[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 5, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 17231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-1536]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-552-801


Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of 
Vietnam: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of the First 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 5, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Irene Gorelik or Matthew Renkey, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 9, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
6905 and (202) 482-2312, respectively.

Background

    On September 22, 2004, the Department published its notice of 
initiation of an antidumping administrative review on certain frozen 
fish fillets from Vietnam. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation 
in Part, 69 FR 56745 (September 22, 2004). The Department subsequently 
received timely withdrawal requests from four of the eight exporters 
that requested a review: An Giang Fisheries Import and Export Joint 
Stock Company (October 26, 2004); AFIEX (October 19, 2004); MEKONIMEX 
(November 5, 2004); and QVD Food Co., Ltd. (September 29, 2004). On 
January 28, 2005, the Department published a notice of rescission, in 
part, of antidumping duty administrative review for those companies 
that filed withdrawal requests. See Certain Frozen Fish Fillets From 
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review, 70 FR 4092 (January 28, 2005). The 
Department is not rescinding its review of Can Tho Agricultural and 
Animal Products Import-Export Company (CATACO); Phan Quan Company, 
Ltd.; Phu Thanh Company, Co.; or Vinh Hoan Company, Ltd. On March 16, 
2005, the Catfish Farmers of America and individual U.S. catfish 
processors (collectively, ``Petitioners'') submitted a timely request 
for a 120 day extension of the preliminary results of this review. The 
preliminary results of this administrative review are currently due no 
later than May 3, 2005.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act''), the Department shall issue preliminary results 
in 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 further provides, however, 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 finds that it is not practicable to complete the 
preliminary results in the administrative review of certain frozen fish 
fillets from Vietnam within this time limit. Specifically, as noted in 
the Petitioners' request, there are complex issues related to 
production processes that requires further analysis. Accordingly, the 
Department finds that additional time is needed in order to complete 
these preliminary results.
    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 351.213(h)(2) of the 
Department's regulations allow the Department to extend the deadline 
for the preliminary results to a maximum of 365 days from the last of 
the anniversary month of the order. For the reasons noted above, we are 
extending the time for the completion of the preliminary results of 
this review until no later than August 31, 2005. The deadline for the 
final results of the administrative review continues to be 120 days 
after the publication of the preliminary results.

    Dated: March 30, 2005.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-1536 Filed 4-4-05; 8:45 am]
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