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1Petitioners are Bethlehem Steel Corporation,

Geneva Steel, Gulf States Steel, Inc. of Alabama,

Inland Steel Industries, Inc., Lukens Steel

Company, Sharon Steel Corporation, and U.S. Steel

Group (a unit of USX Corporation).

following specifications: carbon steel

flat products measuring 1.64 millimeters

in thickness and 19.5 millimeters in

width consisting of carbon steel coil

(SAE 1008) with a lining clad with an

aluminum alloy that is balance

aluminum; 10 to 15% tin; 1 to 3% lead;

0.7 to 1.3% copper; 1.8 to 3.5% silicon;

0.1 to 0.7% chromium; less than 1%

other materials and meeting the

requirements of SAE standard 783 for

Bearing and Bushing Alloys (see

domestic producers’ November 16, 2000

letter to the Department), we are

initiating this changed circumstances

administrative review. Furthermore,

because petitioners have expressed a

lack of interest, we determine that

expedited action is warranted, and we

preliminarily determine that continued

application of the order with respect to

certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel

flat products falling within the

description above is no longer of

interest to domestic interested parties.

Because we have concluded that

expedited action is warranted, we are

combining these notices of initiation

and preliminary results. Therefore, we

are hereby notifying the public of our

intent to revoke in part the antidumping

duty orders with respect to imports of

certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel

flat products meeting the abovementioned specifications from Japan.

If the final revocation in part occurs,

we intend to instruct the U.S. Customs

Service (‘‘Customs’’) to liquidate

without regard to antidumping duties,

as applicable, and to refund any

estimated antidumping duties collected

for all unliquidated entries of certain

corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat

products meeting the specifications

indicated above, not subject to final

results of administrative review as of the

date of publication in the Federal

Register of the final results of this

changed circumstances review in

accordance with 19 CFR 351.222. We

will also instruct Customs to pay

interest on such refunds in accordance

with section 778 of the Act. The current

requirement for a cash deposit of

estimated antidumping duties on certain

corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat

products meeting the above

specifications will continue unless and

until we publish a final determination

to revoke in part.

Public Comment

Interested parties are invited to

comment on these preliminary results.

Parties who submit argument in this

proceeding are requested to submit with

the argument (1) A statement of the

issue, and (2) a brief summary of the

argument. Parties to the proceedings

may request a hearing within 14 days of

publication. Any hearing, if requested,

will be held no later than two days after

the deadline for the submission of

rebuttal briefs, or the first workday

thereafter. Case briefs may be submitted

by interested parties not later than 14

days after the date of publication of this

notice. Rebuttal briefs and rebuttals to

written comments, limited to the issues

raised in those comments, may be filed

not later than five days after the

deadline for submission of case briefs.

All written comments shall be

submitted in accordance with 19 CFR

351.303 and shall be served on all

interested parties on the Department’s

service list in accordance with 19 CFR

351.303. Persons interested in attending

the hearing should contact the

Department for the date and time of the

hearing.

The Department will publish the final

results of this changed circumstances

review, including the results of its

analysis of issues raised in any written

comments. This notice is published in

accordance with sections 751(b)(1) of

the Act and 19 CFR 351.216 and

351.222.

Dated: December 6, 2000.

Troy H. Cribb,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–31633 Filed 12–11–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–201–809]

Notice of Amended Final Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon

Steel Plate From Mexico

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Amendment to Final

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

(the Department) is amending the final

results of the administrative review of

the antidumping duty order on certain

cut-to-length (CTL) carbon steel plate

from Mexico to correct certain

ministerial errors. See Certain Cut-toLength Carbon Steel Plate From Mexico:

Final Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review, 65 FR 8338

(February 18, 2000), as amended, 65 FR

65830 (November 2, 2000). These

corrections are in accordance with

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

as amended (the Tariff Act) and 19 CFR

351.224 of the Department’s regulations.

The period covered by these amended

final results of review is August 1, 1997

through July 31, 1998.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 12, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Thomas Killiam or Robert James,

Enforcement Group III, Office 8, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230;

telephone (202) 482–5222 or (202) 482–

0649, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute: Unless otherwise

indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act

of 1930, as amended (the Tariff Act), are

references to the provisions effective

January 1, 1995, the effective date of the

amendments made to the Tariff Act by

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

(1998).

Amended Final Results

On February 18, 2000, the Department

published in the Federal Register the

final results of the 1997–1998

administrative review of the

antidumping duty order on certain cutto-length carbon steel plate from Mexico

(65 FR 8338). This review covered one

producer of the subject merchandise,

Altos Hornos de Mexico S.A. de C.V.

