MESSAGE NO: 1225112 DATE: 8/13/1991

CATEGORY: CVD TYPE: ADM

REFERENCE: REFERENCE DATE:

CASES: C-201-001

PERIOD COVERED: 01/01/1988 TO 12/31/1989

LIQ SUSPENSION DATE:

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

FROM: DIRECTOR, TRADE COMPLIANCE DIVISION

RE: COUNTERVAILING DUTIES-LEATHER WEARING APPAREL-, FROM MEXICO
(C-201-001)

1\. The Department of Commerce published in the Federal Register

on June 4, 1991 the final results of its administrative

reviews of the countervailing duty order on leather wearing

apparel from Mexico. The review covers the period January 1,

1988 through December 31, 1988 and January 1, 1989 through

December 31, 1989.

2\. Imports covered by the reviews are shipments of Mexican

leather wearing apparel. These products include leather

coats and jackets for men, boys, women, girls and infants,

and other leather wearing apparel products including leather

vests, pants and shorts. Also included are outer leather

shells and parts and pieces of leather wearing apparel.

Throughout 1988, such merchandise was classifiable under

Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated (TSUSA) item

numbers 791.7620, 791.7640, and 791.7660. During the 1989

review period these products were classifiable under item

numbers 4203.10.4030, 4203.10.4060 and 4203.10.4090 of the

Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS).

3\. The net subsidy was found to be de minimis for the period

January 1, 1988 through December 31, 1988, and de minimis for

the period January 1, 1989 through December 31, 1989.

ACTION

4\. Accordingly, you are to liquidate entries without regard to

countervailing duties shipments of Mexican leather wearing

apparel exported on or after January 1, 1989 through December

31, 1989.

INTEREST INFORMATION

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

rate shall be calculated at that rate from the date of

payment of estimated duties through the date of liquidation.

6\. The suspension of liquidation ordered for this merchandise

exported on or before December 31, 1989 is lifted.

Suspension of liquidation for entries of this merchandise

exported by any company other than Manufacturas Industriales

de Nogales (MINSA) on or after January 1, 1990 will continue.

With regard to MINSA, we are revoking the countervailing duty

order and, therefore, terminating the suspension of

liquidation requirement as of January 1, 1990.

7\. Customs officers shall waive cash deposits of estimated

countervailing duties on all shipments of this merchandise

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or

after June 4, 1991. This cash deposit waiver will remain in

effect until 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 the Import Specialist Division,

Other Agency Branch FTS-566-8651, or by E-MAIL to 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.

8\. There are no restrictions on the release of this information.

Nancy McTiernan