Stainless Steel Wire Rod from Korea: Recission of Antidumping Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-829]

Stainless Steel Wire Rod from Korea: Recission of Antidumping

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

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SUMMARY: On November 4, 1999, the Department of Commerce (``the

Department'') initiated an administrative review of the antidumping

duty order on stainless steel wire rod from Korea for Changwon

Specialty Steel Co., Ltd., Dongbang Special Steel Co., Ltd., and Pohang

Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., (collectively, ``respondents''),

manufacturers and exporters of stainless steel wire rod, for the period

March 5, 1998 through

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August 31, 1999. The Department is rescinding this review after

receiving a timely withdrawal from respondents of their request for

review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 13, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Terpstra or Frank Thomson, Group

II, Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3965

and (202) 482-4793, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of

1930, as amended (``the Act''), are references to the provisions

effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (``URAA''). In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Department's regulations are to the regulations at 19

CFR Part 351 (1999).

Background

On September 30, 1999, respondents requested that the Department

conduct an administrative review of the subject merchandise it exported

from Korea for the period March 5, 1998 through August 31, 1999.

On November 4, 1999, the Department published in the Federal

Register (64 FR 60161) a notice of initiation of administrative review

with respect to respondents for the period March 5, 1998 through August

31, 1999. On November 18, 1999, respondents requested that they be

allowed to withdraw their request for a review and that the review be

terminated.

Rescission of Review

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the Department will rescind an

administrative review if a party that requested the review withdraws

the request within 90 days of the date of publication of the notice of

initiation of the requested review. Because respondents' request for

termination was submitted within the 90-day time limit, and there were

no requests for review from other interested parties, we are rescinding

this review. We will issue appropriate appraisement instructions

directly to the U.S. Customs Service.

This notice is in accordance with section 771(i) of the Tariff Act

of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).

Dated: January 7, 2000.

Holly A. Kuga,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration, Group II.

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