99-691. Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Canada: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews and Determination To Revoke in Part  

  • [Federal Register Volume 64, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 13, 1999)]
    [Notices]
    [Pages 2173-2192]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 99-691]
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
    
    International Trade Administration
    [A-122-822, A-122-823]
    
    
    Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products and 
    Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Canada: Final Results of 
    Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews and Determination To Revoke in 
    Part
    
    AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
    Department of Commerce.
    
    ACTION: Notice of final results of the antidumping duty administrative 
    review of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products and 
    certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Canada and determination 
    to revoke in part.
    
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    SUMMARY: On July 10, 1998, the Department of Commerce (``the 
    Department'') published the preliminary results of its administrative 
    reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain corrosion-resistant 
    carbon steel flat products and certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate 
    from Canada. These reviews cover six manufacturers/exporters of the 
    subject merchandise to the United States (three manufacturers/exporters 
    of corrosion-resistant carbon steel and four manufacturers/exporters of 
    cut-to-length carbon steel plate), and the period August 1, 1996, 
    through July 31, 1997. We gave interested parties an opportunity to 
    comment on our preliminary results. As a result of these comments, we 
    have changed the results from those presented in the preliminary 
    results of review.
    
    EFFECTIVE DATE: January 13, 1999.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebecca Trainor (Dofasco, Inc. and 
    Sorevco Inc. (collectively, Dofasco)); Eric Scheier (Continuous Colour 
    Coat (CCC)); Lesley Stagliano (Algoma Inc. (Algoma)); Gideon Katz, 
    (Gerdau MRM Steel (MRM)), A.J. Forsyth and Co., Ltd. (Forsyth) and 
    Stelco, Inc. (Stelco) corrosion resistant); Laurel LaCivita (Stelco 
    plate); or Maureen Flannery, Import Administration, International Trade 
    Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
    Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
    4733.
    
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    
    The Applicable Statute and Regulations
    
        Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
    1930, as amended (the Act), are 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 19 CFR 
    part 351 (1998).
    
    Background
    
        On July 10, 1998, we published in the Federal Register (63 FR 
    37320) the preliminary results of the administrative reviews of the 
    antidumping duty orders on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel 
    flat products and certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Canada 
    (Preliminary Results). We gave interested parties an opportunity to 
    comment on our preliminary results. We received written comments from 
    Algoma, CCC, Dofasco, Stelco, and Forsyth, and from the petitioners 
    (Bethlehem Steel Corporation, U.S. Steel Group (a unit of USX 
    Corporation), Inland Steel Industries, Inc., Gulf States Steel Inc. of 
    Alabama, Sharon Steel Corporation, Geneva Steel, and Lukens Steel 
    Company). We have now completed these administrative reviews in 
    accordance with section 751(a) of the Act.
    
    Scope of Reviews
    
        The products covered by these administrative reviews constitute two 
    separate ``classes or kinds'' of merchandise: (1) Certain corrosion-
    resistant carbon steel flat products, and (2) certain cut-to-length 
    carbon steel plate.
        The first class or kind, certain corrosion-resistant steel, 
    includes flat-rolled carbon steel products, of rectangular shape, 
    either clad, plated, or coated with corrosion-resistant metals such as 
    zinc, aluminum, or zinc-, aluminum-, nickel- or iron-based alloys, 
    whether or not corrugated or painted, varnished or coated with plastics 
    or other nonmetallic substances in addition to the metallic coating, in 
    coils (whether or not in successively superimposed layers) and of a 
    width of 0.5 inch or greater, or in straight lengths which, if of a 
    thickness less than 4.75 millimeters, are of a width of 0.5 inch or 
    greater and which measures at least 10 times the thickness or if of a 
    thickness of 4.75 millimeters or more are of a width which exceeds 150 
    millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness, as currently 
    classifiable in the HTS under item numbers 7210.30.0030, 7210.30.0060, 
    7210.41.0000, 7210.49.0030, 7210.49.0090, 7210.61.0000, 7210.69.0000, 
    7210.70.6030, 7210.70.6060, 7210.70.6090, 7210.90.1000, 7210.90.6000, 
    7210.90.9000, 7212.20.0000, 7212.30.1030, 7212.30.1090, 7212.30.3000, 
    7212.30.5000,
    
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    7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 7212.50.0000, 7212.60.0000, 7215.90.1000, 
    7215.90.3000, 7215.90.5000, 7217.20.1500, 7217.30.1530, 7217.30.1560, 
    7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060, 7217.90.5090. Included in 
    this review are corrosion-resistant flat-rolled products of non-
    rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved 
    subsequent to the rolling process (i.e., products which have been 
    ``worked after rolling'')--for example, products which have been 
    beveled or rounded at the edges. Excluded from this review are flat-
    rolled steel products either plated or coated with tin, lead, chromium, 
    chromium oxides, both tin and lead (``terne plate''), or both chromium 
    and chromium oxides (``tin-free steel''), whether or not painted, 
    varnished or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances in 
    addition to the metallic coating. Also excluded from this review are 
    clad products in straight lengths of 0.1875 inch or more in composite 
    thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 millimeters and measures at 
    least twice the thickness. Also excluded from this review are certain 
    clad stainless flat-rolled products, which are three-layered corrosion-
    resistant carbon steel flat-rolled products less than 4.75 millimeters 
    in composite thickness that consist of a carbon steel flat-rolled 
    product clad on both sides with stainless steel in a 20%-60%-20% ratio.
        The second class or kind, certain cut-to-length plate, includes 
    hot-rolled carbon steel universal mill plates (i.e., flat-rolled 
    products rolled on four faces or in a closed box pass, of a width 
    exceeding 150 millimeters but not exceeding 1,250 millimeters and of a 
    thickness of not less than 4 millimeters, not in coils and without 
    patterns in relief), of rectangular shape, neither clad, plated nor 
    coated with metal, whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with 
    plastics or other nonmetallic substances; and certain hot-rolled carbon 
    steel flat-rolled products in straight lengths, of rectangular shape, 
    hot rolled, neither clad, plated, nor coated with metal, whether or not 
    painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic 
    substances, 4.75 millimeters or more in thickness and of a width which 
    exceeds 150 millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness, as 
    currently classifiable in the HTS under item numbers 7208.40.3030, 
    7208.40.3060, 7208.51.0030, 7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 7208.52.0000, 
    7208.53.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 
    7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0045, 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, 
    7212.50.0000. Included in this review are flat-rolled products of non-
    rectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved 
    subsequent to the rolling process (i.e., products which have been 
    ``worked after rolling'')--for example, products which have been 
    beveled or rounded at the edges. Excluded from this review is grade X-
    70 plate. Also excluded is cut-to-length carbon steel plate meeting the 
    following criteria: (1) 100% dry steel plates, virgin steel, no scrap 
    content (free of Cobalt-60 and other radioactive nuclides); (2) .290 
    inches maximum thickness, plus 0.0, minus .030 inches; (3) 48.00 inch 
    wide, plus .05, minus 0.0 inches; (4) 10 foot lengths, plus 0.5, minus 
    0.0 inches; (5) flatness, plus/minus 0.5 inch over 10 feet; (6) AISI 
    1006; (7) tension leveled; (8) pickled and oiled; and (9) carbon 
    content, 0.3 to 0.8 (maximum).
        With respect to both classes or kinds, the HTS item numbers are 
    provided for convenience and Customs purposes. The written description 
    remains dispositive of the scope of these reviews.
    
    Fair Value Comparisons
    
        To determine whether sales of subject merchandise from Canada to 
    the United States were made at less than fair value, we compared the 
    Export Price (EP) to the Normal Value (NV), as described in the 
    ``Export Price'' and ``Normal Value'' sections of the preliminary 
    results of review notice. On January 8, 1998, the Court of Appeals for 
    the Federal Circuit issued a decision in CEMEX v. United States, 133 
    F.3d 897 (Fed Cir. 1998). In that case, based on the pre-URAA version 
    of the Act, the Court discussed the appropriateness of using 
    constructed value (CV) as the basis for foreign market value when the 
    Department finds home market sales to be outside the ``ordinary course 
    of trade.'' This issue was not raised by any party in this proceeding. 
    However, the URAA amended the definition of sales outside the 
    ``ordinary course of trade'' to include sales below cost. See section 
    771(15) of the Act. Consequently, the Department has reconsidered its 
    practice in accordance with this court decision and has determined that 
    it would be inappropriate to resort directly to CV, in lieu of foreign 
    market sales, as the basis for NV if the Department finds foreign 
    market sales of merchandise identical or most similar to that sold in 
    the United States to be outside the ``ordinary course of trade.'' We 
    will match a given U.S. sale to foreign market sales of the next most 
    similar model when all sales of the most comparable model are below 
    cost. The Department will use CV as the basis for NV only when there 
    are no above-cost sales that are otherwise suitable for comparison. 
    Therefore, in this proceeding, when making comparisons in accordance 
    with section 771(16) of the Act, we considered all products sold in the 
    home market as described in the ``Scope of Review'' section of this 
    notice, above, that were in the ordinary course of trade for purposes 
    of determining appropriate product comparisons to U.S. sales. Where 
    there were no sales of identical merchandise in the home market made in 
    the ordinary course of trade to compare to U.S. sales, we compared U.S. 
    sales to sales of the most similar foreign like product made in the 
    ordinary course of trade, based on the characteristics listed in 
    Sections B and C of our antidumping questionnaire. We have implemented 
    the Court's decision in this case, to the extent that the data on the 
    record permitted.
    
    Determination Not To Revoke in Part: Stelco Cut-to-Length Carbon 
    Steel Plate and Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products, and 
    Determination To Revoke in Part: Algoma Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel 
    Plate
    
        On August 28, 1997, Algoma submitted a request, in accordance with 
    19 CFR 351.222(b), that the Department revoke the order covering cut-
    to-length carbon steel plate from Canada with respect to its sales of 
    this merchandise. On August 29, 1997, Stelco submitted a request that 
    the Department revoke the orders covering cut-to-length carbon steel 
    plate and corrosion-resistant steel from Canada with respect to its 
    sales of this merchandise. In accordance with 19 CFR 
    351.222(b)(2)(iii), these requests were accompanied by certifications 
    from Algoma and Stelco that they had not sold the subject merchandise 
    at less than NV for a three-year period, including this review period, 
    and would not do so in the future. Algoma and Stelco also agreed to 
    their immediate reinstatement in the relevant antidumping order, as 
    long as any firm is subject to the order, if the Department concludes 
    under 19 CFR 351.216 that, subsequent to revocation, they sold the 
    subject merchandise at less than NV.
        The Department conducted verifications of Algoma's and Stelco's 
    responses for this period of review. In the two prior reviews of this 
    order we determined that Algoma and Stelco sold cut-to-length carbon 
    steel plate from Canada at not less than NV or at de minimis margins. 
    We determine that
    
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    both Algoma and Stelco sold cut-to-length carbon steel plate at not 
    less than NV during the instant review period.
        On August 10, 1998, petitioners submitted argumentation opposing 
    Algoma's and Stelco's revocation requests. On December 4, 1998, we 
    placed on the record of this review the results of research that we 
    conducted to help us determine the likelihood of resumed dumping, and 
    opened the record for further comment on this issue. See memorandum to 
    the file, dated December 4, 1998.
        In determining whether to revoke an antidumping order in part, we 
    must conclude pursuant to Sec. 351.222(b)(2), that: (1) The company has 
    sold subject merchandise at not less than normal value to the United 
    States in commercial quantities for three consecutive reviews; (2) it 
    is not likely that the companies eligible for revocation will in the 
    future sell the subject merchandise at less than NV; and (3) the 
    company agrees to its immediate reinstatement in the order if the 
    Department concludes that the company, subsequent to the revocation, 
    sold the subject merchandise at less than NV.
        In the present case, the Department has found that Stelco has had 
    zero or de minimis dumping margins for three consecutive reviews. 
    However, in determining whether the three years of no dumping are a 
    sufficient basis to make a revocation determination, the Department 
    must be able to determine that the company has continued to participate 
    meaningfully in the U.S. market during each of the three years at 
    issue. See Pure Magnesium from Canada, 63 FR 26147 (May 12, 1998). This 
    practice has been codified by Sec. 351.222(d)(1) of the Department's 
    regulations, which state that, ``before revoking an order or 
    terminating a suspended investigation, the Secretary must be satisfied 
    that, during each of the three (or five) years, there were exports to 
    the United States in commercial quantities of the subject merchandise 
    to which a revocation or termination will apply.'' 19 CFR 351.222(d)(1) 
    (emphasis added). For purposes of revocation, the Department must be 
    able to determine that past margins are reflective of a company's 
    normal commercial activity. Sales during the POR which, in the 
    aggregate, are an abnormally small quantity do not provide a reasonable 
    basis for determining that the discipline of the order is no longer 
    necessary to offset dumping.
        Based on the current record, we find that Stelco did not sell 
    merchandise in the United States in commercial quantities during the 
    second administrative review (one of the three consecutive reviews 
    cited by Stelco to support its request for revocation). During the POR 
    covered by that review (August 1994 though July 1995), Stelco made only 
    one sale in the United States. Moreover, this sale was only for 36 tons 
    of subject merchandise. By contrast, during the period covered by the 
    antidumping investigation, which was only six months long, Stelco made 
    several thousand sales totaling approximately 30,000 tons. In other 
    words, Stelco's sales for the entire year covered by the second review 
    period were only 0.12% of its sales volume during the six-months 
    covered by the investigation. Similarly, during the current POR, Stelco 
    sold approximately 2000 tons of subject merchandise in the United 
    States. While this amount is small in comparison to the amount sold 
    prior to issuance of the order, it is over 50 times greater than the 
    amount sold during the period covered by the second administrative 
    review. Consequently, although Stelco received a de minimis margin 
    during the second administrative review, this margin was not based on 
    commercial quantities within the meaning of the revocation regulation. 
    The number of sales and total sales volume is so small, both in 
    absolute terms, and in comparison with the period of investigation and 
    other review periods, that it does not provide any meaningful 
    information on Stelco's normal commercial experience. Therefore, we 
    find that Stelco does not qualify for revocation from the order on 
    steel plate under Sec. 351.222(b)(1)(i) and (d)(1).
        We find that Algoma has met all of the requirements for revocation 
    under Sec. 351.222(b)(1) of the Department's regulations. As we 
    explained in Dynamic Random Access Memory Semiconductors of One 
    Megabyte or Above From the Republic of Korea, Notice of Final Results 
    of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Determination Not To 
    Revoke Order In Part, 62 FR 39809, 39810 (July 24, 1997) (DRAMS from 
    Korea), in evaluating the issue of likelihood, the Department has 
    considered three years of sales in the United States with no dumping 
    margins, plus an agreement to reinstatement in the order, to be 
    indicative of expected future behavior. Absent other evidence, the 
    Department considers such facts to be determinative of the likelihood 
    issue.
        Algoma has sold merchandise in the United States at not less than 
    NV for three consecutive reviews. Moreover, during each of these 
    periods, Algoma's aggregate sales were made in commercial quantities. 
    Algoma has also agreed to its immediate reinstatement in the order if 
    we conclude, subsequent to the revocation, that Algoma has sold the 
    subject merchandise at less than NV. Finally, no party has argued that 
    Algoma is not eligible for revocation based on likelihood under 
    Sec. 351.222(b)(2)(ii), and we find that there is not sufficient 
    support for such a conclusion. Therefore, based on its consecutive 
    years of zero or de minimis margins, and reinstatement agreement, and 
    in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we conclude that it is not 
    likely that Algoma will sell subject merchandise in the United States 
    at less than fair value.
        Regarding Stelco's request for revocation with respect to 
    corrosion-resistant steel, we note that in the last two administrative 
    reviews we determined that Stelco sold corrosion-resistant steel at 
    less than NV. See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat 
    Products and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Canada: 
    Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, 62 FR 12725 
    (March 16, 1998) and Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat 
    Products and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Canada: 
    Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, 62 FR 18448 
    (April 15, 1997)(1994/95 Canadian Steel). Although the final results of 
    these reviews are subject to litigation, that litigation is not yet 
    complete. Additionally, as discussed below, we have determined that 
    Stelco sold corrosion-resistant steel at less than NV during the period 
    covered by this review. Consequently, we determine that because Stelco 
    does not have three consecutive years of zero or de minimis margins on 
    corrosion-resistant steel, Stelco is not eligible for revocation of the 
    order on corrosion-resistant steel under 19 CFR 351.222(b).
    
