FACT SHEET

Low Enriched Uranium: Final Affirmative Antidumping Duty Determination for France; Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determinations for France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom; Final Negative Antidumping Duty Determinations for Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

On Friday, December 14, we announced our final determinations in the above mentioned investigations. We found a final subsidy rate of 2.26 percent for imports of LEU from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, and a rate of 13.21 percent for imports of LEU from France. We also made a final affirmative determination in the antidumping investigation of LEU from France, with an antidumping margin of 19.57 percent. However, we made final determinations that sales of LEU from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom were not dumped in the United States.

Background:

These petitions were filed on December 7, 2000, by USEC Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary, United States Enrichment Corporation (collectively USEC). Subsequent to the filing of the petitions, the Paper, Allied -Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, and Local 5-550 and Local 5-689 (PACE) joined USEC, Inc. as petitioners in these cases. The Department initiated these investigations on December 27, 2000.

Product Description:

The merchandise subject to these investigations is low enriched uranium (LEU). The technical language describing the scope of these investigations will be included in the final determination notices which will be published in the Federal Register. LEU imported into the United States solely for further processing and consumption outside of the United States is excluded from these investigations.

Antidumping Margins and Countervailing Rates Final and Preliminary:

FRANCE

GERMANY

THE NETHERLANDS

THE UNITED KINGDOM

Remaining Case Calendar:

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