Certain Pasta From Italy: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for New Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-475-818]

Certain Pasta From Italy: Notice of Extension of Time Limit for

New Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 19, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

John Brinkmann or Sunkyu Kim, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement II, Import

Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC

20230; telephone (202) 482-5288 or 482-2613, respectively.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (the Department) is extending the

time limit for the preliminary results in the new shipper

administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta

from Italy. The period of review is July 1, 1996, through January 31,

1997. This extension is made pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (``the Act'') and the

Department's regulations as published in the Federal Register on May

11, 1995 (60 FR 25130).

Postponement of Preliminary Results of Review

On February 20, 1997, the Department initiated this new shipper

administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain pasta

from Italy (62 FR 8927, February 27, 1997). The current deadline for

the preliminary results is August 19, 1997. Pursuant to 19 CFR

353.22(h)(7), the Department has determined that this case is

extraordinarily complicated and as such is extending the deadline for

issuing the preliminary results. This extension is necessary to provide

the Department additional time to consider certain issues of complex

nature including the appropriate basis for calculating constructed

export price and the nature of affiliation between the parties involved

in this review.

In accordance with 19 CFR 353.22(h)(7), the Department will extend

the time for completion of the preliminary results of this new shipper

review to no later than December 17, 1997. We plan to issue the final

results within 90 days after the date the preliminary results are

issued.

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Dated: August 13, 1997.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Import Administration.

[FR Doc. 97-21960 Filed 8-18-97; 8:45 am]

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