[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 164 (Thursday, August 25, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-20845]
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[Federal Register: August 25, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[C-542-401]
Certain Apparel From Sri Lanka; Revocation of Countervailing Duty
Order
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of revocation of Countervailing Duty Order.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is revoking the
countervailing duty order on certain apparel from Sri Lanka (50 FR
9826) pursuant to a decision of the Court of International Trade (CIT)
on June 24, 1994.
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 18, 1992.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Martina Tkadlec or Kelly Parkhill,
Office of Countervailing Compliance, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230;
telephone: (202) 482-2786.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On October 22, 1993, the Department reinstated the countervailing
duty orders on certain apparel and certain textile mill products from
Sri Lanka, effective May 18, 1992 (58 FR 54552). These reinstatements
were made pursuant to orders of the CIT and the Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit. (Belton Industries, Inc. v. United States, Slip
Op. 92-64 (CIT 1992), aff'd, 6 F.3d 756 (Fed Cir. 1993) ``Belton''.) On
November 19, 1993, the Government of Sri Lanka filed an action with the
CIT challenging the reinstatement of the countervailing duty order on
certain apparel from Sri Lanka. The Government of Sri Lanka argued that
the Belton decisions only applied to the countervailing duty order on
certain textile mill products from Sri Lanka. The Department concurred
with the Government of Sri Lanka, and consented to judgment in this
case. On June 24, 1994, the CIT ordered the Department to revoke the
countervailing duty order on certain apparel from Sri Lanka. Because an
injunction was issued in this case, and because no adversely affected
interested party has standing as a party to the litigation to appeal
the CIT's decision, the Department is immediately revoking the
countervailing duty order on certain apparel from Sri Lanka, effective
May 18, 1992.
Scope of the Order
Imports covered by this order are shipments of certain apparel from
Sri Lanka. The scope of this order, published in the Appendix of the
Federal Register notice of Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty
Determination and Order on Certain Apparel from Sri Lanka (50 FR 9826),
was originally defined solely in terms of the Tariff Schedules of the
United States Annotated (TSUSA) item numbers; no narrative product
description was provided. On January 11, 1989, the Department published
a conversion from TSUSA to Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) item
numbers, and the U.S. Customs Service has been suspending liquidation
according to that conversion since then.
Instructions to Customs
The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to terminate
suspension of liquidation of certain apparel from Sri Lanka as of the
date of publication of this notice, and to liquidate, without regard to
countervailing duties, all unliquidated entries of certain apparel
exported from Sri Lanka on or after May 18, 1992.
Dated: August 18, 1994.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Compliance.
[FR Doc. 94-20845 Filed 8-24-94; 8:45 am]
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