[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 77 (Thursday, April 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20983-20984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-9343]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
[A-570-868]
Folding Metal Tables and Chairs from the People's Republic of
China: Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of the
Antidumping Duty Administrative Reviews
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 22, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lilit Astvatsatrian or Charles Riggle,
AD/CVD Operations, Office 8, Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-
6412 or (202) 482-0650, respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On July 29, 2009, the Department of Commerce (``the Department'')
published the initiation of administrative reviews of the antidumping
duty order on folding metal tables and chairs from the People's
Republic of China (``PRC''). See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Deferral of
Administrative
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Review, 74 FR 37690 (July 29, 2009). On March 10, 2010, the Department
published the extension of time limits for the preliminary results of
the administrative reviews of the antidumping duty order. See Folding
Metal Tables and Chairs from the People's Republic of China: Notice of
Extension of Time Limit for the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping
Duty Administrative Reviews, 75 FR 11120 (March 10, 2010). These
reviews cover the periods June 1, 2007, through May 31, 2008, and June
1, 2008, through May 31, 2009.\1\ The preliminary results of these
reviews are currently due no later than May 8, 2010.\2\
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\1\ On June 30, 2008, Feili Group (Fujian) Co. Ltd. and Feili
Furniture Development Limited Quanzhou City (collectively,
``Feili''), requested that the Department conduct an administrative
review of its sales for the period June 1, 2007, through May 31,
2008, and, in addition, requested that the Department defer the
initiation of the review for one year in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(c). Consequently, on July 29, 2009, the Department initiated
reviews for Feili covering both the 2007-08 and 2008-09 review
periods.
\2\ 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.
Thus, all deadlines in these segments of the proceeding have already
been extended by seven days from May 1, 2010 to May 8, 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.
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Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review
Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (``the Act''), the Department shall make a preliminary
determination in an administrative review of an antidumping duty order
within 245 days after the last day of the anniversary month of the date
of publication of the order. The Act further provides, however, that
the Department may extend that 245-day period to 365 days if it
determines it is not practicable to complete the review within the
foregoing time period.
The Department finds that it is not practicable to complete the
preliminary results of the administrative reviews of folding metal
tables and chairs from the PRC within this time limit. Specifically,
additional time is needed to conduct verification of New-Tec's sales
and factors of production, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.307(b)(v), and
to determine the appropriate surrogate values with which to value
factors of production. Therefore, in accordance with section
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department is extending the time period
for completion of the preliminary results of these reviews, which are
currently due on May 8, 2010, by 60 days. Therefore, the preliminary
results are now due no later than July 7, 2010.
This notice is published in accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A)
and 777(i) of the Act.
Dated: April 15, 2010.
Barbara E. Tillman,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-9343 Filed 4-21-10; 8:45 am]
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