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regulations promulgated under the
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Swine Health Protection Act, which are
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before garbage may be fed to swine, it
must be treated at a facility holding a
valid permit to treat the garbage and
must be treated according to the
regulations.
APHIS requires certain information in
order to license (issue a permit to) a
facility to operate and in order to
monitor the facility for compliance with
the regulations. This information is
collected from applications for a license
to operate a garbage treatment facility,
records of the destination and date of
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reporting burden per response.)
All responses to this notice will be
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also become a matter of public record.
Done in Washington, DC, this 4th day of
October 2007.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A–412–822]
Stainless Steel Bar From the United
Kingdom: Notice of Initiation and
Preliminary Results of Changed
Circumstances Review, and Intent To
Revoke Order in Part
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Effective Dates: October 11,
2007.
SUMMARY: Swagelok Company
(Swagelok), an interested party, filed a
request for the Department to initiate a
changed circumstances review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar from the United Kingdom.
Carpenter Technology Corp., Crucible
Specialty Metals Division of Crucible
Materials Corp., Electralloy Corp., North
American Stainless, Universal Stainless
& Alloy Products, Inc., and Valbruna
Slater Stainless, Inc. (collectively the
Domestic Industry) 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. The Domestic
Industry also stated that it is a major
domestic producer of stainless steel bar.
Therefore, we are notifying the public of
our intent to revoke, in part, the
antidumping duty order as it relates to
imports of SAF 2507 grade stainless
steel bar from the United Kingdom.
Interested parties are invited to
comment on these preliminary results.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate
Johnson or Rebecca Trainor, AD/CVD
Operations, Office 2, Import
Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
AGENCY:
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Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482–4929 or (202) 482–
4007, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
On March 7, 2002, the Department
published in the Federal Register an
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar from the United Kingdom. See
Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless
Steel Bar from the United Kingdom, 67
FR 10381 (March 7, 2002). On August
27, 2007, Swagelok, an interested party,
requested that the Department initiate a
changed circumstances review to
exclude a certain stainless steel bar
product (SAF 2507 grade bar) from the
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar from the United Kingdom. On
September 18, 2007, the Domestic
Industry submitted a letter affirming
that the Domestic Industry does not
object to the exclusion of the product
identified in the August 27, 2007,
request submitted by Swagelok for a
changed circumstances review with
respect to the antidumping duty order
on stainless steel bar from the United
Kingdom. On September 21, 2007, the
petitioners submitted a statement
affirming that they account for
substantially all of the U.S. production
of stainless steel bar, exceeding 85
percent of total domestic production.
On September 25, 2007, Sandvik
Bioline, a U.K. producer of stainless
steel bar, provided a technical
description of the stainless steel bar
product Swagelok has requested to be
excluded from the scope of the
antidumping duty order.1
Scope of the Order
For purposes of this order, the term
‘‘stainless steel bar’’ includes articles of
stainless steel in straight lengths that
have been either hot-rolled, forged,
turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or
otherwise cold-finished, or ground,
having a uniform solid cross section
along their whole length in the shape of
circles, segments of circles, ovals,
rectangles (including squares), triangles,
hexagons, octagons, or other convex
polygons. Stainless steel bar includes
cold-finished stainless steel bars that are
turned or ground in straight lengths,
whether produced from hot-rolled bar or
from straightened and cut rod or wire,
and reinforcing bars that have
indentations, ribs, grooves, or other
deformations produced during the
rolling process.
1 Sandvik Bioline is the producer of the product
which is the subject of Swagelok’s changed
circumstances review request.
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Except as specified above, the term
does not include stainless steel semifinished products, cut length flat-rolled
products (i.e., cut length rolled products
which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness
have a width measuring at least 10 times
the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in
thickness having a width which exceeds
150 mm and measures at least twice the
thickness), products that have been cut
from stainless steel sheet, strip or plate,
wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils,
of any uniform solid cross section along
their whole length, which do not
conform to the definition of flat-rolled
products), and angles, shapes and
sections. The stainless steel bar subject
to this order is currently classifiable
under subheadings 7222.11.00.05,
7222.11.00.50, 7222.19.00.05,
7222.19.00.50, 7222.20.00.05,
7222.20.00.45, 7222.20.00.75, and
7222.30.00.00 of the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).
Although the HTSUS subheadings are
provided for convenience and customs
purposes, the written description of the
scope of this order is dispositive.
Initiation and Preliminary Results of
Changed Circumstances Review, and
Intent To Revoke Order in Part
At the request of Swagelok, and in
accordance with sections 751(d)(1) and
751(b)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.216, the Department is initiating a
changed circumstances review of the
antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar from the United Kingdom to
determine whether partial revocation of
this order is warranted with respect to
SAF 2507 grade stainless steel bar.