    Facts Available
    
        As we explained in the preliminary results, we determine that the 
    use of facts available is appropriate for Forsyth in accordance with 
    section 776(a) of the Act, because it failed to report all of its home 
    market sales made during the POR.
        Where necessary information is missing from the record, the 
    Department may apply facts available under section 776 of the Act. 
    Further, where that information is missing because a respondent has 
    failed to cooperate to the best of its ability, section 776(b) of the 
    Act authorizes the Department to use facts available that are adverse 
    to the interests of that respondent, which may include information 
    derived from the petition, the final determination, a
    
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    previous administrative review, or other information placed on the 
    record. Forsyth did not respond to our repeated requests that it report 
    all of its home market sales; rather, it presented arguments as to why 
    it could omit many of those sales. As we explained in the preliminary 
    determination, we disagree with these arguments. Therefore, we conclude 
    that Forsyth has failed to cooperate to the best of its ability.
        As adverse facts available for Forsyth, we are using the highest 
    dumping margin from any segment of this proceeding, 68.70 percent. This 
    is the rate used as facts available in the LTFV final determination, 
    and is found in the petition. See Memorandum to the File ``Preliminary 
    Results of Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Canada; Corroboration 
    of Antidumping Duty Margin Used as Facts Available for A.J. Forsyth'' 
    July 2, 1998 (Corroboration Memo).
        Section 776(c) provides that the Department shall, to the extent 
    practicable, corroborate ``secondary information'' by reviewing 
    independent sources reasonably at its disposal. The Statement of 
    Administrative Action (SAA) accompanying the URAA at 870, clarifies 
    that ``secondary information'' includes information from the petition 
    in the LTFV investigation, the final determination, or information from 
    a previous section 751 review of the subject merchandise. The SAA also 
    provides that ``corroborate'' means simply that the Department will 
    satisfy itself that the secondary information to be used has probative 
    value. Id.
        In accordance with this requirement, we corroborated the LTFV 
    margin to the extent practicable. We examined the basis of the rates 
    contained in the petition. Petitioners based both U.S. price and normal 
    value on actual prices from price quotations to U.S. customers and 
    price lists for plate sold by respondents. See Petition Requesting the 
    Imposition of Antidumping Duties on Imports of Cut-to-Length Carbon 
    Steel Plate from Canada, June 30, 1992 and July 14, 1992 (amended 
    petition). The price lists and price quotes that support the petition 
    margin are independent sources. Furthermore, the Department did not 
    receive any information or comment from the respondent or other 
    interested parties in this review concerning the U.S. prices and normal 
    values contained in the petition, and is aware of no other independent 
    sources of information that would enable us to further corroborate the 
    margin calculated in the petition. We note that the SAA, at 870, 
    specifically states that where ``corroboration may not be practicable 
    in a given circumstance,'' the Department may nevertheless apply an 
    adverse inference. Based on these reasons, the Department considers the 
    LTFV rate used as adverse facts available to be corroborated.
    
    Changes From the Preliminary Results
    
        The Department is implementing a change in this review in the 
    calculation of U.S. credit expense for Algoma, CCC, MRM, and Dofasco, 
    to be consistent with the Department's current practice, as outlined in 
    Import Administration Bulletin 98.2: Imputed Credit Expenses And 
    Interest Rate (February 23, 1998) (Policy Bulletin 98.2).
        It is the Department's practice to calculate the U.S. credit 
    expense using a short-term interest rate tied to the currency in which 
    the sales are denominated. This interest rate should be based on the 
    respondent's weighted-average short-term borrowing experience in the 
    currency of the transaction. In cases, such as these, where Algoma, 
    CCC, MRM and Dofasco have no short-term borrowings in the currency of 
    the transaction, we will use publicly available information to 
    establish a short-term interest rate applicable to the currency of the 
    transaction. Since we are addressing the U.S. dollar transactions for 
    these companies, for these final results we have used the average 
    short-term lending rates calculated by the Federal Reserve to impute 
    credit expenses. Specifically, we have used the Federal Reserve's 
    weighted-average data for commercial and industrial loans maturing 
    between one month and one year from the time the loan is made. See 
    Final Analysis Memoranda for Algoma, CCC, MRM, and Dofasco, on file in 
    room B-099 of the Commerce Department.
    
    Interested Party Comments
    
    Algoma
    
    Comment 1: Credit Expenses
        Petitioners allege that the errors found in the reported credit 
    expenses at verification indicate that the information cannot be 
    verified. Petitioners also contend that Algoma did not report credit 
    expenses to the best of its ability and that, therefore, the Department 
    should apply adverse facts available. Petitioners argue that the 
    Department cannot rely on Algoma's data to conclude that the credit 
    expense errors were isolated because, rather than the Department 
    verifying this assertion itself, the Department relied on Algoma to 
    independently verify that there were no other errors in its reporting 
    of payment dates. Petitioners argue that, unlike in Melamine 
    Institutional Dinnerware from Indonesia: Final Determination of Sales 
    at Less Than Fair Value, 62 FR 1719, 1723 (January 13, 1997), where the 
    Department corrected errors found at verification after verifying that 
    the errors were isolated, the Department did not verify that the errors 
    in Algoma's reporting of credit expenses were isolated.
        Petitioners contend that the errors discovered by the Department 
    during verification were significant because Algoma reported credit 
    expenses where it actually received advance payments. Thus, petitioners 
    argue, Algoma failed verification, and the Department should apply 
    facts available, as it did in Stainless Steel Bars from Spain; Final 
    Results of Admin. Review, 59 FR 66931, 66935 (December 28, 1994), 
    Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe and Tube from Mexico; Final 
    Results of Admin. Review, 62 FR 37014, 37016 (July 10, 1997), and 
    Svenskt Stal AV v. United States, Ct. No. 96-05-01372 Slip Op., 97-123 
    (August 29, 1997). Petitioners also cite section 776(a) of the Act, 
    which states that if information provided by a respondent cannot be 
    verified, the Department shall use facts available in reaching its 
    determination.
        Petitioners assert that Algoma failed to report to the best of its 
    ability at verification because it did not disclose the errors in its 
    reported credit expenses for the affected home market sales either 
    prior to, or at the outset, of verification. Citing 19 U.S. C. 
    1677e(b), petitioners state that if a party fails to cooperate by not 
    acting to the best of its ability to comply with a request for 
    information, the Department may draw an adverse inference in its 
    selection of facts otherwise available. In Cut-to-Length Steel Plate 
    from South Africa: Final Results of Admin. Review, 62 FR 61731, 61739 
    (November 19, 1997), the Department applied the highest credit expense 
    reported on a U.S. sale to all U.S. sales when the respondent failed to 
    report to the best of its ability.
        Algoma disagrees with petitioners. Algoma notes that the Department 
    found two discrepancies at verification involving reported payment 
    dates, neither of which was significant. The first error was a 
    typographical error in the reported date of payment for a pre-selected 
    home market sale. In the second error, Algoma's accounting department 
    posted the payment against the date on which the amount was due instead 
    of the date on which the cash was received for a sale in which there 
    was an advance payment by the customer. Algoma argues that, contrary to 
    petitioners' allegation, the other advance payment errors were not 
    uncovered by the Department's verification team, but were discovered
    
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    when Algoma searched its entire submission for transactions where the 
    customer prepayment was received. Algoma determined that other errors 
    of the same type existed and voluntarily disclosed this information to 
    the Department on its own initiative during verification.
        Algoma argues that the Department's Sales Verification Report at 
    pages 13-14 shows that the Department verified the extent of Algoma's 
    credit errors by examining the results of a computer query conducted on 
    the sales database, and verified the corrected information. Algoma 
    points out that the errors could not have been included in the 
    corrections memorandum provided at the beginning of verification 
    because Algoma was not aware of them at that time. Algoma further 
    argues that the errors at issue were both small in effect and isolated 
    in scope. Algoma argues that, because the Department corrected the 
    transactions at issue, verified the remainder of Algoma's file, and 
    used the corrected information in its preliminary results of review, no 
    further action by the Department is appropriate or necessary.
        Department's Position: We agree with Algoma. At verification, we 
    reviewed the method by which Algoma searched its database for the 
    payment date errors, and we examined the full universe of sales in 
    which these errors occurred. Since all of these credit expense errors 
    occurred in sales where there were advance payments, we consider these 
    errors to be isolated in nature. Therefore, we are making no changes to 
    our calculations for the final results of review other than permitting 
    Algoma to correct the errors. For further discussion of this issue, 
    refer to the November 3, 1998 Memorandum to the File: Final Results of 
    the Antidumping Administrative Review of Cut-to-Length (CTL) Carbon 
    Steel Plate from Canada (Algoma's Issues Memo).
    Comment 2: Freight Expenses
        Petitioners argue that there are a number of U.S. sales for which 
    Algoma reported having received freight revenue but for which it did 
    not report a corresponding freight expense. Petitioners state that the 
    Department should apply to these sales the highest U.S. freight expense 
    reported for any U.S. sale as adverse facts available.
        Petitioners argue that it was only after verification was underway 
    that Algoma ran an ``internal edit check'' and identified deleted 
    freight expense data for some of these sales. Petitioners argue that 
    Algoma should have reported this data to the Department before 
    verification, since the freight charges for these sales were reported 
    in Algoma's November 21, 1997 sales tape, but were ``inexplicably'' 
    deleted from its later submissions. Petitioners allege that when Algoma 
    deleted the freight charges from its sales tapes in its subsequent 
    responses, it did not report the freight expenses to the best of its 
    ability. As with Algoma's credit expenses, petitioners argue that 
    Algoma's independent analysis of its database provides no justification 
    to conclude that the error is ``isolated,'' and that the sample of 
    sales verified cannot be considered to be representative of Algoma's 
    reporting as a whole. Petitioners contend that because Algoma failed to 
    report to the best of its ability, the Department should draw an 
    adverse inference and apply the highest U.S. freight expense reported 
    for any U.S. sale to the sales in question. Petitioners cite Welded 
    Carbon Steel Pipe and Tube from Turkey: Final Results of Administrative 
    Antidumping Review, 61 FR 69067, 69073 (December 31, 1996), and Foam 
    Extruded PVC from the United Kingdom: Final Results of Administrative 
    Antidumping Review, 61 FR 51411, 51414 (October 2, 1996).
        Algoma contends that the Department has already rejected 
    petitioners' argument that U.S. freight expenses were misreported. 
    Algoma explains that, in unusual instances, a carrier may neglect to 
    bill Algoma for transport provided. In these instances, Algoma incurs 
    no freight expense, and the proper accounting treatment is to show no 
    freight expense. The proper treatment of freight revenue is to report 
    it whenever the customer pays for freight. Therefore, Algoma claims, 
    for some of the sales petitioners reference, freight expense and 
    revenue were correctly reported.
        With respect to sales for which a freight expense was incurred but 
    not reported, Algoma further maintains that it was not aware of the 
    computer error prior to verification because none of the sales 
    preselected by the Department raised the issue. Algoma did not discover 
    the error until it began preparing its response to petitioners' 
    allegations, after verification commenced. On the night before 
    verification, it received petitioners' letter asking the Department to 
    examine certain transactions where no freight charges were reported. 
    Algoma found that in one of the transactions mentioned in the letter, 
    freight revenue was reported, but there was no corresponding freight 
    expense. Algoma then conducted a search to identify other such 
    transactions. Algoma maintains that the correct information was 
    verified by the Department and that no ``discrepancy'' existed because 
    the correct data was on the record prior to verification.
        Department's Position: We agree with Algoma. Algoma reported the 
    freight expense errors to the best of its ability at verification and 
    disclosed them to the Department on its own initiative. At 
    verification, we examined the method by which Algoma determined that 
    the reported freight expense was in error, and found no reason to 
    believe that the errors were indicative of a corrupt database. We also 
    found that some of the sales in question were indeed reported 
    correctly, and that other sales at issue were correctly reported prior 
    to verification. Finally, reliability of these expenses is enhanced by 
    the fact that Algoma reported all of them in its initial submission, 
    which is on the record. The apparently inadvertent omissions only 
    showed up in later submissions of the same information. Since the 
    Department found Algoma's database to be reliable, we believe that the 
    freight expense errors were isolated in nature. Therefore, we will 
    include the corrected data for the freight expense in our final 
    calculations. See Algoma's Issues Memo for further discussion of this 
    issue.
    Comment 3: Inclusion of Certain Sales
        Petitioners argue that certain sales should be included as part of 
    the sales database due to a date of sale issue, the details of which 
    are proprietary.
        Algoma contends that the Department should continue to exclude 
    certain transactions as part of its margin calculation because the 
    product type and quantity shipped for these sales (under an agreement) 
    was not fixed until the date of shipment (and invoicing). Algoma states 
    that these transactions were removed from the original sales tape and 
    thereafter reported in a separate data file because their dates of sale 
    (invoice date) fell outside of the contemporaneous reporting window. 
    Algoma argues that it originally included these sales in its November 
    21, 1997 sales listing in the belief that they had been made pursuant 
    to a long-term contract that fixed the material terms of sale (e.g., 
    product description, price, and quantity) on the date of initial 
    agreement between the parties. Algoma alleges, however, that as 
    demonstrated at verification, the material terms of sale (i.e., the 
    product description and quantities) were amended several times after 
    that date.
        Algoma maintains that, in accordance with the Department's long-
    standing ``date of sale'' methodology, it is improper to use the date 
    of initial agreement as the date of sale for these
    
