[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 87 (Thursday, May 6, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 24883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10718]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-552-802]


Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the Socialist Republic of 
Vietnam: Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary and Final Results of 
Full Five-year ( ``Sunset'') Review of Antidumping Duty Order

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

DATES: Effective Date: May 6, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry Huang, AD/CVD Operations, Office 
9, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4047.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On January 4, 2010, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'') 
published in the Federal Register the notice of initiation of its 
sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on certain frozen 
warmwater shrimp from Brazil, the People's Republic of China, India, 
Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (``Vietnam''). See 
Initiation of Five-year (``Sunset'') Review, 75 FR 103 (January 4, 
2010). On January 19, 2010, domestic interested parties, the Ad Hoc 
Shrimp Trade Action Committee, and the American Shrimp Processors 
Association, submitted letters indicating their intent to participate 
in the sunset review on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam. 
On February 3, 2010, domestic interested parties and 34 respondent 
interested parties provided substantive responses as required under 
section 351.218(d)(3) of the Department's regulations. Domestic and 
respondent interested parties included, in their substantive responses, 
arguments regarding whether dumping is likely to continue or recur. 
Domestic and respondent interested parties filed rebuttal comments on 
February 12, 2010.
    On March 2, 2010, the Department determined that the substantive 
responses filed by the domestic and respondent interested parties were 
adequate, and that it was appropriate to conduct a full sunset review. 
See Memorandum to James C. Doyle: Adequacy Determination in Antidumping 
Duty Sunset Review of Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam, dated March 2, 2010, and on file in the 
Central Records Unit, Room B 099 of the Department of Commerce 
building. On February 16, 2010, the Department issued a memorandum that 
tolled the deadlines for all Import Administration cases by seven 
calendar days due to the recent Federal Government closure. See 
Memorandum for the Record from Ronald Lorentzen, DAS for Import 
Administration, Tolling of Administrative Deadlines as a Result of the 
Government Closure During the Recent Snowstorm, dated February 12, 
2010. The Department's preliminary and final results of the sunset 
review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp 
are currently scheduled for May 1, 2010 and September 1, 2010, 
respectively.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary and Final Results of Reviews

    The Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the ``Act'') provides for the 
completion of a full sunset review within 240 days of the publication 
of the initiation notice. See section 751(c)(5)(A) of the Act. In 
accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of the Act, the Department may 
extend the period of time for making its determination by not more than 
90 days, if it determines that the review is extraordinarily 
complicated.
    We determine that this review is extraordinarily complicated, 
pursuant to section 751(c)(5)(C)(i), (ii) and (iii) of the Act, because 
there are a large number of issues, a large number of companies 
involved in this sunset review and because the Department must consider 
a number of complex issues such as the trends of pre-order and post-
order shipment volume. Therefore, the Department requires additional 
time to complete its analysis. Accordingly, the Department is extending 
the deadline in this proceeding for 90 days. As a result, the 
Department intends to issue the preliminary results of the full sunset 
review by July 30, 2010, and the final results by November 30, 2010.
    This notice is issued in accordance with sections 751(c)(5)(B) and 
(C) of the Act.

    Dated: April 30, 2010.
Edward C. Yang,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
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