[Federal Register: February 17, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 31)]
[Notices]               
[Page 7856]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-412-811]

 
Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon Steel Products From 
the United Kingdom; Amended Final Countervailing Duty Determination and 
Order in Accordance With Decision Upon Remand

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

ACTION: Notice of amendment to final countervailing duty determination 
and order in accordance with decision upon remand.

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SUMMARY: On December 18, 1998, pursuant to a remand by the U.S. Court 
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Inland Steel Bar Co. v. United 
States, 155 F.3d 1370, (September 18, 1998), and in response to a 
consent motion, the United States Court of International Trade (CIT) 
affirmed the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) 
redetermination on remand (October 12, 1993) regarding the final 
affirmative countervailing duty determination (U.K. lead bar final 
determination) in Certain Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon Steel 
Products from the United Kingdom, 58 FR 6237 (January 27, 1993). The 
final countervailing duty rates for the U.K. lead bar final 
determination are listed below in the Results of Remand section.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 17, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gayle Longest or Christopher Cassel, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Constitution 
Avenue, N.W., Room 4012, Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
2786.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 27, 1993, the Department 
published in the Federal Register (58 FR 6237) the final affirmative 
determination of its countervailing duty investigation on certain hot-
rolled lead and bismuth carbon steel products from the United Kingdom 
(U.K. lead bar final determination). Subsequently, the Department 
modified the privatization methodology used in the U.K. lead bar final 
determination as a result of the final countervailing duty 
determination in Final Countervailing Duty Determination; Certain Steel 
Products from the United Kingdom.\1\ The Department requested, and the 
court granted, a remand to apply the methodology set out in the General 
Issues appendix to the privatization in the U.K. lead bar final 
determination. The Department filed its redetermination on remand in 
the U.K. lead bar final determination with the CIT on October 12, 1993. 
The ad valorem rate calculated for United Engineering Steel (UES) was 
4.59 percent.
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    \1\ See the sections of the General Issues Appendix, which are 
appended to the Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination: 
Certain Steel Products from Austria, 58 FR 37062, 37217 (July 9, 
1993), entitled Privatization, id. at 37259, and Restructuring, id. 
at 37265.
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Results of Remand

    On December 18, 1998, in response to a consent motion, the CIT 
affirmed the Department's final affirmative determination as revised by 
the October 12, 1993 remand determination. Therefore, in accordance 
with the results of remand affirmed by the CIT, we are amending the 
final countervailing duty determination and order. The final 
countervailing duty rates for the U.K. lead bar final determination and 
order are the following:

ASW Limited--20.33%
UES--4.59%
All Others--4.59%

    The above rates will not affect the cash deposit requirements 
currently in effect, which will continue to be based on the rates found 
to exist in the most recently completed administrative review.
    This amendment to the final countervailing duty determination 
notice and order is in accordance with sections 705(d) and 706(a) of 
the Tariff Act, as amended. (19 U.S.C. 1671d(d) and 1671e(a)) and 
Secs. 351.210 and 351.211 of the Department's regulations (19 CFR 
351.210 and 351.211 (1998)).

    Dated: February 10, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-3873 Filed 2-16-99; 8:45 am]
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