[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 109 (Friday, June 6, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33910-33911]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-14345]


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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.

DATES: Effective Date: June 6, 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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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,

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2002, the Department published a correction to the initiation (67 FR 
60210). On March 27, 2003 the Department partially extended the 
preliminary results (68 FR 14941). The preliminary results are 
currently due no later than June 6, 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 partially extended time limit for the 
reasons stated in our memorandum from Gary Taverman, Director, Office 
5, to Holly Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD 
Enforcement II, dated May 29, 2003, which is on file in the Central 
Records Unit, Room B-099 of the main Commerce building. Therefore, the 
Department is further extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results until no later than June 20, 2003. We intend to 
issue the final results no 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: May 30, 2003.
Holly Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for for AD/CVD Enforcement II.
[FR Doc. 03-14345 Filed 6-5-03; 8:45 am]
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