[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 232 (Friday, December 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 75242]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30683]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-535-001]


Cotton Shop Towels from Pakistan: Extension of Time Limit for 
Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit of preliminary results of 
review.

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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 cotton shop towels from Pakistan. This 
review covers eleven manufacturers/producers and the period January 1, 
1999, to December 31, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 1, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gayle Longest or Mark Young, 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-
3338 or (202) 482-6397, respectively.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act), as 
amended, 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 the time period, 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 May 1, 2000, the Department published a notice of initiation of 
administrative review of the countervailing duty on cotton shop towels 
from Pakistan, covering the period January 1, 1999 through December 31, 
1999 (65 FR 25303). The preliminary results are currently due no later 
than December 1, 2000.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    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 until no later than March 31, 2001. See Decision 
Memorandum from Melissa G. Skinner, Office Director for AD/CVD Office 
VI, to Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, dated 
concurrently with this notice, which is on public file in the Central 
Records Unit, Room B-099 of the Department of Commerce. We intend to 
issue the final results no later than 120 days after the publication of 
the preliminary results.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(3)(A)).

    Dated: November 21, 2000.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 00-30683 Filed 11-30-00; 8:45 am]
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