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of authorities. See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2)
and (d)(2). Case and rebuttal briefs and
comments must be served on interested
parties in accordance with 19 CFR
351.303(f). Further, parties submitting
written comments are requested to
provide the Department with an
additional copy of the public version of
any such comments on a diskette.
An interested party may request a
hearing within 30 days of publication of
these preliminary results. See 19 CFR
351.310(c). A hearing, if requested,
ordinarily will be held two days after
the due date of the rebuttal briefs. The
Department will issue the final results
of this administrative review, which
will include the results of its analysis of
issues raised in the written comments,
or at a hearing, if requested, within 120
days of publication of these preliminary
results.
Assessment Rate
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b), the
Department will determine, and CBP
shall assess, antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries. The Department
will issue appropriate assessment
instructions directly to CBP 15 days
after the publication of the final results
of this review. For assessment purposes,
where possible, we calculated importer–
specific assessment rates for certain
hot–rolled carbon steel flat products
from India via ad valorem duty
assessment rates based on the ratio of
the total amount of the dumping
margins calculated for the examined
sales to the total entered value of those
same sales. We will instruct CBP to
assess antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries covered by this
review if any assessment rate calculated
in the final results of this review is
above de minimis. The final results of
this review shall be the basis for the
assessment of antidumping duties on
entries of merchandise covered by the
final results of these reviews and for
future deposits of estimated duties,
where applicable.
The Department clarified its
‘‘automatic assessment’’ regulation on
May 6, 2003. See Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68
FR 23954 (May 6, 2003) (‘‘Assessment
Policy Notice’’). This clarification will
apply to entries of subject merchandise
during the POR produced by companies
included in these final results of review
for which the reviewed companies did
not know that the merchandise they
sold to the intermediary (e.g., a reseller,
trading company, or exporter) was
destined for the United States. In such
instances, we will instruct CBP to
liquidate unreviewed entries at the all–
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others rate if there is no rate for the
intermediary involved in the
transaction. See Assessment Policy
Notice for a full discussion of this
clarification.
Cash Deposit Requirements
To calculate the cash deposit rate for
the producer and/or exporter included
in this administrative review, we
divided the total dumping margins for
each company by the total net value for
that company’s sales during the review
period.
The following deposit rates will be
effective upon publication of the final
results of this administrative review for
all shipments of hot–rolled carbon steel
from India entered, or withdrawn from
warehouse, for consumption on or after
the publication date, as provided by
section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) The
cash deposit rates for the companies
listed above will be the rates established
in the final results of this review, except
if the rate is less than 0.5 percent and,
therefore, de minimis, the cash deposit
will be zero; (2) for previously reviewed
or investigated companies not listed
above, the cash deposit rate will
continue to be the company–specific
rate published for the most recent final
results in which that manufacturer or
exporter participated; (3) if the exporter
is not a firm covered in these reviews,
a prior review, or the original less–thanfair–value (‘‘LTFV’’) investigation, but
the manufacturer is, the cash deposit
rate will be the rate established for the
most recent final results for the
manufacturer of the merchandise; and
(4) if neither the exporter nor the
manufacturer is a firm covered in this or
any previous review or the LTFV
conducted by the Department, the cash
deposit rate will be 38.72 percent, the
all–others rate established in the LTFV.
See Amended Final Determination.
These cash deposit requirements, when
imposed, shall remain in effect until
further notice.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a preliminary
reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR
351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of
antidumping duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during this
review period. Failure to comply with
this requirement could result in the
Secretary’s presumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties
occurred and the subsequent assessment
of double antidumping duties.
These preliminary results of review
are issued and published in accordance
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with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of
the Act.
Dated: December 10, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
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National Institute of Standards and
Technology
National Conference on Weights and
Measures 94th Interim Meeting
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Interim Meeting of the
94th National Conference on Weights
and Measures (NCWM) will be held
January 11 to 14, 2009. Publication of
this notice on the NCWM’s behalf is
undertaken as a public service; NIST
does not endorse, approve, or
recommend any of the proposals
contained in this notice or in the
publications of the NCWM mentioned
below. The meetings are open to the
public but registration is required.
