[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 231 (Monday, December 2, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71534-71535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-30460]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

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


Certain Pasta From Italy and Turkey: Extension of Final Results 
of Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 2, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Young at (202) 482-6397, 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: (1) The preliminary results of 
a review within 245 days after the last day of the month in which 
occurs the anniversary of the date of publication of an order or 
finding for which a review is requested, and (2) 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 the final results to a

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maximum of 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 20, 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). On August 7, 2002, and August 9, 2002, the 
Department issued the preliminary results of certain pasta from Turkey 
(67 FR 51194 ) and Italy (67 FR 51827), respectively. The final results 
are currently due no later than December 5, 2002, for Turkey and 
December 9, 2002, for Italy.

Extension of Final Results of Reviews

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the final 
results of these reviews within the original time limits, for reasons 
stated in the Decision Memorandum from Melissa Skinner to Bernard 
Carreau, dated November 22, 2003, which is on file in the Central 
Records Unit, B-099 of the main Commerce Building. Therefore, we are 
extending the final results deadlines in each of the above-referenced 
reviews until February 3, 2003.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: November 25, 2002.
Bernard Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 02-30460 Filed 11-29-02; 8:45 am]
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