[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 222 (Thursday, November 19, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 59962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-27653]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-831]


Fresh Garlic 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.


DATES: Effective Date: November 19, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Lindsay, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 6, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-0780.

Background

    On June 24, 2009, the Department of Commerce (Department) initiated 
a new shipper review of fresh garlic from the People's Republic of 
China (PRC) for Qingdao Sea-line International Trading Co., Ltd. (Sea-
line) covering the period November 1, 2008 through April 30, 2009. See 
Fresh Garlic from the People's Republic of China: Initiation of New 
Shipper Review, 74 FR 31241 (June 30, 2009). The preliminary results of 
this new shipper review are currently due no later than December 21, 
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 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2).

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    The Department determines that this new shipper review involves 
extraordinarily complicated methodological issues, including the 
examination of importer information. Additional time is also required 
to ensure that the Department has adequate time to include Sea line's 
supplemental questionnaire responses in its examination of the bona 
fides of the company's sale. 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 this preliminary results to 300 days, 
until no later than April 20, 2010.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: November 4, 2009.
Edward C. Yang,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. E9-27653 Filed 11-18-09; 8:45 am]
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