[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: 19CFR210.29]

[Page 150]
 
                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                            TRADE COMMISSION
 
PART 210--ADJUDICATION AND ENFORCEMENT--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart E--Discovery and Compulsory Process
 
Sec.  210.29  Interrogatories.

    (a) Scope; use at hearing. Any party may serve upon any other party 
written interrogatories to be answered by the party served. 
Interrogatories may relate to any matters that can be inquired into 
under Sec.  210.27(b) or Sec.  210.61, and the answers may be used to 
the extent permitted by the rules of evidence.
    (b) Procedure. (1) Interrogatories may be served upon any party 
after the date of publication in the Federal Register of the notice of 
investigation.
    (2) Parties answering interrogatories shall repeat the 
interrogatories being answered immediately preceding the answers. Each 
interrogatory shall be answered separately and fully in writing under 
oath, unless it is objected to, in which event the reasons for objection 
shall be stated in lieu of an answer. The answers are to be signed by 
the person making them, and the objections are to be signed by the 
attorney making them. The party upon whom the interrogatories have been 
served shall serve a copy of the answers, and objections if any, within 
the time specified by the administrative law judge. The party submitting 
the interrogatories may move for an order under Sec.  210.33(a) with 
respect to any objection to or other failure to answer an interrogatory.
    (3) An interrogatory otherwise proper is not necessarily 
objectionable merely because an answer to the interrogatory involves an 
opinion or contention that relates to fact or the application of law to 
fact, but the administrative law judge may order that such an 
interrogatory need not be answered until after designated discovery has 
been completed or until a prehearing conference or a later time.
    (c) Option to produce records. When the answer to an interrogatory 
may be derived or ascertained from the records of the party upon whom 
the interrogatory has been served or from an examination, audit, or 
inspection of such records, or from a compilation, abstract, or summary 
based thereon, and the burden of deriving or ascertaining the answer is 
substantially the same for the party serving the interrogatory as for 
the party served, it is a sufficient answer to such interrogatory to 
specify the records from which the answer may be derived or ascertained 
and to afford to the party serving the interrogatory reasonable 
opportunity to examine, audit, or inspect such records and to make 
copies, compilations, abstracts, or summaries. The specifications 
provided shall include sufficient detail to permit the interrogating 
party to locate and to identify, as readily as can the party served, the 
documents from which the answer may be ascertained.