Stainless steel sheet and strip from Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and Taiwan

INSTRUCTION BOOKLET
GENERAL INFORMATION, INSTRUCTIONS, AND
DEFINITIONS FOR COMMISSION QUESTIONNAIRES

Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip
from Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and Taiwan
Investigation Nos. 701-TA-382 and 731-TA-798-803 (Second Review)
Further information.--If you have any questions concerning the enclosed
questionnaire(s) or other matters related to these reviews, you may contact
the following members of the Commission=s staff:
Jennifer Merrill, investigator (202-205-3188; E-mail [email protected])
regarding general questions and trade and related information;
Mary Klir, auditor (202-205-3247; E-mail [email protected])
regarding financial information; and
Cindy Cohen, economist (202-205-3230; E-mail [email protected]
regarding pricing, market, and related information.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Background.-- On July 27, 1999, Commerce issued antidumping duty orders on imports of certain
stainless steel sheet and strip from France (64 FR 40562), Germany (64 FR 40557), Italy (64 FR
40567), Japan (64 FR 40565), Mexico (64 FR 40560), Korea (64 F.R. 40555), Taiwan (64 F.R.
40555), and the United Kingdom (64 F.R. 40555). On August 6, 1999, the Department of
Commerce (Commerce) issued countervailing duty orders on imports of certain stainless steel
sheet and strip from France, Italy, and Korea (64 F.R. 42923).
On June 1, 2004, the Commission instituted reviews pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act
of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the orders would be
likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to the domestic industry within a
reasonably foreseeable time (69 F.R. 30958). Following five year reviews by Commerce and the
Commission, effective July 25, 2005, Commerce issued a continuation of the countervailing duty
orders on stainless steel sheet and strip from Italy and Korea and the antidumping duty orders on
stainless steel sheet and strip from Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and Taiwan (70 F.R.
44886, August 4, 2005). Effective July 27, 2004, Commerce issued a revocation of the
antidumping duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip from France and the United Kingdom (70
F.R. 44894, August 4, 2005). Effective September 1, 2004 Commerce issued a revocation of the
countervailing duty order on stainless steel sheet and strip from France (70 FR 53415). Effective
March 28, 2006, Commerce issued a revocation of the countervailing duty order on stainless steel
sheet and strip from Italy (71 FR 15382).
On June 1, 2010, the Commission instituted reviews pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff Act
of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1675(c)) (the Act) to determine whether revocation of the subject orders
would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to the domestic industry
within a reasonably foreseeable time (75 F.R. 30437). Each order for which the Commission and
Commerce make affirmative determinations will remain in place. If the Commission makes a
negative determination on a particular order or suspension agreement, the Department of
Commerce will revoke that order or terminate that suspension agreement.
Questionnaires and other information pertinent to these reviews are available at
http://www.usitc.gov/trade_remedy/731_ad_701_cvd/investigations/2010/stainless_steel_pla
te/reviewphase.htm. Address all correspondence to the United States International Trade
Commission, Washington, DC 20436. Hearing-impaired individuals can obtain information
regarding these reviews via the Commission=s TDD terminal (202-205-1810).
Due date of questionnaire(s).—Except where instructed otherwise, return the completed
questionnaire(s) to the United States International Trade Commission by no later than March 9,
2011. Use of an overnight mail service may be necessary to ensure that your response actually
reaches the Commission by March 9. Please make sure the completed questionnaire is sent to the
attention of Jennifer Merrill (U.S. Producer, Importer, and Foreign Producer questionnaires) or
Amelia Preece (Purchaser questionnaires). Return only one copy of the completed
questionnaire(s), but please keep a copy for your records so that you can refer to it if the
Commission staff contacts you with any questions during the course of the reviews.
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GENERAL INFORMATION--Continued
Service of questionnaire response(s).--In the event that your firm is a party to these reviews, you
are required to serve a copy of the questionnaire(s), once completed, on parties to the proceeding
that are subject to administrative protective order (see 19 CFR ' 207.7). A list of such parties is
maintained by the Commission=s Secretary and may be obtained by calling 202-205-1803. A
certificate of service must accompany the copy of the completed questionnaire(s) you submit (see
19 CFR ' 207.7).
Confidentiality.--The commercial and financial data furnished in response to the enclosed
questionnaire(s) that reveal the individual operations of your firm will be treated as confidential by
the Commission to the extent that such data are not otherwise available to the public and will not
be disclosed except as may be required by law (see 19 U.S.C. ' 1677f). Such confidential
information will not be published in a manner that will reveal the individual operations of your
firm; however, nonnumerical characterizations of numerical business proprietary information
(such as discussion of trends) will be treated as confidential business information only at the
request of the submitter for good cause shown.
Verification.--The information submitted in the enclosed questionnaire(s) is subject to audit
and verification by the Commission. To facilitate possible verification of data, please keep
all your workpapers and supporting documents used in the preparation of the questionnaire
response(s).
Release of information.--The information provided by your firm in response to the
questionnaire(s), as well as any other business proprietary information submitted by your firm to
the Commission in connection with the reviews, may become subject to, and released under, the
administrative protective order provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. ' 1677f) and
section 207.7 of the Commission=s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 CFR ' 207.7). This means
that certain lawyers and other authorized individuals may temporarily be given access to the
information for use in connection with these reviews or other import-injury proceedings or
reviews conducted by the Commission on the same or similar merchandise; those individuals
would be subject to severe penalties if the information were divulged to unauthorized individuals.

