[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59739-59741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28762]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-588-837]
Large Newspaper Printing Presses and Components Thereof, Whether
Assembled or Unassembled, From Japan: Preliminary Results of Changed
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Intent To
Revoke Antidumping Order, In Part
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of preliminary results of changed circumstances and
intent to revoke antidumping duty order, in part.
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SUMMARY: At the request of Goss Graphic Systems, Inc., the petitioner
and a U.S. producer of the subject merchandise, the Department of
Commerce is conducting a changed circumstances administrative review of
the antidumping duty order on large newspaper printing presses and
components thereof, whether assembled or unassembled, from Japan to
determine whether to revoke in part the order with respect to large
newspaper printing presses and components thereof, whether assembled or
unassembled. Goss states that it has no interest in maintaining the
antidumping duty order on subject merchandise from Japan with respect
to the specific category of large newspaper printing presses and
components thereof, whether assembled or unassembled, identified in its
request. We preliminarily determine to revoke the order, in part, with
respect to these specific systems, as described below under ``Scope of
Review.'' We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary
results.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 3, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David J. Goldberger or Dinah
McDougall, Office 2, AD/CVD Enforcement Group I, Import Administration,
Room B099, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C.
20230; telephone (202) 482-4136 or (202) 482-3773, respectively.
The Applicable Statute and Regulations
Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated,
all citations to the Department of Commerce's (``Department's'')
regulations are to the regulations at 19 CFR Part 351 (1999).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 4, 1996, the Department published in the Federal
Register (61 FR 46621) the antidumping duty order on large newspaper
printing presses (``LNPP'') and components thereof, whether assembled
or unassembled, from Japan. On May 28, 1999, Goss Graphic Systems, Inc.
(``Goss'') requested that the Department conduct a changed
circumstances administrative review to determine, pursuant to 19 CFR
351.216(b), whether to revoke in part the antidumping duty order on
LNPPs from Japan with regard to imports of the elements and components
of LNPP systems, and additions thereto, imported to fulfill a contract
for one or more complete LNPP systems, as described in detail below
under ``Scope of Review.'' Goss states that it is no longer interested
in maintaining the order as applied to the category of merchandise
described in the request.
KBA North America (``KBA''), a U.S. producer and an affiliate of
the German respondent Koenig & Bauer-Albert AG in the German less-than-
fair-value (``LTFV'') investigation of LNPP from Germany, Tokyo Kikai
Seisakusho, Ltd.
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(``TKS''), a respondent in the current administrative review of the
order on LNPPs from Japan, and MAN Roland, Inc. (``MAN Roland''), a
U.S. producer and an affiliate of the other respondent in the German
LTFV investigation, MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG, submitted comments in
opposition to Goss' request, which they note, among other things, is
limited to a very specific product covered by the antidumping duty
order. KBA has also questioned Goss' claim that it represents
``substantially all'' of the U.S. industry. Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries, Ltd. (``MHI''), the other respondent in the current
administrative review of the order on LNPPs from Japan, supports Goss'
request.
Scope of Review
The products covered by this changed circumstances review are
elements and components of LNPP systems, and additions thereto,
imported to fulfill a contract for one or more complete LNPP systems
which feature a 22 inch cut-off, 50 inch web width and a rated speed no
greater than 75,000 copies per hour. In addition to the specifications
set out in this paragraph, all of which must be met in order for the
product to fall within this changed circumstances review, the product
must also possess all of the specifications detailed in the five (5)
numbered sections following this paragraph and in any figures
referenced below. If one or more of these criteria is not fulfilled,
the product is not within the scope of this changed circumstances
review:
1. Printing Unit: A printing unit which is a color keyless blanket-
to-blanket tower unit with a fixed gain infeed and fixed gain outfeed,
with a rated speed no greater than 75,000 copies per hour, which
includes the following features:
Each tower consisting of four levels, one or more of which
must be populated.
Plate cylinders which contain slot lock-ups and blanket
cylinders which contain reel rod lock-ups both of which are of solid
carbon steel with nickel plating and with bearers at both ends which
are configured in-line with bearers of other cylinders.
Keyless inking system which consists of a passive feed ink
delivery system, an eight roller ink train, and a non-anilox and non-
porous metering roller.
The dampener system which consists of a two nozzle per
page spraybar and two roller dampener with one chrome drum and one form
roller.
