Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain Orange Juice from Brazil

Federal Register: October 28, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 207)

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

(A-351-840)

Certain Orange Juice from Brazil; Notice of Extension of Time

Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative

Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 28, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Eastwood or Hector

Rodriguez, AD/CVD Operations, Office 2, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone:

(202) 482-3874 or (202) 482-0629, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On April 27, 2009, the Department of Commerce (the Department) published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain orange juice from Brazil. See

Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative

Reviews and Request for Revocation in Part, 74 FR 19042 (April 27, 2009). The period of review is March 1, 2008, through February 28, 2009, and the preliminary results are currently due no later than

December 1, 2009. The review covers two producers/exporters of the subject merchandise to the United States.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of Tariff Act of 1930, as amended

(the Act), the Department shall make a preliminary determination in an administrative review of an antidumping order within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of the date of publication of the order. Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act further provides, however, that the Department may extend the 245-day period up to 365 days if it determines it is not practicable to complete the review within the foregoing time period. We determine that it is not practicable to complete this administrative review within the time limits mandated by section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act because we are unable to conduct verifications required for both respondents before the preliminary results. Therefore, we have fully extended the deadline for completing the preliminary results until March 31, 2010. The deadline for the final results of the review continues to be 120 days after the publication of the preliminary results.

This extension notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) and 777(i) of the Act.

Dated: October 22, 2009.

John M. Andersen,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing

Duty Operations.

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