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assessment amounts because there is no
information on the record which
identifies entered values or the
importers of record. The Department
will issue appropriate assessment
instructions directly to CBP within 15
days of publication of the final results
of review. If these preliminary results
are adopted in the final results of
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resulting assessment amounts,
calculated as described above, on each
of the applicable entries during the
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from warehouse, for consumption on or
after the publication date of the final
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provided by section 751(a)(1) of the Act:
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in the final results of this administrative
review; (2) for any previously reviewed
or investigated PRC or non–PRC
exporter, not covered in this review,
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Notification to Interested Parties
This notice serves as a preliminary
reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR
351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of
antidumping duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during this
review period. Failure to comply with
this requirement could result in the
Secretary’s presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties
occurred and the subsequent assessment
of double antidumping duties.
We are issuing and publishing this
determination in accordance with
sections section 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1)
of the Act.
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Dated: December 16, 2005.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
[FR Doc. E5–7881 Filed 12–27–05; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–122–822, A–428–815]
Initiation of Antidumping Duty
Changed Circumstances Reviews:
Certain Corrosion–Resistant Carbon
Steel Flat Products from Canada and
Germany
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: In accordance with section
751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act), and section
351.216(b) of the U.S. Department of
Commerce’s (the Department’s)
regulations, Eutectic Corporation
(Eutectic), a U.S. importer, filed a
request for a changed circumstances
review of the antidumping duty (AD)
orders on certain corrosion–resistant
carbon steel flat products from Canada
and Germany. Petitioners and domestic
interested parties have affirmatively
expressed a lack of interest in the
continuation of the orders with respect
to this product.1 In response to this
request, the Department is initiating
changed circumstances reviews on
certain corrosion–resistant carbon steel
flat products from Canada and Germany
with respect to ‘‘wear plate’’ (marketed
as ‘‘CastoDur Diamond Plate’’) as
described below.
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 28, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Angelica Mendoza or Abdelali
Elouaradia, AD/CVD Operations, Office
7, Import Administration, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department
of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482–3019 and
(202) 482–1374, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
On November 7, 2005, Eutectic, a U.S.
importer, requested that the Department
exclude a product commonly known as
‘‘wear plate’’ and marketed under the
1 Petitioners include: United States Steel
Corporation (U.S. Steel) and Mittal Steel USA ISG
Inc. (formerly Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Ispat
Inland Steel, and LTV Steel Company, Inc.).
Domestic interested parties include: Nucor Plate
Group of Nucor Corporation and Ipsco Inc.
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name of ‘‘CastoDur Diamond Plate.’’ See
Eutectic’s letters to the Secretary, dated
November 7, 2005 (Eutectic Request
Letters). Specifically, Eutectic requested
that the Department exclude from the
AD orders on certain corrosion–resistant
carbon steel flat products from Canada
and Germany, imports meeting the
following description: certain flat–rolled
wear plate ranging from 30 inches to 50
inches in width, from 45 inches to 110
inches in length and from 0.187 inch to
0.875 inch in total thickness, having a
layer on one side composed principally
of a combination of boron carbides,
chromium carbides, nickel carbides,
silicon carbides, manganese carbides,
niobium carbides, iron carbides,
tungsten carbides, vanadium carbides,
titanium carbides and/or molybdenum
carbides fused to a non–alloy flat–rolled
steel substrate. The carbides are in the
form of MxCx where M stands for the
metal and x for the atomic ratio. An
example of a common carbide would be
(Cr7C3). The carbide layer will be a
visually distinct layer ranging in
thickness from 0.062 inch to 0.312 inch
with hardness at the surface of the
carbide layer in excess of 55 HRC. See
Eutectic Request Letters at 1.
Additionally, Eutectic included in its
request letters from petitioners and
domestic interested parties attesting to
their lack of interest in having this
merchandise, as described above,
continue to be subject to the AD orders
on corrosion–resistant carbon steel flat
products from Canada and Germany.
See Eutectic Request Letters at
Attachments 1–4. The Department
contacted these parties and confirmed
their expressed lack of interest for this
merchandise to be subject to the AD
orders. See Memorandum to the File,
from Angelica L. Mendoza, Senior Case
Analyst, Office 7, ‘‘Confirmation of
Interested Parties’ Lack of Interest for
‘‘Wear Plate’’ (marketed as ‘‘CastoDur
Diamond Plate’’) to Be Subject to the
Above–Captioned Antidumping Duty
Orders,’’ dated December 7, 2005.
