[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 154 (Monday, August 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 42965]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21278]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application of U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws to 
Hong Kong

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Application of U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws to 
Hong Kong.

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SUMMARY: This document notifies the public that no change in the status 
of current orders or proceedings or in current practice regarding the 
application of the U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws will 
be made, either to Hong Kong or the PRC.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff May, Acting Director, Office of 
Policy, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3713, 14th Street and Constitution 
Avenues, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-4412.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Sino-British Joint 
Declaration, signed in 1984, the People's Republic of China (PRC) 
resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997. 
Section 201 of the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 states 
that this reversion will not affect the manner in which Hong Kong is 
treated under U.S. law. Furthermore, the U.S. Customs Service has 
determined that no change in the current practice regarding the country 
of origin marking of goods produced in Hong Kong should be made as a 
result of this reversion (see 62 FR 30927). This means that Hong Kong 
will be considered a separate Customs territory within the PRC, as it 
was considered a separate Customs territory under British rule.
    Accordingly, this document notifies the public that no change in 
the status of current orders or proceedings or in current practice 
regarding the application of the U.S. antidumping and countervailing 
duty (AD/CVD) laws will be made, either to Hong Kong or the PRC. 
Petition requirements and initiations, investigations, administrative 
reviews, revocations, circumvention inquiries, the coverage and scope 
of AD/CVD orders and suspension agreements, the calculation of normal 
value, and all other methodological, policy, and procedural aspects of 
U.S. AD/CVD proceedings, conducted under Title VII of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended, will not change.

    Dated: August 5, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-21278 Filed 8-8-97; 8:45 am]
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