[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 56 (Thursday, March 24, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15066-15067]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1296]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-878]


Saccharin From the People's Republic of China: Notice of 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 24, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blanche Ziv or Steve Williams, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230; telephone (202) 482-4207 or (202) 482-4619, respectively.

Background

    On August 30, 2004, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on saccharin from the People's Republic of China 
for nine exporters, covering the period December 27, 2002, through June 
30, 2004. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 69 FR 52857 (August 30, 2004). The preliminary 
results for this review are currently due no later than April 2, 2005.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), provides that the Department will issue the preliminary results 
of an administrative review of an antidumping duty order within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of the date of 
publication of the order. The Act provides further that the Department 
may extend that 245-day period to 365 days if it determines it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the foregoing time period.
    The Department has determined that it is not practicable to 
complete the preliminary results by the current deadline of April 2, 
2005. In particular, we require additional time to issue supplemental 
questionnaires, review the responses, and conduct the analysis of the 
valuation of the factors of production. Therefore, in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department is fully extending the 
time limit for the preliminary results until no later than August 1, 
2005, which is the next business day after 365 days from the last day 
of the anniversary month.

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The final results continue to be due 120 days after publication of the 
preliminary results.
    We are issuing this notice in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) 
of the Act.

    Dated: March 18, 2005.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-1296 Filed 3-23-05; 8:45 am]
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