[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51293-51294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24585]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[C-475-819]


Amendment to Certain Pasta From Italy: Final Results of the 
Second Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Amendment of Final Results of Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Review.

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SUMMARY: On August 16, 1999, the Department of Commerce published in 
the Federal Register its final results of the second administrative 
review of the countervailing duty order on certain pasta from Italy for 
the period January 1, 1997 to December 31, 1997 (64 FR 44489). After 
publishing the final results, we discovered one calculation error, and 
we received a timely filed allegation regarding another ministerial 
error.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 22, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vincent Kane, Sally Hastings or Suresh 
Maniam, AD/CVD Enforcement, Group I, Office 1, Import Administration, 
US Department of Commerce, Room 1870, 14th Street and Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-2815, 482-3463, 
482-0176, respectively.

Corrections

Audisio Industrie Alimentari S.p.A (``Audisio'') and Pastificio 
Fabianelli S.p.A (``Fabianelli'')

    The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') inadvertently 
miscalculated the duty rates for respondents Audisio and Fabianelli. In 
the final notice, we specified a total duty rate of 1.03 percent for 
Audisio and 0.49 percent for Fabianelli. In calculating these rates, we 
erroneously attributed a European Social Fund (ESF) subsidy rate in the 
amount of 0.04 percent to Fabianelli. The ESF subsidy rate instead 
should have been attributed to Audisio. Neither the petitioners 
1 nor the respondents have made a ministerial error 
allegation with respect to this miscalculation, and the Department is 
correcting this error on its own initiative.
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    \1\ The petitioners in this review are Borden, Inc., Hershey 
Foods Corp. and Gooch Foods, Inc.
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Delverde, SrL (``Delverde'') and Tamma Industrie Alimentari, SrL 
(``Tamma'')

    On August 26, 1999, respondent (Delverde/Tamma) timely filed a 
ministerial error allegation. Delverde/Tamma states that, with respect 
to one publicity grant, the Department should not have countervailed 
the entire amount of the grant, but instead should have countervailed 
only that portion of the grant attributable to pasta products. 
Respondent further states that countervailing only the pasta portion of 
the grant would be consistent with our previous calculations in the 
original investigation (see Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty 
Determination: Certain Pasta from Italy 61 FR 30288, 30303 (June 14, 
1996)) and the first administrative review (see Certain Pasta from 
Italy: Final Results of the Countervailing Duty Administrative Review, 
63 FR 43905, 43907 (August 17, 1998)). We agree with the respondent 
that the Department inadvertently countervailed the entire amount of 
the grant rather than only that portion of the grant received for pasta 
products. The petitioners have not commented on this ministerial error 
allegation. We have made the suggested corrections for the amended 
final results.

Amended Final Results of Review

    Pursuant to the Department's regulations at 19 CFR 351.224(e), we 
correct the duty rates for Audisio, Fabianelli, Delverde, and Tamma to 
be as follows:

                            Ad Valorem Rates
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                                                                01/01/97
                                                                through
                      Producer/Exporter                         12/31/97
                                                               (percent)
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Audisio Industrie Alimentari S.p.A...........................       1.07
Pastificio Fabianelli S.p.A..................................       0.45
Delverde, SrL................................................       3.98
Tamma Industrie Alimentari, SrL..............................       3.98
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    The Department will instruct the US Customs Service (``Customs'') 
to assess countervailing duties on all appropriate entries on or after 
January 1, 1997, and on or before December 31, 1997. The Department 
will issue liquidation instructions directly to Customs. The amended 
deposit requirements are effective for all shipments of the subject 
merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or 
after the date of publication of this notice and shall remain in effect 
until publication of the final results of the next administrative 
review.
    This notice serves as a reminder to all parties subject to an 
administrative protective order (APO) of their

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responsibility concerning the disposition of proprietary information 
disclosed under APO in accordance with 19 CFR 355.34(d). Timely written 
notification of return/destruction of APO materials or conversion to 
judicial protective order is hereby requested. Failure to comply with 
the regulations and the terms of an APO is sanctionable violation.
    This amendment to the final results of the countervailing duty 
administrative review notice is in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of 
the Tariff Act, as amended, (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1), 19 CFR 351.213, and 
19 CFR 351.221(b)(5)).

    Dated: September 13, 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-24585 Filed 9-21-99; 8:45 am]
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