[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 151 (Thursday, August 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 42000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21062]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[(A-351-817)]
Certain Cut-to-length Carbon Steel Plate From Brazil; Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review; Notice of Rescission of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of rescission of antidumping duty administrative review.
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SUMMARY: On September 25, 1997, the Department of Commerce (``the
Department'') published in the Federal Register (62 FR 50292) a notice
announcing the initiation of an administrative review of the
antidumping duty order on Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate
(Carbon Steel Plate) from Brazil. This administrative review covered
two Brazilian manufacturers and exporters of plate, Usinas Siderurgica
de Minas Gerais (``USIMINAS'') and Companhia Siderurgica Paulista
(``COSIPA''), for the period of August 1, 1996 through July 31, 1997.
This review has now been rescinded as a result of the absence of
shipments and entries into the United States of subject merchandise
during the period of review.
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 6, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Kramer or Linda Ludwig, Office
of AD/CVD Enforcement, Group III, Import Administration, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-0405
or 482-3833, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 29, 1997, Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP, on behalf of petitioners in this proceeding,
requested a review of sales made by USIMINAS and COSIPA. On September
10, 1997, USIMINAS and COSIPA claimed, in a letter to the Department,
``that they had no sales or entries of cut-to-length plate in the U.S.
during the 1996/97 review period.'' The Department sent a no-shipment
inquiry regarding USIMINAS and COSIPA to U.S. Customs on October 16,
1997. Customs did not indicate that there were any such entries. In a
letter to the Department dated January 7, 1998, petitioners asked the
Department to investigate the accuracy of respondents' claim. U.S.
Census Bureau import statistics and privately collected data indicated
there may have been entries of subject merchandise during the period of
review. On January 20 and 29, 1998, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, counsel
for USIMINAS and COSIPA, provided documentation to support its claim
that the merchandise in question was either not entered for consumption
in the United States (i.e., was transshipped to third countries) or was
outside the scope of the antidumping duty order. On February 11, 1998,
counsel for petitioners argued that the documentation provided was
incomplete and inconclusive. Accordingly, the Department asked the U.S.
Customs Service (``Customs'') to conduct an inquiry to determine
whether certain entries for consumption in the United States were
properly classified as falling under the scope of the antidumping duty
order. Customs conveyed the results of this inquiry to the Department
on July 24, 1998, stating that all of the entries in question were of
non-scope merchandise. The Department therefore concludes that USIMINAS
and COSIPA made no shipments of the subject merchandise during the
period of review. Accordingly, this administrative review is being
rescinded in accordance with Section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act (19
U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and section 351.213(d)(3) of the Department's
regulations.
Dated: July 28, 1998.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Enforcement Group III.
[FR Doc. 98-21062 Filed 8-5-98; 8:45 am]
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