[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 947-948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-54]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-863]


Notice of Extension of the Preliminary Results of Antidumping 
Duty New Shipper Review: Honey From the People's Republic of China

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Commerce.

DATES: Effective Date: January 9, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin Begnal or Michael Quigley; 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-
1442 and (202) 482-4047, respectively.

Background

    The Department of Commerce (``Department'') received a timely 
request from Shanghai Bloom International Trading Co., Ltd. (``Shanghai 
Bloom''), in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c), for a new shipper 
review of the antidumping duty order on honey from the People's 
Republic of China (``PRC''). On August 30, 2006, the Department found 
that the request for review with respect to Shanghai Bloom met all of 
the regulatory requirements set forth in 19 CFR 351.214(b) and 
initiated an antidumping duty new shipper review covering the period 
December 1, 2005, through June 30, 2006. See Honey from the People's 
Republic of China: Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Review, 
71 FR 52764 (September 7, 2006). The preliminary results are currently 
due no later than February 26, 2007.

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended 
(``the Act''), and 19 CFR 351.214(i)(1) require 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 of a review within 90 days after the date on which the 
preliminary results were issued. The Department may, however, extend 
the time period 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).
    The Department has determined that the review is extraordinarily

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complicated as the Department must gather additional publicly available 
information, issue additional supplemental questionnaires, and conduct 
verification of the responses. 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. Accordingly, the 
Department is extending the time limit for the completion of the 
preliminary results of the new shipper review of Shanghai Bloom to 300 
days. The preliminary results will now be due no later than June 26, 
2007, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act and 19 CFR 
351.214(i)(2). The final results will, in turn, be due 90 days after 
the date of issuance of the preliminary results, unless extended.
    This notice is published pursuant to sections 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) and 
777(i)(1) of the Act.

    Dated: December 28, 2006.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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