[Federal Register: August 6, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 151)]
[Notices]
[Page 47866]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-827]
Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China:
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Extension of time limits.
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EFFECTIVE DATE: August 6, 2004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Stolz or John Conniff, AD/CVD
Enforcement, Office 9, Group III, Import Administration, International
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
4474 or (202) 482-1009, respectively.
Time Limits
Statutory Time Limits
Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to make a
preliminary determination within 245 days after the last day of the
anniversary month of an order or finding for which a review is
requested and a final determination within 120 days after the date on
which the preliminary determination is published. However, if it is not
practicable to complete the review within these time periods, section
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend the 245-day
time limit for the preliminary determination to a maximum of 365 days
the time limit for the final determination to 180 days (or 300 days if
the Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary
determination) from the date of publication of the preliminary
determination.
Background
On January 22, 2004, the Department published a notice of
initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on
certain cased pencils from the People's Republic of China, covering the
period December 1, 2002, through November 30, 2003. See Initiation of
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request
for Revocation in Part, 69 FR 3117 (January 22, 2004). The preliminary
results are currently due no later than September 1, 2004.
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review
We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary
results of this review within the original time limit. Additional time
is required to collect and analyze complex factors of production
consumption data from several manufacturing facilities. Therefore, the
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the
preliminary results by 120 days until no later than December 30, 2004.
We intend to issue the final results no later than 120 days after the
publication of the preliminary results notice.
This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the
Act.
Dated: August 2, 2004.
Jeffrey A. May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group I.
[FR Doc. 04-18047 Filed 8-5-04; 8:45 am]