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issuance of an order.’’ Section 782(h)(2)

of the Act. See, e.g., Certain Cold-Rolled

Carbon Steel Flat Products From the

Netherlands: Initiation and Preliminary

Results of Changed Circumstances

Review, 66 FR 57415, 57416 (November

15, 2001). Section 751(b)(1) of the Act

requires a changed circumstances

review to be conducted upon receipt of

a request which shows changed

circumstances sufficient to warrant a

review. Section 351.222(g) of the

Department’s regulations provides that

the Department will conduct a changed

circumstances administrative review

under 19 CFR 351.216, and may revoke

an order (in whole or in part), if it

determines that producers accounting

for substantially all of the production of

the domestic like product to which the

order pertains have expressed a lack of

interest in the relief provided by the

order, in whole or in part, or if other

changed circumstances sufficient to

warrant revocation exist. In addition, in

the event that the Department concludes

that expedited action is warranted, 19

CFR 351.221(c)(3)(ii) permits the

Department to combine the notices of

initiation and preliminary results.

In accordance with sections 751(d)(1)

and 782(h)(2) of the Act, and 19 CFR

351.216 and 351.222(g), based on

affirmative statements by domestic

producers of the like product,

Bethlehem Steel Corporation; LTV Steel

Company, Inc.; National Steel

Corporation; and U.S. Steel Group LLC

(‘‘Domestic Producers’’), no further

interest exists in continuing the order

with respect to certain corrosionresistant carbon steel flat products

meeting the following specifications:

carbon steel coil or strip, measuring a

minimum of and including 1.10mm to

a maximum of and including 4.90mm in

overall thickness, a minimum of and

including 76.00mm to a maximum of

and including 250.00mm in overall

width, with a low carbon steel back

comprised of: carbon under 0.10%,

manganese under 0.40%, phosphorous

under 0.04%, sulfur under 0.05%, and

silicon under 0.05%; clad with

aluminum alloy comprised of: under

2.51% copper, under 15.10% tin, and

remainder aluminum as listed on the

mill specification sheet. See Domestic

Producers’ November 29, 2001 letter to

the Department. Therefore, we are

initiating this changed circumstances

administrative review.

Furthermore, because domestic

producers have expressed a lack of

interest, we determine that expedited

action is warranted, and we

preliminarily determine that continued

application of the order with respect to

certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel

flat products falling within the

description above is no longer of

interest to domestic interested parties.

Because we have concluded that

expedited action is warranted, we are

combining these notices of initiation

and preliminary results. Therefore, we

are hereby notifying the public of our

intent to revoke in part the antidumping

duty order with respect to imports of

certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel

flat products meeting the abovementioned specifications from Japan.

If the final revocation in part occurs,

we intend to instruct the U.S. Customs

Service (‘‘Customs’’) to liquidate

without regard to antidumping duties,

as applicable, and to refund any

estimated antidumping duties collected

for all unliquidated entries of certain

corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat

products meeting the specifications

indicated above, not subject to final

results of administrative review as of the

date of publication in the Federal

Register of the final results of this

changed circumstances review in

accordance with 19 CFR 351.222. We

will also instruct Customs to pay

interest on such refunds in accordance

with section 778 of the Act. The current

requirement for a cash deposit of

estimated antidumping duties on certain

corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat

products meeting the above

specifications will continue unless and

until we publish a final determination

to revoke in part.

Public Comment

Interested parties are invited to

comment on these preliminary results.

Parties who submit argument in this

proceeding are requested to submit with

the argument (1) a statement of the

issue, and (2) a brief summary of the

argument. Parties to the proceedings

may request a hearing within 14 days of

publication. Any hearing, if requested,

will be held no later than two days after

the deadline for the submission of

rebuttal briefs, or the first workday

thereafter. Case briefs may be submitted

by interested parties not later than 14

days after the date of publication of this

notice. Rebuttal briefs and rebuttals to

written comments, limited to the issues

raised in those comments, may be filed

not later than five days after the

deadline for submission of case briefs.

All written comments shall be

submitted in accordance with 19 CFR

351.303 and shall be served on all

interested parties on the Department’s

service list in accordance with 19 CFR

351.303. Persons interested in attending

the hearing should contact the

Department for the date and time of the

hearing.

This notice is published in

accordance with section 751(b)(1) of the

Act and 19 CFR 351.216 and 351.222.

Dated: December 20, 2001.

Faryar Shirzad,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–868]

Notice of Postponement of Final

Antidumping Duty Determination:

Folding Metal Tables and Chairs From

the People’s Republic of China

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 31, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Helen Kramer or John Drury at (202)

482–0405 and (202) 482–0195,

respectively, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230.

Background

This investigation was initiated on

May 17, 2001. See Initiation of

Antidumping Duty Investigation:

Folding Metal Tables and Chairs from

the People’s Republic of China, 66 FR

28728 (May 24, 2001). The period of

investigation (POI) is October 1, 2000

through March 31, 2001. On December

3, 2001, the Department published its

preliminary determination. See Notice

of Preliminary Determination of Sales at

Less Than Fair Value: Folding Metal

Tables and Chairs from the People’s

Republic of China, 66 FR 60185.

Postponement of Final Determination

and Extension of Provisional Measures

Section 735(a)(2) of the Act provides

that a final determination may be

postponed until not later than 135 days

after the date of the publication of the

preliminary determination if, in the

event of an affirmative determination, a

request for such postponement is made

by exporters who account for a

significant proportion of exports of the

subject merchandise, or in the event of

a negative preliminary determination, a

request for such postponement is made

by the petitioner. On December 3, 2001,

the petitioner, Meco Corporation,

requested a 60-day postponement of the

final determination to allow sufficient

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time for the Department to conduct its

verifications, issue verification reports,

and establish a briefing and hearing

schedule that would allow the

petitioner a full opportunity to review

and comment on the issues in this

investigation. On December 5, 2001,

respondent Feili Furniture Development

Co., Ltd. and Feili (Fujian) Co., Ltd.

