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: July 16, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Brinkmann or Edward Easton,

Office of AD/CVD Enforcement II, Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-

5288 or 482-1777, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 4, 1998, the Department of Commerce

(the Department) initiated a new shipper review relating to the

antidumping duty order on certain pasta from Italy, covering the period

July 1, 1997, through December 31, 1997 (63 FR 10590). Therefore, the

current deadline for the preliminary results of this new shipper review

is August 31, 1998. Section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Tariff Act of 1930,

as amended (the Act), requires the Department to make a preliminary

determination within 180 days after the date on which the new shipper

review was initiated. However, when the Department determines a case is

extraordinarily complicated, it may extend the 180-day period to 300

days, 19 CFR 351.214(i)(2), (62 FR 27296, 27396 (1997)).

Pursuant to section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of the Act, the Department has

determined that this case is extraordinarily complicated given the

complex nature of the issues involved in the concurrent administrative

review of this proceeding and activities connected with the judicial

remand of the Department's final determination in the investigation of

Certain Pasta from Italy. See Borden, Inc. v. US, Slip Op. 98-36 (March

26, 1998). Thus, in accordance with the statutory and regulatory

authority cited above, the Department is extending the deadline for

issuing the preliminary results of this new shipper review by 30 days

to no later than September 30, 1998. We plan to issue the final results

within 90 days after the date the preliminary results are issued.

This extension is in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(iv) of

the Act.

Dated: July 9, 1998.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

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