[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 16, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50290-50291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-17584]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-421-815, A-455-806, A-469-825]


Certain Preserved Mushrooms From the Netherlands, Poland, and 
Spain: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the Less-Than-
Fair-Value Investigations

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.


DATES: Applicable August 16, 2022.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Benjamin A. Smith (the Netherlands), 
Eliza Siordia (Poland), or Katherine Johnson (Spain), AD/CVD 
Operations, Offices III and V, Enforcement and Compliance, 
International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
2181, (202) 482-3878, or (202) 482-2437, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On April 20, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) 
initiated the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations of imports of 
certain preserved mushrooms from the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain.\1\ 
Currently, the preliminary determinations are due no later than 
September 7, 2022.
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    \1\ See Certain Preserved Mushrooms from France, the 
Netherlands, Poland, and Spain: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 
Investigations, 87 FR 24941 (April 27, 2022).
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Postponement of Preliminary Determination

    Section 733(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires Commerce to issue the preliminary determination in an 
LTFV investigation within 140 days after the date on which Commerce 
initiated the investigation. However, section 733(c)(1) of the Act 
permits Commerce to postpone the preliminary determination until no 
later than 190 days after the date on which Commerce initiated the 
investigation if: (A) the petitioner makes a timely request for a 
postponement; or (B) Commerce concludes that the parties concerned are 
cooperating, that the investigation is extraordinarily complicated, and 
that additional time is necessary to make a preliminary determination. 
Under 19 CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must submit a request for 
postponement 25 days or more before the scheduled date of the 
preliminary determination and must state the reasons for the request. 
Commerce will grant the request unless it finds compelling reasons to 
deny the request.
    On August 8, 2022, Giorgio Foods, Inc. (the petitioner) submitted a 
timely request that Commerce postpone the preliminary determinations in 
the LTFV investigations for the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain.\2\ The 
petitioner stated that it requests postponement due to concerns that 
Commerce will need more time to issue supplemental questionnaires to 
address deficiencies in the respondents' initial questionnaire 
responses.\3\
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    \2\ See Petitioner's Letter, ``Less-Than-Fair-Value 
Investigations of Certain Preserved Mushrooms from Netherlands, 
Poland, and Spain--Petitioner's Request for Postponement of 
Preliminary Antidumping Determinations,'' dated August 8, 2022.
    \3\ Id. at 2.
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    For the reasons stated above, and because there are no compelling 
reasons to deny the request, Commerce, in

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accordance with section 733(c)(1)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(e), 
is postponing the deadline for the preliminary determinations for the 
Netherlands, Poland, and Spain by 50 days (i.e., 190 days after the 
date on which these investigations were initiated). As a result, 
Commerce will issue its preliminary determinations no later than 
October 27, 2022. In accordance with section 735(a)(1) of the Act and 
19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the deadline for the final determinations in 
these investigations will continue to be 75 days after the date of the 
preliminary determinations, unless postponed at a later date.

Notification to Interested Parties

    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 733(c)(2) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1).

    Dated: August 10, 2022.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2022-17584 Filed 8-15-22; 8:45 am]
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