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INSTRUCTIONS
Answer all questions.--Do not leave any question or section blank unless a questionnaire
expressly directs you to skip over certain questions or sections. If the answer to any question is
Anone,@ write Anone.@ If information is not readily available from your records in exactly the
form requested, furnish carefully prepared estimates--designated as such by the letter
AE@--and explain the basis of your estimates. Answers to questions and any necessary
comments or explanations should be supplied in the space provided or on separate sheets attached
to the appropriate page of the questionnaire(s). If your firm is completing more than one
questionnaire in connection with these reviews (i.e., a producer, importer, and/or purchaser
questionnaire), you need not respond to duplicated questions in the questionnaires.
Consolidate all U.S. establishments.--Report the requested data for your establishment(s) located
in the United States. Firms operating more than one establishment should combine the data
for all establishments into a single report.
Electronic completion.--Your firm is encouraged (but not required) to complete the questionnaire
electronically in MS Word format. The MS Word versions of all the questionnaires in these
investigations are available online at the ITC web page or may be obtained directly from the
Commission’s Investigator, Jennifer Merrill (202-205-3188, [email protected]).
Electronic submission.--To the degree that it is possible and not overly burdensome, the
Commission requests that responding firms submit their questionnaire responses electronically in
MS Word format. The completion and receipt of questionnaire responses in the MS Word format
allows the Commission to easily compile and analyze submitted data. There are three electronic
submissions options detailed below. Paper and hardcopy submissions are also accepted.
SUBMISSION OPTIONS
1) Upload via Secure Drop Box.--Upload the completed questionnaire in MS Word format
along with a scanned copy of the signed certification page (page 1) through the Commission’s
secure upload facility:
Web address: https://dropbox.usitc.gov/oinv/
Pin: SSSSR2
2) E-mail.--E-mail the completed questionnaire to Jennifer Merrill ([email protected])
in MS Word format and include a scanned copy of the signed certification page (page 1).1

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Please note that submitting your questionnaire by e-mail may subject your firm’s business proprietary information to
transmission over an unsecure environment and to possible disclosure. If you choose this option, the Commission warns you that
any risk involving possible disclosure of such information is assumed by the submitter and not by the Commission.

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INSTRUCTIONS--Continued
3) Compact disc (CD).--Copy or burn the completed questionnaires in MS Word format along
with a scanned copy of the signed certification page (page 1), and mail the CD to the address
below via overnight mail service (regular U.S. mail undergoes security treatments that often
damage CDs).
4) U.S. mail or overnight mail service.--Mail to the following address:
United States International Trade Commission
Office of Investigations, Room 615
500 E Street SW
Washington, DC 20024 (overnight)
Washington, DC 20436 (U.S. mail)
5) Fax.--Fax to 202.205.3205.
Note to parties.--If you are a party to the investigations, and service of the questionnaire(s) is
required, such service should be made in paper form pursuant to the applicable Commission rules
for the purposes of service. However, all parties are instructed to encourage their clients to
complete the questionnaires electronically and to forward any electronically completed
questionnaires in the underlying MS Word format to the Commission’s Investigator (e-mail or
upload) at the time of service.

