Application of U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws to Hong Kong

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Application of U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws to

Hong Kong

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Application of U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws to

Hong Kong.

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SUMMARY: This document notifies the public that no change in the status

of current orders or proceedings or in current practice regarding the

application of the U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws will

be made, either to Hong Kong or the PRC.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff May, Acting Director, Office of

Policy, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room 3713, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenues, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-4412.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Sino-British Joint

Declaration, signed in 1984, the People's Republic of China (PRC)

resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997.

Section 201 of the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 states

that this reversion will not affect the manner in which Hong Kong is

treated under U.S. law. Furthermore, the U.S. Customs Service has

determined that no change in the current practice regarding the country

of origin marking of goods produced in Hong Kong should be made as a

result of this reversion (see 62 FR 30927). This means that Hong Kong

will be considered a separate Customs territory within the PRC, as it

was considered a separate Customs territory under British rule.

Accordingly, this document notifies the public that no change in

the status of current orders or proceedings or in current practice

regarding the application of the U.S. antidumping and countervailing

duty (AD/CVD) laws will be made, either to Hong Kong or the PRC.

Petition requirements and initiations, investigations, administrative

reviews, revocations, circumvention inquiries, the coverage and scope

of AD/CVD orders and suspension agreements, the calculation of normal

value, and all other methodological, policy, and procedural aspects of

U.S. AD/CVD proceedings, conducted under Title VII of the Tariff Act of

1930, as amended, will not change.

Dated: August 5, 1997.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97-21278 Filed 8-8-97; 8:45 am]

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