Registration information is stated in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section below.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
January 11–14, 2009.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront
Resort, 100 North Atlantic Avenue,
Daytona Beach, Florida 32118.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carol Hockert, Chief, NIST, Weights and
Measures Division, 100 Bureau Drive,
Stop 2600, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–
2600 or by telephone (301) 975–5507 or
by e-mail at Carol.Hockert@nist.gov.
Please see the NCWM Publication 15,
which contains detailed meeting
agendas, registration forms and hotel
reservation information, at https://
www.ncwm.net or https://www.nist.gov/
owm on the Internet.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
NCWM is an organization of weights
and measures officials of the states,
counties, and cities of the United States,
federal agencies, and private sector
representatives. These meetings bring
together government officials and
representatives of business, industry,
trade associations, and consumer
organizations on subjects related to the
field of weights and measures
technology, administration and
enforcement. NIST participates to
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promote uniformity among the states in
laws, regulations, methods, and testing
equipment that comprise the regulatory
control of commercial weighing and
measuring devices and other practices
used in trade and commerce.
The following are brief descriptions of
some of the significant agenda items
that will be considered along with other
issues at the NCWM Interim Meeting.
Comments will be taken on these and
other issues during several public
comment sessions. At this stage, the
items are proposals. This meeting also
includes work sessions in which the
Committees may also accept comments
and where they will finalize
recommendations for NCWM
consideration and possible adoption at
its Annual Meeting to be held July 12 to
16, 2009, in San Antonio, Texas. The
Committees may withdraw or carryover
items that need additional development.
The Specifications and Tolerances
Committee (S&T Committee) will
consider proposed amendments to NIST
Handbook 44, ‘‘Specifications,
Tolerances, and other Technical
Requirements for Weighing and
Measuring Devices (NIST Handbook
44).’’ Those items address weighing and
measuring devices used in commercial
applications, that is, devices that are
normally used to buy from or sell to the
public or used for determining the
quantity of product sold among
businesses.
Issues on the agenda of the NCWM
Laws and Regulations Committee (L&R
Committee) relate to proposals to amend
NIST Handbook 130, ‘‘Uniform Laws
and Regulations in the area of legal
metrology and engine fuel quality’’ and
NIST Handbook 133 ‘‘Checking the Net
Contents of Packaged Goods.’’
This notice contains information
about significant items on the NCWM
Committee agendas, but does not
include all agenda items. As a result, the
following items are not consecutively
numbered.
NCWM Specifications and Tolerances
Committee
The following items are proposals to
amend NIST Handbook 44:
General Code
Item 310–1. G–S.8. Provision for
Sealing Electronic Adjustable
Components, G–S.8.1. Access to
Calibration and Configuration
Adjustments, and G–S.8.2.—The S&T
Committee will consider a proposal to
add new requirements to G–S.8.
intended to improve the security of
access to the calibration and other
configuration features on weighing or
measuring devices. The purpose of the
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proposal is to ensure that prohibited
features cannot be activated or that the
accuracy of the device is altered after an
official applies security seals or
approved means of providing security.
Item 310–5. G–T.1. Acceptance
Tolerances—The S&T Committee will
consider a proposal to amend
regulations that specify when officials
are to apply acceptance tolerances to
weighing and measuring devices after
service personnel or users have made
metrological adjustments and resealed
the instrument. The proposed
amendment would require that officials
apply acceptance tolerances if they test
the device within 30 days following any
adjustment that relates to the accuracy
or other performance characteristic of a
device.
Scales Code
Item 320–3. S.1.7. Automatic ZeroSetting Mechanism (AZSM)—The S&T
Committee will consider a proposal to
define the acceptable operating
parameters of the zero-setting functions
used on some electronic weighing
devices. These functions automatically
maintain a scale’s indications at zero
when no load is on the device. Existing
NIST Handbook 44 requirements
prohibit some of the zero-setting
functions found on weighing devices
designed and sold for use in other
countries when those devices are used
in commercial applications in the U.S.
marketplace. The proposal will closely
align the U.S. requirements with
international recommendations
published by the International
Organization for Legal Metrology
(OIML).
Liquid-Measuring Devices Code
Item 330–1. Temperature
Compensation for Liquid-Measuring
Devices Code.—This is a proposal to
add provisions to Handbook 44 to allow
retail motor-fuel dispensers to be
equipped with the automatic means to
deliver product with the volume
compensated to a reference temperature.
