Titanium Sponge from the Russian Federation: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Partial Revocation

In response to requests from AVISMA Titanium-Magnesium Works; the affiliated companies Interlink Metals, Inc., and Interlink Metals & Chemicals, S.A.; TMC Trading International Ltd.; and Titanium Metals Corporation, the Department of Commerce is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping finding on titanium sponge from the Russian Federation. This notice of preliminary results covers the period August 1, 1996 through July 31, 1997. This review covers one manufacturer/ exporter, AVISMA Titanium-Magnesium Works, and two trading companies, TMC Trading International Ltd. and, collectively as one company, Interlink Metals, Inc., and Interlink Metals & Chemicals, S.A. We have preliminarily determined that no dumping margins apply during this review period. If these preliminary results are adopted in our final results of administrative review, we will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to liquidate entries during the period of review without regard to dumping duties. Furthermore, if these preliminary results are adopted in our final results of review, this will be the Interlink entities' third consecutive review with no dumping margins. Therefore, in the final results we will revoke this finding with respect to Interlink. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results. Parties who submit arguments in this proceeding are requested to submit with the argument: (1) A statement of the issue; and (2) a brief summary of the argument.