The equipment contained in the color keyless ink delivery
system is designed to achieve a constant, uniform feed of ink film
across the cylinder without ink keys. This system requires use of
keyless ink which accepts greater water content.
2. Folder: A module which is a double 3:2 rotary folder with 160
pages collect capability and double (over and under) delivery, with a
cut-off length of 22 inches. The upper section consists of three-high
double formers (total of 6) with six sets of nipping rollers.
3. RTP: A component which is of the two-arm design with core drives
and core brakes, designed for 50 inch diameter rolls; and arranged in
the press line in the back-to-back configuration (left and right hand
load pairs).
4. Conveyance and Access Apparatus: Conveyance and access apparatus
capable of manipulating a roll of paper more than two newspaper
broadsheets across through the production process, and a drive system
which is of conventional shafted design.
5. Computerized Control System: A computerized control system,
which is any computer equipment and/or software designed specifically
to control, monitor, adjust, and coordinate the functions and
operations of large newspaper printing presses or press components.
The order with regard to imports of other LNPPs is not affected by
this request.
Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review
Pursuant to section 751(d) of the Act, the Department may partially
revoke an antidumping duty order based on a review under section 751(b)
of the Act. Section 782(h)(2) of the Act and Sec. 351.222(g)(1)(i) of
the Department's regulations provide that the Department may revoke an
order (in whole or in part) if it determines that producers accounting
for substantially all of the production of the domestic like product
have no further interest in the order, in whole or in part. The
Department interprets ``substantially all'' production to mean at least
85 percent of production of the domestic like product (i.e., the
merchandise produced in the United States that corresponds to the scope
of the proceeding) (see, e.g., Preliminary Results of Changed
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review : Oil Country
Tubular Goods From Mexico, 64 FR 14213-14214, March 24, 1999).
In order to determine whether ``substantially all'' of the domestic
producers supported revocation in part of the order, the Department
requested domestic production information from Goss and KBA (MAN Roland
did not identify any domestic production). Based on their responses, we
have preliminarily determined that Goss represents at least 85 percent
of the domestic production of the domestic like product and thus
accounts for ``substantially all'' of the production of the domestic
like product. This lack of interest by the domestic industry
constitutes sufficient changed circumstances to warrant partial
revocation of the order (see, e.g., Final Results of Changed
Circumstances Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Reviews, and
Revocation of Orders in Part: Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon Steel Plate
from Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom, 64 FR 46343, August 25,
1999). The objections raised by other interested parties do not provide
a basis for rejecting Goss' request. Therefore, the Department is
notifying the public of its intent to revoke in part the antidumping
duty order on LNPP from Japan with respect to the import of the
elements and components of LNPP systems and additions thereto as
described above.
If final revocation in part occurs, we intend to instruct the U.S.
Customs Service (Customs) to liquidate without regard to antidumping
duties, and to refund any estimated antidumping duties collected for
all entries, of the merchandise described above, made on or after
September 4, 1996, as requested by the petitioner. Further, we intend
to issue instructions to Customs requiring that a party importing the
merchandise described above submit a certification to Customs
certifying that the imported merchandise meets the specifications of
the merchandise covered by the revocation in part. The current
requirement for a cash deposit of estimated antidumping duties on LNPP
from Japan with regard to the specified merchandise will continue
unless and until we publish a final determination to revoke in part.
Public Comment
Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary
results. Parties who submit argument in this proceeding are requested
to submit with the argument (1) a statement of the issue, and (2) a
brief summary of the argument. Any interested party may request a
hearing within 10 days of the date of publication of this notice. Any
hearing, if requested, will be held no later than 25 days after the
date of publication of this notice, or the first workday thereafter.
Case briefs may be submitted by interested parties not later than 15
days after the date of publication of this notice. Rebuttal
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briefs, limited to the issues raised in the case briefs, may be filed
not later than 20 days after the date of publication of this notice.
All written comments shall be submitted in accordance with 19 CFR
351.303 and shall be served on all interested parties on the
Department's service list in accordance with 19 CFR 351.303. Persons
interested in attending the hearing should contact the Department for
the date and time of the hearing. The Department will publish the final
results of this changed circumstances review, including the results of
its analysis of issues raised in any written comments.
This notice is in accordance with sections 751(b)(1) and 777(i)(1)
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216 and 351.222.
Dated: October 28, 1999.
Richard Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-28762 Filed 11-2-99; 8:45 am]
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