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small diameter circular seamless carbon

and alloy steel, standard, line and

pressure pipe from Italy. See Gulf States

Tube v. United States, Court No. 95–09–

01125, Slip Op. 97–124 (August 29,

1997). In its remand instructions, the

CIT ordered that the Department

recalculate the cost of production and

constructed value for the galvanized

pipe produced by Dalmine S.p.A.

(Dalmine). On November 28, 1997, the

Department filed its results of

redetermination pursuant to the CIT’s

order, and on March 10, 1998, the CIT

affirmed the Department’s results of the

remand. That decision was not

appealed. As there is now a final and

conclusive court decision in this action,

we will instruct the Customs Service to

continue to suspend liquidation of

shipments of seamless pipe from Italy

and require a cash deposit of 1.27

percent for Dalmine and all other

manufacturers, producers or exporters

for subject merchandise entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption on or after the date of

publication of this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 10, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate

Johnson or David J. Goldberger, Office 5,

AD/CVD Enforcement Group II, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230,

telephone: (202) 482–4929 or (202) 482–

4136, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended (the Act), are references to the

provisions in effect as of December 31,

1994. In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all citations to the

Department’s regulations are to the

regulations codified at 19 CFR part 353

(1995).

Background

On June 19, 1995, the Department

published in the Federal Register the

Final Determination of Sales at LessThan-Fair-Value: Small Diameter

Circular Seamless Carbon and Alloy

Steel, Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe

from Italy (60 FR 31981). On August 3,

1995, the Department published the

Notice of Antidumping Duty Order:

Certain Small Diameter Seamless

Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line

and Pressure Pipe From Italy 60 FR

39705 (Final Determination).

Subsequently, Dalmine, the sole Italian

respondent in this case, filed a lawsuit

with the CIT, challenging the

Department’s final determination.

On August 29, 1997, the United States

Court of International Trade (the CIT)

remanded to the Department the Final

Determination. See Gulf States Tube v.

United States, Court No. 95–09–01125,

Slip Op. 97–124 (August 29, 1997). In

its remand instructions, the CIT granted

the Department’s request to recalculate

the cost of production (COP) and

constructed value (CV) for the

galvanized pipe produced by Dalmine.

The CIT agreed that the final

adjustments made to Dalmine’s factory

overhead costs resulted in the

overstatement of the costs attributable to

galvanized pipe, which consequently

overstated Dalmine’s COP and CV

computed for purposes of the Final

Determination. On November 28, 1997,

the Department filed its results of

redetermination pursuant to the CIT’s

remand. As a result of the

redetermination upon remand, the

antidumping margin for Dalmine

changed from 1.84 percent to 1.27

percent. On March 10, 1998, the CIT

affirmed the Department’s results of the

remand redetermination. See CIT’s

Judgment Order, Slip Op. 98–25,

Consol. Court No. 95–09–01125. That

decision was not appealed. As there is

now a final and conclusive court

decision in this action, we are amending

our final determination in this matter.

Amended Final Determination

Pursuant to section 516 (A)(e) of the

Act, we are now amending the final

determination on the antidumping duty

order on seamless pipe from Italy. As a

result of the remand redetermination,

the recalculated final weighted-average

margin is as follows:

Manufacturer/

producer/exporter

Customers ID

Number

Margin

percentage

Dalmine S.p.A. .. A–475–814–001 1.27

All Others .......... A–475–814–000 1.27

Suspension of Liquidation

For imports of seamless pipe from

Italy, the Department will direct United

States Customs officers to assess, upon

further advice by the administering

authority pursuant to section 736(a)(1)

of the Act, antidumping duties equal to

the amount by which the foreign market

value of the merchandise exceeds the

United States price for all entries of

seamless pipe from Italy. These

antidumping duties will be assessed on

all entries of seamless pipe from Italy

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,

for consumption on or after June 19,

1995, the date on which the Department

published its final determination notice

in the Federal Register (60 FR 31981).

The Department will instruct the

Customs Service to collect cash deposits

of 1.27 percent on all shipments of the

subject merchandise entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption on or after the publication

date of this amended final

determination.

This determination is issued and

published in accordance with section

736(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR

353.20(a)(4)(1994).

Dated: June 3, 1998.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

National Institute of Standards and

Technology, et al.; Notice of

Consolidated Decision on Applications

for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific

Instruments

This is a decision consolidated

pursuant to Section 6(c) of the

Educational, Scientific, and Cultural

Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub.

L. 89–651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part

301). Related records can be viewed

between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in

Room 4211, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th and Constitution

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

Comments: None received. Decision:

Approved. No instrument of equivalent

scientific value to the foreign

instruments described below, for such

purposes as each is intended to be used,

is being manufactured in the United

States.

Docket Number: 98–009. Applicant:

National Institute of Standards and

Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

Instrument: Neutron Velocity Selector.

Manufacturer: Mirrotron Ltd., Hungary.

Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR

11870, March 11, 1998. Reasons: The

foreign instrument provides a

monochromatic low-energy neutron

beam using a time-of-flight method

(‘‘chopper’’) for study of the

microstructure of materials. Advice

received from: Argonne National

Laboratory, May 6, 1998.

