[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 65 (Monday, April 5, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17644-17645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-7527]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-824]


Certain Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet and Strip from 
India: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of time limit for the preliminary results 
of antidumping duty administrative review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the 
time limit for the preliminary results of the administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on certain polyethylene terephthalate film, 
sheet and strip from India until July 30, 2004. This extension applies 
to the sole respondent in the case, Jindal Polyester Limited. The 
period of review is December 21, 2001, through June 30, 2003.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: April 5, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Drew Jackson or John Conniff, 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) 482-4406 
or (202) 482-1009, respectively.

Background

    On August 22, 2003, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain 
polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet and strip from India, covering 
the period December 21, 2001 through June 30, 2003. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request 
for Revocation in Part, 68 FR 50750. The preliminary results of review 
are currently due no later than April 1, 2004.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
or finding for which a review is requested and a final determination 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary determination 
is published. However, if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within these time periods, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to extend the 245-day time limit for the preliminary 
determination to a maximum of 365 days and the time limit for the final 
determination to 180 days (or 300 days if the Department does not 
extend the time limit for the preliminary determination) from the date 
of publication of the preliminary determination.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit. See Decision 
Memorandum from Thomas F. Futtner, Acting Office Director to Holly A. 
Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, 
Group II, dated concurrently with this notice, which is on file in the 
Central Records Unit, room B-099 of the Department's main building. The 
Department is therefore extending the time limit for the completion of 
the preliminary results by 120 days. We intend to issue the preliminary 
results no later than July 30, 2004.
    This notice is published in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act.

    Dated: March 22, 2004.
Holly A. Kuga,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group II.
[FR Doc. 04-7527 Filed 4-2-04; 8:45 am]
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