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###### Department of Commerce

###### International Trade Administration

          - [A-552-802]

# AGENCY:

Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.

# SUMMARY:

The Department of Commerce (“Department”) is extending the time limit for the preliminary results of the new shipper review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp (“shrimp”) from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (“Vietnam”). This review covers the period February 1, 2008 through January 31, 2009.

# EFFECTIVE DATE:

September 15, 2009.

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Toni Dach or Paul Walker, AD/CVD Operations, Office 9, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-1655 or (202) 482-0413, respectively.

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

## Background

                    On March 27, 2009, the Department published a notice of initiation of the new shipper review in the antidumping duty order on shrimp from Vietnam for Nhat Duc Co., Ltd..                     *See Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Initiation of Antidumping Duty New Shipper Review*, 74 FR 13416 (March 27, 2009). The preliminary results of this review are currently due no later than September 16, 2009.                 

## Statutory Time Limits

                    In antidumping duty new shipper reviews, section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (“the Act”), and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(1) requires the Department to issue the preliminary results of a new shipper review within 180 days after the date on which the new shipper review was initiated and final results within 90 days after the date on which the preliminary results are issued. However, the Department may extend the deadline for completion of the preliminary results of a new shipper review to 300 days if it determines that the case is extraordinarily complicated.                     *See*19 CFR 351.214(i)(2)      ( print page 47191)    

## Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of Review

The Department has determined that the review is extraordinarily complicated as the Department must issue additional supplemental questionnaires and conduct verification. Based on the timing of the case and the additional information that must be gathered and verified, the preliminary results of this new shipper review cannot be completed within the statutory time limit of 180 days.

Therefore, the Department is extending the time limit for completion of the preliminary results of this new shipper review by 106 days from the original September 16, 2009, deadline. The preliminary results will now be due no later than December 31, 2009. The final results continue to be due 90 days after the issuance of the preliminary results. 

We are issuing and publishing this notice in accordance with sections 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) and 777(i) of the Act. 

Dated: September 8, 2009.

John M. Andersen,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary  for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Operations.

[FR Doc. E9-22196 Filed 9-14-09; 8:45 am]

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