37338 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 132 / Friday, July 10, 1998 / Notices

1 Gulf States was previously a division of Quanex

Corporation.

most recent period; (3) if the exporter is

not a firm covered in this review, a prior

review, or the original less-than-fair

value (LTFV) investigation, but the

manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate

will be the rate established for the most

recent period for the manufacturer of

the merchandise; and (4) for all other

producers and/or exporters of this

merchandise, the cash deposit rate will

be 21.50 percent, the ‘‘all others’’ rate

established in the remand

redetermination of the LTFV

investigation, as explained below. These

deposit requirements shall remain in

effect until publication of the final

results of the next administrative

review.

This notice 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 subsequent assessment of

double antidumping duties.

Notification of Interested Parties

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: July 2, 1998.

Joseph A. Spetrini,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 98–18446 Filed 7–9–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–351–826]

Small Diameter Circular Seamless

Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line

and Pressure Pipe From Brazil; Final

Results of Changed Circumstances

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review, and Revocation in Part of

Antidumping Duty Order

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of

changed circumstances antidumping

duty administrative review, and

revocation in part of antidumping duty

order.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 10, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Helen M. Kramer or Linda Ludwig, AD/

CVD Enforcement Group III, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

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

telephone (202) 482–0405 or (202) 482–

3833, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On April 27, 1998, the Gulf States

Tube Division of Vision Metals (‘‘Gulf

States’’) 1, a petitioner in this case,

requested that the Department of

Commerce (the Department) conduct a

changed circumstances antidumping

duty administrative review to determine

whether to revoke in part the

antidumping duty order on small

diameter circular seamless carbon and

alloy steel standard, line and pressure

pipe from Brazil with respect to certain

glass-lined seamless pressure pipe. Gulf

States and Koppel Steel Corporation, the

petitioners in this case, expressed no

further interest in the relief provided by

the antidumping duty order with

respect to certain glass-lined seamless

pressure pipe imported from Brazil.

Accordingly, on May 22, 1998, the

Department published a notice of

initiation and preliminary results of

changed circumstances antidumping

duty administrative review and intent to

revoke this order in part (63 FR 28357).

We gave interested parties an

opportunity to comment on the

preliminary results of this changed

circumstances review. No comments

were received.

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 to the

current regulations, found in 62 FR

27296 (May 19, 1997).

Scope of the Review

Imports covered by this review and

partial revocation are shipments of

seamless carbon and alloy (other than

stainless) steel pipes, of circular crosssection, not more than 114.3 mm (4.5

inches) in outside diameter, regardless

of wall thickness or manufacturing

process (hot-finished or cold-drawn)

that (1) has been cut into lengths of six

to 120 inches, (2) has had the inside

bore ground to a smooth surface, (3) has

had multiple layers of specially

formulated corrosion resistant glass

permanently baked on at temperatures

of 1,440 to 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit in

thicknesses from 0.032 to 0.085 inch (40

to 80 mils), and (4) has flanges or other

forged stub ends welded on both ends

of the pipe. The special corrosion

resistant glass referred to in this

definition may be glass containing by

weight (1) 70 to 80 percent of an oxide

of silicone, zirconium, titanium or

cerium (Oxide Group RO2), (2) 10 to 15

percent of an oxide of sodium,

potassium, or lithium (Oxide Group

RO), (3) from a trace amount to 5

percent of an oxide of either aluminum,

cobalt, iron, vanadium, or boron (Oxide

Group R2O3, or (4) from a trace amount

to 5 percent of a fluorine compound in

which fluorine replaces the oxygen in

any one of the previously listed oxide

groups. These glass-lined pressure pipes

are commonly manufactured for use in

glass-lined equipment systems for

processing corrosive or reactive

chemicals, including acrylates,

alkanolamines, herbicides, pesticides,

pharmaceuticals and solvents.

The glass-lined pressure pipes subject

to this review are currently classifiable

under subheadings 7304.39.0020,

7304.39.0024 and 7304.39.0028 of the

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the

United States (HTSUS). The HTSUS

subheadings are provided for

convenience and U.S. Customs’

purposes only. The written description

of the scope of this review remains

dispositive.
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Final Results of Review; Partial

Revocation of Antidumping Duty Order

The affirmative statement of no

interest by petitioners in glass-lined

seamless pressure pipe from Brazil

constitutes changed circumstances

sufficient to warrant partial revocation

of this order. Therefore, the Department

is partially revoking the order on small

diameter circular seamless carbon and

alloy steel standard, line and pressure

pipe from Brazil with respect to certain

glass-lined seamless pressure pipe as

described above, in accordance with

sections 751(b) and 782(h) of the Act

and 19 CFR 351.216(d)(1). This partial

revocation applies to all unliquidated

entries of the subject glass-lined

seamless pressure pipe not covered by

the final result of an administrative

review.

The Department will instruct the U.S.

Customs Service to proceed with

liquidation, without regard to

antidumping duties, of all unliquidated

entries of certain glass-lined seamless

pressure pipe as described above, in

accordance with section 778 of the Act.

