[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 25, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 4115]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-929]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-122-839]


Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada: Extension of Time 
Limit for Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 25, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Moore or Eric B. Greynolds 
at (202) 482-3692 or (202) 482-6071, respectively, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14\th\ Street and Constitution Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On June 30, 2005, the Department initiated an administrative review 
of the countervailing duty order on certain softwood lumber products 
from Canada. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 70 FR 37749. The preliminary results are 
currently due no later than January 31, 2006.

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 the preliminary results of a 
review within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of 
an order/finding for which a review is requested and the final results 
within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary results are 
published. However, if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within that 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 and for the final results to 180 days (or 300 days 
if the Department does not extend the time limit for the preliminary 
results) from the date of the publication of the preliminary results.
    The subsidy programs covered by this review are extraordinarily 
complicated. In addition, because this administrative review is being 
conducted on an aggregate level, the Department must analyze large 
amounts of data from each of the Canadian Provinces as well as data 
from the Canadian Federal Government. Therefore, the Department is 
fully extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary 
results to May 31, 2006. The final results continue to be due 120 days 
after publication of the preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: January 17, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-929 Filed 1-24-06; 8:45 am]
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