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located at 240 Kindig Lane in Conewago

Township, just outside Hanover,

Pennsylvania. The facilities (210

employees) are used for storage,

inspection, repairing, packaging and

distribution of footwear received by

Clarks Companies, N.A., in North

America. Almost all of the products are

sourced from abroad and some 8 percent

are currently exported.

Zone procedures would exempt Clark

from Customs duty payments on foreign

products that are reexported. On

domestic sales, the company would be

able to defer payments until

merchandise is shipped from the plant.

The application indicates that the

savings from zone procedures will help

improve the plant’s international

competitiveness.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment is invited from

interested parties. Submissions (original

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the

Board’s Executive Secretary at the

address below. The closing period for

their receipt is April 30, 2001. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to May 14, 2001).

A copy of the application and

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export

Assistance Center, One Commerce

Square, 228 Walnut St., 850, P.O. Box

11698, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

17108–1698; and

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room

4008, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: February 15, 2001.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–4774 Filed 2–26–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 10–2001]

Foreign-Trade Zone 39—Dallas/Fort

Worth, TX; Application for Expansion

of Manufacturing Authority—Subzone

39C Sanden International (USA), Inc.,

Facilities Wylie, Texas (Motor Vehicle

Air-Conditioner Components)

A application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth

International Airport Board, grantee of

FTZ 39, requesting an expansion of the

scope of manufacturing authority to

include new manufacturing capacity

under FTZ procedures and requesting

authority to expand Subzone 39C at the

Sanden International (USA), Inc.

(Sanden), facility in Wylie, Texas. It was

formally filed on February 14, 2001.

Subzone 39C was approved by the

Board in 1993 with authority granted for

the manufacture of air-conditioner

compressors, evaporator coils, and

related components (1.3 million units/

year) for use in motor vehicles, trucks

and heavy equipment at Sanden’s

manufacturing plant (95 acres/437,000

sq. ft.) in Wylie, Texas (Board Order

666, 59 FR 60, 1–3–94).

The applicant is now requesting

authority to expand the subzone to

include a new 13-acre site (‘‘Miller

Road’’ facility) with an additional

178,000 square feet of manufacturing/

warehouse space located at 10710

Sanden Drive in Dallas, Texas. Under

Sanden’s current expansion plan, the

production and warehousing area under

FTZ procedures would be increased to

a total of 615,000 square feet. Activity

at the facilities (841 employees)

involves machining and assembly of

compressors, clutches, and evaporator

coils. Components sourced from abroad

include: clutch assemblies, crankshafts,

pistons, castings, gears, heat insulators,

rotor shafts/assemblies, centering balls,

rings, electrical switches, coil covers,

housings, fan/motor assemblies, gaskets,

armature plates, rubber seals and

dampers, bearings, plugs, pulleys,

valves and retainers, fasteners, springs,

sleeves, clamps, bushings, dust covers,

caps, coil rings and windings, felt rings,

and labels (duty rate range: free–9.9%),

representing some 40 percent of total

purchases.

FTZ procedures exempt Sanden from

Customs duty payments on the foreign

components used in export production

(some 450,000 units/year, about 19% of

total U.S. production). On its domestic

sales, the company is able to choose the

duty rate that applies to finished airconditioner compressors and related

components (duty free) for the foreign

components noted above. Foreign status

and domestic status merchandise

destined for export would be exempt

from certain local ad valorem inventory

taxes. The request indicates that the

savings from FTZ procedures will

continue to help improve the facilities’

international competitiveness.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment on the application is

invited from interested parties.

Submissions (original and three copies)

shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is April 30, 2001. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period to May 14, 2001.

A copy of the application will be

available for public inspection at the

following location:

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

4008, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th Street & Constitution Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: February 14, 2001.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–4773 Filed 2–26–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–580–809]

Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy

Steel Pipe From the Republic of Korea;

Initiation of Changed Circumstances

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Initiation of Changed

Circumstances Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review.

SUMMARY: In response to a letter from

Hyundai Pipe Co., Ltd. notifying the

Department of Commerce that its

corporate name would be changing to

Hyundai Steel Company, the

Department of Commerce is initiating a

changed circumstances administrative

review of the antidumping duty order

on certain circular welded non-alloy

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steel pipe from the Republic of Korea

(see Notice of Antidumping Orders:

Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy

Steel Pipe from Brazil, the Republic of

Korea (‘‘Korea’’), Mexico, and Venezuela

and Amendment to Final Determination

of Sales at Less Than Fair Value:

Certain Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe

from Korea (57 FR 49453, November 2,

1992)).

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 27, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Suresh Maniam or Sibel Oyman, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230;

telephone (202) 482–0176 and (202)

482–1174, respectively.

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. In addition, unless

otherwise indicated, all citations to the

Department of Commerce’s

(‘‘Department’’) regulations are to 19

CFR Part 351 (2000).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On January 5, 2001, a respondent in

this proceeding, Hyundai Pipe Co., Ltd.

