[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 48 (Thursday, March 12, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12977-12978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-05699]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C-570-023, C-560-829]


Certain Uncoated Paper From the People's Republic of China and 
Indonesia: Postponement of Preliminary Determinations in the 
Countervailing Duty Investigations

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joy Zhang (PRC) at (202) 482-1168, or 
Kate Johnson at (202) 482-4929 (Indonesia), AD/CVD Operations, 
Enforcement and Compliance, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On February 10, 2015, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
initiated the countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of certain 
uncoated paper from the People's Republic of China (PRC) and 
Indonesia.\1\ Currently, the preliminary determinations are due no 
later than April 16, 2015.
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    \1\ See Certain Uncoated Paper From the People's Republic of 
China and Indonesia: Initiation of Countervailing Duty 
Investigations, 80 FR 8598 (February 18, 2015).
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Postponement of Due Date for the Preliminary Determinations

    Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), 
requires the Department to issue the preliminary determination in a CVD 
investigation within 65 days after the date on which the Department 
initiated the investigation. However, if the petitioner makes a timely 
request for a postponement, section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act allows the 
Department to postpone making the preliminary determination until no 
later than 130 days after the date on which the administering authority 
initiated the investigation.
    On February 23, 2015, the petitioners \2\ in the investigation of 
certain uncoated paper from Indonesia timely requested that the 
deadline for the preliminary determination in that case be postponed in 
accordance with 19 CFR 351.205(e), citing the number and nature of 
subsidy programs under investigation. Similarly, on February 26, 2015, 
the petitioners in the investigation of certain uncoated paper from the 
PRC timely requested that the deadline for the preliminary 
determination in that case be postponed in accordance with 19 CFR 
351.205(e), in order for the Department to have sufficient time to 
receive, analyze, and comment on the questionnaire responses of the 
mandatory respondents prior to the preliminary determination. 
Therefore, in accordance with section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, we are 
fully postponing the due date for the preliminary determinations to no 
later than 130 days after the day on which the investigations were 
initiated. However,

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as that date falls on a Saturday (i.e., June 20, 2015), the deadline 
for completion of the preliminary determinations is now June 22, 2015, 
the next business day.
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    \2\ The petitioners are United Steel, Paper and Forestry, 
Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers 
International Union; Domtar Corporation; Finch Paper LLC; P.H. 
Glatfelter Company; and Packaging Corporation of America (see 
February 23 and February 26, 2015, letters on the record of these 
investigations).
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    This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2) 
of the Act and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(l).

    Dated: March 4, 2015.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2015-05699 Filed 3-11-15; 8:45 am]
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