Correction of Ministerial Errors in Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determination: Silicomanganese from Ukraine

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[A-23-805]

Correction of Ministerial Errors in Preliminary Antidumping Duty

Determination: Silicomanganese from Ukraine

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 26, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg Thompson or Donna Berg, Office of

Antidumping Investigations, Import Administration, International Trade

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

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

2336 or (202) 482-0114, respectively.

AMENDED PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION: On June 17, 1994, we disclosed our

calculations for the preliminary determination to counsel for

petitioners. On June 20, 1994, and July 8, 1994, we received timely

submissions from petitioners alleging ministerial errors in the

Department of Commerce's (Department) preliminary determination

calculations. (For specific details of these allegations and our

analysis of them, see Memoranda from Richard W. Moreland to Barbara R.

Stafford dated June 27, 1994, and July 14, 1994).

Petitioners alleged that the Department made certain ``ministerial

errors'' with respect to calculating usage figures for Nikopol

Ferroalloys Plant, one of the respondents in this investigation. We

agree in part with these allegations, and in accordance with procedures

set forth in the proposed regulations, we are amending Ukraine's

preliminary dumping margin because the corrections represent a change

of more than five absolute percentage points and more than 25 percent

of the dumping margin calculated in the original (erroneous)

preliminary determination. See Sec. 353.15(g)(4)(ii) of the

Department's proposed regulations, 57 FR 1131 (January 10, 1992). The

corrected dumping margin for Ukraine is 163.00 percent.

This notice is published pursuant to procedures set forth in the

Department's proposed regulations, Sec. 353.15(g)(3), 57 FR 1131

(January 10, 1992).

Dated: July 19, 1994.

Barbara R. Stafford,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 94-18167 Filed 7-25-94; 8:45 am]

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