[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 111 (Friday, June 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29077-29078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14312]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[C-122-825]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Countervailing Duty 
Determination: Certain Laminated Hardwood Flooring From Canada

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 7, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Boyland or Daniel Lessard, 
Office of Countervailing Duty Investigations, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Room 3099, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482- 4198, or (202) 482-1778, 
respectively.

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by 
the Uruguay Round Agreements Act effective January 1, 1995 (the Act).

Postponement

    On March 27, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
initiated a countervailing duty investigation of certain laminated 
hardwood flooring (LHF) from Canada (see Notice of Initiation of 
Countervailing Duty Investigation: Certain Laminated

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Hardwood Flooring from Canada 61 FR 30280 (April 4, 1996)). On May 20, 
1996, the Ad Hoc Committee on Laminated Hardwood Trailer Flooring 
Imports (the petitioners) alleged that Nilus Leclerc Inc. (Leclerc), 
the Quebec producer of LHF in this investigation, is receiving upstream 
subsidies, as described under section 771A of the Act.
    The May 15, 1996 upstream subsidy allegation submitted by 
petitioners, as supplemented by additional information, provides 
reasonable grounds for the Department to believe or suspect that 
stumpage subsidies provided by the Government of Quebec are being 
passed through to Leclerc pursuant to the purchase of hardwood lumber 
from suppliers. Accordingly, the Department is extending the deadline 
for its preliminary determination in this countervailing duty 
investigation in order to investigate the alleged upstream subsidies 
provided to Leclerc.
    Under Section 703(g), the preliminary determination may be extended 
up to 250 days after the March 7, 1996 filing of the petition.

    Dated: May 31, 1996
Barbara R. Stafford,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-14312 Filed 6-6-96; 8:45 am]
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