Oil Country Tubular Goods From Canada

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-506]

Oil Country Tubular Goods From Canada

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has received a request from Atlas

Tube, Inc., to conduct a new shipper review of the antidumping duty

order on oil country tubular goods from Canada (51 FR 21782, June 16,

1986). In accordance with the Department of Commerce's regulations, we

are initiating this new shipper review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 3, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zev Primor or Wendy Frankel, Office of

AD/CVD Enforcement, Group II, Import Administration, International

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

Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230, telephone: (202)

482-4114 or (202) 482-5849, 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. In addition, unless otherwise indicated,

all citations to the Department's regulations are to the regulations as

codified at 19 CFR part 351 (April 1998).

Background

The Department of Commerce (Department) has received a timely

request from Atlas Tube, Inc. (Atlas), to conduct a new shipper

administrative review of the antidumping duty order on oil country

tubular goods from Canada in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of

the Act, and 19 CFR 351.214(b) of the Department's regulations.

Initiation of Review

In its request of December 30, 1998, Atlas certified that it did

not export the subject merchandise to the United States during the

period of investigation (POI), and it has not been affiliated with any

exporter or producer who exported the subject merchandise to the United

States during the POI. Accompanying its request, Atlas provided

certifications which indicate the date the merchandise was first

entered for consumption in the United States, the volume of the first

and the subsequent shipments and the date of the first sale to an

unaffiliated customer in the United States.

In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR

351.214(d), we are initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping

duty order on oil country tubular goods from Canada. Since this new

shipper review was requested in the six-month period following the

anniversary month of the order and is being initiated in the month

immediately following the semiannual anniversary month, the period of

review will be June 1, 1998 to November 30, 1998. See 19 CFR

351.214(g)(1). We intend to issue the preliminary results of the review

not later than 180 days from the publication of this notice.

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Period to be

Antidumping duty proceeding reviewed

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Canada: Oil Country Tubular Goods, A-122-506: Atlas

Tube Inc.......................................... 06/01/98-11/30/98

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Concurrent with publication of this notice, we will instruct the

Customs Service to allow, at the option of the importer, the posting,

until the completion of the review, of a bond or security in lieu of a

cash deposit for each entry of the merchandise exported by the company

listed above, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(e).

Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under

administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(b).

This initiation and this notice are in accordance with section

751(a) of the Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 351.214.

Dated: January 28, 1999.

Holly A. Kuga,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration, Group II.

[FR Doc. 99-2560 Filed 2-2-99; 8:45 am]

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