Certain Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products from the Republic of Korea: Notice of Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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In response to requests from petitioners,\1\ the Department of Commerce (the Department) is conducting the thirteenth administrative review of the antidumping order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products (CORE) from Korea. This review covers three manufacturers and exporters (collectively, the respondents) of the subject merchandise: Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd., (Dongbu); Hyundai HYSCO (HYSCO); and Union Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Union). The period of review (POR) is August 1, 2005, through July 31, 2006. We preliminarily determine that during the POR, Dongbu, HYSCO, and Union made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value (NV). In addition, we are preliminary rescinding this review with respect to Pohang Iron & Steel Company, Ltd. (POSCO) and Pohang Coated Steel Co., Ltd. (POCOS) (collectively, the POSCO Group), as a result of petitioners timely withdrawal of its review request. If these preliminary results are adopted in the final results of this administrative review, we will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping duties on all appropriate entries of subject merchandise during the POR. -------------------------------------