[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13716-13717]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6267]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-813]


Canned Pineapple Fruit From Thailand: Extension of Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 14, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Constance Handley at (202) 482-0631, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement 5, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, 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 these time periods, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend the time limit for the preliminary determination 
to a maximum of 365 days and for the final determination to 180 days 
(or 300 days if the Department does not extend the time limit for the 
preliminary determination) from the date of publication of the 
preliminary determination.

Background

    On August 24, 1999, the Department of Commerce (the Department)

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published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on canned pineapple fruit from Thailand, 
covering the period July 1, 1998, through June 30, 1999 (64 FR 47167). 
The preliminary results are currently due no later than April 3, 2000.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit for the reasons 
stated in our memorandum from Gary Taverman to Holly Kuga, dated March 
6, 2000, which is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of 
the main Commerce building. Therefore, the Department is extending the 
time limit for completion of the preliminary results until no later 
than July 31, 2000. We intend to issue the final results no later than 
120 days after publication of the preliminary results notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 6, 2000.
Holly Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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