[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 12, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11095-11096]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5882]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-818, A-489-805]


Certain Pasta from Italy and Turkey: Extension of Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 12, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frank Thomson or Lyman Armstrong at 
(202) 482-4793 or (202) 482-3601, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, 
Group II, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

Time Limits

Statutory Time Limits
    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of a 
review within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of 
an order/finding for which a review is requested and the final results 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary results are 
published. However, if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within that time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend the time limit for the preliminary results to a 
maximum of 365 days and for the final results to 180 days (or 300 days 
if the Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary 
results) from the date of the publication of the preliminary results.
Background
    On August 10, 2001, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain 
pasta from Italy and Turkey, covering the period July 1, 2000 to June 
30, 2001 (66 FR 43570). The preliminary results are currently due no 
later than April 1, 2002.

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Extension of Preliminary Results of Reviews
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of these reviews within the original time limits. Therefore, we 
are extending the time limits for completion of the preliminary results 
until no later than July 30, 2002. See Decision Memorandum from Melissa 
Skinner to Bernard Carreau, dated March 1, 2002, which is on file in 
the Central Records Unit, B-099 of the main Commerce Building. We 
intend to issue the final results no later than 120 days after the 
publication of the notice of preliminary results of these reviews.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    March 4, 2002
Bernard Carreau,
Deputy Assistant SecretaryImport Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-5882 Filed 3-11-02; 8:45 am]
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