Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Investigation: Live Swine 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 [A-122-850] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce ACTION: Initiation of Antidumping Investigation. SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is initiating an antidumping investigation to determine whether producers and exporters of live swine from Canada are selling live swine to the United States at less than fair value. EFFECTIVE DATE: April 14, 2004. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Judith Wey Rudman at (202) 482-0192, Cole Kyle at (202) 482-0192, or Andrew Smith at (202) 482-1276; Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Initiation of Investigation The Petition Between March 5 and 30, 2004, the Department of Commerce (“the Department”) received a petition, and amendments to the petition, filed in proper form by the Illinois Pork Producers Association, the Indiana Pork Advocacy Coalition, the Iowa Pork Producers Association, the Minnesota Pork Producers Association, the Missouri Pork Association, the Nebraska Pork Producers Association, Inc., the North Carolina Pork Council, Inc., the Ohio Pork Producers Council, and 119 individual producers of live swine  [ 1 ] ( printed page 19816) (hereinafter “the petitioners”). The Department received information supplementing the March 5, 2004, petition on March 18, 22, and 30, 2004. On March…