[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 102 (Wednesday, May 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 28840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13948]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-403-801]


Fresh and Chilled Atlantic Salmon From Norway: Initiation of New 
Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of initiation of new shipper antidumping duty 
administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received a 
request from Nornir Group A/S (Nornir) to conduct a new shipper 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on fresh and 
chilled Atlantic salmon from Norway, which has an April anniversary 
date. In accordance with the Department's regulations, we are 
initiating this administrative review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 28, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Holly A. Kuga, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20320, 
telephone: (202) 482-4737.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department's regulations are to the current 
regulations, as amended by the interim regulations published in the 
Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).

Background

    The Department has received a request pursuant to section 
751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, and 19 CFR 353.22(h) of the regulations, for a 
new shipper review of this antidumping duty order, which has an April 
anniversary date.

Initiation of Review

    In its request of April 30, 1997, Nornir certified that it did not 
export the subject merchandise to the United States during the period 
of investigation (POI) (September 1, 1989, through February 28, 1990) 
and that it is not affiliated with any exporter or producer who 
exported the subject merchandise to the United States during POI. 
Accompanying its request, Nornir provided certifications which indicate 
the date the merchandise was first entered for consumption in the 
United States, that it is not affiliated with any other company, and 
that it did not under its current or a former name export the subject 
merchandise to the United States during the POI.
    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) and 19 CFR 353.22(h), we 
are initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on 
fresh and chilled Atlantic salmon from Norway. We intend to issue the 
final results of these reviews not later than 270 days from the 
publication of this notice.
    The standard period of review (POR) in a new shipper review 
initiated following the anniversary month is the six months preceding 
the anniversary month. However, the Department may define the POR to 
cover the first exportation of a new shipper. See Initiation of New 
Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain Pasta from 
Italy 62 FR 8927 (February 27, 1997). Therefore, the POR for this 
review has been defined to include the anniversary month.

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                                                        Period to be    
            Antidumping duty proceeding                   reviewed      
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Norway: Fresh and Chilled Atlantic Salmon, A-403-                       
 801: Nornir Group A/S............................     11/01/96-04/30/97
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    Concurrent with publication of this notice, we will instruct the 
Customs Service to allow, at the option of the importer, the posting, 
until the completion of the review, of a bond or security in lieu of a 
cash deposit for each entry of the merchandise exported by the company 
listed above, in accordance with 19 CFR 353.22(h).
    Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(b).
    This initiation and this notice are in accordance with section 
751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 
CFR 353.22(h).

    Dated: May 19, 1997.
Jeffrey P. Bialos,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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