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DEFINITIONS
Certain stainless steel sheet and strip (“stainless steel sheet & strip”).--The products covered by
these reviews are certain stainless steel sheet and strip in coils. Stainless steel is an alloy steel
containing, by weight, 1.2 percent or less of carbon and 10.5 percent or more of chromium, with
or without other elements. The subject sheet and strip is a flat-rolled product in coils that is greater
than 9.5 mm in width and less than 4.75 mm in thickness, and that is annealed or otherwise heat
treated and pickled or otherwise descaled. The subject sheet and strip may also be further
processed (e.g., cold-rolled, polished, aluminized, coated, etc.) provided that it maintains the
specific dimensions of sheet and strip following such processing. 2
Excluded from the scope of these reviews are the following: (1) sheet and strip that is
not annealed or otherwise heat treated and pickled or otherwise descaled, (2) sheet and
strip that is cut to length, (3) plate (i.e., flat-rolled stainless steel products of a thickness
of 4.75 mm or more), (4) flat wire (i.e., cold-rolled sections, with a prepared edge,
rectangular in shape, of a width of not more than 9.5 mm), (5) razor blade steel, (6)
flapper valve steel, (7) suspension foil, (8) certain stainless steel foil for automotive
catalytic converters, (9) permanent magnet iron-chromium-cobalt alloy stainless strip,
(10) certain electrical resistance alloy steel, (11) certain martensitic
precipitation-hardenable stainless steel, and (12) three specialty stainless steels
typically used in certain industrial blades and surgical and medication instruments.
(Note: Items 5 through 12 are described in the Supplement to Definitions (as defined
by Commerce) attached to this document.) Additional scope exclusions made in
changed circumstance reviews by Commerce also are listed in the Supplement.

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The merchandise subject to these orders is currently imported under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States (HTS) at the following statistical reporting numbers: 7219.13.0031, 7219.13.0051, 7219.13.0071, 7219.13.0081,
7219.14.0030, 7219.14.0065, 7219.14.0090, 7219.32.0005, 7219.32.0020, 7219.32.0025, 7219.32.0035,
7219.32.0036, 7219.32.0038, 7219.32.0042, 7219.32.0044, 7219.33.0005, 7219.33.0020, 7219.33.0025,
7219.33.0035, 7219.33.0036, 7219.33.0038, 7219.33.0042, 7219.33.0044, 7219.34.0005, 7219.34.0020,
7219.34.0025, 7219.34.0030, 7219.34.0035, 7219.35.0005, 7219.35.0015, 7219.35.0030, 7219.35.0035,
7219.90.0010, 7219.90.0020, 7219.90.0025, 7219.90.0060, 7219.90.0080, 7220.12.1000, 7220.12.5000,
7220.20.1010, 7220.20.1015, 7220.20.1060, 7220.20.1080, 7220.20.6005, 7220.20.6010, 7220.20.6015,
7220.20.6060, 7220.20.6080, 7220.20.7005, 7220.20.7010, 7220.20.7015, 7220.20.7060, 7220.20.7080,
7220.20.8000, 7220.20.9030, 7220.20.9060, 7220.90.0010, 7220.90.0015, 7220.90.0060, and 7220.90.0080.

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DEFINITIONS--Continued
Firm.--An individual proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation
(including any subsidiary corporation), business trust, cooperative, trustee in bankruptcy, or
receiver under decree of any court.
Related firm.--A firm that your firm solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled; a
firm that solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled your firm; and/or a firm that
was solely or jointly owned, managed, or otherwise controlled by a firm that also solely or jointly
owned, managed, or otherwise controlled your firm.
Establishment.--Each facility of a firm in the United States involved in the production,
importation, and/or purchase of stainless steel plate (as defined above), including auxiliary
facilities operated in conjunction with (whether or not physically separate from) such facilities.
United States.--For purposes of these reviews, the 50 States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
and the District of Columbia.
Importer.--Any person or firm engaged, either directly or through a parent company or subsidiary,
in importing stainless steel plate (as defined above) into the United States from a foreign
manufacturer or through its selling agent.
Imports.--Those products identified for Customs purposes as imports for consumption for which
your firm was the importer of record (i.e., was responsible for paying any import duty) or
consignee (i.e., to which the merchandise was first delivered).
Import quantities.--Quantities reported should be net of returns.
Import values.--Values reported should be landed, duty-paid values (but not including
antidumping and/or countervailing duties) at the U.S. port of entry, including ocean freight and
insurance costs, brokerage charges, and normal import duties (i.e., including all charges except
inland freight in the United States and antidumping and/or countervailing duties).
Purchaser.--Any person or firm engaged, either directly or through a parent company or
subsidiary, in purchasing stainless steel plate (as defined above) from another firm that produces,
imports, or otherwise distributes stainless steel plate. A retail firm that is the importer of record
may be considered a purchaser.

