[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 141 (Monday, July 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38256-38257]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-18340]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-867]


Automotive Replacement Glass Windshields From the People's 
Republic of China: Postponement of Preliminary Determination of 
Antidumping Duty Investigation

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

ACTION: Notice of postponement of preliminary determination of 
antidumping duty investigation.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 23, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick Johnson at (202) 482-3818; Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of

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Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to issue the 
preliminary determination of an antidumping duty investigation within 
140 days after the date of initiation. However, if the case is 
extraordinarily complicated and additional time is necessary to make 
the preliminary determination, and the parties concerned are 
cooperating in the investigation, section 733(c)(1)(B) of the Act 
allows the Department to extend the time limit for the preliminary 
determination until not later than 190 days after the date of 
initiation.

Background

    On March 20, 2001, the Department initiated the above-referenced 
investigation. See Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty 
Investigation: Automotive Replacement Glass Windshields from the 
People's Republic of China, 66 FR 16651 (March 27, 2001). The 
preliminary determination is currently due no later than August 7, 
2001.

Postponement of Preliminary Determination

    The Department has now concluded, consistent with section 
733(c)(1)(B) of the Act, that this investigation is extraordinarily 
complicated, and that additional time is necessary to issue the 
preliminary determination due to the complexity of certain issues 
raised in this case. Specifically, the Department is investigating a 
novel product with complex issues related to the scope of the 
investigation, as well as to the development and identification of 
appropriate criteria used to define individual models for margin 
comparison purposes. Moreover, because this case involves a non-market 
economy country, an extremely large number of surrogate values must be 
obtained and analyzed in order to construct normal values for the 
voluminous number of individual models reported by the mandatory 
respondents in this investigation.
    Therefore, in light of the fact that the parties to this proceeding 
have been cooperating, pursuant to section 733(c)(1) of the Act, and 
that additional time is necessary to make this preliminary 
determination in accordance with section 733(c)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act, 
the Department is postponing the deadline for issuing this 
determination until August 31, 2001.

    Dated: July 17, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-18340 Filed 7-20-01; 8:45 am]
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