[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 84 (Tuesday, May 1, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 21742]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-10764]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-827]


Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 1, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Stolz at (202) 482-4474, 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 make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
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 these time periods, 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 January 26, 2000, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain cased pencils from the People's Republic of China, covering the 
period December 1, 1998 through November 30, 1999 (65 FR 4228). On 
January 9, 2001, we published the preliminary results of review (66 FR 
1638). In our notice of preliminary results, we stated our intention to 
issue the final results of this review no later than May 9, 2001.

Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the final 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the final 
results until no later than July 8, 2001. See Decision Memorandum from 
Howard B. Smith to Thomas F. Futtner, 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.

    Dated: April 23, 2001.
Thomas F. Futtner,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
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