[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 2, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59-61]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-32247]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-475-819]


Certain Pasta From Italy: Amended Final Results of the Fourth 
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 December 12, 2001, the Department of Commerce published in 
the Federal Register its final results of the fourth administrative 
review of the countervailing duty order on certain pasta from Italy for 
the period January

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1 through December 31, 1999 (66 FR 64214). On December 10, 2001, we 
received a timely filed ministerial error allegation. Based on our 
analysis of this information, the Department of Commerce has revised 
the net subsidy rate for N. Puglisi & F. Industria Paste Alimentari 
S.p.A.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 2, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Meg Weems or Craig Matney, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Group I, Office 1, Import Administration, U.S. Department 
of Commerce, Room 1870, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-2613 or 482-1778, 
respectively.

Corrections

N. Puglisi & F. Industria Paste Alimentari S.p.A. (``Puglisi'')

    On December 10, 2001, respondent Puglisi timely filed a ministerial 
error allegation. Puglisi states that, with respect to a Law 64/86 
industrial development loan (``IDL''), the Department of Commerce 
(``the Department'') failed to deduct loan guarantee payments from the 
gross loan subsidy received by Puglisi during the period of review, 
resulting in a clerical error. Puglisi further explains that the 
Department added the loan guarantee payments to the ``total amount of 
interest and fee payments made'' and then again added the loan 
guarantee payments to the ``total benchmark interest and fees,'' 
thereby nullifying the deduction of these fees from the countervailable 
subsidy. Puglisi suggests that the clerical error be corrected by 
either not including the annual fee payments in the ``benchmark 
interest and fee amounts,'' or by deducting the annual fee payments 
from the gross countervailable subsidy for the loan. The petitioner has 
not commented on this ministerial error allegation.
    We agree with Puglisi that the Department miscalculated the duty 
rate for one of Puglisi's Law 64/86 IDLs by inadvertently nullifying 
the deduction of the loan guarantee fees from the countervailable 
subsidy. We have corrected this error for the amended final results by 
deducting the annual fee payments from the ``total interest and fee 
payments made,'' while excluding them from the ``benchmark interest and 
fee amounts.''
    In the final results, we specified a total duty rate of 7.18 
percent for Puglisi. In calculating this rate, we erroneously 
calculated the subsidy rate for Puglisi's Law 64/86 IDL to be 0.14 
percent. The Law 64/86 IDL subsidy rate should have been 0.08 percent.

Amended Final Results of Review

    Pursuant to the Department's regulations at 19 CFR 351.224(e), we 
correct the ad valorem rate for Puglisi to be 7.12 percent.
    The Department will instruct the Customs Service (``Customs'') to 
assess countervailing duties on all appropriate entries on or after 
January 1, 1999, and on or before December 31, 1999. The Department 
will issue liquidation instructions directly to Customs. The amended 
cash 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 amendment to the final results of the countervailing duty 
administrative review 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: December 26, 2001.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary for, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-32247 Filed 12-31-01; 8:45 am]
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