Notice of Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment with Final Antidumping Duty Determinations: Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat 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-351-835] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. EFFECTIVE DATE: March 4, 2002. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sean Carey at (202) 482-3964 or Holly Hawkins at (202) 482-0414, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VII, Group III, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 7866, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230. PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION: The Department of Commerce (the Department) preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat products from Brazil. For information on the estimated countervailing duty rate, please see the “Suspension of Liquidation” section of this notice. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Petitioners The petition in this investigation was filed, on September 28, 2001, by Bethlehem Steel Corp.; United States Steel Corporation; LTV Steel Company, Inc.; Steel Dynamics, Inc.; National Steel Corp.; Nucor Corp.; WCI Steel, Inc.; and Weirton Steel Corp. Case History We initiated this investigation on October 19, 2001. See Notice of Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigations: Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From Argentina, Brazil, France, and the Republic of Korea, 66 FR 54218 (October 26, 2001) (Initiation Notice). Since the initiation, the following events…