Department of Commerce July 5, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On December 16, 2010, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published a Federal Register notice announcing that it was considering revising its current practice with respect to the de facto criteria \1\ examined for purposes of determining whether to grant separate rate status to individual exporters in antidumping proceedings involving non-market economy (``NME'') countries. Through that notice, the Department invited the public to comment on the current test.\2\ Numerous parties filed comments in response, addressing the Department's current practice and proposing additional criteria for the Department to consider in its analysis. The Department has determined that several of these comments warrant consideration on a case-by-case basis, as discussed below, when assessing whether a foreign producer/exporter in an NME country is sufficiently free of government control of its export activities to warrant separate rate status.\3\

The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is rescinding the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products (``hot-rolled steel'') from India for the period January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2012.

In accordance with provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as amended, notification is hereby given that an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) has been issued to the U.S. Navy (Navy) to take marine mammals, by harassment, incidental to conducting training exercises at the Silver Strand Training Complex (SSTC) in the vicinity of San Diego Bay, California.

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.