[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 47 (Monday, March 10, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 12704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4640]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-549-813


Canned Pineapple Fruit from Thailand: Extension of Time Limit for 
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 10, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Douglas Kirby, Office of AD/CVD 
Operations 6, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
3782.

Background

    On August 20, 2007, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published in the Federal Register the notice of initiation of the 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on canned pineapple 
fruit from Thailand for Vita Food Factory (1989) Ltd. (Vita). See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 72 FR 48613 (August 20, 
2007). The period of review for Vita is July 1, 2006 through June 30, 
2007.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), and section 351.213(h)(1) of the Department's regulations require 
the Department to issue the preliminary results of a review within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of the order or 
suspension agreement for which the administrative review was requested, 
and final results of the review within 120 days after the date on which 
the notice of the preliminary results is published in the Federal 
Register. However, if the Department determines that it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the aforementioned specified 
time limits, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 351.213(h)(2) 
of the Department's regulations allow the Department to extend the 245-
day period to 365 days and to extend the 120-day period to 180 days.
    Due to the need for further analysis of Vita's questionnaire 
response, particularly with respect to Vita's reported selling agents 
and commissions, the Department finds that it is not practicable to 
complete the preliminary results of this review within the original 
time limit. Therefore, the Department is extending the deadline for 
completion of the preliminary results of this administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on canned pineapple fruit from Thailand by 
120 days from April 1, 2008 until no later than July 30, 2008.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to sections 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: March 3, 2008.
Gary S. Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-4640 Filed 3-7-08; 8:45 am]
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