[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 116 (Thursday, June 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37521-37522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-15196]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-822]


Certain Helical Spring Lock Washers From the People's Republic of 
China: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of 
the Sixth Administrative Antidumping 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 sixth administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain helical spring lock washers from the 
People's Republic of China. The period of review is October 1, 1998 
through September 30, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 15, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sally Hastings 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) 482-3464 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 of Commerce's (the Department's) regulations are to 
19 CFR part 351 (1999).

Background

    On December 3, 1999, the Department initiated the sixth antidumping 
duty administrative review of certain helical spring lock washers from 
the People's Republic of China, covering October 1, 1998 to September 
30, 1999. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 64 FR 67846 (December 3, 1999). The preliminary 
results are currently due on July 3, 2000.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act requires the Department to issue 
the preliminary results within 245 days

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

Postponement

    Because verification is being conducted, the Department has 
determined that additional time is necessary to issue the preliminary 
results in this administrative review. Therefore, in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, we are postponing the preliminary 
results of this administrative review for 60 days, until no later than 
August 31, 2000.
    This notice is published pursuant to sections 751(a)(1) and 
777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: June 9, 2000.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-15196 Filed 6-14-00; 8:45 am]
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