Notice of Postponement of Final Determinations of Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Fresh Cut Roses From Colombia and Ecuador

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-301-801, A-331-801]

Notice of Postponement of Final Determinations of Sales at Less

Than Fair Value: Fresh Cut Roses From Colombia and Ecuador

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 5, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill Crow or Shawn Thompson, Office of

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

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20230; telephone (202) 482-0116 or (202) 482-1776, respectively.

Postponement

On September 20, 1994, three of the four respondents in the

antidumping duty investigation of fresh cut roses from Ecuador

requested that the Department postpone the final determination in that

investigation 127 days, in accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) of the

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act) (19 U.S.C. 1673d(a)(2)(A)), in

order to ensure that the Department has adequate time to conduct

verification and to consider fully all the issues in the case. In

addition, on September 27, 1994, Asocolflores, the Colombian Flower

Growers Association, as well as fourteen of the sixteen Colombian

respondents in the antidumping duty investigation of fresh cut roses

from Colombia, requested that the Department postpone the final

determination in the Colombian investigation 128 days in order to

ensure that the Department has adequate time to conduct verification

and to consider fully all the issues in the cases, in accordance with

section 735(a)(2)(A) of the Act. On September 27, 1994, the fourth

Ecuadorian respondent requested that the Department align the final

determination dates in the Colombian and Ecuadorian cases. Finally, on

September 28, 1994, the other Ecuadorian respondents requested that the

Department also align the final determination dates by postponing the

final determination 128 days.

We find no compelling reasons to deny these requests and are,

accordingly, postponing the dates of the final determinations for both

cases until not later than January 26, 1995, pursuant to 19 CFR

353.20(b)(1).

This notice is published pursuant to section 735(d) of the Act (19

U.S.C. 1673d(d)) and 19 CFR 353.20(b)(2).

Dated: September 28, 1994.

Susan G. Esserman,

Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 94-24654 Filed 10-4-94; 8:45 a.m.]

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