21158 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 91 / Thursday, May 9, 1996 / Notices

1Cladding is the association of layers of metals

of different colors or natures by molecular

interpenetration of the surfaces in contact. This

limited diffusion is characteristic of clad products

and differentiates them from products metalized in

other manners (e.g., by normal electroplating). The

various cladding processes include pouring molten

cladding metal onto the basic metal followed by

rolling; simple hot-rolling of the cladding metal to

ensure efficient welding to the basic metal; any

other method of deposition or superimposing of the

cladding metal followed by any mechanical or

thermal process to ensure welding (e.g., electrocladding), in which the cladding metal (nickel,

chromium, etc.) is applied to the basic metal by

electroplating, molecular interpenetration of the

surfaces in contact then being obtained by heat

treatment at the appropriate temperature with

subsequent cold-rolling. See Harmonized

Commodity Description and Coding System

Explanatory Notes, Chapter 72, General Note (IV)

(C)(2)(e).

regulations, including Section 400.28,

and further subject to a 3-year time limit

for the book manufacturing activity that

begins on the date of activation, subject

to extension upon review.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of

April 1996.

Susan G. Esserman,

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import

Administration, Alternate Chairman, ForeignTrade Zones Board.

Attest:

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–11633 Filed 5–08–96; 8:45 am]

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International Trade Administration

[A–588–838]

Notice of Final Determination of Sales

at Less Than Fair Value: Clad Steel

Plate From Japan

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 9, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ellen Grebasch, Dorothy Tomaszewski,

or Erik Warga, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Room 3099, Washington, D.C. 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–3773, (202) 482–

0631, or (202) 482–0922, respectively.

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

(URAA).

FINAL DETERMINATION: As explained in

the memoranda from the Assistant

Secretary for Import Administration

dated November 22, 1995, and January

11, 1996, the Department of Commerce

(the Department) has exercised its

discretion to toll all deadlines for the

duration of the partial shutdowns of the

Federal Government from November 15

through November 21, 1995, and

December 16, 1995, through January 6,

1996. Thus, all deadlines in this

investigation have been extended by 28

days, i.e., one day for each day (or

partial day) the Department was closed.

As such, the deadline for this final

determination is no later than May 2,

1996.

We determine that clad steel plate

from Japan is being sold in the United

States at less than fair value (LTFV), as

provided in section 735 of the Tariff Act

of 1930, as amended (the Act). The

estimated margins are shown in the

‘‘Suspension of Liquidation’’ section of

this notice.

Case History

There has been no activity regarding

this case, since the February 22, 1996,

preliminary determination. See Notice

of Preliminary Determination of Sales at

Less Than Fair Value: Clad Steel Plate

from Japan February 22, 1996, (61 FR

7469, February 28, 1996).

Scope of the Investigation

The scope of this investigation is all

clad 1 steel plate of a width of 600

millimeters (‘‘mm’’) or more and a

composite thickness of 4.5 mm or more.

Clad steel plate is a rectangular finished

steel mill product consisting of a layer

of cladding material (usually stainless

steel or nickel) which is metallurgically

bonded to a base or backing of ferrous

metal (usually carbon or low alloy steel)

where the latter predominates by

weight.

Stainless clad steel plate is

manufactured to American Society for

Testing and Materials (‘‘ASTM’’)

specifications A263 (400 series stainless

types) and A264 (300 series stainless

types). Nickel and nickel-base alloy clad

steel plate is manufactured to ASTM

specification A265. These specifications

are illustrative but not necessarily allinclusive. Clad steel plate within the

scope of this investigation is classifiable

under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule

of the United States (‘‘HTSUS’’)

7210.90.10.00. Although the HTSUS

subheading is provided for convenience

and customs purposes, our written

description of the scope of this

investigation is dispositive.

Period of Investigation

The period of investigation (POI) is

September 1, 1994, through August 31,

1995.

Facts Available

For reasons discussed in the

preliminary determination, the

Department, pursuant to section 776 of

the Act, has used the facts available. For

a discussion of the reasons for

application of the facts available, and

the selection of the petition margin as

the facts available, see the preliminary

determination.

The Department has not received any

comments since the preliminary

determination on its application of facts

available. In accordance with section

776(c) of the Act, the Department

attempted to corroborate the petition

information by comparing the petition

information on export price to U.S.

Customs data and Japanese export

statistics. Both of these sources record

prices based on the HTSUS subheading

7210.90.10.00, and support the prices

contained in the petition. (See

memorandum dated February 16, 1996.)

Because Lukens Steel Company (the

petitioner) based the normal value

calculation on constructed value in the

petition, we were able to examine the

supporting documentation regarding the

valuation of variable costs for labor,

electricity, natural gas, and other factors

(principally backing steel and insert

metal costs) in Japan and because that

supporting information was from

independent, public sources, we found

that those costs have probative value.

Fair Value Comparisons

As noted above, as in our preliminary

determination, this final determination

has been made using the margin in the

petition as the facts avialable.

All-Others Rate

Under section 735(c)(5) of the Act, the

‘‘all-others rate’’ will normally be a

weighted average of the weightedaverage dumping margins established

for all exporters and producers, but will

exclude any zero or de minimis margins,

or any margins based entirely on the

facts available. However, this provision

also states that if there are no margins

other than those that are zero, de

minimis, or based entirely on the facts

available, the Department may use other

reasonable methods to calculate the allothers rate, including a weightedaverage of such margins. In this case,

the only margin on the record is the

facts available margin of 118.53 percent

that the Department assigned to JSW.