(‘‘HDP’’) notified the Department that as

of February 1, 2001, its corporate name

would change to Hyundai Steel

Company (‘‘Hyundai Hysco’’). HDP

stated that the corporate structure

would not change and that all owners,

management, production facilities,

suppliers and customers will stay the

same. HDP provided documentation to

support this claim, consisting of an

official announcement and a press

article noting the name change. On

February 9, 2001, HDP submitted the

following supplementary information

documenting the name change: a public

announcement; minutes of the

shareholders’ meeting; a relevant

portion from its draft 2000 financial

statements; new business registration

certificates for the Seoul office, head

office/pipe production facility, and

cold-rolling mill; a list of identical preand post-name change organizational

charts and articles of association; a list

of identical pre- and post-name board of

directors; and a list of identical pre- and

post-name change suppliers and

customers. On February 15, 2001, HDP

further confirmed that its change in

name was not a result of a merger,

acquisition, or change in corporate

structure.

The information submitted by

Hyundai shows changed circumstances

sufficient to warrant a review.

Therefore, we are initiating a changed

circumstances administrative review

pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Act

to determine whether entries naming

Hyundai Hysco as manufacturer or

exporter should receive the cash deposit

rate currently applied to HDP.

Scope of the Review

The merchandise subject to this

review is circular welded non-alloy

steel pipe and tube, of circular crosssection, not more than 406.4mm (16

inches) in outside diameter, regardless

of wall thickness, surface finish (black,

galvanized, or painted), or end finish

(plain end, beveled end, threaded, or

threaded and coupled). These pipes and

tubes are generally known as standard

pipes and tubes and are intended for the

low-pressure conveyance of water,

steam, natural gas, air, and other liquids

and gases in plumbing and heating

systems, air-conditioning units,

automatic sprinkler systems, and other

related uses. Standard pipe may also be

used for light load-bearing applications,

such as for fence tubing, and as

structural pipe tubing used for framing

and as support members for

reconstruction or load-bearing purposes

in the construction, shipbuilding,

trucking, farm equipment, and other

related industries. Unfinished conduit

pipe is also included in this order.

All carbon-steel pipes and tubes

within the physical description outlined

above are included within the scope of

this review except line pipe, oil-country

tubular goods, boiler tubing, mechanical

tubing, pipe and tube hollows for

redraws, finished scaffolding, and

finished conduit. In accordance with the

Department’s Final Negative

Determination of Scope Inquiry on

Certain Circular Welded Non-Alloy

Steel Pipe and Tube from Brazil, the

Republic of Korea, Mexico, and

Venezuela (61 FR 11608, March 21,

1996), pipe certified to the API 5L linepipe specification and pipe certified to

both the API 5L line-pipe specifications

and the less-stringent ASTM A–53

standard-pipe specifications, which falls

within the physical parameters as

outlined above, and entered as line pipe

of a kind used for oil and gas pipelines

is outside of the scope of the

antidumping duty order.

Imports of these products are

currently classifiable under the

following Harmonized Tariff Schedule

of the United States (‘‘HTSUS’’)

subheadings: 7306.30.10.00,

7306.30.50.25, 7306.30.50.32,

7306.30.50.40, 7306.30.50.55,

7306.30.50.85, and 7306.30.50.90.

Although the HTSUS subheadings are

provided for convenience and Customs

Service purposes, our written

description of the scope of this

proceeding is dispositive.

Initiation of Changed Circumstances

Review

Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the

Act, the Department will conduct a

changed circumstances review upon

receipt of information concerning, or a

request from an interested party of, an

antidumping duty order which shows

changed circumstances sufficient to

warrant a review of the order.

HDP has notified the Department that

its corporate name has changed and that

no changes have occurred with respect

to ownership, management, production

facilities, suppliers or customers. We

therefore find good cause to conduct a

changed circumstances review. See 19

CFR 351.216(c). Therefore, in

accordance with section 751(b)(1) of the

Act and 19 CFR 351.216(b) and

351.221(b)(1), we are initiating a

changed circumstances review based

upon the information contained in

HDP’s submissions.

The Department will publish in the

Federal Register a notice of preliminary

results of changed circumstances

antidumping duty administrative

review, in accordance with 19 CFR

351.221(b)(4) and 351.221(c)(3)(i),

which will set forth the Department’s

preliminary factual and legal

conclusions. The Department will issue

its final results of review in accordance

with the time limits set forth in 19 CFR

351.216(e).

This notice is in accordance with

section 751(b)(1) of the Act.

Dated: February 20, 2001.

Richard W. Moreland,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration, Group 1.

[FR Doc. 01–4772 Filed 2–26–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–001]

Potassium Permanganate From the

People’s Republic of China:

Preliminary Results of Antidumping

Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.