Decision Following a Petition by Domestic Interested Parties Concerning the Location and Method of Country of Origin Marking for Imported Cast Iron Soil Pipes; Correction

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Customs Service

19 CFR PART 175

[T.D. 94-88]

Decision Following a Petition by Domestic Interested Parties

Concerning the Location and Method of Country of Origin Marking for

Imported Cast Iron Soil Pipes; Correction

AGENCY: U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury.

ACTION: Final interpretive rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects two errors in the decision published on

November 15, 1994, in the Federal Register (59 FR 58771) concerning the

location and method of country of origin marking of cast iron soil

pipes. Firstly, the document corrects the effective date of the marking

requirements set forth in the document. The marking requirements set

forth in the decision shall become effective as to merchandise entered

or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption after December 23, 1994.

Secondly, the document referred to the method of marking on the sample

pipe as die stamping when the actual method of marking on the sample

pipe was cast-in-mold.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Dinerstein, Office of

Regulations and Rulings, (202) 482-7010.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 15, 1994, a document was

published in the Federal Register (59 FR 58771) giving notice that

Customs has made a determination pursuant to a petition filed by

domestic interested parties that cast iron soil pipes like the samples

submitted to Customs and that are subject to the requirements of

section 304(c), Tariff Act of 1930, as amended are not legibly marked

in a conspicuous location to indicate their country of origin by die

stamping the letters covered by tar at the edge or lip of the pipe. Die

stamping was not the actual method of marking on the samples.

Accordingly, this correction document remedies that error by correctly

describing the method of marking as cast-in-mold. This correction does

not change the conclusion in the decision that the marking on the

sample pipe was neither legible nor in a conspicuous location.

The decision published in the Federal Register on November 15 also

incorrectly set forth the effective date of the marking requirements

set forth in the decision. Instead of stating that the effective date

is a date 30 days after the date of publication of such notice to the

petitioner in the Customs Bulletin, as required by Sec. 175.22, Customs

Regulations (19 CFR 175.22), the effective date set forth in the

document incorrectly was 30 days after the date of publication of the

decision in the Federal Register. The decision was published in the

Customs Bulletin on November 23, 1994. Accordingly, the correct

effective date is December 23, 1994. The marking requirements set forth

in the decision published on November 15, 1994 in the Federal Register

(59 FR 58771) as T.D. 94-88 concerning cast iron soil pipe shall become

effective as to merchandise entered or withdrawn from warehouse for

consumption on December 23, 1994. After that date, cast iron soil pipe

like the samples submitted to Customs pursuant to the domestic

interested party petition entered for consumption or withdrawn from

warehouse for consumption and not marked to indicate their country of

origin consistent with the November 15 decision and other marking

requirements of the Tariff Act and Customs Regulations shall be

assessed marking duties.

Dated: November 21, 1994.

Harold M. Singer,

Chief, Regulations Branch.

[FR Doc. 94-29354 Filed 11-28-94; 8:45 am]

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