[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 19, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 19CFR207.2]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                            TRADE COMMISSION
 
  PART 207--INVESTIGATIONS OF WHETHER INJURY TO DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES RESULTS FROM IMPORTS SOLD AT LESS THAN FAIR VALUE OR FROM SUBSIDIZED EXPORTS TO THE UNITED 
STATES--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec.  207.2  Definitions applicable to part 207.

    Source: 56 FR 11923, Mar. 21, 1991, unless otherwise noted.


    For the purposes of this part, the following terms have the meanings 
hereby assigned to them:
    (a) The term the Act means: The Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.
    (b) The term administering authority means: The Secretary of 
Commerce, or any other officer of the United States to whom the 
responsibility for carrying out the duties of the administering 
authority under section 303 or title VII of the Act is transferred by 
law.
    (c) The term Director means: The incumbent Commission Director or 
Acting Director, Office of Operations, or, in the absence of either, a 
person designated by the Director.
    (d) The term ex parte meeting means: Any communication between
    (1) Any interested party or other person providing factual 
information in connection with an investigation, and
    (2) Any Commissioner, or member of a Commissioner's staff, in which 
less than all parties participate, and which is not a hearing or 
conference for which an opportunity to participate is given to the 
parties.
    (e) The term injury means: Material injury or threat of material 
injury to an industry in the United States, or material retardation of 
the establishment of an industry in the United States, by reason of 
imports into the United States of subject merchandise which is found by 
the administering authority to be subsidized, or sold, or likely to be 
sold, at less than its fair value.
    (f) The term record means:
    (1) All information presented to or obtained by the Commission 
during the course of an investigation, including completed 
questionnaires, any information obtained from the administering 
authority, written communications from any person filed with the 
Secretary, staff reports, all governmental memoranda pertaining to the 
case, and the record of ex parte meetings required to be kept pursuant 
to section 777(a)(3) of the Act; and
    (2) A copy of all Commission orders and determinations, all 
transcripts or records of conferences or hearings, and all notices 
published in the Federal Register concerning the investigation.

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    (g) The term coalition or trade association as used in an 
investigation referred to in section 771(9)(G) of the Act means a 
coalition or trade association which is representative of domestic 
processors, domestic processors and producers, or domestic processors 
and growers.

[44 FR 76468, Dec. 26, 1979, as amended at 60 FR 21, Jan. 3, 1995]