[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 85 (Monday, May 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 24132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-9996]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-851]


Certain Preserved Mushrooms From the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and New Shipper Review

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

ACTION: Notice of extension of the time limit for the final results in 
the administrative review and new shipper review of the antidumping 
duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from the People's Republic of 
China.

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SUMMARY: The United States Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
is extending the time limit for the final results of the administrative 
review and new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain 
preserved mushrooms from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). 
These reviews cover the period February 1, 2002, through January 31, 
2003, and are being conducted concurrently.

DATES: Effective Date: May 3, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Smith at (202) 482-1766, Office 
of AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 5, 2004, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published the preliminary results of the administrative review and new 
shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain preserved 
mushrooms from the People's Republic of China. See Certain Preserved 
Mushrooms from the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of 
Sixth New Shipper Review and Preliminary Results and Partial Rescission 
of Fourth Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 69 FR 10410. The 
current deadline for the final results in these reviews is July 3, 
2004.\1\ These reviews have been aligned. See 68 FR 15152.
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    \1\ Since July 3, 2003, is a Saturday, the preliminary results 
are due on the next business day, July 6, 2003.
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Statutory Time Limits

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act''), the Department shall make a final determination 
in an administrative review of an antidumping duty order within 120 
days after the date on which the preliminary determination is 
published. If it is not practicable to complete the review within the 
foregoing time, the administering authority may extend that 120-day 
period to 180 days. Furthermore, pursuant to 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the 
Act, the Department shall make a final determination in a new shipper 
review within 90 days after the date the preliminary determination is 
issued, except that if the administering authority concludes that the 
case is extraordinarily complicated, it may extend the 90-day period to 
150 days.

Extension of Time Limit

    The Department finds that it is not practicable to complete the 
final results in the administrative review of certain preserved 
mushrooms from the PRC within the current time frame due to the fact 
that a sales and factors-of-production verification has been re-
scheduled to take place in early June, which will set back the briefing 
schedule in this review until a period after the issuance of the 
verification report. Furthermore, the Department finds that it would be 
extraordinarily complicated to complete the final results of the new 
shipper review within this time frame because, to retain alignment of 
these reviews, the briefing schedule in this review will have to be set 
back as well.
    Therefore, in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) and 
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act, the Department is extending the time for 
completion of the final results of these reviews until September 1, 
2004, which is 180 days after the date on which notice of the 
preliminary results was published in the Federal Register.

    Dated: April 27, 2004.
Jeffrey May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-9996 Filed 4-30-04; 8:45 am]
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