[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 6, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6931-6932]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-2178]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-832]


Pure Magnesium from the People's Republic of China: Extension of 
Time for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 6, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hua Lu, 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) 482-6478.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On May 1, 2007, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published in the Federal Register a notice for an opportunity to 
request an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on pure 
magnesium from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). See 
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review, 72 FR 
23796 (May 1, 2007). As a result of a request for a review and a one 
year deferral filed by Tianjin Magnesium International Co., Ltd. 
(``TMI'') on May 30, 2007, and a request for a review filed by Shanxi 
Datuhe Coke & Chemicals Co., Ltd. (``Datuhe'') on May 31, 2007, the 
Department published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation of 
an administrative review (i.e., Datuhe) and deferral of initiation of 
administration review with respect to TMI for the period May 1, 2006, 
through April 30, 2007. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, Request for Revocation in 
Part and Deferral of Administrative Review, 72 FR 35690 (June 29, 
2007). Upon learning that the domestic interested party did not receive 
notice of TMI's request for a deferral, we extended the time period for 
the domestic interested party to object. The domestic interested party 
did object. Consequently, pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213 (c), we determined 
not to defer the review for TMI. See memorandum to the file from Hua 
Lu, Case Analyst, through Robert Bolling, Granting Petitioner An 
Extension of Time to File An Objection to Respondent's Deferral 
Request, dated September 26, 2007. The preliminary results of review 
are currently due no later than January 31, 2008.

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results.

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``Act''), requires the Department to issue preliminary results within 
245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order for 
which a review is requested and the final results 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 
245-day time period to a maximum of 365 days. We determine that 
completion of the preliminary results of this review within the 245-day 
period is not practicable because the Department requires additional 
time to analyze information pertaining to the respondents' sales 
practices, factors of production, 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 extending the time period for 
issuing the preliminary results of review by 90 days until April 30, 
2008, 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)(3)(A) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2).


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    Dated: January 31, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-2178 Filed 2-5-08; 8:45 am]
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