Small Diameter Circular Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard, Line and Pressure Pipe From Brazil; Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Revocation in Part of Antidumping Duty Order

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-351-826]

Small Diameter Circular Seamless Carbon and Alloy Steel Standard,

Line and Pressure Pipe From Brazil; Final Results of Changed

Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Revocation in

Part of Antidumping Duty Order

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping

duty administrative review, and revocation in part of antidumping duty

order.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 10, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen M. Kramer or Linda Ludwig, AD/

CVD Enforcement Group III, Import Administration, International Trade

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

Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-

0405 or (202) 482-3833, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On April 27, 1998, the Gulf States Tube Division of Vision Metals

(``Gulf States'') 1, a petitioner in this case, requested

that the Department of Commerce (the Department) conduct a changed

circumstances antidumping duty administrative review to determine

whether to revoke in part the antidumping duty order on small diameter

circular seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure

pipe from Brazil with respect to certain glass-lined seamless pressure

pipe. Gulf States and Koppel Steel Corporation, the petitioners in this

case, expressed no further interest in the relief provided by the

antidumping duty order with respect to certain glass-lined seamless

pressure pipe imported from Brazil. Accordingly, on May 22, 1998, the

Department published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of

changed circumstances antidumping duty administrative review and intent

to revoke this order in part (63 FR 28357). We gave interested parties

an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this changed

circumstances review. No comments were received.

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\1\ Gulf States was previously a division of Quanex Corporation.

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Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are

references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective

date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the

Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise

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

current regulations, found in 62 FR 27296 (May 19, 1997).

Scope of the Review

Imports covered by this review and partial revocation are shipments

of seamless carbon and alloy (other than stainless) steel pipes, of

circular cross-section, not more than 114.3 mm (4.5 inches) in outside

diameter, regardless of wall thickness or manufacturing process (hot-

finished or cold-drawn) that (1) has been cut into lengths of six to

120 inches, (2) has had the inside bore ground to a smooth surface, (3)

has had multiple layers of specially formulated corrosion resistant

glass permanently baked on at temperatures of 1,440 to 1,700 degrees

Fahrenheit in thicknesses from 0.032 to 0.085 inch (40 to 80 mils), and

(4) has flanges or other forged stub ends welded on both ends of the

pipe. The special corrosion resistant glass referred to in this

definition may be glass containing by weight (1) 70 to 80 percent of an

oxide of silicone, zirconium, titanium or cerium (Oxide Group

RO2), (2) 10 to 15 percent of an oxide of sodium, potassium,

or lithium (Oxide Group RO), (3) from a trace amount to 5 percent of an

oxide of either aluminum, cobalt, iron, vanadium, or boron (Oxide Group

R2O3, or (4) from a trace amount to 5 percent of

a fluorine compound in which fluorine replaces the oxygen in any one of

the previously listed oxide groups. These glass-lined pressure pipes

are commonly manufactured for use in glass-lined equipment systems for

processing corrosive or reactive chemicals, including acrylates,

alkanolamines, herbicides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and solvents.

The glass-lined pressure pipes subject to this review are currently

classifiable under subheadings 7304.39.0020, 7304.39.0024 and

7304.39.0028 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States

(HTSUS). The HTSUS subheadings are provided for convenience and U.S.

Customs' purposes only. The written description of the scope of this

review remains dispositive.

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Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty

Order

The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners in glass-

lined seamless pressure pipe from Brazil constitutes changed

circumstances sufficient to warrant partial revocation of this order.

Therefore, the Department is partially revoking the order on small

diameter circular seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and

pressure pipe from Brazil with respect to certain glass-lined seamless

pressure pipe as described above, in accordance with sections 751(b)

and 782(h) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d)(1). This partial revocation

applies to all unliquidated entries of the subject glass-lined seamless

pressure pipe not covered by the final result of an administrative

review.

The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to proceed

with liquidation, without regard to antidumping duties, of all

unliquidated entries of certain glass-lined seamless pressure pipe as

described above, in accordance with section 778 of the Act.

This changed circumstances administrative review, partial

revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance

with sections 751 (b) and 782(h) of the Act and sections 351.216,

351.221(c)(3) and 351.222(g)(1)(i) of the Department's regulations.

Dated: July 2, 1998.

Joseph A. Spetrini,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 98-18339 Filed 7-9-98; 8:45 am]

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