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DEFINITIONS--Continued
Purchases.--Purchases from all sources, NOT including direct imports from foreign sources
located outside of the United States (which should be reported in an importer questionnaire).
Purchase quantities.--Quantities reported should be net of returns.
Purchase values.--Values reported should be net values (i.e., gross purchase values less all
discounts, allowances, rebates, and the value of returned goods), delivered to your U.S.
receiving point.
Shipments.--Shipments of products produced in or imported by your U.S. establishment(s).
Include shipments to the contracting firm of product produced by your firm under a toll agreement.
Shipment quantities.--Quantities reported should be net of returns.
Shipment values.--Values reported should be net values (i.e., gross sales values less all
discounts, allowances, rebates, prepaid freight, and the value of returned goods), f.o.b.
your U.S. point of shipment. The value of domestic shipments to the contracting firm
under a toll agreement is the conversion fee (including profit).
Types of shipments:
U.S. shipments.--Commercial shipments, internal consumption, and transfers to related
firms within the United States.
Commercial shipments.--Shipments, other than internal consumption and transfers
to related firms, within the United States.
Internal consumption.--Product consumed internally by your firm.
Transfers to related firms.--Shipments made to related domestic firms.
Export shipments.--Shipments to destinations outside the United States, including
shipments to related firms.
Inventories.--Finished goods inventory, not raw materials or work-in-progress.
The following definitions apply only to the PRODUCER QUESTIONNAIRE.
Average production capacity.--The level of production that your establishment(s) could
reasonably have expected to attain during the specified periods. Assume normal operating
conditions (i.e., using equipment and machinery in place and ready to operate; normal operating
levels (hours per week/weeks per year) and time for downtime, maintenance, repair, and cleanup;
and a typical or representative product mix).
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DEFINITIONS--Continued
Toll agreement.--Agreement between two firms whereby the first firm furnishes the raw materials
and the second firm uses the raw materials to produce a product that it then returns to the first firm
with a charge for processing costs, overhead, etc.
Production.--All production in your U.S. establishment(s), including production consumed
internally within your firm and production for another firm under a toll agreement.
PRWs.--Production and related workers, including working supervisors and all nonsupervisory
workers (including group leaders and trainees) engaged in fabricating, processing, assembling,
inspecting, receiving, storage, handling, packing, warehousing, shipping, trucking, hauling,
maintenance, repair, janitorial and guard services, product development, auxiliary production for
plant=s own use (e.g., power plant), recordkeeping, and other services closely associated with the
above production operations.
Average number employed.--Add the number of employees, both full-time and part-time, for the
12 pay periods ending closest to the 15th of the month and divide that total by 12.
Hours worked.--Include time paid for sick leave, holidays, and vacation time. Include overtime
hours actually worked; do not convert overtime pay to its equivalent in straight-time hours.
Wages paid.--Total wages paid before deductions of any kind (e.g., withholding taxes, old-age and
unemployment insurance, group insurance, union dues, bonds, etc.). Include wages paid directly
by your firm for overtime, holidays, vacations, and sick leave.
Fiscal year.--The 12-month period between settlement of your firm=s financial accounts.
Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (Byrd Amendment) funds received.--Funds
disbursed by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection under the Continued Dumping and
Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (the AByrd Amendment@). The Byrd Amendment provides for the
annual distribution of the duties collected pursuant to antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
The distribution is available to Aaffected domestic producers for qualifying expenditures.@
Purchases other than direct imports.--Purchases from U.S. producers, U.S. importers, and other
U.S. sources.

