[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 55 (Wednesday, March 21, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16537-16538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6817]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-427-801, A-428-801, A-475-801]


Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France, Germany, and Italy: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Reviews

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

DATES: Effective Date: March 21, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hermes Pinilla, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 1, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-3477.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    At the request of interested parties, the Department of Commerce 
(the Department) initiated administrative reviews of the antidumping 
duty orders on ball bearings and parts thereof from France, Germany, 
Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom for the period May 1,

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2010, through April 30, 2011.\1\ On January 18, 2012, we published a 
notice in the Federal Register extending the deadline for the 
preliminary results to March 31, 2012.\2\
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    \1\ See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Administrative Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 76 FR 
37781 (June 28, 2011). See also Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof From 
Japan and the United Kingdom: Revocation of Antidumping Duty Orders, 
76 FR 41761 (July 15, 2011), where we revoked the antidumping duty 
orders with respect to ball bearings and parts thereof from Japan 
and the United Kingdom. In the Federal Register notice we indicated 
that, as a result of the revocation, the Department is discontinuing 
all unfinished administrative reviews immediately and will not 
initiate any new administrative reviews of the orders.
    \2\ See Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from France, Germany, 
and Italy: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews, 77 FR 2511 (January 18, 
2012).
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Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to complete the preliminary results 
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order 
for which a review is requested. If it is not practicable to complete 
the review within this time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act 
allows the Department to extend the time limit for the preliminary 
results to a maximum of 365 days after the last day of the anniversary 
month.
    We determine that it is not practicable to complete the preliminary 
results of these reviews within the original time limit because there 
are concurrent cases before Office 1 (the office responsible for the 
AFB orders) with numerous complex issues. Furthermore, these concurrent 
cases have fully extended deadlines that are proximate to the current 
deadline in these reviews making it impracticable for Office 1 to 
complete these ball-bearings reviews within the current deadline. For 
example, Office 1 has the antidumping duty investigations on certain 
steel nails from the United Arab Emirates and certain stilbenic optical 
brightening agents from Taiwan, the countervailing duty investigations 
on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from India, the Sultanate 
of Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and the Socialist Republic of 
Vietnam, and in the antidumping duty administrative review of 
freshwater crawfish tail meat from the People's Republic of China, all 
of which involve complex issues and all of which have fully extended 
deadlines which are within two weeks of the current deadline for the 
preliminary results in these reviews. Therefore, we are extending the 
time period for issuing the preliminary results of these reviews by an 
additional 60 days, which is 365 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month, until May 30, 2012.
    This notice is published in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2).

    Dated: March 14, 2012.
Gary Taverman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2012-6817 Filed 3-20-12; 8:45 am]
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