[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 211 (Wednesday, November 1, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64244-64245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-18406]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-337-806]


Certain Individually Quick Frozen Red Raspberries from Chile: 
Extension of the Time Limit for the Final Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 1, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yasmin Bordas or Brandon Farlander, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3813 
or (202) 482-0182, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department of Commerce (the Department) to complete 
the final results of an administrative review within 120 days after the 
date on which the preliminary results are published. 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 limit 
for the final results to 180 days from the date of publication of the 
preliminary results.

Background

    On August 29, 2005, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain 
individually quick frozen red raspberries from Chile, covering the 
period July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2005. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Requests 
for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 51009 (August 29, 2005). On August 8, 
2006, the Department published the preliminary results of the

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antidumping duty administrative review. See Notice of Preliminary 
Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, Notice of Intent to 
Revoke in Part: Individually Quick Frozen Red Raspberries from Chile, 
71 FR 45000 (August 8, 2006).

Extension of Time Limits for Final Results

    The Department requires additional time to verify the cost 
information submitted by a respondent in this administrative review. 
Moreover, the Department requires additional time to analyze complex 
cost issues relating to direct material purchases. Thus, it is not 
practicable to complete this review within the original time limit 
(i.e., December 6, 2006). Therefore, the Department is extending the 
time limit for completion of the final results of this administrative 
review until no later than February 4, 2007, which is 180 days from the 
date of publication of the preliminary results. However, February 4 
falls on Sunday, and it is the Department's long-standing practice to 
issue a determination the next business day when the statutory deadline 
falls on a weekend, federal holiday, or any other day when the 
Department is closed. See Notice of Clarification: Application of 
``Next Business Day'' Rule for Administrative Determination Deadlines 
Pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 
2005). Accordingly, the deadline for completion of the final results is 
February 5, 2007.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: October 25, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E6-18406 Filed 10-31-06; 8:45 am]
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