Scope of the Orders
The products covered by each of these
orders are corrosion–resistant carbon
steel flat products (corrosion–resistant
steel) from Canada and Germany,
respectively. This scope includes flat–
rolled carbon steel products, of
rectangular shape, either clad, plated, or
coated with corrosion–resistant metals
such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-,
aluminum-, nickel- or iron–based alloys,
whether or not corrugated or painted,
varnished or coated with plastics or
other nonmetallic substances in
addition to the metallic coating, in coils
(whether or not in successively
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superimposed layers) and of a width of
0.5 inch or greater, or in straight lengths
which, if of a thickness less than 4.75
millimeters, are of a width of 0.5 inch
or greater and which measures at least
10 times the thickness or if of a
thickness of 4.75 millimeters or more
are of a width which exceeds 150
millimeters and measures at least twice
the thickness, as currently classifiable in
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS) under item
numbers: 7210.30.0030, 7210.30.0060,
7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030,
7210.49.0090, 7210.61.0000,
7210.69.0000, 7210.70.6030,
7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090,
7210.90.1000, 7210.90.6000,
7210.90.9000, 7212.20.0000,
7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090,
7212.30.3000, 7212.30.5000,
7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000,
7212.50.0000, 7212.60.0000,
7215.90.1000, 7215.90.3000,
7215.90.5000, 7217.20.1500,
7217.30.1530, 7217.30.1560,
7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030,
7217.90.5060, 7217.90.5090. Included in
these orders are flat–rolled products of
non–rectangular cross-section where
such cross-section is achieved
subsequent to the rolling process (i.e.,
products which have been ‘‘worked
after rolling’’) for example, products
which have been beveled or rounded at
the edges. Excluded from these orders
are flat–rolled steel products either
plated or coated with tin, lead,
chromium, chromium oxides, both tin
and lead (‘‘terne plate’’), or both
chromium and chromium oxides (‘‘tin–
free steel’’), whether or not painted,
varnished or coated with plastics or
other nonmetallic substances in
addition to the metallic coating. Also
excluded from these orders are clad
products in straight lengths of 0.1875
inch or more in composite thickness
and of a width which exceeds 150
millimeters and measures at least twice
the thickness. Also excluded from these
orders are certain clad stainless flat–
rolled products, which are three–
layered corrosion–resistant carbon steel
flat–rolled products less than 4.75
millimeters in composite thickness that
consist of a carbon steel flat–rolled
product clad on both sides with
stainless steel in a 20%-60%-20% ratio.
On September 22, 1999, the
Department issued the final results of a
changed circumstances review partially
revoking the order with respect to
certain corrosion–resistant steel from
Germany.2 This partial revocation
2 See
Final Results of Changed Circumstances
Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty
Reviews and Revocation of Orders in Part: Certain
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applies to certain corrosion–resistant
deep–drawing carbon steel strip, roll–
clad on both sides with aluminum
(AlSi) foils in accordance with St3 LG
as to EN 10139/10140. The
merchandise’s chemical composition
encompasses a core material of U St 23
(continuous casting) in which carbon is
less than 0.08; manganese is less than
0.30; phosphorous is less than 0.20;
sulfur is less than 0.015; aluminum is
less than 0.01; and the cladding material
is a minimum of 99% aluminum with
silicon/copper/iron of less than 1%. The
products are in strips with thicknesses
of 0.07mm to 4.0mm (inclusive) and
widths of 5mm to 800mm (inclusive).
The thickness ratio of aluminum on
either side of steel may range from 3%/
94%/3% to 10%/80%/10%.
The HTSUS item numbers are
provided for convenience and Customs
purposes. The written description
remains dispositive.
Initiation of Changed Circumstances
Reviews
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 for a
review of, an AD duty order which
shows changed circumstances sufficient
to warrant a review of the order. As
noted above, on November 7, 2005,
Eutectic requested a ruling from the
Department in accordance with 19 CFR
351.216(b) to exclude the ‘‘wear plate’’
product described above from these AD
orders. Therefore, pursuant to section
751(b)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.216(b), we are initiating changed
circumstances reviews. Although
petitioners and domestic interested
parties have expressed a lack of interest
in the orders with respect to the ‘‘wear
plate’’ product in question, they did not
claim that they represent substantially
all of the production of the domestic
like product, nor has the Department
made such a determination. Therefore,
the Department is not, at this time,
preliminarily revoking the AD orders
with respect to the product in question
pursuant to 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i).
Interested parties are invited to
comment on this initiation, or to
demonstrate that the petitioners and
domestic interested parties account for
substantially all of the production of the
domestic like product.
Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from
Germany, 64 FR 51292 (September 22, 1999). The
Department noted that the affirmative statement of
no interest by petitioners, combined with the lack
of comments from interested parties, is sufficient to
warrant partial revocation.
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Public Comment
Interested parties may submit
comments which the Department will
take into account in the preliminary
results of these reviews. The due date
for filing any such comments is no later
than 15 days after publication of this
notice. Responses to those comments
may be submitted not later than 7 days
following submission of the comments.
All written comments must be
submitted in accordance with 19 CFR
351.303.
The Department will publish in the
Federal Register a notice of preliminary
results of changed circumstances
reviews 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. Pursuant to 19 CFR
351.221(b)(4)(ii), interested parties will
have an opportunity to comment on the
preliminary results. 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 published in
accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act and section
351.221(b) of the Department’s
regulations.
Dated: December 21, 2005.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–485–803]
Notice of Extension of Final Results of
the 2003–2004 Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review of Certain Cut–
to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from
Romania
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 28, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick Edwards, AD/CVD Operations,
Office 7, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–8029.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
AGENCY:
Background
On September 8, 2005, the
Department of Commerce (‘‘the
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-122-822, A-428-815]
Initiation of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews:
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from Canada and
Germany
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: In accordance with section 751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930,
as amended (the Act), and section 351.216(b) of the U.S. Department of
Commerce's (the Department's) regulations, Eutectic Corporation
(Eutectic), a U.S. importer, filed a request for a changed
circumstances review of the antidumping duty (AD) orders on certain
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Canada and Germany.
Petitioners and domestic interested parties have affirmatively
expressed a lack of interest in the continuation of the orders with
respect to this product.\1\ In response to this request, the Department
is initiating changed circumstances reviews on certain corrosion-
resistant carbon steel flat products from Canada and Germany with
respect to ``wear plate'' (marketed as ``CastoDur Diamond Plate'') as
described below.
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\1\ Petitioners include: United States Steel Corporation (U.S.
Steel) and Mittal Steel USA ISG Inc. (formerly Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, Ispat Inland Steel, and LTV Steel Company, Inc.).
Domestic interested parties include: Nucor Plate Group of Nucor
Corporation and Ipsco Inc.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: December 28, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Angelica Mendoza or Abdelali
Elouaradia, AD/CVD Operations, Office 7, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:
(202) 482-3019 and (202) 482-1374, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On November 7, 2005, Eutectic, a U.S. importer, requested that the
Department exclude a product commonly known as ``wear plate'' and
marketed under the name of ``CastoDur Diamond Plate.'' See Eutectic's
letters to the Secretary, dated November 7, 2005 (Eutectic Request
Letters). Specifically, Eutectic requested that the Department exclude
from the AD orders on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat
products from Canada and Germany, imports meeting the following
description: certain flat-rolled wear plate ranging from 30 inches to
50 inches in width, from 45 inches to 110 inches in length and from
0.187 inch to 0.875 inch in total thickness, having a layer on one side
composed principally of a combination of boron carbides, chromium
carbides, nickel carbides, silicon carbides, manganese carbides,
niobium carbides, iron carbides, tungsten carbides, vanadium carbides,
titanium carbides and/or molybdenum carbides fused to a non-alloy flat-
rolled steel substrate. The carbides are in the form of MxCx where M
stands for the metal and x for the atomic ratio. An example of a common
carbide would be (Cr7C3). The carbide layer will be a visually distinct
layer ranging in thickness from 0.062 inch to 0.312 inch with hardness
at the surface of the carbide layer in excess of 55 HRC. See Eutectic
Request Letters at 1.
Additionally, Eutectic included in its request letters from
petitioners and domestic interested parties attesting to their lack of
interest in having this merchandise, as described above, continue to be
subject to the AD orders on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat
products from Canada and Germany. See Eutectic Request Letters at
Attachments 1-4. The Department contacted these parties and confirmed
their expressed lack of interest for this merchandise to be subject to
the AD orders. See Memorandum to the File, from Angelica L. Mendoza,
Senior Case Analyst, Office 7, ``Confirmation of Interested Parties'
Lack of Interest for ``Wear Plate'' (marketed as ``CastoDur Diamond
Plate'') to Be Subject to the Above-Captioned Antidumping Duty
Orders,'' dated December 7, 2005.
