[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 154 (Tuesday, August 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 42825]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21530]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-570-501]


Natural Bristle Paintbrushes and Brush Heads From the People's 
Republic of China: 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 Administrative Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: August 11, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Scheier or Maureen Flannery, AD/
CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 
482-4052 or (202)482-3020, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

    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.

Background

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) received a request from 
petitioner and a respondent to conduct an administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on natural bristle paintbrushes and brush heads 
from the People's Republic of China. On March 23, 1998 (63 FR 13837), 
the Department published its initiation of this administrative review 
covering the period February 1, 1997 through January 31, 1998.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    By law, the Department is required to verify the Hebei Animal By-
Products I/E Corp. See 19 CFR 351.307(b)(5)(A) and (B). At this time, 
it is not practicable to schedule a verification within the time limits 
set for the completion of an administrative review mandated by section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. See Memorandum from Joseph A. Spetrini to 
Robert S. LaRussa, Extension of Time Limit for the Administrative 
Review of Natural Bristle Paintbrushes and Brush Heads from The PRC., 
dated July 24, 1998.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the 
Department is extending the time limits for the preliminary results an 
additional sixty days to December 31, 1998. The final results continues 
to be due 120 days after the publication of the preliminary results.

    Dated: July 24, 1998.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement III.
[FR Doc. 98-21530 Filed 8-10-98; 8:45 am]
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