[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 73244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-28587]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-570-836)


Glycine from the People's Republic of China: Extension of Time 
Limit for the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 2, 2008.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dena Crossland 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-
3362 or (202) 482-3019, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 25, 2008, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on glycine from the People's Republic of China, 
covering the period March 1, 2007, through February 29, 2008. See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 73 FR 22337 (April 25, 
2008). The preliminary results for this administrative review are 
currently due no later than December 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. If it is 
not practicable to complete the preliminary results within the time 
period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend 
this deadline to a maximum of 365 days.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    The deadline for the preliminary results of this administrative 
review is currently December 1, 2008. The Department determines that 
completion of the preliminary results within the statutory time period 
is not practicable. On September 29, 2008, the Department issued a 
second supplemental questionnaire to respondent Baoding Mantong Fine 
Chemistry Co., Ltd. (``Baoding Mantong''), regarding its responses to 
sections A, C and D of the Department's antidumping questionnaire. 
Baoding Mantong submitted its second supplemental questionnaire 
response on October 23, 2008. The Department requires additional time 
to review and analyze Baoding Mantong's supplemental questionnaire 
response and interested parties' November 5, 2008 and November 17, 
2008, surrogate value submissions, and to issue additional supplemental 
sales and factors of production questionnaires to Baoding Mantong, 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 March 31, 2009. 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: November 24, 2008.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. E8-28587 Filed 12-1-04; 8:45 am]
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