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SUPPLEMENT TO DEFINITIONS
5.

Razor blade steel is a flat-rolled product of stainless steel, not further worked than
cold-rolled (cold-reduced), in coils, of a width of not more than 23 mm and a thickness
of 0.266 mm or less, containing, by weight, 12.5 to 14.5 percent chromium, and certified
at the time of entry to be used in the manufacture of razor blades.

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Flapper valve steel is defined as stainless steel strip in coils containing, by weight, between
0.37 and 0.43 percent carbon, between 1.15 and 1.35 percent molybdenum, and between
0.20 and 0.80 percent manganese. This steel also contains, by weight, phosphorus of
0.025 percent or less, silicon of between 0.20 and 0.50 percent, and sulfur of 0.020
percent or less. The product is manufactured by means of vacuum arc remelting, with
inclusion controls for sulphide of no more than 0.04 percent and for oxide of no more
than 0.05 percent. Flapper valve steel has a tensile strength of between 210 and 300 ksi,
yield strength of between 170 and 270 ksi, plus or minus 8 ksi, and a hardness (Hv) of
between 460 and 590. Flapper valve steel is most commonly used to produce specialty
flapper valves in compressors. Also excluded is a product referred to as suspension foil,
a specialty steel product used in the manufacture of suspension assemblies for computer
disk drives.

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Suspension foil is described as 302/304 grade or 202 grade stainless steel of a thickness
between 14 and 127 microns, with a thickness tolerance of plus-or-minus 2.01 microns,
and surface glossiness of 200 to 700 percent Gs. Suspension foil must be supplied in
coil widths of not more than 407 mm and with a mass of 225 kg or less. Roll marks may
only be visible on one side, with no scratches of measurable depth. The material must
exhibit residual stresses of 2 mm maximum deflection and flatness of 1.6 mm over 685
mm length.

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Certain stainless steel foil for automotive catalytic converters is a specialty foil with a
thickness of between 20 and 110 microns used to produce a metallic substrate with a
honeycomb structure for use in automotive catalytic converters. The steel contains, by
weight, carbon of no more than 0.030 percent, silicon of no more than 1.0 percent,
manganese of no more than 1.0 percent, chromium of between 19 and 22 percent,
aluminum of no less than 5.0 percent, phosphorus of no more than 0.045 percent, sulfur
of no more than 0.03 percent, lanthanum of less than 0.002 or greater than 0.05 percent,
and total rare earth elements of more than 0.06 percent, with the balance iron.

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SUPPLEMENT TO DEFINITIONS–Continued
9.

Permanent magnet iron-chromium-cobalt alloy stainless strip is a ductile stainless steel
strip that contains, by weight, 26 to 30 percent chromium and 7 to 10 percent cobalt,
with the remainder of iron, in widths 228.6 mm or less, and a thickness between 0.127
and 1.270 mm. It exhibits magnetic remanence between 9,000 and 12,000 gauss, and a
coercivity of between 50 and 300 oersteds. This product is most commonly used in
electronic sensors and is currently available under proprietary trade names such as
“Arnokrome III.”1

10.

Certain electrical resistance alloy steel is a non-magnetic stainless steel manufactured to
American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) specification B344 and containing,
by weight, 36 percent nickel, 18 percent chromium, and 46 percent iron, and is most
notable for its resistance to high-temperature corrosion. It has a melting point of 1390
degrees Celsius and displays a creep rupture limit of 4 kilograms per square millimeter
at 1000 degrees Celsius. This steel is most commonly used in the production of heating
ribbons for circuit breakers and industrial furnaces, and in rheostats for railway
locomotives. The product is currently available under proprietary trade names such as
“Gilphy 36.”2

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Certain martensitic precipitation-hardenable stainless steel is a high-strength, ductile
stainless steel product is designated under the Unified Numbering System (UNS) as
S45500-grade steel, and contains, by weight, 11 to 13 percent chromium and 7 to 10
percent nickel. Carbon, manganese, silicon and molybdenum each comprise, by weight,
0.05 percent or less, with phosphorus and sulfur each comprising, by weight, 0.03
percent or less. This steel has copper, niobium, and titanium added to achieve aging and
will exhibit yield strengths as high as 1700 MPa and ultimate tensile strengths as high
as 1750 MPa after aging, with elongation percentages of 3 percent or less in 50 mm. It
is generally provided in thicknesses between 0.635 and 0.787 mm, and in widths of 25.4
mm. This product is most commonly used in the manufacture of television tubes and is
currently available under proprietary trade names such as “Durphynox 17.”3

