The Department did not receive any comments with respect to its preliminary calculation of expected
NME wages published in the Federal Register notice, Expected Non-Market Economy Wages: Request for
Comments on 2006 Calculation, 72 FR 949, January 9, 2007.
The Department is therefore adopting its preliminary calculation without any changes. These expected
NME wages based on 2004 GNI will be used by the Department in all segments of all NME proceedings for
which the final determination is due on or after February 16, 2007.
In accordance with the Federal Register notice Antidumping Methodologies: Market Economy Inputs,
Expected Non-Market Economy Wages, Duty Drawback; and Request for Comments, 71 FR 61716, Oct 19, 2006,
(hereafter, the “Antidumping Methodologies notice”), the Department intends to publish its next annual
expected NME wage rates, which will be based on 2005 GNI, on its website in the autumn of 2007,
together with a notice in the Federal Register requesting comment with regard to potential clerical
errors. The Department intends to finalize its calculations based on 2005 GNI within one month
thereafter. The revised expected NME wage rates based on 2005 GNI will be used in all segments of
all NME proceedings for which the deadline for submission of surrogate values is on or after the date
of publication of the finalized expected NME wage rates based on 2005 GNI.
The Department's methodology is described in full in the Antidumping Methodologies notice.
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