[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 199 (Wednesday, October 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53593-53594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27294]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-301-602]


Certain Fresh Cut Flowers From Colombia: Initiation of a Changed 
Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is initiating a changed 
circumstance review to determine whether Flores El Talle Ltda. is 
covered under the revocation granted to the Flores Colombianas Group.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 15, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Yeske or Beth Graham, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20230; telephone (202) 482-0189 or 482-4105, respectively.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

    The Department is conducting this administrative review in 
accordance with section 751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(the Act). 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 Act by the Uruguay Round Agreements 
Act (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all citations to 
the Department's regulations are those codified at 19 CFR Part 353 
(April 1997).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 18, 1987, the Department published in the Federal Register 
(52 FR 8492) an antidumping duty order on certain fresh cut flowers 
from Colombia. On March 31, 1994, the antidumping order was revoked in 
the fourth administrative review as it applied to the Flores 
Colombianas Group. In a letter dated August 23, 1996, Flores El Talle 
Ltda. (Flores El Talle) notified the Department that the company shares 
the same ownership and management with the other Flores Colombianas 
Group companies, and that Flores El Talle should receive the same 
antidumping duty treatment that is accorded the Flores Colombianas 
Group.

Initiation of Review

    The Department is initiating this review to determine whether 
Flores El Talle is a member of the Flores Colombianas Group and, if so, 
whether the revocation applicable to the Flores Colombianas Group also 
applies to Flores El Talle. If we determine that the revocation is 
applicable to Flores El Talle, we will instruct U.S. Customs officials 
to liquidate all entries of Colombian fresh flowers from Flores El 
Talle without regard to antidumping duties.
    We are hereby notifying the public that we are initiating a changed

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circumstances antidumping duty administrative review on certain fresh 
cut flowers from Colombia. We are also inviting interested parties to 
comment on the above and on any other relevant issue(s) associated with 
the foregoing.
    This notice is published in accordance with section 751(b) of the 
Act and section 353.22(f)(1)(i) of the Department regulations.

    Dated: October 7, 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 97-27294 Filed 10-14-97; 8:45 am]
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