[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 247 (Monday, December 27, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 77220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-3820]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(C-408-046, A-423-077, A-427-078, A-428-082)


Sugar from the European Union, Belgium, France and Germany; 
Extension of Time Limits for the Preliminary and Final Results of 
Sunset Reviews of Countervailing and Antidumping Duty Orders

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 27, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Martha Douthit or Hilary Sadler, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5050 and (202) 482-4340, 
respectively.

Background:

    Based on adequate responses from the domestic and respondent 
interested parties, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is 
conducting a full sunset review, with respect to the countervailing 
duty (``CVD'') order on sugar from the European Union (``EU''), to 
determine whether revocation of the CVD order would lead to 
continuation or recurrence of a countervailing net subsidy. Based on 
adequate domestic interest, and inadequate respondent responses, the 
Department is conducting expedited sunset reviews of the antidumping 
duty (``AD'') orders on sugar from Belgium, France and Germany. The 
preliminary results of the full sunset review of the CVD order on sugar 
from the EU is currently scheduled for
    December 20, 2004. The final results of the expedited sunset 
reviews of the AD orders on sugar from Belgium, France, and Germany are 
currently scheduled for December 30, 2004.

Extension of Preliminary and Final Results of Reviews:

    In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 
as amended (``the
    Act''), the Department may extend the period of time for making its 
determination by not more than 90 days, if it determines that the 
review is extraordinarily complicated. As set forth in 751(c)(5)(C)(v) 
of the Act, the Department may treat a sunset review as extraordinarily 
complicated if it is a review of a transition order, as is the case in 
these proceedings. Therefore, the Department has determined, pursuant 
to section 751(c)(5)(C)(v) of the Act, that the second sunset review of 
the CVD order on sugar from the EU and the second sunset reviews of the 
AD orders on sugar from Belgium, France and Germany are extraordinarily 
complicated and require additional time for the Department to complete 
its analysis. As a result, the Department will extend the deadlines in 
these proceedings and intends to issue the preliminary results of the 
full sunset review of the CVD order on sugar from the EU on or about 
March 20, 2005, and the final results of the expedited sunset reviews 
of the AD orders on sugar from Belgium, France and Germany on or about 
March 30, 2005, in accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B).

    Dated: December 17, 2004.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E4-3820 Filed 12-23-04; 8:45 am]
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