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contains documents other than rules or

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public. Notices of hearings and investigations,

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Notices Federal Register

279

Vol. 65, No. 2

Tuesday, January 4, 2000

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the South Carolina Advisory

Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the South

Carolina Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 1:00 p.m.

and adjourn at 5:00 p.m. on January 19,

2000, at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, 1200

Hampton Street, Columbia, South

Carolina 29201. The purpose of the

meeting is to discuss with the State

Superintendent of Schools or her

representative, the progress of the

implementation of the South Carolina

Education Accountability Act of 1998.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact Bobby

D. Doctor, Director of the Southern

Regional Office, 404–562–7000 (TDD

404–562–7004). Hearing-impaired

persons who will attend the meeting

and require the services of a sign

language interpreter should contact the

Regional Office at least ten (10) working

days before the scheduled date of the

meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, December 27,

1999.

Ruby G. Moy,

Staff Director.

[FR Doc. 99–34020 Filed 12–27–99; 4:50 pm]

BILLING CODE 6335–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–122–601]

Notice of Amended Final Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review: Brass Sheet and Strip From

Canada

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Amended Final

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Paige Rivas or James Terpstra, Office of

Antidumping/Countervailing Duty

Enforcement, Office Four, Group II,

Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–0651 or

482–3965, respectively.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise stated, all citations

to the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended

(the Act) are references to the provisions

effective January 1, 1995, the effective

date of the amendments made to the Act

by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act

(URAA). In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all references to the

Department’s regulations are to 19 CFR

part 351 (1998).

Amendment to Final Results

On August 9, 1999, the Department

determined that sales of brass sheet and

strip from Canada were made at less

than normal value during the 1997

period of review. This review covers

one respondent, Wolverine Tube Inc.

(Wolverine). See Brass Sheet and Strip

from Canada: Final Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review and Notice of Intent Not To

Revoke Order in Part, 64 FR 46344

(August 25, 1999).

On August 18, 1999, the petitioners,

(Hussey Copper, Ltd.; The Miller

Company; Olin Corporation; Revere

Copper Products, Inc.; International

Association of Machinists and

Aerospace Workers; International

Union-Allied Industrial Workers of

America (AFL–CIO); Mechanics

Educational Society of America (Local

56), and United Steelworkers of

America), timely filed an allegation that

the Department had made several

clerical errors in the final margin

computer program. Petitioners

requested that we correct the errors and

publish a notice of amended final

determination in the Federal Register.

See 19 CFR 351.224(e). Petitioners’

submission alleges the following errors:

• The Department overstated the

reduction to Wolverine’s cost of

manufacture to eliminate potential

double-counting of Wolverine’s

warranty expense. This reduction to

Wolverine’s cost of manufacture

occurred when the Department agreed

with Wolverine’s claim that ‘‘a portion

of the warranty expenses associated

with the manufacturing costs of reworking defective merchandise is

already included in the reported COP

and that the inclusion of such costs in

warranty expenses would result in

double-counting.’’ See Final Results

Analysis Memo, Eleventh

Administrative Review 1/1/97–12/31/97

(‘‘Analysis Memo’’) at 4. As a result, the

Department reduced ‘‘the reported COP

expenses to account for these costs’’ to

‘‘avoid double counting.’’ Id. According

to petitioners, the overstatement of the

reduction to Wolverine’s cost of

manufacture occurred because the

Department calculated an adjustment

factor by dividing Wolverine’s total

variable warranty expense by

Wolverine’s total labor and overhead

costs (excluding the cost of materials),

and applied this adjustment factor to

Wolverine’s total cost of manufacture

(including cost of materials). The

adjustment factor derived from

Wolverine’s labor and overhead costs

should have been applied only to

Wolverine’s total labor and overhead

costs to yield the correct amount of the

adjustment to Wolverine’s total cost of

manufacture. Instead, the Department

applied the adjustment factor to the sum

of fabrication cost and metal cost in its

final margin calculation program and

overstated the reduction to Wolverine’s

cost of manufacture.

• The Department failed to correct a

width for one of Wolverine’s U.S. sales

that the Department acknowledged in its

Final Results of Review to be incorrect.

See 64 FR at 46345 (Comment 2).

