[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 194 (Friday, October 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59088-59089]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-16521]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-570-890


Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limits for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping 
Duty Administrative Review and New Shipper Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 6, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lilit Astvatsatrian, 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-
6412.

Background

    The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') published an 
antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture (``WBF'') from the 
People's Republic of China (``PRC'') on January 4, 2005. See Notice of 
Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less

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Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order: Wooden Bedroom Furniture 
From the People's Republic of China, 70 FR 329 (January 4, 2005). On 
March 7, 2006, the Department published in the Federal Register a 
notice of the initiation of the antidumping duty administrative review 
of WBF from the PRC and new shipper reviews for the period June 24, 
2004, through December 31, 2005. See Initiation of Administrative 
Review of Antidumping Duty Order on Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the 
People's Republic of China, 71 FR 11394 (March 7, 2006) and Wooden 
Bedroom Furniture from the People's Republic of China: Initiation of 
New Shipper Reviews, 71 FR 11404 (March 7, 2006) (``Initiation of 
Second Annual New Shipper Reviews''). On August 24, 2006, the 
Department aligned the deadlines and the time limits of the new shipper 
reviews of WBF with the 2004-2005 administrative review of WBF. See 
Memorandum to the File from Lilit Astvatsatrian, Case Analyst, through 
Wendy Frankel, Office Director, dated August 24, 2006. The preliminary 
results of these reviews are currently due no later than October 3, 
2006.

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results.

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to issue preliminary results within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order. However, 
if it is not practicable to complete the review within this time 
period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend 
the time period to a maximum of 365 days. Completion of the preliminary 
results of this review within the 245-day period is not practicable 
because the Department needs additional time to analyze information 
pertaining to the respondents' sales practices, factors of production, 
and corporate relationships, to evaluate certain issues raised by the 
petitioners, and to issue and review responses to supplemental 
questionnaires.
    Because it is not practicable to complete this review within the 
time specified under the Act, we are fully extending the time period 
for issuing the preliminary results of review to 365 days until January 
31, 2007, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. The final 
results continue to be due 120 days after the publication of the 
preliminary results. This notice is published pursuant to sections 
751(a) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: September 28, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-16521 Filed 10-5-06; 8:45 am]
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