AD: Five Countries Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative reviews for ball bearings and parts thereof from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom for the period May 1, 2006 through April 30, 2007.
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AD Cash Deposit Instructions for a Time of Entry of 09/11/08:
(a) The ITA has found de minimis AD duty rates for GRW (0.12%) and Barden/Schaeffler UK (0.28%), therefore, no cash deposit is required for these companies; however, they are still subject to the order;
(b) For previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the AD duty cash deposit rate will continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent period;
(c) If the exporter is not a firm covered in this review, a prior review, or the original AD investigation, but the manufacturer is, the AD duty cash deposit rate will be the rate established for the most recent period for the manufacturer of the merchandise; and
(d) The AD duty cash deposit rate for all other manufacturers or exporters will continue to be the all-others rate for the relevant order made effective by the final results of review published on July 26, 1993.
1The ITA previously instructed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend liquidation and collect an AD cash deposit of 7.06% on entries of merchandise produced or exported by Somecat S.p.A. effective May 7, 2008 (the publication date of the preliminary results), as Somecat was previously revoked from the subject AD duty order. However, it was preliminarily determined that Somecat and SKF Italy should be collapsed for purposes of its AD analysis in this review.
Assessment Instructions for the Review Period (05/01/06 - 04/30/07)
The ITA intends to issue appropriate assessment instructions directly to CBP 15 days after September 11, 2008. The ITA has calculated, whenever possible, an importer/customer-specific assessment rate or value for subject merchandise.
For the responsive companies which were not selected for individual review, the ITA will instruct CBP to apply the rates listed above to all entries of subject merchandise from such firms. For companies for which the ITA is relying on total adverse facts available (AFA), the ITA will instruct CBP to apply the assigned dumping margins to all entries of subject merchandise during the review period that were produced and/or exported by the companies.
The ITA adds that for entries of subject merchandise during the review period produced by companies included in these final results of reviews for which the reviewed companies did not know their merchandise was destined for the U.S., the ITA will instruct CBP to liquidate unreviewed entries at the all-others rate if there is no rate for the intermediate company(ies) involved in the transaction. (See ITT's Online Archives or 06/02/03 news, 03060245, for BP summary of the ITA's May 2003 "automatic assessment" regulation.)
(See ITA notices for more information, including the scope of the orders, the rescission of the reviews for six companies, etc.
See ITT's Online Archives or 06/20/08 news, 08062050, for BP summary of the preliminary results of these AD duty administrative reviews.)
ITA contact - Catherine Cartsos (202) 482-1757
ITA notice (FR Pub 09/11/08) available at http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-21137.pdf