[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 27 (Wednesday, February 9, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6359-6360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2975]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-201-809]


Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Mexico: Rescission 
of Antidumping Administrative Review

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

SUMMARY:  The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is rescinding 
the review it initiated on October 1, 1999 of the antidumping duty 
order on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Mexico (64 FR 
53318).

EFFECTIVE DATE:  Febraury 9, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Tom Killiam or Robert James, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington DC 
20230; telephone (202) 482-3019 and 482-0649, respectively.

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, 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 Uruguay Round 
Agreements Act (``URAA''). In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all 
citations to the Department's regulations are to the regulations 
codified at 19 CFR part 351 (1999).

Background

    On August 31, 1999, the sole respondent, Altos de Hornos de Mexico 
(AHMSA), and the petitioners, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Geneva 
Steel, Gulf Lakes Steel, Inc., of Alabama, Inland Steel Industries, 
Inc., Lukens Steel Company, Sharon Steel Corporation, and U.S. Steel 
Group (a unit of USX Corporation) requested that the Department conduct 
an administrative review of subject merchandise exported by AHMSA from 
Mexico to the United States for the period August 1, 1998 through July 
31, 1999. On October 1, 1999, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (64 FR 53318) a notice of initiation of administrative review 
with respect to AHMSA for that period. The

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petitioners withdrew their request for a review on December 21, 1999; 
AHMSA withdrew its request on December 28, 1999.

Rescission of Review

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the Department will rescind an 
administrative review if a party that requested the review withdraws 
the request within 90 days of the date of publication of the notice of 
initiation of the requested review. Because both parties' withdrawals 
were submitted within the 90-day time limit, we are rescinding this 
review. We will issue appropriate appraisement instructions directly to 
the US Customs Service.
    This notice serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
administrative protective orders (APO) of their responsibility 
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3)(1999). Timely written 
notification of the return or 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 notice is in accordance with section 777(i)(1) of the Act, 19 
CFR 351.213(d)(1) and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).

    Dated: January 28, 2000.
Richard O. Weible,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement Group III.
[FR Doc. 00-2975 Filed 2-8-00; 8:45 am]
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