This changed circumstances

administrative review, partial

revocation of the antidumping duty

order and notice are in accordance with

sections 751 (b) and 782(h) of the Act

and sections 351.216, 351.221(c)(3) and

351.222(g)(1)(i) of the Department’s

regulations.

Dated: July 2, 1998.

Joseph A. Spetrini,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 98–18339 Filed 7–9–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–601]

Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts

Thereof, Finished and Unfinished,

From the People’s Republic of China;

Preliminary Results of 1996–1997

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review and New Shipper Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of preliminary results of

1996–1997 antidumping duty

administrative review and new shipper

review of tapered roller bearings and

parts thereof, finished and unfinished,

from the People’s Republic of China.

SUMMARY: In an administrative review,

we preliminarily determine that sales of

tapered roller bearings and parts thereof,

finished and unfinished, from the

People’s Republic of China, were made

below normal value during the period

June 1, 1996, through May 30, 1997. In

a new shipper review, we preliminarily

determine that sales of tapered roller

bearings and parts thereof, finished and

unfinished, from the People’s Republic

of China, were not made below normal

value during the period June 1, 1996,

through May 30, 1997. Interested parties

are invited to comment on these

preliminary results.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 10, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zak

Smith or Cynthia Thirumalai, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20230;

telephone (202) 482–1279 and (202)

482-4087, 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 effective January 1, 1995,

the effective date of the amendments

made to the Act by the Uruguay Round

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

all references to the Department’s

regulations are to 19 CFR 353 (April

1997).

Background

On May 27, 1987, the Department of

Commerce (‘‘the Department’’)

published in the Federal Register (52

FR 19748) the antidumping duty order

on tapered roller bearings and parts

thereof, finished and unfinished

(‘‘TRBs’’), from the People’s Republic of

China (‘‘PRC’’). The Department notified

interested parties of the opportunity to

request an administrative review of this

order on June 11, 1997 (62 FR 31786).

The petitioner, The Timken Company,

and one of the respondents, Luoyang

Bearing Factory (‘‘Luoyang’’), requested

that the Department conduct an

administrative review. These requests

were received on June 30, 1997. Thus,

in accordance with 19 CFR 353.22(c),

we published a notice of initiation of

this antidumping duty administrative

review on August 1, 1997 (62 FR 41339).

In addition to the administrative

review, on May 30, 1997, Zhejiang

Changshan Bearing (Group) Co., Ltd.

(‘‘ZX’’) requested that we conduct a new

shipper review. We published a notice

of initiation of this new shipper

administrative review on August 14,

1997 (62 FR 43514). This new shipper

review covers the same period as the

normal administrative review: June 1,

1996, through May 30, 1997.

On September 23, 1997, we sent a

questionnaire to the Secretary General

of the Basic Machinery Division of the

Chamber of Commerce for Import &

Export of Machinery and Electronics

Products and requested that the

questionnaire be forwarded to all PRC

companies identified in our initiation

notice and to any subsidiary companies

of the named companies that produce

and/or export the subject merchandise.

In this letter we also requested

information relevant to the issue of

whether the companies named in the

initiation request are independent from

government control. See the Separate

Rates section, below. Courtesy copies of

the questionnaire were also sent to

companies with legal representation and

to companies listed in the initiation

notice for which we were able to obtain

addresses.

We received responses to the

questionnaire from the following ten

companies: Peer Bearing Company/Chin

Jun Industrial, Ltd. (‘‘Chin Jun’’),

Wafangdian Bearing Factory

(‘‘Wafangdian’’), China National

Machinery Import & Export Corporation

(‘‘CMC’’), Liaoning MEC Group

Company (‘‘Liaoning’’), Luoyang,

Zhejiang Machinery Import & Export

Corporation (‘‘Zhejiang’’), Wanxiang

Group Corporation (‘‘Wanxiang’’),

Premier Bearing & Equipment

(‘‘Premier’’), and Xiangfan Machinery

Foreign Trade Corporation (‘‘Xiangfan’’),

as respondents in the administrative

review, and ZX, as the respondent in the

new shipper review.

The Department is conducting this

administrative review and new shipper

review in accordance with section 751

of the Act.

Scope of Review

Merchandise covered by this review

includes TRBs and parts thereof,

finished and unfinished, from the PRC;

flange, take up cartridge, and hanger

units incorporating tapered roller

bearings; and tapered roller housings

(except pillow blocks) incorporating

tapered rollers, with or without

spindles, whether or not for automotive

use. This merchandise is classifiable

under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule

of the United States (‘‘HTSUS’’) item

numbers 8482.20.00, 8482.91.00.50,

8482.99.30, 8483.20.40, 8483.20.80,

8483.30.80, 8483.90.20, 8483.90.30,

8483.90.80, 8708.99.80.15, and

8708.99.80.80. Although the HTSUS

item numbers are provided for

convenience and customs purposes, the

written description of the scope of the

order and this review is dispositive.