96-15097. Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Determinations: Melamine Institutional Dinnerware Products From Indonesia, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC)

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 116 (Friday, June 14, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30219-30220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15097]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-560-801, A-583-825, and A-570-844]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Determinations: Melamine 
Institutional Dinnerware Products From Indonesia, Taiwan and the 
People's Republic of China (PRC)

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Wojcik-Betancourt, Everett 
Kelly, or David J. Goldberger, Office of Antidumping Investigations, 
Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
0629, [phone], or [phone], respectively.

POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION: We have determined that 
respondent parties to these proceedings are cooperating, thus far, in 
these investigations. We also have determined that all cases are 
extraordinarily complicated because of the issues raised. The PRC 
investigation involves a legal issue of first impression

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regarding whether the MNC provision, section 773(d) of Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1930 (the Act), 
is applicable in an NME investigation. Also, in the Taiwanese 
investigation petitioners are alleging that one of the Taiwanese 
respondents has established an export platform in the PRC involving the 
PRC company that is the subject of the MNC allegation. In the 
Indonesian investigation an allegation of an affiliation between the 
sole Indonesian respondent and its sole U.S. customer will require the 
Department to analyze the complex element of control, as set forth in 
newly amended section 771(33) of the Act on affiliated parties. In 
addition, the Indonesian and Taiwanese investigations, and possibly the 
PRC investigation, present complex model-matching issues involving 
significant product differences which will require substantial analysis 
of multiple products within the class or kind of merchandise under 
investigation. As a result of the novel and complex issues in these 
three investigations, the Department needs an additional time to fully 
analyze these issues. Accordingly, pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(B) of 
the Act, we are postponing the date of the preliminary determinations 
as to whether sales of melamine institutional dinnerware products from 
Indonesia, Taiwan and the PRC have been made at less than fair value 
for additional 30 days (i.e., until Wednesday, August 14, 1996).
    This notice is published pursuant to section 733(2) of the Act.

    Dated: June 6, 1996.
Barbara R. Stafford,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Investigations, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-15097 Filed 6-13-96; 8:45 am]
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