[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 232 (Monday, December 5, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 72426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-6847]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-507-501]


Certain In-shell (Raw) Pistachios From the Islamic Republic of 
Iran: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Countervailing 
Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 5, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Darla Brown, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
3, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 4014, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone 
(202) 482-2786.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On March 11, 1986, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published in the Federal Register the countervailing duty order on 
certain in-shell pistachios from Iran. See Final Affirmative 
Countervailing Duty Determination and Countervailing Duty Order: In-
shell Pistachios from Iran, 51 FR 8344 (March 11, 1986) (In-shell 
Pistachios). On March 1, 2005, the Department published in the Federal 
Register a notice of opportunity to request an administrative review of 
the countervailing duty order on in-shell pistachios from Iran (70 FR 
9918). As a result of requests properly filed by the California 
Pistachio Commission (CPC) and Cal Pure Pistachios, Inc. (Cal Pure) on 
March 31, 2005, we are conducting an administrative review of the 
countervailing duty order on in-shell pistachios from Iran with respect 
to Tehran Negah Nima Trading Company, Inc. (Nima). On April 22, 2005, 
we published in the Federal Register the initiation of this 
countervailing duty administrative review (70 FR 20862). The 
preliminary results are currently due no later than December 1, 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 issue preliminary results within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order for which 
a review is requested. However, if it is not practicable to complete 
the preliminary results of review within this time period, 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.
    We determine that it would not be practicable to complete this 
review by December 1, 2005. There are a large number of programs, 
including new subsidy programs, to be considered and analyzed by the 
Department by that deadline. As a result, the Department is extending 
the time limits for completion of the preliminary results until no 
later than February 14, 2006, which is 320 days from the last day of 
the anniversary month of the date of publication of the order. The 
deadline for the final results of review continues to be 120 days after 
the publication of the preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: November 28, 2005.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E5-6847 Filed 12-2-05; 8:45 am]
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