[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 108 (Monday, June 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32159-32160]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13578]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-570-913]


Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the People's 
Republic of China: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Review

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

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 7, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Huston, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-4261.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On October 26, 2009, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the initiation of the administrative review of the 
countervailing duty order on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires 
from the People's Republic of China for the period December 17, 2007 
through December 31, 2008. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Requests for Revocation 
in Part, 74 FR 54956 (October 26, 2009). This review covers one 
producer and exporter of the subject merchandise to the United States: 
Hebei Starbright Tire Co., Ltd.

Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), and section 351.213(h)(1) of the Department's regulations require 
the Department to issue the preliminary results of a review within 245 
days after the last day of the anniversary month of the order or 
suspension agreement for which the administrative review was requested, 
and final results of the review within 120 days after the date on which 
the notice of the preliminary results is published in the Federal 
Register. However, if the Department determines that it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the aforementioned specified 
time limits, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act and section 351.213(h)(2) 
of the Department's regulations allow the Department to extend the 245-
day period to 365 days and to extend the 120-day period to 180 days.
    Beginning on February 3, 2009, the Department received several

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submissions from Titan Tire Corporation, the petitioner in this 
proceeding, as well as Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC and 
Bridgestone Americas, Inc., a domestic interested party, expressing 
concerns about the bankruptcy proceeding of GPX International Tire 
Corp., an importer of respondent's products and a related party during 
the period of review. According to the petitioner and the domestic 
interested party, the automatic stay provisions of the U.S. bankruptcy 
code precluded them from participating in this administrative review 
pending notice from the federal courts. Out of consideration for these 
parties' concerns, the Department issued extensions of regulatory 
deadlines until after the concerns of petitioner and the domestic 
interested party had been resolved. See Memorandum to the File from 
Andrew Huston, AD/CVD Operations, Office 6, ``Due Date for Domestic 
Parties' Submissions,'' dated April 30, 2010, stating the Department's 
conclusion that the concerns of the petitioner and the domestic party 
had been resolved and making a final extension of the regulatory 
deadlines to May 10, 2010.
    As the sum of these extensions was more than three months, the 
Department requires additional time to conduct a thorough analysis of 
all information on the record, including information submitted by the 
petitioner and the domestic party. Therefore, the Department finds that 
it is not practicable to complete the preliminary results of this 
review within the original time limit and is extending the deadline for 
completion of the preliminary results of this administrative review by 
120 days.
    Additionally, as explained in the memorandum from the Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, the Department has 
exercised its discretion to toll deadlines for the duration of the 
closure of the Federal Government due to snowstorms in February. 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. Therefore, the total extension of the deadline for 
the preliminary results of this administrative review is 127 days, and 
the revised extended due date for the preliminary results is October 7, 
2010.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to sections 
751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: May 28, 2010.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-13578 Filed 6-4-10; 8:45 am]
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