[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 230 (Thursday, November 29, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 59559]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-29671]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-848]


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

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 29, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Renkey or Mark Hoadley, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-2312 and (202) 482-0666, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act) are to the provisions effective January 1, 
1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Act by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, 
all citations to the Department's regulations are to 19 CFR part 351 
(2000).

Background

    On September 29, 2000, the Department received timely requests for 
review, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act and 
Sec. 351.214(c) of the Department's regulations, from Coastal (Jiangsu) 
Foods Co., Ltd. (Coastal), Shouzhou Huaxiang Foodstuffs Co., Ltd. 
(Shouzhou), and Shanghai Taoen International Trading Co., Ltd. 
(Shanghai Taoen), to conduct new shipper reviews of the antidumping 
duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from the PRC. On November 
6, 2000, the Department published its initiation of these new shipper 
reviews for the period September 1, 1999 through August 31, 2000. See 
Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China: 
Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Administrative Reviews, 65 FR 
66525 (November 6, 2000).
    On March 16, 2001, the Department published an extension of the 
deadline for completion of the preliminary results of these new shipper 
reviews until August 27, 2001. See Notice of Extension of Time Limit 
for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Reviews: 
Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from the People's Republic of China, 66 
FR 15219 (March 16, 2001). On August 9, 2001, we rescinded the new 
shipper reviews for Coastal and Shouzhou and extended the period of 
review (POR) for Shanghai Taoen by one month. See Freshwater Crawfish 
Tail Meat From the People's Republic of China: Final Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Reviews, 66 FR 41831 (August 9, 2001). 
Thus, only the new shipper review of Shanghai Taoen remained. On 
September 6, 2001, the Department published the preliminary results of 
this new shipper review. See Notice of Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review: Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat from 
the People's Republic of China, 66 FR 46602 (September 6, 2001).

Extension of Time Limits for Final Results

    Section 353.214(i)(1) of the Department's regulations requires the 
Department to issue final results within 90 days after the date on 
which the preliminary results in a new shipper review were issued. 
However, if the Secretary concludes that a new shipper review is 
extraordinarily complicated, the Secretary may extend the 90-day period 
to 150 days under Sec. 351.214(i)(2) of the Department's regulations. 
The final results for this new shipper review are currently due on 
November 25, 2001. We find the valuation issues in this review to be 
extraordinarily complicated, and, therefore, we are unable to complete 
this review by the scheduled deadline. Therefore, in accordance with 
Sec. 351.214(i)(2) of the Department's regulations, the Department is 
extending the time period for issuing the final results of these new 
shipper reviews by 15 days until December 10, 2001.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of 
the Act, as amended, and Sec. 351.214(i)(2) of the Department's 
regulations.

    Dated: November 23, 2001.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 01-29671 Filed 11-28-01; 8:45 am]
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