[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 13 (Thursday, January 21, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3277-3278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-1369]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Fresh Kiwifruit From New Zealand: Postponement of Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review (A-614-801)

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

ACTION: Extension of time limits for preliminary results of antidumping 
duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit of the 
preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review of 
the antidumping finding on fresh kiwifruit from New Zealand covering 
the period June 1, 1997, through May 31, 1998, since it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the time limit mandated by 
Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 21, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Stoltz or Jim Terpstra, 
Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty Enforcement, Office Four, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-4474 and 482-3965, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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 Act by the Uruguay Round Agreements 
Act.

Background

    On July 28, 1998 (63 FR 40258) the Department of Commerce (the 
Department) initiated an administrative review of the antidumping duty 
order on fresh kiwifruit from New Zealand covering the period June 1, 
1997, through May 31, 1998. In our notice of initiation, we stated that 
we intended to issue the final results of this review no later than 
June 30, 1999. The current deadline for the preliminary results is 
March 2, 1999.

Postponement of Preliminary Results of Review

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act requires the Department to make a 
preliminary determination within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order 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 the time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) allows the Department to extend this time period to 365 
days and 180 days, respectively.
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time frame because of the 
numerous novel and complex legal and methodological issues in this 
review (see Decision Memorandum from Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, to Robert S. LaRussa, Assistant Secretary).
    Accordingly, the deadline for issuing the preliminary results of 
this review is now due no later than June 30, 1999.

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The deadline for issuing the final results of this review will be no 
later than 120 days from the publication of the preliminary results.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act (19 U.S.C. 1675 (a)(3)(A)).

    Dated: January 14, 1999.
Holly Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-1369 Filed 1-20-99; 8:45 am]
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