[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 187 (Thursday, September 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 55496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22550]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-552-801]


Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of 
Vietnam: Extension of Time Limits for the Preliminary Results of the 
New Shipper Reviews

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 25, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Ray, AD/CVD Operations, Office 9, 
Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-5403.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 7, 2008, the Department published a notice of initiation 
of new shipper reviews of certain frozen fish fillets from the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam covering the period August 1, 2007, 
through January 31, 2008. See Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of Antidumping Duty New 
Shipper Reviews, 73 FR 18753, (April 7, 2008). The preliminary results 
are currently due no later than September 22, 2008.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
``Act''), provides that the Department will issue the preliminary 
results of a new shipper review of an antidumping duty order within 180 
days after the day on which the review was initiated. See also 19 CFR 
351.214 (i)(1). The Act further provides that the Department may extend 
that 180-day period to 300 days if it determines that the case is 
extraordinarily complicated. See 19 CFR 351.214 (i)(2).

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    The Department determines that these new shipper reviews involve 
extraordinarily complicated methodological issues such as the use of 
intermediate input methodology, the examination of importer 
information, and the evaluation of the bona fide nature of each 
company's sales. Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2), the Department is extending the 
time limit for these preliminary results by 120 days, until no later 
than January 20, 2009. The final results continue to be due 90 days 
after the publication of the preliminary results.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: September 19, 2008.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-22550 Filed 9-24-08; 8:45 am]
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