Notice of Antidumping Order: Clad Steel Plate From Japan

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-838]

Notice of Antidumping Order: Clad Steel Plate From Japan

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 2, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Grebasch, Dorothy Tomaszewski,

or Erik Warga, Import Administration, International Trade

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

Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202)

482-3773, (202) 482-0631 or (202) 482-0922, respectively.

Scope of Order

The scope of this order is all clad 1 steel plate of a width

of 600 millimeters (``mm'') or more and a composite thickness of 4.5 mm

or more. Clad steel plate is a rectangular finished steel mill product

consisting of a layer of cladding material (usually stainless steel or

nickel) which is metallurgically bonded to a base or backing of ferrous

metal (usually carbon or low alloy steel) where the latter predominates

by weight.

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\1\ Cladding is the association of layers of metals of

different colors or natures by molecular interpenetration of the

surfaces in contact. This limited diffusion is characteristic of

clad products and differentiates them from products metalized in

other manners (e.g., by normal electroplating). The various cladding

processes include pouring molten cladding metal onto the basic metal

followed by rolling; simple hot-rolling of the cladding metal to

ensure efficient welding to the basic metal; any other method of

deposition of superimposing of the cladding metal followed by any

mechanical or thermal process to ensure welding (e.g.,

electrocladding), in which the cladding metal (nickel, chromium,

etc.) is applied to the basic metal by electroplating, molecular

interpenetration of the surfaces in contact then being obtained by

heat treatment at the appropriate temperature with subsequent cold

rolling. See Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System

Explanatory Notes, Chapter 72, General Note (IV) (C) (2) (e).

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Stainless clad steel plate is manufactured to American Society for

Testing and Materials (``ASTM'') specifications A263 (400 series

stainless types) and A264 (300 series stainless types). Nickel and

nickel-base alloy clad steel plate is manufactured to ASTM

specification A265. These specifications are illustrative but not

necessarily all-inclusive.

Clad steel plate within the scope of this order is classifiable

under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (``HTSUS'')

7210.90.10.00. Although the HTSUS subheading is provided for

convenience and customs purposes, our written description of the scope

of this order is dispositive.

Antidumping Duty Order

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

amended (``the Act''), the Department of Commerce (``the Department'')

made its final determination that clad steel plate from Japan is being

sold at less than fair value (61 FR 21158-21159, May 9, 1996). On June

26, 1996, the International Trade Commission notified the Department of

its final determination, 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 from Japan.

Therefore, all unliquidated entries of clad steel plate from Japan,

that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or

after February 28, 1996, the date of the publication of the

Department's 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 normal value exceeds the export price for all relevant

entries of clad steel plate from 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 Japanese clad steel plate not

specifically listed below.

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

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Weighted-average

Manufacturer/Producer/Exporter margin percentage

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The Japan Steel Company........................... 118.53

All Others........................................ 118.53

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This notice constitutes the antidumping duty order with respect to

clad steel plate from Japan. 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 determination is published pursuant to section 705 (d) of the

Act.

Dated: June 27, 1996.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 96-17008 Filed 7-1 -96; 8:45 am]

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