92 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 1 / Monday, January 3, 2011 / Notices 

1See Petition for the Imposition of Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duties: Multilayered Wood 

Flooring from the People’s Republic of China, dated 

October 21, 2010 (‘‘Petition’’). 

files a request for review is unable to 

locate the producer or exporter for 

which it requested the review, the 

interested party must provide an 

explanation of the attempts it made to 

locate the producer or exporter at the 

same time it files its request for review, 

in order for the Secretary to determine 

if the interested party’s attempts were 

reasonable, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.303(f)(3)(ii). 

As explained in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 

FR 23954 (May 6, 2003), the Department 

has clarified its practice with respect to 

the collection of final antidumping 

duties on imports of merchandise where 

intermediate firms are involved. The 

public should be aware of this 

clarification in determining whether to 

request an administrative review of 

merchandise subject to antidumping 

findings and orders. See also the Import 

Administration Web site at http:// 

ia.ita.doc.gov. 

Six copies of the request should be 

submitted to the Assistant Secretary for 

Import Administration, International 

Trade Administration, Room 1870, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th Street 

and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. The Department 

also asks parties to serve a copy of their 

requests to the Office of Antidumping/ 

Countervailing Operations, Attention: 

Sheila Forbes, in room 3508 of the main 

Commerce Building. Further, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.303(f)(3)(ii), a copy of each request 

must be served on the petitioner and 

each exporter or producer specified in 

the request. 

The Department will publish in the 

Federal Register a notice of ‘‘Initiation 

of Administrative Review of 

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 

Order, Finding, or Suspended 

Investigation’’ for requests received by 

the last day of January 2011. If the 

Department does not receive, by the last 

day of January 2011, a request for 

review of entries covered by an order, 

finding, or suspended investigation 

listed in this notice and for the period 

identified above, the Department will 

instruct the CBP to assess antidumping 

or countervailing duties on those entries 

at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or 

bond for) estimated antidumping or 

countervailing duties required on those 

entries at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from warehouse, for 

consumption and to continue to collect 

the cash deposit previously ordered. 

For the first administrative review of 

any order, there will be no assessment 

of antidumping or countervailing duties 

on entries of subject merchandise 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption during the relevant 

provisional-measures ‘‘gap’’ period, of 

the order, if such a gap period is 

applicable to the POR. 

This notice is not required by statute 

but is published as a service to the 

international trading community. 

Dated: December 20, 2010. 

Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–971] 

Multilayered Wood Flooring From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Postponement of Preliminary 

Determination in the Countervailing 

Duty Investigation 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 3, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seth 

Isenberg and Joshua Morris, AD/CVD 

Operations, Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–0588 and (202) 482–1779, 

respectively. 

Background 

On November 10, 2010, the 

Department of Commerce (‘‘the 

Department’’) initiated an investigation 

of multilayered wood flooring from the 

People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’). See 

Multilayered Wood Flooring From the 

People’s Republic of China: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigation, 75 FR 

70719 (November 18, 2010) (‘‘Initiation 

Notice’’). Currently, the preliminary 

determination is due no later than 

January 14, 2011. 

Postponement of Due Date for 

Preliminary Determination 

Under section 703(c)(1)(B) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 

‘‘Act’’), the Department may extend the 

period for reaching a preliminary 

determination in a countervailing duty 

investigation until no later than the 

130th day after the date on which the 

administering authority initiates an 

investigation, if the Department 

determines that the parties are 

cooperating and additional time is 

necessary to make the preliminary 

determination because the case is 

extraordinarily complicated. The 

Department solicited and received 

comments from parties, and concludes 

that concerned parties are cooperating. 

The Department further finds that 

additional time is required because the 

number of alleged manufacturers, 

producers, and exporters listed in the 

Petition 1 has complicated the 

Department’s selection of the firms to 

individually investigate. See section 

703(c)(1)(B)(i)(IV) of the Act. 

Moreover, since the Initiation Notice, 

the Department has concluded it cannot 

use U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

data for respondent selection. Rather, it 

is appropriate to solicit information 

about the quantity and value of subject 

merchandise sales from the firms named 

in the Petition. Therefore, respondent 

selection is extraordinarily complicated 

due to the large number of companies 

from which the Department is gathering 

quantity and value information. Thus, 

the Department is extending the due 

date for the preliminary determination 

to no later than 130 days after the day 

on which the investigation was initiated 

(i.e., March 20, 2011). However, March 

20, 2011, falls on a Sunday, and it is the 

Department’s long-standing practice to 

issue a determination the next business 

day when the statutory deadline falls on 

a weekend, Federal holiday, or any 

other day when the Department is 

closed. See Notice of Clarification: 

Application of ‘‘Next Business Day’’ Rule 

for Administrative Determination 

Deadlines Pursuant to the Tariff Act of 

1930, As Amended, 70 FR 24533 (May 

10, 2005). Accordingly, the deadline for 

completion of the preliminary 

determination is now no later than 

Monday, March 21, 2011. 

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to section 703(c)(2) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.205(f). 

Dated: December 27, 2010. 

Christian Marsh, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

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