Notice of Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty Determination With Final Antidumping Duty Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products From the Republic of Korea

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-580-849] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice of Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination. EFFECTIVE DATE: March 4, 2002. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tipten Troidl at (202) 482-1767 and Darla Brown at (202) 482-2849, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 4012, 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 certain producers and exporters of certain cold-rolled carbon steel flat products (subject merchandise) from the Republic of Korea. For information on the estimated countervailing duty rates, see the “Suspension of Liquidation” section of this notice. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Petitioners The petition in this investigation was filed by Bethlehem Steel Corp., United States Steel LLC, LTV Steel Company, Inc., Steel Dynamics, Inc., National Steel Corp., Nucor Corp., WCI Steel, Inc., and Weirton Steel Corp (collectively, petitioners). Case History Since the publication of the notice of initiation in the Federal Register ( 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 (…