[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 2568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1025]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-122-839]


Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada: Extension of Time 
Limit for Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Review

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

ACTION:  Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 16, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Stephanie Moore at (202) 482-3692, 
AD/CVD Enforcement, Office VI, Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of a 
review 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 that time period, 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 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 the publication of the preliminary results.

Background

    On June 26, 2003, the Department initiated an administrative review 
of the countervailing duty order on certain softwood lumber products 
from Canada. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 68 FR 39055 
(July 1, 2003). The preliminary results are currently due no later than 
February 2, 2004.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    The subsidy programs covered by this review are extraordinarily 
complicated. Further, petitioners have made several new subsidy 
allegations in this review. In addition, because this administrative 
review is being conducted on an aggregate level, the Department must 
analyze large amounts of data from each of the Canadian Provinces as 
well as data from the Canadian Federal Government. Furthermore, the 
Department intends to conduct a limited number of reviews of individual 
companies who claimed to have received zero or de minimis subsidies. 
Therefore, the Department is extending the time limits for completion 
of the preliminary results to June 1, 2004. See the Decision Memorandum 
from Melissa G. Skinner, Director, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, to 
Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement 
Group II, dated concurrent with this notice, which is on file in the 
Central RecordsUnit.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: January 8, 2004.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement Group II.
[FR Doc. 04-1025 Filed 1-15-04; 8:45 am]
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