Therefore, the Department determines

the all-others rate to be 118.53 percent

as well.
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Continuation of Suspension of

Liquidation

In accordance with section 735(c) of

the Act, we are directing the Customs

Service to continue to suspend

liquidation of all entries of Clad Plate

Steel from Japan that are entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse for

consumption, on or after the date of

publication of this notice in the Federal

Register. The Customs Service shall

require a cash deposit or posting of a

bond equal to the estimated amount by

which the normal value exceeds the

export price as shown below. The

suspension of liquidation instructions

will remain in effect until further notice.

The dumping margins are as follows:

Exporter/Manufacturer

Margin

Percentage

The Japan Steel Company ........... 118.53

All Others ...................................... 118.53

The all others rate applies to all

entries of subject merchandise.

ITC Notification

In accordance with section 735(d) of

the Act, we have notified the ITC of our

determination. As our final

determination is affirmative, the ITC

will within 45 days determine whether

these imports are materially injuring, or

threaten material injury to, the U.S.

industry. If the ITC determines that such

injury does exist, the Department will

issue an antidumping duty order

directing Customs officials to assess

antidumping duties on all imports of the

subject merchandise entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption on or after the effective

date of the suspension of liquidation.

This determination is published

pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act

and 19 CFR 353.20(a)(4).

Paul L. Joffe

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

Dated: May 2, 1996.

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Certain Welded Carbon Steel Pipes

and Tubes From Thailand: Preliminary

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Preliminary Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review; Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and

Tubes From Thailand.

SUMMARY: In response to a request by

Allied Tube & Conduit Corporation,

Sawhill Tubular Division of Armco,

Inc., American Tube Company, Inc.,

Laclede Steel Company, Sharon Tube

Company, Wheatland Tube Company,

and Eagle Pipe Company, petitioners,

the Department of Commerce (the

Department) is conducting an

administrative review of the

antidumping duty order on certain

welded carbon steel pipe and tube from

Thailand. This review covers the

following manufacturers/exporters of

the subject merchandise to the United

States: Saha Thai Steel Pipe Company,

Ltd., SAF Steel Pipe Export Company,

and Pacific Pipe Company. The period

of review (POR) is March 1, 1994

through February 28, 1995.

We have preliminarily determined

that respondents sold subject

merchandise at less than normal value

(NV) during the POR. If these

preliminary results are adopted in our

final results, we will instruct U.S.

Customs to assess antidumping duties

equal to the differences between the

export price and NV.

Interested parties are invited to

comment on these preliminary results.

Parties who submit argument in this

proceeding should also submit with the

argument (1) a statement of the issue,

and (2) a brief summary of the

argument.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 9, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James Rice or Jean Kemp, Office of

Agreements Compliance, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–1374 or (202) 482–

4037, respectively.

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 Rounds

Agreements Act (URAA). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department’s regulations are to

the current regulations, as amended by

the interim regulations published in the

Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60

FR 25130).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On March 11, 1986, the Department

published in the Federal Register an

antidumping duty order on welded

carbon steel pipes and tubes from

Thailand (51 FR 8341). On March 7,

1995, the Department published a notice

of opportunity to request an

administrative review of this order

covering the period March 1, 1994

through February 28, 1995 (60 FR

12540).

In accordance with 19 CFR

353.22(a)(1) (1995), petitioners

requested that we conduct a review of

Saha Thai and Pacific Pipe Co. In

addition, Saha Thai Steel Pipe

Company, Ltd. and SAF Corporation

requested an administrative review of

its sales. We published a notice of

initiation of this antidumping duty

administrative review on April 14, 1995

(60 FR 19017). On November 7, 1995,

the Department published in the

Federal Register its notice extending the

deadline in this review (60 FR 56142).

Scope of the Review

The products covered by this

administrative review are certain

welded carbon steel pipes and tubes

from Thailand. The subject merchandise

has an outside diameter of 0.375 inches

or more, but not exceeding 16 inches.

These products, which are commonly

referred to in the industry as ‘‘standard

pipe’’ or ‘‘structural tubing,’’ are

hereinafter designated as ‘‘pipe and

tube.’’ The merchandise is classifiable

under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule

(HTS) item numbers 7306.30.1000,

7306.30.5025, 7306.30.5032,

7306.30.5040, 7306.30.5055,

7306.30.5085 and 7306.30.5090.

Although the HTSUS subheadings are

provided for convenience and Customs

purposes, our written description of the

scope of the order is dispositive.

Verification

As provided in section 782(i) of the

Tariff Act, we verified information

provided by Saha Thai and SAF,

respondents, by using standard

verification procedures, including

onsite inspection of the manufacturer’s

facilities, the examination of relevant

sales and financial records, and

selection of original documentation

containing relevant information. Our

verification results are outlined in the

public versions of the verification

reports.

Product Comparisons

In accordance with section 771(16) of

the Act, we considered all products

produced by the respondent, covered by

the description in the Scope of the

Review section, above, and sold in the

home market during the POR, to be

foreign like products for purposes of

determining appropriate product