[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 185 (Friday, September 25, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 48905]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-23261]



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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 Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 25, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Javier Barrientos, 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) 482-2243.

Background

    The antidumping duty order on certain frozen fish fillets from the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (``Vietnam'') was published in the 
Federal Register on August 12, 2003. See Notice of Antidumping Duty 
Order: Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of 
Vietnam, 68 FR 47909 (August 12, 2003). On February 6, 2009, we 
received a timely request for a new shipper review from NTSF Seafoods 
Joint Stock Company (``NTSF'') in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c) and 
351.214(d)(2). On March 24, 2009, the Department issued a notice of 
initiation of new shipper review of certain frozen fish fillets from 
Vietnam covering the period of August 1, 2008, - January 31, 2009. See 
Certain Frozen Fish Fillets from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: 
Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review, 74 FR 57058, (March 
27, 2009). The preliminary results are currently due no later than 
September 20, 2009.

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 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 NTSF's sales. In addition, the Department needs additional 
time to evaluate the affiliations amongst NTSF and other entities. 
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 18, 
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: September 17, 2009.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E9-23261 Filed 9-24-09; 8:45 am]
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