Certain Fresh Cut Flowers from Ecuador: Notice of Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative Review

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-331-602]

Certain Fresh Cut Flowers from Ecuador: Notice of Extension of

Time Limits for Preliminary Results of Antidumping Administrative

Review

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results of

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: December 2, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Ross or Davina Hashmi, AD/CVD

Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482-4794 or (202) 482-5760,

respectively.

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The Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are

references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective

date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the

Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated,

all citations to the Department of Commerce (the Department)

regulations are references to the provisions codified at 19 CFR part

351 (1998).

Extension of Time Limits for Preliminary Results

The Department has received a request to conduct an administrative

review of the antidumping duty order on certain fresh cut flowers from

Ecuador. On April 24, 1998, the Department initiated this

administrative review covering the period March 1, 1997 through

February 28, 1998.

Owing to certain issues surrounding this case, it is not

practicable to complete this review within the time limits mandated by

section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act (see Memorandum from Richard Moreland

to Robert LaRussa, Re: Extension of Time Limit for Administrative

Review of Fresh Cut Flowers from Ecuador, November 24, 1998).

Therefore, in accordance with that section, the Department is extending

the time limits for the issuance of the preliminary results of review

to March 30, 1999. The Department intends to issue the final results of

review 120 days after the publication of the preliminary results. This

extension of the time limit is in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A)

of the Act.

Dated: November 24, 1998.

Richard W. Moreland,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.

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