[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 139 (Monday, July 21, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43084-43085]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18474]


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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 Preliminary Results of New Shipper Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE:  July 21, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magd Zalok or Paul Stolz, 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) 482-4162 
or (202) 482-4474, respectively.

TIME LIMITS:

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930,as amended (the 
Act) requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to issue the 
preliminary results of a new shipper review within 180 days after the 
date on which the review is initiated. 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 preliminary results to up to 300 days

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after the date on which the review is initiated.

Background

    On February 4, 2003, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of the new shipper antidumping duty order on certain cased 
pencils from the People's Republic of China, covering the period 
December 1, 2001, through November 30, 2002. See Certain Cased Pencils 
From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Antidumping New 
Shipper Review, 68 FR 5619 (February 4, 2003). The preliminary results 
are currently due no later than July 27, 2003.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    We determine that the issues in this case are extraordinarily 
complicated. Therefore, the Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results by 120 days until no later than 
November 24, 2003. See Decision Memorandum from Tom Futtner, Acting 
Office Director, Group II, Office IV, to Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Import Administration, dated concurrently with 
this notice, which is on file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 
of the Department's main building. We intend to issue the final results 
no later than 90 days after the publication of the preliminary results 
notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the 
Act.

    Dated: July 15, 2003.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 03-18474 Filed 7-18-03; 8:45 am]
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