[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 76]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-3910]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-122-838]


Certain Softwood Lumber Products From Canada: Extension of the 
Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

DATES: Effective Date: January 3, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Constance Handley or James Kemp, at 
(202) 482-0631 or (202) 482-5346, respectively; AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

Background

    On June 30, 2004, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain softwood lumber products from Canada, 
covering the period May 1, 2003, through April 30, 2004. See Notice of 
Initiation of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 69 FR 39409 (June 
30, 2004). The preliminary results are currently due no later than 
January 31, 2005. The review covers over four hundred producers/
exporters of subject merchandise to the United States, of which eight 
are being individually examined.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to complete 
the preliminary results of an administrative review within 245 days 
after the last day of the anniversary month of an order/finding for 
which a review is requested. 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 time limit for the 
preliminary results to a maximum of 365 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order/finding for which a review is requested. 
We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit due to a number 
of complex issues which must be addressed prior to the issuance of 
those results. For example, the Department must analyze the complex 
corporate structures and affiliations of the eight respondents in this 
review, including affiliated mills and other entities both in Canada 
and the United States. In addition, as is our practice, the Department 
intends to conduct verification of a number of the respondents prior to 
the issuance of the preliminary results. We estimate that the sales and 
cost of production verifications will take approximately two months to 
complete.
    Accordingly, the Department is extending the time limit for 
completion of the preliminary results of this administrative review 
until no later than June 1, 2005. We intend to issue the final results 
no later than 120 days after publication of the preliminary results 
notice.

    Dated: December 27, 2004.
Gary S. Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
 [FR Doc. E4-3910 Filed 12-30-04; 8:45 am]
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