# Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom: Notice of Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Reviews, and Intent To Revoke Orders in Part > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A99-17221 ## Record - **Collection:** Federal Register - **Document type:** Notice - **Published:** July 7, 1999 - **Citation:** 64 FR 36666 ## Text DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration [A-412-814, A-428-816, A-405-802, C-412-815, C-428-817] Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom: Notice of Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Reviews, and Intent To Revoke Orders in Part AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice of initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances antidumping duty and countervailing duty reviews, and intent to revoke orders in part. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EFFECTIVE DATE: July 7, 1999. SUMMARY: On May 12, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the Department) received a request on behalf of Bethlehem Steel Corporation and U.S. Steel Group--A Unit of USX Corporation (Bethlehem & U.S. Steel), petitioners in these cases, for changed circumstances antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) reviews and an intent to revoke in part the AD and CVD orders with respect to specific cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Germany and the United Kingdom and the AD order with respect to specific cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Finland. A telephone conversation on May 17, 1999, with counsel on behalf of all other petitioners (Inland Steel Industries, Inc., LTV Steel Company, Inc., National Steel Corporation, AK Steel Corporation, Gulf States Steel Inc. of Alabama, Sharon Steel Corporation, and WCI Steel Inc.) confirmed petitioners' lack of interest in the continuation of the AD and CVD orders with respect to the subject merchandise defined in the Scope of the Review section below (See Memorandum to the File). Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Ludwig (AD reviews on Finland and the United Kingdom), James Doyle or Becky Hagen (AD review on Germany), Robert Copyak (CVD reviews on Germany and the United Kingdom), Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-3833, (202) 482-0159, (202) 482-1102, or (202) 482-2209, respectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 regulations at 19 CFR part 351. Background On August 17, 1993, the Department published the CVD orders on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Germany and the United Kingdom (58 FR 43756 and 43748, respectively). On August 19, 1993, the Department published the AD orders on certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom (58 FR 44165, 44170, and 44168, respectively). On May 12, 1999, Bethlehem Steel and U.S. Steel, petitioners, requested partial revocation of the AD and CVD orders pursuant to section 751(d)(1) of the Act, with respect to specific carbon steel plate imports from the United Kingdom, Germany and Finland described below. Scope of the Review The products covered by these AD/CVD orders constitute one ``class or kind'' of merchandise: certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate. These [[Page 36667]] products include hot-rolled carbon steel universal mill plates (i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four faces or in a closed box pass, of a width exceeding 150 millimeters but not exceeding 1,250 millimeters and of a thickness of not less than 4 millimeters, not in coils and without patterns in relief), of rectangular shape, neither clad, plated nor coated with metal, whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances; and certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat-rolled products in straight lengths, of rectangular shape, hot rolled, neither clad, plated, nor coated with metal, whether or not painted, varnished, or coated with plastics or other nonmetallic substances, 4.75 millimeters or more in thickness and of a width which exceeds 150 millimeters and measures at least twice the thickness, as currently classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) under item numbers 7208.40.3030, 7208.40.3060, 7208.51.0030, 7208.51.0045, 7208.51.0060, 7208.52.0000, 7208.53.0000, 7208.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, 7210.90.9000, 7211.13.0000, 7211.14.0030, 7211.14.0045, 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, and 7212.50.0000. Included are flat-rolled products of nonrectangular cross-section where such cross-section is achieved subsequent to the rolling process (i.e., products which have been ``worked after rolling'') for example, products which have been beveled or rounded at the edges. Excluded is grade X-70 plate. These HTS item numbers are provided for convenience and Customs purposes. The written description remains dispostive. Merchandise covered by these changed circumstances reviews and partial revocations are shipments of certain carbon cut-to-length steel plate with a maximum thickness of 80 mm in steel grades BS 7191, 355 EM and 355 EMZ, as amended by Sable Offshore Energy Project specification XB MOO Y 15 0001, types 1 and 2. Initiation and Preliminary Results of Changed Circumstances AD and CVD Reviews, and Intent To Revoke Orders in Part At the request of the petitioners, in accordance with sections 751(d)(1) and 751(b)(1) of the Act and section 351.216 of the Department's regulations, the Department is initiating changed circumstances reviews of certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom to determine whether partial revocation of the AD and CVD orders is warranted with respect to the cut-to-length carbon steel plate subject to these requests. Section 782(h)(2) of the Act and section 351.222(g)(1)(i) of the Department's regulations provide that the Department may revoke an order (in whole or in part) if it determines that producers accounting for substantially all of the production of the domestic like product have no further interest in the order, in whole or in part. In addition, in the event the Department determines that expedited action is warranted, section 351.221(c)(3)(ii) of the regulations permits the Department to combine the notices of initiation and preliminary results. In accordance with section 751(b) of the Act and sections 351.222(g)(l)(i) and 351.221(c)(3) of the Department's regulations, we are initiating these changed circumstances reviews and have determined that expedited action is warranted. Our decision to expedite these reviews stems from the domestic industry's lack of interest in applying the AD and CVD orders to the specific carbon steel plate covered by these requests. Based on the expression of no interest by petitioners and absent any objection by any other domestic interested parties, we have preliminarily determined that substantially all of the domestic producers of the like product have no interest in continued application of the AD and CVD orders to the plate subject to these requests. Therefore, we are notifying the public of our intent to revoke, in part, the AD and CVD orders as they relate to imports of plate described above from Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom. Public Comment Interested parties may submit case briefs and/or written comments no later than 14 days after the date of publication of these preliminary results. Rebuttal briefs and rebuttals to written comments, limited to issues raised in such briefs or comments, may be filed no later than 21 days after the date of publication. The Department will issue the final results of these changed circumstances reviews, which will include the results of its analysis raised in any such written comments, no later than 270 days after the date on which these reviews were initiated, or within 45 days if all parties agree to our preliminary determinations. See section 351.216(e) of the Department's regulations. If final revocation occurs, we will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to end the suspension of liquidation and to refund, with interest, any estimated AD and CVD duties collected for all unliquidated entries of the specific carbon steel plate covered by these requests from Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom. The current requirement for a cash deposit of estimated AD and CVD duties on all subject merchandise will continue unless and until it is modified pursuant to the final results of these changed circumstances reviews. This initiation of review and notice are in accordance with sections 751(b) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(b)) and 19 CFR 351.216, 351.221, and 351.222. Dated: June 25, 1999. Richard W. Moreland, Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration. [FR Doc. 99-17221 Filed 7-6-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A99-17221. Public record. Not legal advice.