[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 150 (Thursday, August 4, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 47146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19704]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-909]


Certain Steel Nails From the Peoples' Republic of China: Notice 
of Extension of Time Limits for the Preliminary Results of the Second 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and New Shipper Review

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

DATES: Effective Date: August 4, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexis Polovina, Office 9, AD/CVD 
Operations, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3927.

Background

    On August 2, 2010, the Department published a notice of opportunity 
to request an administrative review on the antidumping order on certain 
steel nails from the People's Republic of China (``PRC'') for the 
period of review (``POR'') August 1, 2009, through July 31, 2010. See 
Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 
Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review, 75 FR 
45094 (August 2, 2010). Based upon requests for review from various 
parties, on September 29, 2010, the Department initiated the first 
antidumping duty administrative review on certain steel nails from the 
PRC, covering 222 companies. See Initiation of Antidumping and 
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation 
in Part, 75 FR 60076 (September 29, 2010) (``Initiation Notice''). On 
April 28, 2011, the Department published a notice of a partial 
rescission and an extension of the time period for issuing the 
preliminary results by 90 days, to August 1, 2011. See Certain Steel 
Nails From the Peoples' Republic of China: Notice of Extension of Time 
Limits and Partial Rescission of the Second Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 76 FR 23788 (April 28, 2011). On July 11, 2011, 
in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(j), we aligned the concurrent new 
shipper review of Shanghai Colour Nail Co., Ltd. with the second 
administrative review.

Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``Act''), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
for which a review is requested and a final determination within 120 
days after the date on which the preliminary results are published. 
However, if it is not practicable to complete the review within these 
time periods, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to 
extend the time limit for the preliminary determination to a maximum of 
365 days after the last day of the anniversary month.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of these reviews within the current time limits. The Department 
requires additional time to analyze recently submitted supplemental 
questionnaire responses, which contained a significant amount of new 
sales and factors of production data. The additional time is needed to 
consider these data and their incorporation into the margin 
calculations for the individually-reviewed respondents, as well as to 
consider all of the issues raised by parties during the course of these 
proceedings. Therefore, the Department is hereby fully extending the 
time limits for completion of the preliminary results by 30 days. The 
preliminary results will now be due no later than August 31, 2011. The 
final results continue to be due 120 days after the publication of the 
preliminary results.
    This notice is published in accordance with section 777(i)(1) of 
the Act.

    Dated: July 28, 2011.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
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