[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 135 (Friday, July 14, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40067-40068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11126]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-549-812]


Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results and Final 
Results of the Full Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on 
Furfuryl Alcohol from Thailand

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 14, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Audrey R. Twyman, Damian Felton, or 
Brandon Farlander, AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street & Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC, 20230; telephone: 
202-482-3534, 202-482-0133, and 202-482-0182, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') initiated this 
second sunset review of furfuryl alcohol from Thailand on April 3, 
2006. See Initiation of Five-year ``Sunset'' Reviews, 71 FR 16551 
(April 3, 2006). On April 7, 2006, we received notification of intent 
to participate from the domestic interested party, Penn Speciality 
Chemicals, Inc. We received substantive responses to the notice of 
initiation on May 2, 2006, from the domestic interested party, and

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on May 3, 2006, from the respondent interested party, Indorama 
Chemicals (Thailand) Ltd. On May 8, 2006, we received rebuttal comments 
from the domestic interested party.
    On May 23, 2006, the Department determined to conduct a full sunset 
review of the antidumping duty order on furfuryl alcohol from Thailand 
as provided at section 751(c)(5)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act'') and at section 351.218 (e)(2)(i) of the 
Department's regulations because: (1) the domestic interested party's 
and respondent interested party's substantive responses met the 
requirements of section 351.218(d)(3) of the Department's regulations, 
and (2) both the information on the record and our review of the 
proprietary CBP data, indicated that the respondent interested party 
accounts for more than 50 percent of the exports to the United States, 
the level that the Department normally considers to be an adequate 
response to the notice of initiation by respondent interested parties 
under section 351.218 (e)(1)(ii)(A).

Extension of Time Limits

    In accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Act, the Department 
may extend the period of time for making its determination by not more 
than 90 days, if it determines that the review is extraordinarily 
complicated. On May 2, May 3, and May 8, 2006, the parties filed 
comments raising various issues. Because some of these issues are 
complex, the Department has determined, pursuant to section 
751(c)(5)(C)(ii) of the Act, that the sunset review is extraordinarily 
complicated and will require additional time for the Department to 
complete its analysis.
    The Department's preliminary results of the full sunset review of 
the antidumping duty order on furfuryl alcohol from Thailand are 
scheduled for July 22, 2006, and the final results are scheduled for 
November 29, 2006. As a result of our decision to extend the deadlines, 
the Department intends to issue the preliminary results of the full 
sunset review of the antidumping duty order on furfuryl alcohol from 
Thailand no later than October 20, 2006, and the final results of the 
review no later than February 27, 2007. These dates are 90 days from 
the originally scheduled dates of the preliminary and final results of 
this sunset review.
    This notice is issued in accordance with sections 751(c)(5)(B) and 
(C)(ii) of the Act.

    Dated: July 10, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-11126 Filed 7-13-06; 8:45 am]
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