[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 156 (Friday, August 14, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41120-41121]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-19562]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-475-818


Certain Pasta From Italy: Notice of Final Results of Antidumping 
Duty Changed Circumstances Review and Revocation, in Part

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

SUMMARY: On July 2, 2009, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published a notice of initiation and preliminary results 
of a changed circumstances review and intent to revoke, in part, the 
antidumping duty order of certain pasta from Italy.\1\ The Department 
gave

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interested parties an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results 
and notice of intent to revoke, but received no comments. Therefore, 
the final results do not differ from the preliminary results of review 
and we are revoking the order, in part, with respect to gluten-free 
pasta.
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    \1\ See Certain Pasta from Italy: Initiation and Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Changed Circumstances Review, and Intent 
to Revoke Order in Part, 74 FR 31696 (July 2, 2009) (``Preliminary 
Results'').

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Hargett, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4161.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 24, 1996, the Department published in the Federal Register 
an antidumping duty order on certain pasta from Italy.\2\ On May 22, 
2009, Pasta Lensi S.r.L. (``Pasta Lensi'') requested that the 
Department initiate a changed circumstances review and revoke, in part, 
the antidumping duty order on certain pasta from Italy with respect to 
gluten-free pasta based on a lack of interest in maintaining the order 
by petitioners. See May 22, 2009, letter from Pasta Lensi to the 
Secretary of Commerce. On June 1, 2009, petitioners expressed a lack of 
interest in maintaining the order with respect to gluten-free pasta.\3\ 
On July 2, 2009, the Department published a notice of initiation and 
preliminary results and intent to revoke, in part, a changed 
circumstances review of the antidumping order.\4\ We received no 
comments.
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    \2\ See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order and Amended Final 
Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Certain Pasta from 
Italy, 61 FR 38547 (July 24, 1996).
    \3\ See Memo from Christopher Hargett, Case Analyst, AD/CVD 
Operations 3, to Melissa Skinner, Office Director, AD/CVD Operations 
3 entitled ``Phone Conversation with Counsel for Petitioners,'' 
dated June 2, 2009.
    \4\ See Preliminary Results, 74 FR 31696 (July 2, 2009).
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Scope of Review

    Imports covered by this review are shipments of certain non-egg dry 
pasta in packages of five pounds (2.27 kilograms) or less, whether or 
not enriched or fortified or containing milk or other optional 
ingredients such as chopped vegetables, vegetable purees, milk, gluten, 
diastases, vitamins, coloring and flavorings, and up to two percent egg 
white. The pasta covered by this scope is typically sold in the retail 
market, in fiberboard or cardboard cartons, or polyethylene or 
polypropylene bags of varying dimensions.
    Excluded from the scope of this review are refrigerated, frozen, or 
canned pastas, as well as all forms of egg pasta, with the exception of 
non-egg dry pasta containing up to two percent egg white.
    As a result of this review, also excluded from the scope of this 
order is gluten-free pasta.
    The merchandise subject to review is currently classifiable under 
item 1902.19.20 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(``HTSUS''). Although the HTSUS subheading is provided for convenience 
and customs purposes, the written description of the merchandise 
subject to the order is dispositive.

Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review

    Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``the Act''), and 19 CFR 351.216, the Department will conduct a 
changed circumstances review upon receipt of information concerning, or 
a request from an interested party for review of, an antidumping duty 
order which shows changed circumstances sufficient to warrant a review 
of the order. In its May 22, 2009, submission Pasta Lensi stated that 
petitioners have no interest in the antidumping duty order with respect 
to gluten-free pasta. Further, the petitioners expressed a lack of 
interest in maintain the antidumping duty order with respect to gluten-
free pasta.\5\ No party submitted any evidence to the contrary. 
Therefore, In accordance with 19 CFR 351.221(c)(3)(i), we determine 
that the petitioners have no interest in the antidumping duty order 
with respect to gluten-free pasta.
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    \5\ See memorandum from Christopher Hargett, Case Analyst, to 
Melissa Skinner, Office Director, entitled ``Phone Conversation with 
Counsel for Petitioners,'' dated June 2, 2009.
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    Pasta Lensi requested that the Department retroactively revoke the 
order and cited to Wooden Bedroom Furniture for support.\6\ Consistent 
with Department practice, we have determined to revoke the order, in 
part, retroactive to July 1, 2008, (the date following the last day of 
the most recently completed administrative review) for unliquidated 
entries in light of Pasta Lensi's request and the fact that entries 
after this date are not subject to a final determination by the 
Department. Accordingly, the Department will revoke, in part, the 
antidumping duty order on certain pasta from Italy with respect to 
gluten-free pasta, effective July 1, 2008.
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    \6\ See Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the People's Republic of 
China: Final Results of Changed Circumstances Review and 
Determination to Revoke Order in Part, 74 FR 8506 (February 25, 
2009)(``Wooden Bedroom Furniture'').
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    We will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') to 
liquidate without regard to antidumping duties all unliquidated entries 
of gluten-free pasta, not currently subject to an administrative review 
of certain pasta from Italy, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for 
consumption on or after July 1, 2008. The Department will further 
instruct CBP to refund with interest any estimated antidumping duties 
collected with respect to unliquidated entries of gluten-free pasta 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after the 
publication date of the final results of this changed circumstances 
review, in accordance with section 778 of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.222(g)(4).
    This changed circumstances administrative review, partial 
revocation of the antidumping duty order and notice are in accordance 
with sections 751(b) and (d), 777(i), and 782(h) of the Act and section 
351.216(e) and 351.222(g) of the Department's regulations.

    Dated: August 7, 2009.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E9-19562 Filed 8-13-09; 8:45 am]
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