[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 136 (Thursday, July 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38369-38370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18881]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-428-801, A-475-801, A-401-801]


Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and 
Parts Thereof From Germany, Italy, and Sweden; Amended Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final court decision and amended final results of 
administrative reviews.

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SUMMARY: On May 7, 1998, the United States Court of Appeals for the 
Federal Circuit affirmed the United States Court of International 
Trade's affirmation of the Department of Commerce's final remand 
results affecting final assessment rates for the third administrative 
reviews of the antidumping duty orders on antifriction bearings (other 
than tapered roller bearings) and parts thereof from Germany, Italy, 
and Sweden with respect to SKF. The classes or kinds of merchandise 
covered by these reviews are ball bearings and parts thereof, 
cylindrical roller bearings and parts thereof, and spherical plain 
bearings and parts thereof. As there is now a final and conclusive 
court decision in these actions, we are amending our final results of 
reviews and we will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to liquidate 
entries subject to these reviews.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 16, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Dirstine or Richard Rimlinger, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4033 or (202) 482-4477.

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 of Commerce's (the Department's) 
regulations are to the regulations as codified at 19 CFR Part 353 
(April 1, 1997).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 26, 1993, the Department published its 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, Romania, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, 
and the United Kingdom, covering the period May 1, 1991 through April 
30, 1992 (AFBs III) (58 FR 39729). These final results were amended on 
August 9, 1993, September 30, 1993, December 15, 1993, February 28, 
1994, and April 16, 1998 (see 58 FR 42288, 58 FR 51055, 58 FR 65576, 59 
FR 9469, and 63 FR 18877, respectively). 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). Subsequently, 
two domestic producers, the Torrington Company and Federal-Mogul, and a 
number of other interested parties filed lawsuits with the U.S. Court 
of International Trade (CIT) challenging the final results. These 
lawsuits were litigated at the CIT and the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). On April 16, 1998, as a result 
of a final court decision, we issued amended final results for all 
firms whose dumping margins had changed as a result of litigation 
except for SKF GmbH (SKF Germany), SKF Industrie S.p.A. (SKF Italy), 
and SKF Sverige AB (SKF Sweden). See Antifriction Bearings (Other Than 
Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts Thereof from France, et al.; Amended 
Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews (63 FR 18877) 
(Amended Final Results). At that time, our determination of SKF 
Germany's, SKF Italy's, and SKF Sweden's dumping margins were still 
subject to outstanding litigation.
    On May 7, 1998, the CAFC affirmed the CIT's decision in Federal-
Mogul Corp. v. United States, 951 F. Supp. 1026 (Federal-Mogul). The 
Torrington Company and Federal-Mogul Corporation v. United States, 1998 
U.S. App. LEXIS 12370 (May 7, 1998) (Torrington). The CIT's decision in 
Federal-Mogul affirmed the Department's remand results which were 
prepared pursuant to the CIT's earlier decision in Federal-Mogul Corp. 
v. United States, 918 F. Supp. 386 (1996), with respect to SKF Germany, 
SKF Italy, and SKF Sweden, among others, and dismissed the case. As a 
result of this and other litigation cited in our April 16, 1998, notice 
of Amended Final Results, we have made methodological changes and 
recalculated the dumping margins for SKF Germany, SKF Italy, and SKF 
Sweden. Specifically, the Department has, inter alia, (1) reconsidered 
its methodology for computing inventory carrying costs; (2) denied an 
adjustment to foreign market value (FMV) for home market (HM) pre-sale 
freight expenses where FMV was calculated using purchase price; (3) 
developed a methodology which removes post-sale price adjustments and 
rebates paid on sales of out-of-scope merchandise from its calculations 
of FMV or, if no viable method could be developed, denied such an 
adjustment in its calculation of FMV; and (4) corrected certain 
clerical errors.
    As there is now a final and conclusive court decision with respect 
to SKF Germany, SKF Italy, and SKF Sweden, we are amending our final 
results of review for these companies and we will subsequently instruct 
the U.S. Customs Service to liquidate the relevant entries subject to 
these reviews.

Amendment to Final Results

    Pursuant to section 516A(e) of the Act, we are now amending the 
final results of administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders 
on antifriction bearings (other than tapered roller bearings) and parts 
thereof from Germany, Italy, and Sweden, for the period May 1, 1991, 
through April 30, 1992, with respect to SKF Germany, SKF Italy, and SKF 
Sweden. The revised weighted-average percentage margins are as follows:

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                Company                     BBs        CRBs       SPBs  
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                                 Germany                                
                                                                        
SKF....................................      17.66       8.66       8.98
                                                                        
                                  Italy                                 
                                                                        
SKF....................................       4.98       0.00           
                                                                        
                                 Sweden                                 
                                                                        
SKF....................................       7.77       4.80           
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    Accordingly, the Department will determine and the U.S. Customs 
Service will assess appropriate antidumping duties on entries of the 
subject merchandise produced by SKF Germany, SKF Italy, and SKF Sweden. 
Individual differences between United States price and foreign market 
value may vary from the percentages listed above. The Department will 
issue appraisement instructions to the U.S. Customs Service after 
publication of these amended final results of reviews.
    This notice is published pursuant to section 751(a) of the Act.


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    Dated: July 2, 1998.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-18881 Filed 7-15-98; 8:45 am]
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