[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14436-14437]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5420]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

A-401-808


Purified Carboxymethylcellulose from Sweden: Extension of Time 
Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 18, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Edwards or Angelica Mendoza, 
AD/CVD Operations, Office 7, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
8029 or (202) 482-3019, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 24, 2007, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on purified carboxymethylcellulose from Sweden, 
covering the period July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007. See Initiation 
of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and 
Request for Revocation in Part, 72 FR 48613 (August 24, 2007). The 
preliminary results for this review are currently due no later than 
April 1, 2008.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires 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

    The deadline for the preliminary results of this administrative 
review is currently April 1, 2008. The Department has determined that 
completion of the preliminary results within the statutory time period 
is not practicable. On December 20, 2007, the Department initiated a 
sales-below-cost investigation for CP Kelco A.B. and requested that the 
company respond to Section D of the Department's antidumping duty 
(cost) questionnaire. See Letter from Angelica L. Mendoza, Program 
Manager, to CP Kelco A.B., dated December 20, 2007, and attached 
memorandum. CP Kelco A.B. submitted is response to Section D on January 
8, 2008. The Department has not yet released a supplemental cost 
questionnaire to CP Kelco A.B. On February 1, 2008, the Department 
issued a section A through C supplemental questionnaire to respondent 
CP Kelco A.B. CP Kelco A.B. submitted its sections A through C 
supplemental sales questionnaire response on February 26, 2008. The 
Department requires additional time to review and analyze CP Kelco 
A.B.'s questionnaire responses, to issue a supplemental cost 
questionnaire, to issue additional supplemental sales questionnaires if

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necessary, and to conduct verification of the questionnaire responses, 
if necessary.
    Therefore, given the additional time needed to conduct a complete 
analysis for this administrative review, in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department is extending the time period 
for completion of the preliminary results to 365 days. Therefore, the 
preliminary results are now due no later than July 30, 2008. The final 
results continue to be due no later than 120 days after publication of 
the notice of the preliminary results.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: March 11, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-5420 Filed 3-17-08; 8:45 am]
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