[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8198-8199]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2517]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-475-818, A-489-805)


Certain Pasta From Italy and Turkey: Extension of Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 30, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cindy Lai Robinson at (202) 482-3797, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Time Limits

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of a 
review within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of 
an order/finding for which a review is requested and the final results 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary results are 
published. However, if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within that time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend the time limit for the preliminary results to a 
maximum of 365 days and for the final results to 180 days (or 300 days 
if the Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary 
results) from the date of the publication of the preliminary results.

Background

    On September 6, 2000, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders 
on certain pasta from Italy and Turkey, covering the period July 1, 
1999 to June 30, 2000 (65 FR 53980). The preliminary results are 
currently due no later than April 2, 2001.

Extension of Preliminary Results of Reviews

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of

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these reviews within the original time limits. Therefore, we are 
extending the time limits for completion of the preliminary results 
until no later than June 21, 2001. See Decision Memorandum from Melissa 
Skinner to Holly A. Kuga, dated January 16, 2001, which is on file in 
the Central Records Unit, B-099 of the main Commerce Building. We 
intend to issue the final results no later than 120 days after the 
publication of the notice of preliminary results of these reviews.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: January 22, 2001.
Melissa Skinner,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Import Administration.
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