[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 3, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17683-17684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8168]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-475-819 & C-489-806]


Certain Pasta From Italy and Turkey; Notice of Extension of Time 
Limit for Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for preliminary results of 
administrative reviews.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results of the fourth administrative reviews of the 
countervailing duty orders on Certain Pasta from Italy and Turkey. The 
period of review for both cases is January 1, 1999, through December 
31, 1999.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 13, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Craig Matney (Italy) or Annika O'Hara 
(Turkey), Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230; telephone (202) 482-
1778 or 482-3798, respectively.

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The Applicable Statute and Regulations

    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 (URAA). In addition, unless otherwise 
indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the 
Department's) regulations refer to 19 CFR Part 351 (2000).

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    The Department initiated these administrative reviews on August 25, 
2000 (65 FR 53980 (September 6, 2000)). Under section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act, the Department is required to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
for which a review is requested. However, if it is not practicable to 
do so, section 751(a)(3)(A) allows the Department to extend this 
deadline by a maximum of 120 days. Due to the large number of 
responding companies in these reviews and the administrative 
constraints resulting from other ongoing administrative reviews and 
investigations assigned to the office handling this case, it is not 
practicable to issue the preliminary results of these reviews within 
the time limit currently mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A) (i.e., April 
2, 2001). Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) and 19 CFR 
351.213(h)(2), the Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results of these reviews by 120 days 
(i.e., until July 31, 2001).

    Dated: March 28, 2001.
Richard W. Moreland,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 01-8168 Filed 4-2-01; 8:45 am]
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