Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From Japan: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, and Revocation in Part of Antidumping Duty Order

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-824]

Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products From

Japan: 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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SUMMARY: On February 2, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the

Department) published a notice of initiation of a changed circumstances

antidumping duty administrative review and preliminary results of

review with intent to revoke, in part, the antidumping duty order on

certain corrosion resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. We

are now revoking this order in part, with respect to corrosion-

resistant steel flat products with certain dimensions and coatings as

discussed below, based on the fact that domestic parties have expressed

no interest in the importation or sale of this product, imported from

Japan.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 29, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doreen Chen or Rick Johnson, Import

Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20230; telephone: (202) 482-0408, (202) 482-3818, respectively.

The 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).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On December 11, 1998, Uchiyama requested that the Department revoke

in part the antidumping duty order on certain corrosion-resistant

carbon steel flat products from Japan. Specifically, Uchiyama requested

that the Department revoke the order with respect to imports of subject

merchandise meeting all of the following criteria: (1) Widths ranging

from 10 millimeters (0.394 inches) through 100 millimeters (3.94

inches); (2) thicknesses, including coatings, ranging from 0.11

millimeters (0.004 inches) through 0.60 millimeters (0.024 inches); and

(3) a coating that is from 0.003 millimeters (0.00012 inches) through

0.005 millimeters (0.000196 inches) in thickness and that is comprised

of either two evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of 99%

zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum, followed by a layer consisting

of chromate, or three evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting

of 99% zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum followed by a layer

consisting of chromate, and finally a layer consisting of silicate.

Uchiyama, a domestic manufacturer of rubber seals and metal inserts for

ball bearings, is an importer of the products in question. The order

with regard to imports of other types of corrosion resistant carbon

steel flat products is not affected by this request.

On January 19, 1999, Inland Steel Industries, Inc. (Inland), LTV

Steel Company (LTV), National Steel Corporation (National), and U.S.

Steel Group, A Unit of USX Corporation (U.S. Steel), domestic

interested parties in this case, submitted a letter indicating that

they have no objection to the initiation of this changed circumstances

review and no interest in maintaining the antidumping duty order on

corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan with respect

to products meeting the specifications indicated above. We

preliminarily determined that domestic producers' affirmative statement

of no interest constituted changed circumstances sufficient to warrant

a partial revocation of this order. Consequently, on February 2, 1999,

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 (64 FR 5024). We gave interested

parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results of this

changed circumstances review. We received no comments from interested

parties.

Scope of Changed Circumstances Review

The merchandise covered by this changed circumstances review is

certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Japan. This

changed circumstances administrative review covers all manufacturers/

exporters of certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products

meeting the following specifications: (1) widths ranging from 10

millimeters (0.394 inches) through 100 millimeters (3.94 inches); (2)

thicknesses, including coatings, ranging from 0.11 millimeters (0.004

inches) through 0.60 millimeters (0.024 inches); and (3) a coating that

is from 0.003 millimeters (0.00012 inches) through 0.005 millimeters

(0.000196 inches) in thickness and that is comprised of either two

evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of 99% zinc, 0.5%

cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum, followed by a layer consisting of

chromate, or three evenly applied layers, the first layer consisting of

99% zinc, 0.5% cobalt, and 0.5% molybdenum followed by a layer

consisting of chromate, and finally a layer consisting of silicate.

Final Results of Review; Partial Revocation of Antidumping Duty

Order

The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners in certain

corrosion resistant carbon steel flat products, as described above,

produced in Japan, constitutes changed circumstances sufficient to

warrant partial revocation of this order. Therefore, the Department is

partially revoking the order on certain corrosion-resistant carbon

steel flat products from Japan with regard to products which

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meet the specifications detailed above, in accordance with sections 751

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

partial revocation applies to all entries of the subject merchandise

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the

date of this publication of final results.

This notice also serves as a reminder to parties subject to

administrative protection orders (APOs) of their responsibility

concerning the disposition of proprietary information disclosed under

APO in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(d)(1997). Timely written

notification of the return/destruction of APO materials or conversion

to judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply

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

This changed circumstances administrative review, partial

revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance

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

351.216 and 351.222(g) of the Department's regulations.

Dated: March 19, 1999.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-7521 Filed 3-26-99; 8:45 am]

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