Antifriction Bearings (Other Than Tapered Roller Bearings) and Parts Thereof From France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Singapore, Thailand and the United Kingdom; Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, Termination of Administrative Reviews, and Partial Termination of Administrative Reviews

In response to requests from interested parties, the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on antifriction bearings (other than tapered roller bearings) and parts thereof (AFBs) from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore and the United Kingdom. The classes or kinds of merchandise covered by these orders are ball bearings and parts thereof (BBs), cylindrical roller bearings and parts thereof (CRBs), and spherical plain bearings and parts thereof (SPBs). The reviews cover 27 manufacturers/exporters. The period of review (the POR) is May 1, 1994, through April 30, 1995. Although we initiated reviews for seven other manufacturers/ exporters, we are terminating the reviews because the requests for these reviews were withdrawn in a timely manner. In addition, the Department is terminating reviews of the orders on BBs from Romania and Thailand. The sole request we received regarding Romania was withdrawn. Regarding Thailand, on June 21, 1996, we issued the final results of the 1993-1994 administrative review revoking the order on BBs from Thailand, effective May 1, 1994. We have preliminarily determined that sales have been made below normal value (NV) by various companies subject to these reviews. If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results of these administrative reviews, we will instruct U.S. Customs to assess antidumping duties equal to the difference between the export price (EP) or constructed export price (CEP) and the NV. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results. Parties who submit comments in these proceedings are requested to submit with each argument (1) a statement of the issue and (2) a brief summary of the argument.