[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 109 (Thursday, June 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 31964]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-12605]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-901]


Certain Lined Paper Products From the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 5, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Hargett, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 482-
4161.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On October 31, 2007, the U.S. Department of Commerce 
(``Department'') published a notice of initiation of the administrative 
review of the antidumping duty order on certain lined paper products 
from the People's Republic of China, covering the period April 17, 2006 
to August 31, 2007. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Administrative Reviews, 72 FR 61621 (October 31, 2007). The 
preliminary results of this review are currently due no later than June 
1, 2008.

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
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. Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act further states 
that if it is not practicable to complete the review within the time 
period specified, the administering authority may extend the 245-day 
period to issue its preliminary results to up to 365 days.
    We determine that completion of the preliminary results of this 
review within the 245-day period is not practicable for the following 
reasons. The mandatory respondent has complex cost allocation issues 
which require the Department to gather and analyze a significant amount 
of information associated with the factors of production and 
manufacturing costs. In addition, petitioner, Association of American 
School Paper Suppliers, has raised other issues which require the 
collection of additional information and has requested that the 
Department extend the preliminary results to allow more time to analyze 
these issues. Given the number and complexity of issues in this case 
and the Department's resource constraints, and in accordance with 
section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, we are extending the time period for 
issuing the preliminary results of review by 120 days. Therefore, the 
preliminary results are now due no later than September 29, 2008. The 
final results continue to be due 120 days after publication of the 
preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 
751(a)(3)(A) and 771(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: May 30, 2008.
Stephan J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-12605 Filed 6-4-08; 8:45 am]
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