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    transactions because the material terms of sale were not established 
    with finality on that date.
        Department's Position: We agree with Algoma. The material terms of 
    these sales were amended, and the date on which these terms became 
    fixed (i.e., the date of sale), falls outside of the period of review 
    (``POR''). Because this issue is not subject to further summarization, 
    see Algoma's Issues Memo for a more detailed proprietary discussion.
    Comment 4: Date of Sale
        Petitioners argue that Algoma's date of sale is the order entry 
    date rather than the invoice date, because, they claim, both price and 
    quantity terms of sale are fixed on the order entry date for both U.S. 
    and home market sales. Petitioners maintain that, under Sec. 351.401(i) 
    of the Department's regulations, the Secretary may use a date of sale 
    other than the date of invoice if the Secretary is satisfied that an 
    alternative date more accurately reflects the date on which the 
    exporter or producer established the material terms of sale. 
    Petitioners base their contention on a reference in the Department's 
    verification report to a chart examined at verification in which Algoma 
    compared the quantity of merchandise ordered to the quantity of 
    merchandise shipped. The report stated, ``there does not appear to be a 
    significant difference between the number of pieces shipped and the 
    number of pieces ordered.'' (Memorandum to the File: Report on the 
    Sales Verification of Algoma Steel Corporation in the 8/1/96-7/31/97 
    Administrative Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on Cut-to-Length 
    Carbon Steel Plate from Canada (May 22, 1998) (Algoma Sales 
    Verification Report)). Petitioners also cite Stainless Steel Bar from 
    India: Final Results, 63 FR 3536, 3537 (January 23, 1998), in which the 
    Department used the purchase order date as the date of sale because no 
    material changes occurred between the purchase order date and the 
    invoice date. Petitioners also cite Canned Pineapple Fruit from 
    Thailand: Final Results, 63 FR 7392, 7394 (February 13, 1998), and 
    Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from Korea: Final Results, 63 FR 
    32833, 32836 (June 16, 1998), in which the Department used the contract 
    date as the date of sale.
        Algoma argues that the Department's presumption in favor of using 
    the invoice date as the date of sale in the preliminary results notice 
    is justified. Algoma disagrees with petitioners' argument in favor of 
    the order entry date because it relies exclusively on a statement made 
    by the Department in the Algoma Sales Verification Report relating to a 
    chart that Algoma prepared, and it ignores the facts on which the 
    Department based its conclusion. Algoma asserts that the verification 
    report also states that the verifiers ``found no discrepancies with 
    their (Algoma's) date of sale.'' According to Algoma, the data show 
    that the quantity shipped differs from the quantity ordered on a 
    regular basis, which is sufficient to sustain the use of invoice date 
    in accordance with the Department's practice. Algoma cites the preamble 
    to the Department's regulations, published in the Federal Register on 
    May 19, 1997, in which the Department stated:
    
        A preliminary agreement on terms, even if reduced to writing, in 
    an industry where renegotiation is common does not provide any 
    reliable indication that the terms are truly ``established'' in the 
    minds of the buyer and seller. This holds even if, for a particular 
    sale, the terms were not renegotiated.
    
    62 FR 27349.
    
        Algoma concludes that, because the terms of sale, in particular the 
    quantity shipped, are commonly subject to further negotiation up to the 
    date of shipment, the Department's use of the invoice date as the date 
    of sale is justified in this case.
        Department's Position: We agree with Algoma. As stated in 
    Sec. 351.401(i) of the Department's regulations, we normally use the 
    invoice date as the date of sale. At verification, we examined a chart 
    comparing the quantity ordered to the quantity shipped/invoiced for a 
    certain number of sales, and found that the quantity changed between 
    the order date and the invoice date for a number of sales; see Exhibit 
    40, page S6506, of the Algoma Sales Verification Report. Therefore, we 
    have continued to use Algoma's invoice date as the date of sale in 
    accordance with our normal practice. See Memorandum to the File: 
    Analysis for Algoma Steel Inc. for the Final Results of the Fourth 
    Administrative Review, on file in room B-099 of the Commerce 
    Department.
    Comment 5: Imputed Credit
        Algoma argues that the Department should include banking fees in 
    the Canadian dollar-denominated interest rate used to impute credit 
    expenses for home market sales, even though Algoma did not include them 
    in its calculations prior to verification. Algoma points out that, at 
    the outset of verification, it disclosed to the Department that it had 
    omitted certain banking fees that were paid in connection with the 
    short-term revolving credit facility from its calculation of the 
    Canadian dollar short-term interest expense factor. Algoma claims that 
    page 36 of the annual report submitted as part of its Section A 
    Response identifies the following bank charges related to short-term 
    borrowing made during the POR under Algoma's ``revolving credit 
    facility'' which opened in 1995: an amortized ``issuance cost,'' 
    ``annual fees,'' and ``fees determined by the amount of the unused 
    portion of the facility during the course of a given month.''
        Algoma claims that the Department should not consider this 
    information as ``new'' because Algoma established on the record well 
    before verification that it incurred such banking fees as part of its 
    actual total cost of short-term Canadian borrowings under the credit 
    facility in question. Algoma claims that it identified the total amount 
    of such ``interest and fees on operating line'' incurred during the 
    1997 calendar year (overlapping half of the POR) in its first 
    supplemental questionnaire response, and reconciled the reported amount 
    of these bank charges to its audited financial statement in the second 
    supplemental questionnaire response.
        Algoma maintains that petitioners were aware of the credit line, 
    and specifically asked the Department to examine the issue at 
    verification, and to place the entire credit agreement on the record. 
    Furthermore, Algoma argues that the information is not ``new'' because 
    not only is it on the record, but it was examined at verification. 
    Algoma cites both the Department's sales verification report and cost 
    verification report in making its claim that the amount of the bank 
    fees was verified in order to reconcile the reported interest payment 
    amounts to Algoma's audited financial statements at verification. 
    Algoma states that the Department examined and verified the bank fees 
    in the cost verification for six of the twelve months of the POR.
        Algoma adds that the Department's normal practice requires it to 
    include these costs in Algoma's home market credit expenses, and that 
    not doing so would understate Algoma's actual cost of short-term 
    borrowing. Algoma cites Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Plate Products 
    from Korea; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 
    Comment 2, 62 FR 781801 (January 7, 1998), and Large Power Transformers 
    from Italy; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 52 
    FR 46806 (December 10, 1987), where the Department included bank 
    charges incurred as part of respondent's credit expense calculation. 
    Algoma also cites Nylon Impression Fabric from Japan; Final Results, 51 
    FR 15816 (April 28, 1986).
    
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        Petitioners contend that because Algoma's home market credit 
    expenses failed verification, whether the bank fees are included in 
    calculating Algoma's home market credit expenses is irrelevant.
        Petitioners also dispute Algoma's contention that the information 
    regarding bank fees was on the record before verification. Petitioners 
    claim that the information from Algoma's 1996 Annual Report that was 
    included in Algoma's Section A Response did not include data for six 
    months of the POR (January 1997 to July 1997). In addition, petitioners 
    argue that, in its January 29, 1998 supplemental questionnaire 
    response, Algoma referred to the data as ``interest and other fees on 
    the operating line'' without detailing the nature of the ``fees.'' 
    Petitioners also argue that the only figure that was reconciled was 
    Algoma's ``Net Financing Expenses'' for calendar year 1996, and cite 
    Algoma's Response to the Department's Second Supplemental Questionnaire 
    (March 20, 1998) at Attachment D-43.
        Petitioners contend that the Department neither accepted the 
    information on the bank fees, nor verified the data during Algoma's 
    sales verification. See Algoma Sales Verification Report at 15. 
    Petitioners state that the Department specifically refused to examine 
    the fees because they constituted untimely new information, and cite 
    the Department's Analysis Memorandum for Algoma for the Preliminary 
    Results of the Fourth Administrative Review of Certain Cut-to-Length 
    Carbon Steel Plate from Canada for the period August 1, 1996--July 31, 
    1997 (July 10, 1998). Petitioners argue that the fact that the 
    Department examined the bank fees during the cost verification is of no 
    consequence, because the fees were examined solely to confirm Algoma's 
    net financing expenses during the 1996 calendar year, not to confirm 
    Algoma's short-term interest expenses during the POR (July 31, 1997 
    through August 1, 1997).
        Department's Position: We agree with Algoma. The Department 
    considers Algoma's revolving credit facility to be short-term 
    borrowings. Consequently, the banking fees associated with the 
    revolving credit facility are part of the total cost to Algoma of 
    short-term Canadian borrowings and therefore, should be included in the 
    short-term interest rate used to calculate imputed credit expenses. 
    Although the banking fees were not included in Algoma's credit expense 
    calculation prior to verification, information pertaining to the nature 
    of these banking fees was recorded in Algoma's Annual Reports which 
    Algoma submitted prior to verification. In addition, we examined these 
    banking fees during verification. Thus, we do not consider the 
    information pertaining to the banking fees to be ``new'' information. 
    We have recalculated Algoma's imputed home market credit expenses to 
    include these banking fees. When we corrected the home market credit 
    expense, we noted that there were several missing payment dates in 
    Algoma's sales tape. For these sales, we applied the verified average 
    number of days between the shipment date and the payment date.
    Comment 7: Clerical Errors
        Petitioners claim that the Department made three clerical errors in 
    the preliminary results, and therefore should correct them in the final 
    results. These errors pertain to the calculation of certain credit 
    expenses, the deduction for early payments, and the freight movement 
    calculation. In the home market credit expense calculation, petitioners 
    claim that the Department omitted billing adjustments, freight revenue, 
    and other discounts as part of the gross unit price. Petitioners state 
    that, in the definition statement of the total discounts and rebates in 
    the model match program, the Department omitted early payments. 
    Petitioners point out that, in the margin program, the Department 
    placed the parenthesis in the wrong part of the calculation string for 
    movement expenses.
        Department's Position: We agree with petitioners regarding all 
    three ministerial errors. We have corrected these errors for the final 
    results.
    
    Dofasco
    
    Comment 1: Use of ``Partial'' Freight Data
        Petitioners argue that, as in the third review, the Department 
    should reject the actual freight data Dofasco submitted for some of its 
    sales in favor of the minimum and maximum freight rates to each 
    destination, which Dofasco has provided for all sales. Petitioner 
    contends that the Department's practice is to disregard sales 
    information reported on a selective basis, as stated in Stainless Steel 
    Wire Rod from Sweden, 63 FR 40449, 40455 (July 29, 1998) (SSWR from 
    Sweden). Petitioner adds that using such ``partial'' information would 
    ``encourage (respondent) to selectively disclose only that information 
    which would benefit its position.'' (Final Results of Administrative 
    Review; Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
    Unfinished From Japan, and Tapered Roller Bearings, Four Inches or Less 
    in Outside Diameter, and Components Thereof, from Japan, 63 FR 20585, 
    20591 (April 27, 1998) (TRBs 1998)). Petitioner also states that, if 
    the Department used this information, there would be no incentive for 
    respondents to provide complete information (TRBs 1998, citing Nippon 
    Pillow Block Sales Co., Ltd. and FYH Bearing Units USA, Inc. v. United 
    States, 903 F. Supp. 89, 95 (CIT 1995) and Persico Pizzamiglio, S.A. v. 
    United States, No. 92-11-00783, Slip Op. 94-61 at 23 (April 14, 1994)).
        Finally, petitioner claims that the potential for manipulation 
    requires that the Department reject ``selectively disclosed information 
    * * * even when there is no direct evidence that such manipulation 
    actually occurred.'' In support, petitioner cites Final Results of 
    Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, Tapered Roller Bearings, Four 
    Inches or Less in Diameter, and Components Thereof, from Japan, 59 FR 
    56035, 56049 (November 10, 1994) (TRBs 1994), Final Results of 
    Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon 
    Steel Flat Products from Germany, 60 FR 65264, 65274 (December 19, 
    1995) (Steel from Germany), and C.F. Koenig & Bauer-Albert AG v. United 
    States, No. 96-10-02298, Slip Op. 98-83 (CIT 1998) at 6.
        Dofasco argues that the Department does not require respondents to 
    report freight on an actual sales-specific basis, but in many instances 
    has allowed respondents to report freight using alternate methodologies 
    when necessary. Dofasco points out that the questionnaire specifically 
    allows respondents to report freight on something other than an actual 
    sale-by-sale basis ``when to do otherwise would create a significant 
    burden because of the manner in which your (the respondent's) 
    accounting records are maintained.'' Dofasco adds that, in the third 
    administrative review of this order, the Department allowed respondents 
    to report estimated freight expenses as long as they were reasonable 
    and any differences between the estimated amounts and actual freight 
    charges were minor. Respondent cites Final Results of Antidumping 
    Administrative Review; Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat 
    Products and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Canada, 63 
    FR 12725, 12740 (March 16, 1998) (Third Review Final Results) and Final 
    Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value; Small Diameter Circular 
    Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel, Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe from 
    Italy, 60 FR 31981, 31987 (June 19, 1995).
    
