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chiffoniers 7, hutches 8, and armoires 9;
(6) desks, computer stands, filing
cabinets, book cases, or writing tables
that are attached to or incorporated in
the subject merchandise; and (7) other
bedroom furniture consistent with the
above list.
The scope of the order excludes the
following items: (1) Seats, chairs,
benches, couches, sofas, sofa beds,
stools, and other seating furniture; (2)
mattresses, mattress supports (including
box springs), infant cribs, water beds,
and futon frames; (3) office furniture,
such as desks, stand-up desks, computer
cabinets, filing cabinets, credenzas, and
bookcases; (4) dining room or kitchen
furniture such as dining tables, chairs,
servers, sideboards, buffets, corner
cabinets, china cabinets, and china
hutches; (5) other non-bedroom
furniture, such as television cabinets,
cocktail tables, end tables, occasional
tables, wall systems, book cases, and
entertainment systems; (6) bedroom
furniture made primarily of wicker,
cane, osier, bamboo or rattan; (7) side
rails for beds made of metal if sold
separately from the headboard and
footboard; (8) bedroom furniture in
which bentwood parts predominate; 10
(9) jewelry armories; 11 (10) cheval
7 A chiffonier is typically a tall and narrow chest
of drawers normally used for storing undergarments
and lingerie, often with mirror(s) attached.
8 A hutch is typically an open case of furniture
with shelves that typically sits on another piece of
furniture and provides storage for clothes.
9 An armoire is typically a tall cabinet or
wardrobe (typically 50 inches or taller), with doors,
and with one or more drawers (either exterior below
or above the doors or interior behind the doors),
shelves, and/or garment rods or other apparatus for
storing clothes. Bedroom armoires may also be used
to hold television receivers and/or other audiovisual entertainment systems.
10 As used herein, bentwood means solid wood
made pliable. Bentwood is wood that is brought to
a curved shape by bending it while made pliable
with moist heat or other agency and then set by
cooling or drying. See Customs’ Headquarters’
Ruling Letter 043859, dated May 17, 1976.
11 Any armoire, cabinet or other accent item for
the purpose of storing jewelry, not to exceed 24″ in
width, 18″ in depth, and 49″ in height, including
a minimum of 5 lined drawers lined with felt or
felt-like material, at least one side door (whether or
not the door is lined with felt or felt-like material),
with necklace hangers, and a flip-top lid with inset
mirror. See Memorandum from Laurel LaCivita to
Laurie Parkhill, Office Director, Issues and Decision
Memorandum Concerning Jewelry Armoires and
Cheval Mirrors in the Antidumping Duty
Investigation of Wooden Bedroom Furniture from
the People’s Republic of China dated August 31,
2004. See also Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the
People’s Republic of China: Notice of Final Results
of Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation
in Part, (71 FR 38621) (July 7, 2006).
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mirrors 12 (11) certain metal parts 13 (12)
mirrors that do not attach to,
incorporate in, sit on, or hang over a
dresser if they are not designed and
marketed to be sold in conjunction with
a dresser as part of a dresser-mirror set.
Imports of subject merchandise are
classified under subheading
9403.50.9040 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States
(‘‘HTSUS’’) as ‘‘wooden * * * beds’’
and under subheading 9403.50.9080 of
the HTSUS as ‘‘other * * * wooden
furniture of a kind used in the
bedroom.’’ In addition, wooden
headboards for beds, wooden footboards
for beds, wooden side rails for beds, and
wooden canopies for beds may also be
entered under subheading 9403.50.9040
of the HTSUS as ‘‘parts of wood’’ and
framed glass mirrors may also be
entered under subheading 7009.92.5000
of the HTSUS as ‘‘glass mirrors * * *
framed.’’ This order covers all wooden
bedroom furniture meeting the above
description, regardless of tariff
classification. Although the HTSUS
subheadings are provided for
convenience and customs purposes, our
written description of the scope of this
proceeding is dispositive.
