[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 69400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28565]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-533-825]


Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet and Strip From India: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 
New Shipper Review

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

DATES: Effective Date: November 12, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elfi Blum, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-0197.

Background

    On March 2, 2010, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published the initiation of a new shipper review under the 
countervailing duty order on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet and 
strip from India for the period January 1, 2009, through December 31, 
2009. See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, Sheet and Strip from India: 
Initiation of Antidumping Duty and Countervailing Duty New Shipper 
Reviews, 75 FR 10758 (March 9, 2010). This new shipper review covers 
one producer and exporter of the subject merchandise to the United 
States: SRF Limited. On August 27, 2010, the Department published a 
notice of extension for the preliminary results of this new shipper 
review until November 22, 2010. See Polyethylene Terephthalate Film, 
Sheet and Strip From India: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary 
Results of Countervailing Duty New Shipper Review, 75 FR 52717 (August 
27, 2010). The Department is now further extending the deadline for the 
preliminary results until December 14, 2010.

Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), and section 351.214(i)(1) of the Department's regulations require 
the Department to issue the preliminary results of a new shipper review 
within 180 days after the date on which the review was initiated, and 
the final results of the review within 90 days after the date on which 
the preliminary results were issued. However, if the Department 
concludes that a new shipper review is extraordinarily complicated, 
section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and section 351.214(i)(2) of the 
Department's regulations allow the Department to extend the 180-day 
period to 300 days, and to extend the 90-day period to 150 days. The 
Department determines that this new shipper review involves 
extraordinarily complicated issues pertaining to the bona fides of this 
new shipper. In addition, we need further information from SRF Limited 
to analyze fully the subsidy programs under review. Because of these 
issues, the Department must issue another supplemental questionnaire to 
SRF Limited, provide SRF Limited with time to respond, and have 
sufficient time to analyze SRF Limited's response.
    Therefore, the Department is extending the deadline for completion 
of the preliminary results of this new shipper review by an additional 
22 days. Accordingly, the deadline for the completion of these 
preliminary results is now no later than December 14, 2010.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to sections 
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: November 5, 2010.
Susan H. Kuhbach,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-28565 Filed 11-10-10; 8:45 am]
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