[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 193 (Thursday, October 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 50608]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-24926]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-868]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: Folding Metal Tables and Chairs From the People's 
Republic of China

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 4, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Kramer or Steve Bezirganian at 
(202) 482-0405 and (202) 482-1131, respectively, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the 
preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation of 
Folding Metal Tables and Chairs from the People's Republic of China. 
The deadline for issuing the preliminary determination in this 
investigation is now November 5, 2001.
    On May 24, 2001, the Department initiated an antidumping 
investigation of Folding Metal Tables and Chairs from the People's 
Republic of China. See Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigation: 
Folding Metal Tables and Chairs from the People's Republic of China, 66 
FR 28728. The notice stated that the Department would issue its 
preliminary determination no later than 140 days after the date of 
initiation (i.e., October 4, 2001).
    On September 5, 2001, the petitioner, Meco Corporation, requested a 
thirty-day postponement of the preliminary determination, in accordance 
with section 351.205(e) of the Department's regulations, to allow 
sufficient time to submit comments on the respondents' questionnaire 
responses and for the Department to analyze the respondents' data and 
issue supplemental questionnaires. Therefore, pursuant to section 
733(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and section 
351.205(e) of the regulations, and absent any compelling reason to deny 
the request, the Department is postponing the deadline for issuing this 
determination 30 days (i.e., until November 5, 2001).

    Dated: September 25, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-24926 Filed 10-3-01; 8:45 am]
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