Pressure Sensitive Tape From Italy: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-059]

Pressure Sensitive Tape From Italy: Final Results of Antidumping

Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Final Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review of Pressure Sensitive Plastic Tape from Italy.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: On July 12, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the Department)

published the preliminary results of its administrative review of the

antidumping duty order on pressure sensitive plastic tape (PSPT) from

Italy. This review covers one manufacturer/exporter, Autoadesivi Magri

s.r.l. The period of review (POR) is October 1, 1997 through September

30, 1998. We gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the

preliminary results of review but received no comments. Therefore,

these final results of review have not changed from those presented in

the preliminary results of review, in which we applied total adverse

facts available.

[[Page 62176]]

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 16, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nova J. Daly or Thomas Futtner, AC/CVD

Enforcement, Group II, Office Four, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone

(202) 482-0989, and 482-3814, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of

1930, as amended (the Act), are references to the provisions effective

January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Act

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

otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's

regulations refer to the regulations codified at 19 CFR part 351

(1998).

Scope of the Review

Imports covered by the review are shipments of PSPT measuring 1\3/

8\ inches in width and not exceeding 4 millimeters (mils) in thickness.

During the POR, the above described PSPT was classified under

Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) subheadings 3919.90.20 and 3919.90.50.

The HTS subheadings are provided for convenience and for U.S. Customs

Service (Customs) purposes. The written description remains dispositive

as to the scope of the product coverage.

Background

On July 12, 1999, we published in the Federal Register (64 FR

37504) the preliminary results of the review of this order. We gave

interested parties an opportunity to comment on our preliminary

results. We received no comments. In the preliminary results, we

determined the weighted-average dumping margin for the period October

1, 1997 through September 30, 1998, to be 12.66 percent, which is the

highest rate determined in any prior segment of the proceeding.

This rate was calculated for the 1977-1980 administrative review of

this order. The Department has now completed the administrative review

in accordance with section 751 of the Act.

Final Results of Review

Because we received no comments from interested parties, we have

determined that no changes to the preliminary results are warranted for

purposes of these final results. The weighted-average dumping margin

for the period October 1, 1997 through April 30, 1998 is as follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Weighted-

average

Manufacturer/exporter margin

percentage

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Autoadesivi Magri s.r.l.................................... 12.66

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Department will issue appraisement instructions directly to the

Customs Service. Furthermore, the following deposit requirements will

be effective upon publication of these final results for all shipments

of the subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for

consumption on or after the publication date as provided by section

751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) The cash-deposit rate for the reviewed

company will be the rate listed above; (2) for previously reviewed or

investigated companies not listed above, the cash-deposit rate will

continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent

period; (3) if the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a

prior review, or the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation, but the

manufacturer is, the cash-deposit rate will be the rate established for

the most recent period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and (4)

if neither the exporter nor the manufacturer is a firm covered in this

review or in any previous reviews or in the original LTFV

investigation, the cash deposit rate will be 12.66 percent, the ``new

shipper'' rate established in the final results of the first

antidumping duty administrative review conducted by the Department (See

Final Results 1997-80, 48 FR at 35688). \1\ The deposit requirements

shall remain in effect until publication of the final results of the

next administrative review.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

\1\ This rate will constitute the ``all others'' rate for this

review. In proceedings governed by antidumping findings, unless we

are able to ascertain the `'all others'' rate from the Treasury LTFV

investigation, the Department has determined that it is appropriate

to adopt the ``new shipper'' rate established in the first final

results of administrative review published by the Department (or

that rate as amended for correction of clerical errors as a result

of litigation) as the ``all others'' rate for the purposes of

establishing cash deposits in all current and future administrative

reviews, (See, e.g., Final results of antidumping Duty

Administrative Review of Certain Internal-Combustion Industrial

Forklift Trucks From Japan, 59 FR 1374, 1384, (January 10, 1994)).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This notice serves as a final reminder to importers of their

responsibility under 19 CFR 351.402(f) to file a certificate regarding

the reimbursement of antidumping duties prior to liquidation of the

relevant entries during this review period. Failure to comply with this

requirement could result in the Department's presumption that

reimbursement of antidumping duties occurred and the subsequent

assessment of double antidumping duties.

This notice also serves as the only reminder to parties subject to

administrative protective order (APO) of their responsibility

concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under

APO in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely notification of

return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to judicial

protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with the

regulations and the terms of an APO is a sanctionable violation.

We are issuing and publishing this determination in accordance with

sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the act.

Dated: November 3, 1999.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-29908 Filed 11-15-99; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510-DS-M