[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 2, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 59]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-32248]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-806]


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping New Shipper Review: Silicon Metal From the People's 
Republic of China

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 2, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline Arrowsmith or Maureen 
Flannery, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VII, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-5255 or (202) 482-3020, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

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

Background

    In accordance with 19 CFR 351.213(b)(2), on June 29, 2001, the 
Department received the timely and properly filed June 28, 2001 request 
from Groupstars Chemical Company, Ltd., that we conduct a new shipper 
review of its sales of silicon metal. On July 31, 2001, the Department 
initiated a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on silicon 
metal for the period of review (POR) of June 1, 2000 through May 31, 
2001 (66 FR 41508).

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Section 351.214(i)(1) of the Department's regulations requires the 
Department to issue preliminary results of a new shipper review within 
180 days of the date of initiation. However, if the Secretary concludes 
that a new shipper review is extraordinarily complicated, the Secretary 
may extend the 180-day period to 300 days under section 351.214(i)(2) 
of the Department's regulations. Because of the problems the respondent 
has encountered in meeting the Department's filing requirements and the 
resultant delay to the analysis and verification, we find this review 
to be extraordinarily complicated.
    Therefore, in accordance with section 351.214(i)(2) of the 
regulations, the Department is extending the 180-day time limit to 300 
days. Since the 300th day falls on a federal holiday, the due date for 
the preliminary results is now the next business day, May 28, 2002. The 
final results will continue to be due 90 days after the date of 
issuance of the preliminary results.

    Dated: December 20, 2001.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 01-32248 Filed 12-31-01; 8:45 am]
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