[Federal Register: December 2, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 231)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-331-602]

 
Certain Fresh Cut Flowers from Ecuador: Notice of Extension of 
Time Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative 
Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: December 2, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Ross or Davina Hashmi, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4794 or (202) 482-5760, 
respectively.

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The Applicable Statute and Regulations

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
regulations are references to the provisions codified at 19 CFR part 
351 (1998).

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    The Department has received a request to conduct an administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on certain fresh cut flowers from 
Ecuador. On April 24, 1998, the Department initiated this 
administrative review covering the period March 1, 1997 through 
February 28, 1998.
    Owing to certain issues surrounding this case, it is not 
practicable to complete this review within the time limits mandated by 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act (see Memorandum from Richard Moreland 
to Robert LaRussa, Re: Extension of Time Limit for Administrative 
Review of Fresh Cut Flowers from Ecuador, November 24, 1998). 
Therefore, in accordance with that section, the Department is extending 
the time limits for the issuance of the preliminary results of review 
to March 30, 1999. The Department intends to issue the final results of 
review 120 days after the publication of the preliminary results. This 
extension of the time limit is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) 
of the Act.

    Dated: November 24, 1998.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-32117 Filed 12-1-98; 8:45 am]
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