Final Results of Review; Partial
Revocation of Antidumping Duty Order
The affirmative statement of no
interest by petitioners concerning
cheval style mirrored jewelry cabinets,
as described herein, constitutes changed
circumstances sufficient to warrant
revocation of this order in part. No party
commented on the Initiation and
Preliminary Results. Additionally, no
party contests that petitioners’ statement
of no interest represents the views of
12 Cheval mirrors, i.e., any framed, tiltable mirror
with a height in excess of 50″ that is mounted on
a floor-standing, hinged base. Additionally, the
scope of the order excludes combination cheval
mirror/jewelry cabinets. The excluded merchandise
is an integrated piece consisting of a cheval mirror,
i.e., a framed tiltable mirror with a height in excess
of 50 inches, mounted on a floor-standing, hinged
base, the cheval mirror serving as a door to a
cabinet back that is integral to the structure of the
mirror and which constitutes a jewelry cabinet
lined with fabric, having necklace and bracelet
hooks, mountings for rings and shelves, with or
without a working lock and key to secure the
contents of the jewelry cabinet back to the cheval
mirror, and no drawers anywhere on the integrated
piece. The fully assembled piece must be at least
50 inches in height, 14.5 inches in width, and 3
inches in depth.
13 Metal furniture parts and unfinished furniture
parts made of wood products (as defined above)
that are not otherwise specifically named in this
scope (i.e., wooden headboards for beds, wooden
footboards for beds, wooden side rails for beds, and
wooden canopies for beds) and that do not possess
the essential character of wooden bedroom
furniture in an unassembled, incomplete, or
unfinished form. Such parts are usually classified
under HTSUS subheading 9403.90.7000.
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substantially all of the domestic
industry. Therefore, the Department is
partially revoking the order on wooden
bedroom furniture with respect to
cheval style mirrored jewelry cabinets
from the PRC with regard to products
which meet the specifications detailed
above, in accordance with sections
751(b), (d) and 782(h) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.216(d) and 351.222(g). We will
instruct the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to liquidate without regard to
antidumping duties, as applicable, and
to refund any estimated antidumping
duties collected for all unliquidated
entries of cheval style mirrored jewelry
cabinets, meeting the specifications
indicated above, and not subject to final
results of an administrative review as of
the date of publication in the Federal
Register of the final results of this
changed circumstances review in
accordance with 19 CFR 351.222.
This notice serves as a reminder to
parties subject to administrative
protective orders (‘‘APOs’’) of their
responsibility concerning the
disposition of proprietary information
disclosed under APO in accordance
with 19 CFR 351.306. Timely written
notification of the return/destruction of
APO materials or conversion to judicial
protective order is hereby requested.
Failure to comply with the regulations
and terms of an APO is a sanctionable
violation.
This changed circumstances
administrative review, partial
revocation of the antidumping duty
order and notice are in accordance with
sections 751(b), (d) and 782(h) of the
Act and 19 CFR 351.216(e) and
351.222(g).
Dated: December 27, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Expected Non-Market Economy
Wages: Request for Comments on
2006 Calculation
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Commerce.
ACTION: Request for comment.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(‘‘Department’’) has a longstanding
practice of calculating expected nonmarket economy (‘‘NME’’) wages for use
as the surrogate value for direct labor in
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antidumping proceedings involving
NME countries. These expected NME
wages are calculated annually in
accordance with § 351.408(c)(3) of the
Department’s regulations. This notice
presents the Department’s preliminary
2006 expected NME wages, which were
calculated according to the
Department’s revised methodology
described in the Federal Register notice
Antidumping Methodologies: Market
Economy Inputs, Expected Non-Market
Economy Wages, Duty Drawback; and
Request for Comments, 71 FR 61716,
Oct. 19, 2006 (hereafter, the
‘‘Antidumping Methodologies notice’’),
and provides the public with an
opportunity to comment on potential
clerical errors in the calculation.
DATES: Comments must be submitted no
later than 10 days after publication of
this notice.
ADDRESSES: Written comments (original
and six copies) should be sent to David
Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Central Records Unit, Room
1870, 14th Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shauna Lee-Alaia, Policy Analyst,
Office of Policy, Import Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230, (202) 482–2793.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Department’s regulations
generally describe the methodology by
which the Department calculates
expected NME wages:
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For labor, the Secretary will use regressionbased wage rates reflective of the observed
relationship between wages and national
income in market economy countries. The
Secretary will calculate the wage rate to be
applied in non-market economy proceedings
each year. The calculation will be based on
current data, and will be made available to
the public.19 CFR 351.408 (c)(3).
Briefly, the Department’s expected
NME wages are calculated each year in
two steps. First, the relationship
between hourly wage rates (obtained
from the International Labour
Organization’s (‘‘ILO’’) Yearbook of
Labour Statistics) and per-capita gross
national income (‘‘GNI’’) (obtained from
the World Bank) is estimated using
ordinary least squares (OLS) regression
analysis. Second, the GNI of each of the
countries designated by the Department
to be an NME are applied to the
regression, which yields an expected
hourly wage rate for each NME.