Docket Number: 98–013. Applicant:

North Carolina State University,

Raleigh, NC 27695–7212. Instrument:

Automatic Pure Bending Tester, Model

NESFB2–A. Manufacturer: Kato Tech
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Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See

notice at 63 FR 12452, March 13, 1998.

Reasons: The foreign instrument

provides simulation of fabric wear

conditions using a cantilever method

which calculates the bending movement

over a variable arc of constant curvature.

Advice received from: A domestic

manufacturer of similar equipment and

a university laboratory textile

laboratory, May 8, 1998.

Argonne National Laboratory, a

domestic manufacturer of similar

equipment and a university textile

laboratory advise that (1) the

capabilities of each of the foreign

instruments described above are

pertinent to each applicant’s intended

purpose and (2) they know of no

domestic instrument or apparatus of

equivalent scientific value for the

intended use of each instrument.

We know of no other instrument or

apparatus being manufactured in the

United States which is of equivalent

scientific value to either of the foreign

instruments.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Applications for Duty-Free Entry of

Scientific Instruments

Pursuant to section 6(c) of the

Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub.

L. 89–651; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part

301), we invite comments on the

question of whether instruments of

equivalent scientific value, for the

purposes for which the instruments

shown below are intended to be used,

are being manufactured in the United

States.

Comments must comply with 15 CFR

301.5(a) (3) and (4) of the regulations

and be filed within 20 days with the

Statutory Import Programs Staff, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Washington,

DC 20230. Applications may be

examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

in Room 4211, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 98–026. Applicant:

University of California, Davis, Center

for Neuroscience, 1544 Newton Court,

Davis, CA 95616. Instrument: Optical

Imaging System, Model ORA 2001.

Manufacturer: Optical Imaging, United

Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument

will be used to study the activity

patterns of neurons in the primary

visual cortex of laboratory animals to

determine how the environment and

patterns of neural activity influence the

development of the brain. In addition,

the instrument will be used for

educational purposes in the research

courses Neurobiology, Physiology and

Behavior 199 and Neuroscience 299.

Application accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: May 8, 1998.

Docket Number: 98–027. Applicant:

Rutgers, The State University of New

Jersey, University Procurement &

Contracting, 56 Bevier Road,

Piscataway, NJ 08854–8010. Instrument:

(10 ea.) Specimen Micromanipulator,

Model A–3–S. Manufacturer: Narishige

Scientific, Japan. Intended Use: The

instrument is intended to be used in

spinal cord injury research assessing a

variety of neuroprotective, regenerative

and remyelinative therapies.

Application accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: May 15, 1998.

Docket Number: 98–028. Applicant:

Cornell University, Cornell Center for

Materials Research, SB56 Bard Hall,

Ithaca, NY 14853–1501. Instrument:

Electron Microprobe, Model JXA–

8900R. Manufacturer: Narishige

Scientific, Japan. Intended Use: The

instrument is intended to be used in

experiments consisting of focusing a

high voltage electron beam on a solid

sample, generating characteristic x-rays

and measuring these x-rays

quantitatively with wavelength and

energy dispersive spectrometers. The

objectives of these investigations are the

quantitative microchemical analysis of

geological, chemical and materials

science samples and qualitative

identification and mapping of elemental

distributions. In addition, the

instrument will be used for training

postdoctoral fellows, graduate and

undergraduate students in the operation

of the instrument through

demonstration and hands-on

instruction. Application accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: May 15,

1998.

Docket Number: 98–029. Applicant:

University of California, San Diego,

Scripps Institute of Oceanography, 7835

Trade Street, San Diego, CA 92121.

Instrument: Wave Measurement

Equipment. Manufacturer: Datawell bv,

The Netherlands. Intended Use: The

instrument is intended to be used in

support of ongoing and proposed

research on the evolution of directional

wave spectra across the continental

shelf and near complex bathymetric

features. The instrument will

significantly expand Department of

Defense wave data measurement

capabilities on the shelf and will be

used over the next 5 years by a

consortium of Office of Naval Research

principal investigators studying wave

propagation processes in a wide range of

geographic settings. Application

accepted by Commissioner of Customs:

May 20, 1998.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C–560–804]

Notice of Postponement of Time Limit

for Countervailing Duty Investigation:

Extruded Rubber Thread From

Indonesia

AGENCY: International Trade

Administration, Import Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 10, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephanie Moore or Maria MacKay at

(202) 482–2876, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230.

Postponement

On April 28, 1998, the Department of

Commerce (the Department) initiated a

countervailing duty investigation of

extruded rubber thread from Indonesia.

On May 29, 1998, in accordance with

section 351.205(e) of the Department’s

regulations (19 CFR 351.205(e),

published at 62 FR 27295, May 19,

1997), the petitioner made a timely

request that the Department postpone its

preliminary determination. As we find

no compelling reasons to deny this

request, we are postponing the

preliminary determination in this

investigation to no later than August 28,

1998, pursuant to section 703(c)(1)(A) of

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.

This notice is published pursuant to

section 703(c)(2) of the Act.

Dated June 2, 1998.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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