Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination: Certain Cold Rolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products From Brazil

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration [C-351-831] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. EFFECTIVE DATE: February 4, 2000. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dana Mermelstein or Javier Barrientos, Office of CVD/AD Enforcement VII, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 7866, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-3208 and (202) 482-2243, respectively. FINAL DETERMINATION: The Department of Commerce (the Department) determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and/or exporters of certain cold-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Brazil. For information on the estimated countervailing duty rates, please see the “Suspension of Liquidation” section of this notice. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Petitioners The petition in this investigation was filed by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Gulf States Steel Inc., Ispat Inland, Inc., LTV Steel Company, Inc., National Steel Corporation, Steel Dynamics Inc., U.S. Steel Group (a unit of USX Corporation), Weirton Steel Corporation, the Independent Steelworkers of America and the United Steelworkers of America (collectively, “the petitioners”). Case History Since the publication of our preliminary determination in this investigation on October 1, 1999 ( Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Countervaili…