05-19754. Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review

AGENCY:

Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.

ACTION:

Notice of Opportunity to Request Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sheila E. Forbes, Office of AD/CVD Operations, Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230, telephone: [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Each year during the anniversary month of the publication of an antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension of investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 771(9) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, may request, in accordance with section 351.213 (2002), that the Department conduct an administrative review of that antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended investigation.

Opportunity to Request a Review:

Not later than the last day of October 2005,¹ interested parties may request administrative review of the following orders, findings, or suspended investigations, with anniversary dates in October for the following periods:

Antidumping Duty Proceedings	Period
BRAZIL: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod
A-351-832	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
CANADA: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod
A-122-840	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
CANADA: Hard Red Spring Wheat
A-122-847	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
INDONESIA: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod
A-560-815	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
ITALY: Pressure Sensitive Tape
A-475-059	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
MEXICO: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod
A-201-830	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
MOLDOVA: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod
A-841-805	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Polyvinyl Alcohol
A-580-850	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Barium Carbonate
A-570-880	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Barium Chloride
A-570-007	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Cotton Shop Towels
A-570-003	10/1/04 - 2/16/05
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Helical Spring Lock Washers
A-570-822	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Polyvinyl Alcohol
A-570-879	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod
A-274-804	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
UKRAINE: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod
A-823-812	10/1/04 - 9/30/05
Countervailing Duty Proceedings
BRAZIL: Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod
C-351-833	1/1/04 - 12/31/04
CANADA: Hard Red Spring Wheat
C-122-848	1/1/04 - 12/31/04
IRAN: Roasted In-Shell Pistachios
C-507-601	1/1/04 - 12/31/04
Suspension Agreements
RUSSIA: Uranium
A-821-802	10/1/04 - 9/30/05

In accordance with section 351.213(b) of the regulations, an interested party as defined by section 771(9) of the Act may request in writing that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. For both antidumping and countervailing duty reviews, the interested party must specify the individual producers or exporters covered by an antidumping finding or an antidumping or countervailing duty order or suspension agreement for which it is requesting a review, and the requesting party must state why it desires the Secretary to review those particular producers or exporters.¹ If the interested party intends for the Secretary to review sales of merchandise by an exporter (or a producer if that producer also exports merchandise from other suppliers) which were produced in more than one country of origin and each country of origin is subject to a separate order, then the interested party must state specifically, on an order-by-order basis, which exporter(s) the request is intended to cover.

As explained in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 69 FR 23954 (May 6, 2003), the Department has clarified its practice with respect to the collection of final antidumping duties on imports of merchandise where intermediate firms are involved. The public should be aware of this clarification in determining whether to request an administrative review of merchandise subject to antidumping findings and orders. See also the Import Administration web site at http://ia.ita.doc.gov.

Six copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Room 1870, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230. The Department also asks parties to serve a copy of their requests to the Office of Antidumping/Countervailing Operations, Attention: Sheila Forbes, in room 3065 of the main Commerce Building. Further, in accordance with section 351.303(f)(l)(i) of the regulations, a copy of each request must be served on every party on the Department's service list.

The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of “Initiation of Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation” for requests received by the last day of October 2005. If the Department does not receive, by the last day of October 2005, a request for review of entries covered by an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this notice and for the period identified above, the Department will instruct the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to assess antidumping or countervailing duties on those entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated antidumping or countervailing duties required on those entries at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption and to continue to collect the cash deposit previously ordered.

This notice is not required by statute but is published as a service to the international trading community.

Dated: September 22, 2005.

Holly A. Kuga,

Senior Office Director, AD/CVD Operations, Office 4, for Import Administration.

Footnotes

1.  Or the next business day, if the deadline falls on a weekend, federal holiday or any other day when the Department is closed.

2.  If the review request involves a non-market economy and the parties subject to the review request do not qualify for separate rates, all other exporters of subject merchandise from the non-market economy country who do not have a separate rate will be covered by the review as part of the single entity of which the named firms are a part.