[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 139 (Monday, July 21, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43086-43087]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18470]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-863]


Honey from the People's Republic of China: Extension of Time 
Limit for Preliminary Results of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review

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

ACTION:  Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE:  July 21, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brandon Farlander or Abdelali 
Elouaradia at (202) 482-0182 or (202) 482-1374, respectively; 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement Group III, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 
20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department received timely requests from Shanghai Xiuwei 
International Trading Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Xiuwei) and Sichuan-
Dujiangyan Dubao Bee Industrial Co., Ltd. (Sichuan Dubao), in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c), for new shipper reviews of the 
antidumping dutyorder on honey from the People's Republic of China 
(PRC), which has a December annual anniversary month and a June 
semiannual anniversary month. On January 30, 2003, the Department found 
that the request for review met all the regulatory requirements set 
forth in section 351.214(b) of the Department's regulations and 
initiated this new shipper antidumping review covering the period 
February 10, 2001, through November 30, 2002. See Honey from the 
People's Republic of China: Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping 
Reviews, 68 FR 5868 (February 5, 2003). The preliminary results are 
currently due no later than July 29, 2003.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and section 351.214(i)(1) of 
the regulations require the Department to issue the preliminary results 
of a new shipper review within 180 days after the date on which the new 
shipper review was initiated, and final results of review within 90 
days after the date on which the preliminary results were issued. The 
Department may, however, extend the deadline for completion of the 
preliminary results of a new shipper review to 300 days if it 
determines that the case is extraordinarily complicated. The Department 
has determined that this case is extraordinarily complicated, and the 
preliminary results of this new shipper review cannot be completed 
within the statutory time limit of 180 days. Specifically, the 
Department needs additional time to research the appropriate surrogate 
values used to value raw honey. Moreover, the Department is also 
researching whether the sales that form the basis of the review request 
are bona fide sales. In this regard, the Department has issued 
supplemental questionnaires requesting

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additional information about the bona fides of the sales under review. 
Given the issues in this case, the Department finds that this case is 
extraordinarily complicated, and cannot be completed within the 
statutory time limit.
    Accordingly, the Department is fully extending the time limit for 
the completion of the preliminary results by 300 days, to November 26, 
2003, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 
351.214(i)(2) of the Department's regulations. The final results will 
in turn be due 90 days after the date of issuance of the preliminary 
results, unless extended.

    Dated: July 14, 2003.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 03-18470 Filed 7-18-03; 8:45 am]
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