[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 200 (Tuesday, October 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 53702]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26357]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[A-201-820]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: Fresh Tomatoes From Mexico

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 15, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith Rudman or Jennifer Katt, Office 
of AD/CVD Enforcement, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
0192 or (202) 482-0498, respectively.

POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION: On April 18, 1996, the 
Department of Commerce (the Department) initiated an antidumping duty 
investigation of fresh tomatoes from Mexico (61 FR 18377, April 25, 
1996).
    In accordance with section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 
(the Act), on July 26, 1996, the petitioners \1\ made a timely request 
for an extension of the period within which the preliminary 
determination must be made. In accordance with section 733(c)(1)(A) of 
the Act and section 353.15(c) of the Department's regulations, on 
August 5, 1996, we published the Notice of Postponement of Preliminary 
Antidumping Duty Determination: Fresh Tomatoes from Mexico (61 FR 
40607), postponing our preliminary determination in this investigation 
until no later than October 7, 1996.
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    \1\ The petitioners in this investigation are: The Florida 
Tomato Growers Exchange; the Florida Tomato Exchange; the Tomato 
Committee of the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association; the South 
Carolina Tomato Association; the Gadsden County Tomato Growers 
Association; and an Ad Hoc Group of Florida, California, Georgia, 
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia Tomato Growers.
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    The Department is further postponing the preliminary determination 
in this investigation until no later than October 28, 1996. This 
further postponement is necessary to provide additional time for the 
Department to consider certain novel issues which have been raised by 
the parties. The respondent parties have been cooperating in this 
investigation and thus, further postponement is appropriate.
    This notice is published pursuant to section 733(c)(2) of the Act, 
and 19 CFR 353.15(d).

    Dated: October 7, 1996.
Barbara R. Stafford,
Deputy Assistant Secretary Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 96-26357 Filed 10-11-96; 8:45 am]
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