60 FR 12196, March 6, 1995 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration Notice of Scope Rulings AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, ACTION: Notice of scope rulings and anticircumvention inquiries. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) hereby publishes a list of scope rulings and anticircumvention inquiries completed between October 1, 1994, and December 31, 1994. In conjunction with this list, the Department is also publishing a list of pending requests for scope clarifications and anticircumvention inquiries. The Department intends to publish future lists within 30 days of the end of each quarter. EFFECTIVE DATE: March 6, 1995. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald M. Trentham, Office of Antidumping Compliance, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 482- 3931. Background The Department's regulations (19 CFR 353.29(d)(8) and 355.29(d)(8)) provide that on a quarterly basis the Secretary will publish in the Federal Register a list of scope rulings completed within the last three months. This notice lists scope rulings and anticircumvention inquiries completed between October 1, 1994, and December 31, 1994, and pending scope clarification and anticircumvention inquiry requests. The Department intends to publish in April 1995 a notice of scope rulings and anticircumvention inquiries completed between January 1, 1995, and March 31, 1995, as well as pending scope clarification and anticircumvention inquiry requests. The following lists provide the country, case reference number, requester(s), and a brief description of either the ruling or product subject to the request. I. Scope Rulings Completed Between October 1, 1994, and December 31, 1994: Country: People's Republic of China. A-570-504 Petroleum Wax Candles Lew-Mark Baking Co.--The pansy candle tin is within the scope of the order. 12/16/94. Country: Japan. A-588-405 Cellular Mobile Telephone and Subassemblies Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc., Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics America, Inc.--Model 2000 portable cellular telephone is not within the scope of the order. 11/09/94. JRC International--Portable cellular telephone model PTR-830 is not within the scope of the order. 11/09/94. A-588-823 Professional Electric Cutting Tools Makita Inc., Makita U.S.A.--Wood Surfacer model LP1812C is not within the scope of the order. 12/16/94. Makita Inc., Makita U.S.A.--Electronic Jig Saw model 4304 is not within the scope of the order. 12/16/94. A-588-814 Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Film Kimoto U.S.A. Inc.--Anti-Static Clear Film is not within the scope of the order. 11/10/94. Tektronix Inc., Tektronix Asia--Overhead projection film model 4681 is within the scope of the order and model 4684 is not within the scope of the order. 12/19/94. Country: Germany. A-428-801 Antifriction Bearings (other than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts Thereof Rotek and Kaydon--Rotek bearings, models M4 and L6, are slewing rings outside the scope of the order. 12/05/94 II. Anticircumvention Rulings Completed Between October 1, 1994, and December 31, 1994 None. III. Scope Inquiries Terminated Between October 1, 1994, and December 31, 1994 Country: Sri Lanka. C-542-401 Mill Products and Apparel Liz Claiborne, Inc.--Clarification to determine whether certain women's cotton denim jeans are within the scope of the countervailing duty (CVD) order. The CVD order was revoked as of May 18, 1992, rendering this scope request moot. 12/02/94. IV. Anticircumvention Inquiries Terminated Between October 1, 1994, and December 31, 1994 None. V. Pending Scope Clarification Requests as of December 31, 1994 Country: Canada. A-122-006 Steel Jacks from Canada Seeburn, a division of Ventra Group, Inc.--Clarification to determine whether automotive tire jacks are within the scope of the order. Country: Mexico. A-201-805 Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe Allied Tube & Conduit Corp., American Tube Co., Century Tube Corp., CSI Tubular Productions, Inc., Laclede Steel Co., LTV Tubular Productions Co., Sawhill Tubular Division, Sharon Tube Co., Tex-Tube Division, Western Tube & Conduit Corp., Wheatland Tube Co.-- Clarification to determine whether pipe produced to API 5L line pipe specifications or to both ASTM A-53 standard pipe specification and the API 5L line [[Page 12197]] pipe specification (dual-certified pipe), when intended for use as standard pipe or when actually used as standard pipe, is within the scope of the order. Affirmative preliminary scope ruling issued on January 13, 1994. Tubacero International Corporation - Clarification to determine whether circular welded carbon steel piping, 16 inches in outside diameter with 3/8 inch wall thickness, for use in extremely heavy load bearing applications is within the scope of the order. Country: Brazil. A-351-809 Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe Allied Tube & Conduit Corp., American Tube Co., Century Tube Corp., CSI Tubular Productions, Inc., Laclede Steel Co., LTV Tubular Productions Co., Sawhill Tubular Division, Sharon Tube Co., Tex-Tube Division, Western Tube & Conduit Corp., Wheatland Tube Co.