[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 142 (Tuesday, July 25, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42082-42083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11839]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-549-813)


Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results and Final 
Results of the Full Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order on 
Canned Pineapple Fruit from Thailand

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 25, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zev Primor, Office 4, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th

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Street & Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20230; telephone: 
202-482-4114.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') initiated the 
second sunset review of canned pineapple fruit (``CPF'') from Thailand 
on April 3, 2006. See Initiation of Five-year ``Sunset'' Reviews, 71 FR 
16551 (April 3, 2006). On April 17, 2006, we received notification of 
intent to participate from the domestic interested party, Maui 
Pineapple Co., Ltd., (``Maui'') in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.218(d)(3). On May 3, 2006, Maui and the respondent interested 
parties filed substantive comments with the Department.\1\
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    \1\ The respondent interested parties are: Pineapple Processors 
Group; the Thai Food Processors Association; Thai Pineapple Canning 
Industry Corp. Ltd.; Malee Sampran Public Co., Ltd.; The Siam Agro 
Industry Pineapples and Others Public Co., Ltd.; Great Oriental Food 
Products Co. Ltd.; Thai Pineapple Products and Other Fruits Co., 
Ltd.; The Tipco Foods (Thailand) PCL; Pranburi Hotei Co., Ltd.; and 
Siam Fruit Canning (1988) Co., Ltd.
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    On May 22, 2006, the Department issued a preliminary adequacy 
determination stating that the respondents in the ongoing sunset review 
did not meet the adequacy requirements. See Memorandum from Zev Primor 
to Tom Futtner, ``Adequacy Determination in Antidumping Duty Sunset 
Review of Canned Pineapple from Thailand'' (May 22, 2006). On May 30, 
2006, and June 8, 2006, we received timely comments pertaining to our 
adequacy calculation methodology from the respondent interested parties 
and Maui, respectively. Upon review of the parties' comments, we 
modified our calculation methodology and determined that the respondent 
interested parties meet the adequacy requirements. See Memorandum from 
Zev Primor to Tom Futtner, ``Correction to the Adequacy Calculation in 
the Antidumping Duty Sunset Review of Canned Pineapple Fruit from 
Thailand'' (July 12, 2006). Consequently, the Department determined to 
conduct a full sunset review of the antidumping duty order on CPF from 
Thailand as provided at section 751(c)(5)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 
as amended (``the Act''), and at 19 CFR 351.218(e)(2)(i) because: (1) 
the parties' substantive responses met the requirements of 19 CFR 
351.218(d)(3), and (2) both the information on the record and our 
review of the proprietary Customs and Border Protection (``CBP'') data 
indicated that the respondent interested parties account 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 19 CFR 
351.218(e)(1)(ii)(A). Id.

Extension of Time Limits

    With respect to the preliminary results of a sunset review, the 
Department's regulations, at 19 CFR 351.218(f)(1), provide that the 
Department normally will issue its preliminary results in a full sunset 
review not later than 110 days after the date of publication of 
initiation in the Federal Register. However, in accordance with section 
751(c)(5)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(f)(3)(ii), the Department 
may extend the period of time for making its final determination by not 
more than 90 days, if it determines that the review is extraordinarily 
complicated. Because some of the 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. Due to the 
complex nature of the CPB and shipment data, revocation of a number of 
companies during the period of review, and the change from the 
expedited to a full sunset review, the Department will require 
additional time to conduct the analysis necessary for the preliminary 
results.
    The Department's preliminary results of the full sunset review of 
the antidumping duty order on CPF from Thailand are currently scheduled 
for July 22, 2006, and the final results are currently scheduled for 
November 29, 2006. As a result of our decision to extend the deadline 
for the preliminary results of review, the Department intends to issue 
the preliminary results of the full sunset review of the antidumping 
duty order on CPF 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.

Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-11839 Filed 7-24-06; 8:45 am]
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