Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determinations and Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty Determinations With Final Antidumping Duty Determinations: Certain Durum Wheat and Hard Red Spring Wheat From Canada

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration [C-122-846 and C-122-848] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice of preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determinations SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce preliminarily determines that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers or exporters of certain durum wheat and hard red spring wheat from Canada. For information on the estimated countervailing duty rates, see infra section on “Suspension of Liquidation.” EFFECTIVE DATE: March 10, 2003. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Matney, Audrey Twyman, Stephen Cho, or Geoffrey Craig, Office of Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Enforcement, Group 1, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 3099, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-1778, (202) 482-3534, (202) 482-3798 and (202) 482-5256, respectively. Petitioners The petitioners in these investigations are the North Dakota Wheat Commission (hard red spring wheat), United States Durum Growers Association (durum wheat), and the Durum Growers Trade Action Committee (durum wheat) (collectively, the “petitioners”). Case History Since the publication of the notice of initiation in the Federal Register ( see Notice of Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigations: Durum Wheat and Hard Red Spring Wheat from Canada , 67 FR 65951 (October 29, 2002) (&ldquo…