-- Clarification to determine whether pipe produced to API 5L line pipe specifications or to both ASTM A-53 standard pipe specification and the API 5L line pipe specification (dual-certified pipe), when intended for use as standard pipe or when actually used as standard pipe, is within the scope of the order. Affirmative preliminary scope ruling issued on January 13, 1994. A-351-503 Iron Construction Castings Southland Marketing--Clarification to determine whether certain cast iron grates and frames are within the scope of the order. C-351-504 Iron Construction Castings Southland Marketing--Clarification to determine whether certain cast iron grates and frames are within the scope of the order. Country: France. A-427-078 Sugar Boiron-Borneman, Inc.--Clarification to determine whether manufactured homeopathic sugar pellets are within the scope of the order. Country: Turkey. A-489-501 Welded Carbon Steel Standard Pipe and Tube Products Allied Tube and Conduit Corporation, Wheatland Tube Company, Laclede Steel Company, Sharon Tube Company, and Sawhill Tubular Division of Armco, Inc. - Clarification to determine whether pipe and tube which meets the order's physical specifications, when intended for or actually used as standard pipe and tube, is included within the scope of the order. Country: People's Republic of China. A-570-001 Potassium Permanganate Aerostat Inc.--Clarification to determine whether certain plastic ignitor spheres are within the scope of the order. A-570-504 Petroleum Wax Candles Two's Company--Clarification to determine whether certain decorated pillar candles and red and gold angel taper candles are within the scope of the order. Springwater Cookie and Confections--Clarification to determine whether certain feather twist candles are within the scope of the order. A-570-502 Iron Construction Castings Jack's International--Clarification to determine whether certain cast iron area drains are within the scope of the order. A-570-804 Sparklers Fritz Companies Inc.--Clarification to determine whether 14 inch Morning Glorys are within the scope of the order. A-570-808 Chrome-Plated Lug Nuts Consolidated International Automotive, Inc.--Clarification to determine whether certain nickel-plated lug nuts are within the scope of the order. Country: Korea. A-580-809 Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe Allied Tube & Conduit Corp., American Tube Co., Century Tube Corp., CSI Tubular Productions, Inc., Laclede Steel Co., LTV Tubular Productions Co., Sawhill Tubular Division, Sharon Tube Co., Tex-Tube Division, Western Tube & Conduit Corp., Wheatland Tube Co.-- Clarification to determine whether pipe produced to API 5L line pipe specifications or to both ASTM A-53 standard pipe specification and the API 5L line pipe specification (dual-certified pipe), when intended for use as standard pipe or when actually used as standard pipe, is within the scope of the order. Affirmative preliminary scope ruling issued on January 13, 1994. A-580-811 Steel Wire Rope TSK Korea and Hi-Lex Corp. - Clarification to determine whether certain motion control cables are within the scope of the order. Country: Japan. A-588-802 3\1/2\'' Microdisks TDK Inc., TDK Electronics Co.--Clarification to determine whether certain web roll media are within the scope of the order. A-588-804 Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings), and Parts Thereof Dana Corporation--Clarification to determine whether an automotive component known variously as a center bracket assembly, center bearing assembly, support bracket, or shaft support bearing, is within the scope of the order. Nakanishi Manufacturing Corp.--Clarification to determine whether a stamped steel washer with a zinc phosphate and adhesive coating which is used in the manufacture of a ball bearing seal is within the scope of the order. A-588-014 Tuners Alpine Electronics--Clarification to determine whether certain car radio/stereo and/or replacement parts, comprised of four subassemblies and their components, are within the scope of the finding. Fujitsu Ten Corporation of America - Clarification to determine whether certain ``front end'' components of car tuners are within the scope of the finding. A-588-405 Cellular Mobile Telephones and Subassemblies Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd., and its related entities--Clarification to determine whether certain portable telephones, subassemblies, and components thereof are within the scope of the order (five products). TDK Corporation of America--Clarification to determine whether Duplexers, Voltage Control Oscillators, and Isolators are within the scope of the order. JRC International--Clarification to determine whether portable cellular telephone model PTR-829 is within the scope of the order. JRC International Clarification to determine whether portable cellular telephone model PTR-870 is within the scope of the order. NEC Corporation and NEC America, Inc.--Clarification to determine whether portable cellular telephone models MP5A1D1 and MP5A1D2 are within the scope of the order. Matsushita Communication Industrial Corporation of America-- Clarification to determine whether Panasonic portable cellular telephone, models EB-3560 and EB-3561, are within the scope of the order. A-588-823 Professional Electric Cutting Tools Makita Inc., Makita U.S.A.