[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 151 (Tuesday, August 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 50862]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19825]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-863]


Honey from the People's Republic of China: Initiation of New 
Shipper Antidumping Duty Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 6, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Angelica Mendoza or Donna Kinsella at 
(202) 482-3019 or (202) 482-0194, respectively; Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Enforcement Group III, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

    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, as amended (the 
Act) by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). In addition, unless 
otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are 
references to the provisions codified at 19 CFR Part 351 (2002).

Background

    The Department has received timely requests from Chengdu-Dujiangyan 
Dubao Bee Industrial Co., Ltd (``Dubao'') and Wuhan Bee Healthy Co., 
Ltd. (``Wuhan Bee''), in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c), for new 
shipper reviews of the antidumping duty order on honey from the 
People's Republic of China (``PRC''), which has a December annual 
anniversary month and a June semiannual anniversary month. See Notice 
of Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 
Antidumping Duty Order; Honey from the People's Republic of China, 66 
FR 63670 (December 10, 2001). As required by 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(i) 
and (iii)(A), each of the companies identified above, which are also 
producers, has certified that it did not export honey to the United 
States during the period of investigation (``POI''), and that it has 
never been affiliated with any exporter or producer which did export 
honey during the POI. Each company has further certified that its 
export activities are not controlled by the central government of the 
PRC, satisfying the requirements of 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iii)(B). 
Pursuant to the Department's regulations at 19 CFR 
351.214(b)(2)(iv)(A), Dubao and Wuhan Bee each submitted documentation 
establishing the date on which it first shipped the subject merchandise 
to the United States, the volume of that first shipment, and the date 
of the first sale to an unaffiliated customer in the United States.
    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, as amended, and 
19 CFR 351.214(d)(i), and based on information on the record, we are 
initiating new shipper reviews for Dubao and Wuhan Bee. It is the 
Department's usual practice in cases involving non-market economies to 
require that a company seeking to establish eligibility for an 
antidumping duty rate separate from the country-wide rate provide de 
jure and de facto evidence of an absence of government control over the 
company's export activities. Accordingly we will issue a questionnaire 
to Dubao and Wuhan Bee, including a separate rates section. If the 
response from each respondent provides sufficient indication that it is 
not subject to either de jure or de facto government control with 
respect to its exports of honey, each review will proceed. If, on the 
other hand, a respondent does not demonstrate its eligibility for a 
separate rate, then it will be deemed to be affiliated with other 
companies that exported during the POI and that it did not establish 
entitlement to a separate rate, and the review of that respondent will 
be rescinded.

Initiation of Review

    In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(d)(1), we are initiating new shipper reviews of the antidumping 
duty order on honey from the PRC. Therefore, we intend to issue the 
preliminary results of these reviews not later than 180 days after the 
date on which the reviews are initiated. We intend to issue the final 
results of these reviews within 90 days after the date on which the 
preliminary results were issued.
    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(g)(1)(i)(B) of the Department's 
regulations, the period of review (``POR'') for a new shipper review 
initiated in the month immediately following the semiannual anniversary 
month will be the six-month period immediately preceding the semiannual 
anniversary month. Therefore, the POR for this new shipper review is:

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                                                         Period to be
            Antidumping duty proceeding                    reviewed
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Chengdu-Dujiangyan Dubao Bee Industrial Co., Ltd.:.  12/01/01 - 05/31/02
Wuhan Bee Healthy Co., Ltd.........................
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    We will instruct the Customs Service to allow, at the option of the 
importer, the posting, until the completion of the review, of a single 
entry bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the 
merchandise exported by the above-listed companies. This action is in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(e). Interested parties that need access 
to proprietary information in these new shipper reviews should submit 
applications for disclosure under administrative protective orders in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 351.306. This initiation and notice 
are in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) 
and 19 CFR 351.214(d).

    Dated: July 31, 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-19825 Filed 8-5-02; 8:45 am]
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