[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 232 (Friday, December 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67864-67865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31414]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-570-848]


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of the 
Antidumping Administrative Review and New-Shipper Reviews: Freshwater 
Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China

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


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EFFECTIVE DATE: December 3, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Ellerman or Maureen Flannery, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4106 and (202) 482-3020, 
respectively.

The Applicable Statute

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

Background

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) received requests to 
conduct an administrative review and new shipper reviews of the 
antidumping duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from the 
People's Republic of China. On October 29, 1998, the Department 
initiated the antidumping administrative review covering the period 
March 26, 1997 through August 31, 1998 (see Initiation of Antidumping 
and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, Requests for Revocation 
in Part and Deferral of Administrative Reviews, 63 FR 58009). On 
November 5, 1998, the Department initiated new-shipper reviews covering 
the period March 26, 1997 through August 31, 1998 (see Freshwater 
Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of 
New-Shipper Antidumping Administrative Reviews, 63 FR 59762).
    On September 30, 1999, the Department issued preliminary results of 
review for both the administrative review and the new-shipper reviews 
(see Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and 
New Shipper Reviews, Partial Rescission of the Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, and Rescission of the New Shipper Review for 
Yancheng Baolong Biochemical Products, Co. Ltd.: Freshwater Crawfish 
Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China, October 12, 1999, 64 FR 
55236).
    The Department has determined that because of certain complex 
issues, it is not practicable to complete this review within the normal 
time limits mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.213 (h)(2) of the Department's regulations (see Memorandum from 
Joseph A. Spetrini to Robert S. LaRussa, Extension of Time Limit for 
the Final Results of the Antidumping Administrative Review and New 
Shipper Reviews of Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the People's 
Republic of China, dated November 19, 1999). Therefore, in accordance 
with these sections, the Department is extending the time limits for 
the final results to April 9, 2000.
    This extension of time limits is in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2) of the Department's 
regulations.

    Dated: November 19, 1999.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement III.
[FR Doc. 99-31414 Filed 12-2-99; 8:45 am]
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