Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty Determination With Final Antidumping Duty Determination: Stainless Steel Bar From Italy

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-475-830] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Preliminary determination of countervailing duty investigation. EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2001. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Suresh Maniam or Greg Campbell at (202) 482-0176 and (202) 482-2239, respectively; Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230. Preliminary Determination: The Department of Commerce (the “Department”) preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers or exporters of stainless steel bar from Italy. For information on the estimated countervailing duty rates, see infra section on “Suspension of Liquidation.” Case History The following events have occurred since the publication of the notice of initiation in the Federal Register . See Notice of Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation: Stainless Steel Bar from Italy, 66 FR 7739 (January 25, 2001) (“ Initiation Notice ”). On January 30, 2001, we issued countervailing duty questionnaires to the Government of Italy (“GOI”), the European Commission (“EC”), and the producers/exporters of the subject merchandise. On March 8, 2001, we published a postponement of the preliminary determination of this investigation until May 29, 2001. See St…