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1 In its substantive response the domestic

interested parties note that Strategic Minerals

Corporation sells domestically-produced

ferrovanadium in the United States through its

wholly-owned subsidiary, U.S. Vanadium

Corporation.

will be available. Reservations are not

accepted. To the extent time permits,

members of the public may present oral

statements to the Committee. Written

statements may be submitted at any

time before or after the meeting.

However, to facilitate distribution of

public presentation materials to

Committee members, the Committee

suggests that you forward your public

presentation materials two weeks prior

to the meeting to the following address:

Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA

Ms: 3876, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th & Constitution Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20230.

For more information or copies of the

minutes, please call Lee Ann Carpenter

on (202) 482–2583.

Dated: October 4, 2000.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

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BILLING CODE 3510–JT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–821–807]

Final Results of Expedited Sunset

Review: Ferrovanadium and Nitrided

Vanadium From Russia

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of

expedited sunset review:

Ferrovanadium and Nitrided Vanadium

from Russia.

SUMMARY: On June 5, 2000, the

Department of Commerce (‘‘the

Department’’) initiated a sunset review

of the antidumping duty order on

ferrovanadium and nitrided vanadium

from Russia (65 FR 35604) pursuant to

section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930,

as amended (‘‘the Act’’). On the basis of

a notice of intent to participate and

substantive comments filed on behalf of

the domestic interested parties and

inadequate response from respondent

interested parties, Department

determined to conduct an expedited

sunset review. As a result of this review,

the Department finds that revocation of

the antidumping order would likely

lead to continuation or recurrence of

dumping at the levels indicated in the

Final Results of Review section of this

notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 10, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Martha V. Douthit or James P. Maeder,

Office of Policy for Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–5050 or (202) 482–

3330, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

This review was conducted pursuant

to sections 751(c) and 752 of the Act.

The Department’s procedures for the

conduct of sunset reviews are set forth

in Procedures for Conducting Five-Year

(‘‘Sunset’’) Reviews of Antidumping and

Countervailing Duty Orders, 63 FR

13516 (March 20, 1998) (‘‘Sunset

Regulations’’) and in 19 CFR Part 351

(2000) in general. Guidance on

methodological or analytical issues

relevant to the Department’s conduct of

sunset reviews is set forth in the

Department’s Policy Bulletin 98:3—

Policies Regarding the Conduct of FiveYear (‘‘Sunset’’) Reviews of

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty

Orders; Policy Bulletin, 63 FR 18871

(April 16, 1998) (‘‘Sunset Policy

Bulletin’’).

Background

On June 5, 2000, the Department

initiated a sunset review of the

antidumping order on ferrovanadium

and nitrided vanadium from Russia (65

FR 35604), pursuant to section 751(c) of

the Act. On June 20, 2000, the

Department received a Notice of Intent

to Participate within the deadline

specified in section 351.218(d)(1)(i) of

the Sunset Regulations on behalf of the

Ferroalloys Association Vanadium

Committee ( the ‘‘TFA Vanadium

Committee’’) and its members; Bear

Metallurgical Corporation, Shieldalloy

Metallurgical Corporation

(‘‘Shieldalloy’’), Gulf Chemical and

Metallurgical, Strategic Minerals

Corporation, and CS Metals of

Louisiana, ( collectively ‘‘the domestic

interested parties’’). On July 5, 2000, the

Department received a complete

substantive response from the domestic

interested parties within the 30-day

deadline specified in the Sunset

Regulations under section

351.218(d)(3)(i).

The TFA Vanadium Committee

claimed interested party status under 19

USC 1677(9)(E) as a trade or business

association of a majority of whose

members manufacture, produce, or

wholesale a domestic like product in the

United States. As domestic interested

parties, the following members of the

TFA Vanadium Committee claimed

interested party status under 19 USC

1677(9)(C); Bear Metallurgical

Corporation, Shieldalloy Metallurgical

Corporation, Gulf Chemical and

Metallurgical and Strategic Minerals

Corporation.1 In addition, they

identified another member, CS Metals of

Louisiana, as an interested party in this

sunset review. See Domestic Interested

Parties, July 5, 2000, Substantive

Response at 2–3.

Bear Metallurgical Corporation and

Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corporation

assert that they are the only U.S.

manufacturers or producers of

ferrovanadium. Id. at 2. Gulf Chemical

and Metallurgical, and Strategic

Minerals Corporation assert that they

are wholesalers in the United States of

domestically-produced ferrovanadium.

Id. at 2.

With respect to historical

participation of this order, the domestic

interested parties assert that in 1994,

Shieldalloy filed the petition that lead

to the issuance of the antidumping duty

order on ferrovanadium and nitrided

vanadium from Russia. In addition,

Shieldalloy actively participated in the

Department’s first administrative review

covering the period January 4, 1995,

through June 30, 1996. Id. at 4–5.

Although Shieldalloy requested an

administrative review for one exporter,

Galt Alloys, during the period July 1,

1996, through June 30, 1997, the review

was terminated because Galt Alloys did

not make sales of the subject

merchandise between July 1, 1996 and

June 30, 1997. Id. at 4. The domestic

interested parties further assert that

Shieldalloy has actively participated in

all judicial appeals and remand

proceedings related to this order. Id. at

5.