(See also Item 232–1 below under the
Laws and Regulations Committee)
NCWM Laws and Regulations
Committee
The following items are proposals to
amend NIST Handbook 130:
Method of Sale of Commodities
Regulation
Item 232–1. Automatic Temperature
Compensation for Petroleum
Products.—The L&R Committee will
consider several proposals that would
allow temperature compensation to be
made on sales of engine fuels at the
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retail level. Most of the proposals would
allow compensation to be performed
only if certain information is provided
to consumers and other conditions are
met by the seller.
Developing Item 270–7. Method of
Sale and Engine Fuel Quality
Requirements for Hydrogen.—The L&R
Committee will consider a proposal to
establish a uniform method of sale for
hydrogen when it is offered for sale at
the retail level as a vehicle fuel. A
separate proposal to identifying
preliminary minimum fuel quality
standards will also be reviewed.
Developing Item 270–8. Wood
Flavoring Chips.—The L&R Committee
will consider a proposal to revise the
current method of sale regulation on
flavoring chips by adding guidance on
the appropriate units of measure to be
used on small packages.
Uniform Engine Fuel and Automotive
Lubricants Regulation
Item 237–1. Gasoline and Gasoline
Oxygenate Blends.—The Fuel and
Lubricants Subcommittee of the L&R
Committee will present a proposed
revision to the requirements that certain
blends must meet under NIST
Handbook 130.
The following item is a proposal to
amend NIST Handbook 133 ‘‘Checking
the Net Contents of Packaged Goods’’:
Item 260–1. Wet Tare Testing.—The
L&R Committee will review a proposed
editorial revision to the tare procedures
in NIST Handbook 133 to advise
handbook users that effective October 9,
2008, the USDA regulations no longer
permit wet tare procedures to be used in
verifying the net quantity of contents of
packages of meat and poultry that bear
a USDA inspection seal.
Dated: December 15, 2008.
Patrick Gallagher,
Deputy Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Conference on Weights and Measures 94th Interim Meeting
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Interim Meeting of the 94th National Conference on Weights
and Measures (NCWM) will be held January 11 to 14, 2009. Publication of
this notice on the NCWM's behalf is undertaken as a public service;
NIST does not endorse, approve, or recommend any of the proposals
contained in this notice or in the publications of the NCWM mentioned
below. The meetings are open to the public but registration is
required. Registration information is stated in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section below.
DATES: The meeting will be held on January 11-14, 2009.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Daytona Beach
Oceanfront Resort, 100 North Atlantic Avenue, Daytona Beach, Florida
32118.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol Hockert, Chief, NIST, Weights
and Measures Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2600, Gaithersburg, MD
20899-2600 or by telephone (301) 975-5507 or by e-mail at
Carol.Hockert@nist.gov. Please see the NCWM Publication 15, which
contains detailed meeting agendas, registration forms and hotel
reservation information, at https://www.ncwm.net or https://www.nist.gov/
owm on the Internet.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NCWM is an organization of weights and
measures officials of the states, counties, and cities of the United
States, federal agencies, and private sector representatives. These
meetings bring together government officials and representatives of
business, industry, trade associations, and consumer organizations on
subjects related to the field of weights and measures technology,
administration and enforcement. NIST participates to
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promote uniformity among the states in laws, regulations, methods, and
testing equipment that comprise the regulatory control of commercial
weighing and measuring devices and other practices used in trade and
commerce.
The following are brief descriptions of some of the significant
agenda items that will be considered along with other issues at the
NCWM Interim Meeting. Comments will be taken on these and other issues
during several public comment sessions. At this stage, the items are
proposals. This meeting also includes work sessions in which the
Committees may also accept comments and where they will finalize
recommendations for NCWM consideration and possible adoption at its
Annual Meeting to be held July 12 to 16, 2009, in San Antonio, Texas.
The Committees may withdraw or carryover items that need additional
development.
The Specifications and Tolerances Committee (S&T Committee) will
consider proposed amendments to NIST Handbook 44, ``Specifications,
Tolerances, and other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring
Devices (NIST Handbook 44).'' Those items address weighing and
measuring devices used in commercial applications, that is, devices
that are normally used to buy from or sell to the public or used for
determining the quantity of product sold among businesses.