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        Dofasco denies that it has selectively reported actual freight, 
    arguing that it has been consistently forthcoming with the Department 
    about its inability to track actual freight for all of its sales. 
    Dofasco asserts that it has reported actual freight for those carriers 
    that bill Dofasco through an electronic data interface system, which 
    enables Dofasco to calculate via computer the actual cost for each coil 
    shipped to these companies. Because some carriers do not use this 
    system, Dofasco states, it would be burdensome to report actual freight 
    for all those carriers not using the system. Furthermore, Dofasco adds, 
    the Department has verified these facts, and found no discrepancies. 
    Therefore, petitioners' allegations with respect to ``potential 
    manipulation'' are misplaced.
        Department's Position: We disagree with petitioners. In the third 
    administrative review, we did not use respondents's actual freight data 
    because we found that the computerized system it used to bill its 
    customers for freight was not working properly, and there was nothing 
    on the record to demonstrate the accuracy of the freight expenses as 
    reported. See Third Review Final Results, 63 FR at 12739. In the 
    current review, we verified the accuracy of Dofasco's response 
    regarding its freight billing system and found no discrepancies. Thus, 
    we have used Dofasco's reported actual freight expenses for those sales 
    for which this data was available. Because we verified this expense to 
    our satisfaction, we do not consider Dofasco's data to be ``selective'' 
    or ``partial,'' nor do we believe that Dofasco attempted to manipulate 
    the margin outcome by reporting its freight data in the manner that it 
    did.
        We note that in the TRBs cases cited by petitioners, the Department 
    had reason to believe that the respondents' data was incomplete, unlike 
    here. In SSWR from Sweden, we found at verification that the respondent 
    could have reported transaction-specific data, but reported average 
    figures instead. We therefore rejected the reported average figures in 
    favor of transaction-specific information. In contrast, we have 
    concluded that Dofasco has reported transaction-specific data for as 
    many sales as possible, as stated above. We therefore have not changed 
    the preliminary results with respect to freight expenses.
    Comment 2: EP vs. CEP Sales
        Petitioners argue that the Department should treat all sales made 
    through Dofasco's U.S. subsidiary as constructed export price (CEP) 
    sales, in accordance with the Department's practice when an affiliate 
    involved in the sales process as something more than a ``processor of 
    sales-related documentation'' or a ``communications link.'' In support, 
    petitioners cite: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value; 
    Stainless Steel Wire Rod from Spain, 63 FR 40391, 40395 (July 29, 1998) 
    (Stainless Steel Wire Rod from Spain); and Preliminary Results of 
    Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; Roller Chain Other than Bicycle 
    from Japan, 63 FR 25457 (May 18, 1998)(Roller Chain from Japan). 
    Petitioners detail evidence from the proprietary record, specifically 
    the Department's Report on the Sales Verification of Dofasco Inc. (May 
    28, 1998) (Dofasco Sales Verification Report), which they claim 
    demonstrates that Dofasco USA (DUSA) performed sales functions that 
    render CEP treatment appropriate.
        Petitioners point out that, in the Final Results of Antidumping 
    Duty Administrative Reviews: Certain Cold-Rolled and Corrosion-
    Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from Korea (Steel from Korea), 63 
    FR 13170 (March 18, 1998), the Department found that just because the 
    affiliate's role ``is not autonomous with respect to the sales 
    process,'' this does not mean that its ``role in the process is 
    ancillary.'' Thus, petitioners state, even if the Department were to 
    find that DUSA had no independent sales negotiating authority, that 
    fact would not be dispositive. Furthermore, petitioners state, the 
    Department has recently made clear that it will ``consider the sale to 
    be CEP unless the record demonstrates that the U.S. affiliate's 
    involvement in making the sale is incidental or ancillary.'' (Steel 
    from Korea, 63 FR at 13177, 13182-83.) Petitioners conclude that 
    Dofasco has failed to submit any evidence to support such a finding.
        Dofasco argues that the Department correctly determined that 
    Dofasco properly classified its U.S. sales through DUSA as export price 
    (EP) sales. Dofasco points out that the Department has made the same 
    determination in all three previous reviews. As the facts during this 
    review are almost exactly the same as in the previous reviews, Dofasco 
    argues, the Department should continue to classify the DUSA sales as EP 
    sales.
        Dofasco cites the preamble to the Department's new regulations, 
    which states that the Department considers transactions to be EP 
    whenever: (1) The producer or exporter ships the merchandise directly 
    to the unaffiliated purchaser without it being introduced into the U.S. 
    affiliate's inventory; and (2) the affiliated entity acts only as a 
    processor of documentation and a communication link between the foreign 
    respondent and the unaffiliated purchaser (62 FR 27296, 27351). Dofasco 
    maintains that the last factor has been interpreted by the Department 
    as turning largely upon the extent to which the affiliate is involved 
    in negotiating the sales, a role which the Department has stated must 
    be ``incidental or ancillary.'' Steel from Korea at 63 FR 13183. 
    Furthermore, Dofasco states, the Department has never suggested that 
    merely signing contracts is sufficient to characterize the U.S. 
    subsidiary's role as being more than ``incidental or ancillary.'' 
    Rather, the Department has recently elucidated that this threshold is 
    passed only when the U.S. affiliate is ``substantially involved in the 
    sales process (e.g., negotiating prices), or if the affiliate ``played 
    a major role in negotiating and bringing about the sale, from the 
    bidding stage through the final contract.'' See Roller Chain from 
    Japan, 63 FR at 25457, and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate 
    from Germany, 62 FR 18390, 18391-92 (April 15, 1997), respectively.
        Dofasco states that, unlike the respondents in these cases, the 
    Department consistently has found that DUSA's role in the sales process 
    is not ``substantial'' or more than ``incidental or ancillary.'' 
    Respondent cites the Dofasco Sales Verification Report at 4. Respondent 
    argues that petitioners mischaracterized proprietary sections of the 
    verification report in order to support their position that DUSA's role 
    in the sales process was substantial enough to warrant CEP treatment. 
    Dofasco concludes that nothing has changed since the first, second, and 
    third administrative reviews that should alter the Department's 
    previous determination that sales through DUSA were EP sales.
        Department's Position: We have not changed our preliminary results 
    with respect to this issue. As we stated in the third review final 
    results, we do not believe that the criteria for CEP treatment as 
    stated in Steel from Korea have been met in this case. In that notice, 
    we explain that CEP treatment is appropriate where certain facts 
    indicate ``that the subject merchandise is first sold in the United 
    States by or for the account of the producer or exporter.'' Such a 
    finding requires that: (1) The merchandise was shipped directly from 
    the manufacturer to the unaffiliated U.S. customer; (2) this was the 
    customary commercial channel between the parties; and (3) the function 
    of the U.S. affiliate is limited to that of a ``processor of sales-
    related documentation'' and a ``communications link'' with the
    
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    unrelated U.S. buyer. We also stated that where the factors indicate 
    that the activities of the U.S. affiliate are ancillary to the sale 
    (e.g., arranging transportation or customs clearance, and invoicing), 
    we will treat the transactions as EP sales. Furthermore, when the U.S. 
    affiliate has more than an incidental involvement in making sales (e.g. 
    solicits sales, negotiates contracts or prices) or providing customer 
    support, we treat the transactions as CEP sales. See Third Review Final 
    Results, discussing Steel from Korea. We do not find that DUSA has more 
    than an incidental involvement in the sales process.
        We agree with petitioners' argument that, pursuant to Steel from 
    Korea, even if the Department were to find that DUSA had no independent 
    sales negotiating authority, that fact would not be dispositive that 
    DUSA's role in the sales process was ancillary. As in Steel from Korea, 
    we have considered the totality of the evidence regarding Dofasco's 
    sales process. Unlike in Roller Chain from Japan and Stainless Steel 
    Wire Rod from Spain, cited by petitioners, we find that the evidence 
    does not suggest that DUSA's role in the selling process was anything 
    beyond an ancillary role. In those cases we found that the U.S. selling 
    agents' involvement in the sales process was extensive when compared to 
    that of the exporters, and that the majority of selling functions 
    occurred in the United States. As much of the information regarding 
    DUSA's selling functions is proprietary, see the Final Results Analysis 
    Memorandum on file in room B-099 of the Commerce Department.
        Finally, we note that petitioners have not presented any new 
    arguments with respect to this issue, nor is the fact pattern with 
    respect to sales made through DUSA significantly different from past 
    reviews. We again verified Dofasco's sales and distribution process, 
    and found nothing to support petitioners' arguments. Therefore, we have 
    treated Dofasco's sales to the United States as EP sales in these final 
    results.
    Comment 3: Clerical Error--Movement Expenses
        Petitioners argue that, for certain sales, the Department failed to 
    include, in U.S. movement expenses per unit freight expenses Dofasco 
    incurred when shipping subject merchandise from a warehouse or 
    processor to its U.S. customers. For certain sales, Dofasco reported 
    these freight expenses in the computer field INLFWCU, a variable 
    petitioners allege the Department failed to include in its calculation 
    of total movement expenses. Respondents agree with petitioners.
        Department's Position: We agree that we failed to account for this 
    additional freight variable in the calculation, and have made the 
    necessary correction for the final results of review.
    Comment 4: Clerical Error--Freight Expenses
        Petitioners claim that, for certain sales, the Department's 
    computer program incorrectly calculates movement expenses. Petitioner 
    states that the program is meant to deduct actual freight in lieu of 
    maximum freight, unless actual freight is set to missing. For certain 
    observations, however, the program fails to correctly execute this 
    operation.
        Respondent agrees with petitioners, stating that, for both U.S. and 
    home market variables, Dofasco mistakenly set the actual freight 
    variables to zero instead of setting them to missing in the computer 
    program.
        Department's Position: We agree, and have revised the computer 
    program accordingly.
    Comment 5: Clerical Error--Packing
        Petitioners claim that U.S. packing expenses were twice multiplied 
    by the rate for conversion to U.S. dollars in the Department's margin 
    calculation program. Respondent agrees with petitioners.
        Department's Position: We agree, and have revised the computer 
    program accordingly.
    
    CCC
    
    Comment 1: Valuation of Major Input
        Petitioners argue that CCC improperly reported the value of steel 
    substrate purchased from Stelco by reporting transfer prices rather 
    than market prices, and that the Department should therefore adjust the 
    value of CCC's steel substrate to reflect market prices. Petitioners 
    claim that CCC's questionnaire response indicates that CCC purchased 
    identical substrate from an affiliated and unaffiliated party. 
    Therefore, petitioners state, section 773(f)(2) of the Act requires the 
    Department to disregard the transfer price paid for the major input, 
    and to base the value of the input ``on the information available as to 
    what the amount would have been if the transaction had occurred between 
    persons who are not affiliated.'' Petitioners argue that the Department 
    should therefore adjust the price reported by CCC to reflect the 
    difference between the transfer and market prices shown on these two 
    invoices, as it did in Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair 
    Value: Ferrosilicon from Brazil, 61 FR 59411 (November 22, 1996); 
    Notice of Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Fresh 
    Atlantic Salmon From Chile (Salmon from Chile), 63 FR 31434 (June 9, 
    1998); and Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews on 
    Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts 
    Thereof From France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Singapore, Sweden 
    and the United Kingdom (AFBs January 1997), 62 FR 2081 (January 15, 
    1997).
        Petitioners claim that the evidence on the record shows that the 
    substrate CCC purchased from Stelco, an affiliated party, and from a 
    third, unaffiliated party were identical. Petitioners argue that CCC 
    has neither explained the differences it claims existed between the 
    Stelco and third-party substrate, nor cited to any part of the record 
    where the differences are reflected.
        CCC argues that, as stated in its January 29, 1998 questionnaire 
    response, it does not purchase identical merchandise from Stelco and 
    from other suppliers. CCC claims that the invoices provided in the 
    questionnaire response were the only two that CCC could find that would 
    show the comparability of Stelco and third-party substrate, and argues 
    that one cannot infer from the two invoices alone that all Stelco 
    substrate was sold at below-market prices. Therefore, CCC argues, the 
    Department should continue to use transfer prices to value substrate 
    purchased by CCC.
        CCC argues that a closer examination of the two invoices shows that 
    Stelco offered CCC an allowance or discount on this purchase and that, 
    without this discount, the Stelco and the third-party invoice prices 
    are equal. CCC claims that the Department accepted respondent's 
    argument that a price differential between transfer price and market 
    price was due to a verified early payment discount, and continued to 
    calculate costs using the discounted transfer price even though the 
    transfer price was lower than the related market price in Final 
    Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Porcelain-On-Steel 
    Cookware from Mexico, 63 FR 38373 (July 16, 1998) (Cookware from 
    Mexico).
        Department's Position: We agree with petitioners, in part, and have 
    adjusted all transfer prices reported by CCC to reflect market prices.
        Sections 773 (f)(2) and (3) of the Act stipulate that major inputs 
    purchased from affiliated parties may be valued at the highest of 
    market value, transfer price or the affiliate's cost of
    
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    production. In AFBs January 1997, the Department found that ``in the 
    case of a transaction between affiliated persons involving a major 
    input, we will use the highest of the transfer price between the 
    affiliated parties, the market price between unaffiliated parties, and 
    the affiliated supplier's cost of producing the major input.'' 62 FR 
    2081; see also 19 CFR 351.407(b).
        CCC has argued that the substrates on the two invoices it provided 
    are not identical and cannot be compared. It is unclear whether the 
    differences between the products on the invoices are substantial enough 
    that they cannot be compared without adjustment. However, assuming the 
    differences between the merchandise on the two invoices is significant, 
    it is CCC that provided these invoices in order to substantiate its 
    claim that its transfer price from its affiliate Stelco was equivalent 
    to a market price. CCC now attempts to impeach the very comparison of 
    invoices it urged the Department to make. If the differences between 
    the merchandise covered by the two invoices were significant enough 
    that the invoice prices should only have been compared after some 
    adjustment, then CCC should have quantified the difference or provided 
    some other means for the Department to adjust for the difference and 
    make the comparison. See Sec. 351.401(b)(1). If the Department cannot 
    make this comparison, then there is no evidence on the record to 
    support CCC's claim that its inputs purchased from Stelco were at or 
    above market value, and this claim must be rejected. If, on the other 
    hand, petitioners are correct that there are no differences between the 
    merchandise on the two invoices which would preclude comparison, then a 
    comparison of the two shows that prices of the Stelco input are lower 
    than the price from the unaffiliated supplier.
        With regard to CCC's claim that we should use the price of the 
    input from Stelco because, disregarding a discount Stelco granted, the 
    Stelco price is the same as the price from the unaffiliated supplier, 
    we disagree. The Department has long recognized that discounts must be 
    taken into account in determining what the true price is. For example, 
    in AFBs January 1997, 62 FR at 2090, we explained that, in identifying 
    the true starting price, the Department must first adjust the gross 
    price for any discounts, rebates, or other price adjustments. As 
    discussed in adjusting our final regulation, the Department must 
    consider discounts in identifying the ``net outlay of funds by the 
    purchaser.'' See Antidumping Duties, Countervailing Duties; Final Rule, 
    62 FR 27296, 27300 (Final Rule) and 19 CFR 351.102 (definition of price 
    adjustment) and 19 CFR 351.401(c). The same principles apply when 
    identifying the actual transfer price for the major input rule; such 
    transfer price must reflect any discounts, rebates or other price 
    adjustments in order to determine CCC's net outlay of funds for the 
    input.
        CCC's reliance on Cookware from Mexico is misplaced. In that case 
    the Department clearly stated that it was not accounting for price 
    adjustments because it could only determine that they had been offered, 
    and not whether they had actually been granted. By contrast, in the 
    present case it is clear that Stelco actually granted the discount to 
    CCC.
        Since the final price for the Stelco invoice is less than the final 
    price on the third-party, market price invoice, we have valued CCC's 
    steel input for these final results by adjusting CCC's reported 
    transfer prices to reflect the ratio between the final prices on these 
    two invoices.
    Comment 2: Imputed U.S. Credit
        Petitioners argue that the surrogate interest rate used by the 
    Department to value CCC's U.S. credit expense should be increased by a 
    premium to reflect CCC's actual borrowing experience in the home 
    market. Petitioners argue that, in LMI-LaMettali Industriale, S.p.A. v. 
    United States 912 F.2d 455 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (LMI), the Court ruled that 
    the surrogate U.S. dollar-denominated interest rate used by the 
    Department to impute U.S. credit expense must conform with ``commercial 
    reality.'' Petitioners note that the Department's Final Determination 
    of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel 
    Plate from Sweden, 61 FR 15772 (April 9, 1996) explains that 
    determining whether a surrogate rate conforms with commercial reality 
    takes into account the many ``varied factors that determine at what 
    rate a firm can borrow funds, such as the size of the firm, its 
    creditworthiness, and its relationship with the lending bank.'' 
    Petitioners argue that, based on CCC's home market borrowing history 
    (as explained in CCC's November 17 and January 30 questionnaire 
    responses), CCC would not have received the prime rate in the United 
    States, defined by the International Monetary Fund as the ``(r)ate that 
    the largest banks charge their most creditworthy business customers on 
    short-term loans.'' Therefore, petitioners argue that basing CCC's 
    imputed U.S. credit expenses on the prime rate would not conform with 
    ``commercial reality.'' Petitioners argue that the Department should 
    add a premium to the average U.S. prime rate and recalculate CCC's 
    imputed U.S. credit expense accordingly. Petitioners state that in the 
    Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Oil Country 
    Tubular Goods from Austria, 60 FR 33555 (June 28, 1995) (OCTG), the 
    Department used the New York State prime rate plus one percent as a 
    surrogate rate to impute U.S. credit expenses where the respondent had 
    no U.S. dollar-denominated borrowings.
        Finally, petitioners claim that the Department's calculation of the 
    average U.S. prime interest rate was erroneous. Petitioners argue that 
    the calculation should be based on a 360-day year, not a 365-day year.
        CCC disagrees that the Department should add a premium to CCC's 
    surrogate interest rate and that the Department should use the average 
    U.S. prime rate as a basis upon which to calculate CCC's imputed 
    credit. CCC notes that the Department's Policy Bulletin 98.2 instructs 
    the Department to use ``the Federal Reserve's weighted-average data for 
    commercial and industrial loans maturing between one month and one year 
    from the time the loan is made,'' rather than the prime rate when a 
    respondent has no short-term borrowings in the United States. CCC adds 
    that the Department used the Federal Reserve's weighted-average data 
    for commercial and industrial loans for CCC in the previous review of 
    corrosion-resistant steel from Canada. CCC argues that use of the 
    Federal Reserve's weighted-average data for commercial and industrial 
    loans would conform with petitioners' demands that the rate used 
    ``comport with `commercial reality,' '' as it was the prime rate's 
    failure to meet with commercial reality that led the Department to 
    reject its use in the Policy Bulletin, and adopt a more realistic 
    average of commercial and industrial loan rates.
        CCC states that the Department should also reject petitioners' 
    suggestion to increase the prime rate by a premium. First, CCC argues 
    that the premium was derived from CCC's proprietary home market 
    borrowing rate, and therefore has no bearing on what CCC's rate would 
    be in the United States. CCC cites LMI and the Department's Policy 
    Bulletin 98.2, which it claims establishes clear guidelines against the 
    use of an interest rate in the home market as a surrogate for the 
    calculation of credit in the U.S. market. Further, CCC argues that OCTG 
    is factually unique in several ways: (1) It was the exporter's U.S. 
    sales agent who customarily charged customers an interest rate of prime 
    plus a one percent premium for late revenue; (2) the rate
    
