[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 132 (Friday, July 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37338-37339]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18339]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-351-826]
Small Diameter Circular Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard,
Line and Pressure Pipe From Brazil; 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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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 10, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen M. Kramer or Linda Ludwig, AD/
CVD Enforcement Group III, Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
0405 or (202) 482-3833, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On April 27, 1998, the Gulf States Tube Division of Vision Metals
(``Gulf States'') 1, a petitioner in this case, requested
that the Department of Commerce (the Department) conduct a changed
circumstances antidumping duty administrative review to determine
whether to revoke in part the antidumping duty order on small diameter
circular seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure
pipe from Brazil with respect to certain glass-lined seamless pressure
pipe. Gulf States and Koppel Steel Corporation, the petitioners in this
case, expressed no further interest in the relief provided by the
antidumping duty order with respect to certain glass-lined seamless
pressure pipe imported from Brazil. Accordingly, on May 22, 1998, 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 (63 FR 28357). We gave interested parties
an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this changed
circumstances review. No comments were received.
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\1\ Gulf States was previously a division of Quanex Corporation.
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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, found in 62 FR 27296 (May 19, 1997).
Scope of the Review
Imports covered by this review and partial revocation are shipments
of seamless carbon and alloy (other than stainless) steel pipes, of
circular cross-section, not more than 114.3 mm (4.5 inches) in outside
diameter, regardless of wall thickness or manufacturing process (hot-
finished or cold-drawn) that (1) has been cut into lengths of six to
120 inches, (2) has had the inside bore ground to a smooth surface, (3)
has had multiple layers of specially formulated corrosion resistant
glass permanently baked on at temperatures of 1,440 to 1,700 degrees
Fahrenheit in thicknesses from 0.032 to 0.085 inch (40 to 80 mils), and
(4) has flanges or other forged stub ends welded on both ends of the
pipe. The special corrosion resistant glass referred to in this
definition may be glass containing by weight (1) 70 to 80 percent of an
oxide of silicone, zirconium, titanium or cerium (Oxide Group
RO2), (2) 10 to 15 percent of an oxide of sodium, potassium,
or lithium (Oxide Group RO), (3) from a trace amount to 5 percent of an
oxide of either aluminum, cobalt, iron, vanadium, or boron (Oxide Group
R2O3, or (4) from a trace amount to 5 percent of
a fluorine compound in which fluorine replaces the oxygen in any one of
the previously listed oxide groups. These glass-lined pressure pipes
are commonly manufactured for use in glass-lined equipment systems for
processing corrosive or reactive chemicals, including acrylates,
alkanolamines, herbicides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and solvents.
The glass-lined pressure pipes subject to this review are currently
classifiable under subheadings 7304.39.0020, 7304.39.0024 and
7304.39.0028 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
(HTSUS). The HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and U.S.
Customs' purposes only. The written description of the scope of this
review remains dispositive.
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Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty
Order
The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners in glass-
lined seamless pressure pipe from Brazil constitutes changed
circumstances sufficient to warrant partial revocation of this order.
Therefore, the Department is partially revoking the order on small
diameter circular seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and
pressure pipe from Brazil with respect to certain glass-lined seamless
pressure pipe as described above, in accordance with sections 751(b)
and 782(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d)(1). This partial revocation
applies to all unliquidated entries of the subject glass-lined seamless
pressure pipe not covered by the final result of an administrative
review.
The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to proceed
with liquidation, without regard to antidumping duties, of all
unliquidated entries of certain glass-lined seamless pressure pipe as
described above, in accordance with section 778 of the Act.
This changed circumstances administrative review, partial
revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance
with sections 751 (b) and 782(h) of the Act and sections 351.216,
351.221(c)(3) and 351.222(g)(1)(i) of the Department's regulations.
Dated: July 2, 1998.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-18339 Filed 7-9-98; 8:45 am]
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