[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 30, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15678-15679]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-7069]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-421-811]


Certain Purified Carboxymethylcellulose from the Netherlands: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the 
time limit for the preliminary results of the administrative review of 
the antidumping duty order on purified carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) 
from the Netherlands. The period of review is July 1, 2008, through 
June 30, 2009. This extension is made pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) 
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 30, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Olga Carter, Edythe Artman, or 
Angelica Mendoza, Office 7, AD/CVD Operations, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230, telephone: 
(202) 482-8221, (202) 482-3931, or (202) 482-3019, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 25, 2009, the Department published in the Federal 
Register a notice of initiation of the administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on purified CMC from the Netherlands. See 
Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative 
Reviews and Requests for Revocation in Part, 74 FR 42873 (August 25, 
2009). This review covers the period July 1, 2008, through June 30, 
2009. The preliminary results for this administrative review were 
scheduled for April 2, 2010. As explained in the memorandum from the 
Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Import Administration, the 
Department has exercised its discretion to toll deadlines for the 
duration of the closure of the Federal Government from February 5, 
through February 12, 2010. Thus, all deadlines in this segment of the 
proceeding have been extended by seven days. The revised deadline for 
the preliminary results of the administrative review of purified CMC 
from the Netherlands became April 9, 2010. See Memorandum to the Record 
from Ronald Lorentzen, DAS for Import Administration, regarding 
``Tolling of Administrative Deadlines As a Result of the Government 
Closure During the Recent Snowstorm,'' dated February 12, 2010.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act requires the Department to complete 
the preliminary results of an administrative review within 245 days 
after the last day of the anniversary month of an order for which a 
review is requested. However, if it is not practicable to complete the 
review within this time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows 
the Department to extend the 245 day time period for the preliminary 
results up to 365 days.
    The Department has determined it is not practicable to complete 
this review within the statutory time limit because we require 
additional time to conduct a sales below-cost investigation of 
respondent Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals B.V. (ANFC) and to collect 
and analyze additional information needed for our preliminary results 
(e.g., information regarding ANFC as succesor-in-interest of Akzo Nobel 
Surface Chemistry B.V. and respondent CP Kelco B.V.'s factoring 
expenses and freight revenue). Accordingly, the Department is extending 
the time limits for completion of the preliminary results of this 
administrative review until no later than July 31, 2010, which is 365 
days from the last day of the anniversary month of this order. Because 
July 31, 2010, falls on Saturday, the new deadline for the final 
results will be next business day, Monday, August 2, 2010. See Notice 
of Clarification: Application of ``Next Business Day'' Rule for 
Administrative Determination Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act of 
1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 10, 2005). We intend to issue the 
final results in this review no

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later than 120 days after publication of the preliminary results.
    This notice is issued and published in accordance with sections 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: March 22, 2010.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
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