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International Trade Administration
Preliminary Results of Antidumping
Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews
And Notice of Intent to Revoke Order
in Part: Certain Corrosion–Resistant
Carbon Steel Flat Products from
Germany
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On September 5, 2006, the
U.S. Department of Commerce (‘‘the
Department’’) published a notice of
initiation of antidumping duty changed
circumstances review on certain
corrosion–resistant carbon steel flat
products from Germany, as described
below. See Initiation of Antidumping
Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews:
Certain Corrosion–Resistant Carbon
Steel Flat Products from Germany, 71
FR 53653, (September 5, 2006)
(‘‘Initiation Notice’’). In our Initiation
Notice, the Department invited
interested parties to comment on the
request to exclude certain corrosion–
resistant carbon steel flat products from
Germany (‘‘product in question’’) as
described below from the scope of this
order. The Department received no
comments.
Absent any comments, the
Department preliminarily concludes
that producers accounting for
substantially all of the production of the
domestic like product to which this
order pertains lack interest in the relief
provided by this order with respect to
the product in question. Therefore, the
Department preliminarily concludes
that it is appropriate to revoke this
order, in part, with respect to
unliquidated entries of the product in
question not covered by the final results
of an administrative review, based on
the fact that domestic parties have made
an affirmative statement of no interest in
the continuation of the order with
respect to that product. This revocation
would not apply to unliquidated entries
that are covered by the final results of
an administrative review, even if those
entries are subject to litigation.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 13, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judy
Lao 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) 482–7924 and (202)
482–1374, respectively.
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Background
The Department published the
antidumping duty orders on corrosion–
resistant carbon steel from Germany on
August 19, 1993. See Notice of
Antidumping Duty Order: Corrosion–
Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products
from Germany, 58 FR 44170. See also
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), and Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Reviews and
Revocation of Orders in Part: Certain
Corrosion–Resistant Carbon Steel Flat
Products from Canada and Germany, 71
FR 14498 (March 22, 2006).
On August 17, 2006, ThyssenKrupp
Steel North America, Inc.
(‘‘ThyssenKrupp’’), a U.S. importer of
the subject merchandise, requested a
changed circumstances review with
respect to a specific corrosion–resistant
carbon steel flat products from
Germany. Specifically, ThyssenKrupp
requested to exclude from the
antidumping duty order on corrosion–
resistant carbon steel flat products from
Germany, imports meeting the following
description: electrolytically zinc coated
flat steel products, with a coating mass
between 35 and 72 grams per meter
squared on each side; with a thickness
range of 0.67 mm or more but not more
than 2.95 mm and width 817 mm or
more but not over 1830 mm; having the
following chemical composition
(percent by weight): carbon not over
0.08, silicon not over 0.25, manganese
not over 0.9, phosphorous not over
0.025, sulfur not over 0.012, chromium
not over 0.1, titanium not over 0.005
and niobium not over 0.05; with a
minimum yield strength of 310 Mpa and
a minimum tensile strength of 390 Mpa;
additionally coated on one or both sides
with an organic coating containing not
less than 30% and not more than 60%
zinc and free of hexavalent chrome. See
ThyssenKrupp letter to the Department
dated August 17, 2006.1 In addition,
Mittal Steel USA (‘‘Mittal Steel’’), a
domestic corrosion–resistant producer,
1 DaimlerChrylser Corporation
(‘‘DaimlerChrysler’’), a domestic customer of
corrosion-resistant, also submitted letters to the
Department pre-dating ThyssenKrupp’s request,
indicating that it had contacted United States Steel
Corporation, Mittal Steel, AK Steel, and Nucor
Corporation and determined they are not interested
in maintaining the antidumping duty order with
respect to the product in question. See Letters to the
Department from DaimlerChrysler dated June 22,
2006 and July 18, 2006.
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submitted a letter to the Department
expressing a lack of interest in
continuing to have the product in
question subject to the antidumping
duty order.2 Mittal Steel also stated that
it is a major domestic producer of the
subject merchandise. See Mittal Steel
letter to the Department dated August
18, 2006. In response to the request
made by the ‘‘interested party’’ within
the meaning of Section 771(9) of the
Act, ThyssenKrupp, and the lack of
interest from Mittal Steel, the
Department published a notice of
initiation of changed circumstances
reviews of the antidumping duty order
on corrosion–resistant carbon steel flat
products from Germany on September 5,
2006. See Initiation Notice. On
September 27, 2006, ThyssenKrupp
stated that it advocated that the effective
date for the exclusion be August 1,
2005. In the Initiation Notice, the
Department indicated that interested
parties could submit comments for
consideration in the Department’s
preliminary results no later than 15 days
after publication of the initiation of this
review. The Department received no
comments from interested parties.
Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order
are corrosion–resistant carbon steel flat
products from Germany. 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
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,
2 On September 26, 2006, Mittal Steel submitted
a letter to the Department clarifying minor
discrepancies in its August 18, 2006 submission
regarding the product specifications it is no longer
interested in continuing to be covered by the
antidumping duty order on corrosion-resistant
carbon steel flat products from Germany.
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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
this order 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 this order 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
this order 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 this order 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.
Also excluded from this order are 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 corrosion–
resistant 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%. Also
excluded from this order are corrosion–
resistant carbon steel flat products
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
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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 is 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.
The HTSUS item numbers are
provided for convenience and Customs
purposes. The written description
remains dispositive.
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Scope of Changed Circumstances
Review
The products subject to this changed
circumstances review are corrosion–
resistant carbon steel flat products, from
Germany meeting the following
description: electrolytically zinc coated
flat steel products, with a coating mass
between 35 and 72 grams per meter
squared on each side; with a thickness
range of 0.67 mm or more but not more
than 2.95 mm and width 817 mm or
more but not over 1830 mm; having the
following chemical composition
(percent by weight): carbon not over
0.08, silicon not over 0.25, manganese
not over 0.9, phosphorous not over
0.025, sulfur not over 0.012, chromium
not over 0.1, titanium not over 0.005
and niobium not over 0.05; with a
minimum yield strength of 310 Mpa and
a minimum tensile strength of 390 Mpa;
additionally coated on one or both sides
with an organic coating containing not
less than 30% and not more than 60%
zinc and free of hexavalent chrome. See
ThyssenKrupp letter to the Department
dated August 17, 2006.
Preliminary Results of Reviews and
Intent to Revoke in Part the
Antidumping Duty Order
Pursuant to section 751(d)(1) of the
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
the Department may revoke an
antidumping or countervailing duty
order, in whole or in part, 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 a
changed circumstances review to be
conducted upon receipt of a request
which shows changed circumstances
sufficient to warrant a review. Section
782(h)(2) of the Act gives the
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Department the authority to revoke if
producers accounting for substantially
all of the production of the domestic
like product have expressed a lack of
interest in the continuation of relief.
As stated in the Initiation Notice,
ThyssenKrupp, an importer of the
subject merchandise, and Mittal Steel, a
major domestic producer of corrosion–
resistant carbon steel flat products,
attested to their lack of interest in
continued relief from imports of the
product in question. Since the
Department received no comments
during the comment period opposing
the partial revocation of the order as to
the product in question from this
antidumping duty order, the
Department preliminarily concludes
that producers accounting for
substantially all of the production of the
domestic like product to which these
orders pertain lack interest in the relief
provided by this order with respect to
the product in question. If these results
become final, the Department will
revoke the order, in part, for all
unliquidated entries of the product in
question not covered by the final results
of an administrative review. The most
recent period for which the Department
has completed an administrative review,
or ordered automatic liquidation, is
August 1, 2004, through July 31, 2005.
Any prior entries are subject either to
final results of review or automatic
liquidation. Therefore, we will instruct
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP) to liquidate, without regard to
antidumping duties, shipments of
certain wear plate products entered, or
withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after August 1, 2005.
The Department will also instruct CBP
to end suspension of liquidation for the
product in question, and to release any
cash deposits or bonds pursuant to 19
CFR 351.222(g)(4). Moreover, the
Department will instruct CBP to pay
interest on such refunds in accordance
with section 778 of the Act.
Interested parties wishing to comment
on these preliminary results may submit
briefs to the Department no later than 15
days after the publication of this notice
in the Federal Register. Parties will
have 7 days subsequent to this due date
to submit rebuttal comments, limited to
the issues raised in those briefs. Parties
who submit briefs or rebuttal comments
in this proceeding are requested to
submit with each argument (1) a
statement of the issue and (2) a brief
summary of the argument (no longer
than five pages, including footnotes).
Any requests for hearing must be filed
within 30 days of the publication of this
notice in the Federal Register.
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All written comments must be
submitted in accordance with 19 CFR
351.303, with the exception that only
three (3) copies for each case need be
served on the Department. Any
comments must also be served on all
interested parties on the Department’s
service list, which is available on our
website (https://ia.ita.doc.gov/apo/
index.html). The Department will issue
its final results in this changed
circumstances review as soon as
practicable following the above
comment period, but not later than 270
days after the date on which the
changed circumstances review was
initiated, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.216(e), and will publish the results
in the Federal Register. While the
changed circumstances review is
underway, the current requirement for a
cash deposit of estimated antidumping
duties on all subject merchandise,
including the merchandise that is the
subject of this changed circumstances
review, will continue unless and until
this order is revoked, in part, pursuant
to the final results of this changed
circumstances review or an
administrative review.
