[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 146 (Friday, July 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46426-46427]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-19157]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-813 and A-560-802]


Certain Preserved Mushrooms From India and Indonesia: Notice of 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for preliminary results of 
antidumping duty administrative review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 28, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David J. Goldberger or Katherine 
Johnson, AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
4136 and (202) 482-4929 respectively.

The 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. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department of Commerce's (``the Department's'') 
regulations are to 19 CFR part 351 (1999).

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 March 30, 2000, the Department published a notice of initiation 
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administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on Certain 
Preserved Mushrooms from India and Indonesia, covering the period 
August 5, 1998, through January 31, 2000 (65 FR 16875). The preliminary 
results for each review are currently due no later than October 31, 
2000.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    The Department has determined that it is not practicable to 
complete the Indian and Indonesian reviews within the time limit 
mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. Following initiation of 
these administrative reviews, we received allegations of sales below 
cost of production for certain respondents in both the India and 
Indonesia reviews. We have completed our analysis of the cost 
allegations and are in the process of conducting the cost 
investigations for these respondents, and of analyzing the cost of 
production and/or constructed value data submitted by the remaining 
respondents. In addition, we are conducting concurrently an 
administrative review and a new shipper review of the antidumping duty 
order on Certain Preserved Mushrooms from the People's Republic of 
China. Given the number of respondents involved in all of these 
reviews, the potential complexity of the issues, and the administrative 
constraints on the Department, we are unable to complete our 
preliminary analyses of the India and Indonesia reviews before the 
current deadline. Therefore, the Department is extending the time limit 
for the preliminary results in these two reviews to February 28, 2001. 
The Department intends to issue the final results of the reviews 120 
days after the publication of the preliminary results. This extension 
of the time limit is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act 
and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2).

    Dated: July 24, 2000.
Susan Kuhbach,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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