[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 245 (Monday, December 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66848-66849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33351]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-588-824]


Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From 
Japan: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, and Revocation in Part of Antidumping Duty Order

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

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping 
duty administrative review, and revocation in part of antidumping duty 
order.

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SUMMARY: On November 10, 1997, the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) published a notice of initiation of a changed circumstances 
antidumping duty administrative review and preliminary results of 
review with intent to revoke, in part, the antidumping duty order on 
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. We 
are now revoking this order in part, with respect to corrosion-
resistant steel flat products with certain dimensions and coatings, 
based on the fact that domestic parties have expressed no interest in 
the importation or sale of this product, imported from Japan.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 22, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gideon Katz or Maureen Flannery, AD/
CVD Enforcement, Office 9, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
5255 and (202) 482-3020, respectively.
    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 of 1930 (the Act) by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In 
addition, unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's 
regulations are to the current regulations, as codified at 19 CFR by 
Part 351, 62 FR 27295 (May 19, 1997).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 19, 1997, Sudo Corporation (Sudo) requested that the 
Department conduct a changed circumstances administrative review to 
determine whether to partially revoke the order with regard to imports 
of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. 
The order with regard to imports of other types of corrosion-resistant 
carbon steel flat products is not affected by this request. On October 
28, 1997, domestic producers AK Steel Corporation, Bethlehem Steel 
Corporation, Inland Steel Industries, Inc., LTV Steel Company, Inc., 
National Steel Corporation, and U.S. Steel Group, a unit of USX 
Corporation, informed the Department in writing that they did not 
object to the changed circumstances review and had no interest in the 
importation or sale of electrolytic zinc-coated steel coiled rolls 
produced in Japan as described in detail in Sudo's letter.
    We preliminarily determined that domestic producers' affirmative 
statement of no interest constituted changed circumstances sufficient 
to warrant a partial revocation of this order. Consequently, on 
November 10, 1997, the Department published a notice of initiation and 
preliminary results of

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changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and intent 
to revoke this order in part (62 FR 60470). We gave interested parties 
an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this changed 
circumstances review. We received a comment from domestic producers and 
a rebuttal comment from Sudo.
    Comment: Domestic producers claim that the Department's description 
of the merchandise to be excluded from the order is overly broad. They 
state that the Department, in its preliminary results, described the 
product to be excluded from the order only by width and thickness, 
ignoring the chemical composition and thickness of the coating. 
Domestic producers claim that their statement of no interest was based 
on a description of the product using all of the above criteria. Sudo 
agrees that the product to be excluded should be defined by all 
criteria.
    Department's Position: We agree with domestic producers and with 
Sudo, and have added the chemical composition of each of the three 
coating layers and the thickness of the total coating to the 
characteristics of the product to be excluded from the antidumping 
order.

Scope of Review

    The merchandise covered by this changed circumstances review is 
certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. This 
changed circumstances administrative review covers all manufacturers/
exporters of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products 
meeting the following specifications: widths ranging from 10 
millimeters (0.394 inches) through 100 millimeters (3.94 inches); 
thicknesses, including coatings, ranging from 0.11 millimeters (0.004 
inches) through 0.60 millimeters (0.024 inches); and a coating that is 
from 0.003 millimeters (0.00012 inches) through 0.005 millimeters 
(0.000196 inches) in thickness and that is comprised of three evenly 
applied layers, the first layer consisting of 99% zinc, 0.5% cobalt, 
and 0.5% molybdenum, followed by a layer consisting of chromate, and 
finally a layer consisting of silicate.

Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty 
Order

    The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners in certain 
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products, as described above, 
produced in Japan, constitutes changed circumstances sufficient to 
warrant partial revocation of this order. Therefore, the Department is 
partially revoking the order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon 
steel flat products from Japan with regard to products which meet the 
specifications detailed above, in accordance with sections 751 (b) and 
(d) and 782(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d)(1). This partial 
revocation applies to all entries of the subject merchandise entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after October 27, 
1995.
    The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service (Customs) to 
proceed with liquidation, without regard to antidumping duties, of all 
unliquidated entries of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat 
products with the dimensions and coatings described above from Japan, 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after 
October 27, 1995. The Department will further instruct Customs to 
refund with interest any estimated duties collected with respect to 
unliquidated entries of this product from Japan entered, or withdrawn 
from warehouse, for consumption on or after October 27, 1995, in 
accordance with section 778 of the Act.
    This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protection orders (APOs) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d)(1997). 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) and (d) and 782(h) of the Act and sections 
351.216 and 351.222(g) of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: December 16, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 97-33351 Filed 12-19-97; 8:45 am]
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