[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 37 (Monday, February 25, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8524-8525]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4424]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-437-804, A-471-806]


Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Determinations of 
Antidumping Investigations: Sulfanilic Acid from Hungary and Portugal

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 25, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jarrod Goldfeder (Hungary) at (202) 
482-0189 or Anthony Grasso (Portugal) at (202) 482-3853, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 
20230.
APPLICABLE STATUTE AND REGULATIONS:
    Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Tariff Act of 
1930, as amended (the Act), are references to the provisions effective 
January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Act 
by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA). In addition, unless 
otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department of Commerce's (the 
Department's) regulations are to 19 CFR part 351 (April 2001).
POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATIONS:
    On October 26, 2001, the Department published the initiation of the 
antidumping duty investigations of imports of sulfanilic acid from 
Hungary and Portugal. See Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty 
Investigations: Sulfanilic Acid from Hungary and Portugal, 66 FR 54214, 
54218 (October 26, 2001). The notice of initiation stated that we would 
make our preliminary determinations for these antidumping duty 
investigations no later than 140 days after the date of issuance of the 
initiation (i.e., March 7, 2002).
    On February 14, 2002, the Nation Ford Chemical Company (``the 
petitioner'') made a timely request pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(e) for a 
30-day postponement of the preliminary determinations, or until April 
8, 2002. The petitioner requested postponement of the preliminary 
determinations because it believes that the Department will need 
additional time than allotted under the current schedule to collect 
from the respondents the information necessary to make accurate 
preliminary determinations. Additionally, the petitioner made this 
request for both Hungary and Portugal in order to keep both 
investigations on identical schedules.
    For the reasons identified by the petitioner, and because there are 
no compelling reasons to deny the request, we are postponing the 
preliminary determinations under section 733(c)(1) of the Act. We will 
make our preliminary determinations no later than April 8, 2002.
    This notice is published pursuant to sections 733(f) and 777(i) of 
the Act.

    February 15, 2002
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-4424 Filed 2-22-02; 8:45 am]
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