[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10024-10025]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5403]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-583-508]
Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware From Taiwan: Final Results of
Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and
Revocation in Part of Antidumping Duty Order
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping
duty administrative review, and revocation in part of antidumping duty
order.
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SUMMARY: On January 10, 1997, the Department published a notice of
initiation of a changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative
review and preliminary results of review with intent to revoke, in
part, the antidumping duty order on porcelain-on-steel (POS) cooking
ware from Taiwan. We are now revoking this order in part, with regard
to teakettles, based on the fact that domestic parties have expressed
no interest in the importation or sale of teakettles imported from
Taiwan.
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 5, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy S. Wei or James Terpstra, Office
of Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Enforcement, Office 4, Import
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20230; telephone (202) 482-4737.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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 (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise
indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to the
current regulations, as amended by the interim regulations published in
the Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).
Background
On September 12, 1996, General Housewares Corporation (GHC)
requested that the Department conduct a changed circumstances
administrative review to determine whether to partially revoke the
order with regard to imports of teakettles from Taiwan. In its request,
GHC stated that it is the only U.S. producer of POS cooking ware and
that, in the original petition, it requested that the scope of order
include teakettles. GHC also stated that it no longer manufactures POS
teakettles and has no further interest in the antidumping duty order
with respect to teakettles.
We preliminarily determined that petitioner's affirmative statement
of no interest constituted changed circumstances sufficient to warrant
a partial revocation of this order. Consequently, on January 10, 1997,
the Department published a notice of initiation and preliminary results
of changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and
intent to revoke this order in part (62 FR 1434). We gave interested
parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this
changed circumstances review. We received no comments.
Scope of Review
The products covered by this antidumping order are POS cooking
ware, including teakettles, which do not have self-contained electric
heating elements. All of the foregoing are constructed of steel and are
enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses. Kitchenware is not subject to
this order. See Antidumping Duty Order; Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware
from Taiwan, 51 FR 43416 (December 2, 1986).
The merchandise covered by this changed circumstances review are
teakettles from Taiwan. Imports of teakettles are currently
classifiable under the harmonized tariff schedule (HTS) subheading
7323.94.00.10. The HTS subheading is provided for convenience and U.S.
Customs purposes. Our written description of the scope of this
proceeding is dispositive. The order with regard to imports of other
POS cooking ware is not affected by this request. Thus, pursuant to the
Department's determination to revoke in part the antidumping order on
POS cooking ware from Taiwan with respect to teakettles, the scope of
the antidumping order on POS cooking ware from Taiwan now reads as
follows: The products covered by this antidumping duty order are POS
cooking ware which do not have self-contained electric heating
elements. All of the foregoing are constructed of steel and are
enameled or glazed with vitreous glasses. Kitchenware and teakettles
are not subject to this order.
Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty
Order
The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioner in POS
cooking ware from Taiwan constitutes changed circumstances sufficient
to warrant
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partial revocation of this order. Therefore, the Department is
partially revoking the order on POS cooking ware from Taiwan with
regard to teakettles, in accordance with sections 751 (b) and (d) and
782(h) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act) and 19 CFR
353.25(d)(1).
The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service (Customs) to
proceed with liquidation, without regard to antidumping duties, of all
unliquidated entries of teakettles from Taiwan that are not subject to
final results of administrative review. The Department will further
instruct Customs to refund with interest any estimated duties collected
with respect to unliquidated entries of teakettles from Taiwan that are
not subject to final results of administrative review.
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to
administrative protection orders (APOs) of their responsibility
concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under
APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d). 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 terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.
This changed circumstances administrative review, partial
revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance
with sections 751 (b) and (d) and 782(h) of the Act and sections
353.22(f) and 353.25(d) of the Department's regulations.
Dated: February 27, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 97-5403 Filed 3-4-97; 8:45 am]
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