[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 17, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 12641]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6018]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-818, A-489-805]


Certain Pasta from Italy and Turkey: Extension of Preliminary 
Results of 2002/2003 Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 17, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alicia Kinsey at (202) 482-4793, 
Office of AD/CVD Enforcement VI, Group II, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Ave, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Time Limits

Statutory 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 August 22, 2003, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain 
pasta from Italy and Turkey, covering the period July 1, 2002 to June 
30, 2003 (68 FR 50750). The preliminary results are currently due no 
later than April 1, 2004.

Extension of Preliminary Results of Reviews

    As a consequence of the number of respondents in these reviews, the 
Department has not had an opportunity to consider sales-below-cost 
allegations against eight of the respondents or schedule verifications. 
We therefore determine that it is not practicable to complete the 
preliminary results of these reviews within the original time limits, 
and we are extending the time limits for completion of the preliminary 
results until no later than July 29, 2004. See Decision Memorandum from 
Melissa Skinner to Holly A. Kuga, dated March 10, 2004, which is on 
file in the Central Records Unit, Room B-099 of the main Commerce 
Building. We intend to issue the final results no later than 120 days 
after the publication of the notice of preliminary results of these 
reviews.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 10, 2004.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-6018 Filed 3-16-04; 8:45 am]
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