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occurred and subsequent assessment of

double antidumping duties.

This notice also serves as a 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 353.34 (d). Timely written

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. Timely written

notification of the return/destruction of

APO materials or conversion to judicial

protective order is hereby requested.

This administrative review and notice

are in accordance with Section 751(a)(1)

of the Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1))

and 19 CFR 353.22.

Dated: April 16, 1998.

Joseph A. Spetrini,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 98–11149 Filed 4–24–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–580–810]

Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe

From Korea; Final Results of

Antidumping Duty Changed

Circumstances Review

AGENCY: International Trade

Administration, Import Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of

antidumping duty changed

circumstances review.

SUMMARY: On March 26, 1998, the

Department of Commerce published in

the Federal Register the preliminary

results of its antidumping duty changed

circumstances review on certain welded

stainless steel pipe from Korea (63 FR

14679) to examine whether SeAH Steel

Corporation is the successor to Pusan

Steel Pipe, the successor to Sammi

Metal Products Co., or neither. We have

now completed this review and

determine that, for purposes of applying

the antidumping duty law, SeAH Steel

Corporation is the successor to Pusan

Steel Pipe and, as such, should be

assigned the antidumping deposit rate

applicable to Pusan Steel Pipe.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marian Wells or Cynthia Thirumalai,

Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington

D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482–6309,

(202) 482–4087.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On March 26, 1998, the Department of

Commerce (the Department) published

in the Federal Register the preliminary

results of its antidumping duty changed

circumstances review on certain welded

stainless steel pipe from Korea (63 FR

14679). We have now completed this

changed circumstances review in

accordance with section 751(b) of the

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

Scope of Review

The merchandise subject to this

review is circular welded non-alloy

steel pipe and tube, of circular crosssection, not more than 406.4mm (16

inches) in outside diameter, regardless

of wall thickness, surface finish (black,

galvanized, or painted), or end finish

(plain end, beveled end, threaded, or

threaded and coupled). These pipes and

tubes are generally known as standard

pipes and tubes and are intended for the

low-pressure conveyance of water,

steam, natural gas, air, and other liquids

and gases in plumbing and heating

systems, air-conditioning units,

automatic sprinkler systems, and other

related uses. Standard pipe may also be

used for light load-bearing applications,

such as for fence tubing, and as

structural pipe tubing used for framing

and as support members for

reconstruction or load-bearing purposes

in the construction, shipbuilding,

trucking, farm equipment, and other

related industries. Unfinished conduit

pipe is also included in this order.

All carbon-steel pipes and tubes

within the physical description outlined

above are included within the scope of

this review except line pipe, oil-country

tubular goods, boiler tubing, mechanical

tubing, pipe and tube hollows for

redraws, finished scaffolding, and

finished conduit. In accordance with the

Department’s Final Negative

Determination of Scope Inquiry on

Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy

Steel Pipe and Tube from Brazil, the

Republic of Korea, Mexico, and

Venezuela (61 FR 11608, March 21,

1996), pipe certified to the API 5L linepipe specification and pipe certified to

both the API 5L line-pipe specifications

and the less-stringent ASTM A–53

standard-pipe specifications, which falls

within the physical parameters as

outlined above, and entered as line pipe

of a kind used for oil and gas pipelines

is outside of the scope of the

antidumping duty order.

Imports of these products are

currently classifiable under the

following Harmonized Tariff Schedule

(HTS) subheadings: 7306.30.10.00,

7306.30.50.25, 7306.30.50.32,

7306.30.50.40, 7306.30.50.55,

7306.30.50.85, and 7306.30.50.90.

Although the HTS subheadings are

provided for convenience and customs

purposes, our written description of the

scope of this proceeding is dispositive.

This changed circumstances

administrative review covers SeAH

Steel Corporation (SeAH) and any

parties affiliated with SeAH.

Successorship and Final Results of

Review

We received no comments on the

preliminary results of review. Therefore,

for the reasons stated in the preliminary

results of review and based on the facts

on the record, we find that SeAH is the

successor to Pusan Steel Pipe (PSP) for

antidumping duty cash deposit

purposes.

SeAH will, therefore, be assigned the

PSP cash deposit rate of 6.00 percent ad

valorem. This cash deposit requirement

will be effective upon publication of

this notice of final results of changed

circumstances review for all shipments

of the subject merchandise entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption on or after the publication

date. This cash deposit rate shall remain

in effect until publication of the final

results of the next administrative

review.

This determination is issued and

published in accordance with section

777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR

353.22(f).

Dated: April 21, 1998.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 98–11145 Filed 4–24–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–580–815, A–580–816]

Notice of Amended Final Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Reviews: Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon

Steel Flat Products From Korea;

Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon

Steel Flat Products From Korea

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.
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ACTION: Notice of amendment to final

results of antidumping duty

administrative reviews.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

(the Department) is amending its final

results of reviews, published on March

18, 1998, of the antidumping duty

orders on cold-rolled and corrosionresistant carbon steel flat products from

Korea, to reflect the correction of

ministerial errors in those final results.

