Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Stainless Steel Wire Rods From Brazil

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-819]

Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Stainless Steel Wire Rods From

Brazil

Agency: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 28, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Cunningham, Office of Antidumping

Duty Investigations, Import Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20230; telephone (202) 482-4207.

Scope of Order

For purposes of this investigation, certain stainless steel wire

rods (SSWR) are products which are hot-rolled or hot-rolled annealed,

and/or pickled rounds, squares, octagons, hexagons or other shapes, in

coils. SSWR are made of alloy steels containing, by weight, 1.2 percent

or less of carbon and 10.5 percent or more of chromium, with or without

other elements. These products are only manufactured by hot-rolling,

are normally sold in coiled form, and are of solid cross-section. The

majority of SSWR sold in the United States is round in cross-sectional

shape, annealed, and pickled. The most common size is 5.5 millimeters

in diameter.

The SSWR subject to this investigation is currently classifiable

under subheadings 7221.00.0005, 7221.00.0015, 7221.00.0020,

7221.00.0030, 7221.00.0040, 7221.00.0045, 7221.00.0060, 7221.00.0075,

7221.00.0080 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 this

investigation is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

In accordance with section 736 of the Act, the Department will

direct Customs officers to assess, upon further advice by the

administering authority pursuant to section 736(a)(1) of the Act,

antidumping duties equal to the amount by which the foreign market

value of the merchandise exceeds the United States price for all

entries of certain stainless steel wire rods from Brazil. These

antidumping duties will be assessed on all unliquidated entries of

certain stainless steel wire rods from Brazil entered, or withdrawn

from warehouse, for consumption on or before August 5, 1993, the date

on which the Department published its preliminary determination notice

in the Federal Register (58 FR 41726). On or after the date of

publication of this notice in the Federal Register, U.S. Custom

officers must require, at the same time as importers would normally

deposit estimated duties, the following cash deposits for the subject

merchandise:

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Weighted-

average

Manufacturer/Producer/Exporter margin

percentage

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Eletrometal-Metal Especials S.A............................ 24.63

Acos Finos Piratini S.A.................................... 26.50

Acos Villares S.A.......................................... 26.50

All Others................................................. 25.88

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In its final determination, the Department found that critical

circumstances exist with respect to exports of SSWR from Brazil by Acos

Finos Piratini S.A. and Acos Villares S.A. However, on January 21,

1994, the International Trade Commission (ITC) notified the Department

that retroactive assessment of antidumping duties is not necessary to

prevent recurrence of material injury from massive imports over a short

period. As a result of the ITC's determination, pursuant to section

735(c)(3) of the Act, we shall order Customs to terminate the

retroactive suspension of liquidation of entries of subject merchandise

exported from Brazil by Piratini and Villares, and to release any bond

or other security and refund any cash deposit required under section

733(e)(2) with respect to all entries of SSWR exported from Brazil by

Piratini and Villares, and entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption prior to August 5, 1993.

This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to

certain stainless steel wire rods from Brazil, pursuant to section

736(a) of the Act. Interested parties may contact the Central Records

Unit, room B-099 of the Main Commerce Building, for copies of an

updated list of antidumping duty orders currently in effect.

This order is published in accordance with section 736(a) of the

Act and 19 CFR 353.21.

Dated: January 25, 1994.

Joseph A. Spetrini,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 94-2029 Filed 1-27-94; 8:45 am]

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