[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 24 (Friday, February 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5591-5592]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2586]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-818, A-489-805]


Certain Pasta From Italy and Turkey: Extension of Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE:  February 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Jarrod Goldfeder at (202) 482-2305, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Group II, 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 issue the preliminary results within 
245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order/
finding for which a review is requested and the final results within 
120 days after the date on which the preliminary results are 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 the time limit for the preliminary results to a maximum of 365 
days and for the final results to 180 days (or 300 days if the 
Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary results) 
from the date of the publication of the preliminary results.

Background

    On August 30, 1999, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain 
pasta from Italy and Turkey, covering the period July 1, 1998 to June 
30, 1999 (64 FR 47167). The preliminary results are currently due no 
later than April 3, 2000.

Extension of Preliminary Results of Reviews

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of these reviews within the original time limits. Therefore, we 
are extending the time limits for completion of the preliminary results 
until no later than June 30, 2000. See Decision Memorandum from John 
Brinkmann to Holly A. Kuga, dated January 31, 2000, which is on file in 
the Central Records

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Unit, B-099 of the main Commerce Building. We intend to issue the final 
results no later than 120 days after the publication of the notice of 
preliminary results of these reviews.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: January 31, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
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