[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 189 (Monday, September 29, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 56550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22886]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-570-942]


Certain Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks from the People's 
Republic of China: Notice of Postponement of Preliminary Determination 
in the Countervailing Duty Investigation

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 29, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Holland or Yasmin Nair, AD/CVD 
Operations, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1279 and (202) 482-3813, 
respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 20, 2008, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
initiated the countervailing duty investigation of certain kitchen 
appliance shelving and racks from the People's Republic of China. See 
Notice of Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation: Certain 
Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks from the People's Republic of 
China, 73 FR 50304 (August 26, 2008). Currently, the preliminary 
determination is due no later than October 24, 2008.

Postponement of Due Date for Preliminary Determination

    On September 17, 2008, the Department received a request from 
Nashville Wire Products Inc., SSW Holding Company, Inc., United Steel, 
Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied-Industrial 
and Service Workers International Union, and the International 
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District Lodge 6 
(Clinton, IA) (collectively, ``the petitioners'') to postpone the 
preliminary determination of the countervailing duty investigation of 
certain kitchen appliance shelving and racks from the PRC. Under 
section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 
the Department may extend the period for reaching a preliminary 
determination in a countervailing duty investigation until no later 
than the 130th day after the date on which the administering authority 
initiates an investigation if the petitioner makes a timely request for 
an extension of the period within which the determination must be made 
under section 703(b) of the Act. In accordance with section 351.205(e) 
of the Department's regulations, the petitioners' request for 
postponement of the preliminary determination was made 25 days or more 
before the scheduled date of the preliminary determination. 
Accordingly, we are extending the due date for the preliminary 
determination by 59 days to no later than December 22, 2008.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2) 
of the Act.

    Dated: September 22, 2008.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-22886 Filed 9-26-08; 8:45 am]
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