Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty Determinations: Certain Polyester Staple Fiber From the Republic of Korea and Taiwan

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-580-839, A-583-833]

Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty

Determinations: Certain Polyester Staple Fiber From the Republic of

Korea and Taiwan

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vincent Kane (Republic of Korea) or

Alysia Wilson (Taiwan), AD/CVD Enforcement, Group I, Office 1, Import

Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1870, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-0176

or 482-0108, respectively.

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

On April 29, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the Department)

published its notice of initiation of antidumping investigations of

certain polyester staple fiber from the Republic of Korea and Taiwan.

See Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigations: Certain Polyester

Staple Fiber from the Republic of Korea and Taiwan, 64 FR 23053, 23055.

The notice stated we would issue our preliminary determinations by

September 9, 1999.

On August 16, 1999, pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff

Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc.; Arteva

Specialities S.a..r.l., d/b/a KoSa; Wellman, Inc.; and Intercontinental

Polymers, Inc. (the petitioners) 1 requested that the

Department postpone the issuance of the preliminary determinations in

these investigations. The petitioners' request for postponement was

timely, and the Department finds no compelling reason to deny the

request. Therefore, we are postponing the deadline for issuing these

determinations until no later than September 29, 1999.

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\1\ E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc. is not a petitioner in the

Taiwan case.

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This extension and notice are in accordance with section 733(c) of

the Act.

Dated: August 25, 1999.

Bernard T. Carreau,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-22786 Filed 8-31-99; 8:45 am]

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