community.

Membership composition on the DECs

include: exporters (such as

representatives from manufacturing, the

services industry, and export trading

companies); bankers; U.S. Small

Business Administration

representatives; state and local officials;

and other ‘‘partners’’ including

international lawyers and accountants

as well as representatives from world

trade centers, chambers of commerce,

export management companies, labor

and freight forwarders.

Deadline

Applications for nomination to a DEC

must be received by the designated local

DEC representative by November 1,

1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Nathanael Herman, International Trade

Specialist, the Commercial Service, tel.

202–482–5956. Additional information

about the DECs is also found on the

National DEC Internet Home Page at

http://www.ita.doc.gov/usfcs/usf/dec.

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1501 et seq., 15 U.S.C.

4721.

Dated: September 29, 1997.

Daniel J. McLaughlin,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for

Domestic Operations.

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BILLING CODE 3510–FP–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C–351–406]

Certain Agricultural Tillage Tool From

Brazil; Final Results of Countervailing

Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of

countervailing duty administrative

review.

SUMMARY: On July 9, 1997, the

Department of Commerce (‘‘the

Department’’) published in the Federal

Register its preliminary results of

administrative review of the

countervailing duty order on certain

agricultural tillage tools from Brazil for

the period January 1, 1995 through

December 31, 1995 (62 FR 36771). The

Department has now completed this

administrative review in accordance

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of

1930, as amended. For information on

the net subsidy for the reviewed

company, and for all non-reviewed

companies, please see the Final Results

of Review section of this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 10, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Lorenza Olivas or Gayle Longest, Office

of CVD/AD Enforcement VI, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–2786.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Pursuant to 19 CFR 355.22(a), this

review covers only those producers or

exporters of the subject merchandise for

which a review was specifically

requested. Accordingly, this review

covers the producer/exporter of the

subject merchandise Marchesan

Implementos Agrı ́colas, S.A.

(Marchesan). This review covers the

period January 1, 1995 through

December 31, 1995, and five programs.

We published the preliminary results

of review on July 9, 1997 (62 FR 36771)

and invited interested parties to

comment. We received no comments on

our preliminary results.

Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930

(‘‘the Act’’), as amended by the Uruguay

Round Agreements Act (‘‘URAA’’),

effective January 1, 1995. In addition, all

references to the Department’s

regulations are to the provisions

codified at 19 CFR Part 355 (April

1997). The Department is conducting

this administrative review in

accordance with § 751(a) of the Act.

Scope of the Review

Imports covered by this review are

shipments of certain round shaped

agricultural tillage tools (discs) with

plain or notched edge, such as colters

and furrow-opener blades. During the

review period, such merchandise was

classifiable under item numbers

8432.21.00, 8432.29.00, 8432.80.00 and

8432.90.00 of the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule (HTS). The HTS item numbers

are provided for convenience and

Customs purposes. The written

description remains dispositive.

Analysis of Programs

Programs Found To Be Not Used

In the preliminary results we found

that the producers and/or exporters of

the subject merchandise did not apply

for or receive benefits under the

following programs:

1. Accelerated Depreciation for

Brazilian-Made Capital Goods

2. Preferential Financing for Industrial

Enterprises by Banco do Brasil (FST and

EGF loans)

3. SUDENE Corporate Income Tax

Reduction for Companies Located in the

Northeast of Brazil

4. Preferential Financing under

PROEX (formerly under Resolution 68

and 509 through FINEX)

5. Preferential Financing under FINEP

We did not receive any comments on

these programs from the interested

parties, and our review of the record has

not led us to change our findings from

the preliminary results.

Final Results of Review

In accordance with 19 C.F.R.

355.22(c)(4)(ii), we calculated an

individual subsidy rate for the only

producer/exporter subject to this

administrative review. For the period

January 1, 1995 through December 31,

1995, we determine the net subsidy for

Marchesan to be zero percent ad

valorem.

The Department will instruct the U.S.

Customs Service (Customs) to liquidate,

without regard to countervailing duties,

shipments of the subject merchandise

from Marchesan exported on or after

January 1, 1995, and on or before

December 31, 1995. The Department

will also instruct Customs to collect a

cash deposit of estimated countervailing

duties of zero percent on all shipments

of this merchandise from Marchesan,

entered or withdrawn from warehouse,

for consumption on or after the date of

publication of the final results of this

administrative review.

Because the URAA replaced the

general rule in favor of a country-wide

rate with a general rule in favor of

individual rates for investigated and

reviewed companies, the procedures for

establishing countervailing duty rates,

including those for non-reviewed

companies, are now essentially the same

as those in antidumping cases, except as

provided for in section 777A(e)(2)(B) of

the Act. The requested review will

normally cover only those companies

specifically named. Pursuant to 19 CFR

§ 355.22(g), for all companies for which

a review was not requested, duties must

be assessed at the cash deposit rate, and

cash deposits must continue to be

collected, at the rate previously ordered.
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As such, the countervailing duty cash

deposit rate applicable to a company

can no longer change, except pursuant

to a request for a review of that

company. See Federal-Mogul

Corporation and The Torrington

Company v. United States, 822 F. Supp.

