NOTICES

                  DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                          [C-355-001]

     Leather Wearing Apparel From Uruguay; Final Results of
                    Countervailing Duty; 
                     Administrative Review

                   Tuesday, December 9, 1986

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  AGENCY: International Trade
  Administration/Import Administration Department of
  Commerce.

  ACTION: Notice of Final Results of Countervailing Duty
  Administrative Review.

  SUMMARY: On June 25, 1986, the Department of Commerce
  published the preliminary results of its administrative review of the
  countervailing duty order on leather wearing apparel from
  Uruguay. The review covers the period April 17, 1982 through
  December 31, 1983 and nine programs.We gave interested parties
  an opportunity to comment on the preliminary results. We received
  no comments. We have determined the net subsidy to be 1.35
  percent ad valorem for direct exports to the United States and 26.18
  percent ad valorem for exports to the United States through
  intermediate countries for the period April 17, 1982 through
  December 31, 1982 and zero percent for all exports to the United
  States from January 1, 1983 through December 31, 1983.

  EFFECTIVE DATE: December 9, 1986.

  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:Patricia W. Stroup or
  Bernard T. Carreau, Office of Compliance, International Trade
  Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
  20230; telephone: (202) 377-2786.

  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

  Background

  On July 16, 1982, the Department of Commerce ("the Department")
  published in the Federal Register (47 FR 31032) a countervailing
  duty order on leather wearing apparel from Uruguay. We began
  this review under our old regulations. On September 17 and October
  9, 1985, after the promulgation of our new regulations, a domestic
  interested party, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers
  Union--AFL-CIO and the Government of Uruguay, respectively,
  requested in accordance with § 355.10 of the Commerce
  Regulations that we complete the administrative review of this
  order. We published the new initiation on November 27, 1985 (50
  FR 48825) and the preliminary results of the review on June 25,
  1986 (51 FR 23110). The Department has now completed that
  administrative review in accordance with section 751 of the Tariff
  Act of 1930 ("the Tariff Act").

  Scope of Review

  Imports covered by this review are shipments of Uruguayan leather
  wearing apparel and parts and pieces thereof. Such merchandise is
  currently classifiable under items 791.7620, 791.7640, and
  791.7660 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated.
  The review covers the period April 17, 1982 through December 31,
  1983 and nine programs: (1) Reintegros; (2) supplementary
  reintegros; (3) transitional export payments; (4) Tax Refund
  Certificates; (5) bonification payments; (6) uncollected social
  security taxes; (7) income tax forgiveness; (8) tanner's subsidy; and
  (9) preferential export financing.
  In the preliminary results of this review, we incorrectly calculated
  the weighted-average benefit conferred by the supplementary
  reintegros on leather wearing apparel exported indirectly to the
  United States during the period April 17, 1982 through December
  31, 1982. The rate should have been 6.86 percent ad valorem rather
  than 8.25 percent. Accordingly, we determine the total bounty or
  grant to be 26.18 percent ad valorem for Uruguayan leather wearing
  apparel exported to the United States through intermediate
  countries for the period April 17, 1982 through December 31, 1982.
  All other rates remain the same.

  Final Results of Review

  We gave interested parties an opportunity to comment on the
  preliminary results. we received no comments. Except for the
  correction of a calculation error, the final results of the review are
  the same as the preliminary results.
  The Department will instruct the Customs Service to assess
  countervailing duties in the following amounts:
  1. For all shipments exported directly to the United States and
  entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after
  April 17, 1982 and exported on or before December 31, 1982, 1.35
  percent of the f.o.b. invoice price of the merchandise.
  2. For all shipments exported from Uruguay on or after April 17,
  1982 and on or before December 31, 1982, to intermediate
  countries and entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
  consumption in the United States on or after April 17, 1982, 26.18
  percent of the f.o.b. invoice price of the merchandise.
  3. For all shipments exported either directly or indirectly from
  Uruguay to the United States on or after January 1, 1983 and on or
  before Decembr 31, 1983, zero percent of the f.o.b. invoice price.
  Further, the Department will instruct the Customs Service not to
  collect cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties, as
  provided by section 751(a)(1) of the Tariff Act, on all shipments of
  the merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for
  consumption on or after the date of publication of this notice. This
  deposit requirement shall remain in effect until publication of the
  final results of the next administrative review.
  This notice is published in accordance with section 751(a)(1) of the
  Tariff Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1)) and § 355.10 of the Commerce
  Regulations (19 CFR 355.10).
  Dated: December 3, 1986.

  Gilbert B. Kaplan,

  Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.

  [FR Doc. 86-27607 Filed 12-8-86; 8:45 am]

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