International Trade Administration March 9, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador with respect to 23 companies.\1\ The respondents which the Department selected for individual review are OceanInvest, S.A. (OceanInvest) and Promarisco, S.A. (Promarisco). The respondents which were not selected for individual review are listed in the ``Preliminary Results of Review'' section of this notice. This is the first administrative review of this order. The period of review (POR) covers August 4, 2004, through January 31, 2006.

On September 29, 2006, the U.S. Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published a notice of initiation of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on small diameter seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe (``seamless line and pressure pipe'') from Argentina. The review covers one manufacturer/ exporter, Siderca S.A.I.C. (``Siderca''). The period of review (``POR'') is August 1, 2005, through July 31, 2006. Following the receipt of a certification of no shipments by Siderca, we notified the domestic interested party of the Department's intent to rescind this review and provided an opportunity to comment on the rescission. We received no comments. Therefore, we are rescinding this administrative review.

The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is conducting an administrative review and a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (``Vietnam''), both covering the period of review (``POR'') of July 16, 2004, through January 1, 2006. As discussed below, we preliminarily determine that certain respondents in these reviews (covering one new shipper review and sixteen companies subject to the administrative review) \1\ have not made sales in the United States at prices below normal value. If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results of review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to assess antidumping duties on entries of subject merchandise during the POR for which the importer-specific assessment rates are above de minimis.

The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand with respect to 27 companies.\1\ The respondents which the Department selected for individual review are Good Luck Product Co., Ltd. (Good Luck Product), Pakfood Public Company Limited and its affiliated subsidiaries, Asia Pacific (Thailand) Company Limited, Chaophyraya Cold Storage Company Limited, Okeanos Company Limited, and Takzin Samut Company Limited (collectively ``Pakfood''), and Thai I-Mei Frozen Foods Co., Ltd. (Thai I-Mei). The respondents which were not selected for individual review are listed in the ``Preliminary Results of Review'' section of this notice. This is the first administrative review of this order. The review covers the period August 4, 2004, through January 31, 2006.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is currently conducting the 2004/2006 administrative review and a 2004/ 2006 new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). The period of review (``POR'') for both the administrative and new shipper reviews is July 14, 2004, through January 31, 2006. We preliminarily determine that sales have not been made below normal value (``NV'') with respect to certain exporters subject to the administrative review. We also have preliminarily found that the single sales made by Asian Seafoods (Zhanjiang) Co., Ltd. (``Asian Seafoods'') and Hai Li Aquatic Co., Ltd. Zhao An, Fujian (``Hai Li''), the new shipper, were not bona fide. Further, we are preliminarily applying adverse facts available to Meizhou Aquatic Products Quick-Frozen Industry Co., Ltd. (``Meizhou'') and Shantou Red Garden Foodstuff/Shantou Red Garden Food Processing Co. (collectively, ``Red Garden''). If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results of these reviews, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to assess antidumping duties on entries of subject merchandise during the period of review (``POR'') for which the importer-specific assessment rates are above de minimis. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. We will issue the final results no later than 120 days from the date of publication of this notice.