[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 31, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4764-4765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2064]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-570-980]


Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled 
Into Modules, From the People's Republic of China: Second Postponement 
of Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gene Calvert, Jun Jack Zhao, or Emily 
Halle, AD/CVD Operations, Office 6, Import Administration, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 
Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 
(202) 482-3586, (202) 482-1396 or (202) 482-0176, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On December 21, 2011, based on a request from Petitioner, 
SolarWorld Industries America, Inc. (SolarWorld), the Department of 
Commerce (the Department) extended the due date for the preliminary 
determination of the countervailing duty investigation of crystalline 
silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules,

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from the People's Republic of China, to no later than February 13, 
2012.\1\
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    \1\ See Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not 
Assembled Into Modules, From the People's Republic of China: 
Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing Duty 
Investigation, 76 FR 81914 (December 29, 2011).
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Postponement of Due Date for the Preliminary Determination

    Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 
requires the Department to issue the preliminary determination in a 
countervailing duty investigation within 65 days after the date on 
which the Department initiated the investigation. However, section 
703(c)(1)(A) of the Act permits the Department to postpone making the 
preliminary determination until no later than 130 days after the date 
on which it initiated the investigation if, among other reasons, the 
petitioner makes a timely request for an extension. In the instant 
investigation, SolarWorld made a second timely request on January 19, 
2012, for further postponement of the preliminary countervailing duty 
determination by 18 days, to March 2, 2012.\2\
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    \2\ See 19 CFR 351.205(e) and the petitioner's January 19, 2012 
letter requesting a second postponement of the preliminary 
determination.
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    Therefore, pursuant to the discretion afforded to the Department 
under section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, and because the Department does 
not find any compelling reason to deny the request, we are extending 
the due date for the preliminary determination to no later than March 
2, 2012.
    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).

    Dated: January 25, 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-2064 Filed 1-30-12; 8:45 am]
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