32426 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 122 / Monday, June 24, 1996 / Notices

Statistical Service, United States

Department of Agriculture announced

in a May 10, 1996, Crop Production

Report the relevant average prices for

each type of tobacco. The penalty rates

are determined on the basis of this

information.

The national marketing quota for

Puerto Rico (type 46) tobacco has been

zero since 1989. Therefore, the penalty

rate for Puerto Rico (type 46) tobacco for

the 1996–1997 marketing year shall be

the same as the penalty rate determined

for the 1989–1990 marketing year, the

last year that marketing information was

available.

Since the determination of the 1996–

1997 marketing year rates of penalty

reflect only mathematical computations

which are required to be made in

accordance with a statutory formula, it

has been determined that no further

public rulemaking is required.

Determination

Accordingly, it is determined the

1996–1997 marketing year rates of

penalty for kinds of tobacco subject to

marketing quotas are as follows:

RATE OF PENALTY

[1996–1997 Marketing Year]

Kinds of tobacco Cents per

pound

Flue-Cured .................................. 134

Burley .......................................... 139

Fire-Cured (Type 21) .................. 122

Fired-Cured (Types 22 and 23) 163

Dark Air-Cured (Types 35 and

36) ........................................... 132

Virginia Sun-Cured (Type 37) ..... 115

Cigar Filler and Binder (Types

42, 43, 44, 54, and 55) ........... 109

Puerto Rico Cigar-Filler (Type

46) ........................................... 57

Signed at Washington, DC, on June 17,

1996.

Bruce R. Weber,

Administrator, Farm Service Agency.

[FR Doc. 96–16035 Filed 6–21–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P

ARCHITECTURAL AND

TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS

COMPLIANCE BOARD

Meeting

AGENCY: Architectural and

Transportation Barriers Compliance

Board.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Architectural and

Transportation Barriers Compliance

Board (Access Board) has scheduled its

regular business meetings to take place

in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, and

Wednesday, July 9–10, 1996 at the times

and location noted below.

DATES: The schedule of events is as

follows:

Tuesday, July 9, 1996

9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.—Ad Hoc

Committee on Bylaws and Statutory

Review

11:00 a.m.–Noon—Planning and

Budget Committee

Wednesday, July 10, 1996

9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.—Technical

Programs Committee

10:00 a.m.–Noon—Executive

Committee

1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.—Board Meeting

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held

at: Marriott at Metro Center, 775 12th

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

further information regarding the

meetings, please contact Lawrence W.

Roffee, Executive Director, (202) 272–

5434 ext. 14 (voice) and (202) 272–5449

(TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: At the

Board meeting, the Access Board will

consider the following agenda items:

• Approval of the Minutes of the May

15 Board Meeting

• ADAAG Review Advisory

Committee Report

• Fiscal Year 1998 Program Goals

All meetings are accessible to persons

with disabilities. Sign language

interpreters and an assistive listening

system are available at all meetings.

Lawrence W. Roffee,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 96–16044 Filed 6–21–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8150–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–580–008]

Color Television Receivers From the

Republic of Korea: Initiation of

Changed Circumstances Antidumping

Duty Administrative Review and

Consideration of Revocation of Order

(in Part)

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of initiation of changed

circumstances antidumping duty

administrative review and consideration

of revocation of order (in Part).

SUMMARY: In response to a request made

on July 20, 1995, by Samsung

Electronics Co., Ltd. (Samsung), the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) is initiating a changed

circumstances antidumping duty

administrative review to consider

Samsung’s request to revoke the

antidumping duty order on color

television receivers (CTVs) from Korea

(49 FR 18336, April 30, 1984) as it

relates to Samsung.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 24, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Genovese or Joseph Hanley,

Office of Antidumping Compliance,

Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone

(202) 482–4697/3058.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On July 20, 1995, Samsung requested

that the Department conduct a changed

circumstances review and revoke the

order as to Samsung after completion of

the review. Zenith Electronics

Corporation, a domestic interested

party, and petitioners filed objections to

Samsung’s request on August 4, 1995,

and August 11, 1995, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended (the Act), are references to the

provisions effective January 1, 1995, the

effective date of the amendments made

to the Act by the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (URAA). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department’s regulations are to

the current regulations, as amended by

the interim regulations published in the

Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60

FR 25130).

Scope of Review

Imports covered by the antidumping

duty order include CTVs, complete and

incomplete, from the Republic of Korea.

This merchandise is currently

classifiable under item numbers

8528.10.80, 8529.90.15, 8529.90.20, and

8540.11.00 of the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule (HTS). Since the order covers

all CTVs regardless of HTS

classification, the HTS subheadings are

provided for convenience and for U.S.

Customs Service purposes. Our written

description of the scope of the order

remains dispositive.
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 122 / Monday, June 24, 1996 / Notices 32427

Initiation of Changed Circumstances

Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review

Pursuant to section 751(d) of the Act,

the Department may partially revoke an

antidumping duty order based on a

review under section 751(b) of the Act

(i.e., a changed circumstances review).

Section 751(b)(1) of the Act requires the

Department to conduct a changed

circumstances administrative review

upon receipt of a request containing

information concerning changed

circumstances sufficient to warrant a

review.

