[Federal Register: October 6, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 193)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-201-504]

 
Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware From Mexico: Amended Final 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review in Accordance With 
Decision Upon Remand

AGENCY: International Trade Administration, Import Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of amendment to final results of antidumping duty 
administrative review in accordance with decision upon remand

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SUMMARY: On September 16, 1997, the United States Court of 
International Trade (the Court) vacated the final results rate for 
respondent Cinsa, S.A. de C.V., and affirmed the Department of 
Commerce's (the Department's) redetermination on remand regarding the 
Department's decision to rely on the transfer price of enamel frit 
submitted by Cinsa for purposes of constructed value for the 
administrative review covering the period December 1, 1989 through 
November 30, 1990 (fourth review). The Department has determined, in 
accordance with the instructions of the Court, the dumping margin for 
entries of porcelain-on-steel cooking ware from Mexico by Cinsa during 
that period to be 6.04 percent.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 6, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lorenza Olivas or Richard Herring, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, 
D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-2786.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 16, 1993, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (58 FR 43,327) the final results of its fourth administrative 
review of the

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antidumping duty order on porcelain-on-steel cooking ware from Mexico. 
The review covered the period December 1, 1989 through November 30, 
1990.
    Subsequent to the final results, Cinsa, one of two respondents, 
challenged the Department's determination before the Court on four 
issues. The Court issued a remand with respect to one issue only and 
directed the Department to determine whether the transfer price for 
enamel frit provided to the Department in that review constituted an 
arm's-length transaction as prescribed by the statute and previous 
practice. The Court agreed with the Department that the burden was on 
the respondent to ``establish that the transfer price for the purchase 
of raw material from the related party reflects an arm's-length 
price.'' However, it found that Cinsa had met its initial burden by 
supplying the Department with the requested explanation of how it 
determined the transfer price to be representative of a fair market 
price and of how it determined that transfer prices were above the cost 
of production. The Court found that Cinsa had effectively shifted the 
burden to the Department by explaining the discount in the transfer 
price, which was all the Department had requested of Cinsa during that 
review.
    The Department filed its redetermination on July 2, 1997. Although 
the Department respectfully disagreed with the Court's conclusion that 
Cinsa fulfilled its burden of proving the arm's-length nature of the 
related party transfer price, the Department determined that, for 
purposes of the remand, it should use Cinsa's reported transfer price 
for enamel frit from its related supplier to calculate constructed 
value because, in that review, the Department did not request that 
Cinsa provide any documentation in support of its claim that the extent 
of differences between the transfer prices for frit and the prices at 
which frit was sold to unrelated firms were accounted for fully. On 
September 16, 1997, the Court vacated the final results rate for 
respondent Cinsa and affirmed the Department's redetermination. No 
party contested that Court decision.

Results of Remand

    In accordance with the results of remand affirmed by the Court, we 
are amending the final results of review. The margin for Cinsa is 
reduced from 6.71 percent to 6.04 percent.
    The Department will instruct the Customs Service to assess 
antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. Individual differences 
between U.S. price and foreign market value may vary from the 
percentage stated above. The Department will issue appraisement 
instructions directly to the Customs Service. The above rate will not 
affect Cinsa's cash deposit requirements currently in effect, which 
will continue to be based on the margin found to exist in the most 
recently completed review.
    This amendment to the final results of antidumping duty 
administrative review notice is in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of 
the Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and Sec. 353.22 of the 
Department's regulations (19 CFR 353.22 (1989)).

    Dated: September 30, 1998.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-26780 Filed 10-5-98; 8:45 am]
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