[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 37330]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-3395]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-122-839]


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of 
Countervailing Duty New Shipper Review: Certain Softwood Lumber 
Products from Canada

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 29, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristen Johnson, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-4793.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to issue the 
final results of a new shipper review within 90 days after the date the 
preliminary results are issued. However, if the Department determines 
that the case is extraordinarily complicated, section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) 
of the Act allows the Department to extend the 90-day deadline for the 
final results to 150 days.

Background

    On July 8, 2004, the Department initiated a new shipper review 
relating to the countervailing duty order on certain softwood lumber 
products from Canada, covering the period January 1, 2003, through 
December 31, 2003. See Certain Softwood Lumber Products From Canada: 
Notice of Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review for the 
Period May 1, 2003, through April 30, 2004, and Notice of Initiation of 
Countervailing Duty New Shipper Review for the Period January 1, 2003, 
through December 31, 2003, 69 FR 41229 (July 8, 2004).\1\ The 
respondent in this review is Seed Timber Co. Ltd. (Seed Timber). The 
Department completed the preliminary results of this new shipper review 
on April 26, 2005. See Certain Softwood Lumber Products From Canada: 
Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty New Shipper Review, 70 FR 
22848 (May 3, 2005). The current deadline for the final results is July 
25, 2005.
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    \1\ Seed Timber's antidumping new shipper review was 
subsequently rescinded as a result of the company's withdrawal of 
its request for a review (69 FR 54766, September 10, 2004).
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Extension of Time Limits for Final Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act, the Department may 
extend the deadline for completion of the final results of a new 
shipper review if the case is extraordinarily complicated. The 
Department determines that this review is extraordinarily complicated 
and cannot be completed within the statutory time limit of 90 days 
because of the complexity of issues that interested parties raised in 
case briefs concerning the Department's applied benefit methodology.\2\ 
Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 
section 351.214(i)(2) of the Department's regulations, the Department 
is extending the time limit for completion of the final results to 150 
days. The final results are now due no later than September 23, 2005.
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    \2\ Case briefs were submitted to the Department on June 2, 
2005.
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    This notice is published pursuant to sections 751(a)(2)(B) and 
777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: June 17, 2005.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-3395 Filed 6-28-05; 8:45 am]
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