[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 122 (Monday, June 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32426-32427]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15920]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-580-008]


Color Television Receivers From the Republic of Korea: Initiation 
of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and 
Consideration of Revocation of Order (in Part)

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

ACTION: Notice of initiation of changed circumstances antidumping duty 
administrative review and consideration of revocation of order (in 
Part).

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SUMMARY: In response to a request made on July 20, 1995, by Samsung 
Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung), the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) is initiating a changed circumstances antidumping duty 
administrative review to consider Samsung's request to revoke the 
antidumping duty order on color television receivers (CTVs) from Korea 
(49 FR 18336, April 30, 1984) as it relates to Samsung.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 24, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Genovese or Joseph Hanley, 
Office of Antidumping Compliance, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
4697/3058.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 20, 1995, Samsung requested that the Department conduct a 
changed circumstances review and revoke the order as to Samsung after 
completion of the review. Zenith Electronics Corporation, a domestic 
interested party, and petitioners filed objections to Samsung's request 
on August 4, 1995, and August 11, 1995, respectively.

The 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, 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).

Scope of Review

    Imports covered by the antidumping duty order include CTVs, 
complete and incomplete, from the Republic of Korea. This merchandise 
is currently classifiable under item numbers 8528.10.80, 8529.90.15, 
8529.90.20, and 8540.11.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). 
Since the order covers all CTVs regardless of HTS classification, the 
HTS subheadings are provided for convenience and for U.S. Customs 
Service purposes. Our written description of the scope of the order 
remains dispositive.

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Initiation of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review

    Pursuant to section 751(d) of the Act, the Department may partially 
revoke an antidumping duty order based on a review under section 751(b) 
of the Act (i.e., a changed circumstances review). Section 751(b)(1) of 
the Act requires the Department to conduct a changed circumstances 
administrative review upon receipt of a request containing information 
concerning changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a review.
    The Department's regulations at 19 C.F.R. 353.25(d) permit the 
Department to conduct a changed circumstances administrative review 
under 19 C.F.R. 353.22(f) provided that the Department concludes from 
the available information, including information in a request for a 
changed circumstances review, that changed circumstances sufficient to 
warrant a review exists.
    In its July 20, 1995 request for a changed circumstances review and 
partial revocation of the antidumping duty order, Samsung noted: 1) the 
decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Daewoo 
Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. v. United States, 6 F.3d 1511 (Fed. Cir. 
1993), cert. denied, 114 S. Ct. 2672 (1994), which Samsung claims made 
it possible for the first time for it to contemplate the possibility of 
de minimis margins for three or more consecutive review periods; 2) 
that as a direct result of that decision, Samsung has now established 
that it has not been dumping CTVs in the United States for six 
consecutive years; and 3) that it has not shipped CTVs to the U.S. 
since 1991.
    We have determined that the unique circumstances presented by 
Samsung in this proceeding constitute changed circumstances sufficient 
to warrant a review under section 751(b) of the Act and 19 CFR 
353.22(f) of the Department's regulations. Specifically, the statute, 
the Department's regulations and our international obligations 
anticipate that a methodology exist whereby parties that have 
demonstrated a history of not selling at less than normal value and 
have established that it is not likely that they will, in the future, 
sell at less than normal value may obtain a partial revocation of the 
order. Normally, the methodology established by section 353.25 (a) and 
(b) is adequate to accomplish that purpose; however, the combination of 
the timing of certain court decisions, the timing of certain results of 
administrative review in this proceeding, and the coincidence of these 
events with the company's decision to stop shipping from Korea may have 
prevented the regulation from operating as intended with respect to 
Samsung. Therefore, in accordance with section 751(b) of the Act and 19 
CFR 353.22(f) of the Department's regulations, we are initiating this 
changed circumstances administrative review in order to determine 
whether a partial revocation of the order would be appropriate as to 
Samsung.
    On January 19, 1996, we initiated an anti-circumvention inquiry to 
determine whether Samsung is circumventing the antidumping duty order 
by completing or assembling CTVs in Mexico and Thailand for exportation 
to the United States. We will be conducting this changed circumstances 
review concurrently with the anti-circumvention inquiry, and we will 
consider the relevance of our findings in the anti-circumvention 
inquiry to this changed circumstances review.
    This notice is in accordance with section 751(b)(1) of the Act and 
sections 353.22(f) and 353.25(d) of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: June 11, 1996.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-15920 Filed 6-21-96; 8:45 am]
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