[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 245 (Wednesday, December 23, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68227-68228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-30528]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-896]


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

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 23, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurel LaCivita, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 8, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4243.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 1, 2009, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published in the Federal Register a notice for an opportunity to 
request an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on 
magnesium metal from the People's Republic of China (``PRC''). See 
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity to Request Administrative Review, 74 FR 
14771 (April 1, 2009). Respondent, Tianjin Magnesium International Co., 
Ltd. (``TMI''), requested a review on April 27, 2009, and Petitioner, 
US Magnesium LLC (``US Magnesium''), requested a review of TMI on April 
30, 2009. The Department published in the Federal Register a notice of 
initiation of an administrative review of TMI for the period April 1, 
2008, through March 31, 2009. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 74 FR 25711 (May 29, 2009). 
Currently, the preliminary results of review are due no later than 
December 31, 2009.

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (``the Act''), the Department shall make a preliminary 
determination in an administrative review of an antidumping duty order 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of the date 
of publication of the order. The Act further provides, however, that 
the Department may extend that 245-day period to 365 days if it 
determines it is not practicable to

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complete the review within the foregoing time period.
    We determine that completion of the preliminary results of this 
review within the 245-day period is not practicable because the 
Department requires additional time to analyze information pertaining 
to the respondent's sales practices, factors of production, and to 
issue and review responses to supplemental questionnaires. Therefore, 
we require additional time to complete these preliminary results. As a 
result, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the 
Department is extending the time period for completion of the 
preliminary results of this review by 75 days until March 16, 2010.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: December 16, 2009.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. E9-30528 Filed 12-22-09; 8:45 am]
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