[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 176 (Wednesday, September 12, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52078-52079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-17999]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-851]


Certain Preserved Mushrooms From the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Preliminary Results for Eleventh Antidumping Duty New 
Shipper Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 12, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Martin or Mark Manning, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3936 and (202) 482-5253, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 2, 2007, the Department published a 
notice of initiation of a new shipper review of the antidumping duty 
order on certain preserved mushrooms from the PRC, covering the period 
of review (``POR'') February 1, 2006, to January 31, 2007, on Ayecue 
(Liaocheng) Foodstuff Co., Ltd. (``Ayecue''). See Certain Preserved 
Mushrooms from the People's Republic of China: Initiation of New 
Shipper Antidumping Duty Review, 72 FR 15657 (April 2, 2007).

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the

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Act''), and section 351.214(i)(1) of the Department's regulations, the 
Department shall issue preliminary results in a new shipper review of 
an antidumping duty order within 180 days after the date on which the 
new shipper review was initiated. The Act and regulations further 
provide, however, that the Department may extend that 180-day period to 
300 days if it determines that this review is extraordinarily 
complicated. See 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2) and 751 (a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act.
    The Department finds that this review is extraordinarily 
complicated and that it is not practicable to complete this new shipper 
review within the foregoing time period. Specifically, the Department 
must issue supplemental questionnaires to obtain additional information 
about (1) Ayecue's complex methodology for allocating consumption rates 
of factors of production, and (2) the bona fides of its U.S. sale. In 
addition, the Department needs additional time to conduct verification 
of the submitted information. Accordingly, the Department finds that 
additional time is needed in order to complete these preliminary 
results.
    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2) allow 
the Department to extend the deadline for the preliminary results to a 
maximum of 300 days from the date of initiation of the new shipper 
review. For the reasons noted above, we are extending the deadline for 
the completion of the preliminary results of this new shipper review to 
300 days, i.e., from September 24, 2007, until no later than January 
22, 2008.\1\ The deadline for the final results of this new shipper 
review continues to be 90 days after the publication of the preliminary 
results.
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    \1\ January 21, 2008, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is a 
federal holiday. Therefore, the deadline for completing the 
preliminary results of this new shipper review shall be the next 
business day, January 22, 2008.
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    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and section 19 CFR 
351.214(i)(2).

     Dated: September 7, 2007.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-17999 Filed 9-11-07; 8:45 am]
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