[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14497-14498]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-2787]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[Docket No. A-549-813]


Canned Pineapple Fruit From Thailand: Notice of Extension of Time 
Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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


DATES: Effective Date: March 22, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magd Zalok or Howard Smith, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade

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Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
4162 or (202) 482-5193, respectively.

Background

    On August 29, 2005, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation of an administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on canned pineapple fruit from Thailand, 
covering the period July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2005. See Initiation 
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and 
Requests for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 51009. The preliminary results 
of review are currently due no later than April 2, 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 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 because the 
review involves examining complex cost issues. Therefore, the 
Department is fully extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results until no later than July 31, 2006, which is 365 
days from the last day of the anniversary month of the date of 
publication of the order. The deadline for the final results of this 
administrative review continues to be 120 days after the publication of 
the preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Dated: March 16, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 06-2787 Filed 3-21-06; 8:45 am]
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