73 FR 216 pgs. 66011-66012 - Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Review
Type: NOTICEVolume: 73Number: 216Pages: 66011 - 66012
Docket number: [A-533-810]
FR document: [FR Doc. E8-26393 Filed 11-5-08; 8:45 am]
Agency: Commerce Department
Sub Agency: International Trade Administration
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-533-810]
Stainless Steel Bar From India: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Review
AGENCY:
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY:
The Department of Commerce ("Department") has determined, pursuant to section 751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended ("the Act"), that India Steel Works Limited ("India Steel") is the successor-in-interest to Isibars Limited ("Isibars"). As a result, India Steel will be accorded the same treatment previously accorded to Isibars with regard to the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar ("SSB") from India as of the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register .
DATES:
Effective Date: November 6, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cory Hervey and Devta Ohri, AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-1664 and (202) 482-3853, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On February 21, 1995, the Department of Commerce ("Department") published in the Federal Register the antidumping duty order on SSB from India. See Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India and Japan, 60 FR 9661 (February 21, 1995). On August 4, 2008, India Steel requested that the Department initiate a changed circumstances review of this order to determine that, for purposes of the antidumping law, India Steel is the successor-in-interest to Isibars. See August 4, 2008, letter from India Steel.
On September 25, 2008, the Department published the notice of initiation and preliminary results of review, finding that India Steel is the successor-in-interest to Isibars and should be treated as such for antidumping duty cash deposit purposes. See Notice of Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Review: Stainless Steel Bar from India, 73 FR 55497 (September 25, 2008). We invited parties to comment on the preliminary results. We received no comments or requests for a hearing.
Scope of the Review
Imports covered by the order are shipments of SSB. SSB means articles of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been either hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along their whole length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles (including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other convex polygons. SSB includes cold-finished SSBs that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other deformations produced during the rolling process.
Except as specified above, the term does not include stainless steel semi-finished products, cut-to-length flat-rolled products ( i.e. , cut-to-length rolled products which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness have a width measuring at least 10 times the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in thickness having a width which exceeds 150 mm and measures at least twice the thickness), wire ( i.e. , cold-formed products in coils, of any uniform solid cross section along their whole length, which do not conform to the definition of flat-rolled products), and angles, shapes, and sections.
The SSB subject to these reviews is currently classifiable under subheadings 7222.11.00.05, 7222.11.00.50, 7222.19.00.05, 7222.19.00.50, 7222.20.00.05, 7222.20.00.45, 7222.20.00.75, and 7222.30.00.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States ("HTSUS"). Although the HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope of the order is dispositive.
On May 23, 2005, the Department issued a final scope ruling that SSB manufactured in the United Arab Emirates out of stainless steel wire rod from India is not subject to the scope of this order. See Memorandum from Team to Barbara E. Tillman, "Antidumping Duty Orders on Stainless Steel Bar from India and Stainless Steel Wire Rod from India: Final Scope Ruling," dated May 23, 2005, which is on file in the Central Records Unit in room 1117 of the main Department building. See also Notice of Scope Rulings, 70 FR 55110 (September 20, 2005).
Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review
For the reasons stated in the preliminary results, and because the Department did not receive any comments following the preliminary results of this review, the Department continues to find that India Steel is the successor-in-interest to Isibars for antidumping duty cash deposit purposes.
Instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The Department will instruct CBP to suspend liquidation of all shipments of the subject merchandise produced and exported by India Steel entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of this notice at 2.01 percent ( i.e. , Isibars's cash deposit rate). This deposit rate shall remain in effect until publication of the final results of the next administrative review in which India Steel participates.
This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to administrative protective orders ("APO") of their responsibility concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.306. 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 notice in accordance with sections 751(b) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and sections 351.216(e) and 351.221(c)(3)(i) of the Department's regulations.
Dated: October 30, 2008.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-26393 Filed 11-5-08; 8:45 am]
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