The Department published a notice in
the Federal Register on October 19,
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2006 which detailed its revised
methodology for calculating expected
NME wages in antidumping proceedings
involving NME countries. See the
Antidumping Methodologies notice. In
that notice, the Department stated that
its annual calculation of expected NME
wage rates will be subject to public
comment approximately one month
prior to adoption. The Department
noted further that comment will be
requested only with regard to potential
clerical errors in the Department’s
calculation.
Accordingly, this notice presents the
Department’s preliminary 2006
calculation of expected NME wages in
Attachment 1, which were calculated
according to the Department’s revised
methodology described in the
Antidumping Methodologies notice.
The Department is requesting public
comment only on the potential clerical
errors in the calculation. Comments
with regard to the methodology were
addressed in the Antidumping
Methodologies notice and will not be
considered at this time.
In order to facilitate a full opportunity
for comment, and because the
underlying data is voluminous, the
preliminary results and underlying data
for the preliminary 2006 expected NME
wages calculation have been posted on
the Import Administration Web site
(https://ia.ita.doc.gov). This preliminary
calculation will not be used for
antidumping purposes until it has been
finalized by the Department following
the public comment period.
Comment
Persons wishing to comment on
potential clerical errors in the
Department’s preliminary 2006
calculation of expected NME wages
presented in Attachment 1 should file
one signed original and six copies of
each set of comments by the date
specified above. The Department will
consider all comments regarding
potential clerical errors received before
the close of the comment period.
Comments received after the end of the
comment period will be considered, if
possible, but their consideration cannot
be assured. The Department will not
accept comments accompanied by a
request that a part or all of the material
be treated confidentially because of its
business proprietary nature or for any
other reason. The Department will
return such comments and materials to
the persons submitting the comments
and will not consider them. All
comments responding to this notice will
be a matter of public record and will be
available for inspection and copying at
Import Administration’s Central
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Records Unit, Room B–099, between the
hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on
business days. The Department requires
that comments be submitted in written
form. The Department recommends
submission of comments in electronic
form to accompany the required paper
copies.
Comments filed in electronic form
should be submitted either by e-mail to
the Webmaster below, or on CD–ROM,
as comments submitted on diskettes are
likely to be damaged by postal radiation
treatment. Comments received in
electronic form will be made available
to the public in Portable Document
Format (PDF) on the Internet at the
Import Administration Web site at the
following address: https://ia.ita.doc.gov.
Any questions concerning file
formatting, document conversion,
access on the Internet, or other
electronic filing issues should be
addressed to Andrew Lee Beller, Import
Administration Webmaster, at (202)
482–0866, e-mail address: webmastersupport@ita.doc.gov.
Dated: December 29, 2006.
Steven J. Claeys,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
Attachment 1
2006 Calculation of Expected NME
Wages
Following the criteria and
methodology described in the
Antidumping Methodologies notice, and
using the data available to the
Department as of November 8, 2006, the
Department has calculated preliminary
2006 expected NME wages.
2003 and 2004 data in Chapter 5B of
the ILO International Labour Statistics
were available for 79 entities: Albania,
Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan,
Bahrain, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria,
Canada, Chile, China, Colombia,
Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia,
Finland, French Polynesia, Georgia,
Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong,
Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of
Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey,
Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, the
former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico,
Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua,
Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto
Rico, Romania, San Marino, Serbia and
Montenegro, Seychelles, Singapore,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka,
Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand,
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Ukraine, United Kingdom, United
States, West Bank and Gaza strip.
Within this data set, for 2003 and
2004, there were no ‘‘earnings’’ data for
Italy, Myanmar, Peru and Thailand.
Similarly, there were no ‘‘men and
women’’ data for French Polynesia.
2003 and 2004 data representing all
industries (‘‘Total’’) were available for
the remaining 74 entities.
There were two entries for Poland
which met all of the Department’s
criteria for choosing a single wage rate.
These two entries were averaged to
arrive at a single wage rate.
Of these 74 entities, a consumer price
index was unavailable for the following
10: Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Cuba,
Gibraltar, Jersey, Puerto Rico, San
Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, and
Ukraine.
Of the remaining 64 entities, there
was no exchange rate available for the
Isle of Man, Macau, and West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
Of the remaining 61 entities, the
following are currently or were NMEs
designated by the Department in 2003 or
2004: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and
Moldova. Accordingly, the Department
ran its preliminary 2006 expected NME
wage regression on the following 58
countries: Albania, Australia, Austria,
Bahrain, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El
Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Germany,
Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India,
Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico,
Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, and
United States.
