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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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