[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 75 (Thursday, April 19, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 19694]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-7451]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-580-851]


Dynamic Random Access Memory Semiconductors from the Republic of 
Korea: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of the 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 19, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yasmin Nair at (202) 482-3813 or David 
Neubacher at (202) 482-5823; AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On September 29, 2006, the Department published a notice of 
initiation of administrative review of the countervailing duty order on 
dynamic random access memory semiconductors from the Republic of Korea, 
covering the period January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005. See 
Notice of Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews, 71 FR 57465 (September 29, 2006). On December 
11, 2006, the petitioner alleged that Hynix Semiconductor, Inc., 
received new subsidies.

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 
issue the preliminary results of an administrative review within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order for which 
a review is requested and the final results of review within 120 days 
after the date on which the preliminary results are published. If it is 
not practicable to complete the review within the time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend these deadlines 
to a maximum of 365 days and 180 days, respectively.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    This administrative review is extraordinarily complicated due to 
the complexity of the countervailable subsidy practices found in the 
investigation and the new subsidy allegations. Because the Department 
requires additional time to review, analyze, and possibly verify the 
information, and to issue supplemental questionnaires, if necessary, it 
is not practicable to complete this review within the originally 
anticipated time limit (i.e., by May 3, 2007). Therefore, the 
Department is extending the time limit for completion of the 
preliminary results to not later than August 31, 2007, in accordance 
with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: April 12, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-7451 Filed 4-18-07; 8:45 am]
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