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FACT
SHEET
Preliminary
Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and Postponement
of Final Determinations: Stainless Steel Bar from France, Germany,
Italy, Korea, Taiwan
and
the United Kingdom
(July
27, 2001)
FINDINGS:
On July 26,
2001, the Department of Commerce (DOC) made preliminary determinations
in the above-referenced investigations. The Department made affirmative
preliminary determinations in the investigations on imports from
France, Germany, Italy, Korea, and the United Kingdom, finding antidumping
duty margins ranging from 1.81 to 125.77 percent. The Department
made a preliminary negative determination in the investigation on
imports from Taiwan.
PETITIONERS:
The petitions
in these proceedings were filed on December 28, 2000, by Carpenter
Technology Corp., Crucible Specialty Metals, Electralloy Corp.,
Empire Specialty Steel Inc., Slater Steels Corp., and the United
Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO/CLC.
PRODUCTS
COVERED:
The product
covered by these investigations, stainless steel bar, includes articles
of stainless steel in straight lengths that have been either hot-rolled,
forged, turned, cold-drawn, cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished,
or ground, having a uniform solid cross section along their whole
length in the shape of circles, segments of circles, ovals, rectangles
(including squares), triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other convex
polygons. Stainless steel bar includes cold-finished stainless steel
bars that are turned or ground in straight lengths, whether produced
from hot-rolled bar or from straightened and cut rod or wire, and
reinforcing bars that have indentations, ribs, grooves, or other
deformations produced during the rolling process.
CASE
CALENDAR
| Event |
Date
|
| Final
AD Determination (estimate) |
December
17, 2001 |
| ITC Final
Determination (estimate) |
January
31, 2002 |
| Issuance
of AD Order (estimate) |
February
7, 2002 |
MARGINS:
| Country |
Companies |
Preliminary
Dumping Margins |
| France
|
Ugine-Savoie
Imphy, S.A.
Aubert
& Duval, S.A.
All Others
|
4.30
28.07
4.30
|
| Germany |
Walzwerke
Einsal GmbH
BGH
EWK/KEP
All Others
|
6.48
18.72
21.03
17.07
|
| Italy |
Cogne
Acciai Speciali Srl
Acciaiera
Foroni SpA
Acciaiera
Valbruna Srl
Rodacciai
S.p.A.
Bedini
All Others
|
33.00
7.72
1.75
(de minimis)
4.86
2.63
7.72
|
| Korea |
Changwon
Specialty Steel Co., Ltd.
Dongbang
Special Steel Co., Ltd.
All Others
|
10.05
7.30
9.40
|
| Taiwan |
Gloria
Materials Technology
All Others
|
0.98 (de
minimis)
0.98
(de minimis)
|
| United
Kingdom |
Corus
Engineering Steels
Firth
Rixson Specialty Steels Crownridge Stainless Steel All Others
|
6.85
125.77
6.85
6.85
|
VOLUME
AND VALUE OF IMPORTS
| |
1999 |
2000 |
Jan-Apr
2000
|
Jan-Apr
2001 |
| France |
|
|
|
|
| Quantity
(kilograms)
|
4,417,589 |
5,745,262 |
1,912,462 |
2,230,915
|
| Value
(US$) |
10,906,803 |
15,535,806 |
4,936,681 |
5,915,205 |
| Germany |
|
|
|
|
| Quantity
(kilograms) |
10,006,822 |
15,545,209 |
5,958,673 |
4,544,594 |
| Value
(US$) |
23,501,293 |
37,023,987 |
13,555,007 |
11,326,046 |
| Italy |
|
|
|
|
| Quantity
(kilograms) |
15,966,678 |
23,294,835 |
6,713,618 |
8,450,174 |
| Value
(US$) |
41,469,554 |
59,523,284 |
16,764,884 |
23,310,385 |
| Korea |
|
|
|
|
| Quantity
(kilograms) |
9,515,177 |
15,586,590 |
6,629,260 |
3,709,683 |
| Value
(US$) |
15,953,633 |
30,013,016 |
11,611,354 |
7,303,618 |
| Taiwan |
|
|
|
|
| Quantity
(kilograms) |
7,312,422 |
6,982,473 |
2,210,109 |
3,070,885 |
| Value
(US$) |
14,006,649 |
15,627,168 |
4,830,515 |
6,439,223 |
| United
Kingdom |
|
|
|
|
| Quantity
(kilograms) |
4,904,927 |
6,751,680 |
2,636,860 |
2,384,483 |
| Value
(US$) |
13,495,644 |
18,389,764 |
7,258,449 |
6,880,668 |
Source: Department
of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
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