Notice of Preliminary Results and Preliminary Partial Rescission of the Antidumping Administrative Review: Petroleum Wax Candles From the People's Republic of China

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 [A-570-504] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on petroleum wax candles from the People's Republic of China (PRC) in response to requests from Dongguan Fay Candle Co. (Fay Candle), a PRC producer and exporter of subject merchandise, and its U.S. importers, TIJID, Inc. (TIJID) (d/b/a DIJIT Inc.), and Palm Beach Home Accents, Inc. (Palm Beach), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart), Qingdao Kingking Applied Chemistry Co., Ltd. (Qingdao Kingking), and petitioner, the National Candle Association (NCA). The review covers the period August 1, 2001, through July 31, 2002. We preliminary determine that sales have been made below normal value (NV). The preliminary results are listed below in the section titled “Preliminary Results of Review.” If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results, we will instruct the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (Customs) to assess antidumping duties on imports into the United States of subject merchandise exported by the respondents. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. (See the “Preliminary Results of Review” section of this notice.) EFFECTIVE DATE: September 9, 2003. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sally C. Gannon or Mark Hoadley, Office o…