[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 17, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 12642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6020]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-475-819]


Certain Pasta From Italy: Notice of 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 
administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce is extending the time limit for the 
preliminary results in the current administrative review of the 
countervailing duty order on certain pasta from Italy. The period of 
review is January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002. This extension is 
made pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 17, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melani Miller, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-0116.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 22, 2003, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
countervailing duty order on certain pasta from Italy, covering the 
period January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 68 FR 50750 
(August 22, 2003). The preliminary results for this review are 
currently due no later than April 1, 2004.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the 
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (``the Act'') requires the Department to 
issue the preliminary results of an administrative review within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order for which 
a review is requested and a final determination within 120 days after 
the date on which the preliminary results are published. If it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend these deadlines 
to a maximum of 365 days and 180 days, respectively.
    Several of the respondents in this proceeding have outstanding 
supplemental questionnaire responses. Additionally, one respondent, 
Pastificio Carmine Russo S.p.A., was not issued the original 
questionnaire until more than a month after the other respondents 
because it was still participating in a concurrent new shipper review 
of this order (a review which has since been terminated). Because the 
Department requires time to review and analyze these responses once 
they are received and to issue supplemental questionnaires if 
necessary, it is not practicable to complete this review within the 
originally anticipated time limit (i.e., April 1, 2004). Therefore, the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results to not later than July 30, 2004, in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: March 11, 2004.
Jeffrey May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for AD/CVD Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 04-6020 Filed 3-16-04; 8:45 am
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