Handel międzynarodowy · 15.12.2003

Sanction for Breach of Commission Administrative Protective Order

Notice is hereby given of the sanction imposed by the Commission for a breach of the administrative protective order ("APO") issued in Hot Rolled Steel Products from Argentina, China, Indonesia, Kazakstan, the Netherlands, Romania, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and Ukraine (Hot Rolled Steel Products), Inv. Nos. 701-TA- 404-408 and 731-TA-898-908 (Final). The Commission determined that attorney Bruce Aitken breached the APO in the Hot Rolled Steel Products investigations by failing to provide adequate supervision over another attorney who had little experience in the bracketing of business proprietary information ("BPI") and who prepared a public version of a brief containing BPI and served the brief on other parties to the investigations, some of whom were not signatories to the APO. This public reprimand is being issued because the aforementioned breach is the fourth breach for Mr. Aitken occurring within a three-year, one- month period. On November 14, 2001, the Commission had previously publicly reprimanded Mr. Aitken for the second and third of the four breaches. 66 FR 57110 (November 14, 2001).