(‘‘Feili Group’’) asked the Department to

reject petitioner’s request on the

grounds that the preliminary

determination was affirmative. On

December 10, 2001, respondent Shin

Crest Pte. Ltd. (‘‘Shin Crest’’) requested

that the Department postpone the final

determination and extend the period

that the provisional measures may

remain in effect from four months to not

more than six months.

In accordance with section

735(a)(2)(A) and 19 CFR

351.210(b)(2)(ii), because (1) our

preliminary determination is

affirmative, (2) Shin Crest accounts for

a significant proportion of exports of the

subject merchandise, and (3) no

compelling reasons for denial exist, we

are granting the postponement request

and are postponing the final

determination until no later than 135

days after the publication of the

preliminary determination in the

Federal Register. We are also extending

the provisional measures, from four

months to six months, in accordance

with 19 CFR 351.210(e)(2). Therefore,

the final determination would now be

due on April 17, 2002. Suspension of

liquidation will be extended

accordingly.

This notice is published in

accordance with section 735(a)(2) of the

Act.

Dated: December 20, 2001.

Faryar Shirzad,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–337–806]

Notice of Preliminary Determination of

Sales at Less Than Fair Value and

Postponement of Final Determination:

IQF Red Raspberries From Chile

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of preliminary

determination of sales at less than fair

value and postponement of final

determination.

SUMMARY: We preliminarily determine

that individually quick frozen (‘‘IQF’’)

red raspberries from Chile are being, or

are likely to be, sold in the United States

at less than fair value, as provided in

section 733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930,

as amended. The estimated dumping

margins are shown in the ‘‘Suspension

of Liquidation’’ section of this notice.

Interested parties are invited to

comment on this preliminary

determination (see the ‘‘Public

Comment’’ section of this notice).

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 31, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Annika O’Hara, Cole Kyle, or Blanche

Ziv, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)

482–3798, (202) 482–1503, or (202) 482–

4207, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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. In addition, unless

otherwise indicated, all citations to the

Department of Commerce’s (‘‘the

Department’’) regulations are to 19 CFR

Part 351 (April 2001).

Background

Since the initiation of this

investigation (see Initiation of

Antidumping Duty Investigation: IQF

Red Raspberries from Chile, 66 FR

34407 (June 28, 2001) (‘‘Initiation

Notice’’)), the following events have

occurred:

On July 9 and 10, 2001, we solicited

comments from interested parties

regarding the criteria to be used for

model-matching purposes. Interested

parties filed comments from July 18,

2001 through August 3, 2001.

On July 16, 2001, the United States

International Trade Commission (‘‘ITC’’)

preliminarily determined that there is a

reasonable indication that imports of

IQF red raspberries from Chile are

materially injuring the United States

industry (66 FR 38740 (July 25, 2001)).

On July 19, 2001, we selected the

three largest producers/exporters of IQF

red raspberries from Chile as the

mandatory respondents in this

proceeding. See Memorandum to Susan

Kuhbach from Annika O’Hara entitled

‘‘Respondent Selection’’ which is on file

in the Central Records Unit (‘‘CRU’’) in

room B–099 of the main Department

building.

We issued antidumping

questionnaires to Comercial Fruticola

(‘‘Comfrut’’), Exportadora Frucol

(‘‘Frucol’’), and Fruticola Olmue

(‘‘Olmue’’) on August 3, 2001. We

received responses to Section A of the

questionnaire on August 31, 2001 and

responses to Sections B, C, and D on

September 25, 2001. We issued

supplemental questionnaires between

October 16 and November 30, 2001, to

which we received responses in

November and December 2001. We

received comments from the petitioners

on each of the respondents’

questionnaire responses. Subsequently,

we received comments from the

respondents on the petitioners’

comments concerning the respondents’

questionnaire responses.

On October 12, 2001, the petitioners

made a timely request to postpone the

preliminary determination pursuant to

19 CFR 351.205(e). On October 18, 2001,

we postponed the preliminary

determination until no later than

December 12, 2001. See Notice of

Postponement of Preliminary

Antidumping Duty Determination: IQF

Red Raspberries from Chile, 66 FR

53775 (October 24, 2001).

On December 12, 2001, the

Department further postponed the

preliminary determination in this

investigation pursuant to section

351.205(b)(2) of the regulations and

section 733 (c)(1)(B)(i)(II) of the Act due

to several novel costs issues involved in

this investigation. See Notice of

Postponement of Preliminary

Antidumping Duty Determination: IQF

Red Raspberries from Chile, 66 FR

65177 (December 18, 2001).

Postponement of Final Determination

and Extension of Provisional Measures

Pursuant to section 735(a)(2)(A) of the

Act, on December 12, 2001, Comfrut,

Frucol, and Olmue, requested that, in

the event of an affirmative preliminary

determination in this investigation, the

Department postpone its final

determination until not later than 135

days after the date of the publication of

the preliminary determination in the

Federal Register, and extend the

provisional measures to not more than

six months. In accordance with 19 CFR

351.210(b)(2)(ii), because (1) our

preliminary determination is

affirmative, (2) Comfrut, Frucol, and

Olmue account for a significant

proportion of exports of the subject

merchandise, and (3) no compelling

reasons for denial exist, we are granting

the respondents’ request and are