Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India and Japan

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-825, A-533-810, A-588-833]

Antidumping Duty Orders: Stainless Steel Bar from Brazil, India

and Japan

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 21, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irene Darzenta or James Terpstra,

Office of Antidumping Investigations, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230;

telephone: (202) 482-3320 or (202) 482-6965, respectively.

Scope of Orders

The product covered by these orders is stainless steel bar (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 length flat-rolled products (i.e.,

cut 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 orders is currently classifiable under

subheadings 7222.10.0005, 7222.10.0050, 7222.20.0005, 7222.20.0045,

7222.20.0075, and 7222.30.0000 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 these orders is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Orders

In accordance with section 735(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended (``the Act''), on December 19, 1994, the Department of Commerce

(``the Department'') made its final determinations that SSB from

Brazil, India and Japan was being sold at less than fair value (59 FR

66914, 66915, 66930 (Brazil, India and Japan, respectively) December

28, 1994). On February 10, 1995, the International Trade Commission

notified the Department of its final determinations, pursuant to

section 735(b)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, that an industry in the United

States is materially injured by reason of imports of the subject

merchandise.

Therefore, all unliquidated entries of SSB from Brazil, India and

Japan entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after

August 4, 1994, which is the date on which the Department published its

notices of preliminary determination in the Federal Register, are

liable for the assessment of antidumping duties.

In accordance with section 736(a)(1) of the Act, the Department

will direct Customs officers to assess, upon further advice by the

administering authority, antidumping duties equal to the amount by

which the foreign market value of the merchandise exceeds the United

States price for all relevant entries of SSB from Brazil, India and

Japan. Customs officers must require, at the same time as importers

would normally deposit estimated duties on this merchandise, a cash

deposit equal to the estimated weighted-average antidumping duty

margins as noted below. The ``All Others'' rate applies to all

exporters of subject merchandise not specifically listed below.

The ad valorem weighted-average dumping margins are as follows:

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Margin

Manufacturer/Producer/Exporter percentage

(percent)

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Brazil:

Acos Villares, S.A........................................ 19.43

All Others................................................ 19.43

India:

Grand Foundry, Ltd........................................ 3.87

Mukand, Ltd............................................... 21.02

All Others................................................ 12.45

Japan:

Aichi Steel Works, Ltd.................................... 61.47

Daido Steel Co., Ltd...................................... 61.47

Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd.............................. 61.47

All Others................................................ 61.47

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This notice constitutes the antidumping duty orders with respect to

SSB from Brazil, India and Japan, pursuant to section 736(a) of the

Act. Interested parties may contact the [[Page 9662]] Central Records

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

updated list of antidumping orders currently in effect.

These orders are published in accordance with section 736(a) of the

Act and 19 CFR 353.21.

Dated: February 13, 1995.

Susan G. Esserman,

Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 95-4199 Filed 2-17-95; 8:45 am]

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