Notice of Initiation of Countervailing Duty 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 [C-122-851] AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Initiation of countervailing duty investigation. SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is initiating a countervailing duty investigation to determine whether manufacturers, producers, or exporters of live swine from Canada receive countervailable subsidies. EFFECTIVE DATE: April 14, 2004. ( printed page 19819) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melani Miller, Blanche Ziv, or S. Anthony Grasso, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 3099, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-0116, (202) 482-4207, and (202) 482-3853, respectively. Initiation of Investigation The Petition Between March 5 and 31, 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 ] (collectively, “the petitioners”). The Department received supplements to the March 5, 2004 petition on March 18, 22,…