[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 135 (Friday, July 13, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36753-36754]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17623]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-813]


Certain Preserved Mushrooms From India: Notice of Partial 
Rescission 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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EFFECTIVE DATE: August 13, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David J. Goldberger or Kate Johnson, 
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) 482-4929, 
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 (2000).

Background

    On February 14, 2001, the Department published in the Federal 
Register (66 FR 10269) a notice of ``Opportunity To Request 
Administrative Review'' of the antidumping duty order on certain 
preserved mushrooms from India for the period February 1, 2000, through 
January 31, 2001. On February 26, 2001, Agro Dutch Foods, Ltd., Himalya 
International, and Hindustan Lever Limited (formerly Ponds India, Ltd.) 
requested an administrative review of their sales for the above-
mentioned period, and on February 27, 2001, Weikfield Agro Products, 
Ltd, requested an administrative review of its sales for the same 
period. On February 29, 2001, the petitioner \1\ requested an 
administrative review of the above-referenced antidumping duty order 
for the period February 1, 2000, through January 31, 2001, for the 
following companies: Agro Dutch Foods, Ltd., Alpine Biotech, Ltd., 
Mandeep Mushrooms, Ltd., Hindustan Lever Limited, 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 
22, 2001, 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. See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Requests for Revocations in Part, 66 FR 16037.
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    \1\ The petitioner is the Coalition for Fair Preserved Mushroom 
Trade which includes the American Mushroom Institute and the 
following domestic companies: L.K. Bowman, Inc., Modern Mushroom 
Farms, Inc., Monterey Mushrooms, Inc., Mount Laurel Canning Corp., 
Mushroom Canning Company, Southwood Farms, Sunny Dell Foods, Inc., 
and United Canning Corp.
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Partial Recission of Review

    On April 23, 2001, Hindustan Lever Limited timely withdrew its 
request for an administrative review of its sales during the above-
referenced period. On April 24 and June 14, 2001, the petitioner timely 
withdrew its request for review with respect to the following 
companies: Alpine Biotech, Ltd., Dinesh Agro Products, Ltd., Flex 
Foods, Ltd., Hindustan Lever Limited, Mandeep Mushrooms, Ltd., Premier 
Mushroom Farms, Techtran Agro Industries, and Transchem Ltd. Section 
351.213(d)(1) of the Department's regulations stipulates that the 
Secretary may permit a party that requests a review to withdraw the 
request within 90 days of the date of publication of notice of 
initiation of the requested review. In this case, the petitioner and 
Hindustan Lever Limited

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have withdrawn their requests for review within the 90-day period. We 
have received no other submissions regarding the petitioner's and 
Hindustan Lever Limited's withdrawal of their requests for review. 
Therefore, we are rescinding in part this review of the antidumping 
duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from India as to Alpine 
Biotech, Ltd., Dinesh Agro Products, Ltd., Flex Foods, Ltd., Hindustan 
Lever Limited, Mandeep Mushrooms, Ltd., Premier Mushroom Farms, 
Techtran Agro Industries, and Transchem Ltd. This review will continue 
with respect to Agro Dutch Foods, Ltd., Himalya International, 
Saptarishi Agro Industries, Ltd., and Weikfield Agro Products, Ltd.
    This notice is published in accordance with section 751 of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.213(d)(4).

    Dated: July 3, 2001.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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