2 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 58 / Wednesday, March 26, 1997 / Notices

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil

Rights.

DATE AND TIME: Friday, April 4, 1997,

9:30 a.m.

PLACE: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,

624 Ninth Street, N.W., Room 540,

Washington, DC 20425.

STATUS:

Agenda

I. Approval of Agenda

II. Announcements

III. Staff Report

IV. State Advisory Committee Reports

• Indiana Consultation: Focus on

Affirmative Action

• Illinois Consultation: Focus on

Affirmative Action

• Michigan Consultation: Focus on

Affirmative Action

• Ohio Consultation: Focus on

Affirmative Action

• Wisconsin Consultation: Focus on

Affirmative Action

V. State Advisory Committee

Appointments for Alabama,

Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho,

Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts,

Minnesota, and New Jersey.

VI. Racial and Ethnic Tensions in

American Communities: Poverty,

Inequality, and Discrimination—

The Miami Report

VII. Future Agenda Items

CONTACT PERSON FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION: Barbara Brooks, Press and

Communications (202) 376–8312.

Stephanie Y. Moore,

General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 97–7823 Filed 3–24–97; 2:40 pm]

BILLING CODE 6335–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–427–801, A–428–801, A–475–801, A–588–

804, A–559–801]

Antifriction Bearings (Other Than

Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts

Thereof From France, Germany, Italy,

Japan, and Singapore; Amended Final

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Reviews

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of amended final results

of antidumping duty administrative

reviews.

SUMMARY: On January 15, 1997, the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) published the final results

of administrative reviews of the

antidumping duty orders on antifriction

bearings (other than tapered roller

bearings) and parts thereof from France,

Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and

the United Kingdom (62 FR 2801). The

classes or kinds of merchandise covered

by these reviews are ball bearings and

parts thereof (BBs), cylindrical roller

bearings and parts thereof (CRBs), and

spherical plain bearings and parts

thereof (SPBs). The period of review

(the POR) is May 1, 1994, through April

30, 1995. Based on the correction of

ministerial errors, we have changed the

margins for BBs for 10 companies, CRBs

for 5 companies, and SPBs for 2

companies. We are also amending the

section of the published final results

regarding sales below cost in the home

market in order to correct a ministerial

error.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 26, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Ross, Richard Rimlinger, or Kris

Campbell, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone:

(202) 482–4733.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On January 15, 1997, the Department

published the final results of its

administrative reviews of the

antidumping duty orders on antifriction

bearings (other than tapered roller

bearings) and parts thereof from France,

Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, and

the United Kingdom (62 FR 2081). The

reviews covered 27 manufacturers/

exporters and the POR May 1, 1994,

through April 30, 1995.

After publication of our final results,

we received timely allegations from the

petitioner and several respondents that

we had made ministerial errors in

calculating the final results. We have

corrected our calculations where we

agree that we made ministerial errors in

accordance with section 751(A) of the

Tariff Act. In addition, we have

corrected our calculations for

ministerial errors that were not alleged

by the petitioner or respondents but

which we discovered after publication

of the final results. See companyspecific analysis memoranda for a

description of the changes that we made

to correct the ministerial errors.

We are also amending the section of

the notice of final results of reviews

regarding sales below cost in the home

market in order to correct a ministerial

error. In this section, we inadvertently

listed Nachi as one of the companies for

which we disregarded below-cost sales

in the home market. Nachi was not

subject to review and, therefore, should

not have been listed in this section.

The 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. In

addition, unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Department’s regulations

are to the current regulations, as

amended by the interim regulations

published in the Federal Register on

May 11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).

Amended Final Results of Reviews

As a result of our corrections for

ministerial errors, we determine that the

following weighted-average percentage

margins exist for the period May 1,

1994, through April 30, 1995:

Company Class or

kind

Rate

(percent)

France

Intertechnique ......... BBs 1 1.55

SKF ......................... BBs 16.61

SNR ........................ BBs 5.99

CRBs 5.19

Germany

FAG ........................ BBs 13.43

CRBs 23.10

SPBs 12.10

INA .......................... BBs 19.50

CRBs 18.36

SKF ......................... BBs 2.53

CRBs 9.50

SPBs 6.63

Italy

FAG ........................ BBs 4.88

SKF ......................... BBs 2.84

Japan

Asahi Seiko ............. BBs 2.43

Koyo Seiko ............. BBs 18.60

CRBs 3.65

Singapore

NMB Singapore/

Pelmec Ind.

BBs 2.43

1This rate did not change as a result of the

correction.

The Department shall determine, and

the Customs Service shall assess,

antidumping duties on all appropriate

entries. Because sampling and other

simplification methods prevent entry-
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by-entry assessments, we will calculate

wherever possible an exporter/importerspecific assessment rate for each class or

kind of AFBs.

