MESSAGE NO: 2329112 DATE: 11 25 1991
CATEGORY: CVD TYPE: ADL
REFERENCE: REFERENCE DATE:
CASES: C - 557 - 701 - -
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PERIOD COVERED: 04 22 1988 TO 12 31 1989

LIQ SUSPENSION DATE:

TO: REGIONAL DIRECTORS, COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS
DISTRICT DIRECTORS, AREA AND PORT DIRECTORS

FROM: DIRECTOR, TRADE COMPLIANCE DIVISION

RE: NON ADMINISTATIVE REVIEW LIQUIDATION INSTRUCTIONS



1. The Department of Commerce published in the Federal Register
of August 22, 1991 the final results of its administrative
reviews of the countervailing duty order on carbon steel wire
rod from Malaysia. The reviews cover the periods April 22,
1988 through December 31, 1988 and January 1, 1989 through
December 31, 1989.

2. Imports covered by the reviews are shipments of carbon
steel wire rod from Malaysia, a coiled, semi-finished, hot
rolled carbon steel product of approximately round solid
cross-section, not under 0.20 inch in diameter, not over 0.74
inch in diameter, tempered or not tempered, treated or not
treated, not manufactured or partly manufactured.

Through 1988, such merchandise was classifiable under item
numbers 607.1400, 607.1710, 607.1720, 607.1730, 607.2200, and
607.2300 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States
Annotated. These products are currently classifiable under
item numbers 7213.20.00, 7213.31.00, 7213.31.60, 7213.39.00,
7213.41.30, 7213.41.60, 7213.49.00, and 7213.50.00 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule.

3. The total bounty or grant was found to be 0.03 percent ad
valorem for the period April 22, 1988 through
December 31, 1988, and 0.41 percent ad valorem for the period
January 1, 1989 through December 31, 1989. According to 19
CFR 355.7, these rates are de minimis.

LIQUIDATION INSTRUCTIONS:

4. Accordingly, you are to liquidate without regard to
countervailing duties all shipments of this merchandise
entered or withdrawn from warehouse on or after April 22,
1988 and on or before December 31, 1989 (ID No.
C-557-701-000).
5. The provisions of section 778 of the Tariff Act require that
interest be paid on overpayments or underpayments of amounts
deposited as estimated countervailing duties. Such interest
is payable at the rate in effect under section 6621 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for such period. The interest
shall be calculated at that rate from the date of payments
of estimated duties through the date of liquidation.

6. The suspension of liquidation ordered for this merchandise
entered or withdrawn from warehouse on or after
April 22, 1988 and entered or withdrawn from warehouse on or
before December 31, 1989 is lifted. Suspension of
liquidation for all entries of this merchandise entered on or
after January 1, 1990 will continue.

7. Customs officers shall waive collection of a cash deposit of
estimated countervailing duties on all shipments of this
merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
consumption on or after August 22, 1991. This deposit waiver
will remain in effect until publication of the final results
of the next administrative review of the countervailing duty
order on this merchandise.

8. If there are any questions regarding this matter by Customs
officers, please contact Via E-Mail, through the Regional
Antidumping\Countervailing Duty Coordinator, the Trade
Compliance Division, Antidumping\Countervailing Duty Branch,
using attribute "HQ OAB". The importing public and other
interested parties should contact the Office of
Countervailing Compliance, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce,
(202) 377-2786.

9. There are no restrictions on the release of this information.


Nancy McTiernan