International Trade Administration May 5, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In response to a request by the petitioners and four producers/exporters of the subject merchandise, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain steel concrete reinforcing bars (rebar) from Turkey. This review covers 15 producers/exporters of the subject merchandise to the United States. This is the seventh period of review (POR), covering April 1, 2004, through March 31, 2005. We have preliminarily determined that 11 of the producers/exporters have made sales below normal value (NV). If these preliminary results are adopted in the final results of this review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. On January 23, 2006, we rescinded the review with respect to ICDAS Celik Enerji Tersane ve Ulasim Sanayi, A.S. (ICDAS) based on the Department's determination in the prior administrative review to revoke ICDAS from the order. In addition, we have preliminarily determined to rescind the review with respect to 18 companies because either: (1) These companies had no shipments of subject merchandise during the POR; or (2) the questionnaires sent to these companies were returned to the Department because of undeliverable addresses. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. Parties who wish to submit comments in this proceeding are requested to submit with each argument: (1) a statement of the issue; and (2) a brief summary of the argument.

On March 23, 2006, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published a notice of initiation and the preliminary results of its changed-circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on ball bearings and parts thereof from Japan in which it preliminarily determined that JTEKT Corporation is the successor-in-interest to Koyo Seiko Company, Ltd., and that, as such, JTEKT is entitled to the cash- deposit rate of Koyo Seiko Company, Ltd., with respect to entries of subject merchandise. We gave interested parties the opportunity to comment on our preliminary results. We received no comments. Therefore, for these final results, the Department is adopting its preliminary determination that JTEKT Corporation is the successor-in-interest to Koyo Seiko Company, Ltd.