[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 140 (Friday, July 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 42303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14525]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-570-827)


Certain Cased Pencils from the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 22, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Stolz or Erin Begnal, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 8, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
4474 and (202) 482-1442, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 28, 1994 the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published and antidumping duty order on certain cased pencils from the 
Peoples' Republic of China. See Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Cased 
Pencils from the People's Republic of China, 59 FR 66909 (December 28, 
1994) (the order). On January 31, 2005, the Department published a 
notice of initiation of administrative review of the order covering the 
period December 1, 2003, through November 30, 2004. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request 
for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 4818 (January 31, 2005). The preliminary 
results are currently due no later than September 2, 2005.

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 to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
or finding for which a review is requested and a final determination 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary determination 
is published. 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 245-day time limit for the preliminary 
determination to a maximum of 365 days and the time limit for the final 
determination to 180 days (or 300 days if the Department does not 
extend the time limit for the preliminary determination) from the date 
of publication of the preliminary determination.
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of this review within the original time limit due to complex 
issues relating to the calculation of certain surrogate values. 
Therefore, the Department is extending the time limit for completion of 
the preliminary results by 105 days until no later than December 16, 
2005. We intend to issue the final results no later than 120 days after 
the publication of the preliminary results notice.
    This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act.

    Dated: July 13, 2005.
Susan H. Kuhbach,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-14525 Filed 7-21-05; 8:45 am]
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