• The Department failed to include in

its final margin program the exchange

losses associated with its accounts

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payable and reported in the new

computer field EXCHNG provided by

Wolverine to the Department on March

25, 1999. Petitioner states that the

Department should add the computer

field EXCHNG to the revised cost of

production (RCOP). Wolverine added a

new computer field EXCHNG to its COP

and CV databases for exchange losses

associated with its accounts payable to

include additional costs that were not

reported in the original computer field

TOTCOM. Wolverine did include these

additional costs in the computer field

for revised TOTCOM (RTOTCOM).

However, because the Department

started its cost calculations using the

original computer field TOTCOM, the

additional costs included in EXCHNG

were not included in the Department’s

final margin analysis.

Wolverine did not comment on the

clerical error allegations.

After reviewing the petitioners’

allegations, we have determined, in

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224, that

the final results includes the abovementioned clerical errors. Therefore, in

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(e), we

are amending the final results of the

antidumping duty review of brass sheet

and strip from Canada. The revised

dumping margin is listed below.

Exporter/producer Margin

percentage

Wolverine ................................ 0.83

In addition, we note that the

assessment instructions in the original

final results of review misstated the way

in which the assessment rates were

calculated. Therefore, this amended

final results of review provides the

corrected formulation given below.

The Department shall determine, and

the U.S. Customs Service (Customs)

shall assess, antidumping duties on all

appropriate entries. We will issue

importer-specific appraisement

instructions to Customs. For assessment

purposes, we have calculated importerspecific ad valorem duty assessment

rates for the merchandise based on the

ratio of the total amount of dumping

duties calculated for the examined sales

to the entered value of sales used to

calculate those duties. This notice

serves as a final reminder to importers

of their responsibility under 19 CFR

351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding

the reimbursement of antidumping

duties prior to liquidation of the

relevant entries during this review

period. Failure to comply with this

requirement could result in the

Secretary’s presumption that

reimbursement of antidumping duties

occurred and the subsequent assessment

of doubled antidumping duties.

We are issuing and publishing this

determination in accordance with

section 751(a)(1) of the Act (19 U.S.C.

1675(a)(1)), 19 CFR 351.213, and 19 CFR

351.221(b)(5).

Dated: December 27, 1999.

Holly A. Kuga,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–28 Filed 1–3–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–122–047]

Elemental Sulphur From Canada:

Extension of Time Limit for Final

Results of the Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit

for final results of antidumping duty

administrative review.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

(‘‘the Department’’) is extending the

time limit for the final results of the

review of elemental sulphur from

Canada. This review covers the period

December 1, 1997 through November

30, 1998.

DATE EFFECTIVE: January 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick

Johnson at (202) 482–3818; Office of

AD/CVD Enforcement, Group III, Office

9, Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20230.

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions effective January 1, 1995,

the effective date of the amendment

made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act)

by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act

(URAA).

Postponement of Final Results

The Department has determined that

it is not practicable to issue its final

results of the administrative review

within the original time limit of

December 31, 1999. See Decision

Memorandum from Joseph A. Spetrini,

Deputy Assistant Secretary,

Enforcement Group III to Robert

LaRussa, Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration. Therefore, the

Department is extending the time limit

for completion of the final results until

January 21, 2000, in accordance with

Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

Dated: December 22, 1999.

Richard O. Weible,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/

CVD Enforcement Group III.

[FR Doc. 00–29 Filed 1–3–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3570–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–580–825]

Oil Country Tubular Goods From

Korea: Notice of Recission of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Recission of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review.

SUMMARY: In response to a request from

respondents, the Department of

Commerce (‘‘the Department’’) initiated

an administrative review of SeAH Steel

Corporation, Ltd. (‘‘SeAH’’), on October

1, 1999. The review covered one

manufacturer/exporter of the subject

merchandise to the United States, SeAH

and its U.S. sales subsidiaries (Pusan

Pipe America, Inc. and State Pipe &

Supply Co.). The period of review is

August 1, 1998 through July 31, 1999.

The Department received a request for

withdrawal on December 3, 1999 from

respondent. In accordance with 19 CFR

351.213(d)(1), the Department is now

terminating this review because the

respondent has withdrawn its request

for review and no other interested

parties have requested a review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jonathan Lyons, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone

(202) 482–0374.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930,

as amended by the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (URAA) effective

January 1, 1995 (the Act). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations