[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR210.35]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                 CHAPTER II--UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL
                            TRADE COMMISSION
 
PART 210--ADJUDICATION AND ENFORCEMENT--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart F--Prehearing Conferences and Hearings
 
Sec. 210.35  Prehearing conferences.


    (a) When appropriate. The administrative law judge in any 
investigation may direct counsel or other representatives for all 
parties to meet with him for one or more conferences to consider any or 
all of the following:
    (1) Simplification and clarification of the issues;
    (2) Scope of the hearing;
    (3) Necessity or desirability of amendments to pleadings subject, 
however, to the provisions of Sec. 210.14 (b) and (c);
    (4) Stipulations and admissions of either fact or the content and 
authenticity of documents;
    (5) Expedition in the discovery and presentation of evidence 
including, but not limited to, restriction of the number of expert, 
economic, or technical witnesses; and
    (6) Such other matters as may aid in the orderly and expeditious 
disposition of the investigation including disclosure of the names of 
witnesses and the exchange of documents or other physical exhibits that 
will be introduced in evidence in the course of the hearing.
    (b) Subpoenas. Prehearing conferences may be convened for the 
purpose of accepting returns on subpoenas duces tecum issued pursuant to 
Sec. 210.32(a)(3).
    (c) Reporting. In the discretion of the administrative law judge, 
prehearing conferences may or may not be stenographically reported and 
may or may not be public.
    (d) Order. The administrative law judge may enter in the record an 
order that recites the results of the conference. Such order shall 
include the administrative law judge's rulings upon matters considered 
at the conference, together with appropriate direction to the parties. 
The administrative law judge's order shall control the subsequent course 
of the hearing, unless the administrative law judge modifies the order.