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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.             

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