[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48477-48478]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20030]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-489-805]


Certain Pasta From Turkey: Extension of Time Limit for 
Preliminary Results of New Shipper Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 8, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cindy Robinson or Darla Brown, AD/CVD 
Enforcement, Office VI, Group II, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3797 or (202) 482-2849, respectively.

Time Limits

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to make a 
preliminary determination within 180 days after the date on which the 
review is initiated and a final determination within 90 days after the 
date the preliminary determination is issued. However, if the 
Department concludes that the case is extraordinarily complicated such 
that it cannot complete the review within these time periods, section 
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act allows the Department to extend the time 
limit for the preliminary determination to a maximum of 300 days and 
150 days for the final determination from the date of publication of 
the preliminary determination.

Background

    On February 23, 2000, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain pasta from Turkey, covering the period July 1, 1999, through 
December 31, 1999 (65 FR 8949). The preliminary results are currently 
due no later than August 9, 2000.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    We determine that this case is extraordinarily complicated. 
Consequently, we are not able to complete the preliminary results of 
this review within the time limit. Therefore the Department is 
extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results for 
the full 120 days, until no later than December 7, 2000. See Decision 
Memorandum from Melissa Skinner to Holly Kuga, dated July 24, 2000, 
which is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the main 
Commerce building. We intend to issue the final results no later than 
90 days after the publication of the preliminary results notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of 
the Act.


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    Dated: July 28, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 00-20030 Filed 8-7-00; 8:45 am]
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