[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 9 (Thursday, January 14, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 2108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-608]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-832]


Pure Magnesium 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: January 14, 2010.

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 May 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 pure 
magnesium 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 
20278 (May 1, 2009). Respondent, Tianjin Magnesium International Co., 
Ltd. (``TMI''), requested a review on May 28, 2009. Alcoa Inc. 
(``Alcoa''), a U.S. consumer of pure magnesium and importer of the 
subject merchandise, requested a review of Tianjin Xianghaiqi Resources 
Import & Export Trade Co., Ltd. (``TXR'') on May 29, 2009. Petitioner, 
US Magnesium LLC (``US Magnesium'') requested a review of TMI, TXR and 
Pan Asia Magnesium Co., Ltd. on June 1, 2009. The Department published 
in the Federal Register a notice of initiation of an administrative 
review of TMI for the period May 1, 2008, through April 30, 2009. See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 74 FR 30052 (June 24, 
2009). Currently, the preliminary results of review are due no later 
than January 31, 2010.

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 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 120 days until May 31, 2010. 
However, since May 31, 2010, falls on a federal holiday, a non-business 
day, the deadline for the preliminary determination will now be due no 
later than June 1, 2010, the next business day.
    This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 
and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: January 6, 2010.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-608 Filed 1-13-10; 8:45 am]
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