[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 111 (Thursday, June 11, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 27777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13737]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-909]


Certain Steel Nails From the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of the New Shipper 
Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim Lord, 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) 482-7524.

Background

    The notice announcing the antidumping duty order on certain steel 
nails from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') was published in 
the Federal Register on August 1, 2008. See Notice of Antidumping Duty 
Order: Certain Steel Nails From the People's Republic of China, 73 FR 
44961 (August 1, 2008) (``Antidumping Duty Order''). On February 25, 
2009, we received a timely request for a new shipper review from 
Qingdao Denarius Manufacture Co., Ltd (``Qingdao Denarius'') in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c) and 351.214(d)(2). On March 20, 2009, 
the Department of Commerce (``Department'') published a notice of 
initiation of a new shipper review of certain steel nails from the 
People's Republic of China covering the period of January 23, 2008, 
through January 31, 2009. See Certain Steel Nails From the People's 
Republic of China: Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 
74 FR 11909, (March 20, 2009). The preliminary results are currently 
due no later than September 12, 2009.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``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 also 19 CFR 351.214 (i)(2).

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    The Department determines that this new shipper review involves 
extraordinarily complicated methodological issues such as the 
examination of importer information and the evaluation of the bona fide 
nature of the 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 10, 2010. 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: June 5, 2009.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. E9-13737 Filed 6-10-09; 8:45 am]
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