[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 171 (Friday, September 3, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54089-54090]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-22083]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-827]


Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China: 
Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Tran at (202) 482-1503 or 
Mahnaz Khan at (202) 482-0914; AD/CVD Operations, Office 1, Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On January 29, 2010, the Department of Commerce (``Department'') 
published a notice of initiation of administrative review of the 
antidumping duty order on certain cased pencils from the People's 
Republic of China, covering the period December 1, 2008 through 
November 30, 2009. See Initiation of Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Administrative Reviews, Requests for Revocation in Part, and 
Deferral of Initiation of Administrative Review, 75 FR 4770 (January 
29, 2010). The current deadline for the preliminary results of this 
administrative review is September 9, 2010.\1\
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    \1\ As explained in the memorandum from the Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Import Administration, the Department has exercised 
its discretion to toll deadlines for the duration of the closure of 
the Federal Government from February 5, through February 12, 2010. 
See Memorandum to the Record from Ronald Lorentzen, DAS for Import 
Administration, regarding ``Tolling of Administrative Deadlines As a 
Result of the Government Closure During the Recent Snowstorm,'' 
dated February 12, 2010. Thus, all deadlines in this segment of the 
proceeding were extended by seven days. The revised deadline for the 
preliminary results of the 2008-2009 antidumping duty administrative 
review is therefore September 9, 2010. The final results of this 
review continue to be due 120 days after the publication of the 
preliminary results.
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Statutory Time Limits

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (``the 
Act''), requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of an 
administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order for which a review is requested and the 
final results of review within 120 days after the date on which the 
preliminary results are published. 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.

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results

    The Department requires additional time to review and analyze the 
sales and factors of production responses in this administrative 
review. The Department has also found the need to issue additional 
supplemental questionnaires to respondents in this review. Moreover, 
the Department requires additional time to analyze complex issues 
related to

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surrogate value selections. Thus, it is not practicable to complete 
this review within the originally anticipated time limit (i.e., by 
September 9, 2010). Therefore, the Department is extending the time 
limit for completion of the preliminary results by 120 days to not 
later than January 7, 2011, in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act.
    We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with 
sections 751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: August 30, 2010.
Edward C. Yang,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-22083 Filed 9-2-10; 8:45 am]
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