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: October 14, 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) 482-2815

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. The

initiation notice stated that we would issue our preliminary

determinations by September 9, 1999. On August 25, 1999, at the request

of E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc.; Arteva Specialities S.a.r.l., d/b/a

KoSa; Wellman, Inc.; and Intercontinental Polymers, Inc. (hereinafter

collectively referred to as ``the petitioners'' 1), the

Department extended the preliminary determinations until no later than

September 29, 1999. See Notice of Postponement of Preliminary

Antidumping Duty Determinations: Certain Polyester Staple Fiber from

the Republic of Korea and Taiwan, 64 FR 47766 (September 1, 1999). On

September 29, 1999, at the request of petitioners, the Department

extended the preliminary determinations until no later than October 4,

1999.2

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

Taiwan case.

\2\ At the time this notice was prepared, the postponement of

the preliminary determination until October 4, 1999 had not yet been

published in the Federal Register.

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Based on petitioners' September 29, 1999 request, we are further

extending the determinations in these investigations until no later

than October 29, 1999.

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

the Act.

Dated: October 4, 1999.

Richard W. Moreland,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 99-26722 Filed 10-13-99; 8:45 am]

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