The Department’s regulations at 19

C.F.R. 353.25(d) permit the Department

to conduct a changed circumstances

administrative review under 19 C.F.R.

353.22(f) provided that the Department

concludes from the available

information, including information in a

request for a changed circumstances

review, that changed circumstances

sufficient to warrant a review exists.

In its July 20, 1995 request for a

changed circumstances review and

partial revocation of the antidumping

duty order, Samsung noted: 1) the

decision of the Court of Appeals for the

Federal Circuit in Daewoo Electronics

Co., Ltd., et al. v. United States, 6 F.3d

1511 (Fed. Cir. 1993), cert. denied, 114

S. Ct. 2672 (1994), which Samsung

claims made it possible for the first time

for it to contemplate the possibility of

de minimis margins for three or more

consecutive review periods; 2) that as a

direct result of that decision, Samsung

has now established that it has not been

dumping CTVs in the United States for

six consecutive years; and 3) that it has

not shipped CTVs to the U.S. since

1991.

We have determined that the unique

circumstances presented by Samsung in

this proceeding constitute changed

circumstances sufficient to warrant a

review under section 751(b) of the Act

and 19 CFR 353.22(f) of the

Department’s regulations. Specifically,

the statute, the Department’s regulations

and our international obligations

anticipate that a methodology exist

whereby parties that have demonstrated

a history of not selling at less than

normal value and have established that

it is not likely that they will, in the

future, sell at less than normal value

may obtain a partial revocation of the

order. Normally, the methodology

established by section 353.25 (a) and (b)

is adequate to accomplish that purpose;

however, the combination of the timing

of certain court decisions, the timing of

certain results of administrative review

in this proceeding, and the coincidence

of these events with the company’s

decision to stop shipping from Korea

may have prevented the regulation from

operating as intended with respect to

Samsung. Therefore, in accordance with

section 751(b) of the Act and 19 CFR

353.22(f) of the Department’s

regulations, we are initiating this

changed circumstances administrative

review in order to determine whether a

partial revocation of the order would be

appropriate as to Samsung.

On January 19, 1996, we initiated an

anti-circumvention inquiry to determine

whether Samsung is circumventing the

antidumping duty order by completing

or assembling CTVs in Mexico and

Thailand for exportation to the United

States. We will be conducting this

changed circumstances review

concurrently with the anticircumvention inquiry, and we will

consider the relevance of our findings in

the anti-circumvention inquiry to this

changed circumstances review.

This notice is in accordance with

section 751(b)(1) of the Act and sections

353.22(f) and 353.25(d) of the

Department’s regulations.

Dated: June 11, 1996.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 96–15920 Filed 6–21–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of application.

SUMMARY: The Office of Export Trading

Company Affairs (‘‘OETCA’’),

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce, has received

an application for an Export Trade

Certificate of Review. This notice

summarizes the conduct for which

certification is sought and requests

comments relevant to whether the

Certificate should be issued.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: W.

Dawn Busby, Director, Office of Export

Trading Company Affairs, International

Trade Administration, (202) 482–5131.

This is not a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of

the Export Trading Company Act of

1982 (15 U.S.C. 4001–21) authorizes the

Secretary of Commerce to issue Export

Trade Certificates of Review. A

Certificate of Review protects the holder

and the members identified in the

Certificate from state and federal

government antitrust actions and from

private, treble damage antitrust actions

for the export conduct specified in the

Certificate and carried out in

compliance with its terms and

conditions. Section 302(b)(1) of the Act

and 15 CFR 325.6(a) require the

Secretary to publish a notice in the

Federal Register identifying the

applicant and summarizing its proposed

export conduct.

Request for Public Comments

Interested parties may submit written

comments relevant to the determination

of whether a Certificate should be

issued. An original and five (5) copies

should be submitted no later than 20

days after the date of this notice to:

Office of Export Trading Company

Affairs, International Trade

Administration, Department of

Commerce, Room 1800H, Washington,

D.C. 20230. Information submitted by

any person is exempt from disclosure

under the Freedom of Information Act

(5 U.S.C. 552). Comments should refer

to this application as ‘‘Export Trade

Certificate of Review, application

number 96–00004.’’ A summary of the

application follows.

Summary of the Application

Applicant: The Foreign Market Search

for U.S. Products and Services, Inc.,

doing business as FMS Exports-Imports,

Inc., P.O. Box 4063, South Bend, IN

46634.

Contact: Mr. David Smith, Owner/

Marketing Director.

Telephone: (219) 234–6920.

Application No.: 96–00004.

Date Deemed Submitted: June 12,

1996.

Members (in addition to applicant):

None.

FMS Exports-Imports, Inc. (‘‘FMS’’)

seeks a Certificate to cover the following

specific Export Trade, Export Markets,

and Export Trade Activities and

Methods of Operations.

Export Trade

1. Products

All products.

2. Services

All services.

3. Technology Rights

Technology rights, including, but not

limited to, patents, trademarks,

copyrights and trade secrets that relate

to Products and Services.

4. Export Trade Facilitation Services (as

they relate to the Export of

Products, Services and Technology

Rights)

Export Trade Facilitation Services

include professional services in the

areas of government relations and

assistance with state and federal

programs; foreign trade and business

protocol; consulting; market research

and analysis; collection of information

on trade opportunities; marketing;