[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 77 (Friday, April 21, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20645-20646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-6021]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-831]


Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and New Shipper Reviews: Fresh 
Garlic from the People's Republic of China

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 21, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katharine Huang, 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) 482-1271.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department of Commerce (``The Department'') published the 
preliminary results of the administrative review and new shipper 
reviews of the antidumping duty order on fresh garlic from the People's 
Republic of China covering the period November 1, 2003, through
    October 31, 2004, on November 18, 2005. See Fresh Garlic from the 
People's Republic of China: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and Preliminary Results of New Shipper Reviews, 
70 FR 69942 (November 18, 2005) (``Preliminary Results'').

Extension of Time Limits for Final Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act''), and section 351.213(h)(1) of the Department's 
regulations, the Department shall issue the preliminary results of an 
administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of the date of publication of the antidumping duty 
order. The Act further provides that the Department shall issue the 
final results of review within 120 days after the date on which the 
notice of the preliminary results was published in the Federal 
Register. However, if the Department determines that it is not 
practicable to complete the review within this time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 351.213(h)(2) of the Department's 
regulations allow the Department to extend the 245-day period to 365 
days and the 120-day period to 180 days.
    Furthermore, pursuant to 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act, the 
Department shall make a final determination in a new shipper review 
within 90 days after the date the preliminary determination is issued. 
However, if the Department concludes that the case is extraordinarily 
complicated, the Department may extend the 90-day period to 150 days.
    We determined that it was not practicable to complete these reviews 
by the unextended statutory deadline of March 18, 2006.\1\ Furthermore, 
the Department found that it would be extraordinarily complicated to 
complete the final results of the new shipper reviews within this time 
frame because several significant issues were raised in the briefs 
which warrant further analysis, including the ``intermediate-product 
valuation methodology,'' which we applied in the Preliminary Results, 
and the surrogate value for garlic bulbs (i.e., the intermediate 
product). Accordingly, on March 23, 2006, the Department extended these 
final results until no later than April 17, 2006. See Notice of 
Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review and New Shipper Reviews: Fresh Garlic from the 
People's Republic of China, 71 FR 14681 (March 23, 2006).
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    \1\ As noted in the Preliminary Results, the two new shipper 
respondents and the petitioners agreed to waive the time limits 
applicable to the new shipper reviews and to permit the Department 
to conduct the new shipper reviews concurrently with the 
administrative review.
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    For these same reasons, the Department is further extending the 
time limit for the completion of these final results by nine days until 
no later than Wednesday, April 26, 2006, which is 159 days from the 
date on which the notice of the Preliminary Results was published.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A), 751(a)(2)(B)(iv), and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: April 14, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-6021 Filed 4-20-06; 8:45 am]
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