Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty Determination with Final Antidumping Duty Determination: Elastic Rubber Tape from India

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-533-816]

Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty Determination with Final

Antidumping Duty Determination: Elastic Rubber Tape from India

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 6, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vincent Kane or Suresh Maniam, Office

I, AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.

20230; telephone (202) 482-2815 or 482-0176, respectively.

Applicable Statute:

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are

references to the provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by

the Uruguay Round Agreements Act effective January 1, 1995 (the Act).

Supplementary Information:

On November 30, 1998, we completed the preliminary negative

countervailing duty determination pertaining to elastic rubber tape

from India. On December 4, 1998, the petitioners submitted a letter

requesting alignment of the final determination in this investigation

with the final determination in the companion antidumping duty

investigation. Therefore, in accordance with section 705(a)(1) of the

Act, we are aligning the final determination in this investigation with

the final antidumping duty determination in the antidumping

investigation of elastic rubber tape from India. See Notice of

Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation: Elastic Rubber Tape

from India, 63 FR 49549 (September 16, 1998). The final antidumping

duty determination is currently due on April 12, 1999.

This notice is published in accordance with section 705(a)(1) of

the Act.

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Dated: December 30, 1998.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

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