This notice is published in
accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216
and 351.222.
Dated: October 4, 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
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vanadium from Russia would be likely
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dumping and of material injury to an
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
(A-428-815)
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances
Reviews And Notice of Intent to Revoke Order in Part: Certain
Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from Germany
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On September 5, 2006, the U.S. Department of Commerce (``the
Department'') published a notice of initiation of antidumping duty
changed circumstances review on certain corrosion-resistant carbon
steel flat products from Germany, as described below. See Initiation of
Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Reviews: Certain Corrosion-
Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from Germany, 71 FR 53653,
(September 5, 2006) (``Initiation Notice''). In our Initiation Notice,
the Department invited interested parties to comment on the request to
exclude certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from
Germany (``product in question'') as described below from the scope of
this order. The Department received no comments.
Absent any comments, the Department preliminarily concludes that
producers accounting for substantially all of the production of the
domestic like product to which this order pertains lack interest in the
relief provided by this order with respect to the product in question.
Therefore, the Department preliminarily concludes that it is
appropriate to revoke this order, in part, with respect to unliquidated
entries of the product in question not covered by the final results of
an administrative review, based on the fact that domestic parties have
made an affirmative statement of no interest in the continuation of the
order with respect to that product. This revocation would not apply to
unliquidated entries that are covered by the final results of an
administrative review, even if those entries are subject to litigation.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 13, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judy Lao or Abdelali Elouaradia, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 7, Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14\th\ Street and
Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-7924
and (202) 482-1374, respectively.
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Background
The Department published the antidumping duty orders on corrosion-
resistant carbon steel from Germany on August 19, 1993. See Notice of
Antidumping Duty Order: Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products
from Germany, 58 FR 44170. See also 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), and Final
Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Reviews and Revocation of Orders in Part: Certain Corrosion-Resistant
Carbon Steel Flat Products from Canada and Germany, 71 FR 14498 (March
22, 2006).
On August 17, 2006, ThyssenKrupp Steel North America, Inc.
(``ThyssenKrupp''), a U.S. importer of the subject merchandise,
requested a changed circumstances review with respect to a specific
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany.
Specifically, ThyssenKrupp requested to exclude from the antidumping
duty order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from
Germany, imports meeting the following description: electrolytically
zinc coated flat steel products, with a coating mass between 35 and 72
grams per meter squared on each side; with a thickness range of 0.67 mm
or more but not more than 2.95 mm and width 817 mm or more but not over
1830 mm; having the following chemical composition (percent by weight):
carbon not over 0.08, silicon not over 0.25, manganese not over 0.9,
phosphorous not over 0.025, sulfur not over 0.012, chromium not over
0.1, titanium not over 0.005 and niobium not over 0.05; with a minimum
yield strength of 310 Mpa and a minimum tensile strength of 390 Mpa;
additionally coated on one or both sides with an organic coating
containing not less than 30[percnt] and not more than 60[percnt] zinc
and free of hexavalent chrome. See ThyssenKrupp letter to the
Department dated August 17, 2006.\1\ In addition, Mittal Steel USA
(``Mittal Steel''), a domestic corrosion-resistant producer, submitted
a letter to the Department expressing a lack of interest in continuing
to have the product in question subject to the antidumping duty
order.\2\ Mittal Steel also stated that it is a major domestic producer
of the subject merchandise. See Mittal Steel letter to the Department
dated August 18, 2006. In response to the request made by the
``interested party'' within the meaning of Section 771(9) of the Act,
ThyssenKrupp, and the lack of interest from Mittal Steel, the
Department published a notice of initiation of changed circumstances
reviews of the antidumping duty order on corrosion-resistant carbon
steel flat products from Germany on September 5, 2006. See Initiation
Notice. On September 27, 2006, ThyssenKrupp stated that it advocated
that the effective date for the exclusion be August 1, 2005. In the
Initiation Notice, the Department indicated that interested parties
could submit comments for consideration in the Department's preliminary
results no later than 15 days after publication of the initiation of
this review. The Department received no comments from interested
parties.
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\1\ DaimlerChrylser Corporation (``DaimlerChrysler''), a
domestic customer of corrosion-resistant, also submitted letters to
the Department pre-dating ThyssenKrupp's request, indicating that it
had contacted United States Steel Corporation, Mittal Steel, AK
Steel, and Nucor Corporation and determined they are not interested
in maintaining the antidumping duty order with respect to the
product in question. See Letters to the Department from
DaimlerChrysler dated June 22, 2006 and July 18, 2006.
