[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 17, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52745-52746]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-26123]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-838]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Antidumping Duty 
Determination: Certain Softwood Lumber Products From Canada

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 17, 2001.

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

Postponement of Preliminary Determination

    The Department of Commerce (the Department) is postponing the 
deadline for issuance of the preliminary determination in the 
antidumping duty investigation of certain softwood lumber products from 
Canada until October 30, 2001.
    On April 23, 2001, the Department initiated an antidumping 
investigation of certain softwood lumber products from Canada. See 
Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigation: Certain Softwood Lumber 
Products from Canada, 66 FR 21328 (April 30, 2001). The notice stated 
that the Department would issue its preliminary determination no later 
than 140 days after the date of initiation (i.e., September 10, 2001). 
At the request of the petitioner,\1\ on July 30, 2001, the Department 
postponed the date of preliminary determination by two weeks, until 
September 24, 2001. After a second request from the petitioner, on 
September 7, 2001, the Department further postponed the date of 
preliminary determination by three weeks, until October 15, 2001.
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    \1\ Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports Executive Committee.
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    In accordance with section 733(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended, (the Act), on October 9, 2001, the Department concluded that 
this investigation is extraordinarily complicated and that additional 
time is necessary to make the preliminary determination. See October 9, 
2001, Memorandum to Faryar Shirzad from Bernard Carreau. Additionally, 
the Department feels that the parties are cooperating in this 
investigation.

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Therefore, in accordance with section 733(c) of the Act, the Department 
is postponing until October 30, 2001 the deadline for issuing this 
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preliminary determination.

    Dated: October 11, 2001.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 01-26123 Filed 10-16-01; 8:45 am]
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