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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1979

93 STAT. 176

PUBLIC LAW 96-39—JULY 26, 1979 agreement accepted under section 704(c) or 734(c) continues to eliminate completely the injurious effects of imports of the merchandise. "(2) LIMITATION ON PERIOD FOR REVIEW.—In the absence of good cause shown— "(A) the Commission may not review a determination under section 705(b) or 735(b), and "(B) the administering authority may not review a determination under section 705(a) or 735(a), or the suspension of an investigation suspended under section 704 or 734, less than 24 months after the date of publication of notice of that determination or suspension. "(c) REVOCATION OF COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDER OR ANTIDUMPING

DUTY ORDER.—The administering authority may revoke, in whole or in part, a countervailing duty order or an antidumping duty order, or terminate a suspended investigation, after review under this section. Any such revocation or termination shall apply with respect to unliquidated entries of merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on and after a date determined by the administering authority. "(d) HEARINGS.—Whenever the administering authority or the Commission conducts a review under this section it shall, upon the request of any interested party, hold a hearing in accordance with section 774(b) in connection with that review. "(e) DETERMINATION THAT BASIS FOR SUSPENSION N O LONGER

EXISTS.—If the determination of the Commission under the last sentence of subsection (b)(1) is negative, the agreement shall be treated as not accepted, beginning on the date of the publication of the Commission's determination, and the administering authority and the Commission shall proceed, under section 704(i) or 734(i), as if the agreement had been violated on that date, except that no duty under any order subsequently issued shall be assessed on merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption before that date. "Subtitle D—General Provisions 19 USC 1677.

"SEC. 771. DEFINITIONS; SPECIAL RULES.

"For purposes of this title— "(1) ADMINISTERING AUTHORITY.—The term 'administering authority' means the Secretary of the Treasury, or any other officer of the United States to whom the responsibility for carrying out the duties of the administering authority under this title are transferred by law. "(2) COMMISSION.—The term 'Commission' means the United States International Trade Commission. "(3) COUNTRY.—The term 'country' means a foreign country, a political subdivision, dependent territory, or possession of a foreign country, and, except for the purpose of antidumping proceedings, may include an association of 2 or more foreign countries, political subdivisions, dependent territories, or possessions of countries into a customs union outside the United States. "(4) INDUSTRY.—

"(A) IN GENERAL.—The term 'industry' means the domestic producers as a whole of a like product, or those producers whose collective output of the like product constitutes a major proportion of the total domestic production of that product.