[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 88 (Wednesday, May 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 24434]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11356]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-827]


Certain Cased Pencils from the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 7, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Stolz or Crystal Crittenden, AD/
CVD Enforcement, Office 4, Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone 
(202) 482-4474 or (202) 482-0989, respectively.

Time Limits

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to make a 
preliminary determination within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order or finding for which a review is 
requested and a final determination within 120 days after the date on 
which the preliminary determination is 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 245-day 
time limit for the preliminary determination to a maximum of 365 days 
and the time limit for the final determination to 180 days (or 300 days 
if the Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary 
determination) from the date of publication of the preliminary 
determination.

Background

    On January 29, 2002, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
certain cased pencils from the People's Republic of China, covering the 
period December 1, 2000, through November 30, 2001. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 67 FR 4236. 
On January 13, 2003, we published the preliminary results of review (68 
FR 1591). In our notice of preliminary results, we stated our intention 
to issue the final results of this review no later than 120 days from 
the date of publication of the preliminary results.

Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the final 
results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore, the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the final 
results until no later than July 12, 2003. See Decision Memorandum from 
Thomas Futtner to Holly A. Kuga, dated concurrently with this notice, 
which is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the 
Department's main building. This extension is in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    May 1, 2003.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 03-11356 Filed 5-6-03; 8:45 am]
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