AD: China Cased Pencils
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of the AD duty order on certain cased pencils from China at the request of M.A. Notch Corporation (Notch), which is requesting that a large novelty pencil be excluded from the AD duty order.
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ITA to Determine Whether Certain Large Novelty Pencil Should be Excluded
According to the ITA, Notch has filed a request asking that it exclude from the AD duty order on certain cased pencils from China items meeting the following description: novelty jumbo pencil that is octagonal in shape, approximately 10 inches long, one inch in diameter, and three-and-one eighth inches in circumference, composed of turned wood encasing one-and-one half inches of sharpened lead on one end and a rubber eraser on the other end.
The ITA states that the domestic interested parties who have been active participants in recent administrative reviews of this AD duty order have expressed a lack of interest in the order with respect to such large novelty pencils; however, they did not claim that they represent substantially all of the production of the domestic like product, nor has the ITA made such a determination.
Therefore, the ITA is not at this time preliminarily revoking the AD duty order with respect to the product in question. The ITA states that interested parties are invited to comment on this initiation, or to demonstrate that the domestic interested parties account for substantially all of the domestic like product.
The ITA states that it will publish in the Federal Register a notice of preliminary results of changed circumstances AD duty administrative review and will issue the final results not later than 270 days after August 22, 2005 or within 45 days of August 22, 2005 if all parties to the proceedings agree to the outcome of the review.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 03/31/03 and 11/06/03 news, 03033130 and 03110630, for BP summary of two earlier final results of AD duty changed circumstances reviews in which the AD duty order on subject merchandise from China was revoked in part.)
ITA Contact - Paul Stolz (202) 482-4474
ITA Notice (FR Pub 08/30/05) available athttp://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/E5-4728.pdf