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    had no connection to interest rates offered to the company in the home 
    market; and (3) this rate represented the rate commonly used in the 
    United States at that time. CCC also notes that the Department in OCTG 
    rejected the possibility of using the home market interest rate.
        Department's Position: We agree with CCC. For these final results, 
    we have used the Federal Reserve's weighted-average data for commercial 
    and industrial loans, instead of the prime rate, which we used for the 
    preliminary results.
        As discussed in Policy Bulletin 98.2, prior to a 1990 ruling by the 
    Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in LMI, the Department 
    had a practice of using a respondent's home market borrowing rates to 
    impute both U.S. and home market credit expenses. In LMI, the CAFC 
    ruled that the cost of credit ``must be imputed on the basis of usual 
    and reasonable commercial behavior.'' In ruling on the specific facts 
    of LMI, the CAFC did set forth certain general principles; it stated 
    that ``the imputation of credit cost * * * is a reflection of the time 
    value of money,'' that it ``must correspond to a * * * figure 
    reasonably calculated to account for such value during the gap period 
    between delivery and payment,'' and that it should conform with 
    ``commercial reality.''
        In developing a consistent, predictable policy establishing a 
    preferred surrogate U.S. dollar interest rate in all cases where 
    respondents have no U.S. dollar short-term loans, we have employed 
    three criteria: (1) The surrogate rate should be reasonable; (2) it 
    should be readily obtainable and predictable; and (3) it should be a 
    short-term interest rate actually realized by borrowers in the course 
    of ``usual commercial behavior'' in the United States. The Policy 
    Bulletin states that the use of unadjusted home market borrowing rates 
    to impute credit expenses on U.S. sales does not recognize the effect 
    of currency changes between date of shipment and date of payment on 
    repatriating revenue and that therefore, unadjusted home market 
    borrowing rates are not an accurate measure of the value of the loan 
    made by the seller to the purchaser if the sale (the loan) is made in 
    U.S. dollars.
        In Steel from Sweden and in Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon 
    Steel Flat Products from Australia; Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
    Administrative Reviews, 61 FR 14049, 14054 (March 29, 1996), the 
    Department selected the average short-term lending rates calculated by 
    the Federal Reserve as surrogate U.S. interest rates. Each quarter, the 
    Federal Reserve collects data on loans made during the first full week 
    of the mid-month of each quarter by sampling 340 commercial banks of 
    all sizes. The sample data are used to estimate the terms of loans 
    extended during that quarter at all insured commercial banks. These 
    Federal Reserve rates meet the three criteria discussed above. They 
    represent a reasonable surrogate for respondents' U.S. dollar borrowing 
    rates because they are calculated based on a variety of actual dollar 
    loans to U.S. customers, and because they are readily available to all 
    interested parties and are easy to obtain. Therefore, we have used the 
    Federal Reserve's weighted-average data for commercial and industrial 
    loans maturing between one month and one year from the time the loan is 
    made to impute credit during the POR for CCC.
        We disagree with petitioners' argument that CCC's rate should be 
    increased by a premium based on home market borrowings. In support of 
    their claim that the rate should be increased by a premium, petitioners 
    cite to OCTG. However, the methodology used in OCTG has limited 
    applicability because it was developed using facts specific to that 
    particular case. In OCTG, the Department found that the New York prime 
    rate plus one percent reflected the manner in which the respondent's 
    related U.S. sales agent measured the time value of late revenue as an 
    ordinary business practice. Additionally, as stated in the Policy 
    Bulletin, home market borrowings should not be used to impute U.S. 
    credit.
        We disagree with petitioners' argument that the calculation should 
    be based on a 360-day year rather than a 365-day year. Petitioners made 
    no substantive argument in favor of a 360-day year or against a 365-day 
    year. Because the Department has no policy that would compel such a 
    change, we have continued to calculate imputed credit based on a 365-
    day year.
    Comment 3: Allocation of Post-Sale Price Adjustments
        Petitioners argue that the Department should not accept CCC's post-
    sale price adjustments (PSPAs) in either the home market or the U.S. 
    market. Petitioners argue that PSPAs must be allocated over only those 
    sales on which they were incurred in order to qualify as an adjustment 
    to price in the Department's antidumping calculations, and that CCC did 
    not comply satisfactorily with the Department's information requests. 
    Petitioners argue that the Department should reject CCC's claim that 
    its PSPAs have been reported on a transaction-specific basis. 
    Petitioners argue that CCC has failed to satisfy its burden to document 
    and support its entitlement to report PSPAs on an allocated basis. They 
    claim that in some cases CCC allocated PSPAs on invoices or work orders 
    regardless of whether the adjustment applied to all transactions 
    recorded on the invoice or work order. Furthermore, petitioners claim 
    that CCC has failed to demonstrate that it was not feasible to report 
    the PSPAs on a transaction-specific basis, and has, in fact, tied some 
    PSPAs to specific sales transactions. Petitioners maintain that because 
    CCC was able to report some of its PSPAs on a transaction-specific 
    basis, CCC could therefore have reported all of its PSPAs in this 
    manner. Because CCC did not do so, petitioners contend that CCC did not 
    act to the best of its ability in responding to the Department's 
    request for information. Petitioners argue that CCC failed to 
    demonstrate its entitlement to those adjustments and, therefore, the 
    Department should deny the PSPAs sought by CCC to home market and U.S. 
    prices based on Timken Co. v. United States, 673 F. Supp. at 513 
    (Timken) and sections 782(d) and (e) of the Act. Petitioners claim that 
    section 782(d) of the Act allows the Department to disregard 
    information submitted by a respondent when it does not comply 
    satisfactorily with a request for information after being informed of 
    the deficiency and being provided an opportunity to remedy it. 
    Petitioners also state that section 782(e) of the Act provides that the 
    respondent must demonstrate that ``it acted to the best of its ability 
    in providing the information'' and that ``the information can be used 
    without undue difficulties.'' Petitioners claim that when a respondent 
    has improperly allocated PSPAs for home market sales, it is the 
    Department's practice to disallow all claimed adjustments to price for 
    those sales, as indicated in: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
    Administrative Reviews; Antifriction Bearings (Other than Tapered 
    Roller Bearings) and Parts Thereof from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, 
    Singapore, and the United Kingdom (AFBs 1996), 61 FR 66472, 66498 
    (December 17, 1996); Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
    Reviews; Antifriction Bearings (Other than Tapered Roller Bearings) and 
    Parts Thereof from France, 63 FR 33320 (June 18, 1998) (AFBs 1998); and 
    TRBs 1998.
        Petitioners maintain that the Court's decision in AK Steel Corp., 
    et al. v. United States, Court No. 96-05-01312, Slip Op. 98-106 (CIT 
    July 23, 1998) (AK Steel) to uphold CCC's method of
    
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    reporting PSPAs demonstrates the Court's presumption that allocations 
    of PSPAs are suspect because of the possible distortion to prices and 
    dumping margins caused by such allocations. Petitioners argue that the 
    Court upheld CCC's method of reporting PSPAs only after finding that 
    documentation obtained at verification allowed the Department to 
    analyze the details of the allocations to determine whether they were 
    distortive, and that because no such documentation has been provided in 
    this review, the Department should not allow CCC's reporting 
    methodology.
        Petitioners claim that the ability to report some, but not all, 
    PSPAs on a transaction-specific basis creates the potential for 
    manipulation, and cite the CIT's ruling in Koenig & Bauer-Albert AG v. 
    United States, Court No. 96-10-02298, Slip. Op. 98-83, that the 
    Department may deny favorable adjustments sought by a respondent based 
    not only on actual evidence of price manipulation, but also on the 
    potential for manipulation. Petitioners also cite Steel from Germany 
    and Tapered Roller Bearings, Four Inches or Less in Diameter, and 
    Components Thereof, from Japan, 59 FR 56035 (November 10, 1994) to this 
    effect. Petitioners assert that, for some customers, CCC applied 
    adjustments across all sales (including subject and non-subject 
    merchandise) when they could only tie the credit or debit note to a 
    particular customer. Petitioners claim that this reporting methodology 
    has increased the potential for distortion.
        Petitioners claim that the Department's new regulations (see Final 
    Rule, 62 FR 27296) concerning allocated PSPAs are contrary to the 
    Department's longstanding practice and the URAA which, petitioners 
    state, nowhere permits respondents to report inaccurate prices. 
    However, petitioners argue that, even under its new regulations, the 
    Department must continue to deny CCC its claimed PSPAs.
        Petitioners claim that an allocation of a PSPA over several sales 
    or invoices could distort the prices if the sales covered were of 
    different control numbers (CONNUMs) or were made in different months. 
    In such a situation, the prices of the sales receiving their share of 
    the allocated credit would not be weight-averaged in calculating normal 
    value for a particular month. Thus, all sales that receive an 
    allocation of credit would have an incorrect gross unit price, which 
    will in turn distort the dumping margin. Petitioners argue that because 
    each of the adjustments is a given percentage of the unit price, all 
    those sales which have had the adjustment allocated to them, even 
    though they were not in the group of sales to which the adjustment is 
    correctly attributed, have been modified by that percentage. 
    Petitioners maintain that the potential for distortion by allowing 
    credit to be allocated over sales with different CONNUMS or months of 
    sale is present in CCC's case as well. Petitioners argue that the 
    criteria applied in AFBs 1998 is flawed because it puts the burden on 
    the petitioners to prove the existence of distortions.
        CCC argues that its reported PSPAs should again be accepted by the 
    Department as they were in the second and third administrative reviews 
    because they are allocated as specifically as possible and are not 
    distortive. CCC notes that the Department rejected petitioners' 
    arguments concerning CCC's PSPAs in the second and third administrative 
    reviews. CCC states that the Department verified CCC's methodology in 
    the second administrative review and found that CCC applied its PSPAs 
    using the most precise methodology possible, and in a manner not 
    unreasonably distortive.
        CCC disagrees with petitioners' assertion that CCC never explained 
    why it was able in some instances to tie credit and debit notes to 
    specific invoices and work orders, and in others it was not. CCC notes 
    that it stated in its November 17, 1997 questionnaire response, and its 
    January 29, 1998 and March 23, 1998 supplemental questionnaire 
    responses, that in instances where a credit or debit note is allocated 
    over all sales to a customer rather than to a specific invoice or work-
    order, it is because the credit or debit note only referenced a 
    customer and did not reference a work order or invoice. CCC maintains 
    that its PSPAs are transaction-specific, stating that when a specific 
    credit or debit note was applied to more than one invoice and/or work 
    order, it was because the credit or debit note applied to those 
    invoices and/or work orders, and that the information available to CCC 
    on the credit or debit note permitted no more specific allocation. CCC 
    cites Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof, Finished and 
    Unfinished, from Japan and Tapered Roller Bearings, Four Inches or Less 
    in Outside Diameter and Components Thereof, from Japan, 63 FR 2558 
    (January 15, 1998) as an instance in which the Department accepted 
    respondent's explanations of why more specific reporting was not 
    possible as evidence of fact.
        CCC maintains that there is no evidence, as petitioners allege, 
    that CCC is attempting to manipulate that data, and that the record 
    evidence such as the number of positive adjustments in the home market 
    and negative adjustments in the U.S. market shows that, on the 
    contrary, CCC is not trying to manipulate the data. CCC cites the 
    Department's regulations at Sec. 351.401(g)(1) as stating that the 
    Department ``may consider allocated expenses and PSPAs when 
    transaction-specific reporting is not feasible provided (that) * * * 
    the allocation method does not cause inaccuracies or distortions' and 
    at Sec. 351.401(g)(3) as stating that ``(i)n determining the 
    feasibility of transaction-specific reporting or whether an allocation 
    is calculated on as specific a basis as is feasible, the Secretary will 
    take into account the records maintained by the party in question in 
    the ordinary course of business.''
        CCC argues that the Department's decision to accept CCC's claimed 
    PSPAs is consistent with its decisions in numerous other cases, 
    including AFBs 1998, and Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon Steel Plate From 
    Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 63 FR 
    12744 (March 16, 1998).
        CCC disagrees that the Court in AK Steel upheld the Department's 
    acceptance of the adjustments only after finding that the documentation 
    obtained at verification allowed the Department to analyze the details 
    of the allocations.
        Furthermore, CCC argues that such argumentation is moot because it 
    submitted all of the requested documentation in this review, and 
    because a verification was not conducted. CCC states that the 
    Department's methodology was upheld in The Timken Co. v. United States, 
    Court No. 97-04-00562, Slip. Op. 98-92 (CIT July 2, 1998) (Timken 
    1998). CCC also disagrees with petitioners that the Department's 
    current practice is at odds with the URAA, stating that the Department 
    noted in AK Steel that the URAA reaffirmed the Department's practice of 
    allowing allocated post-sale PSPAs. CCC argues that in the Timken 1998 
    case, the Department stated that (1) post-URAA law directs it to accept 
    information that may not have met its previous requirements and that 
    (2) it had determined, based in part on previous verifications, that 
    CCC was incapable of providing data on a transaction-specific basis and 
    that CCC's reported data was reliable. CCC concludes that, based on 
    evidence on the record in this proceeding as well as the precedents in 
    this proceeding and the law, the Department should accept CCC's PSPAs.
        Department's Position: We agree with CCC. In light of the 
    Department's determinations in recent cases and the
    
