[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 34421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17008]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-588-838]


Notice of Antidumping Order: Clad Steel Plate From Japan

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 2, 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., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 
482-3773, (202) 482-0631 or (202) 482-0922, respectively.

Scope of Order

    The scope of this order is all clad <SUP>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.
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    \1\  Cladding 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 of 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).
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    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 all-inclusive.
    Clad steel plate within the scope of this order 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 order is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

    In accordance with sections 735(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act''), the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
made its final determination that clad steel plate from Japan is being 
sold at less than fair value (61 FR 21158-21159, May 9, 1996). On June 
26, 1996, the International Trade Commission notified the Department of 
its final determination, pursuant to section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the 
Act, that an industry in the United States is materially injured by 
reason of imports of the subject merchandise from Japan.
    Therefore, all unliquidated entries of clad steel plate from Japan, 
that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
after February 28, 1996, the date of the publication of the 
Department's preliminary determination in the Federal Register, are 
liable for the assessment of antidumping duties.
    In accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the Department 
will direct Customs officers to assess, upon further advice by the 
administering authority, antidumping duties equal to the amount by 
which the normal value exceeds the export price for all relevant 
entries of clad steel plate from Japan. Customs officers must require, 
at the same time as importers would normally deposit estimated duties 
on this merchandise, a cash deposit equal to the estimated weighted-
average antidumping duty margins as noted below. The ``All Others'' 
rate applies to all exporters of Japanese clad steel plate not 
specifically listed below.
    The ad valorem weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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                                                      Weighted-average  
          Manufacturer/Producer/Exporter              margin percentage 
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The Japan Steel Company...........................                118.53
All Others........................................                118.53
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    This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to 
clad steel plate from Japan. Interested parties may contact the Central 
Records Unit, Room B-099 of the Main Commerce Building, for copies of 
an updated list of antidumping duty orders currently in effect.
    This determination is published pursuant to section 705 (d) of the 
Act.

    Dated: June 27, 1996.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-17008 Filed 7-1 -96; 8:45 am]
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