Scope of the Orders
The products covered by each of these orders are corrosion-
resistant carbon steel flat products (corrosion-resistant steel) from
Canada and Germany, respectively. This scope includes flat-rolled
carbon steel products, of rectangular shape, either clad, plated, or
coated with corrosion-resistant metals such as zinc, aluminum, or zinc-
, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-based alloys, whether or not corrugated or
painted, varnished or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic
substances in addition to the metallic coating, in coils (whether or
not in successively
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superimposed layers) and of a width of 0.5 inch or greater, or in
straight lengths which, if of a thickness less than 4.75 millimeters,
are of a width of 0.5 inch or greater and which measures at least 10
times the thickness or if of a thickness of 4.75 millimeters or more
are of a width which exceeds 150 millimeters and measures at least
twice the thickness, as currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under item numbers: 7210.30.0030,
7210.30.0060, 7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030, 7210.49.0090, 7210.61.0000,
7210.69.0000, 7210.70.6030, 7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 7210.90.1000,
7210.90.6000, 7210.90.9000, 7212.20.0000, 7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090,
7212.30.3000, 7212.30.5000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000,
7212.60.0000, 7215.90.1000, 7215.90.3000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.20.1500,
7217.30.1530, 7217.30.1560, 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060,
7217.90.5090. Included in these orders are flat-rolled products of non-
rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved
subsequent to the rolling process (i.e., products which have been
``worked after rolling'') for example, products which have been beveled
or rounded at the edges. Excluded from these orders are flat-rolled
steel products either plated or coated with tin, lead, chromium,
chromium oxides, both tin and lead (``terne plate''), or both chromium
and chromium oxides (``tin-free steel''), whether or not painted,
varnished or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances in
addition to the metallic coating. Also excluded from these orders are
clad products in straight lengths of 0.1875 inch or more in composite
thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 millimeters and measures at
least twice the thickness. Also excluded from these orders are certain
clad stainless flat-rolled products, which are three-layered corrosion-
resistant carbon steel flat-rolled products less than 4.75 millimeters
in composite thickness that consist of a carbon steel flat-rolled
product clad on both sides with stainless steel in a 20%-60%-20% ratio.
On September 22, 1999, the Department issued the final results of a
changed circumstances review partially revoking the order with respect
to certain corrosion-resistant steel from Germany.\2\ This partial
revocation applies to certain corrosion-resistant deep-drawing carbon
steel strip, roll-clad on both sides with aluminum (AlSi) foils in
accordance with St3 LG as to EN 10139/10140. The merchandise's chemical
composition encompasses a core material of U St 23 (continuous casting)
in which carbon is less than 0.08; manganese is less than 0.30;
phosphorous is less than 0.20; sulfur is less than 0.015; aluminum is
less than 0.01; and the cladding material is a minimum of 99% aluminum
with silicon/copper/iron of less than 1%. The products are in strips
with thicknesses of 0.07mm to 4.0mm (inclusive) and widths of 5mm to
800mm (inclusive). The thickness ratio of aluminum on either side of
steel may range from 3%/94%/3% to 10%/80%/10%.
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\2\ See Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty
and Countervailing Duty Reviews and Revocation of Orders in Part:
Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from Germany,
64 FR 51292 (September 22, 1999). The Department noted that the
affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners, combined with
the lack of comments from interested parties, is sufficient to
warrant partial revocation.
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The HTSUS item numbers are provided for convenience and Customs
purposes. The written description remains dispositive.
Initiation of Changed Circumstances Reviews
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 for a review of, an
AD duty order which shows changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a
review of the order. As noted above, on November 7, 2005, Eutectic
requested a ruling from the Department in accordance with 19 CFR
351.216(b) to exclude the ``wear plate'' product described above from
these AD orders. Therefore, pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Act
and 19 CFR 351.216(b), we are initiating changed circumstances reviews.
Although petitioners and domestic interested parties have expressed a
lack of interest in the orders with respect to the ``wear plate''
product in question, they did not claim that they represent
substantially all of the production of the domestic like product, nor
has the Department made such a determination. Therefore, the Department
is not, at this time, preliminarily revoking the AD orders with respect
to the product in question pursuant to 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i).
Interested parties are invited to comment on this initiation, or to
demonstrate that the petitioners and domestic interested parties
account for substantially all of the production of the domestic like
product.
Public Comment
Interested parties may submit comments which the Department will
take into account in the preliminary results of these reviews. The due
date for filing any such comments is no later than 15 days after
publication of this notice. Responses to those comments may be
submitted not later than 7 days following submission of the comments.
All written comments must be submitted in accordance with 19 CFR
351.303.
The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of
preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews 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. Pursuant to 19
CFR 351.221(b)(4)(ii), interested parties will have an opportunity to
comment on the preliminary results. 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 published in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act and section 351.221(b) of the Department's
regulations.
Dated: December 21, 2005.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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