[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 54 (Wednesday, March 19, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14771-14772]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5553]


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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 Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty New 
Shipper Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: (March 19, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zev Primor, 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) 482-4114.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 27, 2007, the Department of 
Commerce (``Department'') published a notice of initiation of a new 
shipper review of the antidumping duty order on certain preserved 
mushrooms from the People's Republic of China, covering the period of 
review of February 1, 2007, to July 31, 2007, and Dujiangyan Xingda 
Foodstuff Co., Ltd. (``Xingda''). See Certain Preserved Mushrooms from 
the People's Republic of China: Initiation of New Shipper Review, 72 FR 
54899 (September 27, 2007).

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``Act''), and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(1), 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 section 
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2).
    The Department finds that this review is extraordinarily 
complicated and that it is not practicable to complete this

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new shipper review within the foregoing time period. Specifically, the 
Department must issue supplemental questionnaires to obtain additional 
information about (1) Xingda's complex methodology for allocating 
consumption rates of factors of production, and (2) the bona fides of 
its U.S. sale. 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. The current deadline for the preliminary results is March 19, 
2008. For the reasons noted above, we are extending the 180-day 
deadline for the completion of the preliminary results of this new 
shipper review by an additional 60 days, to 240 days from September 21, 
2007, the date of initiation, until no later than May 19, 2008.\1\ The 
deadline for the final results of this new shipper review continues to 
be 90 days after the date on which the preliminary results were issued.
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    \1\ Because 240 days from September 21, 2007, falls on May 18, 
2008, which is a Sunday, the deadline for completing the preliminary 
results of this new shipper review shall be the next business day, 
May 19, 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 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2).

    Dated: March 13, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-5553 Filed 3-18-08; 8:45 am]
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