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 Proc. 7529 Title 3--The President under section 202(b) regarding whether (i) carbon and alloy tin mill prod- ucts ("tin mill products") and (i) stainless steel wire. 3. The ITC provided detailed definitions of the products included in cat- egories (a) through (i) of paragraph 2, and their corresponding subheadings, under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) in Ap- pendix A to its determination, set out at 66 Fed. Reg. 67304, 67308-67311 (December 28, 2001). By February 4, 2002, the ITC provided additional in- formation in response to a request by the United States Trade Representa- tive (USTR) under section 203(a)(5) of the Trade Act (19 U.S. 2253(a)(5)) (the "supplemental report"). 4. Section 330(d)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1330(d)(1)), provides that, when the ITC is required to determine under section 202(b) of the Trade Act whether increased imports of an article are a substantial cause of serious iniury, or the threat thereof, and the commis- sioners voting are equally divided with respect to such determination, then the determination agreed upon by either group of commissioners may be considered by the President as the determination of the ITC. Having con- sidered the determinations of the commissioners with regard to tin mill products and stainless steel wire, I have decided to consider the determina- tions of the groups of commissioners voting in the affirmative with regard to each of these products to be the determination of the ITC. 5. Pursuant to section 3\177(a) of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (the "NAFTA Implementation Act") (\1779 U.S.C. 3371(a)), the ITC made findings as to whether imports from Canada and Mexico, considered individually, account for a substantial share of total im- ports and contribute importantly to the serious iniury, or threat thereof, caused by imports. The ITC made negative findings with respect to imports from Canada of certain fiat steel, tin mill products, rebar, stainless steel rod, and stainless steel wire; and the ITC also made negative findings with respect to imports from Mexico of tin mill products, hot-rolled bar, cold- finished bar, rebar, certain tubular products, stainless steel bar, stainless steel rod, and stainless steel wire. The ITC made affirmative findings with respect to imports from Canada of hot-rolled bar, cold-finished bar, carbon and alloy fittings, and stainless steel bar; and the ITC also made affirmative findings with respect to imports from Mexico of certain fiat steel, and car- bon and alloy steel fittings. The ITC commissioners were equally divided with respect to imports from Canada of certain tubular products. 6. The ITC commissioners voting in the affirmative under section 202(b) of the Trade Act also transmitted to the President their recommendations made pursuant to section 202(e) of the Trade Act (\1779 U.S.C. 2252(e)) with respect to the actions that, in their view, would address the serious iniury, or threat thereof, to the domestic industries and be most effective in facili- tating the efforts of those industries to make a positive adiustment to im- port competition. 7. Pursuant to section 203 of the Trade Act (19 U.S.C. 2253), and after tak- ing into account the considerations specified in section 203(a)(2) of the Trade Act and the ITC supplemental report, I have determined to imple- ment action of a type described in section 203(a)(3) (a "safeguard meas- ure") with regard to the following steel products: (a) certain fiat steel, consisting of: slabs provided for in the superior text to subheadings 9903.72.30 through 9903.72.48 in the Annex to this procla- 16

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