[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 169 (Thursday, August 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 45402]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22128]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[C-122-404]


Live Swine From Canada; Final Results of Changed Circumstances 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review, and Partial Revocation

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

ACTION: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review, and Revocation In Part of Countervailing Duty 
Order.

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SUMMARY: On May 29, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation and preliminary results of changed 
circumstances countervailing duty administrative review with intent to 
revoke the order, in part. We are now revoking this order, in part, 
with respect to slaughter sows and boars and weanlings from Canada, 
because this portion of the order is no longer of interest to domestic 
parties.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 29, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Moore or Brian Albright, 
Office of CVD/AD Enforcement, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 482-2786.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 15, 1985, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (50 FR 32880) the countervailing duty order on live swine from 
Canada. On December 11, 1995, petitioners requested the partial 
revocation of the order on live swine from Canada with respect to 
slaughter sows and boars and weanlings due to lack of interest, 
effective April 1, 1991. We determined that petitioner's affirmative 
statement of no interest constitutes good cause for conducting a 
changed circumstances review. As a result, on May 29, 1996, the 
Department initiated and simultaneously issued the preliminary results 
of a changed circumstances review, preliminarily determining to revoke 
the order, in part, with respect to slaughter sows and boars and 
weanlings (61 FR 26879). We gave interested parties an opportunity to 
comment on the preliminary results of this changed circumstances 
review. We received no comments.

Scope of the Order

    Due to the changed circumstances review, the merchandise now 
covered by this order is live swine, except U.S. Department of 
Agriculture certified purebred breeding swine, slaughter sows and 
boars, and weanlings (weanlings are swine weighing up to 27 kilograms 
or 59.5 pounds) from Canada. Such merchandise is classifiable under the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) item numbers 0103.91.00 and 
0103.92.00. The HTS item numbers are provided for convenience and 
Customs purposes. The written description remains dispositive.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

    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 (``URAA'') effective January 1, 1995 
(``the Act'').

Final Results of the Review; Partial Revocation of Countervailing 
Duty Order

    The affirmative statement of no interest by petitioners in this 
case constitutes changed circumstances sufficient to warrant partial 
revocation of this order. Therefore, the Department is partially 
revoking the order, effective April 1, 1991, on live swine from Canada, 
with respect to slaughter sows and boars and weanlings (as defined in 
the scope section of this notice) in accordance with the provisions of 
19 CFR 355.25(d)(1).
    The Department will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to liquidate, 
without regard to countervailing duties, all unliquidated entries of 
slaughter sows and boars and weanlings (as defined in the scope section 
of this notice) from Canada entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after April 1, 1991, in accordance with 19 CFR 
355.25(d)(5). We will also instruct the Customs Service to refund with 
interest any estimated countervailing duties collected with respect to 
unliquidated entries of these slaughter sows and boars and weanlings 
made on or after April 1, 1991, in accordance with section 778 of the 
Act.
    This changed circumstances administrative review, and notice are in 
accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the Act (19 U.S.C. section 1675 
(a)(1)) and 19 C.F.R. section 355.22(h), and 355.25(d) of the 
Department regulations.

    Dated: August 22, 1996.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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