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but liquidation of these sales was not
suspended. Therefore, pursuant to
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (the Act), we have
calculated the weighted–average margin
using the sales of CVP 23 that are
related to these entries during the
period of review. Where possible, for
those entries of subject merchandise for
which there was no suspension of
liquidation and which have been
liquidated, we adjusted the importer–
specific assessment rates to take into
account the antidumping duty liability
for subject merchandise that entered
and was liquidated without regard to
antidumping duties. See the Decision
Memo for more details.
Inland Freight from the Plant to the Port
of Exportation
For a certain number of sales, Alpanil
reported in its U.S. sales database
erroneous amounts of inland–freight
expenses it incurred to transport subject
merchandise from its plant to the port
of exportation. We revised these
expenses based on the freight–expense
documents Alpanil provided. See
Alpanil Final Analysis Memorandum
dated April 7, 2008 (Final Analysis
Memo), for more details that rely on
Alpanil’s business–proprietary
information.
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Constructed Value and Associated
Expenses
For certain reported U.S. sales that
did not have matching home–market
sales, we used constructed value as the
basis for normal value. Because Alpanil
did not report general and
administrative (G&A) expenses in its
constructed–value database, we
calculated Alpanil’s G&A expenses
using Alpanil’s profit–and-loss
statement and reported total cost of
manufacturing and packing expenses. In
order to calculate correct amounts of
indirect selling expenses for constructed
value, we revised Alpanil’s home–
market indirect selling expense by
excluding transportation expenses from
the recalculation of its home–market
indirect–selling-expense rate. See
Alpanil Final Analysis Memo for more
details that rely on Alpanil’s business–
proprietary information.
Final Results of Review
As a result of our review, we
determine that the weighted–average
margin for Alpanil for the period of
review December 1, 2005, through
November 30, 2006, is 11.25 percent.
Assessment Rates
The Department shall determine, and
CBP shall assess, antidumping duties on
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all appropriate entries. In accordance
with 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), we will issue
importer–specific assessment
instructions for entries of subject
merchandise during the period of
review. The Department will issue
appropriate assessment instructions
directly to CBP 15 days after publication
of the final results of review.
The Department clarified its
‘‘automatic assessment’’ regulation on
May 6, 2003 (68 FR 23954). This
clarification will apply to entries of
subject merchandise during the period
of review produced by Alpanil for
which it did not know its merchandise
was destined for the United States. In
such instances, we will instruct CBP to
liquidate any unreviewed entries at the
all–others rate if there is no rate for the
intermediate company(ies) involved in
the transaction. For a full discussion of
this clarification, see Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68
FR 23954 (May 6, 2003).
Cash–Deposit Requirements
The following deposit requirements
will be effective upon publication of
this notice of final results of
administrative review for all shipments
of CVP 23 entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after
the publication date of the final results,
as provided by section 751(a)(1) and
(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the cash–deposit
rate for Alpanil will be 11.25 percent;
(2) for a previously investigated
company, the cash–deposit rate will
continue to be the company–specific
rate published in Antidumping Duty
Order, 69 FR at 77989; (3) if the exporter
is not a firm covered in this review or
the less–than-fair–value investigation
but the manufacturer is, the cash–
deposit rate will be the rate established
for the most recent period for the
manufacturer of the merchandise; (4) if
neither the exporter nor the
manufacturer has its own rate, the cash–
deposit rate will be 27.48 percent, the
all–others rate published in
Antidumping Duty Order, 69 FR at
77989. These deposit requirements shall
remain in effect until further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a final reminder
to importers of their responsibility
under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a
certificate regarding the reimbursement
of antidumping duties prior to
liquidation of the relevant entries
during this period of review. Failure to
comply with this requirement could
result in the Department’s presumption
that reimbursement of antidumping
duties occurred and the subsequent
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assessment of doubled antidumping
duties.
