[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19360-19361]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8983]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-508-605]


Industrial Phosphoric Acid From Israel: Notice of Extension of 
Time Limit for Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 11, 2000.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the 
time limit for the preliminary results of the administrative review of 
the countervailing duty order on industrial phosphoric acid from 
Israel. The review covers the period January 1, 1998 through December 
31, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sean Carey or Jonathan Lyons, AD/CVD 
Enforcement Office 7, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-
3964 or (202) 482-0374, respectively.

Postponement of Preliminary Results of Review

    On October 1, 1999, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of an administrative review of the countervailing duty order on 
industrial phosphoric acid from Israel, covering

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the period January 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998 (64 FR 53318). The 
preliminary results are currently due no later than May 2, 2000.
    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act, 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. However, if it is not practicable to 
complete the preliminary results within this time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend the time limit 
for a preliminary determination to a maximum of 365 days.
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore, the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results to no later than August 30, 2000. See Memorandum 
from Richard O. Weible to Joseph A. Spetrini, dated April 5, 2000, 
which is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the main 
Commerce Building. This extension is in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Dated: April 5, 2000.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary Enforcement Group III.
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