As noted in the ILO database, the
wage rates for Korea and Mongolia are
denominated in units of 1,000 of their
respective national currency, and have
been converted accordingly.
On July 1, 2005, Romania redenominated its currency, with one old
leu equal to 10,000 new leu. Romanian
ILO data was adjusted accordingly.
Following the data compilation and
regression methodology described in the
Antidumping Methodologies notice, and
using GNI and wage data for Base Year
2004, the regression results are: Wage =
0.091436 + 0.000494* GNI.
2004 GNI
(USD per annum)
Country
Armenia ........................................................................................................................................................
Azerbaijan ....................................................................................................................................................
Belarus .........................................................................................................................................................
China ............................................................................................................................................................
Georgia ........................................................................................................................................................
Kyrgyz Republic ...........................................................................................................................................
Moldova .......................................................................................................................................................
Tajikistan ......................................................................................................................................................
Uzbekistan ...................................................................................................................................................
Vietnam ........................................................................................................................................................
1,140
930
2,150
1,500
1,060
400
720
280
450
540
Expected NME
wage rate
(USD per hour)
0.65
0.55
1.15
0.83
0.62
0.29
0.45
0.23
0.31
0.36
The World Bank did not publish a GNI for Turkmenistan.
As stated above, the full preliminary
results and underlying data for the 2006
expected NME wages calculation have
been posted on the Import
Administration Web site (https://
ia.ita.doc.gov).
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Individuals requiring sign language
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Dated in Washington, DC, 28 December
2006.
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Dates: January 22, 2007 (Morning—
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Expected Non-Market Economy Wages: Request for Comments on 2006
Calculation
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Commerce.
ACTION: Request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``Department'') has a longstanding
practice of calculating expected non-market economy (``NME'') wages for
use as the surrogate value for direct labor in
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antidumping proceedings involving NME countries. These expected NME
wages are calculated annually in accordance with Sec. 351.408(c)(3) of
the Department's regulations. This notice presents the Department's
preliminary 2006 expected NME wages, which were calculated according to
the Department's revised methodology described in the Federal Register
notice Antidumping Methodologies: Market Economy Inputs, Expected Non-
Market Economy Wages, Duty Drawback; and Request for Comments, 71 FR
61716, Oct. 19, 2006 (hereafter, the ``Antidumping Methodologies
notice''), and provides the public with an opportunity to comment on
potential clerical errors in the calculation.
DATES: Comments must be submitted no later than 10 days after
publication of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Written comments (original and six copies) should be sent to
David Spooner, Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Central Records Unit, Room 1870, 14th Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shauna Lee-Alaia, Policy Analyst,
Office of Policy, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce,
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, (202)
482-2793.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Department's regulations generally describe the methodology by
which the Department calculates expected NME wages:
For labor, the Secretary will use regression-based wage rates
reflective of the observed relationship between wages and national
income in market economy countries. The Secretary will calculate the
wage rate to be applied in non-market economy proceedings each year.
The calculation will be based on current data, and will be made
available to the public.19 CFR 351.408 (c)(3).
Briefly, the Department's expected NME wages are calculated each
year in two steps. First, the relationship between hourly wage rates
(obtained from the International Labour Organization's (``ILO'')
Yearbook of Labour Statistics) and per-capita gross national income
(``GNI'') (obtained from the World Bank) is estimated using ordinary
least squares (OLS) regression analysis. Second, the GNI of each of the
countries designated by the Department to be an NME are applied to the
regression, which yields an expected hourly wage rate for each NME.
The Department published a notice in the Federal Register on
October 19, 2006 which detailed its revised methodology for calculating
expected NME wages in antidumping proceedings involving NME countries.
See the Antidumping Methodologies notice. In that notice, the
Department stated that its annual calculation of expected NME wage
rates will be subject to public comment approximately one month prior
to adoption. The Department noted further that comment will be
requested only with regard to potential clerical errors in the
Department's calculation.
Accordingly, this notice presents the Department's preliminary 2006
calculation of expected NME wages in Attachment 1, which were
calculated according to the Department's revised methodology described
in the Antidumping Methodologies notice. The Department is requesting
public comment only on the potential clerical errors in the
calculation. Comments with regard to the methodology were addressed in
the Antidumping Methodologies notice and will not be considered at this
time.
