[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 93 (Monday, May 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24324-24325]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-12065]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-201-802


Gray Portland Cement and Clinker from Mexico; Notice of 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.

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SUMMARY: On March 14, 2001, the Department of Commerce published the 
final results of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
gray portland cement and clinker from Mexico. The review covers one 
manufacturer/exporter, CEMEX, S.A. de C.V.(CEMEX), and its affiliate, 
Cementos de Chihuahua, S.A. de C.V. (CDC). The period of review is 
August 1, 1998, through July 31, 1999. Based on a correction of a 
ministerial error, we have changed the antidumping duty margin from 
39.34 to 38.65 percent.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 14, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dave Dirstine, AD/CVD Enforcement,

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Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4033.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

    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. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) 
regulations are to 19 CFR Part 351 (2000).

Background

    On March 14, 2001, the Department published the final results of 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on gray portland 
cement and clinker from Mexico (66 FR 14889) (Final Results). The 
review covered one manufacturer/exporter and the period August 1, 1998, 
through July 31, 1999.
    After publication of our final results, we received a timely 
allegation from the respondent, CEMEX, S.A. de C.V. (CEMEX), that we 
had made two ministerial errors in calculating the final results. CEMEX 
alleged that: 1) the Department used an incorrect conversion factor at 
one of four places where the computer program converted short tons to 
metric tons; and 2) the Department did not include the general and 
administrative (G&A) and interest fields for the calculation of 
constructed value. We also received a timely submission from the 
petitioner, The Southern Tier Cement Committee, in which it agreed with 
the first alleged ministerial error, but opposed the second alleged 
ministerial error. We agree with the petitioner and have corrected the 
first error which was the result of using an incorrect conversion 
factor. As to the second alleged ministerial error, we disagree with 
the respondent that we did not correctly calculate constructed value. 
The respondent proposes to introduce data which is not on the record in 
this review and add it to the programming language that we used to 
calculate the weighted-average margins for the final results. We 
conclude that the computer-programming language we used to calculate 
the weighted-average antidumping duty margin for the final results does 
not contain a ministerial error and correctly calculates constructed 
value. See the Amended Final Analysis Memorandum from the analyst to 
the file, dated April 27, 2001, for a description of the change we made 
to correct the conversion-factor error.

Amended Final Results of Review

    As a result of the correction of the ministerial error and amended 
margin calculations, the following weighted-average margin exists for 
the collapsed parties, CEMEX and CDC, for the period August 1, 1998, 
through July 31, 1999:

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                                                                Margin
                          Company                             (percent)
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CEMEX/CDC..................................................        38.65
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    The Department shall determine, and the Customs Service shall 
assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. We will also 
direct the Customs Service to collect cash deposits of estimated 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries in accordance with the 
procedures discussed in the final results of review (66 FR 14889) and 
as amended by this determination. The amended deposit requirements are 
effective for all shipments of the subject merchandise entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the date of 
publication of this notice and shall remain in effect until publication 
of the final results of the next administrative review.
    We are issuing and publishing this determination and notice in 
accordance with sections 751(h) and 777(i)(1) of the Act. Effective 
January 20, 2001, Bernard T. Carreau is fulfilling the duties of the 
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

    Dated: May 4, 2001.
Bernard T. Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
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