[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 154 (Thursday, August 9, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 41830]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20020]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-813]


Canned Pineapple Fruit From Thailand: Notice of Extension of Time 
Limit for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 9, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Constance Handley or Charles Riggle, 
Office 5, Group II, AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-0631 and (202) 482-0650, respectively.

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

Background

    On September 6, 2000, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
canned pineapple fruit from Thailand, covering the period July 1, 1999, 
through June 30, 2000 (65 FR 53980). On April 10, 2001, the Department 
published the preliminary results of its administrative review. See 
Notice of Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review: Canned Pineapple Fruit From Thailand, 66 FR 
18596 (April 10, 2001). In our notice of preliminary results, we stated 
our intention to issue the final results of this review no later than 
August 8, 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 October 9, 2001. See Decision Memorandum 
from Gary Taverman to Bernard T. Carreau, 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: August 2, 2001.
Bernard T. Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-20020 Filed 8-8-01; 8:45 am]
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