[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 138 (Tuesday, July 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44522-44523]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-18120]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-813]


Certain Preserved Mushrooms from India: Notice of Rescission in 
Part of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review.

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SUMMARY: In response to a timely request from the petitioners \1\, on 
March 30, 2000, the Department of Commerce published a notice of 
initiation of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain preserved mushrooms from India with respect to Agro Dutch 
Foods, Ltd., Alpine Biotech, Ltd., Mandeep Mushrooms, Ltd., Hindustan 
Lever Limited (formerly Ponds India, Ltd.), Saptarishi Agro Industries, 
Ltd., Techtran Agro Industries, Ltd., Transchem, Ltd., Premier Mushroom 
Farms, Flex Foods, Ltd., Weikfield Agro Products, Ltd., Dinesh Agro 
Products, Ltd., and Himalya International, covering the period August 
5, 1998, through January 31, 2000.
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    \1\ The petitioners are the Coalition for Fair Preserved 
Mushroom Trade which includes the American Mushroom Institute and 
the following domestic companies: L.K. Bowman, Inc., Nottingham, PA; 
Modern Mushrooms Farms, Inc., Toughkernamon, PA; Monterrey 
Mushrooms, Inc., Watsonville, CA; Mount Laurel Canning Corp., 
Temple, PA; Mushrooms Canning Company, Kennett Square, PA; Southwood 
Farms, Hockessin, DE; Sunny Dell Foods, Inc., Oxford, PA; United 
Canning Corp., North Lima, OH.
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    See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 65 FR 16875 (March 30, 2000). On June 22, 2000, 
the petitioners timely withdrew their request for review of the 
following companies: Alpine Biotech, Ltd., Mandeep Mushrooms, Ltd., 
Saptarishi Agro Industries, Ltd., Transchem, Ltd., Premier Mushroom 
Farms, Flex Foods, Ltd., and Dinesh Agro Products, Ltd.
    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the Department of Commerce 
is now rescinding this review, in part, as to the companies named above 
because the petitioners have withdrawn their request for review and no 
other interested parties have requested a review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 18, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David J. Goldberger or Dinah 
McDougall, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4136 or (202) 482-3773, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (``the Act''), 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. In addition, unless 
otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's 
regulations are to 19 CFR Part 351 (1999).

Background

    On February 14, 2000, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (65 FR 7348) a notice of ``Opportunity To Request 
Administrative Review'' of the antidumping duty order on certain 
preserved mushrooms from India for the period August 5, 1998, through 
January 31, 2000. On February 29, 2000, the petitioners requested an 
administrative review of the above-referenced antidumping duty order 
for the period August 5, 1998, through January 31, 2000, for the 
following companies: Agro Dutch Foods, Ltd., Alpine Biotech, Ltd., 
Mandeep Mushrooms, Ltd., Hindustan Lever Limited (formerly Ponds India, 
Ltd.), Saptarishi Agro Industries, Ltd., Techtran Agro Industries, 
Ltd., Transchem, Ltd., Premier Mushroom Farms, Flex Foods, Ltd., 
Weikfield Agro Products, Ltd., Dinesh Agro Products, Ltd., and Himalya 
International. On March 30, 2000, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain preserved mushrooms from India with respect to these companies 
(65 FR 16875).

Recission in Part of Review

    On June 22, 2000, the petitioners timely withdrew their request for 
review with respect to the following companies: Alpine Biotech, Ltd., 
Mandeep Mushrooms, Ltd., Saptarishi Agro Industries, Ltd., Transchem, 
Ltd., Premier Mushroom Farms, Flex Foods, Ltd., and Dinesh Agro 
Products, Ltd. Section 351.213(d)(1) of the Department's regulations 
stipulates that the Secretary will permit a party that requests a 
review to withdraw the request within 90 days after the date of 
publication of the notice of initiation of the requested review. In 
this case, the petitioners have withdrawn their request for review 
within the 90-day

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period. No other interested party requested a review with respect to 
the named companies and we have received no other submissions regarding 
petitioners' withdrawal of their request for review. Therefore, we are 
rescinding, in part, this review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain preserved mushrooms from India as to the companies name above.
    This notice is published in accordance with section 751 of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).

    Dated: July 11, 2000.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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