[Federal Register: December 12, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 239)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-475-822]
Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review:
Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from Italy
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review of Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from Italy.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: December 12, 2002.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Bailey, AD/CVD Enforcement
Group III, Office 9, Import
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Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20230; telephone: (202) 482-1102.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Applicable Statute and Regulations
Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of
1930, as amended (``the Act''), are references to the provisions
effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to
the Act by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (``URAA''). In addition,
unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's
regulations are to the regulations codified at 19 C.F.R. Part 351
(2001).
SCOPE OF REVIEW
For purposes of this administrative review, the product covered is
certain stainless steel plate in coils. Stainless steel is an alloy
steel containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or less of carbon and 10.5
percent or more of chromium, with or without other elements. The
subject plate products are flat-rolled products, 254 mm or over in
width and 4.75 mm or more in thickness, in coils, and annealed or
otherwise heat treated and pickled or otherwise descaled. The subject
plate may also be further processed (e.g., cold-rolled, polished, etc.)
provided that it maintains the specified dimensions of plate following
such processing. Excluded from the scope of this petition are the
following: (1) Plate not in coils, (2) plate that is not annealed or
otherwise heat treated and pickled or otherwise descaled, (3) sheet and
strip, and (4) flat bars. In addition, certain cold-rolled stainless
steel plate in coils is also excluded from the scope of these orders.
The excluded cold-rolled stainless steel plate in coils is defined as
that merchandise which meets the physical characteristics described
above that has undergone a cold-reduction process that reduced the
thickness of the steel by 25 percent or more, and has been annealed and
pickled after this cold reduction process.
The merchandise subject to this review is currently classifiable in
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) at
subheadings: 7219110030, 7219110060, 7219120005, 7219120020,
7219120025, 7219120050, 7219120055, 7219120065, 7219120070, 7219120080,
7219310010, 7219900010, 7219900020, 7219900025, 7219900060, 7219900080,
7220110000, 7220201010, 7220201015, 7220201060, 7220201080, 7220206005,
7220206010, 7220206015, 7220206060, 7220206080, 7220900010, 7220900015,
7220900060, and 7220900080. Although the HTS subheadings are provided
for convenience and Customs purposes, the written description of the
merchandise under investigation is dispositive.
AMENDMENT OF FINAL RESULTS
On October 15, 2002, the Department of Commerce (``the
Department'') published its final results for the administrative review
of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel plate in coils from
Italy for the period May 1, 2000, through April 30, 2001. See Notice of
Final Results of Antidumping Administrative Review: Stainless Steel
Plate in Coils from Italy, 67 FR 63618 (October 15, 2002) (``Final
Results'').
Interested parties did not file any ministerial error comments on
these Final Results. However, the Department discovered that it
unintentionally stated in the Final Results that the ``all others''
rate was 48.80 percent, rather than the correct all others rate of
39.69 percent as determined in the original less-than-fair value
(``LTFV'') investigation. See Notice of Final Determination of Sales at
Less Than Fair Value: Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from Italy, 64 FR
15458 (March 31, 1999) (``Final Determination LTFV''). Thus, the
correct all others rate is the ``all others'' rate established in the
Final Determination LTFV.
The Department's regulations define a ministerial error as an
``error in addition, subtraction, or other arithmetic function,
clerical error resulting from inaccurate copying, duplication, or the
like, and any other similar type of unintentional error which the
Secretary considers ministerial'' (19 CFR 351.224(f)). Therefore, the
Department is now correcting this ministerial error. The correct ``all
others'' rate is 39.69 percent, in accordance with the Final
Determination LTFV.
Therefore, we are amending the final results of the antidumping
duty administrative review of stainless steel plate in coils from Italy
to reflect the correction of this ministerial error.
No other changes have been made to the cash deposit requirements as
provided in the Final Results.
We are issuing and publishing this determination and notice in
accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i) of the Act.
Dated: December 5, 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-31374 Filed 12-11-02; 8:45 am]