Certain Textile Mill Products From Colombia; Notice of Conversion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[C-301-401]

Certain Textile Mill Products From Colombia; Notice of Conversion

AGENCY: International Trade Administration/Import Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Conversion of the Scope of the Suspended

Investigation from the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated

to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.

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SUMMARY: On April 15, 1994, the Department of Commerce (the Department)

published in the Federal Register the proposed conversion of the Tariff

Schedules of the United States Annotated (TSUSA) to the Harmonized

Tariff Schedule (HTS) for the suspended countervailing duty

investigation on certain textile mill products from Colombia (59 FR

18101). Interested parties were invited to comment on the proposed

conversion. No comments were received concerning the scope of the

suspended countervailing duty investigation on certain textile mill

products from Colombia; therefore, no changes have been made.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 12, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda L. Pasden, Office of Agreements

Compliance, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230, telephone (202) 482-0162.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

In 1985, the Department suspended the countervailing duty

investigation on certain textile mill products and apparel from

Colombia (C-301-401) (50 FR 9863; March 12, 1985). The scope of the

suspended investigation was originally defined solely in terms of the

TSUSA item numbers; no narrative product description was provided. On

January 1, 1989, the United States fully converted from the TSUSA to

the HTS, pursuant to section 1211 of the Omnibus Trade and

Competitiveness Act of 1988. The suspended investigation was terminated

in 1990, and the HTS conversion was never implemented. However, the

Court of International Trade (CIT) ordered that the suspended

investigation be reinstated (except with regard to apparel from

Colombia) in its decision dated May 7, 1992 (Belton Industries, Inc. v.

United States, slip op. No. 92-64). The CIT ruling was upheld by the

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on September 7, 1993 (Belton

Industries, Inc. v. United States, 6f.3d 756). As a result, the

suspended investigation was reinstated effective May 18, 1992 (see 58

FR 54552, October 22, 1993, and decision memorandum dated February 25,

1994). Therefore, the Department took action to conform the scope of

the investigation with the tariff classification system of the HTS.

The Department, with the assistance of the U.S. Customs Service and

the U.S. International Trade Commission, analyzed the TSUSA-defined

scope and identified those HTS numbers that reasonably correspond with

the TSUSA-defined scope of the subject suspended investigation. On

April 15, 1994, the Department published a proposed conversion (59 FR

18108) and invited interested parties to comment on this proposed

conversion. Because no comments were received, the Department has not

changed the HTS numbers for the scope of the suspended investigation on

certain textile mill products from Colombia from those published in the

proposed conversion. The HTS numbers for this suspended countervailing

duty investigation are found in the attached Appendix.

Dated: October 5, 1994.

Susan G. Esserman,

Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

Appendix: HTS List for Certain Textile Mill Products From Colombia

5111.1120 5205.2300 5406.1000.20 6002.2010

5111.1910 5205.2400 5406.1000.40 6002.4300\1\

5111.2005 5205.2500 5406.1000.90 6002.4300.10

5111.2010 5205.3200\2\ 5406.2000 6002.4300.20

5111.3005 5205.3300 5509.2200 6002.4300.80

5111.3010 5205.4400 5509.2200.10 6302.6000

5111.9040 5205.4500 5509.2200.90 6302.6000.10

5111.9050 5206.1100 5509.5160 6302.6000.20

5112.1110 5206.1200 5511.1000 6302.6000.30

5112.1920 5206.1300 5511.1000.30 6302.9100

5112.2010 5206.1400 5511.1000.60 6302.9100.05

5112.2020 5206.1500 5511.2000 6302.9100.15

5112.3010 5206.4100 5511.3000 6302.9100.25

5112.3020 5206.4200 5801.2100 6302.9100.35

5112.9040 5206.4300 5801.2200 6302.9100.45

5112.9050 5206.4400 5804.2100 6302.9100.50

5205.1110 5206.4500 5804.2900 6302.9100.60

5205.1210 5207.1000 5804.2900.10 6306.1100

5205.1310 5207.9000 5804.2900.20 6306.2100

5205.1410 5406.1000 5804.2900.90

\1\Coverage limited to fabrics of polyester.

\2\Coverage limited to yarn exceeding 33nm per single yarn.

[FR Doc. 94-25219 Filed 10-11-94; 8:45 am]

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