Antidumping: Pasta from— Italy,

[Federal Register: December 7, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 234)]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-818]

Certain Pasta from Italy: Extension of Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

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

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 7, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Brinkmann at (202) 482-4126, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement II, Group VI, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

TIME LIMITS

Statutory Time Limits

Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of an order/finding for which a review is requested and a final determination within 120 days after the date on which the preliminary determination is published. However, if it is not practicable to complete the review within the time period, section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend these deadlines to a maximum of 365 days and 180 days, respectively.

Background

On August 27, 1998, the Department published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta from Italy, covering the period July 1, 1997 to June 30, 1998 (63 FR 45796). On August 9, 1999, we issued the preliminary results of review (64 FR 43152). In our notice of preliminary results, we stated our intention to issue the final results of this review no later than December 7,1999.

Extension of Final Results of Review

We determine that it is not practicable to complete the final results of this review within the original time limit. Therefore, the Department is extending the time limits for completion of the final results until no later than February 7, 2000. See Decision Memorandum from Holly Kuga to Richard W. Moreland, dated November 29, 1999, which is on file in the Central Records Unit.

This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act.

Dated: November 30, 1999. Holly Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Import Administration, Group II.

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