Notification Regarding APOs
This notice also serves as a reminder
to parties subject to administrative
protective orders (APO) of their
responsibility concerning the
disposition of proprietary information
disclosed under APO as explained in
the APO itself. See 19 CFR
351.305(a)(3). 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.
We are publishing these final results
of administrative review and notice in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and
777(i)(1) of the Act.
Dated: April 7, 2008.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
Appendix
1. Reported U.S. Sales and Sales That
Entered the United States
2. Countervailing Duty Offset
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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Expected Non-Market Economy
Wages: Request for Comments on
2007 Calculation
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of 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
antidumping proceedings involving
NME countries. These expected NME
wages are calculated annually in
accordance with the Department’s
regulations, See 19 CFR 351.408 (c)(3).
This notice constitutes the Department’s
2007 expected NME wages, which were
calculated from 2005 data made
available in 2007 according to the
Department’s revised methodology
described in the Federal Register notice
entitled Antidumping Methodologies:
Market Economy Inputs, Expected NonMarket Economy Wages, Duty
Drawback; and Request for Comments,
71 FR 61716, Oct. 19, 2006 (hereafter,
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the ‘‘Antidumping Methodologies
notice’’), and provides the public with
an opportunity to comment on potential
clerical errors in the calculation.
DATES: Any 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:
Anthony Hill, Economist, Office of
Policy, or Juanita Chen, Special
Assistant to the Senior Enforcement
Coordinator, China/ NME Group, Import
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230,
(202) 482–1843 and (202) 482–1904,
respectively.
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 nonmarket economy proceedings each year.
The calculation will be based on current
data, and will be made available to the
public, See 19 CFR 351.408 (c)(3).
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
‘‘ [e]ach year, the Department’s annual
calculation will be subject to public
notice prior to the adoption of the
resulting expected NME wage rates for
use in antidumping proceedings.
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Comment will be requested only with
regard to potential clerical errors in the
Department’s calculation.’’
Antidumping Methodology Notice, 71
FR 61722.
This notice constitutes the
Department’s 2007 calculation of
expected NME wages in Attachment 1,
which were calculated from 2005 data
made available in 2007 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.
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 2007 expected NME
wages calculation have been posted on
the Import Administration Web site
(https://www.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.
Submission of Comments
Persons wishing to comment on
clerical errors in the Department’s 2007
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 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 1117. 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
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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://
www.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: April 1, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration.
Attachment 1–2007 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 December 27, 2007,
the Department has calculated
preliminary 2007 expected NME wages.
2004 and 2005 data in Chapter 5B of the
ILO International Labour Statistics were
available for 87 entities: Albania,
Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria,
Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda,
Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile,
China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia,
Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia,
Finland, France, Georgia, Germany,
Gibraltar, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Jordan,
Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, the
former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta,
Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia,
Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto
Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian
Federation, San Marino, Serbia and
Montenegro, Seychelles, Singapore,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka,
Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine,
United Kingdom, United States, Virgin
Islands, West Bank and Gaza strip.
Within this data set, for 2004 and
2005, there were no ‘‘earnings’’ data for
Italy, Myanmar, Peru, Philippines, and
Qatar.
There were no further entities
eliminated as 2004 and 2005 data was
present for ‘‘men and women’’ and
represented all industries (‘‘Total’’) for
the remaining 82 entities.
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Of these 82 entities, a consumer price
index was unavailable for the following
13: Azerbaijan, Bermuda, China, Cuba,
Gibraltar, Guam, Isle of Man, Jersey,
Puerto Rico, San Marino, Taiwan,
Ukraine, and the Virgin Islands.
Of the remaining 69 entities, there
was no exchange rate available for
Serbia and Montenegro.
Of the remaining 68 entities, there
was no GNI data available for: Bahrain,
Cyprus, and Macau.
Of the remaining 65 entities, the
following four are currently or were
NMEs designated by the Department in
2004 or 2005: Armenia, Georgia,
Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova.