The period covered by these amended

final results is the period August 1, 1995

through July 31, 1996.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steve Bezirganian, Thomas Killiam,

Fred Baker, or Alain Letort, AD/CVD

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 202/482–0162 (Bezirganian),

202/482–2924 (Baker), 202/482–2704

(Killiam) or 202/482–4243 (Letort), fax

202/482–1388.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute and Regulations

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 Round

Agreements Act (‘‘URAA’’). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department’s regulations are

references to the provisions codified at

19 CFR Part 353 (April 1997). Although

the Department’s new regulations,

codified at 19 CFR 351 (62 FR 27296—

May 19, 1997) do not govern these

proceedings, citations to those

regulations are provided, where

appropriate, to explain current

departmental practice.

Background

On March 18, 1998, the Department

published the final results of its

administrative reviews of the

antidumping duty orders on certain

cold-rolled and corrosion-resistant

carbon steel flat products from Korea,

for the period August 1, 1995 through

July 31, 1996 (63 FR 13170). The

reviews covered shipments of the

merchandise from Korea by Dongbu

Steel Co., Ltd. (Dongbu), Union Steel

Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Union), and

Pohang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.

(POSCO). (POSCO and the companies

collapsed with POSCO (Pohang Coated

Steel Co., Ltd. (POCOS) and Pohang

Steel Industries Co., Ltd. (PSI)), are

collectively referred to below as the

POSCO Group.)

On March 23, 1998, the POSCO Group

and Dongbu submitted clerical error

allegations. On March 25, 1998,

petitioners responded to Dongbu’s

allegation. On March 31, 1998,

petitioners alleged that the Department

had made a ministerial error with

respect to the POSCO Group. On April

3, 1998, the POSCO Group responded to

the petitioners’ allegation.

Clerical Error Allegations

The POSCO Group alleged that the

Department had made three ministerial

errors. We disagree with two of those

allegations, both of which involved

expenses which the POSCO Group

asserted should not have been included

in the calculation of the U.S. indirect

selling expense variable (INDIRSU). We

discuss the basis for our determination

with respect to those two allegations in

the analysis memorandum from Steve

Bezirganian to Richard Weible dated

April 15, 1998. Dongbu alleged that the

Department had made one clerical error

by allegedly using the wrong date as the

U.S. date of sale. We disagree with that

allegation, and discuss our basis in the

analysis memorandum from Fred Baker

to Richard Weible dated April 15, 1998.

We address herein the remaining

allegations from the POSCO Group and

the petitioners. Additional discussion of

the allegations received from POSCO

appears in the aforementioned analysis

memorandum from Steve Bezirganian to

Richard Weible.

Comment 1: The POSCO Group

argues that the Department erred in its

calculations for corrosion-resistant

products by failing to deduct home

market freight expenses from normal

value.

Department’s Position

We agree, and have corrected this

error in these amended final results.

Comment 2: Petitioners assert that the

Department erred in its calculations for

the POSCO Group by not including

various POSAM and BUS expenses in

the numerators of its calculations of

U.S. indirect selling expenses

(INDIRSU). They note that the

Department’s analysis memorandum

stated explicitly that the only expenses

not to be included in the calculation

were ‘‘freight out.’’

The POSCO Group argues that it is

not the Department’s practice to include

the expenses in question in the

calculation of indirect selling expenses,

and to the extent they are relevant for

the Department’s analysis they are

accounted for in another variable

reported by POSCO.

Department’s Position

We agree with petitioners. It was not

our intent to omit the expenses at issue

from the calculation of total indirect

selling expenses. Therefore, this

omission constitutes a ministerial error.

Furthermore, upon review of this issue,

we determined that we had also

inadvertently failed to include certain

POSAM income in the denominator of

the calculation of INDIRSU for POSAM.

See the April 15, 1998, memorandum

from Steve Bezirganian for Richard

Weible. Therefore, we have corrected

both the ministerial error noted by

petitioners and the additional

ministerial error that we subsequently

discovered.

Amended Final Results of Review

As a result of the correction, we have

determined that the following weightedaverage margins exists for the period

August 1, 1995 through July 31, 1996:

CERTAIN COLD-ROLLED CARBON

STEEL FLAT PRODUCTS

Manufacturer/producer/exporter1

Weighted-average margin

(percent)

The POSCO Group .............. 5.72

Dongbu ................................. 1.21

1 Union had no shipments of cold-rolled

products during the period of review.

CERTAIN CORROSION-RESISTANT

CARBON STEEL FLAT PRODUCTS

Manufacturer/producer/exporter

Weighted-average margin

(percent)

The POSCO Group .............. 1.46

Dongbu ................................. 0.60

Union ..................................... 0.39

The Department shall determine, and

the United States Customs Service shall

assess, antidumping duties on all

appropriate entries. The Department

shall issue appraisement instructions

directly to the Customs Service.

