[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 108 (Monday, June 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30320-30321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14248]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
North American Free-Trade Agreement, Article 1904 NAFTA Panel
Reviews; Request for Panel Review
AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United States Section, International Trade
Administration, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of first request for panel review.
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SUMMARY: On May 18, 1999 Cinsa, S.A. de C.V. (``Cinsa'') and
Esmaltaciones de Norte America, S.A. de C.V. (``ENASA'') filed a First
Request for Panel Review with the United States Section of the NAFTA
Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Panel review was requested of the final antidumping
administrative review made by the International Trade Administration,
respecting Porcelain-on-Steel Cookware from Mexico. This determination
was published in the Federal Register, 64, 26,934 on May 18, 1999. The
NAFTA Secretariat has assigned Case Number USA-CDA-99-1904-05 to this
request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caratina L. Alston, Acting United
States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat, Suite 2061, 14th and Constitution
Avenue, Washington, DC 20230, (202) 482-5438.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chapter 19 of the North American Free-Trade
Agreement (``Agreement'') establishes a mechanism to replace domestic
judicial review of final determinations in antidumping and
countervailing duty cases involving imports from a NAFTA country with
review by independent binational panels. When a Request for Panel
Review is filed, a panel is established to act in place of national
courts to review expeditiously the final determination to determine
whether it conforms with the antidumping or countervailing duty law of
the country that made the determination.
Under Article 1904 of the Agreement, which came into force on
January 1, 1994, the Government of the United States, the Government of
Canada and the Government of Mexico established Rules of Procedure for
Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews (``Rules''). These Rules were
published in the
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Federal Register on February 23, 1994 (59 FR 8686).
A first Request for Panel Review was filed with the United States
Section of the NAFTA Secretariat, pursuant to Article 1904 of the
Agreement, on May 18, 1999, requesting panel review of the final
antidumping duty administrative review described above.
The Rules provide that:
(a) a Party or interested person may challenge the final
determination in whole or in part by filing a Complaint in accordance
with Rule 39 within 30 days after the filing of the first Request for
Panel Review (the deadline for filing a Complaint is June 17, 1999);
(b) a Party, investigating authority or interested person that does
not file a Complaint but that intends to appear in support of any
reviewable portion of the final determination may participate in the
panel review by filing a Notice of Appearance in accordance with Rule
40 within 45 days after the filing of the first Request for Panel
Review (the deadline for filing a Notice of Appearance is July 2,
1999); and
(c) the panel review shall be limited to the allegations of error
of fact or law, including the jurisdiction of the investigating
authority, that are set out in the Complaints filed in the panel review
and the procedural and substantive defenses raised in the panel review.
Dated: May 25, 1999.
Caratina L. Alston,
Acting United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 99-14248 Filed 6-4-99; 8:45 am]
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