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    facts on the record, we accept CCC's price adjustments.
        Section 351.401(c) of the Department's regulations states that the 
    Department, ``(i)n calculating export price, constructed export price, 
    and normal value (where normal value is based on price), will use a 
    price that is net of any price adjustment, as defined in 
    Sec. 351.102(b), that is reasonably attributable to the subject 
    merchandise or the foreign like product (whichever is applicable).'' 
    PSPAs are defined in the regulations at Sec. 351.102(b) as ``any change 
    in the price charged for subject merchandise or the foreign like 
    product, such as discounts, rebates and post-sale PSPAs, that are 
    reflected in the purchaser's net outlay.''
        With regard to the fact that CCC allocated these adjustments, we 
    note that Sec. 351.401(g)(1) of the Department's regulations directs us 
    to ``consider allocated expenses and PSPAs when transaction-specific 
    reporting is not feasible, provided (we are) satisfied that the 
    allocation method used does not cause inaccuracies or distortions.'' 
    This policy has been upheld in Timken 1998. Although CCC allocated 
    price adjustments on a customer invoice- or work order-specific basis, 
    we determine that CCC acted to the best of its ability in reporting 
    this information. While the Department stated in Final Rule 62 FR at 
    27344 that respondents should not be ``allowed to eliminate dumping 
    margins by providing PSPAs `after the fact,' '' there is no evidence on 
    the record in these reviews that demonstrates that this is occurring.
        In recent AFBs cases, we addressed the relevance of Torrington Co. 
    v. United States, 82 F.3d 1039, 1047-51 (Fed. Circ 1996) (Torrington 
    I), to the allocation of adjustments. We noted that, while the CAFC in 
    its decision in Torrington I questioned whether PSPAs constituted 
    expenses (see Torrington I at n.15), the Court maintained that, if the 
    adjustments were expenses, they had to be treated as direct selling 
    expenses. Significantly, ``the CAFC did not find that such PSPAs could 
    not be based on allocations'' (AFBs October 1997 62 FR at 54050).
        We have not found CCC's allocation methodologies to be unreasonably 
    distortive. During the POR, CCC granted credit or debit notes to 
    certain customers. CCC calculated adjustment factors by dividing the 
    total price adjustments paid to a given customer by the total POR sales 
    to that customer. CCC grants these price adjustments to customers in 
    two ways: (1) On the basis of their overall sales to the particular 
    customer; or, (2) over a specific invoice to a customer.
        Where CCC granted the price adjustment to a customer on the basis 
    of its overall sales, then there is no distortion in attributing the 
    adjustment to the sales on which it was earned. See, Final Rule, 62 FR 
    at 27347 and Smith Corona, 713 F.2d at 1580.
        Where CCC granted the price adjustment on an invoice, CCC has 
    claimed that it cannot tie the credit/debit note to the particular 
    invoice. Therefore, it has allocated such notes by customer. First, 
    where a price adjustment is granted on an entire invoice, it is 
    appropriate to attribute the amount of the adjustment to all 
    merchandise on the invoice. Where an invoice covers several articles of 
    merchandise, an adjustment granted on the entire invoice cannot be tied 
    to any specific article.
        Further, where a respondent has acted to the best of its ability, 
    and cannot provide information about adjustments on a basis more narrow 
    than customer-specific allocations, the Department has concluded that 
    such an allocation may be reasonable. See e.g., AFBs January 1997, at 
    2096 (comment 9).
        We disagree with petitioner's interpretation of the applicability 
    of section 782(d) and 782(e) of the Act to CCC's reporting methodology. 
    In explaining why it was not able to tie credit notes to individual 
    transactions, CCC has complied satisfactorily with the request for that 
    information. Thus, there is no longer a deficiency in CCC's data. CCC 
    also demonstrated that ``it acted to the best of its ability in 
    providing the information.'' Lastly, the information can clearly be 
    used ``without undue difficulties.''
        We agree with petitioners that the burden lies with respondents to 
    place necessary information on the record. It is the responsibility of 
    the respondent to demonstrate that its methodology is not unreasonably 
    inaccurate or distortive. However, we believe that CCC has met that 
    burden with the explanations provided in their submissions for this 
    review period, and through verification of sales made in the second 
    administrative review. CCC has stated that adjustments are allocated 
    across the invoices, work orders, or customers to which they apply, and 
    that it cannot report adjustments on a more specific basis. There is 
    nothing on the record to indicate that either of these statements is 
    not based in fact.
        With regards to CCC's allocations of these price adjustments over 
    nonsubject merchandise, we have in the past accepted allocations over 
    nonsubject merchandise as provided for in 19 CFR 351.401(g)(4). First, 
    if a respondent grants and reports a price adjustment as a fixed 
    percentage of the sales to which it pertains, the fact that this pool 
    of sales may include non-scope merchandise does not distort the amount 
    of the adjustment the respondent granted and reported on sales of 
    subject merchandise because the same adjustment percentage applied to 
    both scope and non-scope merchandise. Second, with respect to CCC's 
    price adjustments granted on invoices, CCC's in-scope and out-of-scope 
    merchandise is sufficiently similar in terms of its value, physical 
    characteristics, and the manner in which it is sold that we cannot 
    presume the adjustments would be granted disproportionately between the 
    two. Consequently, even if an invoice covered out-of-scope merchandise, 
    CCC's allocation is still reasonable and not distortive. See Final 
    Rule, 62 FR at 27348 (May 19, 1997).
        We disagree with petitioners argument that the Court's decision in 
    AK Steel upholding CCC's method of reporting PSPAs demonstrates the 
    Court's presumption that allocations of PSPAs are suspect because of 
    the possible distortion to prices and dumping margins caused by such 
    allocations. In AK Steel, the Court upheld the Department's finding 
    that CCC's allocation of the credit note across sales made pursuant to 
    the work-order identified on the form was sufficiently specific, and 
    that based on the facts on the record, a more specific methodology was 
    not possible. In this review we again conclude, based on the 
    information on the record, that CCC's allocation of the credit note 
    across sales made pursuant to the work-order identified on the form was 
    sufficiently specific.
        The Court in AK Steel also disagreed with plaintiff's argument that 
    the flaw in CCC's allocation methodology caused it to report all sales 
    involved incorrectly. Plaintiffs in AK Steel claimed there that the 
    methodology used by CCC had an averaging effect on prices, i.e., the 
    transactions that did not involve the coil received price reductions 
    when there was in fact no reduction in price, and the transaction that 
    did involve the coil did not receive the full amount of the credit.
        The Court, however, found plaintiffs' arguments unpersuasive and 
    agreed with the Department that CCC's PSPA methodology was acceptable 
    under the circumstances.
        We disagree with petitioners' claim that because CCC's allocations 
    were not verified in this review, they are not acceptable.
        The fact that CCC was not verified in this review does not require 
    an adverse inference in this case. Furthermore, we
    
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    found at verification during the second review that CCC's methodology 
    was reasonable and not distortive, and that CCC's reporting was as 
    specific as possible. Since CCC's reporting methodology is the same as 
    it has been in the past, we are accepting CCC's allocations. This 
    concurs with the Court's ruling in Timken that the Department may 
    determine, based in part on institutional knowledge attained in 
    previous verifications, that a respondent is incapable of providing 
    data on a transaction-specific basis, and that its data is reliable.
        We find that CCC's allocation methodologies are not unreasonably 
    distortive, nor are they potentially distortive, as we are satisfied 
    that each adjustment was granted in proportion to the value of each 
    sale to which it applied.
    Comment 4: Currency Conversion Error
        Petitioners note that the Department made a currency conversion 
    error in calculating PACKINGU and, as a result, in the calculation of 
    CVPROFIT, TOTCV and FUPDOL.
        Department's Position: We agree with petitioners and have corrected 
    the currency conversion accordingly.
    
    Forsyth
    
    Comment 1: Adverse Facts Available
        Forsyth claims that the Department's decision to assign the margin 
    based on total adverse FA did not reflect the level-of-trade 
    information that Forsyth provided on the record, and did not take into 
    account any meaningful consideration of either Forsyth's ability to 
    provide corporate sales-specific data on a large number of small 
    transactions or Forsyth's request that the Department conduct 
    verification. Forsyth claims that the Department's rejection of 
    Forsyth's level-of-trade argument, which characterized Forsyth's 
    distribution division services as product-related rather than sales-
    related, is not supported by the record. Forsyth claims that its 
    distribution division services are intimately linked to the ability of 
    those divisions to sell products to a unique class of customers.
        Petitioners argue that the Department correctly applied adverse 
    facts available since Forsyth repeatedly refused to report its 
    distribution division sales. Petitioners argue that the Department only 
    excludes home market sales from a respondent's reporting requirements 
    due to level of trade differences, if ever, in the context of 
    downstream sales, and that Forsyth's distribution division sales are 
    not downstream sales. Petitioners cite Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon 
    Steel Plate From Brazil: Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
    Administrative Review, 62 FR 18486, 18491 (April 15, 1997).
        While petitioners claim that the Department's level-of-trade 
    analysis was unnecessary, since all home market sales were not 
    reported, they argue that record evidence supports the Department's 
    level-of-trade determination. They cite section 773(a)(7)(A) of the Act 
    and Sec. 351.412 of the Department's regulations to argue that a 
    difference in level of trade can only exist where there is a difference 
    in selling functions. Petitioners further cite SSWR from Sweden at 
    40455, which states that the burden is on respondent to demonstrate 
    that its categorizations of level of trade are correct.
        Department's Position: We agree with petitioners. Forsyth failed to 
    report a majority of its home market sales of subject merchandise and 
    did not prove a difference in level of trade between its U.S. sales and 
    its home market distribution division sales. We have thus continued to 
    base Forsyth's antidumping duty margin on adverse facts available. See 
    ``Facts Available'' section of this notice, and Certain Corrosion-
    Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon 
    Steel Plate from Canada: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
    Administrative Reviews and Intent to Revoke in-Part, 63 FR 37320, 37327 
    (July 10, 1998).
    
    Stelco
    
    Comment 1: The Time Frame for Making a Request for Revocation
        Petitioners argue that the Department should deny Stelco's request 
    for revocation since Stelco did not file its request for revocation 
    during the anniversary month of the publication of the antidumping 
    order, as required by Sec. 351.222(e) of the Department's regulations. 
    Petitioners argue that Sec. 351.222(f) allows the Department to 
    consider such a request only if the request is timely.
        Petitioners argue that Samsung Elec. Co. v. United States 
    (Samsung), 946 F. Supp. 5, 8 (CIT 1996) establishes the obligation to 
    request revocation during the anniversary month as a ``mandatory, 
    bright line requirement.'' (Emphasis added by petitioners.) Petitioners 
    note that not only did Stelco fail to make its request in a timely 
    fashion, but that it also failed to request an extension or provide any 
    explanation for its failure to meet the statutory deadline for a 
    revocation request. Therefore, since Stelco failed to pass the bright 
    line test established in Samsung, petitioners argue that the Department 
    should deny Stelco's request for revocation.
        Petitioners point out that the Department highlighted the 
    importance of submitting timely requests in Electrolytic Manganese 
    Dioxide from Japan; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
    Review, 58 FR 28551 (May 14, 1993) (EMD). In EMD, petitioners failed to 
    file a timely cost of production (COP) allegation because the 
    Department had failed to process their administrative protective order 
    (APO) application in a timely fashion. Although the Department 
    acknowledged the delay in processing the petitioners' APO applications, 
    the Department refused to consider the petitioners' untimely COP 
    allegation because the petitioners could have preserved their right to 
    submit a timely COP allegation by requesting an extension of the 
    regulatory deadline. Since petitioners elected not to request an 
    extension of the deadline for filing a COP allegation, the Department 
    did not examine the untimely allegation, but merely enforced the 
    regulatory deadlines. Petitioners conclude that the Department should 
    reject Stelco's request for revocation as untimely just as it rejected 
    petitioners' cost allegation in the EMD case.
        Petitioners note that Stelco contends in its June 12, 1998 
    submission that the Department considered an untimely request for 
    revocation on the part of Frutopic, a respondent in Frozen Concentrated 
    Orange Juice from Brazil; Final Results and Termination in Part of 
    Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; Revocation in Part of the 
    Antidumping Duty Order, 56 FR 52510 (October 21, 1991) (Orange Juice). 
    Stelco contends that the untimely request was considered because it was 
    filed only four days after the regulatory deadline. Petitioners point 
    out, on the contrary, that Frutopic filed an extension request on the 
    last day of the anniversary month in question, explained why it needed 
    the extension, and was granted an ``explicit extension of time to 
    submit the revocation request.'' See, Orange Juice, 56 FR 52510 
    (October 21, 1991). Petitioners further point out that Frutopic in 
    effect demonstrated ``good cause'' when requesting its extension by 
    explaining in detail why it needed one, even though the regulations 
    explicitly allowing extensions for ``good cause'' was not introduced 
    until 1997.
        Petitioners argue that the necessity of showing ``good cause'' to 
    obtain an extension under Sec. 351.302(b) is not a toothless 
    requirement. Petitioners point out that in Stainless Steel Bar from 
    India; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 63 FR
    
