[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 23, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8949-8950]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4251]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-805]


Certain Pasta from Turkey: Notice of Initiation of New Shipper 
Antidumping Duty Review

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') has received a 
request for new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain 
pasta from Turkey. In accordance with our regulations, we are 
initiating this new shipper review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 23, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Brinkmann or Cindy Robinson at 
(202) 482-4126 or 482-3797, respectively; AD/CVD Enforcement, Office 
VI, Group II, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.

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 refer to the 
regulations codified at 19 CFR part 351 (1999).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department has received a request from a pasta producer and its 
affiliated exporter in Turkey, Beslen Makarna Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret 
A.S., and Beslen Pazariarma Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., respectively 
(collectively ``Beslen''), to conduct a new shipper review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain pasta from Turkey, issued July 24, 
1996 (61 FR 38545). This request was made pursuant to section 
751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(b).

Initiation of Review

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b), in its request of January 27, 2000, 
Beslen certified that it did not export the subject merchandise to the 
United States during the period of investigation (``POI'') (May 1, 1994 
through April 30, 1995) and that it is not now, and never has been 
affiliated with any exporter or producer who exported the subject 
merchandise to the United States during the POI. Beslen submitted 
documentation establishing the date on which its merchandise was first 
entered for consumption in the United States, the volume of that first 
shipment and the date of its first sale to an unaffiliated customer in 
the United States.
    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and section 
351.214(d) of the Department's regulations, we are initiating a new 
shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta from 
Turkey. In accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(h)(i), we intend to issue the 
preliminary results of this review not later than 180 days from the 
date of publication of this notice. The standard period of review in a 
new shipper review initiated in the month immediately following the 
semiannual anniversary month is the six-month period immediately 
preceding the semiannual anniversary month.

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                                                               Period to
                 Antidumping duty proceeding                      be
                                                               reviewed
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Turkey: Certain Pasta, A-489-805: Beslen Makarna Gida Sanayi   07/01/99-
 ve Ticaret A.S.............................................    12/31/99
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    Concurrent with publication of this notice, and in accordance with 
19 CFR 351.214(e), we will instruct the Customs Service to allow, at 
the option of the

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importer, the posting of a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit 
for each entry of the merchandise exported by the company listed above, 
until the completion of the review.
    Interested parties may submit applications for disclosure under 
administrative protective order in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305.
    This initiation notice is in accordance with section 751(a) of the 
Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 351.214.

    Dated: February 11, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
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