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inconsistent with our practice and the

holdings of the CIT.

FAG-Italy’s errors were obvious from

the record once brought to our attention.

It is in accordance with our

longstanding practice to exclude U.S.

sales to related customers in favor of

resales by such customers to unrelated

parties. Therefore, we have removed

FAG-Italy’s sales to related U.S.

customers from the margin calculations

for these final results.

Comment 19: Torrington asserts that

the Department should deny SKF-Italy’s

request to revoke the antidumping duty

order regarding CRBs. Torrington notes

that revocation is permissible only if the

requesting company is unlikely to sell

below FMV in the future. Torrington

contends the circumstances indicate

that this is doubtful, since SKF-Italy is

part of a larger multinational

organization which has preliminarily

received dumping margins for CRBs in

other countries. Furthermore,

Torrington contends that the minuscule

amount of CRBs sold in the U.S. market

by SKF-Italy during the POR is not

sufficient to show a pattern of continued

fair pricing and may even indicate a

fictitious market.

SKF responds that Torrington has

presented no legal basis on which to

deny revocation. SKF argues that since

neither the antidumping law nor the

Department’s regulations mandate a

different standard for revocation for

multinational corporations, Torrington’s

argument concerning SKF’s

multinational activity for purposes of

revocation is irrelevant.

SKF-Italy also contends that even if

SKF-Italy’s sales could be considered

minimal, there is nothing in the

Department’s regulations to indicate

that minimal sales in a given year would

preclude revocation. Moreover, SKFItaly argues that since the level of sales

at issue in this review is significantly

greater than the quantity of sales upon

which the Department made its initial

LTFV determination, and upon which

the order was based, it should be

considered an acceptable level on which

to base revocation.

Department’s Position: Under 19 CFR

353.25(a)(2)(i), the Department may

revoke an order in part if it finds sales

at not less than FMV for a period of at

least three consecutive years. The

results in this review, combined with

the results in the two prior reviews,

satisfies this requirement for SKF-Italy

in the antidumping duty proceeding for

CRBs. Additionally, the respondent has

agreed, pursuant to 19 CFR

353.25(a)(2)(iii), to the immediate

reinstatement of the order if

circumstances develop indicating that it

has resumed dumping the subject

merchandise. Furthermore, the record,

including our verification findings, in

the past three reviews does not indicate

that SKF-Italy’s U.S. market for CRBs is

fictitious. We also find that Torrington’s

argument fails to make the case that

SKF-Italy is likely to sell below FMV in

the future merely because SKF is a

multinational corporation. Torrington’s

argument merely points to a possibility

of evasion by SKF-Italy in the future,

and does not present any evidence that

SKF-Italy is likely to engage in such

behavior. If we find evidence of evasion,

we will take appropriate action. Finally,

since Torrington has made no other

arguments indicating that SKF-Italy is

likely to resume dumping, we are

satisfied that the respondent is not

likely to sell the merchandise in the

future at less than FMV, and we agree

with respondent that the requirements

for revocation have been met.

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Antifriction Bearings (Other Than

Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts

Thereof From Japan and Germany;

Amendment to Final Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Reviews

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of amendment to final

results of antidumping duty

administrative reviews.

SUMMARY: On February 3, 1995, the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) issued the final results of

its administrative reviews of the

antidumping duty orders on antifriction

bearings (other than tapered roller

bearings) and parts thereof (AFBs) from

France, Germany, Japan, Romania,

Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, and the

United Kingdom. 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). The

reviews covered 29 manufacturers/

exporters and the period May 1, 1992,

through April 30, 1993. Based on

corrections to the calculation of cost of

production (COP) and constructed value

(CV), we are amending the final results

with respect to Japanese ball bearings

and cylindrical roller bearings sold by

one company, Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd. and

Koyo Corporation of U.S.A. (collectively

Koyo). We are also amending our final

results to indicate that we disregarded

sales below cost with respect to sales of

AFBs from Germany by two companies.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 28, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Rimlinger or Michael Rill,

Office of Antidumping Compliance,

Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC 20230; telephone (202) 482–4733.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On February 3, 1995, the Department

issued the final results of its

administrative reviews of the

antidumping duty orders on AFBs from

France, Germany, Japan, Romania,

Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, and the

United Kingdom. The notice of these

final results is published in this issue of

the Federal Register. The classes or

kinds of merchandise covered by these

reviews were BBs, CRBs, and SPBs. The

reviews covered 29 manufacturers/

exporters and the period May 1, 1992,

through April 30, 1993.

Subsequent to the issuance of our

final results, Koyo alleged a clerical

error per its letter of February 7, 1995.

We determined there was a ministerial

error in the calculation of COP and CV

in the final results for AFBs from Japan

sold by Koyo. Specifically, in those

instances where Koyo reported finished

or semi-finished bearings purchased

from other suppliers, we included both

the total cost of manufacturing (COM)

and the acquisition cost of such bearings

in the calculation of COP and CV. This

effectively doubled the COM for these

purchased bearings since Koyo’s

acquisition cost is its COM for these

bearings. We have therefore corrected

our calculation of Koyo’s COP and CV.

Sales Below Cost in the Home Market—

Germany

With respect to AFBs from Germany,

the final results issued on February 3,

1995, and published in this issue of the

Federal Register inadvertently failed to

indicate that we disregarded certain

sales below cost in the home market.

Those omitted were sales of SPBs by

FAG and BBs by Fichtel & Sachs.

Concerning AFBs from Germany, the

Department disregarded sales below

cost for the following firms and classes

or kinds of merchandise:

Country Company Class or kind of

merchandise

Germany FAG ................. BBs, CRBs,

SPBs.

INA .................. BBs, CRBs.
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Country Company Class or kind of

merchandise

SKF ................. BBs, CRBs,

SPBs.

Fichtel & Sachs BBs.

Amended Final Results of Reviews

As a result of our corrections, we have

determined the following percentage

weighted-average margins to exist for

the period May 1, 1992 through April

30, 1993:

Company BBs CRBs

Koyo .................................. 14.28 3.54

Based on these results, we will 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 these

reviews.

These 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 reviews.

This notice also serves as a 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 the subsequent assessment

of double antidumping duties.

This notice is published in

accordance with section 751(f) of the

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19

U.S.C. 1675(f)) and 19 CFR 353.28(c).

Dated: February 17, 1995.

Susan G. Esserman,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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