[Federal Register: September 4, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 170)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-428-830]
Stainless Steel Bar from Germany: Rescission of Antidumping Duty
Administrative ReviewE349-E351
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 4, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brandon Farlander or Damian Felton,
AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
0182 and (202) 482-0133, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On March 7, 2002, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'')
published an antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from
Germany. See Notice of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less
Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar from
Germany, 67 FR 10382 (March 7, 2002). On October 10, 2003, the
Department published an amended antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar from Germany. See Notice of Amended Antidumping Duty Orders:
Stainless Steel Bar from France, Germany, Italy, Korea, and the United
Kingdom, 68 FR 58660 (October 10, 2003).
On March 2, 2007, the Department published its Antidumping or
Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation:
Opportunity to Request Administrative Review, 72 FR 9505 (March 2,
2007). In response to timely requests made by petitioners,\1\
Schmiedewerke Groditz GmbH (``SWG''), and BGH Edelstahl Freital GmbH,
BGH Edelstahl Lippendorf GmbH, BGH Edelstahl Lugau GmbH and BGH
Edelstahl Siegen GmbH (collectively, ``BGH''), the Department initiated
an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless
steel bar from Germany covering the period March 1, 2006, through
February 28, 2007. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Administrative Reviews, 72 FR 20986 (April 27, 2007).
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\1\ Carpenter Technology Corporation; Crucible Specialty Metals
Division, Crucible Materials Corporation; Electralloy Corporation, a
Division of G.O. Carlson, Inc.; North American Stainless; Outokumpu
Stainless, Inc.; Universal Stainless and Alloy Products; and
Valbruna Slater Steels Corporation (collectively ``petitioners'').
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On July 11, 2007, SWG withdrew its request for an administrative
review. BGH requested that the Department extend the deadline for
parties to withdraw their request for administrative review on July 26,
2007, and August 2 and 9, 2007. The Department granted these extension
requests. On August 16, 2007, BGH and petitioners withdrew their
requests for review. As a result of the timely withdrawal of the
requests for review by SWG, BGH, and petitioners, we are rescinding
this administrative review.
Scope of the Order
For the purposes of this order, the term ``stainless steel bar''
includes articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been
either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise
cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along
their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals,
rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other
convex polygons. Stainless steel bar includes cold-finished stainless
steel bars that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether
produced from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire,
and reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other
deformations produced during the rolling process.
Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless
steel semi-finished products, cut length flat-rolled products (i.e.,
cut length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have
a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or
more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at
least twice the thickness), products that have been cut from stainless
steel sheet, strip or plate, wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils,
of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do
not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles,
shapes and sections.
The stainless steel bar subject to this review is currently
classifiable under subheadings 7222.11.00.05, 7222.11.00.50,
7222.19.00.05, 7222.19.00.50, 7222.20.00.05, 7222.20.00.45,
7222.20.00.75, and 7222.30.00.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
the United States (``HTSUS''). Although the HTSUS subheadings are
provided for convenience and customs purposes, the written description
of the scope of the order is dispositive.
Rescission of Review
The Department's regulations at 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1) provide that
the Department will rescind an administrative review, in whole or in
part, if the party that requested a review withdraws the request within
90 days of the date of publication of the notice of initiation of the
requested review or withdraws its request at a later date if the
Department determines that it is reasonable to extend the time limit
for withdrawing the request. SWG, BGH, and petitioners withdrew their
requests
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for administrative review. No other party requested a review with
respect to SWG, BGH, or any other company. Therefore, the Department is
rescinding this administrative review. The Department intends to issue
appropriate assessment instructions to U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (``CBP'') 15 days after the date of the publication of this
notice. The Department will direct CBP to assess antidumping duties for
SWG and BGH at the cash deposit rates in effect on the date of entry
for entries during the period March 1, 2006, through February 28, 2007.
Notification to Importers
This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate
regarding the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation
of the relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply
with this requirement could result in the Department's assumption that
reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of double antidumping duties.
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protective order (``APO'') of their responsibility
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely written
notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion
to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply
with the regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable
violation.
This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections
771(i) and 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR
351.213(d)(4).
Dated: August 28, 2007.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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