[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 244 (Wednesday, December 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 66653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32114]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
(A-588-841)


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: Vector Supercomputers From Japan

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 18, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Easton or Sunkyu Kim, Office of 
AD/CVD Enforcement II, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
1777 or (202) 482-2613, respectively.

Postponement of Preliminary Determination

    On August 19, 1996, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
initiated an antidumping duty investigation of vector supercomputers 
from Japan (61 FR 43527, August 23, 1996). The notice of initiation 
stated that if this investigation proceeds normally, the Department 
would issue its preliminary determination by January 6, 1997.
    In accordance with section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 
(the Act), on December 5, 1996, the petitioner made a timely request 
for a 50-day extension of the deadline for the preliminary 
determination. Under section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Act and section 
353.15(c) of the Department's regulations if, not later than 25 days 
before the scheduled date for the preliminary determination, the 
Department receives a request for postponement of the preliminary 
determination from the petitioner, the Department will, absent 
compelling reasons for denial, grant the request. Given that there are 
no compelling reasons to deny this request, we are postponing our 
preliminary determination in this investigation until no later than 
February 25, 1997, pursuant to section 733(c)(1) of the Act.
    This notice is published pursuant to section 733(c)(2) of the Act, 
and 19 CFR 353.15(d).

    Dated: December 12, 1996.
Barbara R. Stafford,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
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