782 (CIT 1993) and Floral Trade Council

v. United States, 822 F. Supp. 766 (CIT

1993) (interpreting 19 CFR § 353.22(e),

the antidumping regulation on

automatic assessment, which is

identical to 19 CFR § 355.22(g)).

Therefore, the cash deposit rates for all

companies except those covered by this

review will be unchanged by the results

of this review.

We will instruct Customs to continue

to collect cash deposits for nonreviewed companies at the most recent

company-specific or country-wide rate

applicable to the company. These rates

shall apply to all non-reviewed

companies until a review of a company

assigned these rates is requested. In

addition, for the period January 1, 1995

through December 31, 1995, the

assessment rates applicable to all nonreviewed companies covered by this

order are the cash deposit rates in effect

at the time of entry.

This notice serves as a reminder to

parties subject to administrative

protective order (APO) of their

responsibility concerning the

disposition of proprietary information

disclosed under APO in accordance

with 19 CFR § 355.34(d). Timely written

notification of return/destruction of

APO materials or conversion to judicial

protective order is hereby requested.

Failure to comply with the regulations

and the terms of an APO is a

sanctionable violation.

This administrative review and notice

are in accordance with section 751(a)(1)

of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)).

Dated: October 3, 1997.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C–357–005]

Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat-Rolled

Products From Argentina; Final

Results of Countervailing Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of

countervailing duty administrative

review.

SUMMARY: On July 17, 1997, the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) published in the Federal

Register the preliminary results of its

1991 administrative review of the

countervailing duty order on cold-rolled

carbon steel flat-rolled products (coldrolled steel) from Argentina. We have

now completed this review and

determine the total net subsidy to be

0.00 percent ad valorem for Propulsora

and 1.84 percent ad valorem for all

other companies. For further

information on assessment of

countervailing duties, see the Final

Results of Review section of this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 10, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Herring, Office of CVD/AD

Enforcement VI, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone:

(202) 482–4149.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On July 17, 1997, the Department

published in the Federal Register (62

FR 38257) the preliminary results of its

1991 administrative review of the

countervailing duty order on cold-rolled

steel from Argentina (49 FR 18006;

April 26, 1984). The Department has

now completed this administrative

review in accordance with section 751

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended

(the Act).

This review involves two producer/

exporters, Sociedad Mixta Siderurgica

(SOMISA) and Propulsora Siderurgica

S.A.I.C. (Propulsora), which accounted

for all exports of the subject

merchandise from Argentina during the

review period, and 20 programs. We

invited interested parties to comment on

the preliminary results; however, no

comments were filed by any interested

party.

On August 1, 1997, the Department

published in the Federal Register the

final results of changed circumstances

countervailing duty reviews covering

the orders on leather, wool, oil country

tubular goods, and cold-rolled steel

from Argentina (see Leather From

Argentina, Wool From Argentina, Oil

Country Tubular Goods From Argentina,

and Carbon Steel Cold-Rolled Flat

Products From Argentina; Final Results

of Changed Circumstances

Countervailing Duty Reviews (62 FR

41361)). In these changed circumstances

reviews, the Department determined

that, based upon the ruling of the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

in Ceramica Regiomontana v. United

States, 64 F.3d 1579, 1582 (Fed. Cir.

1995), it does not have the authority to

assess countervailing duties on entries

of merchandise covered by this order

occurring on or after September 20,

1991. As a result, the effective date of

the revocation of this CVD order on

cold-rolled flat products from Argentina

is now September 20, 1991. (This order

had already been revoked, effective

January 1, 1995, pursuant to Section 753

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by

the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (see

Revocation of Countervailing Duty

Orders 60 FR 40568, August 9, 1995)).

Therefore, the results of this

administrative review will only apply to

entries of the subject merchandise made

between January 1, 1991 and September

19, 1991. (See Final Results of Review

section of this notice).

Applicable Statute

The Department is conducting this

administrative review in accordance

with section 751(a) of the Act. Unless

otherwise indicated, all citations to the

statute and to the Department’s

regulations are in reference to the

provisions as they existed on December

31, 1994.

Scope of Review

Imports covered by this review

include shipments of Argentine coldrolled carbon steel flat products,

whether or not corrugated or crimped;

whether or not painted or varnished and

whether or not pickled; not cut, not

pressed, and not stamped to nonrectangular shape; not coated or plated

with metal; over 12 inches in width and

under 0.1875 inches in thickness

whether or not in coils; as currently

provided for under the following item

numbers of the HTS: 7209.11.00,

7209.12.00, 7209.13.00, 7209.14.00,

7209.21.00, 7209.22.00, 7209.23.00,

7209.24.00, 7209.31.00, 7209.32.00,

7209.33.00, 7209.34.00, 7209.41.00,

7209.42.00, 7209.43.00, 7209.44.00,

7209.90.00, 7210.70.00, 7211.30.50,

7211.41.70, 7211.49.50, 7211.90.00,

7212.40.50. The HTS item numbers are

provided for convenience and Customs

purposes. The written description of the

scope remains dispositive.

Calculation Methodology for

Assessment and Cash Deposit Purposes

Pursuant to Ceramica Regiomontana,

S.A. v. United States, 853 F. Supp. 431

(CIT 1994), Commerce is required to

calculate a country-wide CVD rate, i.e.,

the all-other rate, by ‘‘weight-averaging