Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determinations: Certain Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings from France, et al. Postponement of Final Countervailing Duty Determiantions: Certain Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings From India, et al.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-427-813; A-533-811; A-508-807; A-557-808; A-580-824; A-549-809; A-

412-816; A-307-812; C-533-812; C-508-808]

Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determinations:

Certain Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings from France, et al.

Postponement of Final Countervailing Duty Determiantions: Certain Steel

Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings From India, et al.

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 26, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary Bettger (France and Israel),

Vincent Kane (United Kingdom and Thailand), or Julie Anne Osgood

(India, Malaysia, South Korea and Venezuela), Office of Countervailing

Investigations, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230;

telephone (202) 482-2239, (202) 482-2815 or (202) 482-0167,

respectively.

POSTPONEMENT: On March 25, 1994, the Department of Commerce (``the

Department'') initiated antidumping duty investigations of certain

carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from France, India, Israel,

Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Venezuela (59

FR 14149). On June 30, 1994, the U.S. Fittings Group (petitioner)

requested that the Department postpone its preliminary determinations

until September 27, 1994, in order to provide the Department with

sufficient time to investigate whether respondents in the

investigations involving France, the United Kingdom and Thailand are

selling carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings in the home market at

prices that are below the cost of production. Petitioner also requested

that the other five investigations be postponed in order to keep all of

the investigations on the same schedule.

In accordance with section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930

(``the Act''), as amended, and 19 CFR 353.15(c), we find no compelling

reason to deny petitioner's request and are, accordingly, postponing

the dates of these preliminary determinations until no later than

September 27, 1994.

On June 27, 1994, we published a notice in the Federal Register

aligning the due date for the final countervailing duty determinations

of certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from India and Israel

with that of the companion antidumping duty determinations (59 FR

32955). Those determinations, originally due no later than October 24,

1994, are now due no later than December 12, 1994.

Under Article 5, paragraph 3 of the Subsidies Code, provisional

measures cannot be imposed for more than 120 days without final

affirmative determinations of subsidization and injury. See 19 CFR

355.20(c)(ii). Therefore, we will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to

discontinue suspension of liquidation on the subject merchandise

entered on or after September 29, 1994, but to continue the suspension

of liquidation of all entries, or withdrawals from warehouse, for

consumption of the merchandise entered between June 1, 1994 (the date

of publication of the preliminary countervailing duty determination, 59

FR 28337), and September 28, 1994. We will reinstate suspension of

liquidation under section 703(d) of the Act if the Department issues a

final affirmative countervailing duty determination and the

International Trade Commission issues a final affirmative injury

determination. If these conditions are met, we will require a cash

deposit on all entries of the subject merchandise equal to the rate

determined in the final affirmative countervailing duty determination.

This notice is published pursuant to section 733(c)(2) of the Act

and 19 CFR 353.15(d).

Dated: July 19, 1994.

Barbara R. Stafford,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 94-18168 Filed 7-25-94; 8:45 am]

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