[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 112 (Monday, June 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 31204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14645]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-848]


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Administrative Antidumping Review: Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From 
the People's Republic of China

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doug Campau or Maureen Flannery, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VII, Import Administration, International 
Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
1395 or (202) 482-3020, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

    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. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department's regulations are to the current 
regulations, codified at 19 CFR part 351 (2000).

Background

    On September 29, 2000, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(b)(1), the 
Crawfish Processors Alliance, the Louisiana Department of Agriculture & 
Forestry and Bob Odom, Commissioner (petitioners), submitted a timely 
request to the Department for administrative review of eighty-nine 
entities. On October 30, 2000, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the People's Republic of China, 
covering the period of September 1, 1999 through August 31, 2000. See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reveiws, Requests for Revocation in Part and Deferral of Administrative 
Reviews, 65 FR 64662 (October 30, 2000). On November 13, 2000 and 
January 29, 2001, the petitioners withdrew their request for review of 
a number of entities for which reviews were initiated. Even with these 
withdrawals, thirteen companies have submitted section A questionnaire 
responses.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department may 
extend the deadline for completion of the preliminary results of a 
review if it determines that it is not practicable to complete the 
preliminary results within the statutory time limit of 245 days from 
the date on which the review was initiated. The Department has 
determined that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the statutory time limit. The Department 
must review the thirteen responding companies, as well as all suppliers 
and affiliated importers. Many of the respondent companies have 
multiple suppliers and importers. Given the number of entities 
involved, it is not practicable to complete this review within the time 
limits mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 
351.213(h)(1) of the Department's regulations.
    Therefore, in accordance with these sections, the Department is 
extending the time limits for the preliminary results by 120 days, to 
September 30, 2001.

    Dated: June 1, 2001.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, AD/CVD Enforcement Group III.
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