[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 114 (Friday, June 13, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35382-35383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-14978]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-836]


Notice of Extension of Time Limit of Final Results of New Shipper 
Review: Glycine from the People's Republic of China

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the 
time limit for the final results of the new shipper review of the 
antidumping duty order on glycine from the People's Republic of China 
(PRC) until no later than August 8, 2003. The period of review is March 
1, 2001, through February 28, 2002. This extension is made pursuant to 
section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act).

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 13, 2003

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scot Fullerton or Matthew Renkey, AD/
CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
1386 or (202) 482-2312, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act requires the Department to 
issue the final results of a new shipper review within 90 days after 
the date on which the preliminary results were issued. However, if the 
Department determines the issues are extraordinarily complicated, 
section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act allows the Department to extend the 
deadline for the final results to up to 150 days after the date on 
which the preliminary results were issued.

Background

    On May 1, 2002, the Department received a properly filed request 
for a new shipper review from Tianjin Tiancheng Pharmaceutical Co., 
Ltd. (TTPC) for the antidumping duty order on glycine from the PRC. On 
May 24, 2002, the Department published its initiation of this new 
shipper review for the period March 1, 2001, through February 28, 2002. 
See Glycine from the People's Republic of China: Initiation of 
Antidumping New Shipper Review, 67 FR 36572 (May 24, 2002). The 
Department completed the preliminary results of this new shipper review 
on March 11, 2003. See Notice of Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty New Shipper Review: Glycine from the People's Republic of China, 
68 FR 13669 (March 20, 2003). Without an extension, the final results 
of this new shipper review would be due on June 9, 2003.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act, the Department may 
extend the deadline for completion of the final results of a new 
shipper review if it determines that the case is extraordinarily 
complicated. The Department has determined that this case is 
extraordinarily complicated because of the issues that must be 
addressed, and the final results of this new shipper review cannot be 
completed within the statutory time limit of 90 days.
    Both respondent and petitioner submitted new factual information in 
their case and rebuttal briefs past established deadlines. After 
reviewing the briefs and deciding what constituted new factual 
information, the Department instructed parties to refile their case and 
rebuttal briefs on May 16, 2003. In addition, the Department became 
aware of a clerical filing error in petitioners' April 25, 2003 
submission. The correction of this error on May 19, 2003, which 
resulted in new factual information submitted with the agreement of the 
Department, necessitated the opportunity for respondent to rebut this 
information within 10 days.
    The refiling of a number of documents in this review present the 
Department with limited time in which to evaluate the arguments 
contained therein and come to a decision by the current

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deadline of June 9, 2003. These arguments pertain to, among other 
things, the bona fides of TTPC's U.S. sales, and the selection from a 
multitude of potential sources of the appropriate surrogate values to 
be used for the financial ratios in calculating normal value. 
Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.214(i)(2), the Department is extending the time limit for 
the completion of final results for an additional 60 days. The final 
results will now be due no later than August 8, 2003.
    This notice is published pursuant to sections 751(a)(2)(B) and 
777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: June 6, 2003.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 03-14978 Filed 6-12-03; 8:45 am]
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