\2\ On September 26, 2006, Mittal Steel submitted a letter to
the Department clarifying minor discrepancies in its August 18, 2006
submission regarding the product specifications it is no longer
interested in continuing to be covered by the antidumping duty order
on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany.
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Scope of the Order
The products covered by this order are corrosion-resistant carbon
steel flat products from Germany. 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 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 this order 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 this order 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 this
order 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 this order
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[percnt]-60[percnt]-20[percnt] ratio. Also excluded from this order
are 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 corrosion-
resistant 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[percnt] aluminum with silicon/
copper/iron of less than 1[percnt]. 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[percnt]/94[percnt]/3[percnt] to 10[percnt]/80[percnt]/
10[percnt]. Also excluded from this order are corrosion-resistant
carbon steel flat products 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
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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 is 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.
The HTSUS item numbers are provided for convenience and Customs
purposes. The written description remains dispositive.
Scope of Changed Circumstances Review
The products subject to this changed circumstances review are
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products, from Germany meeting
the following description: electrolytically zinc coated flat steel
products, with a coating mass between 35 and 72 grams per meter squared
on each side; with a thickness range of 0.67 mm or more but not more
than 2.95 mm and width 817 mm or more but not over 1830 mm; having the
following chemical composition (percent by weight): carbon not over
0.08, silicon not over 0.25, manganese not over 0.9, phosphorous not
over 0.025, sulfur not over 0.012, chromium not over 0.1, titanium not
over 0.005 and niobium not over 0.05; with a minimum yield strength of
310 Mpa and a minimum tensile strength of 390 Mpa; additionally coated
on one or both sides with an organic coating containing not less than
30[percnt] and not more than 60[percnt] zinc and free of hexavalent
chrome. See ThyssenKrupp letter to the Department dated August 17,
2006.
Preliminary Results of Reviews and Intent to Revoke in Part the
Antidumping Duty Order
Pursuant to section 751(d)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
(the Act), the Department may revoke an antidumping or countervailing
duty order, in whole or in part, 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 a changed circumstances review to be conducted upon
receipt of a request which shows changed circumstances sufficient to
warrant a review. Section 782(h)(2) of the Act gives the Department the
authority to revoke if producers accounting for substantially all of
the production of the domestic like product have expressed a lack of
interest in the continuation of relief.
As stated in the Initiation Notice, ThyssenKrupp, an importer of
the subject merchandise, and Mittal Steel, a major domestic producer of
corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products, attested to their lack
of interest in continued relief from imports of the product in
question. Since the Department received no comments during the comment
period opposing the partial revocation of the order as to the product
in question from this antidumping duty order, the Department
preliminarily concludes that producers accounting for substantially all
of the production of the domestic like product to which these orders
pertain lack interest in the relief provided by this order with respect
to the product in question. If these results become final, the
Department will revoke the order, in part, for all unliquidated entries
of the product in question not covered by the final results of an
administrative review. The most recent period for which the Department
has completed an administrative review, or ordered automatic
liquidation, is August 1, 2004, through July 31, 2005. Any prior
entries are subject either to final results of review or automatic
liquidation. Therefore, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) to liquidate, without regard to antidumping duties,
shipments of certain wear plate products entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after August 1, 2005. The Department
will also instruct CBP to end suspension of liquidation for the product
in question, and to release any cash deposits or bonds pursuant to 19
CFR 351.222(g)(4). Moreover, the Department will instruct CBP to pay
interest on such refunds in accordance with section 778 of the Act.
Interested parties wishing to comment on these preliminary results
may submit briefs to the Department no later than 15 days after the
publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Parties will have 7
days subsequent to this due date to submit rebuttal comments, limited
to the issues raised in those briefs. Parties who submit briefs or
rebuttal comments in this proceeding are requested to submit with each
argument (1) a statement of the issue and (2) a brief summary of the
argument (no longer than five pages, including footnotes). Any requests
for hearing must be filed within 30 days of the publication of this
notice in the Federal Register.
All written comments must be submitted in accordance with 19 CFR
351.303, with the exception that only three (3) copies for each case
need be served on the Department. Any comments must also be served on
all interested parties on the Department's service list, which is
available on our website (https://ia.ita.doc.gov/apo/). The
Department will issue its final results in this changed circumstances
review as soon as practicable following the above comment period, but
not later than 270 days after the date on which the changed
circumstances review was initiated, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.216(e), and will publish the results in the Federal Register. While
the changed circumstances review is underway, the current requirement
for a cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties on all subject
merchandise, including the merchandise that is the subject of this
changed circumstances review, will continue unless and until this order
is revoked, in part, pursuant to the final results of this changed
circumstances review or an administrative review.
This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216 and 351.222.
Dated: October 4, 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-16945 Filed 10-12-06; 8:45 am]
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