--Clarification to determine whether Planer-Jointer model 2030SC is [[Page 12198]] within the scope of the order. Makita Inc., Makita U.S.A.--Clarification to determine whether Chain Morticer model 7104L is within the scope of the order. A-588-055 Acrylic Sheet Sumitomo Chemical America, Inc.--Clarification to determine whether acrylic sheet with light scattering properties is within the scope of the order. A-588-604 Tapered Roller Bearings and Parts Thereof Koyo Seiko--Clarification to determine whether certain forgings are within the scope of the order. Affirmative preliminary ruling issued on February 28, 1994. A-588-809 Small Business Telephone Systems and Subassemblies and Parts Thereof Iwatsu America, Inc. and Iwatsu Electric Co.--Clarification to determine whether certain circuit cards are within the scope of the order. Country: Venezuela. A-307-805 Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe Self-initiation. Clarification to determine whether pipe produced to API 5L line pipe specifications or to both ASTM A-53 standard pipe specification and the API 5L line pipe specification (dual-certified pipe), when intended for use as standard pipe or when actually used as standard pipe, is within the scope of the order. Affirmative preliminary scope ruling issued on January 13, 1994. Country: Argentina. C-357-803 Leather Petitioners--Clarification to determine whether upper bovine leather without hair on, not whole, prepared after tanning is within the scope of the countervailing duty order. Country: Sweden. A-401-040 Stainless Steel Plate Armco, Inc., G.O. Carlson, Allegheny Ludlum Corp., and Washington Steel Corp.--Clarification to determine whether Stavax, Ramax, and 904L are within the scope of the finding. Affirmative preliminary scope ruling issued on November 16, 1994. Country: Germany. A-428-801 Antifriction Bearings (other than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts Thereof Consolidated Saw Mill International (CSMI) Inc.--Clarification to determine whether certain Cambio bearings contained in its sawmill debarker are within the scope of the order. Affirmative preliminary ruling issued on December 16, 1994. Marquart Switches--Clarification to determine whether certain steel balls are within the scope of the order. Country: Taiwan. A-583-810 Chrome-Plated Lug Nuts Consolidated International Automotive, Inc.--Clarification to determine whether certain nickel-plated lug nuts are within the scope of the order. A-583-603 Stainless Steel Cookware Max Burton Enterprises, Inc.--Clarification to determine whether the Max Burton StoveTop Smoker is within the scope of the order. A-583-508 Porcelain-on-Steel Cookware Blair Corp.--Clarification to determine whether product number 271911, eight-quart stock pot and product number 271921, twelve-quart stock pot are within the scope of the order. Blair Corp.--Clarification to determine whether product number 1001, seven piece cookware set is within the scope of the order. A-583-816 Certain Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings Top Line Process Equipment Corporation--Clarification to determine whether various stainless steel tube fittings with non-welded end- connections, and other products, are within the scope of the order. VI. Pending Anticircumvention Inquiry Requests as of December 31, 1994 Country: Mexico. A-201-806 Steel Wire Rope Committee of Domestic Steel Wire Rope and Specialty Cable Manufacturers--Anticircumvention inquiry to determine whether a producer of steel wire rope in Mexico is circumventing the antidumping order by importing steel wire strand into the United States where it is wound into steel wire rope. Affirmative preliminary determination of circumvention published June 3, 1994. Country: Japan. A-588-602 Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings U.S. Fittings Group--Anticircumvention inquiry to determine whether a producer of Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings in Japan is circumventing the antidumping duty order by shipping parts to Thailand for processing and importing the finished product into the United States. Country: Germany. A-428-811 Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon Steel Products Inland Steel Bar Company and USS Kolbe Steel Company-- Anticircumvention inquiry to determine whether a producer of steel in Germany is circumventing the antidumping duty order by shipping leaded steel billets to its wholly-owned subsidiary in the Netherlands, hot- rolling the billets into bars and rods and then exporting them to the United States. Interested parties are invited to comment on the accuracy of the list of pending scope clarification requests. Any comments should be submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Room B-099, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230. Dated: February 24, 1995. Joseph A. Spetrini, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Compliance. [FR Doc. 95-5430 Filed 3-3-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P