Notice of Preliminary Negative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty Determination With Final Antidumping Duty Determinations: Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From Argentina

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-357-817] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Preliminary determination of countervailing duty investigation. SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are not being provided to producers or exporters of certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat products from Argentina. EFFECTIVE DATE: March 4, 2002. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Suresh Maniam or Jarrod Goldfeder at (202) 482-0176 or (202) 482-0189, respectively; Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Preliminary Determination The Applicable Statute and Regulations Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the “Act”) by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the “Department”) regulations are to our regulations as codified at 19 CFR part 351 (2001). The Petitioners The petition in this investigation was filed by Bethlehem Steel Corp., United States Steel LLC., LTV Steel Co., Inc., Steel Dynamics, Inc., National Steel Corp., Nucor Corp., WCI Steel, Inc., and Weirton Steel Corp. (collectively, “th…