[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 163 (Wednesday, August 23, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49417-49418]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13979]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-570-886


Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags from the People's Republic of 
China: Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 23, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurel LaCivita or Matthew Quigley, 
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) 482-4243 
or (202) 482-4551, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 28, 2005, the Department of Commerce (``the 
Department'') published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation 
of the antidumping duty administrative review of Polyethylene Retail 
Carrier Bags (``PRCBs'') from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') 
for the period January 26, 2004, through July 31, 2005. See Initiation 
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and 
Request for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 56631 (September 28, 2005).

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    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 
for which a review is requested. Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act 
further states that, if it is not practicable to complete the review 
within the time specified, the administering authority may extend the 
245-day period to issue its preliminary results by up to 120 days. On 
April 27, 2006, the Department published in the Federal Register a 
notice extending the deadline by 110 days. See Polyethylene Retail 
Carrier Bags from the People's Republic of China: Extension of Time 
Limit for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review, 71 FR 24840 (April 27, 2006). The preliminary results of review 
are currently due no later than August 21, 2006. Because the Department 
needs additional time to analyze a significant

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amount of information pertaining to each company's sales practices, 
factors of production, corporate relationships, and to review responses 
to supplemental questionnaires, we are extending the time period for 
issuing the preliminary results of review by an additional 10 days 
until August 31, 2006, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act. The final results continue to be due 120 days after the 
publication in the Federal Register of the preliminary results of 
review.

    Dated: August 17, 2006.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-13979 Filed 8-22-06; 8:45 am]
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