[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 68320]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31672]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration
[A-475-818]


Certain Pasta from Italy: Extension of Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: December 7, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Brinkmann at (202) 482-4126, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement II, Group VI, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

TIME LIMITS

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an 
order/finding 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) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend these deadlines to a maximum of 365 days and 180 
days, respectively.

Background

    On August 27, 1998, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta 
from Italy, covering the period July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998 (63 FR 
45796). On August 9, 1999, we issued the preliminary results of review 
(64 FR 43152). In our notice of preliminary results, we stated our 
intention to issue the final results of this review no later than 
December 7,1999.

Extension of Final Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the final 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore, the 
Department is extending the time limits for completion of the final 
results until no later than February 7, 2000. See Decision Memorandum 
from Holly Kuga to Richard W. Moreland, dated November 29, 1999, which 
is on file in the Central Records Unit.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: November 30, 1999.
Holly Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 99-31672 Filed 12-6-99; 8:45 am]
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