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“Arnokrome III” is a trademark of the Arnold Engineering Company.
“Gilphy 36” is a trademark of Imphy, S.A.
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“Durphynox 17” is a trademark of Imphy, S.A.
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SUPPLEMENT TO DEFINITIONS–Continued
12.

Three specialty stainless steels typically used in certain industrial blades and surgical and
medication instruments are excluded from these reviews. They are described as
follows:
(A) Stainless steel strip in coils used in the production of textile cutting tools (e.g.,
carpet knives). (Note. This list of uses is illustrative and provided for descriptive
purposes only.) This steel is similar to AISI grade 420 but containing, by weight, 0.5 to
0.7 percent of molybdenum. The steel also contains, by weight, carbon of between 1.0
and 1.1 percent, sulfur of 0.020 percent or less, and includes between 0.20 and 0.30
percent copper and between 0.20 and 0.50 percent cobalt. This steel is sold under
proprietary names such as “GIN4 Mo.”4
(B) The second excluded stainless steel strip in coils is similar to AISI 420-J2 and
contains, by weight, carbon of between 0.62 and 0.70 percent, silicon of between 0.20
and 0.50 percent, manganese of between 0.45 and 0.80 percent, phosphorus of no more
than 0.025 percent, and sulfur of no more than 0.020 percent. This steel has a carbide
density on average of 100 carbide particles per 100 square microns. An example of this
product is “GIN5" steel.4
(C) The third specialty steel has a chemical composition by weight that is similar to
AISI 420 F, with carbon of between 0.37 and 0.43 percent, molybdenum of between
1.15 and 1.35 percent, but lower manganese of between 0.20 and 0.80 percent,
phosphorus of no more than 0.025 percent, silicon of between 0.20 and 0.50 percent,
and sulfur of no more than 0.020 percent. This product is supplied with a hardness of
more than Hv 500 guaranteed after customer processing, and is supplied as, for example,
“GIN6.”4

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In addition, Commerce revoked in part the antidumping duty orders with respect to imports
of the following products:
(A). Specialty magnet stainless steel strip product from Germany known as SemiVac
90 (see 66 FR 50173, October 20, 2001). The revoked product is a permanent magnet
iron-chromium-cobalt stainless steel strip containing, by weight, 13 percent chromium,
6 percent cobalt, 71percent iron, 6 percent nickel and 4 percent molybdenum. The
product is supplied in widths up to 1.27 cm (12.7 mm), inclusive, with a thickness
between 45 and 75 microns, inclusive. This product exhibits magnetic remanence
between 400 and 780 nWb, and coercivity of between 60 and 100 oersteds. This product
is currently supplied under the trade name ‘‘SemiVac 90.”
(B). Stainless steel welding electrode strips from Japan that are manufactured in
accordance with American Welding Society (AWS) specification ANSI/AWS A5.9-93
(see 65 FR 17856, April 5, 2000,). The revoked products are stainless steel welding

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“GIN4 Mo,” “GIN5,” and “GIN6"' are the proprietary grades of Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

