Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 167 / Tuesday, August 28, 2018 / Notices 43849 

1See Certain Steel Racks from the People’s 

Republic: Initiation of Countervailing Duty 

Investigation, 83 FR 33201 (July 17, 2018) 

(Initiation Notice). 

2The petitioner is the Coalition of Fair Rack 

Imports and its individual members are Bulldog 

Rack Company, Hannibal Industries, Inc., Husky 

Rack and Wire, Ridg-U-Rak, Inc., SpaceRAK, a 

Division of Heartland Steel Products, Inc., 

Speedrack Products Group, Ltd., Steel King 

Industries, Inc., Tri-Boro Shelving & Partition Corp., 

and UNARCO Material Handling, Inc. 

3Letter from the petitioner, ‘‘Re: Certain Steel 

Racks from the People’s Republic of China: Request 

to Postpone Preliminary Determination,’’ dated 

August 9, 2018. 

4 Id. 

5Postponing the preliminary determination to 

130 days after initiation would place the deadline 

on Saturday, November 17, 2018. Commerce’s 

practice dictates that where a deadline falls on a 

weekend or federal holiday, the appropriate 

deadline is the next business day. 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). 

Compliance, Office IV, International 

Trade Administration, U.S. Department 

of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On July 10, 2018, the Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) initiated a 

countervailing duty (CVD) investigation 

of imports of steel racks from the 

People’s Republic of China.1 Currently, 

the preliminary determination is due no 

later than September 13, 2018. 

Postponement of Preliminary 

Determination 

Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), requires 

Commerce to issue the preliminary 

determination in a CVD investigation 

within 65 days after the date on which 

Commerce initiated the investigation. 

However, section 703(c)(1) of the Act 

permits Commerce to postpone the 

preliminary determination until no later 

than 130 days after the date on which 

Commerce initiated the investigation if: 

(A) the petitioner 2 makes a timely 

request for a postponement; or (B) 

Commerce concludes that the parties 

concerned are cooperating, and 

determines that the investigation is 

extraordinarily complicated, and that 

additional time is necessary to make a 

preliminary determination. Under 19 

CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must 

submit a request for postponement 25 

days or more before the scheduled date 

of the preliminary determination and 

must state the reasons for the request. 

Commerce will grant the request unless 

it finds compelling reasons to deny the 

request. 

On August 9, 2018, the petitioner 

submitted a timely request that 

Commerce postpone the preliminary 

determination.3 The petitioner states 

that it requests postponement of the 

preliminary determination because the 

scope of the investigation does not 

coincide exactly with any particular 

HTS category, it has been timeconsuming for Commerce to identify the 

largest producers of subject imports, 

and, at the time of the petitioner’s 

request, Commerce had not yet been 

able to designate mandatory 

respondents.4 The petitioner states that 

the postponement would allow 

sufficient time for Commerce to conduct 

a full investigation regarding the 

subsidy benefits received by Chinese 

producers and exporters of subject 

racks. 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.205(e), the petitioner has stated the 

reasons for requesting a postponement 

of the preliminary determination, and 

Commerce finds no compelling reason 

to deny the request. Therefore, in 

accordance with section 703(c)(1)(A) of 

the Act, Commerce is postponing the 

deadline for the preliminary 

determination to no later than 130 days 

after the date on which the investigation 

was initiated, i.e., November 19, 2018.5

Pursuant to section 705(a)(1) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(1), the deadline 

for the final determination of this 

investigation will continue to be 75 days 

after the date of the preliminary 

determination, unless postponed at a 

later date. 

This notice is issued and published 

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

and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(1). 

Dated: August 22, 2018. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Change of Publication Manner for 

Invention Licenses 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

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RIN 0648–XG205 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to the Mukilteo 

Multimodal Project—Season 3 

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