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    13622 (March 20, 1998), Mukand, the respondent, requested a one-day 
    extension to file its case brief on the day the brief was due. 
    Petitioners note that the Department was not satisfied with Mukand's 
    explanation that it was not able to file the brief in a timely fashion 
    due to ``technical difficulties'' and requested and received a more 
    extensive explanation before granting the extension. Petitioners argue 
    that the Department should not hold Stelco to a lesser standard for 
    requesting a revocation than it held Mukand for filing a case brief.
        Finally, petitioners contend that Stelco's September 8, 1998 
    request for revocation should not be considered an ``amendment'' to 
    Stelco's August 29, 1997 request for an administrative review. 
    Petitioners point out that the Department's regulations [no cite given] 
    allow a timely revocation request to be considered to include a request 
    for administrative review, but there is no similar provision allowing a 
    request for review to automatically include a revocation request.
        Therefore, petitioners contend that the Department cannot ignore 
    the time limits imposed by its own regulations. Since Stelco did not 
    comply with the deadlines for requesting a revocation in accordance 
    with Sec. 351.222(e) or requesting an extension in accordance with 
    Sec. 351.302(b) of the Department's regulations, petitioners argue that 
    the Department should reject Stelco's untimely request for a 
    revocation.
        Stelco argues that both the antidumping statute and the 
    Department's regulations are silent as to the time frame for accepting 
    requests for revocation. Stelco notes that section 751(d)(1) of the 
    Act, the only relevant statutory provision, states: ``the 
    administrative authority may revoke, in whole, or in part, a 
    countervailing duty or antidumping duty order for finding * * * after a 
    review under subsection (a) or (b) of this section.'' Therefore, Stelco 
    argues that Congress did not specify any procedure, or identify any 
    criteria that must be considered, other than conducting a review, in 
    determining whether to revoke a particular antidumping duty order.
        Stelco claims that the regulations are also silent as to the issue 
    of how the Department should handle a revocation request made outside 
    of the anniversary month. They note that Sec. 351.222(e)(1) of the 
    Department's regulations states: ``During the third and subsequent 
    anniversary months of the publication of the antidumping order or 
    suspension of an antidumping investigation, an exporter or producer may 
    request in writing that the Secretary revoke an order or terminate a 
    suspended investigation.'' Stelco argues that section provides the 
    month within which an exporter or producer may choose to request 
    revocation, and is silent as to how revocation requests received during 
    other months should be handled. Stelco notes that there are no 
    requirements in the regulations that the Department reject an untimely 
    request for revocation.
        Stelco argues that the Department has discretion to accept an 
    untimely revocation request. It notes that Samsung states that 
    ``Commerce has not routinely accepted revocation requests under 19 CFR 
    353.23 [now 19 CFR 351.222] after the regulatory deadline'' Samsung, 
    946 F.Supp. at 9 (emphasis added), and interprets this passage to 
    indicate that on some occasions the Department does accept late 
    requests for revocation.
        Stelco argues that the following cases demonstrate that the 
    Department has discretion to accept untimely requests for revocation: 
    Certain Fresh Cut Flowers from Colombia; Final Results of Antidumping 
    Duty Administrative Reviews, 61 FR 42833, 42863 (August 19, 1996), in 
    which the Department declined to revoke not because the request was 
    untimely (emphasis added by Stelco) but because the respondent failed 
    to meet all substantive criteria for revocation; Polyethylene 
    Terephthalate Film from Korea: Preliminary Results of Antidumping duty 
    Administrative Review, Intent to Revoke the Order in Part and 
    Termination in Part, 61 FR 36032, 36033 (July 9, 1996), in which the 
    Department permitted the respondent to amend its timely revocation 
    request one year after making the original request; EMDs, in which 
    Stelco claims that the Department pointed out that its regulatory 
    deadline ``is a discretionary, not a mandatory, deadline'' (emphasis 
    added by Stelco) (see EMDs, 58 FR 2855, 28553 (May 14, 1993).
        Finally, Stelco notes that petitioners' contention that the 
    Department should reject Stelco's request for revocation rests on 
    procedural technicalities, without providing any substantive factors 
    which the Department should weigh in deciding whether to accept the 
    request for consideration. Stelco notes that the request for revocation 
    was submitted five working days late, and did not pose an 
    administrative burden since it was submitted well before the 
    publication of the notice of initiation. Stelco further notes that 
    petitioners did not raise any objections to the timeliness of the 
    revocation request until June 5, 1998, nine months after the revocation 
    was made.
        Department's Position: We disagree with petitioners that the 
    Department should automatically deny Stelco's request for a revocation 
    solely on the basis that the request for revocation was filed one week 
    after the end of the anniversary month.
        Petitioners argue that Samsung established the obligation to 
    request revocation during the anniversary month as a ``mandatory, 
    bright line requirement'' without distinguishing between the facts in 
    the Samsung litigation and in the current review. However, the Samsung 
    case involved a revocation request which was four-and-one-half years 
    late. The underlying rationale for the Court's decision was based on 
    administrative efficiency. Samsung states ``(t)he burden placed on 
    Commerce by the submission of factual information after a deadline is 
    relatively light compared to the administrative burden imposed on 
    Commerce by an untimely request for revocation.'' The Court goes on to 
    note that in response to a request for revocation, Commerce must 
    initiate and conduct an entire investigation and that ``(i)f the 
    plaintiff could command Commerce to conduct such an investigation at 
    its whim rather than only once per year, Commerce's administrative 
    efficiency would be adversely affected.''
        Stelco's situation is clearly distinguished from the plaintiff's in 
    Samsung. Unlike the situation in Samsung, the reviews of this order 
    have been conducted in a timely fashion. At the time of the initiation 
    of this fourth review, Stelco had established a history of a zero and a 
    de minimis margin in the second and third reviews. Both the Department 
    and petitioners were, and had been, aware of that history, and thus 
    were aware that Stelco could be eligible for revocation. Stelco amended 
    its request for review to include a request for revocation five working 
    days, not four-and-one-half years, after a timely request for review. 
    The amendment was accepted by the Department and its timeliness was not 
    even questioned by petitioners until nine months after initiation 
    (Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
    Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 62 FR 50292, (September 
    25, 1998)). On July 10, 1998, the Department issued its preliminary 
    results of review, noting that Stelco made a request for revocation in 
    an amendment to its request for review on September 8, 1998. See 
    Preliminary Results, 63 FR at 37321. In that notice, we set forth the 
    arguments and record evidence concerning Stelco's revocation and 
    expressed our intention to revoke the
    
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    order with respect to Stelco if the preliminary findings were upheld in 
    the final results of review (Preliminary Results at 37321).
        Consequently, by initiating the review without rejecting the 
    untimeliness of Stelco's request for revocation, and by giving full 
    consideration to Stelco's request in the preliminary results of review, 
    the Department effectively granted Stelco an extension of its deadline 
    to file its request for revocation as permitted under 19 CFR 
    351.302(b). In addition, because Stelco's request for revocation was 
    filed well before the review was initiated, it did not impose an 
    additional burden on the conduct of the administrative review and 
    petitioners were not deprived of effective notification of Stelco's 
    request. Finally, the fairness of considering Stelco's untimely request 
    for revocation in the face of two years of de minimis margins, 
    outweighs the burden imposed by Stelco's untimely and unopposed request 
    for revocation.
        We disagree with Stelco's contention that both the antidumping 
    statute and the Department regulations are silent as to the time for 
    accepting requests for revocation. Section 351.222 of the Department's 
    regulations clearly specifies that a producer or exporter may request 
    revocation during the ``third and subsequent annual anniversary months 
    of the publication of the antidumping order * * *'' (Final Rule, 62 FR 
    27296 (May 19, 1997).) Section 351.222(f) reinforces the importance of 
    the timeliness of the request for revocation by stating: ``(u)pon 
    receipt of a timely request for revocation * * *'' (Final Rule 62 FR at 
    27400). Samsung further argues that, ``even if the regulation does not 
    provide a bright line requirement as to the year of filing, it still 
    provides a bright line test as to the month of filing and Commerce also 
    would retain discretion to discount stale information.'' Therefore, 
    both the Department's regulations and practice have established the 
    anniversary month as the time period in which to file a request for 
    revocation. In this instance, however, the Department has effectively 
    granted an extension by accepting Stelco's amended request for review.
    Comment 2: The Merits of Stelco's Request for Revocation
        Petitioners argue that if the Department considers Stelco's request 
    for revocation, it should deny the request on the merits of its case. 
    Petitioners claim that Stelco cannot demonstrate that it is not likely 
    to sell the subject merchandise at less than NV in the future as 
    required by section 351(b)(2)(ii) of the Department's regulations.
        Petitioners allege that before the Department can conclude that 
    Stelco is not likely to dump if the order is revoked, Stelco must show 
    that it can successfully export normal commercial quantities without 
    resorting to dumping. Petitioners note that the preamble to the 
    Department's final regulations states: the underlying assumption behind 
    a revocation based on the absence of dumping or countervailable 
    subsidization is that a respondent, by engaging in fair trade for a 
    specified period of time, has demonstrated that it will not resume its 
    unfair trade practice following the revocation of an order. If the 
    respondent is not selling in commercial quantities characteristic of 
    that company for the duration of the specified period, petitioners 
    argue, this assumption becomes weaker. (See Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 
    27326 (May 19, 1997).)
        Petitioners additionally point out that Sec. 351.222(d)(1) of the 
    Department's regulations requires that ``(B)efore revoking an order * * 
    *, the Secretary must be satisfied that, during each of the three * * * 
    years, there were exports to the United States in commercial quantities 
    of the subject merchandise to which a revocation * * * will apply.'' 
    (See Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27400 (May 19, 1997).) Petitioners 
    contend that Stelco cannot demonstrate that it is not likely to resume 
    dumping in accordance with this regulation because it cannot 
    demonstrate that it made sales in commercial quantities during each of 
    the past three years. Petitioners have provided proprietary charts 
    demonstrating the volume and value of the subject merchandise sold in 
    the United States during each of the four administrative reviews which 
    quantify the extreme decline in Stelco's sales since the original 
    investigation.
        Petitioners also note that the Department has refused to revoke an 
    antidumping duty order with respect to a particular respondent because 
    that respondent's U.S. sales of the subject merchandise fell 
    substantially after the imposition of the antidumping duty order. (See 
    Brass Sheet and Strip from Germany; Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
    Administrative Review and Determination Not to Revoke in Part (BSS 
    Germany), 61 FR 49727, 49731 (September 23, 1996) and Pure Magnesium 
    from Canada; Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review 
    and Notice of Intent not to Revoke Order in Part (Pure Magnesium), 63 
    FR 26147 (May 12, 1998).)
        Petitioners point out that the Department's memoranda to the file 
    show that the Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price index (BLS 
    index) for carbon steel plate dropped by 3.2 percent from September to 
    October of this year, and the Statistics Canada producer price index 
    for carbon steel sheet, strip, and plate dropped 2 percent from August 
    to September of this year and remained at a depressed level in October. 
    Petitioners add that this weakening in both the U.S. and Canadian 
    markets occurred just as Stelco is reportedly completing a substantial 
    upgrade of its plate mill that will double its current plate production 
    capacity. Petitioners cite a Calgary Herald newspaper article 
    describing the project (``Stelco to Revamp Main Hamilton Mill,'' 
    Calgary Herald at D5 (March 19, 1997).) Petitioners claim that Stelco's 
    doubling of capacity at a time when U.S. and Canadian prices are 
    falling places pressure on Stelco to dump plate in the U.S. market. 
    Thus, petitioners argue, revocation of the order would make resumed 
    dumping likely.
        Petitioners claim that Stelco cannot demonstrate that it is not 
    likely to resume dumping in the future based on the information which 
    is currently on the record in the instant administrative review. 
    Consequently, petitioners contend that the Department must solicit 
    information from petitioners and Stelco concerning: (1) The total 
    quantity by weight and by value and numbers of Stelco's U.S. plate 
    sales for the second and third review periods and the period for the 
    initial investigation; (2) currency movements between the U.S. dollar 
    and the Canadian dollar; and (3) conditions and trends in the U.S. and 
    Canadian steel industries.
        Stelco disputes petitioners' contention that it did not import 
    ``normal commercial quantities'' over the past three successive review 
    periods. Stelco claims that each and every one of its sales made after 
    the imposition of the antidumping order were ``bona fide'' 
    transactions.
        Stelco contends that petitioners' argument that the Department must 
    deny Stelco's revocation request because it did not import ``normal 
    commercial quantities'' over the past three successive review periods 
    is incorrect for two reasons. First, Stelco contends that the 
    Department has never defined ``normal commercial quantities'' and has 
    held commercial quantities to constitute as little as a single shipment 
    (See BSS Germany). Second, Stelco argues that a decrease in the volume 
    of merchandise following the imposition of an antidumping duty order is 
    relevant only in determining whether a respondent is able to compete in 
    the
    
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    U.S. market without dumping, and does not automatically require the 
    Department to reject a revocation request. Stelco argues that the 
    Department's examination of a respondent's ``ability to compete in the 
    U.S. market without dumping'' is only one factor in a multi-factor 
    {revocation} analysis, including the ``respondent's prices and margins 
    in the preceding periods * * *, the conditions and trends in the 
    domestic and home market industries, (and) currency movements.'' (See 
    Brass Sheet and Strip from Canada: Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
    Duty Administrative Review and Notice of Intent to Revoke Order in 
    Part, 63 FR 6519, (February 9, 1998) (BSS Canada); BSS Germany, and 
    Pure Magnesium.
        Stelco argues that the Department has often noted that a 
    respondent's lack of dumping over the course of three years is 
    ``generally predictive of future behavior.'' (See Pure Magnesium, 63 FR 
    26147, 26149 (May 12, 1998).) However, Stelco admits that in some prior 
    cases, the Department has also examined other factors when determining 
    the likelihood of future dumping, such as: (1) Conditions and trends in 
    the domestic and home market industries, (2) currency movements, and 
    (3) the ability of a respondent to compete in the U.S. market without 
    dumping. Stelco argues that the record supports its contention that it 
    is unlikely to resume dumping in the future.
        Stelco contends that factual information and forecasts by industry 
    analysis on the record demonstrates unequivocally strong demand in the 
    U.S. and Canadian markets eliminating any economic reason for Stelco to 
    sell the subject merchandise at depressed prices in the U.S. market.
        Stelco also argues that exchange rate information on the record 
    indicates that the Canadian dollar has been stable or depreciating, 
    thereby making it unlikely that Stelco will sell merchandise to the 
    U.S. at dumped prices.
        Finally, Stelco argues that its recent pricing trends (i.e. its 
    three-year history of not dumping), which is also on the record, 
    indicate that Stelco is able to compete in the U.S. market without 
    selling at dumped prices.
        Additional comments and information regarding the likelihood of 
    future dumping by Stelco were added to the record on December 4 and 
    December 9, 1998. See ``Determination Not to Revoke,'' above.
        Department's Position: We agree with petitioners that Stelco has 
    not sold subject merchandise in commercial quantities at not less than 
    normal value for three consecutive years, as required by 
    Sec. 351.222(b)(2)(i) and (d)(1) of the Department's regulations. 
    Therefore, we are not revoking the antidumping order on steel plate 
    with respect to Stelco. For further details, see the ``Determination 
    Not to Revoke'' section above.
        Stelco's argument that, in BSS Germany, the Department determined a 
    single sale to be in commercial quantities is not determinative in the 
    instant case. First, the determination of what constitutes commercial 
    quantities must be made on a case-specific basis. Here, a single sale 
    of only 36 tons of steel plate is so insignificant in comparison with 
    the volume of sales prior to the imposition of the antidumping order, 
    as well as in comparison with subsequent review periods, as to fail to 
    constitute a commercial quantity. Second, the determination in BSS 
    Germany was based on a finding of ``likelihood'' of resumed dumping, 
    and not on a finding that the company did not have three consecutive 
    years of sales in commercial quantities at not less than NV.
        Stelco has argued that the Department examines a number of items in 
    determining whether to revoke an antidumping order. However, 
    respondents must meet the threshold criterion of three consecutive 
    years of sales in commercial quantities at not less than NV in order to 
    be eligible for revocation. When that criterion has been met, and the 
    record contains evidence regarding the likelihood of resumption of 
    dumping, then the Department looks to additional indicators, such as 
    the condition of the U.S. and domestic markets. See BSS Germany and BSS 
    Canada. As noted above, this additional step was not necessary in this 
    case.
        Because Stelco is ineligible for revocation under 
    Sec. 351.222(b)(2)(i), based on the fact that it has not had three 
    consecutive years of sales in commercial quantities at not less than 
    NV, we need not address comments regarding U.S. and Canadian market 
    conditions, or Stelco's planned mill expansion.
        Regarding Stelco's request for revocation with respect to 
    corrosion-resistant steel, we note that, in the last two administrative 
    reviews, we determined that Stelco sold corrosion-resistant steel at 
    less than NV. See Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat 
    Products and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Canada: 
    Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, 62 FR 12725 
    (March 16, 1998) and Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat 
    Products and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Canada: 
    Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, 62 FR 18448 
    (April 15, 1997)(1994/95 Canadian Steel). Although the final results of 
    these reviews are subject to litigation, that litigation is not yet 
    complete. Additionally, as discussed below, we have determined that 
    Stelco sold corrosion-resistant steel at less than NV during the period 
    covered by this review. Consequently, we determine that, because Stelco 
    does not have three consecutive years of zero or de minimis margins on 
    corrosion-resistant steel, Stelco is not eligible for revocation of the 
    order on corrosion-resistant steel under 19 CFR 351.222(b).
    Comment 3: Clerical Errors
        Petitioners claim that the model match program used to calculate 
    the results of review does not account for all plate qualities that 
    Stelco has reported. Petitioners proposed the addition of two lines of 
    computer code to remedy the omission.
        DOC position: We agree and have corrected the error to include all 
    qualities of plate that were reported by Stelco.
    Comment 4: Major Input Rule
        Stelco argues that there is no factual or legal basis for the 
    Department's decision to increase Stelco's submitted actual costs of 
    production for painting services supplied by Baycoat for corrosion-
    resistant products. Stelco maintains that the Department erroneously 
    used the transfer price from Baycoat instead of Baycoat's reported cost 
    of production to value Baycoat's painting services. Stelco asserts that 
    the WTO Antidumping Agreement and section 773(f)(1) of the Act provide 
    that the Department must examine and calculate a particular exporter's 
    cost of manufacture.
        Stelco also claims that its actual cost for Baycoat's painting 
    services is not equal to the total invoice price, but rather that it is 
    equal to the total invoice price minus half of Baycoat's profits, since 
    Baycoat is jointly owned by Stelco and Dofasco. Stelco points to a 
    draft remand determination on this issue in which the Department states 
    that the return of profit is independent of the number or value of 
    sales of painting services to Stelco.
        Stelco argues that the statutory language of the ``major input 
    rule'' does not require the Department to increase an affiliated 
    supplier's actual cost of production in valuing its major inputs. 
    Stelco claims that in 1994/95 Canadian Steel, the Department determined 
    that the major input rule required the Department to value inputs 
    supplied by affiliates at the transfer price provided
    
