[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 71 (Thursday, April 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18899-18900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9099]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-703]


Granular Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Resin From Italy: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 12, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Salim Bhabhrawala or Gabriel Adler, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement 5, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
1784 or (202) 482-3813, respectively.

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 an 
administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order 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 the 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

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days (or 300 days if the Department does not extend the time limit for 
the preliminary results) from the date of publication of the 
preliminary results.

Background

    On September 26, 2000, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the antidumping order on PTFE 
resin from Italy, covering the period August 1, 1999, through July 31, 
2000 (65 FR 58733). The preliminary results are currently due no later 
than May 3, 2001.

Extension of 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, we 
are extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results 
until no later than August 31, 2001. See Decision Memorandum from Gary 
Taverman to Holly Kuga, dated April 4, 2001, 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 120 days after the 
publication of the notice of preliminary results.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: April 4, 2001.
Holly Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration, Group II.
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