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[FR Doc No: 94-8906]
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[Federal Register: April 13, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-475-059]
Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape From Italy; Preliminary Results
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
AGENCY: Import Administration/International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of preliminary results of antidumping duty
administrative review.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has conducted an administrative
review of the antidumping finding on pressure sensitive plastic tape
from Italy. Interested parties are invited to comment on these
preliminary results.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 13, 1994.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Todd Peterson or Thomas Futtner,
Office of Antidumping Compliance, Import Administration, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
4195 or 482-3814, respectively.
Background
On October 21, 1977, the Department of the Treasury published in
the Federal Register (42 FR 56110) the antidumping finding on pressure
sensitive plastic tape (PSPT) from Italy. On October 18, 1993, the
Department of Commerce (the Department) published a notice of
``Opportunity to Request Administrative Review'' (58 FR 53709). On
October 27, 1993, the petitioner, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
Company (3M), requested that we conduct an administrative review for
the period October 1, 1992, through September 30, 1993. We published a
notice of initiation of the antidumping administrative review on
November 17, 1993.
The Department has now conducted the administrative review in
accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Tariff Act).
Scope of the Review
Imports covered by the review are shipments of PSPT measuring over
1\3/8\ inches in width and not exceeding 4 mils in thickness,
classifiable under item numbers 3919.90.20 and 3919.90.50 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedules (HTS). HTS item numbers are provided for
convenience and for Customs purposes. The written descriptions remain
dispositive.
Preliminary Results of Review
Because the single manufacturer/exporter subject to review, NAR,
had no shipments of this merchandise to the United States during the
period of review, the Department has preliminarily assigned NAR the
rate applicable to it from its most recent administrative review as the
estimated cash deposit rate. This rate is 1.24 percent.
Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will be effective
for all shipments of the subject merchandise, entered, or withdrawn
from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the
final results of this administrative review, as provided for by section
751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for the reviewed
firm will be that firm's rate established in the final results of this
administrative review; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated
companies not listed above, 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, or the original
less-than-fair-value 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 not previously reviewed will
be 12.66 percent, the ``new shipper'' rate established in the first
notice of final results of administrative review published by the
Department (48 FR 35686, August 5, 1983).
These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect
until publication of the final results of the next administrative
review.
Interested parties may request disclosure within five days of the
date of publication of this notice, and may request a hearing within 10
days of the date of publication. Any hearing, if requested, will be
held as early as convenient for the parties but not later than 44 days
after the date of publication or the first workday thereafter. Case
briefs or other written comments from interested parties may be
submitted not later than 30 days after the date of publication of this
notice. Rebuttal briefs and rebuttal comments, limited to issues raised
in the case briefs, may be filed not later than 37 days after the date
of publication. The Department will publish the final results of this
administrative review, including its results of its analysis of issues
raised in any such written comments.
This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their
responsibility under 19 CFR 353.26 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 antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent
assessment of double antidumping duties.
This administrative review and notice are in accordance with
section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and 19 CFR
353.22.
Dated: April 5, 1994.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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