[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30413-30414]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14278]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-357-812, A-570-863, C-357-813]


Notice of Postponement of Final Determinations of Sales at Less 
Than Fair Value: Honey From Argentina and the People's Republic of 
China and Postponement of Final Countervailing Duty Determination: 
Honey From Argentina

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 6, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Blackledge (Argentina) at 
(202) 482-3518, Angelica Mendoza (the People's Republic of China (the 
PRC)) at (202) 482-3019, or Charles Rast at (202) 482-1324 and Donna 
Kinsella at (202) 482-0194; Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Enforcement Group III, Office Eight, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Postponement of Final Determination and Extension of Provisional 
Measures

    On February 27, 2001, petitioners requested alignment of the final 
determination in the investigation of countervailable subsidies 
provided to producers and exporters of honey from Argentina with the 
final determination of the antidumping duty investigation of honey from 
the PRC. In accordance with section 705(a)(1) of the Tariff Act, we

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aligned the final determination in that countervailing duty 
investigation with the final determination in the companion antidumping 
investigation of honey from the PRC. See Honey from Argentina: Notice 
of Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and 
Alignment With Final Antidumping Duty Determination on Honey from the 
People's Republic of China, 66 FR 14521 (March 13, 2001).
    On May 11, 2001 the Department published its preliminary 
determinations in the antidumping investigations of honey from 
Argentina and the PRC. See Notice of Preliminary Determination of Sales 
at Less Than Fair Value: Honey from Argentina, 66 FR 24108 (May 11, 
2001) and Notice of Preliminary Determination of Sales at Less Than 
Fair Value: Honey from the People's Republic of China, 66 FR 24101 (May 
11, 2001). The notices stated that the Department would issue its final 
determinations no later than 75 days after the date of issuance of the 
notices.
    Pursuant to section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (the Tariff Act), on May 11, 2001, Asociacion de Cooperativas 
Argentinas (ACA), a respondent in the Argentine investigation, 
requested that the Department postpone its final determination to the 
fullest extent permitted by the statute and the Department's 
regulations. On May 14, 2001, seven exporters of subject merchandise 
from the PRC participating in the investigation made the same 
request.\1\ In addition, the exporters in both investigations also 
consented to an extension of the period for the imposition of 
provisional measures to the fullest extent permitted, or six months, 
whichever is later. In accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the 
Tariff Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b), because (1) the preliminary 
determinations were affirmative; (2) the requesting exporters account 
for a significant proportion of exports of the subject merchandise; and 
(3) no compelling reasons for denial exist, we are granting the 
exporters' request and are postponing the final determinations until no 
later than 135 days after publication of the preliminary determinations 
in the Federal Register. Suspension of liquidation will be extended 
accordingly.
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    \1\ The exporters were Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Native 
Produce and Animal By-Products Import and Export Corporation, 
Shanghai Eswell Enterprise Co., Ltd., High Hope International Group 
Jiangsu Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation, Kunshan Foreign 
Trade Corporation, Zhejiang Native Produce and Animal By-Products 
Import and Export Corporation, Henan Native Produce Import and 
Export Corporation, and Anhui Native Produce Import and Export 
Corporation.
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    This postponement is in accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the 
Tariff Act, and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2).

    Dated: May 29, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-14278 Filed 6-5-01; 8:45 am]
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