Section 782(h)(2) of the Act and 19 CFR
351.222(g)(1)(i) provide that the
Department may revoke an order (in
whole or in part) if it determines that
producers accounting for substantially
all of the production of the domestic
like product have no further interest in
the order, in whole or in part. In
addition, in the event that the
Department determines that expedited
action is warranted, 19 CFR
351.221(c)(3)(ii) permits the Department
to combine the notices of initiation and
preliminary results.
In accordance with section 751(b) of
the Act, and 19 CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i) and
351.221(c)(3), we are initiating this
changed circumstances review and have
determined that expedited action is
warranted. We find that the petitioners’
affirmative statement of no interest
constitutes good cause for the conduct
of this review. Additionally, our
decision to expedite this review stems
from the Domestic Industry’s lack of
interest in applying the antidumping
duty order to the specific stainless steel
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bar product (i.e., SAF 2507 grade bar)
covered by this request.
Based on the expression of no interest
by the petitioners and absent any
objection by any other domestic
interested parties, we have preliminarily
determined that substantially all of the
domestic producers of the like product
have no interest in the continued
application of the antidumping duty
order on stainless steel bar to SAF 2507
grade bar. Therefore, we are notifying
the public of our intent to revoke, in
part, the antidumping duty order as it
relates to imports of SAF 2507 grade
stainless steel bar from the United
Kingdom.
We intend to change the scope of the
order with respect to excluded products
to read as follows:
Except as specified above, the scope does
not include stainless steel semi-finished
products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e.,
cut length rolled products which if less than
4.75 mm in thickness have a width
measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or
if 4.75 mm or more in thickness having a
width which exceeds 150 mm and measures
at least twice the thickness), products that
have been cut from stainless steel sheet, strip
or plate, wire (i.e., cold-formed products in
coils, of any uniform solid cross section
along their whole length, which do not
conform to the definition of flat-rolled
products), and angles, shapes and sections.
Also excluded from the scope of the order
is grade SAF 2507 stainless steel bar. SAF
2507 is cold worked and finished Super
Duplex stainless steel bar material in round
and hexagonal form, conforming to UNS
S32750, having elevated ultimate tensile
strength in excess of 140Ksi minimum and a
PRE (pitting resistant equivalent) value of
42.5 minimum, supplied in straight bar
lengths. SAF 2507 grade stainless steel bar is
currently classified under HTSUS
subheadings 7222.20.00.45 and
7222.20.00.75.
Public Comment
Interested parties are invited to
comment on these preliminary results.
Written comments may be submitted no
later than 14 days after the date of
publication of these preliminary results.
Rebuttals to written comments, limited
to issues raised in such comments, may
be filed no later than 21 days after the
date of publication. The Department
will issue the final results of this
changed circumstances review, which
will include the results of its analysis
raised in any such written comments,
no later than 270 days after the date on
which this review was initiated, or
within 45 days if all parties agree to our
preliminary results. See 19 CFR
351.216(e).
If final revocation occurs, we will
instruct U.S. Customs and Border
Protection to end the suspension of
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liquidation for the merchandise covered
by the revocation on the effective date
of the notice of revocation and to release
any cash deposit or bond. See 19 CFR
351.222(g)(4). The current requirement
for a cash deposit of estimated
antidumping duties on all subject
merchandise will continue unless and
until it is modified pursuant to the final
results of this changed circumstances
review.
This initiation and preliminary results
of review are in accordance with section
751(b) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216,
351.221, and 351.222.
October 4, 2007.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
A–570–890
Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the
People’s Republic of China: Extension
of Time Limits for the Preliminary
Results of the Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review and New
Shipper Reviews
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
OCTOBER 11, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul
Stolz, AD/CVD Operations, Office 8,
Import Administration, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department
of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4474.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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AGENCY:
Background
The Department of Commerce (‘‘the
Department’’) published an
antidumping duty order on wooden
bedroom furniture (‘‘WBF’’) from the
People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) on
January 4, 2005. See Notice of Amended
Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty
Order: Wooden Bedroom Furniture
From the People’s Republic of China, 70
FR 329 (January 4, 2005). On March 7,
2007, the Department published in the
Federal Register a notice of the
initiation of the antidumping duty
administrative review of WBF from the
PRC and new shipper reviews for the
period January 1, 2006 through
December 31, 2006. See Notice of
Initiation of Administrative Review of
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the Antidumping Duty Order on
Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the
People’s Republic of China, 72 FR 10159
(March 7, 2007) and Wooden Bedroom
Furniture from the People’s Republic of
China: Initiation of New Shipper
Reviews,72 FR 10158 (March 7, 2007).
On August 27, 2007, the Department
aligned the deadlines and the time
limits of the new shipper reviews of
WBF with the 2006 administrative
review of WBF. See Memorandum to the
File from Gene Degnan, Case Analyst,
through Wendy Frankel, Office Director,
dated August 27, 2007. The preliminary
results of these reviews are currently
due no later than October 3, 2007.
Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary
Results.
Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended (‘‘the Act’’),
requires the Department to issue
preliminary results within 245 days
after the last day of the anniversary
month of an order. However, if it is not
practicable to complete the review
within this time period, section
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the
Department to extend the time period to
a maximum of 365 days. Completion of
the preliminary results of these reviews
within the 245-day period is not
practicable because the Department
needs additional time to analyze
information pertaining to the
respondents’ sales practices, factors of
production, and corporate relationships,
to evaluate certain issues raised by the
petitioners, and to issue and review
responses to supplemental
questionnaires.
Because it is not practicable to
complete these reviews within the time
specified under the Act, we are fully
extending the time period for issuing
the preliminary results of review to 365
days until January 31, 2008, in
accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of
the Act. The final results continue to be
due 120 days after the publication of the
preliminary results. This notice is
published pursuant to sections 751(a)
and 777(i) of the Act.
Dated: October 1, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Export Trade Certificate of Review
Notice of Revocation of Export
Trade Certificate of Review; Application
No. 99–00003.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Secretary of Commerce
issued an Export Trade Certificate of
Review to JV Export Trading Company,
Inc. on November 23, 1999. Because this
Certificate Holder has failed to file an
annual report as required by law, the
Secretary is revoking the certificate.
This notice summarizes the notification
letter sent to JV Export Trading
Company, Inc.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jeffrey Anspacher, Director, Export
Trading Company Affairs, International
Trade Administration, 202/482–5131.
This is not a Toll-free number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of
the Export Trading Company Act of
1982 (‘‘The Act’’) (Pub. L. 97–290, 15
U.S.C. 4011–21) Authorizes the
Secretary of Commerce to Issue Export
Trade Certificates of Review. The
Regulations Implementing Title III (‘‘the
Regulations’’) are found at 15 CFR Part
325 (1999). Pursuant to this Authority,
a Certificate of Review was issued on
November 23, 1999 to JV Export Trading
Company, Inc.
A Certificate Holder is required by
law to submit to the Secretary of
Commerce Annual Reports that update
financial and other information relating
to business activities covered by its
Certificate (Section 308 of the Act, 15
U.S.C. 4018, Section 325.14(a) of the
Regulations, 15 CFR 325.14(a)). The
Annual Report is due within 45 days
after the Anniversary Date of the
Issuance of the Certificate of Review
(Sections 325.14(b) of the Regulations,
15 CFR 325.14(b)). Failure to submit a
complete Annual Report may be the
Basis for Revocation (Sections 325.10(a)
and 325.14(c) of the Regulations, 15 CFR
325.10(a)(3) and 325.14(c)). On
November 13, 2006, the Secretary of
Commerce sent to JV Export Trading
Company, Inc., a letter containing
Annual Report questions stating that its
annual report was due on January 7,
2007. A reminder was sent on July 16,
2007, with a due date of August 17,
2007. The Secretary has received no
written response from JV Export Trading
Company, Inc., to any of these letters.
On August 27, 2007, and in accordance
with Section 325.10(c)(1) of the
Regulations, (15 CFR 325.10(c)(1)), the
Secretary of Commerce sent a letter by
Certified Mail to notify JV Export
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-412-822]
Stainless Steel Bar From the United Kingdom: Notice of Initiation
and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent To
Revoke Order in Part
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
DATES: Effective Dates: October 11, 2007.
SUMMARY: Swagelok Company (Swagelok), an interested party, filed a
request for the Department to initiate a changed circumstances review
of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from the United
Kingdom. Carpenter Technology Corp., Crucible Specialty Metals Division
of Crucible Materials Corp., Electralloy Corp., North American
Stainless, Universal Stainless & Alloy Products, Inc., and Valbruna
Slater Stainless, Inc. (collectively the Domestic Industry) 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. The
Domestic Industry also stated that it is a major domestic producer of
stainless steel bar. Therefore, we are notifying the public of our
intent to revoke, in part, the antidumping duty order as it relates to
imports of SAF 2507 grade stainless steel bar from the United Kingdom.
