MESSAGE NO: 1225112 DATE: 08 13 1991
CATEGORY: CVD TYPE: ADM
REFERENCE: REFERENCE DATE:
CASES: C - 201 - 001 - -
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PERIOD COVERED: 01 01 1988 TO 12 31 1989

LIQ SUSPENSION DATE:

TO: REGIONAL DIRECTORS, COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS
DISTRICT DIRECTORS, AREA AND PORT DIRECTORS

FROM: DIRECTOR, TRADE COMPLIANCE DIVISION

RE: COUNTERVAILING DUTIES - KLEATHER WEARING APPAREL-
FROM MEXICO (C-201-001)


1. The Department of Commerce published in the Federal Register
on June 4, 1991 the final results of its administrative
reviews of the countervailing duty order on leather wearing
apparel from Mexico. The review covers the period January 1,
1988 through December 31, 1988 and January 1, 1989 through
December 31, 1989.

2. Imports covered by the reviews are shipments of Mexican
leather wearing apparel. These products include leather
coats and jackets for men, boys, women, girls and infants,
and other leather wearing apparel products including leather
vests, pants and shorts. Also included are outer leather
shells and parts and pieces of leather wearing apparel.
Throughout 1988, such merchandise was classifiable under
Tariff Schedules of the United States Annotated (TSUSA) item
numbers 791.7620, 791.7640, and 791.7660. During the 1989
review period these products were classifiable under item
numbers 4203.10.4030, 4203.10.4060 and 4203.10.4090 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS).

3. The net subsidy was found to be de minimis for the period
January 1, 1988 through December 31, 1988, and de minimis for
the period January 1, 1989 through December 31, 1989.

ACTION

4. Accordingly, you are to liquidate entries without regard to
countervailing duties shipments of Mexican leather wearing
apparel exported on or after January 1, 1989 through December
31, 1989.

INTEREST INFORMATION

5. The assessment of Antidumping Duties by the Customs Service
on entries of this merchandise is subject to the provisions
of section 778 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Section 778
requires that Customs pay interest on overpayments, or assess
interest on underpayments, of the required amounts deposited
as estimated antidumping duties. The interest provisions are
not applicable to cash or bonds posted as estimated
Antidumping Duties before the date of publication of the
Antidumping Duty order. Interest shall be calculated from
the date of payment of estimated Antidumping duties through
the date of liquidation. The rate at which such interest is
payable is the rate in effect under section 6621 of the
Internal Revenue code of 1954 for such period.

6. The suspension of liquidation ordered for this merchandise
exported on or before December 31, 1989 is lifted.
Suspension of liquidation for entries of this merchandise
exported by any company other than Manufacturas Industriales
de Nogales (MINSA) on or after January 1, 1990 will continue.
With regard to MINSA, we are revoking the countervailing duty
order and, therefore, terminating the suspension of
liquidation requirement as of January 1, 1990.

7. Customs officers shall waive cash deposits of estimated
countervailing duties on all shipments of this merchandise
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or
after June 4, 1991. This cash deposit waiver will remain in
effect until the final results of the next administrative
review of the countervailing duty order on this merchandise.

8. If there are any questions regarding this matter by Customs
officers, please contact Via E-mail, through the Regional
Antidumping\Countervailing Duty Coordinator, the Trade
Compliance Division Antidumping\Countervailing Duty Branch,
using attribute "HQ OAB". The importing public and other
interested parties should contact the Office of
Countervailing Compliance, Import Administration,
International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce,
(202) 377-2786.

8. There are no restrictions on the release of this information.


Nancy McTiernan