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electrode strips that are manufactured in accordance with American Welding Society
(AWS) specification ANSI/AWS A5.9–93. The products are 0.5 mm in thickness,
60mm in width, and in coils of approximately 60 pounds each. The products are limited
to the following AWS grade classifications: ER 308L, ER309L, ER 316L and ER 347,
and a modified ER 309L or 309LCb which meets the following chemical composition
limits (by weight): carbon—0.03% maximum; chromium -20.0–22.0%; nickel 10.0–12.0%; molybdenum - 0.75% maximum; manganese -1.0–2.5%; silicon - 0.65%
maximum; phosphorus - 0.03% maximum; sulfur - 0.03% maximum; copper - 0.75%
maximum; columbium - 8 times the carbon level minimum -1.0% maximum.
(C). Certain stainless steel used for razor blades, medical surgical blades, and industrial
blades from Japan that are sold under proprietary names such as DSRIK7, DSRIKA,
and DSRIK9 (see FR 65 54841, September 11, 2000). The revoked products are
specialty products with a thickness of 0.15 mm to 1.000 mm, or 0.006 inches to 0.040
inches, and a width of 6 mm to 50 mm, or 0.250 inches to 2.000 inches. The edge of the
products are slit, and the finish is bright. The steel contains the following chemical
composition by weight: carbon 0.65% to 1.00%, silicon 1.00% maximum, manganese
1.00% maximum, phosphorus 0.35% maximum, sulfur 0.25% maximum, nickel 0.35%
maximum, chromium 0.15% maximum, and molybdenum 0.30% maximum.
(D). Certain stainless steel lithographic sheet from Japan that is made of 304-grade
stainless steel (see 65 FR 64423, October 27, 2000). The revoked sheet is made of
304-grade stainless steel and must satisfy each of the following fifteen specifications.
The sheet must (1) have an ultimate tensile strength of minimum 75 KSI; (2) a yield
strength of minimum 30 KSI; (3) a minimum elongation of 40 percent; (4) a coil weight
of 4000-6000 lbs.; (5) a width tolerance of -0/+0.0625 inch; and (6) a gauge tolerance
of +/-0.001 inch. With regard to flatness, (7) the wave height and wave length
dimensions must correspond to both edge wave and center buckle conditions; (8) the
maximum wave height shall not exceed 0.75 percent of the wave length or 3 mm (0.118
inch), whichever is less; and (9) the wave length shall not be less than 100 mm (3.937
inch). With regard to the surface, (10) the surface roughness must be RMS (RA) 4-8; (11)
the surface must be degreased and no oil will be applied during the slitting operation;
(12) the surface finish shall be free from all visual cosmetic surface variations or stains
in spot or streak form that affect the performance of the material; (13) no annealing
border is acceptable; (14) the surface finish shall be free from all defects in raised or
depression nature (e.g., scratches, gouges, pimples, dimples, etc.) exceeding 15 microns
in size and with regard to dimensions; and (15) the thickness will be .0145+/-.001 and
the widths will be either 38", 38.25", or 43.5" and the thickness for 39" material will
be .0118 +/-.001 inches.
(E). Certain nickel clad stainless steel sheet from Japan (see 65 FR 77578, December 12, 2000).
The revoked nickel clad stainless steel sheet must satisfy each of the following specifications. The
sheet must: (1) Have a maximum coil weight of 1000 pounds; (2) with a coil interior diameter of
458 mm to 540 mm; (3) with a thickness of .33 mm and a width of 699.4 mm; (4) fabricated in
three layers with a middle layer of grade 316L or UNS 531603 sheet and strip sandwiched between
the two layers of nickel cladding, using a roll bonding process to apply the nickel coating to each
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side of the stainless steel, each nickel coating being not less than 99 percent nickel and a minimum
0.038 mm in thickness. The resultant nickel clad stainless steel sheet and strip also must meet the
following additional chemical composition requirement (by weight): The first layer weight is 14%,
specification Ni201 or N02201, carbon 0.009, sulfur 0.001, nickel 99.97, molybdenum 0.001, iron
0.01, and copper 0.001 for a combined total of 99.992. The second layer weight is 72%,
specification 316L or UNS 513603, carbon 0.02, silicon 0.87, manganese 1.07, phosphorus 0.033,
sulfur 0.001, nickel 12.08, chromium 17.81, molybdenum 2.26, and iron 65.856 for a combined
total of 100. The third layer is 14%, specification Ni201 or N02201, carbon 0.01, sulfur 0.001,
nickel 99.97, molybdenum 0.001, iron 0.01, and copper 0.001 for a combined total of 99.993. The
weighted average weight is 100%. The following is the weighted average composition, by weight:
carbon 0.01706, silicon 0.6264, manganese 0.7704, phosphorus 0.02376, sulfur 0.001, nickel
36.6892, chromium 12.8232, molybdenum 1.62748, iron 47.41912, and copper 0.00028. The
above-described material sold as grade 316L and manufactured in accordance with UNS
specification 531603. This material is reported under statistical reporting number 7219.90.0020
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.

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