Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended

Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request administrative review of

antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended

investigation.

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Background

Each year during the anniversary month of the publication of an

antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension of

investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 771(9) of the

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, may request, in accordance with

Sec. 351.213 of the Department of Commerce (the Department) Regulations

(19 CFR 351.213 (1997)), that the Department conduct an administrative

review of that antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or

suspended investigation.

Opportunity To Request a Review

Not later than the last day of June 1998, interested parties may

request administrative review of the following orders, findings, or

suspended investigations, with anniversary dates in JUNE for the

following periods:

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Period

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Antidumping duty proceedings

Belgium: Sugar, A-423-077............................ 6/1/97-7/31/98

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Canada:

Oil Country Tubular Goods, A-122-506............. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Red Raspberries, A-122-401....................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

France:

Large Power Transformers, A-427-030.............. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Sugar, A-427-078................................. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Germany:

Industrial Belts, Except Synchronous & V belts, A-

428-802......................................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Precipitated Barium Carbonate, A-428-061......... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Sugar A-428-082.................................. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Hungary: Tapered Roller Bearings, A-437-601.......... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Italy:

Large Power Transformers, A-475-031.............. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Synchronous and V-Belts, A-475-802............... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Japan:

Engineered Process Gas Turbo-Compressor Systems,

A-588-840....................................... 12/10/96-5/31/98

Fishnetting of Man-Made Fibers, A-588-029........ 6/1/97-5/31/98

Forklift Trucks, A-588-703....................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel, A-588-831....... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Industrial Belts, A-588-807...................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Large Power Transformers, A-588-032.............. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Nitrile Rubber, A-588-706........................ 6/1/97-5/31/98

New Zealand: Kiwifruit, A-614-801.................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Republic of Korea: PET Film, A-580-807............... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Romania: Tapered Roller Bearings, A-485-602.......... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Russia: Ferrosilicon, A-821-804...................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Singapore: V-Belts, A-559-803........................ 6/1/97-5/31/98

South Africa: Furfuryl Alcohol, A-791-802............ 6/1/97-5/31/98

Sweden: Stainless Steel Plate, A-401-040............. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Taiwan:

Carbon Steel Plate, A-583-080.................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Oil Country Tubular Goods, A-583-505............. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A-583-

816............................................. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Certain Helical Spring Lock Washers, A-583-820... 6/1/97-5/31/98

The Netherlands: Aramid Fiber, A-421-805............. 6/1/97-5/31/98

The People's Republic of China:

Furfuryl Alcohol, A-570-835...................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Silicon Metal, A-570-806......................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Sparklers, A-570-804............................. 6/1/97-5/31/98

Tapered Roller Bearings, A-570-601............... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Venezuela: Ferrosilicon, A-307-807................... 6/1/97-5/31/98

Countervailing Duty Proceedings

Italy: Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel, C-475-812.... 1/1/97-12/31/97

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Suspension Agreements

None.

In accordance with Sec. 351.213 of the regulations, an interested

party as defined by section 771(9) of the Act may request in writing

that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. In recent

revisions to its regulations, the Department has changed its

requirements for requesting reviews for countervailing duty orders.

Pursuant to 771(9) of the Act, an interested party must specify the

individual producers or exporters covered by the order or suspension

agreement for which they are requesting a review (Department of

Commerce Regulations, 62 FR 27295, 27424 (May 19, 1997)). Therefore,

for both antidumping and countervailing duty reviews, the interested

party must specify for which individual producers or exporters covered

by an antidumping finding or an antidumping or countervailing duty

order it is requesting a review, and the requesting party must state

why it desires the Secretary to review those particular producers or

exporters. If the interested party intends for the Secretary to review

sales of merchandise by an exporter (or a producer if that producer

also exports merchandise from other suppliers) which were produced in

more than one country of origin and each country of origin is subject

to a separate order, then the interested party must state specifically,

on an order-by-order basis, which exporter(s) the request is intended

to cover.

Seven copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant

Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade

Administration, Room 1870, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street &

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. The Department also

asks parties to serve a copy of their requests to the Office of

Antidumping/Countervailing Enforcement, Attention: Sheila Forbes, in

room 3065 of the main Commerce Building. Further, in accordance with

Sec. 351.303(f)(1)(i) of the regulations, a copy of each request must

be served on every party on the Department's service list.

The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of

``Initiation of Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing

Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation'' for requests received

by the last day of June 1998. If the Department does not receive, by

the last day of June 1998, a request for review of entries covered by

an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this notice and

for the period identified above, the Department will instruct the

Customs Service to assess antidumping or countervailing duties on those

entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated

antidumping or

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countervailing duties required on those entries at the time of entry,

or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption and to continue to

collect the cash deposit previously ordered.

This notice is not required by statute but is published as a

service to the international trading community.

Dated: June 3, 1998.

Louis Apple,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-15468 Filed 6-9-98; 8:45 am]

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