[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 132 (Monday, July 12, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41785-41786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-15729]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-894 and A-570-895]


Certain Tissue Paper Products and Certain Crepe Paper Products 
From the People's Republic of China: Postponement of the Preliminary 
Determinations of the Antidumping Duty Investigations

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

ACTION: Notice of postponement of the preliminary determinations of 
antidumping duty investigations.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: July 12, 2004.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is postponing 
the preliminary determinations in the investigations of certain tissue 
paper products and certain crepe paper products from the People's 
Republic of China. These investigations cover the period July 1, 2003, 
through December 31, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Ferrier, Rachel Kreissl, or 
Kit Rudd, AD/CVD Enforcement, Group III, Office 9, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington DC 
20230; telephone: (202) 482-2667, (202) 482-0409 and (202) 482-1385 
respectively.

Background

    On March 15, 2004, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of investigations of certain tissue paper products and certain crepe 
paper products from the People's Republic of China covering the period 
July 1, 2003, through December 30, 2003. See Notice of Initiation of 
Antidumping Duty Investigations: Certain Tissue Paper Products and 
Certain Crepe Paper Products from the People's Republic of China: 69 FR 
12128 (March 15, 2004). The notice of initiation stated that the 
Department would issue preliminary determinations no later than 140 
days after the date of initiation. See Id. Currently, the preliminary 
determinations in these investigations are due on July 26, 2004. See 19 
CFR 351.205(e).

Postponement of Preliminary Determinations

    Under section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``the Act''), the petitioner may request a postponement from 140 days 
to not later than 190 days after the initiation of an

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investigation. A written request, including reasons for the 
postponement, must be submitted to the Department at least 25 days 
prior to the preliminary determination.
    The Department finds that the petitioners in the investigations 
submitted a timely request for postponement of the preliminary 
determinations on July 1, 2004, in accordance with section 773(c)(1)(A) 
of the Act. Further, the petitioners stated the following reasons for 
requesting a postponement of the preliminary determinations in the 
investigations: to allow the Department time to fully analyze and 
consider the information and arguments presented by the parties to the 
investigations and to issue and receive supplemental questionnaires and 
responses in the preliminary phase of the proceedings.
    Pursuant to section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Act, the Department has 
determined that additional time is necessary to allow complete analysis 
and consideration of information and arguments presented by parties and 
to permit issuance of supplemental questionnaires and responses in the 
proceedings. Therefore, the Department is partially extending the 
preliminary determination date for the investigations until August 25, 
2004.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 733(c)(2) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f).

    Dated: July 6, 2004.
Jeffrey A. May,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group I.
[FR Doc. 04-15729 Filed 7-9-04; 8:45 am]
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