[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 67 (Thursday, April 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18069-18070]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8565]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-475-819]


Certain Pasta From Italy: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for 
the 1998 Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results of the third review of the countervailing duty 
order on certain pasta from Italy. The period of review is January 1 
through December 31, 1998.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 6, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Matney or Annika O'Hara, Office 
of AD/CVD Enforcement I, Import Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230; telephone (202) 482-1778 or (202) 482-3798, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are 
references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective 
date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. Unless otherwise indicated, all citations 
to the Department's regulations are to 19 CFR part 351 (1999).

Background

    On August 30, 1999, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
initiated the third countervailing duty administrative review of 
certain pasta from Italy, covering calendar year 1998. See Initiation 
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and 
Requests for Revocation in Part, 64 FR 47167 (August 30, 1999). 
Corrections to the initiation notice were published in the Federal 
Register on September 8, 1999 (64 FR 48897) and November 4, 1999 (64 FR 
60161). The preliminary results are currently due no later than April 
3, 2000.

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 the order for 
which a review is requested. However, if it is not practicable to issue 
the preliminary results within the time

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period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend 
this deadline to a maximum of 365 days.

Postponement

    The Department has determined that additional time is necessary to 
issue the preliminary results in this administrative review for the 
reasons stated in our memorandum from Susan Kuhbach to Richard 
Moreland, dated March 31, 2000. Therefore, in accordance with section 
751 (a)(3)(A) of the Act, we are postponing the preliminary results of 
this administrative review until no later than July 31, 2000.
    This notice is published pursuant to section 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: March 31, 2000.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-8565 Filed 4-5-00; 8:45 am]
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