Antidumping: Brass sheet and strip from Canada,
[Federal Register: January 7, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 4)]
[Notices]
[Page 779]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr07ja98-36]
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-122-601]
Brass Sheet and Strip From Canada; Notice of Rescission of Termination of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of rescission of termination of antidumping duty administrative review.
SUMMARY: On October 29, 1997 the Department of Commerce (the Department) published in the Federal Register a notice of termination of the administrative review of brass sheet and strip from Canada covering imports of subject merchandise for the period January 1, 1993 through December 31, 1993. Due to a procedural oversight by the Department, the signature date of this notice of termination was October 21, 1997, one day prior to the date of the respondent's formal written request, which was submitted to the Department on October 22, 1997. In light of this procedural error, the Department is rescinding its termination of this review and is opening the administrative record of this proceeding for comments by interested parties on the question of termination of this review.
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 7, 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Stolz or Thomas Futtner, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230, telephone: (202) 482-4474 or (202) 482-3814 respectively.
Applicable Statute and Regulations: Unless otherwise stated, all citations to the statute and to the Department's regulations are references to the provisions as they existed on December 31, 1997.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Department published an antidumping duty finding on brass sheet and strip from Canada on January 12, 1987 (52 FR 1217). On January 5, 1994, the Department published in the Federal Register a notice of ``Opportunity to Request an Administrative Review'' of the antidumping duty finding on brass sheet and strip from Canada (59 FR 564). On January 21, 1994, a manufacturer/exporter, Wolverine Tube (Canada) Inc., (Wolverine) requested an administrative review of its exports of the subject merchandise to the United States for the period of review January 1, 1993 through December 31, 1993. In accordance with 19 CFR 353.22(c), we initiated the review on February 17, 1994 (59 FR 7979). On or about October 17, 1997, Wolverine notified the Department by telephone of its intent to request termination of this review. The Department then prepared a notice of termination for the Federal Register pending receipt of Wolverine's formal written request. This written request was dated and received by the Department on October 22, 1997. The notice of termination was published in the Federal Register on October 29, 1997. However, due to a procedural oversight, the signature date of the notice was October 21, 1997, one day prior to actual receipt of the written request for termination. In the interest of procedural integrity, the Department is hereby rescinding its termination of this review in order to afford interested parties the opportunity to comment as to whether this review should be terminated or not. Thus, interested parties may submit comments of on the issue of termination of this review only, within 10 calendar days of publication of this notice. Interested parties may submit rebuttal comments beginning on the eleventh calendar day after publication of this notice and no later than the twentieth day after publication of this notice. The Department will then review any comments submitted and make a determination as to whether or not this review should be terminated.
Dated: December 30, 1997. Richard W. Moreland, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Group II, Import Administration.
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