Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape From Italy; Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[A-475-059]

Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape From Italy; Preliminary Results

of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration/International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of preliminary results of antidumping duty

administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has conducted an administrative

review of the antidumping finding on pressure sensitive plastic tape

from Italy. Interested parties are invited to comment on these

preliminary results.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 13, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Todd Peterson or Thomas Futtner,

Office of Antidumping Compliance, Import Administration, International

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

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

4195 or 482-3814, respectively.

Background

On October 21, 1977, the Department of the Treasury published in

the Federal Register (42 FR 56110) the antidumping finding on pressure

sensitive plastic tape (PSPT) from Italy. On October 18, 1993, the

Department of Commerce (the Department) published a notice of

``Opportunity to Request Administrative Review'' (58 FR 53709). On

October 27, 1993, the petitioner, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

Company (3M), requested that we conduct an administrative review for

the period October 1, 1992, through September 30, 1993. We published a

notice of initiation of the antidumping administrative review on

November 17, 1993.

The Department has now conducted the administrative review in

accordance with section 751 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the

Tariff Act).

Scope of the Review

Imports covered by the review are shipments of PSPT measuring over

1\3/8\ inches in width and not exceeding 4 mils in thickness,

classifiable under item numbers 3919.90.20 and 3919.90.50 of the

Harmonized Tariff Schedules (HTS). HTS item numbers are provided for

convenience and for Customs purposes. The written descriptions remain

dispositive.

Preliminary Results of Review

Because the single manufacturer/exporter subject to review, NAR,

had no shipments of this merchandise to the United States during the

period of review, the Department has preliminarily assigned NAR the

rate applicable to it from its most recent administrative review as the

estimated cash deposit rate. This rate is 1.24 percent.

Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will be effective

for all shipments of the subject merchandise, entered, or withdrawn

from warehouse, for consumption on or after the publication date of the

final results of this administrative review, as provided for by section

751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act: (1) The cash deposit rate for the reviewed

firm will be that firm's rate established in the final results of this

administrative review; (2) for previously reviewed or investigated

companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will continue to be

the company-specific rate published for the most recent period; (3) if

the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, or the original

less-than-fair-value investigation, but the manufacturer is, the cash

deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent period

for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit rate

for all other manufacturers or exporters not previously reviewed will

be 12.66 percent, the ``new shipper'' rate established in the first

notice of final results of administrative review published by the

Department (48 FR 35686, August 5, 1983).

These deposit requirements, when imposed, shall remain in effect

until publication of the final results of the next administrative

review.

Interested parties may request disclosure within five days of the

date of publication of this notice, and may request a hearing within 10

days of the date of publication. Any hearing, if requested, will be

held as early as convenient for the parties but not later than 44 days

after the date of publication or the first workday thereafter. Case

briefs or other written comments from interested parties may be

submitted not later than 30 days after the date of publication of this

notice. Rebuttal briefs and rebuttal comments, limited to issues raised

in the case briefs, may be filed not later than 37 days after the date

of publication. The Department will publish the final results of this

administrative review, including its results of its analysis of issues

raised in any such written comments.

This notice serves as a preliminary reminder to importers of their

responsibility under 19 CFR 353.26 to file a certificate regarding the

reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the

relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this

requirement could result in the Secretary's presumption that

reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent

assessment of double antidumping duties.

This administrative review and notice are in accordance with

section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and 19 CFR

353.22.

Dated: April 5, 1994.

Susan G. Esserman,

Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 94-8906 Filed 4-12-94; 8:45 am]

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