(AHMSA) and the period August 1,

1997 through July 31, 1998. Following

timely allegations by both AHMSA and

petitioners,1 the Department

subsequently amended the final results

of this administrative review. See Notice

of Amended Final Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review, 65 FR 65830 (November 2,

2000). The amended final results

yielded a weighted average margin for

AHMSA of 21.75 percent.

On October 31, 2000, AHMSA

submitted allegations of an additional

ministerial error. AHMSA alleged that

the Department incorrectly calculated

the costs of certain raw materials

supplied by affiliated parties by

applying an incorrect adjustment factor

to these material costs. This error had

the effect of double counting the profit

realized by the affiliates on these

transactions. According to AHMSA, the

correction of this error would cause

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certain home market sales to pass the

cost test; therefore, AHMSA urged the

Department to amend its model match

computer programming language in

order to permit these now above-cost

home market sales to be matched to U.S.

sales of identical merchandise.

We agree with AHMSA’s allegation

concerning our recalculation of

AHMSA’s direct material costs, and

have made the suggested programming

changes to permit matches of U.S. sales

to above-cost sales of identical

merchandise in the home market.

Furthermore, in preparing these

amended final results, we found and

rectified an additional error in the

treatment of indirect selling expenses in

our cost-of-production test. See

Memorandum to the File, ‘‘Analysis of

Data Submitted by Altos Hornos de

Mexico, S.A. (AHMSA) for the Second

Amended Final Results of Review of

Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from

Mexico (A–201–809),’’ dated November

21, 2000. After the two mathematical

corrections, however, all home market

sales of model number ‘‘1,’’ the model

identical to the U.S. model, continued

to fail the cost test. As a result, for these

amended final results, we continued to

compare the U.S. model to the most

similar home market model.

As a result of our analysis of

AHMSA’s allegations, we are again

amending our final results of review to

correct the error in calculating affiliated

party profit identified by AHMSA, as

well as to rectify the error involving

indirect selling expenses we uncovered

during our analysis, in accordance with

19 CFR 351.224(e). The amended

weighted average dumping margin for

AHMSA for the period August 1, 1997

through July 31, 1998 is 25.02 percent.

Accordingly, the Department shall

determine, and the U.S. Customs

Service shall assess, antidumping duties

on all appropriate entries. The

Department shall issue appraisement

instructions directly to the Customs

Service. Because there is only one

importer of the subject merchandise, we

have calculated an importer specific

duty assessment rate for the

merchandise based on the ratio of the

total amount of antidumping duties

calculated for the examined sales to the

total entered value of sales.

Furthermore, the following deposit

requirements shall be effective upon

publication of this notice of amended

final results of review for all shipments

of certain cut-to-length carbon steel

plate from Mexico, entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption on or after the publication

date, as provided for by section

751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act: (1) The cash

deposit rate for the reviewed company

will be the rate stated above; (2) for

previously investigated companies not

listed above, the cash deposit rate will

continue to be the company-specific rate

published for the most recent period; (3)

if the exporter is not a firm covered in

these reviews or the original LTFV

investigation, but the manufacturer is,

the cash deposit rate will be the rate

established for the most recent period

for the manufacturer of the

merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit

rate for all other manufacturers or

exporters will continue to be 49.25

percent, the ‘‘All Others’’ rate in the

less-than-fair-value investigation. See

Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Cutto-Length Carbon Steel Plate From

Mexico, 58 FR 44165 (August 19, 1993).

These deposit requirements shall

remain in effect until publication of the

final results of the next administrative

review.

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 double antidumping

duties.

This notice also 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). 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 administrative review and notice

are in accordance with sections

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act

and 19 CFR 351.224.

Dated: December 1, 2000.

Troy H. Cribb,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–122–047]

Elemental Sulphur From Canada: Final

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of

antidumping duty administrative review

of elemental sulphur from Canada.

SUMMARY: On September 8, 2000, the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) published the preliminary

results of its administrative review on

the antidumping duty order on

elemental sulphur from Canada. This

review covers imports of subject

merchandise from Husky Oil Limited

(‘‘Husky’’), a producer, and Petrosul

International (‘‘Petrosul’’), a reseller.

The period of review (‘‘POR’’) for Husky

and Petrosul is from December 1, 1998

through December 31, 1999. The POR

for all other entries is December 1, 1998

through November 30, 1999. We gave

interested parties an opportunity to

comment on our preliminary results. No

interested parties have filed case briefs

or rebuttal briefs on the preliminary

results and no request for a hearing has

been received by the Department.

Therefore, we have not changed the

results from those presented in the

preliminary results of review and we

will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to

assess antidumping duties on

suspended entries for Petrosul and

Husky.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 12, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Brandon Farlander or Rick Johnson,

Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–0182 or (202) 482-

3818, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

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 amendments

made to the Act by 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 (April 1, 1999).