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    that the transfer price reflects market value and was not below the 
    cost of production. Stelco also refers to the Draft Remand 
    Determination for Article 1904 Binational Panel Review USA-97-1904-03 
    (August 4, 1998), in which the Department stated that ``the normal 
    application of these provisions dictates that transfer price is the 
    appropriate basis for Stelco's cost of production with respect to the 
    Baycoat inputs.'' Stelco argues that in H.R. Rep. No. 40, 100th Cong., 
    1st Sess., pt. 1, at 137 (1987), Congress did not intend for this 
    provision to be used to increase costs beyond a company's actual cost 
    of production. In addition, Stelco claims that Torrington Co. v. United 
    States (``Torrington'') (881 F. Supp 622, 642-643 (CIT 1995)) and SKF 
    USA Inc. v. United States (``SKF'') (888 F. Supp 152, 156 (CIT 1995)) 
    supports its contention that a COP valuation is appropriate when it is 
    below transfer price.
        Stelco further argues that the major input rule does not apply to 
    affiliated suppliers that are collapsed with the respondent. Stelco 
    refers to C. Marsh and J. Miller, Use and Measurement of Production 
    Costs Under U.S. Antidumping Law (September 19, 1995) to illustrate 
    that pursuant to consolidation rules under generally accepted 
    accounting principles, companies within a consolidated group record 
    actual costs incurred for inter-company purchases and sales. Stelco 
    also refers to Certain Forged Steel Crankshafts from the United 
    Kingdom, 61 FR 54613, 54614 (October 21, 1996) (Crankshafts) and Steel 
    from Korea in which the Department did not apply the major input rule 
    with regard to transactions between divisions of the same corporation. 
    To show that Department precedent mandates the collapsing of Stelco and 
    Baycoat, Stelco cites Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative 
    Review: Sulfanilic Acid from the People's Republic of China, 61 FR 
    25196, 25197 (May 20, 1996); Final Determinations of Sales at LTFV: 
    Certain Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products, Certain Cold-Rolled 
    Carbon Steel Flat Products, Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel 
    Flat Products, and Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Flat Products 
    from Japan, 58 FR 37154 (July 9, 1993); Nihon Cement Co., Ltd. v. 
    United States, 17 C.I.T. 400 (1993).
        Finally, Stelco argues that a June 4, 1998 binational panel ruling 
    specifically rejected the Department's use of invoice prices from 
    Baycoat as the value of the painting service that Stelco obtains from 
    Baycoat. See Decision of the Panel: North American Free Trade 
    Agreement, Article 1904 Binational Panel Review, USA-97-1904-3 (June 4, 
    1998) at 10 (Panel Decision) (Public Document).
        Petitioners argue that the Department correctly used the transfer 
    price to value the painting services received from Baycoat. Petitioners 
    further ague that the statute makes no provision for the rejection of 
    transfer price where such price exceeds the input's cost of production 
    and there is no evidence that the transfer price is below market value. 
    They further argue that the legislative history of the major input rule 
    shows that the phrase ``amount represented as the value of [the] 
    input'' refers to the transfer price, and that a conference committee 
    report gives a similar definition. See H. Conf. Rep. No. 100-576 at 
    595, reprinted in 1988 U.S.S.C.A.N. 1547, 1628. Petitioners also 
    contend that the Court of International Trade, has construed 
    subsections (f)(2) and (f)(3) to require a comparison of market value 
    and cost with transfer price. See Timken Co. v. United States, Consol. 
    Court No. 96-12-02686, Slip Op. 97-164 (CIT Dec. 3, 1997) at 30-31. 
    Petitioners argue that the binational review unequivocally sustained 
    the discretion of the Department to use the unadjusted Baycoat invoice 
    price as the valuation of Baycoat's painting services.
        Petitioners contend that the transfer price is the appropriate 
    valuation under the Department's regulations, specifically 19 CFR 
    351.407(b), which says that the Department will determine the value of 
    a major input purchased from an affiliated person based on the higher 
    of the price paid, the market value, or the cost of production. 
    Furthermore, petitioners argue that there is no provision in the 
    statute or any precedent that would permit any adjustment for profit 
    made to the transfer price. Petitioners also note that in the normal 
    course of business Stelco records its costs for the Baycoat services at 
    the transfer price.
        Petitioners argue that Stelco's assertion that the Department 
    should treat Stelco and its affiliated suppliers as a single entity is 
    baseless. Petitioners state that Stelco has failed to establish that 
    Baycoat is a ``division'' of Stelco, and that the requirements for 
    collapsing Baycoat and Stelco into one entity have not been satisfied. 
    Finally, petitioners assert that there is no precedent for any 
    exceptions to the application of the major input rule.
        Department's Position: We agree with petitioners that it is 
    appropriate to use the transfer price to value Stelco's major inputs. 
    Under section 773(f)(2) of the Act, the Department's current practice 
    is to request information on both the transfer price and the market 
    value of the input and to choose the higher of the two valuations. 
    Pursuant to section 773(f)(3) of the Act, the Department may alter this 
    valuation only in those cases where the input is ``major'' and the 
    value determined under section 773(f)(2) is lower than the COP of the 
    inputs. All parties agree that the inputs in question are major inputs 
    within the meaning of section 773(f)(3); we have determined that the 
    value determined under section 773(f)(2) is not lower than the COP of 
    the inputs.
        In Torrington and SKF, which concerned the calculation of CV, the 
    Department had not requested or received information on the transfer 
    prices of the inputs. The CIT did not say that the Department was 
    prohibited from requesting the transfer prices of the inputs; rather, 
    it said that the Department was within its discretion to choose to rely 
    on cost information. Here, because of the Department's current policy, 
    the Department requested and received the transfer prices of the 
    inputs. These transfer prices are greater than Baycoat's COP.
        The policy applied here was the policy applied by the Department in 
    the second review of this case and is currently reflected in 19 CFR 
    351.403(b). The Department held in the second administrative review 
    that the statute directs it ``to value inputs supplied by affiliated 
    persons at the transfer price between the entities provided that such a 
    price reflects the price commonly charged in the market and, for major 
    inputs, is not below the cost of producing the input.'' See 1994/95 
    Canadian Steel at 62 FR 18464.
        Stelco also argues that it and Baycoat should be treated as a 
    single entity for determining cost of production. However, Stelco has 
    not established either that Baycoat is a ``division'' of Stelco or that 
    the requirements for ``collapsing,'' under 19 CFR 351.401(f), have been 
    satisfied with respect to Baycoat. In Crankshafts, respondent argued 
    that because it and its affiliated supplier were ``both unincorporated 
    operating divisions within a single entity, * * * they are parts of the 
    same company and share a common steel COP.'' The Department ruled that 
    the record evidence indicated that they were divisions of the same 
    corporation, as opposed to distinct, although affiliated, legal 
    entities, and found that the major input rule did not apply on that 
    basis. Unlike the respondent in Crankshafts, Stelco does not contend 
    that Baycoat is an actual division of Stelco with no independent legal 
    existence. Rather, Stelco contends that it and Baycoat should be 
    treated as a single entity solely for purposes of the
    
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    major input rule. As petitioners point out, the Department rejected a 
    similar argument in Mechanical Transfer Presses from Japan 55 FR 335 
    (January 4, 1990) in which respondent maintained that its wholly-owned 
    subsidiaries ``function(ed) as divisions.'' The Department noted that 
    the ``wholly-owned subsidiaries are separate legal entities,'' as 
    opposed to mere divisions, and thus applied the major input rule. The 
    subsidiary in question here, Baycoat, is clearly a separate legal 
    entity and thus the rule of Crankshafts does not apply.
        Steel from Korea represents another instance where we have 
    determined that the major input rule does not apply. In that case we 
    disregarded the major input rule for transactions between producers of 
    the subject merchandise where we had determined that such producers 
    should be collapsed for purposes of analyzing sales. The criteria 
    applied for determining whether sales collapsing is appropriate do not 
    apply, however, in cases where the affiliated supplier does not have 
    the capacity to produce the subject merchandise. See 19 CFR 351.401(f). 
    In this review, it is clear that Baycoat does not produce subject 
    merchandise. We agree with petitioners that Stelco has not established 
    a basis for the treatment of Stelco's affiliated suppliers as 
    ``collapsed'' entities. Furthermore, a year-end profit distribution 
    does not function as an adjustment to price. The entitlement to a 
    profit distribution arises from the ownership interest, not from the 
    sale.
        The binational panel agreed with the Department ``that subsection 
    (f)(3) does not require the rejection of the transfer price'' and ruled 
    that ``on the face of the statute, the Department is within its 
    discretion to utilize the transactions between Stelco and Baycoat'' as 
    the cost for Baycoat's services. See Panel Decision at 10. For these 
    reasons, the Department has allowed no adjustments to the transfer 
    price between Stelco and Baycoat.
    Comment 5: Clerical Errors
        Both Stelco and petitioners claim that the Department made clerical 
    calculation errors in the preliminary determination. Stelco argues that 
    the Department failed to apply reported billing adjustments, the CEP 
    offset adjustment, and appropriate currency conversions for advertising 
    expenses and inventory carrying costs. With regard to the recalculation 
    of Stelco's painting costs, Stelco claims that the Department 
    incorrectly recalculated Stelco's yield loss, used an incorrect TCOM 
    variable, and did not complete the programming language needed to 
    ensure that the Baycoat adjustment was applied only to Baycoat orders.
        Petitioners claim that the Department neglected to include the home 
    market interest revenue variable in the arm's length test, incorrectly 
    defined the DIFFCODE variable used for matching in the model match, and 
    incorrectly converted U.S. packing expense into U.S. dollars.
        Department's Position: We agree with Stelco and with petitioners 
    and have corrected the clerical errors described above.
    
    Final Results of Review
    
        As a result of our review, we determine the dumping margins (in 
    percent) for the period August 1, 1996, through July 31, 1997 to be as 
    follows:
    
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                    Margin
                       Manufacturer/exporter                      (percent)
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Corrosion-Resistant Steel:
      Dofasco..................................................         0.98
      CCC......................................................         2.26
      Stelco...................................................         2.73
    Cut-to-Length Plate:
      Algoma...................................................        *0.23
      MRM......................................................         0.00
      Stelco...................................................         0.00
      Forsyth..................................................       68.70
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    * De minimis.
    
        The Department will determine, and the U.S. Customs Service shall 
    assess, antidumping duties on all appropriate entries. For assessment 
    purposes, we have calculated importer-specific ad valorem duty 
    assessment rates for the merchandise based on the ratio of the total 
    amount of antidumping duties calculated for the examined sales during 
    the POR to the total quantity of sales examined during the POR. 
    Individual differences between U.S. price and normal value may vary 
    from the percentages stated above. The Department will issue 
    appraisement instructions directly to the Customs Service.
        Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will be effective 
    upon publication of these final results for all shipments of the 
    subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
    consumption on or after the publication date as provided by section 
    751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for each reviewed 
    company will be the rates stated above (except that no deposit will be 
    required for firms with zero or de minimis margins, i.e., margins less 
    than 0.5 percent); (2) for exporters not covered in this review, but 
    covered in the LTFV investigation or a previous review, the cash 
    deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published 
    for the most recent period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered 
    in this review, a previous review, or the original LTFV investigation, 
    but the manufacturer is, the cash deposit rate will be the rate 
    established for the most recent period for the manufacturer of the 
    merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers 
    or exporters will continue to be the ``all others'' rate established in 
    the LTFV investigations, which were 18.71 percent for corrosion-
    resistant steel products and 61.88 percent for plate (see Amended Final 
    Determination, 60 FR 49582 (September 26, 1995)). These deposit 
    requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect until publication of 
    the final results of the next administrative reviews.
        We are revoking the antidumping duty order on certain cut-to-length 
    carbon steel plate from Canada with respect to Algoma and Stelco, in 
    accordance with section 751(d) of the Act and 19 CFR 353.25(a)(2). This 
    revocation applies to all entries of the subject merchandise from 
    Canada entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
    after August 31, 1997. The Department will order the suspension of 
    liquidation ended for all such entries and will instruct the Customs 
    Service to release any cash deposit or bonds. The Department will 
    further instruct the Customs Service to refund with interest any cash 
    deposits on entries made on or after August 31, 1997.
    
    Notification of Interested Parties
    
        This notice also serves as a final reminder to importers of their 
    responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) 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 Secretary's presumption that 
    reimbursement of the antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent 
    assessment of double antidumping duties.
        This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to 
    administrative protective orders (APOs) of their responsibility 
    concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under 
    APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d)(1)(1997). 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.
        These administrative reviews and notices are in accordance with 
    section
    
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    751(a)(1) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and 19 CFR 351.213 and 19 
    CFR 351.221(b)(5).
    
        Dated: January 4, 1999.
    Robert S. LaRussa,
    Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
    [FR Doc. 99-691 Filed 1-12-99; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
    
    
    

Document Information

Effective Date:
1/13/1999
Published:
01/13/1999
Department:
International Trade Administration
Entry Type:
Notice
Action:
Notice of final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products and certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Canada and determination to revoke in part.
Document Number:
99-691
Dates:
January 13, 1999.
Pages:
2173-2192 (20 pages)
Docket Numbers:
A-122-822, A-122-823
PDF File:
99-691.pdf