[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 49 (Monday, March 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 13364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6090]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-588-837, A-428-821]


Large Newspaper Printing Presses from Japan and Germany: 
Postponement of Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Reviews

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

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

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative reviews of 
the antidumping duty orders on large newspaper printing presses from 
Japan and Germany. The review involving Japan covers the period 
September 1, 1998, through August 31, 1999. The reviews involving 
Germany cover the periods September 1, 1997, through August 31, 1998; 
and September 1, 1998 through August 31, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 13, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sunkyu Kim, at (202) 482-2613 for 
Japan; and Katherine Johnson, at (202) 482-4929 for Germany, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20230.
    Postponement of Preliminary Results of Reviews: The Department of 
Commerce (the Department) initiated reviews of the antidumping duty 
orders on large newspaper printing presses (LNPPs) from Japan and 
Germany on November 4, 1999 (64 FR 60161). The current deadline for the 
preliminary results in these reviews is June 1, 2000. In accordance 
with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, we 
determine that it is not practicable to complete the administrative 
reviews of LNPPs from Japan and Germany within the original time frame. 
See February 28, 2000, Memorandum from Sunkyu Kim, Acting Program 
Manager, and Irene Darzenta Tzafolias, Program Manager, to Richard W. 
Moreland, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration. Thus, 
the Department is extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results until no later than September 29, 2000, which is 
365 days after the last day of the anniversary month of the order.
    We intend to issue the final results of these administrative 
reviews within 120 days after the publication of the preliminary 
results.

    Dated: March 6, 2000.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-6090 Filed 3-10-00; 8:45 am]
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