[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 94 (Thursday, May 15, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 26288]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-12185]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Amendment to Notice of Opportunity To Request 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Amendment to notice of Opportunity to Request Administrative 
Review of Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or 
Suspended Investigation.

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SUMMARY: This is an amendment to the notice of ``Opportunity to Request 
Administrative Review of Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 
Finding, or Suspended Investigation'' published on May 1, 2003 (68 FR 
23281).

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 15, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Holly A. Kuga, Office of AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-4737.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is an amendment to the 
``Opportunity to Request Administrative Review'' notice published on 
May 1, 2003 (68 FR 23281). As explained in the notice the Department 
published on May 6, 2003, ``Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Proceedings: Assessment of Antidumping Duties,'' 68 FR 23954, the 
Department has clarified its practice with respect to the collection of 
final antidumping duties on imports of merchandise where intermediate 
firms are involved. The public should be aware of this clarification in 
determining whether to request an adminstrative review of merchandise 
subject to antidumping findings and orders. See also the Import 
Administration Web site at http://www.ia.ita.doc.gov.
    The clarification applies to all entries for which the anniversary 
month for requesting an administrative review of an antidumping duty 
order or finding is May 2003 or later, beginning with the orders cited 
in the opportunity notice for May 2003 anniversary cases which 
published on May 1, 2003 (68 FR 23281).
    Further, the clarification addresses the assessment of duties on 
imports of merchandise from a market-economy country subject to an 
antidumping duty order. The clarification does not apply to imports of 
merchandise from non-market-economy (NME) countries which may be 
subject to an antidumping duty order. In addition, the clarification 
does not apply to imports of merchandise subject to a countervailing 
duty order because this issue does not arise in the subsidy enforcement 
context.

    Dated: May 9, 2003.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Group II for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-12185 Filed 5-14-03; 8:45 am]
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