Accordingly, the Department ran its
preliminary 2007 expected NME wage
regression on the following 61
countries: Albania, Argentina, Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El
Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland,
India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan,
Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Macedonia the former
Yugoslav Republic of, Madagascar,
Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua,
Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russian Federation,
Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, United
States, and West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Following the data compilation and
regression methodology described in the
Antidumping Methodologies notice, and
using GNI and wage data for Base Year
2005, the regression results are: Wage =
0.284456 + 0.000447* GNI.
Expected NME
2005 GNI
(USD per
annum)
Country
Armenia ....................................................................................................................................................................
Azerbaijan ................................................................................................................................................................
Belarus .....................................................................................................................................................................
China ........................................................................................................................................................................
Georgia ....................................................................................................................................................................
Kyrgyz Republic .......................................................................................................................................................
Moldova ...................................................................................................................................................................
Tajikistan ..................................................................................................................................................................
Uzbekistan ...............................................................................................................................................................
Vietnam ....................................................................................................................................................................
The World Bank did not publish a
GNI for Turkmenistan.
As stated above, the full preliminary
results and underlying data for the 2007
expected NME wages calculation have
been posted on the Import
Administration Web site (https://
ia.ita.doc.gov).
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
A–489–815
Notice of Final Determination of Sales
at Less Than Fair Value: Light–Walled
Rectangular Pipe and Tube from
Turkey
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 11, 2008.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(the Department) determines that
imports of light–walled rectangular pipe
and tube from Turkey are being, or are
likely to be, sold in the United States at
less than fair value, as provided in
section 735 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (the Act). The final dumping
margins are listed below in the section
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entitled ‘‘Final Determination of
Investigation.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tyler Weinhold, Fred Baker, or Robert
James, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)
482–1121, (202) 482–2924, or (202) 482–
0649, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On January 30, 2008, the Department
published the preliminary
determination of sales at less than fair
value (LTFV) in the antidumping
investigation of light–walled rectangular
pipe and tube from Turkey. See Notice
of Preliminary Determination of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value: Light–Walled
Rectangular Pipe and Tube from
Turkey, 73 FR 5508 (January 30, 2008)
(Preliminary Determination). We invited
parties to comment on the Preliminary
Determination. On March 10, 2008, we
received a letter from Goktas Tube, a
producer/exporter of light–walled
rectangular pipe and tube from Turkey.
We did not receive any case or rebuttal
briefs from any other interested parties.
Period of Investigation
The period of investigation is April 1,
2006, through March 31, 2007.
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1,470
1,270
2,760
1,740
1,300
450
960
330
530
620
Wage rate
(USD per
hour)
0.94
0.85
1.52
1.06
0.87
0.49
0.71
0.43
0.52
0.56
Scope of Investigation
The merchandise subject to this
investigation is certain welded carbon
quality light–walled steel pipe and tube,
of rectangular (including square) cross
section, having a wall thickness of less
than 4 mm.
The term carbon–quality steel
includes both carbon steel and alloy
steel which contains
only small amounts of alloying
elements. Specifically, the term carbon–
quality includes products in which
none of the elements listed below
exceeds the quantity by weight
respectively indicated: 1.80 percent of
manganese, or 2.25 percent of silicon, or
1.00 percent of copper, or 0.50 percent
of aluminum, or 1.25 percent of
chromium, or 0.30 percent of cobalt, or
0.40 percent of lead, or 1.25 percent of
nickel, or 0.30 percent of tungsten, or
0.10 percent of molybdenum, or 0.10
percent of niobium, or 0.15 percent
vanadium, or 0.15 percent of zirconium.
