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ITA Lists Recently Completed, Pending AD/CV Duty Scope Rulings, Etc.

The International Trade Administration issued its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anticircumvention determinations.

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The following list covers completed scope and anticircumvention rulings for the period January 1, 2012 through March 31, 2012:

Scope Rulings

China

A-570-967; C-570-968: Aluminum Extrusions from China

The Rowley Company; drapery rail kits consisting of an extruded aluminum rail, decorative steel brackets and decorative steel finials are within the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders; February 3, 2012.

A-570-967; C-570-968: Aluminum Extrusions from China

IDEX Health and Science LLC; Precision machine parts produced using extruded aluminum feedstock which is further fabricated into aluminum housings for vacuum pump assemblies, aluminum bodies for high pressure valves, and light guided flowcell holders are within the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders; March 28, 2012.

A-570-868: Folding Metal Tables and Chairs from China

Lifetime Products, Inc.; its 48-inch round fold-in-half tables are not within the scope of the antidumping duty order; March 30, 2012.

A-570-933: Frontseating Service Valves from China

Water Operating Group; 6-position water filtration valve is not within the scope of the antidumping duty order; January 11, 2012.

A-570-920; C-570-921: Lightweight Thermal Paper from China

Paper Resources, LLC.; certain lightweight thermal paper (“LWTP”) converted into smaller LWTP rolls in the PRC, from jumbo LWTP rolls produced in certain third countries, is not within the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders; March 23, 2012.

A-570-901: Lined Paper Products from China

Hobby Lobby; scrapbook paper is not within the scope of the antidumping duty order; January 6, 2012.

A-570-860: Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bars from China

New Orleans Shoring, LLC.; steel pins (also known as fasteners) made of concrete reinforcing bar are within the scope of the antidumping duty order; January 19, 2012.

A-570-918: Steel Wire Garment Hangers from China

Great American Hanger Company; four wooden hangers; three steel wire, swivel looped-neck hangers; and one vinyl-coated flattened steel hanger are not within the scope of the antidumping duty order; February 17, 2012.

Multiple Countries

A-560-823; C-560-824; A-570-958; C-570-959: Coated Paper Suitable for High-Quality Print Graphics Using Sheet-Fed Presses from Indonesia and China

Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. (including its subsidiaries Ningbo Zhonghua Paper Co., Ltd. and Ningbo Asia Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd.), Global Paper Solutions, Inc., Pindo Deli Pulp and Paper Mills, PT. Indah Kiat Pulp & Paper Tbk, and Paper Max, Ltd. (collectively APP); (1) APP’s Ningbo Fold packaging paperboard, APP’s Savvi Coat packaging paperboard, APP’s Zenith packaging paperboard with a basis weight of 215 grams per square meter (“gsm”), APP’s Sinar Vanda packaging paperboard with a basis weight of 210 gsm, and APP’s blue-center playing card board which APP exports are within the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders; (2) APP’s Zenith packaging paperboard (except with a basis weight of 215 gsm), APP’s Sinar Vanda packaging paperboard (except with a basis weight of 210 gsm), and APP’s grey-center playing card board and black-center playing card board which APP exports are not within the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders; preliminary ruling February 2, 2012.

A-201-837; A-570-954; C-570-955: Magnesia Carbon Bricks from Mexico and China

Fedmet Resources Corporation; its magnesia alumina carbon bricks are within the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders; March 30, 2012.

Anticircumvention Determinations

None

(FR Pub 08/20/12)