In order to facilitate a full opportunity for comment, and because
the underlying data is voluminous, the preliminary results and
underlying data for the preliminary 2006 expected NME wages calculation
have been posted on the Import Administration Web site (https://
ia.ita.doc.gov). This preliminary calculation will not be used for
antidumping purposes until it has been finalized by the Department
following the public comment period.
Comment
Persons wishing to comment on potential clerical errors in the
Department's preliminary 2006 calculation of expected NME wages
presented in Attachment 1 should file one signed original and six
copies of each set of comments by the date specified above. The
Department will consider all comments regarding potential clerical
errors received before the close of the comment period. Comments
received after the end of the comment period will be considered, if
possible, but their consideration cannot be assured. The Department
will not accept comments accompanied by a request that a part or all of
the material be treated confidentially because of its business
proprietary nature or for any other reason. The Department will return
such comments and materials to the persons submitting the comments and
will not consider them. All comments responding to this notice will be
a matter of public record and will be available for inspection and
copying at Import Administration's Central Records Unit, Room B-099,
between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on business days. The
Department requires that comments be submitted in written form. The
Department recommends submission of comments in electronic form to
accompany the required paper copies.
Comments filed in electronic form should be submitted either by e-
mail to the Webmaster below, or on CD-ROM, as comments submitted on
diskettes are likely to be damaged by postal radiation treatment.
Comments received in electronic form will be made available to the
public in Portable Document Format (PDF) on the Internet at the Import
Administration Web site at the following address: https://
ia.ita.doc.gov.
Any questions concerning file formatting, document conversion,
access on the Internet, or other electronic filing issues should be
addressed to Andrew Lee Beller, Import Administration Webmaster, at
(202) 482-0866, e-mail address: webmaster-support@ita.doc.gov.
Dated: December 29, 2006.
Steven J. Claeys,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
Attachment 1
2006 Calculation of Expected NME Wages
Following the criteria and methodology described in the Antidumping
Methodologies notice, and using the data available to the Department as
of November 8, 2006, the Department has calculated preliminary 2006
expected NME wages.
2003 and 2004 data in Chapter 5B of the ILO International Labour
Statistics were available for 79 entities: Albania, Armenia, Australia,
Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada,
Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland,
French Polynesia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey,
Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau,
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico,
Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua,
Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto
Rico, Romania, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Seychelles,
Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland,
Thailand,
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Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, West Bank and Gaza strip.
Within this data set, for 2003 and 2004, there were no ``earnings''
data for Italy, Myanmar, Peru and Thailand. Similarly, there were no
``men and women'' data for French Polynesia. 2003 and 2004 data
representing all industries (``Total'') were available for the
remaining 74 entities.
There were two entries for Poland which met all of the Department's
criteria for choosing a single wage rate. These two entries were
averaged to arrive at a single wage rate.
Of these 74 entities, a consumer price index was unavailable for
the following 10: Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Cuba, Gibraltar, Jersey,
Puerto Rico, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, and Ukraine.
Of the remaining 64 entities, there was no exchange rate available
for the Isle of Man, Macau, and West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Of the remaining 61 entities, the following are currently or were
NMEs designated by the Department in 2003 or 2004: Georgia, Kyrgyzstan,
and Moldova. Accordingly, the Department ran its preliminary 2006
expected NME wage regression on the following 58 countries: Albania,
Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada,
Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hong
Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius,
Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama,
Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Seychelles,
Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland,
United Kingdom, and United States.
As noted in the ILO database, the wage rates for Korea and Mongolia
are denominated in units of 1,000 of their respective national
currency, and have been converted accordingly.
On July 1, 2005, Romania re-denominated its currency, with one old
leu equal to 10,000 new leu. Romanian ILO data was adjusted
accordingly.
Following the data compilation and regression methodology described
in the Antidumping Methodologies notice, and using GNI and wage data
for Base Year 2004, the regression results are: Wage = 0.091436 +
0.000494* GNI.
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Expected NME
Country 2004 GNI (USD per wage rate (USD
annum) per hour)
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Armenia........................... 1,140 0.65
Azerbaijan........................ 930 0.55
Belarus........................... 2,150 1.15
China............................. 1,500 0.83
Georgia........................... 1,060 0.62
Kyrgyz Republic................... 400 0.29
Moldova........................... 720 0.45
Tajikistan........................ 280 0.23
Uzbekistan........................ 450 0.31
Vietnam........................... 540 0.36
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The World Bank did not publish a GNI for Turkmenistan.
As stated above, the full preliminary results and underlying data
for the 2006 expected NME wages calculation have been posted on the
Import Administration Web site (https://ia.ita.doc.gov).
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