Certain Pasta From Italy: Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[A-475-818]

Certain Pasta From Italy: Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping

Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') has received a

request to conduct a new shipper administrative review of the

antidumping duty order on certain pasta from Italy. In accordance with

19 CFR 353.22(h), we are initiating this administrative review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 27, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Brinkmann or Greg Thompson,

Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S.

Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-5288 or 482-3003,

respectively.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of

1930, as amended (the Act), are references to the provisions effective

January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Act

by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to the

current regulations, as amended by the interim regulations published in

the Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Department has received a request, pursuant to section

751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, and in accordance with 19 CFR 353.22(h), for a

new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta from

Italy, which has a July anniversary date.

Initiation of Review

In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR

353.22(h)(6), we are initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping

duty order on certain pasta from Italy. We intend to issue the final

results of review not later than 270 days from the date of publication

of this notice.

The standard period of review (POR) in a new shipper review

initiated following the semiannual anniversary month is the six months

preceding the semiannual anniversary month. However, the Department may

expand the standard POR to cover the first exportation of a new

shipper. See Certain Compact Ductile Iron Waterworks Fittings and

Glands From the People's Republic of China, 61 FR 18568, (April 26,

1996). Therefore, the POR for this review has been expanded to include

the semiannual anniversary month.

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Period to be

Antidumping duty proceeding reviewed

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Italy: Certain Pasta, A-475-818:

GSA, S.r.l.......................................... 07/01/96-

1/31/97

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We will instruct the U.S. Customs Service to allow, at the option

of the importer, the posting, until the completion of the review, of a

bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the

merchandise exported by the company listed above, in accordance with 19

CFR 353.22(h)(4).

Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under

administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(b).

This initiation and this notice are in accordance with section

751(a) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 353.22(h).

Dated: February 20, 1997.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 97-4928 Filed 2-26-97; 8:45 am]

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