Stainless Steel Bar From India; Termination of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[A-533-810]

Stainless Steel Bar From India; Termination of New Shipper

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce

SUMMARY: On September 18, 1996, the Department of Commerce (``the

Department'') published a notice of initiation of a new shipper

administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel

bar from India. The Department is now terminating this review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 27, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Yeske or Vince Kane, Import

Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of

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

20230; telephone (202) 482-0189 or 482-2815, respectively.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of

1930, as amended (``the Act''), are references to the provisions

effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to

the Act by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless

otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are

to the current regulations, as amended by the interim regulations

published in the Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On August 26, 1996, Ferro Alloys Corporation Limited (``Facor'')

requested that the Department conduct a new shipper review of the

antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from India. On September

18, 1996, the Department published in the Federal Register (61 FR

49112) a notice of initiation of a new shipper administrative review of

the antidumping duty order on stainless steel bar from India covering

Facor and the period February 1, 1996 through July 31, 1996.

On December 3, 1996, Facor requested that it be allowed to withdraw

its request for a new shipper review and that the review be terminated.

Therefore, the Department is now terminating the review.

Dated: December 17, 1996.

Barbara R. Stafford,

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 96-32873 Filed 12-26-96; 8:45 am]

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