[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: 19CFR354.2]

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                        TITLE 19--CUSTOMS DUTIES
 
                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 354--PROCEDURES FOR IMPOSING SANCTIONS FOR VIOLATION OF AN ANTIDUMPING OR COUNTERVAILING DUTY ADMINISTRATIVE PROTECTIVE ORDER--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  354.2  Definitions.

    For purposes of this part:
    Administrative protective order (APO) means an administrative 
protective order described in section 777(c)(1) of the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended; APO Sanctions Board means the Administrative 
Protective Order Sanctions Board.
    Business proprietary information means information the disclosure of 
which the Secretary has decided is limited under 19 CFR 351.105, or 
successor regulations;
    Charged party means a person who is charged by the Deputy Under 
Secretary with violating a protective order;
    Chief Counsel means the Chief Counsel for Import Administration or a 
designee;
    Date of service means the day a document is deposited in the mail or 
delivered in person;
    Days means calendar days, except that a deadline which falls on a 
weekend or holiday shall be extended to the next working day;
    Department means the United States Department of Commerce;
    Deputy Under Secretary means the Deputy Under Secretary for 
International Trade or a designee;
    Director means the Senior APO Specialist or an office director under 
a Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Trade Administration, or a 
designee;
    Lesser included sanction means a sanction of the same type but of 
more limited scope than the proposed sanction; thus a one-year bar on 
representations before the International Trade Administration is a 
lesser included sanction of a proposed seven-year bar;
    Parties means the Department and the charged party or affected party 
in an action under this part;
    Presiding official means the person authorized to conduct hearings 
in administrative proceedings or to rule on any motion or make any 
determination

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under this part, who may be an Administrative Law Judge, a Hearing 
Commissioner, or such other person who is not under the supervision or 
control of the Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, the Deputy 
Under Secretary for International Trade, the Chief Counsel for Import 
Administration, or a member of the APO Sanctions Board;
    Proprietary information means information the disclosure of which 
the Secretary has decided is limited under 19 CFR part 351 including 
business or trade secrets; production costs; distribution costs; terms 
of sale; prices of individual sales, likely sales, or offers; names of 
customers, distributors, or suppliers; exact amounts of the gross net 
subsidies received and used by a person; names of particular persons 
from whom proprietary information was obtained; and any other business 
information the release of which to the public would cause substantial 
harm to the competitive position of the submitter;
    Secretary means the Secretary of Commerce or a designee;
    Segment of the proceeding means a portion of an antidumping or 
countervailing duty proceeding that is reviewable under section 516A of 
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.
    Senior APO Specialist means the Department employee under the 
Director for Policy and Analysis who leads the APO Unit and is 
responsible for directing Import Administration's handling of business 
proprietary information;
    Under Secretary means the Under Secretary for International Trade or 
a designee.

[63 FR 24403, May 4, 1998]