Issues on the agenda of the NCWM Laws and Regulations Committee
(L&R Committee) relate to proposals to amend NIST Handbook 130,
``Uniform Laws and Regulations in the area of legal metrology and
engine fuel quality'' and NIST Handbook 133 ``Checking the Net Contents
of Packaged Goods.''
This notice contains information about significant items on the
NCWM Committee agendas, but does not include all agenda items. As a
result, the following items are not consecutively numbered.
NCWM Specifications and Tolerances Committee
The following items are proposals to amend NIST Handbook 44:
General Code
Item 310-1. G-S.8. Provision for Sealing Electronic Adjustable
Components, G-S.8.1. Access to Calibration and Configuration
Adjustments, and G-S.8.2.--The S&T Committee will consider a proposal
to add new requirements to G-S.8. intended to improve the security of
access to the calibration and other configuration features on weighing
or measuring devices. The purpose of the proposal is to ensure that
prohibited features cannot be activated or that the accuracy of the
device is altered after an official applies security seals or approved
means of providing security.
Item 310-5. G-T.1. Acceptance Tolerances--The S&T Committee will
consider a proposal to amend regulations that specify when officials
are to apply acceptance tolerances to weighing and measuring devices
after service personnel or users have made metrological adjustments and
resealed the instrument. The proposed amendment would require that
officials apply acceptance tolerances if they test the device within 30
days following any adjustment that relates to the accuracy or other
performance characteristic of a device.
Scales Code
Item 320-3. S.1.7. Automatic Zero-Setting Mechanism (AZSM)--The S&T
Committee will consider a proposal to define the acceptable operating
parameters of the zero-setting functions used on some electronic
weighing devices. These functions automatically maintain a scale's
indications at zero when no load is on the device. Existing NIST
Handbook 44 requirements prohibit some of the zero-setting functions
found on weighing devices designed and sold for use in other countries
when those devices are used in commercial applications in the U.S.
marketplace. The proposal will closely align the U.S. requirements with
international recommendations published by the International
Organization for Legal Metrology (OIML).
Liquid-Measuring Devices Code
Item 330-1. Temperature Compensation for Liquid-Measuring Devices
Code.--This is a proposal to add provisions to Handbook 44 to allow
retail motor-fuel dispensers to be equipped with the automatic means to
deliver product with the volume compensated to a reference temperature.
(See also Item 232-1 below under the Laws and Regulations Committee)
NCWM Laws and Regulations Committee
The following items are proposals to amend NIST Handbook 130:
Method of Sale of Commodities Regulation
Item 232-1. Automatic Temperature Compensation for Petroleum
Products.--The L&R Committee will consider several proposals that would
allow temperature compensation to be made on sales of engine fuels at
the retail level. Most of the proposals would allow compensation to be
performed only if certain information is provided to consumers and
other conditions are met by the seller.
Developing Item 270-7. Method of Sale and Engine Fuel Quality
Requirements for Hydrogen.--The L&R Committee will consider a proposal
to establish a uniform method of sale for hydrogen when it is offered
for sale at the retail level as a vehicle fuel. A separate proposal to
identifying preliminary minimum fuel quality standards will also be
reviewed.
Developing Item 270-8. Wood Flavoring Chips.--The L&R Committee
will consider a proposal to revise the current method of sale
regulation on flavoring chips by adding guidance on the appropriate
units of measure to be used on small packages.
Uniform Engine Fuel and Automotive Lubricants Regulation
Item 237-1. Gasoline and Gasoline Oxygenate Blends.--The Fuel and
Lubricants Subcommittee of the L&R Committee will present a proposed
revision to the requirements that certain blends must meet under NIST
Handbook 130.
The following item is a proposal to amend NIST Handbook 133
``Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods'':
Item 260-1. Wet Tare Testing.--The L&R Committee will review a
proposed editorial revision to the tare procedures in NIST Handbook 133
to advise handbook users that effective October 9, 2008, the USDA
regulations no longer permit wet tare procedures to be used in
verifying the net quantity of contents of packages of meat and poultry
that bear a USDA inspection seal.
Dated: December 15, 2008.
Patrick Gallagher,
Deputy Director.
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