DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

 
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of opportunity to request administrative review of 
antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspended 
investigation.


Background

    Each year during the anniversary month of the publication of an 
antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or suspension of 
investigation, an interested party, as defined in section 771(9) of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, may request, in accordance with 
Sec. 351.213 of the Department of Commerce (the Department) Regulations 
(19 CFR 351.213 (1997)), that the Department conduct an administrative 
review of that antidumping or countervailing duty order, finding, or 
suspended investigation.
    Opportunity to request a review: Not later than the last day of 
March 1998, interested parties may request administrative review of the 
following orders, findings, or suspended investigations, with 
anniversary dates in March for the following periods:

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                                                             Period     
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             Antidumping duty proceeding                                
                                                                        
Australia: Canned Bartlett Pears, A-602-039..........     3/1/97-2/28/98
Bangladesh: Shop Towels, A-538-802...................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Brazil:                                                                 
    Ferrosilicon, A-351-820..........................     3/1/97-2/28/98
    Lead & Bismuth Steel, A-351-811..................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Canada: Iron Construction Castings, A-122-503........     3/1/97-2/28/98
Chile: Standard Carnations, A-337-602................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Colombia: Certain Fresh Cut Flowers, A-301-602.......     3/1/97-2/28/98
Ecuador: Certain Fresh Cut Flowers, A-331-602........     3/1/97-2/28/98
Finland: Viscose Rayon Staple Fiber, A-405-071.......     3/1/97-2/28/98
France:                                                                 
    Brass Sheet & Strip, A-427-602...................     3/1/97-2/28/98
    Lead & Bismuth Steel, A-427-804..................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Germany:                                                                
    Brass Sheet & Strip, A-428-602...................     3/1/97-2/28/98
    Lead & Bismuth Steel, A-428-811..................     3/1/97-2/28/98
India: Sulfanilic Acid, A-533-806....................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Israel: Oil Country Tubular Goods, A-508-602.........     3/1/97-2/28/98
Italy:                                                                  
    Certain Valves and Connections of Brass, for Use                    
     in Fire Protection Equipment, A-475-401.........     3/1/97-2/28/98
    Brass Sheet & Strip, A-475-601...................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Japan:                                                                  
    Defrost Timers, A-588-829........................     3/1/97-2/28/98
    Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A-588-                     
     702.............................................     3/1/97-2/28/98
    Television Receivers, Monochrome and Color, A-588-                  
     015.............................................     3/1/97-2/28/98


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Mexico: Steel Wire Rope, A-201-806...................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Republic of Korea: Steel Wire Rope, A-580-811........     3/1/97-2/28/98
Spain: Stainless Steel Bar, A-469-805................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Sweden: Brass Sheet & Strip, A-401-601...............     3/1/97-2/28/98
Taiwan: Light-Walled Welded Rectangular Carbon Steel                    
 Tubing, A-583-803...................................     3/1/97-2/28/98
Thailand: Circular Welded Pipes & Tubes, A-549-502...     3/1/97-2/28/98
The People's Republic of China:                                         
    Chloropicrin, A-570-002..........................     3/1/97-2/28/98
    Ferrosilicon, A-570-819..........................     3/1/97-2/28/98
    Glycine, A-570-836...............................     3/1/97-2/28/98
The United Kingdom: Lead & Bismuth Steel, A-412-810..     3/1/97-2/28/98
                                                                        
            Countervailing Duty Proceeding                              
                                                                        
Brazil:                                                                 
    Cotton Yarn, C-351-037...........................    1/1/97-12/31/97
    Certain Castor Oil Products, C-351-029...........    1/1/97-12/31/97
    Lead & Bismuth Steel, C-351-812..................    1/1/97-12/31/97
Chile: Standard Carnations, C-337-601................    1/1/97-12/31/97
France:                                                                 
    Brass Sheet and Strip, C-427-603.................    1/1/97-12/31/97
    Lead & Bismuth Steel, C-427-805..................    1/1/97-12/31/97
Germany: Lead & Bismuth Steel, C-428-812.............    1/1/97-12/31/97
India: Sulfanilic Acid, C-533-807....................    1/1/97-12/31/97
Iran: In-Shell Pistachios, C-507-501.................    1/1/97-12/31/97
Israel: Oil Country Tubular Goods, C-508-601.........    1/1/97-12/31/97
Netherlands: Standards Chrysanthemums, C-421-601.....    1/1/97-12/31/97
Pakistan: Shop Towels, C-535-001.....................    1/1/97-12/31/97
Turkey:..............................................                   
    Certain Welded Carbon Steel Pipe and Tube, C-489-                   
     502.............................................    1/1/97-12/31/97
    Welded Carbon Steel Line Pipe, C-489-502.........    1/1/97-12/31/97
The United Kingdom: Lead & Bismuth Steel, C-412-811..    1/1/97-12/31/97
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Suspension Agreements

    None.
    In accordance with Sec. 351.213 of the regulations, an interested 
party as defined by section 771(9) of the Act may request in writing 
that the Secretary conduct an administrative review. In recent 
revisions to its regulations, the Department has changed its 
requirements for requesting reviews for countervailing duty orders. 
Pursuant to 771(9) of the Act, an interested party must specify the 
individual producers or exporters covered by the order or suspension 
agreement for which they are requesting a review (Department of 
Commerce Regulations, 62 FR 27295, 27424 (May 19, 1997)). Therefore, 
for both antidumping and countervailing duty reviews, the interested 
party must specify for which individual producers or exporters covered 
by an antidumping finding or an antidumping or countervailing duty 
order it is requesting a review, and the requesting party must state 
why it desires the Secretary to review those particular producers or 
exporters. If the interested party intends for the Secretary to review 
sales of merchandise by an exporter (or a producer if that producer 
also exports merchandise from other suppliers) which were produced in 
more than one country of origin and each country of origin is subject 
to a separate order, then the interested party must state specifically, 
on an order-by-order basis, which exporter(s) the request is intended 
to cover.
    Seven copies of the request should be submitted to the Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, Room 1870, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230. The Department also 
asks parties to serve a copy of their requests to the Office of 
Antidumping/Countervailing Enforcement, Attention: Sheila Forbes, in 
room 3065 of the main Commerce Building. Further, in accordance with 
Sec. 351.303(f)(l)(i) of the regulations, a copy of each request must 
be served on every party on the Department's service list.
    The Department will publish in the Federal Register a notice of 
``Initiation of Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing 
Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation'' for requests received 
by the last day of March 1998. If the Department does not receive, by 
the last day of March 1998, a request for review of entries covered by 
an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this notice and 
for the period identified above, the Department will instruct the 
Customs Service to assess antidumping or countervailing duties on those 
entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated 
antidumping or countervailing duties required on those entries at the 
time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption and to 
continue to collect the cash deposit previously ordered.
    This notice is not required by statute but is published as a 
service to the international trading community.

    Dated: March 5, 1998.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-6280 Filed 3-10-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-M


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International Trade Administration
NOTICES
Antidumping and countervailing duties:
  Administrative review requests, 11868