[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 45 (Friday, March 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11044-11045]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-5495]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-818]


Certain Pasta from Italy: 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 a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain pasta from Italy. The request fulfilled all regulatory 
requirements. Therefore, in accordance with our regulations, we are 
initiating this new shipper review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 7, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Terpstra or Mark Young at (202) 
482-3965 or 482-6397, respectively; AD/CVD Enforcement, Group II, 
Office VI, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 17, 2002, the Department received a request from a 
pasta producer, Pastificio Carmine Russo S.p.A. (``Russo''), to conduct 
a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta 
from Italy, issued July 24, 1996 (61 FR 38547). This request was made 
pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``the Act''), and 19 CFR 351.214(b) (2002). On February 24, 2003, the 
Department received an additional submission from Russo in which Russo 
provided information to the Department describing how Russo was formed 
as a new corporate entity through a corporate buy-out of its 
predecessor, Carmine Russo, S.p.A. Because Russo's claim to new shipper 
status is based, in part, on this information, we will further review 
this change-in-ownership as part of the new shipper review of the 
antidumping duty order.

Initiation of Review

    Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b), in its request of December 17, 2002, 
Russo 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. Russo submitted 
documentation establishing the date on which it first shipped the 
subject merchandise for export to the United States, the volume of that 
first shipment, the date of its first sale to an unaffiliated customer 
in the United States, and the date and volume of all subsequent 
shipments.
    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 
Italy. 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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          Antidumping Duty Proceeding             Period to be Reviewed
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Italy: Certain Pasta, A-475-818: Pastificio          07/01/02 - 12/31/02
 Carmine Russo S.p.A...........................
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    Concurrent with the publication of this notice, and in accordance 
with 19 CFR 351.214(e), we will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to 
allow, at the option of the 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 28, 2003.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-5495 Filed 3-6-03; 8:45 am]
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