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate Johnson or Rebecca Trainor, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 2, Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
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Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20230; telephone: (202) 482-4929 or (202) 482-4007, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 7, 2002, the Department published in the Federal Register
an antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from the United
Kingdom. See Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar from the
United Kingdom, 67 FR 10381 (March 7, 2002). On August 27, 2007,
Swagelok, an interested party, requested that the Department initiate a
changed circumstances review to exclude a certain stainless steel bar
product (SAF 2507 grade bar) from the antidumping duty order on
stainless steel bar from the United Kingdom. On September 18, 2007, the
Domestic Industry submitted a letter affirming that the Domestic
Industry does not object to the exclusion of the product identified in
the August 27, 2007, request submitted by Swagelok for a changed
circumstances review with respect to the antidumping duty order on
stainless steel bar from the United Kingdom. On September 21, 2007, the
petitioners submitted a statement affirming that they account for
substantially all of the U.S. production of stainless steel bar,
exceeding 85 percent of total domestic production. On September 25,
2007, Sandvik Bioline, a U.K. producer of stainless steel bar, provided
a technical description of the stainless steel bar product Swagelok has
requested to be excluded from the scope of the antidumping duty
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Scope of the Order
For purposes of this order, the term ``stainless steel bar''
includes articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been
either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise
cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along
their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals,
rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other
convex polygons. Stainless steel bar includes cold-finished stainless
steel bars that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether
produced from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire,
and reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other
deformations produced during the rolling process.
Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e.,
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at
least twice the thickness), products that have been cut from stainless
steel sheet, strip or plate, wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils,
of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do
not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles,
shapes and sections. The stainless steel bar subject to this order is
currently classifiable under subheadings 7222.11.00.05, 7222.11.00.50,
7222.19.00.05, 7222.19.00.50, 7222.20.00.05, 7222.20.00.45,
7222.20.00.75, and 7222.30.00.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
the United States (HTSUS). Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided
for convenience and customs purposes, the written description of the
scope of this order is dispositive.
Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Review, and
Intent To Revoke Order in Part
At the request of Swagelok, and in accordance with sections
751(d)(1) and 751(b)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.216, the Department
is initiating a changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty
order on stainless steel bar from the United Kingdom to determine
whether partial revocation of this order is warranted with respect to
SAF 2507 grade stainless steel bar. Section 782(h)(2) of the Act and 19
CFR 351.222(g)(1)(i) provide that the Department may revoke an order
(in whole or in part) if it determines that producers accounting for
substantially all of the production of the domestic like product have
no further interest in the order, in whole or in part. In addition, in
the event that the Department determines that expedited action is
warranted, 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3)(ii) permits the Department to combine
the notices of initiation and preliminary results.
In accordance with section 751(b) of the Act, and 19 CFR
351.222(g)(1)(i) and 351.221(c)(3), we are initiating this changed
circumstances review and have determined that expedited action is
warranted. We find that the petitioners' affirmative statement of no
interest constitutes good cause for the conduct of this review.
Additionally, our decision to expedite this review stems from the
Domestic Industry's lack of interest in applying the antidumping duty
order to the specific stainless steel bar product (i.e., SAF 2507 grade
bar) covered by this request.
Based on the expression of no interest by the petitioners and
absent any objection by any other domestic interested parties, we have
preliminarily determined that substantially all of the domestic
producers of the like product have no interest in the continued
application of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar to SAF
2507 grade bar. Therefore, we are notifying the public of our intent to
revoke, in part, the antidumping duty order as it relates to imports of
SAF 2507 grade stainless steel bar from the United Kingdom.
We intend to change the scope of the order with respect to excluded
products to read as follows:
Except as specified above, the scope does not include stainless
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e.,
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness
have a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75
mm or more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and
measures at least twice the thickness), products that have been cut
from stainless steel sheet, strip or plate, wire (i.e., cold-formed
products in coils, of any uniform solid cross section along their
whole length, which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled
products), and angles, shapes and sections.
Also excluded from the scope of the order is grade SAF 2507
stainless steel bar. SAF 2507 is cold worked and finished Super
Duplex stainless steel bar material in round and hexagonal form,
conforming to UNS S32750, having elevated ultimate tensile strength
in excess of 140Ksi minimum and a PRE (pitting resistant equivalent)
value of 42.5 minimum, supplied in straight bar lengths. SAF 2507
grade stainless steel bar is currently classified under HTSUS
subheadings 7222.20.00.45 and 7222.20.00.75.
Public Comment
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary
results. Written comments may be submitted no later than 14 days after
the date of publication of these preliminary results. Rebuttals to
written comments, limited to issues raised in such comments, may be
filed no later than 21 days after the date of publication. The
Department will issue the final results of this changed circumstances
review, which will include the results of its analysis raised in any
such written comments, no later than 270 days after the date on which
this review was initiated, or within 45 days if all parties agree to
our preliminary results. See 19 CFR 351.216(e).
If final revocation occurs, we will instruct U.S. Customs and
Border Protection to end the suspension of
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liquidation for the merchandise covered by the revocation on the
effective date of the notice of revocation and to release any cash
deposit or bond. See 19 CFR 351.222(g)(4). The current requirement for
a cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties on all subject
merchandise will continue unless and until it is modified pursuant to
the final results of this changed circumstances review.
This initiation and preliminary results of review are in accordance
with section 751(b) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216, 351.221, and
351.222.
October 4, 2007.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-20065 Filed 10-10-07; 8:45 am]
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