[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 196 (Wednesday, October 12, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-25219]
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[Federal Register: October 12, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[C-301-401]
Certain Textile Mill Products From Colombia; Notice of Conversion
AGENCY: International Trade Administration/Import Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Conversion of the Scope of the Suspended
Investigation from the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated
to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
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SUMMARY: On April 15, 1994, the Department of Commerce (the Department)
published in the Federal Register the proposed conversion of the Tariff
Schedules of the United States Annotated (TSUSA) to the Harmonized
Tariff Schedule (HTS) for the suspended countervailing duty
investigation on certain textile mill products from Colombia (59 FR
18101). Interested parties were invited to comment on the proposed
conversion. No comments were received concerning the scope of the
suspended countervailing duty investigation on certain textile mill
products from Colombia; therefore, no changes have been made.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 12, 1994.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda L. Pasden, Office of Agreements
Compliance, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230, telephone (202) 482-0162.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In 1985, the Department suspended the countervailing duty
investigation on certain textile mill products and apparel from
Colombia (C-301-401) (50 FR 9863; March 12, 1985). The scope of the
suspended investigation was originally defined solely in terms of the
TSUSA item numbers; no narrative product description was provided. On
January 1, 1989, the United States fully converted from the TSUSA to
the HTS, pursuant to section 1211 of the Omnibus Trade and
Competitiveness Act of 1988. The suspended investigation was terminated
in 1990, and the HTS conversion was never implemented. However, the
Court of International Trade (CIT) ordered that the suspended
investigation be reinstated (except with regard to apparel from
Colombia) in its decision dated May 7, 1992 (Belton Industries, Inc. v.
United States, slip op. No. 92-64). The CIT ruling was upheld by the
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on September 7, 1993 (Belton
Industries, Inc. v. United States, 6f.3d 756). As a result, the
suspended investigation was reinstated effective May 18, 1992 (see 58
FR 54552, October 22, 1993, and decision memorandum dated February 25,
1994). Therefore, the Department took action to conform the scope of
the investigation with the tariff classification system of the HTS.
The Department, with the assistance of the U.S. Customs Service and
the U.S. International Trade Commission, analyzed the TSUSA-defined
scope and identified those HTS numbers that reasonably correspond with
the TSUSA-defined scope of the subject suspended investigation. On
April 15, 1994, the Department published a proposed conversion (59 FR
18108) and invited interested parties to comment on this proposed
conversion. Because no comments were received, the Department has not
changed the HTS numbers for the scope of the suspended investigation on
certain textile mill products from Colombia from those published in the
proposed conversion. The HTS numbers for this suspended countervailing
duty investigation are found in the attached Appendix.
Dated: October 5, 1994.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
Appendix: HTS List for Certain Textile Mill Products From Colombia
5111.1120 5205.2300 5406.1000.20 6002.2010
5111.1910 5205.2400 5406.1000.40 6002.4300\1\
5111.2005 5205.2500 5406.1000.90 6002.4300.10
5111.2010 5205.3200\2\ 5406.2000 6002.4300.20
5111.3005 5205.3300 5509.2200 6002.4300.80
5111.3010 5205.4400 5509.2200.10 6302.6000
5111.9040 5205.4500 5509.2200.90 6302.6000.10
5111.9050 5206.1100 5509.5160 6302.6000.20
5112.1110 5206.1200 5511.1000 6302.6000.30
5112.1920 5206.1300 5511.1000.30 6302.9100
5112.2010 5206.1400 5511.1000.60 6302.9100.05
5112.2020 5206.1500 5511.2000 6302.9100.15
5112.3010 5206.4100 5511.3000 6302.9100.25
5112.3020 5206.4200 5801.2100 6302.9100.35
5112.9040 5206.4300 5801.2200 6302.9100.45
5112.9050 5206.4400 5804.2100 6302.9100.50
5205.1110 5206.4500 5804.2900 6302.9100.60
5205.1210 5207.1000 5804.2900.10 6306.1100
5205.1310 5207.9000 5804.2900.20 6306.2100
5205.1410 5406.1000 5804.2900.90
\1\Coverage limited to fabrics of polyester.
\2\Coverage limited to yarn exceeding 33nm per single yarn.
[FR Doc. 94-25219 Filed 10-11-94; 8:45 am]
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