[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 58 (Monday, March 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 16444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-7407]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-803]


Heavy Forged Hand Tools, Finished or Unfinished, With or Without 
Handles, From the People's Republic of China: Extension of Time Limit 
for Preliminary Results of New Shipper Antidumping Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
New Shipper Antidumping Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: March 26, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Pedersen at (202) 482-4195 or Ron 
Trentham at (202) 482-6320, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement, Group II, 
Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act), are references to the provisions effective 
January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Act 
by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise 
indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to 19 CFR 
part 351 (2000).

Background

    On July 20, 2000, the Department received a request from Shandong 
Jinma Industrial Group Co., Ltd. to conduct a new shipper review of the 
antidumping order on heavy forged hand tools from the People's Republic 
of China. On October 6, 2000, the Department published its initiation 
of this new shipper review covering the period of February 1, 2000 
through July 31, 2000 (65 FR 59824). The preliminary results are 
currently due no later than March 27, 2001.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    Section 351.214(i)(1) of the Department's regulations requires the 
Department to make a preliminary determination within 180 days after 
the date on which the new shipper review was initiated. However, if the 
Secretary concludes that a new shipper review is extraordinarily 
complicated, under Sec. 351.214(i)(2) of the Department's regulations 
the Secretary may extend the 180-day period to 300 days.
    We determine that this new shipper review is extraordinarily 
complicated. Therefore the Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results until no later than July 25, 
2001. See Decision Memorandum from Thomas F. Futtner to Holly A. Kuga, 
dated concurrently with this notice, which is on file in the Central 
Records Unit, Room B-099 of the main Commerce building.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act, as amended, and Sec. 351.214(i)(2) of the Department's 
regulations.

    Dated: March 20, 2001.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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