On July 5, 2000, the Department

received a complete substantive

response to the notice on initiation from

respondent interested parties;

Vanadium Tulachermet

(‘‘Tulachermet’’) and Chusovskoy

Metallurgical Works Joint Stock

Company (‘‘Chusovskoy’’) (collectively

‘‘the respondent interested parties’’)

within the 30-day deadline specified in

the Sunset Regulations under section

351.218(d)(3)(i). The respondent

interested parties claimed interested

party status under 19 USC 1677(9)(A) as

foreign manufacturers of the subject

merchandise. With respect to

respondent interested parties’ historical

participation of the order, they assert

that they participated in the original

investigation by providing factors of

production to the Department, although

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neither party was deemed an exporter.

See Respondent Interested Parties, July

5, 2000, Substantive Response at 1. In

the first administrative review, both

Chusovskoy and Tulachermet provided

information to the Department.

However, in their substantive response

they assert that, due to a tragic event at

Chusovskoy, they were unable to

complete their participation in this

review. Id.

With respect to adequacy of response

from respondent interested parties, the

Department normally will conclude that

respondent interested parties have

provided adequate response to conduct

a full sunset review where respondent

interested parties account for more than

50 percent, by volume, of the total

exports of subject merchandise to the

United States. Where respondent

interested parties provide inadequate

responses, the Department will conduct

an expedited sunset review and issue

final results of review based on the facts

available.

After examining respondent

interested parties’ import statistics, on

June 26, 2000, the Department notified

the U.S. International Trade

Commission that respondent interested

parties did not provide an adequate

response in this sunset review, pursuant

to section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act, and 19

CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2). Therefore,

because we did not receive adequate

response from respondent interested

parties, we determined to conduct an

expedited sunset review and to issue the

final results not later than October 3,

2000.

Scope of Review

The products covered by this sunset

review are ferrovanadium and nitrided

vanadium, regardless of grade,

chemistry, form or size, unless expressly

excluded from the scope of this order.

Ferrovanadium includes alloys

containing ferrovanadium as the

predominant element by weight (i.e.,

more weight than any other element,

except iron in some instances) and at

least 4 percent by weight of iron.

Nitrided vanadium includes compounds

containing vanadium as the

predominant element, by weight, and at

least 5 percent, by weight, of nitrogen.

Excluded from the scope of this

review are vanadium additives other

than ferrovanadium and nitrided

vanadium, such as vanadium-aluminum

master alloys, vanadium chemicals,

vanadium waste and scrap, vanadiumbearing raw materials, such as slag,

boiler residues, fly ash, and vanadium

oxides.

The products subject to this review

are currently classifiable under

subheadings 2850.00.20, 7202.92.00,

7202.99.5040, 8112.40.3000, and

8112.40.6000 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 is

dispositive.

Analysis of Comments Received

All issues raised in these cases and

rebuttal briefs by parties to this sunset

review are addressed in the ‘‘Issues and

Decision Memorandum’’ (‘‘Decision

Memo’’) from Jeffrey A. May, Director,

Office of Policy, Import Administration,

to Troy H. Cribb, Acting Assistant

Secretary for Import Administration,

dated October 3, 2000, which is hereby

adopted by this notice. The issues

discussed in the Decision Memo include

the likelihood of continuation or

recurrence of dumping and the

magnitude of the margin likely to

prevail were the order revoked.

Parties can find a complete discussion

of all issues raised in this review and

the corresponding recommendations in

this public memorandum, which is on

file in room B–099 of the main

Commerce Building. In addition, a

complete version of the Decision Memo

can be accessed directly on the Web at

http://ia.ita.doc.gov. The paper copy

and electronic version of the Decision

Memo are identical in content.

Final Results of Review

As a result of this review, the

Department finds that revocation of the

antidumping duty order would likely

lead to continuation or recurrence of

dumping at the percentage weightedaverage margins listed below:

Manufacturer/exporter Margin

(percent)

Galt Alloys, Inc ......................... 3.75

Gesellschaft fu ̈r

Elektrometallurgie m.b.H.

(and its related companies

Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corporation and Metallurg, Inc.) 11.72

Odermet .................................... 10.10

Russia-wide Rate ..................... 108.00

This notice serves as the only

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 351.305 of the

Department’s regulations. Timely

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 five-year (‘‘sunset’’) review and

notice are in accordance with sections

751(c), 752, and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

Dated: October 3, 2000.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–489–807]

Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars From

Turkey; Notice of Extension of Time

Limits for Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

is extending the time limits of the

preliminary results of the antidumping

duty administrative review on steel

concrete reinforcing bars from Turkey.

The review covers four producers/

exporters of the subject merchandise to

the United States. The period of review

is April 1, 1999, through March 31,

2000.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 10, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irina

Itkin at (202) 482–0656, Office of AD/

CVD Enforcement, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Because it

is not practicable to complete this

administrative review within the time

limits mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A)

of Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the

Uruguay Round Agreements Act, the

Department is extending the time limit

for completion of the preliminary

results. This review involves a number

of complicated issues including high

inflation in Turkey during the period of

review. Moreover, the petitioners

requested that the Department conduct

verification, pursuant to section

782(i)(3)(A) of the Act. Therefore, we

intend to verify the sales and cost

information submitted by the four

respondents. Because the Department

will not be able to conduct verification

before the scheduled preliminary

results, we have extended the deadline

until April 30, 2001.

This extension is in accordance with

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act (19