Furthermore, the following deposit

requirements shall be effective upon

publication of this notice for all

shipments of the subject merchandise

from Korea that are entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption, on or after the date of

publication of this notice, as provided

by section 751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) The

cash deposit for the reviewed

companies will be the rates stated

above, except for Union, which had a de

minimis margin, and whose cash

deposit rate is therefore zero; (2) for

merchandise exported by manufacturers

or exporters not covered in these
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reviews, but covered in a previous

segment of these proceedings, the cash

deposit rates shall continue to be the

company-specific rates published for

the most recent period; (3) if the

exporter is not a firm covered in these

reviews, or the original investigations,

but the manufacturer is, the cash

deposit rates shall be those established

for the manufacturer of the merchandise

in the most recently completed segment

of these proceedings; and (4) if neither

the exporter nor the manufacturer is a

firm covered in these or any previous

reviews, the cash deposit rate will

continue to be 14.44 percent (for certain

cold-rolled carbon steel flat products)

and 17.70 percent (for certain corrosionresistant carbon steel flat products),

which were the ‘‘all others’’ rates in the

LTFV investigations.

These deposit requirements, when

imposed, shall remain in effect until

publication of the final results of the

next administrative review.

This notice also serves as final

reminder to importers of their

responsibility 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 is the only reminder

to parties subject to administrative

protective order (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 amended final results of

administrative review and notice are in

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and

777(i)(1) of the Act.

Dated: April 17, 1998.

Joseph A. Spetrini,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 98–11001 Filed 4–24–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–421–804]

Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat

Products From the Netherlands;

Amended Final Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Amended Final

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review.

SUMMARY: On March 18, 1998, the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) published the final results

of its administrative review of the

antidumping duty order on cold-rolled

carbon steel flat products from the

Netherlands (63 FR 13204). The period

of review is August 1, 1995 through July

31, 1996. On March 18, 1998, the sole

respondent, Hoogovens Staal BV, and its

U.S. subsidiary, Hoogovens Steel USA,

Inc. (collectively, Hoogovens) filed a

timely request that the Department

correct certain clerical errors in these

final results. On March 25, 1998, the

petitioners (Bethlehem Steel

Corporation, U.S. Steel Company (a Unit

of USX Corporation), Inland Steel

Industries, Inc., Geneva Steel, Gulf

States Steel Inc. of Alabama, Sharon

Steel Corporation, and Lukens Steel

Company) filed a response claiming that

none of the errors alleged by Hoogovens

appeared to be ministerial in nature,

inasmuch as the Department followed

the allocation methodology described in

the final analysis memorandum. We are

publishing this amendment to the final

results of review in accordance with 19

CFR 353.28(c).

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Helen Kramer or Linda Ludwig, AD/

CVD 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) 482–0405 or

(202) 482–3833, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise stated, all citations

to 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 19

CFR Part 353 (1997).

Scope of this Review

The products covered by this review

include cold-rolled (cold-reduced)

carbon steel flat-rolled products, of

rectangular shape, neither clad, plated

nor coated with metal, whether or not

painted, varnished or coated with

plastics or other nonmetallic substances,

in coils (whether or not in successively

superimposed layers) and of a width of

0.5 inch or greater, or in straight lengths

which, if of a thickness less than 4.75

millimeters, are of a width of 0.5 inch

or greater and which measures at least

10 times the thickness or if of a

thickness of 4.75 millimeters or more

are of a width which exceeds 150

millimeters and measures at least twice

the thickness, as currently classifiable in

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS)

under item numbers 7209.15.0000,

7209.16.0030, 7209.16.0060,

7209.16.0090, 7209.17.0030,

7209.17.0060, 7209.17.0090,

7209.18.1530, 7209.18.1560,

7209.18.2550, 7209.18.6000,

7209.25.0000, 7209.26.0000,

7209.27.0000, 7209.28.0000,

7209.90.0000, 7210.70.3000,

7210.90.9000, 7211.23.1500,

7211.23.2000, 7211.23.3000,

7211.23.4500, 7211.23.6030,

7211.23.6060, 7211.23.6085,

7211.29.2030, 7211.29.2090,

7211.29.4500, 7211.29.6030,

7211.29.6080, 7211.90.0000,

7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000,

7212.50.0000, 7215.50.0015,

7215.50.0060, 7215.50.0090,

7215.90.5000, 7217.10.1000,

7217.10.2000, 7217.10.3000,

7217.10.7000, 7217.90.1000,

7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060, and

7217.90.5090. Included in this review

are flat-rolled products of

nonrectangular cross-section where

such cross-section is achieved

subsequent to the rolling process (i.e.,

products which have been ‘‘worked

after rolling’’)—for example, products

which have been beveled or rounded at

the edges. Excluded from this review is

certain shadow mask steel, i.e.,

aluminum-killed, cold-rolled steel coil

that is open-coil annealed, has a carbon

content of less than 0.002 percent, is of

0.003 to 0.012 inch in thickness, 15 to

30 inches in width, and has an ultra flat,

isotropic surface. These HTS item

numbers are provided for convenience

and Customs purposes. The written

description remains dispositive.

The POR is August 1, 1995, through

July 31, 1996. This review covers entries

of certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat