In response to a request by the respondent, Illovo Sugar Ltd., the Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on furfuryl alcohol from the Republic of South Africa. We preliminarily find that sales have not been made below normal value. If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results of administrative review, we will instruct the U.S. Customs Service not to assess antidumping duties on the subject merchandise exported by this company. Interested parties are invited to comment on the preliminary results. March 6, 1998.
Furfuryl alcohol is a primary alcohol and is colorless or pale yellow in appearance.
It is used in the manufacture of resins and as a wetting agent and solvent for coating resins, nitrocellulose, cellulose acetate, and other soluble dyes. We were able to match all subject merchandise sold during the POR to identical merchandise sold in the home market. For example, this evidence indicates that ISL and Harborchem have an exclusive distributor agreement and routinely coordinate marketing and sales activity, including pricing, with respect to sales to U.S. customers. We calculated CEP based on f.o.b. and delivered prices to unaffiliated purchasers in the United States. The testing is performed at the time the product is unloaded from the maritime vessel in order to detect any impurities that may have entered the product while in transit.