The description of carbon–quality is
intended to identify carbon–quality
products within the scope. The welded
carbon–quality rectangular pipe and
tube subject to this investigation is
currently classified under the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS) subheadings
7306.61.50.00 and 7306.61.70.60. While
HTSUS subheadings are provided for
convenience and Customs purposes, our
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Expected Non-Market Economy Wages: Request for Comments on 2007
Calculation
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of 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 antidumping proceedings
involving NME countries. These expected NME wages are calculated
annually in accordance with the Department's regulations, See 19 CFR
351.408 (c)(3). This notice constitutes the Department's 2007 expected
NME wages, which were calculated from 2005 data made available in 2007
according to the Department's revised methodology described in the
Federal Register notice entitled Antidumping Methodologies: Market
Economy Inputs, Expected Non-Market Economy Wages, Duty Drawback; and
Request for Comments, 71 FR 61716, Oct. 19, 2006 (hereafter,
[[Page 19813]]
the ``Antidumping Methodologies notice''), and provides the public with
an opportunity to comment on potential clerical errors in the
calculation.
DATES: Any 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: Anthony Hill, Economist, Office of
Policy, or Juanita Chen, Special Assistant to the Senior Enforcement
Coordinator, China/ NME Group, Import Administration, U.S. Department
of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20230, (202) 482-1843 and (202) 482-1904, respectively.
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, See 19 CFR 351.408 (c)(3).
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 `` [e]ach year, the Department's annual
calculation will be subject to public notice prior to the adoption of
the resulting expected NME wage rates for use in antidumping
proceedings. Comment will be requested only with regard to potential
clerical errors in the Department's calculation.'' Antidumping
Methodology Notice, 71 FR 61722.
This notice constitutes the Department's 2007 calculation of
expected NME wages in Attachment 1, which were calculated from 2005
data made available in 2007 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.
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 2007 expected NME wages calculation
have been posted on the Import Administration Web site (https://
www.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.
Submission of Comments
Persons wishing to comment on clerical errors in the Department's
2007 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 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 1117. 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://www.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: April 1, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
Attachment 1-2007 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 December 27, 2007, the Department has calculated preliminary 2007
expected NME wages. 2004 and 2005 data in Chapter 5B of the ILO
International Labour Statistics were available for 87 entities:
Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain,
Belgium, Bermuda, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France,
Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India,
Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan,
Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, the former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico,
Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua,
Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico,
Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro,
Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden,
Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin
Islands, West Bank and Gaza strip.
Within this data set, for 2004 and 2005, there were no ``earnings''
data for Italy, Myanmar, Peru, Philippines, and Qatar.
There were no further entities eliminated as 2004 and 2005 data was
present for ``men and women'' and represented all industries
(``Total'') for the remaining 82 entities.
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Of these 82 entities, a consumer price index was unavailable for
the following 13: Azerbaijan, Bermuda, China, Cuba, Gibraltar, Guam,
Isle of Man, Jersey, Puerto Rico, San Marino, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the
Virgin Islands.
Of the remaining 69 entities, there was no exchange rate available
for Serbia and Montenegro.
Of the remaining 68 entities, there was no GNI data available for:
Bahrain, Cyprus, and Macau.
Of the remaining 65 entities, the following four are currently or
were NMEs designated by the Department in 2004 or 2005: Armenia,
Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova.
Accordingly, the Department ran its preliminary 2007 expected NME
wage regression on the following 61 countries: Albania, Argentina,
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France,
Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan,
Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia the
former Yugoslav Republic of, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico,
Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United
States, and West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Following the data compilation and regression methodology described
in the Antidumping Methodologies notice, and using GNI and wage data
for Base Year 2005, the regression results are: Wage = 0.284456 +
0.000447* GNI.
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Expected NME
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2005 GNI (USD Wage rate (USD
Country per annum) per hour)
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Armenia................................. 1,470 0.94
Azerbaijan.............................. 1,270 0.85
Belarus................................. 2,760 1.52
China................................... 1,740 1.06
Georgia................................. 1,300 0.87
Kyrgyz Republic......................... 450 0.49
Moldova................................. 960 0.71
Tajikistan.............................. 330 0.43
Uzbekistan.............................. 530 0.52
Vietnam................................. 620 0.56
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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 2007 expected NME wages calculation have been posted on the
Import Administration Web site (https://ia.ita.doc.gov).
[FR Doc. E8-7805 Filed 4-10-08; 8:45 am]
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