Certain Cut-To-Length Carbon Steel Plate from Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Reviews, and Revocation of Orders in Part

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: Final Results of Changed Circumstances

Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Reviews, and Revocation of

Orders in Part

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of changed circumstances antidumping

duty and countervailing duty reviews, and revocation of orders in part.

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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).

Accordingly, on July 7, 1999, the Department published a notice of

initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews and

intent to revoke these orders in part (64 FR 36666). We gave interested

parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of these

changed circumstances reviews. No comments were received.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 25, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Decker (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) 482-0196, (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 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.

Accordingly, on July 7, 1999, the Department published a notice of

initiation and preliminary results of changed circumstances reviews and

intent to revoke these orders in part (64 FR 36666). We gave interested

parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of these

changed circumstances reviews. No comments were received.

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 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 dispositive.

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.

Final Results of Changed Circumstances AD and CVD Reviews, and

Revocation of Orders in Part

In accordance with section 782(h) of the Act, the Department has

determined that substantially all of the domestic producers have no

further interest in maintaining these orders with respect to certain

cut-to-length carbon steel plate subject to these requests. This lack

of interest by domestic producers constitutes sufficient changed

circumstances to warrant partial revocation of these orders. Therefore,

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the Department is partially revoking these orders on cut-to-length

carbon steel plate with respect to the plate described above, in

accordance with sections 751(b) and 782(h) of the Act and 19 CFR

351.216(d). This partial revocation applies to all unliquidated entries

of 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

not covered by the final results of an administrative review.

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

with liquidation, without regard to antidumping or countervailing

duties, of all unliquidated entries of cut-to-length carbon steel plate

subject to these requests, as described above, in accordance with

section 778 of the Act.

These changed circumstances administrative reviews, partial

revocations of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders 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: August 13, 1999.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-22086 Filed 8-24-99; 8:45 am]

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