[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 9 (Friday, January 13, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 2188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-334]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

International Trade Administration

[A-570-832]


Pure Magnesium from the People's Republic of China: Extension of 
Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 13, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joe Freed or Hua Lu, 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-
3818 or (202) 482-6478, respectively.

Background

    On May 2, 2005, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published in the Federal Register a notice for an opportunity to 
request an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on pure 
magnesium from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). See 
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review, 70 FR 
22631 (May 2, 2005). As a result of a request for a review filed by 
Tianjin Magnesium International Co., Ltd. (``TMI'') on May 26, 2005, 
the Department published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation 
of an administrative review for the period May 1, 2004, through April 
30, 2005. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 70 FR 37749 (June 30, 2005). The preliminary 
results of review are currently due no later than January 31, 2006.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    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. However, 
if it is not practicable to complete the review within this time 
period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend 
the time period to a maximum of 365 days. Completion of the preliminary 
results of this review within the 245-day period is not practicable 
because the Department needs additional time to analyze information 
pertaining to the respondent's sales practices, factors of production, 
and corporate relationships, and to issue and review responses to 
supplemental questionnaires.
    Because it is not practicable to complete this review within the 
time specified under the Act, we are extending the time period for 
issuing the preliminary results of review by 60 days until April 1, 
2006, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. Further, 
because April 1, 2006, falls on a Saturday, the preliminary results 
will be due on April 3, 2006, the next business day. The final results 
continue to be due 120 days after the publication of the preliminary 
results.
     This notice is published pursuant to sections 751(a) and 777(i) of 
the Act.

    Dated: January 9, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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