[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9752-9753]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-3541]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-909]


Certain Steel Nails From the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of the New Shipper 
Review

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

DATES: Effective Date: February 22, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ricardo Martinez, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 9, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4532.

Background

    The antidumping duty order on certain steel nails from the People's 
Republic of China (``PRC'') was published in the Federal Register on 
August 1, 2008. See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: Certain Steel 
Nails From the People's Republic of China, 73 FR 44961 (August 1, 
2008). On August 27, 2010, we received a timely request for a new 
shipper review from Shanghai Colour Co., Ltd. (``Shanghai Colour'') in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c) and 351.214(d)(2). On October 4, 
2010, the Department published a notice of initiation of the new 
shipper review of certain steel nails from the PRC covering the period 
of August 1, 2009, through July 31, 2010. See Certain Steel Nails from 
the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Antidumping Duty New 
Shipper Review, 75 FR 61132 (October 4, 2010). The preliminary results 
are currently due no later than March 27, 2011.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
``Act''), provides that the Department will issue the preliminary 
results of a new shipper review of an antidumping duty order within 180 
days after the day on which the review was initiated. See also 19

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CFR 351.214 (i)(1). The Act further provides that the Department may 
extend that 180-day period to 300 days if it determines that the case 
is extraordinarily complicated. See also 19 CFR 351.214 (i)(2).

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    The Department determines that this new shipper review involves 
extraordinarily complicated methodological issues, including Shanghai 
Colour's multiple production stages for subject merchandise and the 
need to evaluate the bona fide nature of Shanghai Colour's sales. The 
Department finds that these extraordinarily complicated issues require 
additional time to evaluate. Therefore, in accordance with section 
751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2), the Department is 
extending the time limit for the preliminary results by 120 days, until 
no later than July 25, 2011. The final results continue to be due 90 
days after the publication of the preliminary results.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) and 777(i) of the Act.

    Dated: February 10, 2011.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2011-3541 Filed 2-18-11; 8:45 am]
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