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Ref : EIC 111/3/10/1

4 October 2011

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 602/2011

US : Final Rule on Modification of Regulations regarding the Practice of Accepting Bonds during the Provisional Measures Period in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations

The trade was informed via Commercial Information Circular No. 245/2011 that the US Department of Commerce (DoC) proposed to modify its regulation to establish that provisional measures during an antidumping (AD) or countervailing duty (CVD) investigation will usually take the form of a cash deposit instead of a bonding requirement under the existing practice. The DoC issued in the Federal Register of 3 October 2011 a final rule to adopt the modification without changes and is amending its regulations governing the effect of an affirmative preliminary determination in AD or CVD proceedings to establish that the provisional measures will normally take the form of a cash deposit. The final rule will be effective on 2 November 2011 and will apply to all investigations initiated by petitions filed on or after the effective date. For details of the final rule, please refer to the FR notice, which is available at:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-10-03/pdf/2011-24666.pdf.

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2. For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact Miss S Y TANG at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Carmen CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry