[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 59 (Thursday, March 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14941-14942]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-7358]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-813]


Canned Pineapple Fruit from Thailand: Notice of Extension of Time 
Limit of Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 27, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marin Weaver at (202) 482-2336 or 
Monica Gallardo at (202) 482-3147, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement 5, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, 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 complete the preliminary results 
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 these time periods, 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 after the last day of the anniversary month of an 
order/finding for which a review is requested 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 publication of the 
preliminary results.

Background

    On August 27, 2002, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on canned pineapple fruit from Thailand, 
covering the period July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2002 (67 FR 55000). 
On September 25, 2002, the Department published a correction to the 
initiation (67 FR 60210 ). The preliminary results are currently due no 
later than April 2, 2003.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit for the reasons 
stated in our memorandum from Charles Riggle, Program Manager, Office 
5, to Gary Taverman, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD 
Enforcement II, which is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-
099 of the main Commerce building. Therefore, the Department is 
extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results 
until no later than June 6, 2003. We intend to issue the final results 
no

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later than 120 days after publication of the preliminary results 
notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 20, 2003.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for for AD/CVD Enforcement II.
[FR Doc. 03-7358 Filed 3-26-03; 8:45 am]
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