[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 194 (Thursday, October 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62099-62100]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-25306]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-533-840, A-549-822]


Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp From India and Thailand: Notice 
of Extension of Time Limits for the Preliminary Results of the 2009-
2010 Administrative Reviews

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Eastwood, AD/CVD Operations, 
Office 2, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-3874.

Background

    On April 7, 2010, the Department of Commerce (the Department) 
published a notice of initiation of the administrative reviews of the 
antidumping duty orders on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Brazil, 
India, and Thailand covering the period February 1, 2009, through 
January 31, 2010. See Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Brazil, 
India, and Thailand: Notice of Initiation of Administrative Reviews, 75 
FR 17693 (Apr. 7, 2010).
    On July 9, 2010, the Department selected respondents for individual 
examination in the India and Thailand reviews and issued questionnaires 
to them.\1\ See the July 9, 2010, memoranda from Elizabeth Eastwood to 
James Maeder entitled, ``2009-2010 Antidumping Duty Administrative 
Review of Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from India: Selection of 
Respondents for Individual Review,'' and ``2009-2010 Antidumping Duty 
Administrative Review on Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Thailand: 
Selection of Respondents for Individual Review.'' We received responses 
to these questionnaires in August and September 2010.
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    \1\ The Department rescinded the administrative review of 
certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Brazil on June 10, 2010. See 
Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Brazil: Notice of Rescission of 
Antidumping Duty Administrative Review, 75 FR 32915 (June 10, 2010).
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Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary Results

    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the 
Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary determination in an 
administrative review within 245 days after the last day of the 
anniversary month of an order or finding for which a review is 
requested. Consistent with section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, the 
Department may extend the 245-day period to 365 days if it is not 
practicable to complete the review within a 245-day period. The 
deadline for the preliminary results of these administrative reviews is 
currently November 1, 2010.\2\ The Department determines that 
completion of the preliminary results of these reviews within the 
statutory time period is not practicable because it is examining: (1) 
An allegation of a particular market situation for the respondents in 
Thailand; and (2) a cost allegation from the petitioner for Apex 
Exports in India.

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The Department thus requires additional time to conduct its analysis 
for each of these reviews. Therefore, in accordance with section 
751(a)(3)(A) the Act, we are extending the time period for issuing the 
preliminary results of these reviews until March 1, 2011. The final 
results continue to be due 120 days after the publication of the 
preliminary results.
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    \2\ The original due date for the preliminary results, October 
31, 2010, is a Sunday.
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    This notice is published pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 
Act and 19 CFR 351.213(h)(2).

    Dated: October 1, 2010.
Susan H. Kuhbach,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing 
Duty Operations.
[FR Doc. 2010-25306 Filed 10-6-10; 8:45 am]
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