[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 63 (Tuesday, April 3, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15862-15863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-6161]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-570-827]


Extension of Time Limit for Final Results in the 2004-2005 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review: Certain Cased Pencils From the 
People's Republic of China

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

DATES: Effective Date: April 3, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magd Zalok or Drew Jackson, AD/CVD 
Operations, Office 4, Import Administration, International Trade 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-
4162 or (202) 482-4406, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Background

    On February 1, 2006, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published in the Federal Register a notice of initiation of an 
administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cased 
pencils from the People's Republic of China (PRC) covering the period 
December 1, 2004, through November 30, 2005. See Initiation of 
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews and Request 
for Revocation in Part, 71 FR 5241 (February 1, 2006). On December 7, 
2006, the Department published in the Federal Register the preliminary 
results of the instant review. See Certain Cased Pencils from the 
People's Republic of China; Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review, 71 FR 70949. The final results of review are 
currently due no later than April 6, 2007.

Extension of Time Limit for Final Results of Review

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to make a final determination in an 
antidumping duty administrative review within 120 days after the date 
on which the preliminary determination is published. However, if it is 
not practicable to complete the review within this time period, section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act allows the Department to extend the time limit 
for the final determination to 180 days from the date of publication of 
the preliminary determination (or 300 days if the Department has not 
extended the time limit for the preliminary determination). We have 
determined that it is not practicable to complete the final results of 
this review within the original time limit because the Department 
requires additional time to consider a number of complex issues 
involving, inter alia, the valuation of a major input, and selection of 
a surrogate source for manufacturing overhead expenses, general 
expenses, and profit. Therefore, in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the Department is extending the time period 
for completion of these final results of review by 30 days. We intend 
to issue the final results of review no later than May 7, 2007 (the 
first business day after the extended due date of May 6, 2007).

     Dated: March 28, 2007.
Stephen J. Claeys,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
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