Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 13 / Wednesday, January 21, 1998 / Notices 3085

1The petitioner includes the following entities:

Magnesium Corporation of America, International

Union of Operating Engineers, Local 564, and the

United Steelworkers of America, Local 8319.

2Since the antidumping duty order was issued,

we have clarified that the scope of the original order

includes, but is not limited to, butt ends, stubs,

crowns and crystals. See May 22, 1997, instructions

in U.S. customs and November 14, 1997, Final

Scope Rule of Antidumping Duty Order on Pure

Magnesium from the PRC.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 3–98]

Foreign-Trade Zone 93—Raleigh/

Durham, NC; Request for

Manufacturing Authority Rike

Industries, Inc. (In-Line Skates)

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Triangle J Council of

Governments, grantee of FTZ 93,

pursuant to § 400.28(a)(2) of the Board’s

regulations (15 CFR part 400),

requesting authority on behalf of Rike

Industries, Inc. (Rike), to assemble inline skates under FTZ procedures

within FTZ 93. It was formally filed on

January 13, 1998.

The Rike facility (41,000 sq. ft.) is

located within Site 1 of FTZ 93 at 1000

Parliament Court in the Imperial

Business Center, in Durham, North

Carolina. The Rike facility (12

employees) is used to assemble in-line

skates under contract for Fila Sports,

Inc., for the U.S. market and export. The

assembly process involves the

attachment of domestically sourced inline skate chassis to foreign-origin

textile/leather boots (HTSUS 6402—

6404, as sports footwear; duty rate:

20%). The finished in-line skates are

classified under HTSUS 9506.70 (duty

free). The application indicates that 15

percent of the facility’s shipments will

be exported.

FTZ procedures would exempt Rike

from Customs duty payments on the

foreign components used in export

production. On its domestic sales, Rike

would be able to elect the Customs duty

rate during Customs entry procedures

that applies to finished in-line skates

(duty free) for the foreign boots/footwear

noted above. The request indicates that

the savings from FTZ procedures would

help improve the facility’s international

competitiveness.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment on the application is

invited from interested parties.

Submissions (original and three copies)

shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is March 23, 1998. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to April 6, 1998).

A copy of the application and the

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at the following

locations:

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room

3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230–

0002

Office of the Service Area Port Director,

U.S. Customs Service—Raleigh/

Durham, 120 South Center Court,

Morrisville, NC 27560.

Dated: January 13, 1998.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–1397 Filed 1–20–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–832]

Pure Magnesium From the People’s

Republic of China: Final Results of

Antidumping Duty New Shipper

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: On October 23, 1997, the

Department of Commerce published the

preliminary results of the new shipper

administrative review of the

antidumping duty order on pure

magnesium from the People’s Republic

of China (62 FR 55215). This review

covers one manufacturer/exporter of the

subject merchandise to the United

States, Taiyuan Heavy Machinery

Import and Export Corporation, and the

period of review is May 1, 1996, through

October 31, 1996. We gave interested

parties an opportunity to comment on

our preliminary results.

We have determined that U.S. sales

have been made below the normal

value, and we will instruct the U.S.

Customs Service to assess antidumping

duties based on the difference between

Export Price and Normal Value.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 21, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Everett Kelly or Brian C. Smith, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–4194 or (202) 482–

1766, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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, as amended (the Act),

by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act

(URAA). In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all citations to the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) regulations are to those

codified at 19 CFR part 353 (April

1997). Where appropriate, references are

made to the Department’s final

regulations, codified at 19 CFR part 351

(62 FR 27296), as a statement of current

departmental practice.

Background

On October 23, 1997, the Department

published in the Federal Register (62

FR 55215) the preliminary results of its

new shipper administrative review of

the antidumping duty order on pure

magnesium from the PRC (62 FR 55215).

On November 13, the petitioner 1 and

Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Import and

Export Corporation (Taiyuan) submitted

publicly available information on

surrogate values for factors of

production for consideration in the final

results. On November 18, the petitioner

and Taiyuan each submitted case briefs.

On November 20, both parties submitted

comments on the other’s publicly

available information submitted on

November 13. On November 26, the

parties submitted rebuttal briefs. On

December 2, 1997, the Department held

a public hearing.

Scope of Order

The product covered by this order is

pure primary magnesium regardless of

chemistry, form or size, unless expressly

excluded from the scope of this order.

Primary magnesium is a metal or alloy

containing by weight primarily the

element magnesium and produced by

decomposing raw materials into

magnesium metal. Pure primary

magnesium is used primarily as a

chemical in the aluminum alloying,

desulfurization, and chemical reduction

industries. In addition, pure primary

magnesium is used as an input in

producing magnesium alloy.

Pure primary magnesium

encompasses products (including, but

not limited to, butt ends, stubs, crowns

and crystals) 2 with the following

primary magnesium contents:

(1) Products that contain at least

99.95% primary magnesium, by weight