We will direct the Customs Service to

collect cash deposits of estimated

antidumping duties on all appropriate

entries in accordance with the

procedures discussed in the final results

of the reviews (62 FR 2081, 2082) and

as amended by this determination.

The amended deposit requirements

are effective for all shipments of the

subject merchandise entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption on or after the date of

publication of this notice and shall

remain in effect until publication of the

final results of the next administrative

reviews.

This notice also serves as a final

reminder to importers of their

responsibility under 19 CFR 353.26 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 return or

destruction of proprietary information

disclosed under APO in accordance

with 19 CFR 353.34(d). Failure to

comply is a violation of the APO.

These administrative reviews and this

notice are in accordance with section

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

1675(a)(1)) and 19 CFR 353.28.

Dated: March 14, 1997.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 97–7589 Filed 3–25–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

[A–570–848]

Notice of Preliminary Determination of

Sales at Less Than Fair Value:

Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From

the People’s Republic of China

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 26, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Rebecca Trainor, Elisabeth Urfer or

Maureen Flannery, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–0666, (202) 482–

4052, or (202) 482–4733, respectively.

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 amendments

made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act)

by the Uruguay Rounds Agreements Act

(URAA).

Preliminary Determination

We determine preliminarily that

freshwater crawfish tail meat (crawfish

tail meat) from the People’s Republic of

China (PRC) is being, or is likely to be,

sold in the United States at less than fair

value (LTFV), as provided in section

733 of the Act. The estimated margins

are shown in the ‘‘Suspension of

Liquidation’’ section of this notice.

Case History

Since the initiation of this

investigation (61 FR 54154, October 17,

1996), the following events have

occurred:

On October 23, 1996, the Department

of Commerce (the Department) sent a

letter to the PRC’s Ministry of Foreign

Trade and Economic Cooperation

(MOFTEC) requesting the identification

of producers and exporters, and

information regarding the production

and sales of crawfish tail meat exported

to the United States. On November 15,

1996, the Department sent a separate

letter to the China Chamber of

Commerce for Import & Export of

Foodstuffs, Native Produce & Animal

By-Products (the China Chamber of

Commerce) requesting information

regarding exports of the subject

merchandise to the United States. We

received no response to our inquiries

from either MOFTEC or the China

Chamber of Commerce, except for the

March 10, 1997 letter noted below.

On November 4, 1996, the United

States International Trade Commission

(ITC) issued an affirmative preliminary

injury determination in this case (see

ITC Investigation No. 731–TA–752). The

ITC found that there is a reasonable

indication that an industry in the

United States is materially injured or

threatened with material injury by

reason of imports from the PRC of

crawfish tail meat.

The Department issued an

antidumping questionnaire to MOFTEC

on November 8, 1996, with instructions

to forward the document to all exporters

of crawfish tail meat, and to inform

these companies that they must respond

by the due dates. We also sent courtesy

copies of the antidumping questionnaire

to all identified companies for which we

had addresses.

The questionnaire is divided into four

sections. Section A requests general

information concerning a company’s

corporate structure and business

practices, the merchandise under

investigation that it sells, and the sales

of the merchandise in all of its markets.

Sections B and C request home market

sales listings and U.S. sales listings,

respectively. (Section B does not

normally apply in antidumping

proceedings involving the PRC.) Section

D requests information on the factors of

production of the subject merchandise.

On December 13, 1996 and December

19, 1996, fifteen PRC exporters

submitted their section A and section C

responses. On December 23, 1996, 23

PRC producer/supplier factories

submitted section D questionnaire

responses.

On December 23, 1996, we requested

that interested parties provide publicly

available published information for

valuing the factors of production and for

surrogate country selection. We received

comments from those interested parties

on January 17, 1997, and rebuttal

comments on January 27, 1997.

On January 10, 1997, we issued

supplemental questionnaires to five

respondents and we sent a deficiency

letter to three companies that had not

previously submitted section D

responses. We received section D

questionnaire responses from those

companies on January 17, 1997. On

January 23, 1997, we issued a

supplemental questionnaire to a sixth

respondent, Lianyungang Yupeng

Aquatic Products Co., Ltd. (Lianyungang

Yupeng). We issued a second

supplemental questionnaire on January

31, 1997 to the five largest respondents,

and we received their responses on

February 7, 1997.

On January 24, 1997, after receiving

complete questionnaire responses from

fifteen PRC crawfish exporters, we

determined that we would only be able

to analyze the responses of the six

largest PRC crawfish exporters to the

United States due to limited resources.

(See Respondent Selection section

below.)

On February 14, 1997, we postponed

the preliminary determination until not

later than March 19, 1997 (62 FR 6948),

because we determined this

investigation to be extraordinarily

complicated within the meaning of

section 733(c)(1)(B)(i) of the Act.

On February 18, 1997, we granted an

additional period of time for interested

parties to submit factual information

and arguments with respect to the