International Trade Administration January 15, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On September 10, 2007, the U.S. Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published in the Federal Register its preliminary results of the administrative review of the countervailing duty (``CVD'') order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products (``corrosion- resistant carbon steel plate'') from the Republic of Korea (``Korea'') for the period of review (``POR'') January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2005. See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review: 72 FR 51602 (September 10, 2007) (``Preliminary Results''). We preliminarily found that Pohang Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. (``POSCO'') and Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd. (``Dongbu'') received de minimis countervailable subsidies during the POR. We received comments on our preliminary results from POSCO, a respondent company. The final results are listed in the section ``Final Results of Review'' below.

We preliminarily determine that circular welded carbon quality steel pipe (``CWP'') from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value (``LTFV''), as provided in section 733 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the ``Act''). The estimated margins of sales at less than fair value (``LTFV'') are shown in the ``Preliminary Determination'' section of this notice. Pursuant to requests from interested parties, we are postponing for 60 days the final determination and extending provisional measures from a four-month period to not more than six months. Accordingly, we will make our final determination not later than 135 days after publication of the preliminary determination.